
# File: index 77-1.txt (20)
# Scanned/edited by Andrew Davison, March 2025, ad@coe.psu.ac.th
# Issue: 808 1977-07-09, p.39
# Issue: 809 1977-07-16, p.38, 39
# Period: Jan to June 1977

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# A

Abba, pop group, record review: 19 Feb 1977
Aborigines: 26 Feb 1977
Aegir, lord of the sea: 21 May 1977
Aerial photography (space): 22 Jan 1977
Aerobatics, Black Arrows: 9 Apr 1977
Aerobatics, flyers (Swedish): 16 Apr 1977
Aerobatics, Red Arrows: 19 Mar 1977
Aerobatics, Rothmans team: 12 Mar 1977
Aerobatics, Russian: 2 Apr 1977
Afghanistan, nomads of: 26 Mar 1977
Aida, opera: 26 Mar 1977
Ainu tribe of Japan: 9 Apr 1977
Aircraft, circular: 26 Mar 1977
Aircraft, convertiplane: 8 Jan 1977
Aircraft, formation flying: 26 Feb 1977
Aircraft, Foxbat, Tomcat: 1 Jan 1977
Aircraft, gyropter: 2 Apr 1977
Aircraft, instrumentation: 4 June 1977
Aircraft, MiG 25: 2 Apr 1977
Aircraft, museum: 5 Feb 1977
Aircraft, Nutcracker VTOL: 26 Feb 1977
Aircraft, propeller in tail: 25 June 1977
Aircraft, royal, for Saudi Arabia: 12 Mar 1977
Aircraft, Sea Dart: 29 Jan 1977
Aircraft, veterans: 12 Mar 1977
Aircraft, Alaska: 23 Apr 1977
Amazon, people of: 30 Apr 1977
Ammunition, revolvers: 8 Jan 1977
Andersen, Hans: 9 Apr 1977
Anemone: 15 Jan 1977
Animals, companions: 26 Feb 1977
Animals, scavengers: 5 Mar 1977
Animals, rare: 12 Mar 1977
Anna Karenina, fictional character: 21 May 1977
Antarctic, airlift: 21 May 1977
Antarctic, exploration: 25 June 1977
Antarctica: 18 June 1977
Anthony, Saint: 18 June 1977
Apollo 8: 4 June 1977
Apollo 13, explosion: 28 May 1977
Arabia, rulers of: 26 Feb 1977
Arabs, purchases in Britain: 19 Mar 1977
Arc, Joan of: 12 Mar 1977
Arctic, Samoyed people: 23 Apr 1977
Arrow, ship: 30 Apr 1977
Augustus, Emperor: 2 Apr 1977
Aurelius, Marcus, Roman emperor: 30 Apr 1977
Australian aborigines: 26 Feb 1977
Aviation, Rothmans Aerobatic team: 12 Mar 1977
Avocet: 9 Apr 1977

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# B

Babel, tower, search for: 8 Jan 1977
Babies, historical: 26 Mar 1977
Baillie-Stewart, Norman, traitor: 15 Jan
Balfour, David, fiction: 30 Apr 1977
Balloon duel: 18 June 1977
Balloons, shot down in WWI: 18 June 1977
Baobab trees: 18 June 1977
Barbirolli, Sir John: 18 June 1977
Bare-Fisted Bruisers begins: 26 Mar 1977
Barrett, Elizabeth: 12 Mar 1977
Battles, film, how staged: 14 May 1977
'Becky Sharp,' fiction: 23 Apr 1977
Beecham, Sir Thomas: 21 May 1977
Bee keeping: 19 Mar 1977
Bees: 19 Mar 1977
Beetle, stag: 2 Apr 1977
Belgian aerobatic team: 23 Apr 1977
Bell, Alexander Graham: 7 May 1977
Bell X-1A rocket plane: 4 June 1977
Bellerophon: 26 Feb 1977
Bergerac, Cyrano: 22 Jan 1977
Berlin airlift: 22 Jan 1977
Bevan, Aneurin: 19 Feb 1977
Bicycle, origin: 12 Mar 1977
Bicycles, streamlined: 11 June 1977
Black Arrows, aerobatic team: 9 Apr 1977
Blue Eagles, helicopter formation team: 5 Mar 1977
Bodmer, Karl, artist: 12 Feb 1977
Boeing B-1 plane: 28 May 1977
Boeing C-135 jet transport: 4 June 1977
Boleyn, Anne: 21 May 1977
Bolivar, Simon: 12 Feb 1977
Bonhomme Richard, de 8 Jan 1977
Book reviews: 19 Feb, 26 Mar, 23 Apr, 4 June 1977
Booth, William: 16 Apr 1977
Borneo, head-hunters: 12 Mar 1977
Boxer Rebellion: 16 Apr, 23 Apr, 7, 14, 21, 28 May 1977
Boxing, bare-fisted: 2 Apr 1977
Boy car builders: 19 Feb 1977
Boys' Brigade: 7 May 1977
Braking parachutes, start of: 30 Apr 1977
Brazil, Camayuran tribe: 18 June 1977
Brazil, gauchos: 12 Feb 1977
Brazil, Indians: 22 Jan 1977
Brest, sea battle of: 11 June 1977
Bridgewater canal: 16 Apr 1977
Brindley, James: 16 Apr 1977
Britain. Roman invasion of: 23 Apr 1977
Britain's Ancient Guardians, begins: 4 June 1977
Britten, Benjamin: 1 Jan 1977
Bronte, Charlotte: 12 Mar 1977
Bronte, Emily: 19 Mar 1977
Bronte, Anne: 26 Mar 1977
Brown, John: 8 Jan 1977
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: 12 Mar 1977
Browning, Robert: 12 Mar 1977
Brunel, Isambard: 14 May 1977
Bunyan, John: 9 Apr 1977
Bushmen of the Kalahari: 16 Apr 1977
Byng, Admiral John: 19 Mar 1977

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# C

Cable, transatlantic: 21 May 1977
Caligula: 16, 23 Apr 1977
Camargo, Marie: 23 Apr 1977
Camayura, Brazilian tribe: 18 June 1977
Camouflage, fish: 5 Feb 1977
Campbell, Donald: 1 Jan 1977
Canada, Spotlight on, begins: 9 Apr 1977
Canal du Midi: 9 Apr 1977
Canals, Story of: 2 - 23 Apr 1977
Car, hover, electric: 26 Feb 1977
Caractacus, King: 23 Apr 1977
Caraja Indians: 22 Jan 1977
Cards, coded (as keys): 22 Jan 1977
Carisbrooke Castle: 11 June 1977
Carlsen, Kurt: 8 Jan 1977
Cars, built by boys: 19 Feb 1977
Cars, veterans, on view: 28 May 1977
Cars, with computers: 14 May 1977
Cartridges, for revolvers: 8 Jan 1977
Cassette pirates: 18 June 1977
Castle, Harlech: 25 June 1977
Catherine the Great: 7 May 1977
Catlin, George, artist: 22 Jan 1977
Cato, Roman statesman: 15 Jan 1977
Cats, anecdotes about: 5 Mar 1977
Cavaliers, 20 c.: 26 Mar 1977
Caxton, William: 19 Mar 1977
Cellini, Benvenuto: 8 Jan 1977
Chapbooks: 8 Jan 1977
Chavante Indians: 30 Apr 1977
China, battle at Peking: 21 May 1977
Chinese Boxers: see Boxer Rebellion
Chronus: 15 Jan 1977
City car competition: 19 Feb 1977
Claudius, Roman emperor: 23 Apr 1977
Coelancanth: 12 Mar 1977
Columbus, Christopher: 21 May 1977
Combine harvester, invention of: 22 Jan 1977
Comet, de Havilland aircraft: 16 Apr 1977
Companions, animal: 26 Feb 1977
Computer, cars: 14 May 1977
Computer, programming: 14 May 1977
Computer, programmed by a pen: 28 May 1977
Consub: 9 Apr 1977
Convertiplane: 8 Jan 1977
Cooling tower: 28 May 1977
Cortes, Hernando: 5 Mar 1977
Cowboy artist: 15 Jan 1977
Crabs: 19 Mar 1977
Crane, mammoth: 30 Apr 1977
Crane, seagoing: 21 May 1977
Cycles, streamlined: 11 June 1977
Cyclopes: 15 Jan 1977

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# D

Damien, Father: 1 Jan 1977
Darwin, Charles: 25 June 1977
Davidson, George: 2 Apr 1977
Davis, Robert, inventor of submarine escape gear: 5 Feb 1977
Davy, Sir Humphry: 1 Jan 1977
Dayaks of Borneo: 12 Mar 1977
Deep sea fishes: 5 Mar 1977
Deer, British: 30 Apr 1977
Deer, red: 9 Apr 1977
Demeter, goddess: 16 Apr 1977
Desert Rulers, begins: 26 Feb 1977
Deucalion's flood: 29 Jan 1977
Dictionary of History, reviewed: 19 Feb 1977
Dinosaur fossils: 4 June 1977
Diphtheria, cure: 12 Mar 1977
Dombey and Son, fiction: 26 Feb 1977
Domitian, Roman ruler: 4 June 1977
Dover Castle: 4 June 1977
Dragon, Komodo: 12 Mar 1977
Dunant, Henri: 30 Apr 1977
Duncan, Isadora: 28 May 1977
Dunlop, John Boyd (tyre inventor): 9 Apr 1977
Dunster castle: 18 June 1977

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# E

Earhart, Amelia: 18 June 1977
Ear prints: 26 Mar 1977
Eel, Moray: 21 May 1977
Eiffel, Gustav: 25 June 1977
Eiffel Tower: 25 June 1977
Electricity, Faraday's discoveries: 19 Feb 1977
Electron beam accelerator: 4 June 1977
Electronic supermarket: 5 Feb 1977
Elizabeth I: 29 Jan 1977
Elizabeth II: 1 Jan 1977
Elizabeth II, coronation: 11 June 1977
Elizabeth II, genealogy, history, life: 18 June 1977
Emerald mining: 2 Apr 1977
Emil and the Detectives, fiction: 26 Mar 1977
Empire Day, boat: 4 June 1977
Endymion: 5 Feb 1977
Engine, racing car, design: 11 June 1977
England-Australia air race: 16 Apr 1977
Entebbe raid, Israel: 5 Mar 1977
Eros: 1 Jan 1977
Eskimos: 15 Jan 1977
Essex, Earl of: 29 Jan 1977
Euston railway station: 19 Feb 1977
Events of 1976: 1 Jan 1977
Evolution, Darwin's theory: 25 June 1977
Explosion in space: 28 May 1977

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# F

F-15 plane: 21 May 1977
Faces from Fiction, begins: 22 Jan 1977
Factory ship: 21 May 1977
Facts, strange: 21 May 1977
Fairs, historical: 7 May 1977
Falcon: 7 May 1977
Falstaff, Sir John, fiction: 28 May 1977
Fanliner, plane: 25 June 1977
Faraday, Michael: 19 Feb 1977
Federal Bureau of Investigation: 5, 19 Feb 1977
Ferrari cars: 29 Jan 1977
Ferrari, Enzo: 29 Jan 1977
Fieseler-Storch plane: 19 Mar 1977
Fiesta car: 26 Mar 1977
Film, animators: 21 May 1977
Film, battles, how staged: 14 May 1977
Film, space illusions: 28 May 1977
Film, special effects: 7 May 1977
Finland's railway: 19 Mar 1977
Firebird, ballet: 5 Mar 1977
Fire fighters, race track: 9 Apr 1977
Fire-fighting ship: 22 Jan 1977
Fish, as food: 12 Mar 1977
Fish, camouflage: 5 Feb 1977
Fish, like flowers: 15 Jan 1977
Fish, deep sea: 5 Mar 1977
Fishing, factory ship: 21 May 1977
Fleming, Alexander: 2 Apr 1977
Flies, various: 2 Apr 1977
Flight, man-powered: 4 June 1977
Flight, simulators: 4 June 1977
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne: 5 Feb 1977
Flood (mythological): 29 Jan 1977
Flower-like sea animals: 15 Jan 1977
Flying Dutchman, opera: 8 Jan 1977
'Flying Enterprise', ship: 8 Jan 1977
Flying, formation: 26 Feb 1977
Flying, formation helicopters: 5 Mar 1977
Foam rubber: 8 Jan 1977
Fokine, Mikhail: 19 Feb 1977
Fools, festival of: 18 June 1977
Forestry, historical: 14 May 1977
Forestry vehicle (skidder): 22 Jan 1977
Formation flyers: 26 Feb, 26 Mar 1977
Foxbat, plane, Russian: 1 Jan 1977
Frankenstein, creation of: 5 Feb 1977

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# G

Galba, emperor of Rome: 7, 14 May 1977
Games, historical: 25 June 1977
Gas lighting, origin: 29 Jan 1977
Gauchos: 12 Feb 1977
George IV: 26 Mar 1977
Giant, British, legendary: 12 Mar 1977
Girl Guides: 7 May 1977
Giselle, ballet: 26 Feb 1977
Gnu: 16 Apr 1977
Gontermann, Heinrich, WWI ace: 18 June 1977
Gordon, General: 29 Jan 1977
Gounod, Charles: 5 Feb 1977
Grand Central Station, New York: 22 Jan 1977
Great Britain, ship: 14 May 1977
Great Eastern, ship: 14 May 1977
Greathead, Henry: 5 Feb 1977
Greenaway, Kate: 19 Mar 1977
Grey, Lady Jane: 12 Feb 1977
Grock, clown: 8 Jan 1977
Guides (Girl): 7 May 1977
Guillotine: 18 June 1977
Gyropter: 2 Apr 1977

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# H

Haiti: 28 May 1977
Hadrian, Emperor: 25 June 1977
Halley's comet, space chase: 1 Jan 1977
Hamilton, Lady: 8 Jan 1977
Hampden, John: 5 Feb 1977
Hang gliding: 19 Feb 1977
Hangar, portable: 19 Mar 1977
'Hansel and Gretel', opera: 16 Apr 1977
Harlech castle: 25 June 1977
Happy Rider, cargo ship: 5 Feb 1977
Hats, historical: 5, 12 Feb 1977
Haunted Ballroom, ballet: 12 Feb 1977
Hawk, fishing: 9 Apr 1977
Hawke Admiral Sir Edward: 11 June 1977
Hawker Harrier: 28 May 1977
Haydn, composer: 2 Apr 1977
Head shrinkers: 11 June 1977
Heat shields for space shuttles: 23 Apr 1977
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights): 19 Mar 1977
Helmet, pilot's, with data display: 8 Jan 1977
Henry VII: 5 Mar 1977
Henry VIII: 1 Jan 1977
Henry, John: 2 Apr 1977
Hickathrift, Tom: 12 Mar 1977
History, dictionary of: 19 Feb 1977
Hogarth, William: 19 Mar 1977
Holy Roman Emperor: 14 May 1977
Hook, Captain, fiction: 12 Feb 1977
Hoover, J. Edgar: 19 Feb 1977
Hornet fly: 2 Apr 1977
Horse, Pegasus, winged: 26 Feb 1977
Horus, mythical god: 28 May 1977
Hospital, Saudi Arabia: 2 Apr 1977
Houdini, Harry: 5 Feb 1977
Hover car, electric: 26 Feb 1977
Hovercraft, ice breaker: 23 Apr 1977
Hovercraft, research: 12 Feb 1977
Hudson, Henry: 16 Apr 1977
Humperdinck, Engelbert: 16 Apr 1977
Hunt, James: 28 yd 1977
Hydrophobia: 26 Feb 1977

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# I

Icebergs, towing to Arabia: 26 Mar 1977
Ice breaking hovercraft: 23 Apr 1977
Immunisation against disease, origin: 19 Mar 1977
Indianapolis '500': 15 Jan, 11 June 1977
Indians, Canadian: 23 Apr 1977
Indians, Caraja: 22 Jan 1977
Instrumentation aircraft: 4 June 1977
Iraq, southern, people of: 19 Feb 1977
Iron clads, ships: 14 May 1977
Iron Mask, man in, fiction: 5 Mar 1977
Israel, Entebbe raid: 5 Mar 1977
'Italia', ship, disaster: 25 June 1977

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# J

Jackson, John, bare-fist fighter: 2 Apr 1977
Jaguar tactical strike aircraft: 4 June 1977
Japan, Ainu tribe: 9 Apr 1977
'Jaws', film: 7 May 1977
Jellyfish: 22 Jan 1977
Jet engine, invention: 8 Jan 1977
Jivaros, tribe: 11 June 1977
Joan of Arc: 12 Mar, 4 June 1977
Johnson, Amy: 1 Jan 1977
Jones, Paul: 8 Jan 1977
Josephine: 25 June 1977
Joyce, Captain Mills: 25 June 1977
Jubilee feature: 18 June 1977
Jump jet, first: 21 May 1977

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# K

Kalahari: 16 Apr 1977
Keys (coded cards): 22 Jan 1977
Khartoum: 29 Jan 1977
Kidd, Captain: 28 May 1977
'Kidnapped', fiction: 30 Apr 1977
'King Kong' film: 7 May 1977
King's Cross station: 29 Jan 1977
Kipling, Rudyard: 22 Jan 1977
Klemperer, Otto: 4 June 1977
Koch, Robert: 5 Mar 1977, 12 Mar 1977
Koh-i-Noor diamond: 15 Jan 1977
Komodo Dragon: 12 Mar 1977
Koussevitsky, Serge, musician: 11 June
Krakatoa, eruption: 29 Jan 1977
Kurelu, people: 28 May 1977

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# L

Lacandones warriors: 21 May 1977
Land yacht: 12 Feb 1977
Lapps: 2 Apr 1977
Lanza, Mario: 11 June 1977
Laser system: 22 Jan 1977
Lauda, Niki: 9 Apr, 28 May 1977
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van: 12 Feb 1977
Le Mans 24 Hour Race: 9 Apr 1977
Leopard shark: 2 Apr 1977
Leprosy: 1 Jan 1977
Lhasa: 4 June 1977
Lifeboats, origin: 5 Feb 1977
Light-wave communications: 8 Jan 1977
Lighting, gas, origin: 29 Jan 1977
Lind, James: 2 Apr 1977
Link trainer: 4 June 1977
Lions: 23 Apr 1977
'Little Women': 16 Apr 1977
Living Sea, begins: 8 Jan 1977
Lobsters: 19 Mar 1977
Locomotive, Swedish: 19 Mar 1977
Locomotive, various: 4 June 1977
Locust detecting: 19 Mar 1977
Lolos, Chinese tribe: 26 Mar 1977
London, Victoria station: 12 Mar 1977
London zoo, food supplies: 9 Apr 1977
Lorelei, legend: 5 Mar 1977
'Lost World', fiction: 7 May 1977
Lucia di Lammermoor (opera): 9 Apr 1977
Luther, Martin: 22 Jan 1977

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# M

McMillan, Margaret: 2 Apr 1977
Maoris: 5 Mar 1977
Magicians of the Movies, begins: 30 Apr 1977
Magister aircraft, French: 23 Apr 1977
Maldives: 14 May 1977
Man In The Iron Mask, fiction: 5 Mar 1977
Manchester ship canal: 16 Apr 1977
Manz, Paul (stunt pilot): 16 Apr 1977
Map-making: 16, 23 Apr 1977
March, Jo (fiction): 16 Apr 1977
Margarine, how made: 22 Jan 1977
Maria Theresa, of Hungary: 14 May 1977
Markova, Dame Alicia: 26 Feb 1977
Mary Tudor, plot against: 19 Mar 1977
Masai, race: 8 Jan 1977
Masters of Rome, begins: 2 Apr 1977
Mathematical instruments, ancient: 4 June 1977
Mayas, Mexican tribe: 21 May 1977
Mecca, city: 5 Mar 1977
Melba, Dame Nellie: 26 Feb 1977
Melville, Herman: 5 Feb 1977
Men Versus Microbes, begins: 12 Feb 1977
Meo people: 19 Mar 1977
Metals, ocean floor: 14 May 1977
Metchnikoff, Elie: 19 Mar 1977
Mexico, conquest of: 5 Mar 1977
Micawber, Dickens character: 22 Jan 1977
Microscope in fight against crime: 12 Feb 1977
Midi canal, France: 9 Apr 1977
MiG 25: 2 Apr 1977
Mille Miglia, race: 4 June 1977
Miller, Alfred Jacob: 5 Feb 1977
Miller, Harry, racing car designer: 11 June 1977
Mines, work in: 1 Jan 1977
Minos, King: 30 Apr 1977
Minotaur: 30 Apr 1977
Mobiles, decorative, soporific: 8 Jan 1977
'Moby Dick', begins: 5 Feb - 19 Mar 1977
Models, animated for films: 21 May 1977
Mohammed: 4 June 1977
Mole: 28 May 1977
Money, historical: 21 May 1977
Montreal: 9 Apr 1977
Moray eel: 21 May 1977
More, Sir Thomas: 1 Jan 1977
Moss, Stirling: 21 May, 4 June 1977
Motor racing: 25 June 1977
Motor racing, training schools: 18 June 1977
Motorcycle world champion: 28 May 1977
Mountain Men: 5 Feb 1977
Mountaineering safety: 1 Jan 1977
Movie, model animators: 21 May 1977
Movie, monsters: 7 May 1977
Movie, space illusions: 28 May 1977
Mozart horn concertos, record review: 19 Feb 1977
Munich railway station: 26 Feb 1977
Mussolini, rescued by plane: 19 Mar 1977

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# N

Napoleon: 25 June 1977
Nasmyth, James: 15 Jan 1977
Nature's animal companions: 26 Feb 1977
Nature's helpmates: 26 Mar 1977
Navaho Indians: 5 Feb 1977
Neckwear, historical: 22 Jan 1977
Nelson, Horatio: 8 Jan 1977
Nero, emperor: 30 Apr, 7 May 1977
Nerva, Roman emperor: 11 June 1977
Nests, birds, strange materials: 14 May 1977
New Guinea, tribesmen: 12 Feb 1977
New Guinea: 28 May 1977
New Zealand, Maoris: 5 Mar 1977
New Zealand, railways: 5 Mar 1977
Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore: 12 Mar 1977
Nimrod early warning system: 7 May 1977
Nobile, General Umberto: 25 June 1977
Nodules, metal: 14 May 1977
Nutcracker, VTOL: 26 Feb 1977

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# O

Ocean floor, metals: 14 May 1977
Octavius, Roman leader: 2 Apr 1977
Octopus: 5 Feb 1977
Offenhauser engine: 11 June 1977
Offshore racing: 19 Mar 1977
Oil rigs, aerial protection: 15 Jan 1977
Oil tankers: 21 May 1977
Oil, undersea: 21 May 1977
'Oliver Twist', fiction: 18 June 1977
Olympic Games: 11 June 1977
Opel cars: 21 May 1977
Opium smuggling: 23 Apr 1977
Optical fibre for TV signals: 8 Jan 1977
Orienteering: 12 Mar 1977
Ostrich: 25 June 1977
Otho, Roman emperor: 7, 14 May 1977
Overland ship: 21 May 1977

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# P

Paddington station: 12 Feb 1977
Panama: 23 Apr, 4 June 1977
Paper, recycling: 5 Feb 1977
Parachute brakes, introduction: 30 Apr 1977
Passepartout, Jean, fictional character: 5 Feb 1977
Pasteur, Louis: 26 Feb 1977
Pavlova, Anna: 22 Jan 1977
Peary, Robert Edwin: 7, 28 May 1977
Peasants' revolt: 19 Mar 1977
Pegasus, winged horse: 26 Feb 1977
Peking, battle: 21, 28 May 1977
Penang: 29 Jan 1977
Parking trap: 7 May 1977
Penguins: 18 June 1977
Penicillin, discovery of: 2 Apr 1977
Peregrine falcon: 7 May 1977
'Peter Pan', fiction: 12 Feb 1977
Petrouchka, ballet: 19 Feb 1977
Photography, historical: 22 Jan 1977
Photography, space: 22 Jan 1977
'Pilgrim's Progress': 9 Apr 1977
Pilot's helmet, with data display: 8 Jan 1977
Pilot, stunt: 16 Apr 1977
Planes, pusher propellers: 25 June 1977
Plimsoll, Samuel: 12 Feb 1977
Plimsoll line: 12 Feb 1977
Pneumatic tyre, invention: 9 Apr 1977
Pompeii, destruction of: 29 Jan 1977
Postage stamps, historical: 12 Feb 1977
Powerboat racing: 19 Mar, 21 May 1977
Power, solar: 15 Jan 1977
Press, hydraulic, Europe's biggest: 18 June 1977
Printing, history: 19, 26 Feb 1977
Prokovief, Serge: 15 Jan 1977
Promenade concerts, origin: 28 May 1977
Prometheus, god: 22 Jan 1977
Psyche: 1 Jan 1977
Puccini, Giacomo: 12 Mar 1977
Puck, legendary: 26 Mar 1977

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# Q

Qara tribe, Arabia: 14 May 1977
Queen Mary, ship: 1 Jan 1977

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# R

Race track fire fighters: 9 Apr 1977
Racing car, engine design: 11 June 1977
Racing, power-boat: 21 May 1977
Racing, training schools, motor: 18 June 1977
Rackets (sport): 22 Jan 1977
Radio, how began: 26 Feb 1977
Railways:$
  Flinders St. station: 5 Feb 1977
  Grand Central Station: 22 Jan 1977
  Munich station: 26 Feb 1977
  Paddington station: 12 Feb 1977
  St. Pancras station: 15 Jan 1977
  Victoria Station, London: 12 Mar 1977
Rake's Progress, ballet: 19 Mar 1977
Ran, sea goddess: 21 May 1977
Rangers, Texas: 4 June 1977
Rare wildlife: 12 Mar 1977
Real tennis, origin: 15 Jan 1977
Record reviews: 19 Feb, 26 Mar, 23 Apr, 4 June 1977
Red Arrows, formation flyers: 19 Mar 1977
Red Cross, origin of: 30 Apr 1977
Red Devils, flyers: 23 Apr 197
Remington, Frederick: 8 Jan 1977
Remus and Romulus: 19 Feb 1977
Reuter, Paul Julius de: 26 Feb 1977
Revolver, history: 1, 8, 15 Jan 1977
Rhinoceros: 11 June 1977
Richtofen, Baron von: 23 Apr 1977
Robinson, Fritz: 2 Apr 1977
Robot helicopter: 26 Mar 1977
Rocket cars: 21 May 1977
Rocket sledge: 11 June 1977
Roman emperors: 7 May 1977
Roman invasion of Britain: 23 Apr 1977
Rome: 15 Jan 1977
Rome, origin, mythical: 19 Feb 1977
Romeo and Juliet: 15 Jan 1977
Romulus and Remus: 19 Feb 1977
Rontgen, Wilhelm: 26 Mar 1977
Rothmans Aerobatic Team: 12 Mar 1977
Royal Fleet Auxiliary: 12 Mar 1977
Rubber, foam: 8 Jan 1977
Russell, Charlie, artist: 15 Jan 1977
Russian aerobatic teams: 2 Apr 1977

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# S

Safety in mountains: 1 Jan 1977
Sailing craft, fastest: 4 June 1977
St. Anthony: 18 June 1977
St. Lawrence Seaway: 30 Apr 1977
St. Pancras railway station: 15 Jan 1977
Salvation Army: 16 Apr 1977
Samoyeds, people: 23 Apr 1977
Samwell, Agnes: 9 Apr 1977
San Blas Indians: 4 June 1977
Sargent, Sir Malcolm: 25 June 1977
Saudi Arabia, rulers of: 26 Feb 1977
Saudi Arabia, modern innovations: 2 Apr 1977
Scavengers, animal: 5 Mar 1977
Scorpion fly: 2 Apr 1977
Scouts, historical: 30 Apr 1977
Scouts, Sea: 4 June 1977
Scurvy, conquest of: 2 Apr 1977
Sea, creatures: 8 Jan 1977
Sea Dar, aircraft: 29 Jan 1977
Sea, food from: 12 Mar 1977
Sea Scouts: 4 June 1977
Sea shells: 19 Mar 1977
Seal family: 12 Feb 1977
Sedgemoor, battle of: 26 Mar 1977
Selene, goddess: 5 Feb 1977
Set, devil-god: 28 May 1977
Shark: 2 Apr 1977
Shark, hammerhead: 9 Apr 1977
Sharks, various species: 19 Feb 1977
Sheene, Barry: 28 May 1977
Shell fish: 19 Mar 1977
Shelley, Mary: 5 Feb 1977
Shells, Sea: 19 Mar 1977
Ship building crane, mammoth: 30 Apr 77
Ship, fire-fighting: 22 Jan 1977
Ship, overland: 21 May 1977
Ship simulator: 18 June 1977
Ships, provisioning at sea: 12 Mar 1977
Shuttle orbiters, heat protection: 23 Apr 1977
Siegfried, mythology: 19 Mar 1977
Siffert, Jo: 25 June 1977
Silver Jubilee feature: 18 June 1977
Simnel, Lambert: 5 Mar 1977
Simulator, ship: 18 June 1977
Simulator, flight: 4 June 1977
Skate, ship: 28 May 1977
Skateboard: 19 Mar 1977
Ski-plane fighter: 29 Jan 1977
Slavery: 8 Jan, 11 June 1977
Sledge, rocket: 11 June 1977
Snake fly: 2 Apr 1977
Soap, how made: 15 Jan 1977
Solar power: 15 Jan, 14 May 1977
Space craft, heat shield: 23 Apr 1977
Space exploration, 1980s: 1 Jan 1977
Space explosion: 28 May 1977
Spain, Andres Torrejon: 18 June 1977
Spallanzani, Lazzaro: 19 Feb 1977
Speed records, land: 11 June 1977
Sport, ancient: 11 June 1977
Squash: 22 Jan 1977
Squid: 5 Feb 1977
Space films: 28 May 1977
Stag beetle: 2 Apr 1977
Starfish: 29 Jan 1977
Steamboat, invention of: 26 Mar 1977
Steam hammer, invention: 15 Jan 1977
Steam power: 5 Mar 1977
Steel-driver: 2 Apr 1977
Stethoscope, invention: 23 Apr 1977
Stork (Storch) plane: 19 Mar 1977
Story of Ballet, book review: 19 Feb 1977
Story telling, history of: 4 June 1977
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: 19 Feb, 11 June 1977
Strange Facts: 21 May 1977
Stravinsky, Igor: 19 Feb 1977
Stunt men, film: 30 Apr 1977
Stunt pilot: 16 Apr 1977
Submarine escape gear: 5 Feb 1977
Submarine, for sightseers: 7 May 1977
Submarine, robot: 9 Apr 1977
Sun, power from: 15 Jan 1977
Sunken ship, search: 8 Jan 1977
Supermarket, electronic: 5 Feb 1977
Susanoo, sea god (legend): 23 Apr 1977
Svyatogor, mythical god: 14 May 1977
Swan Lake, ballet: 29 Jan 1977
Swedish aerobatic flyers: 16 Apr 1977
'Swiss Family Robinson': 2 Apr 1977
Symington, William: 26 Mar 1977

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# T

Tamerlane: 19 Feb 1977
Tasmanian wolf: 12 Mar 1977
Telegraph cable, transatlantic: 21 May 1977
Telegraph cable, undersea: 8 Jan 1977
Telephone, invention: 7 May 1977
Television camera, underwater: 26 Mar 1977
Television, pocket sized: 26 Mar 1977
Telford, Thomas: 16 Apr 1977
Tennis: 1, 15, 22, 29 Jan 1977
Terry, Ellen: 5 Mar 1977
Texas Rangers: 4, 11 June 1977
Thailand: 19 Mar 1977
Theseus: 30 Apr 1977
Thunderbirds, formation flyers: 26 Mar 1977
Tiberius, emperor: 9 Apr 1977
Timur the Lame: 19 Feb 1977
Tinkers: 5 Feb 1977
Titan: 1 Jan 1977
Titus, Roman general: 21, 28 May 1977
Tolpuddle martyrs: 16 Apr 1977
'Tom Brown's Schooldays': 29 Jan 1977
Tomcat fighter plane, USA: 1 Jan 1977
Tom Thumb, legend: 9 Apr 1977
Toronto: 9 Apr 1977
Torrejon, Andres, Spanish hero: 18 June 77
Toscanini, Arturo: 14 May 1977
Tower of Babel, search for: 8 Jan 1977
Tower, prisoner in: 15 Jan 1977
Tractor-trailer, monster: 4 June 1977
Trade unions, historical: 16 Apr 1977
Trajan, Roman emperor: 18 June 1977
Transatlantic cable: 21 May 1977
Tree-growing: 19 Mar 1977
Trees, spread of: 14 May 1977
The Trigan Empire:$
  Series 64, 'The Time Machine', / 'Janno's 'Out-of-Time' Mind', ends: 1 Jan 1977
  Series 65, 'The Frozen People', / 'Sedda's Plot', 8 Jan - 12 Mar 1977
  Series 66, 'Abdication', / 'The Imperial Walkabout', 19 Mar - 7 May 1977
  Series 67, 'Dr. Mazaratto's Elixir', starts: 14 May 1977
Triptolemus, god: 16 Apr 1977
Tuberculosis, search for cure: 5 Mar 1977
Tull, Jethro: 22 Jan 1977
Tunisia: 9 Apr 1977
Tuaregs, desert nomads: 29 Jan 1977
Turandot, operatic character: 12 Mar 1977
Tussaud, Marie: 30 Apr 1977
Twist, Oliver, fiction: 18 June 1977
Typhoid, treatment of: 26 Mar 1977
Tyre, pneumatic, invention of: 9 Apr 1977

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# U

'Uncle Tom', fictional character: 19 Feb 1977
Undersea telephone cables: 8 Jan 1977

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# V

Vaccines, discovery of: 26 Feb 1977
Valois, Ninette de: 12 Feb 1977
Vedda (tribe of Sri Lanka): 7 May 1977
Vehicles, veteran, on view: 28 May 1977
Verdi, Giuseppe: 26 Mar 1977
Vespasian, Roman general: 21, 28 May 1977
Veteran aircraft: 12 Mar 1977
Veteran cars on view: 28 May 1977
Victoria station, London: 12 Mar 1977
Vintage planes, flying: 5 Feb 1977
Vitellius, Roman emperor: 14 May 1977

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# W

Wagner, Richard: 8 Jan 1977
Warbeck, Perkin: 5 Mar 1977
Wasp, wood: 2 Apr 1977
Wasps, life cycle: 4 June 1977
Watt, James: 5 Mar 1977
Waxworks, Madam Tussaud's: 30 Apr 1977
Weather forecasting: 19 Mar, 9 Apr 1977
Wellington, New Zealand, station: 5 Mar 1977
'Westward Ho', begins: 30 Apr 1977
Whale: 19 Mar 1977
Whales: 26 Feb 1977
Whales, performing: 19 Mar 1977
Whittle, Frank: 8 Jan 1977
Wildebeest: 16 Apr 1977
Wild West, pictures: 8 Jan 1977
Wilkinson, John: 14 May 1977
Wind power: 14 May 1977
Wind tunnel, Europe's biggest: 18 June 1977
Wireless, how began: 26 Feb 1977
Witchcraft, ancient: 9 Apr 1977
Woden, god: 7 May 1977
Wolf, Tasmanian: 12 Mar 1977
Wood, Sir Henry: 28 May 1977
Wood, Stanley, artist: 29 Jan 1977
Wood wasp: 2 Apr 1977
Woodpecker: 12 Mar 1977
Woodville, R. Caton, artist: 29 Jan 1977
Wright, Almroth, bacteriologist: 26 Mar 1977
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: 19 Mar 1977

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# X

X-rays, discovery of: 26 Mar 1977

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# Y

Yacht, land: 12 Feb 1977
Yeager, Chuck: 4 June 1977
Younghusband, Francis: 4 June 1977
Yukon: 23 Apr 1977

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# Z

Zebra: 25 June 1977
Zeus: 15, 29 Jan, 12 Feb 1977
Zoo, animal feeding: 9 Apr 1977
