
# File: index 78-2.txt (22)
# Scanned/edited by Andrew Davison, March 2025, ad@coe.psu.ac.th
# Issue: 871 1978-09-23, p.29
# Period: February to July 1978

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# A

Abu Simbel: 15 July 1978
Adder: 15 Apr 1978
Aerobatics: 11 Mar 1978
Aircraft, Boeing 747: 10 June 1978
Aircraft, crashed: 25 Feb 1978
Alexander the Great: 11 Mar 1978
Algae: 6 May 1978
Ali, Muhammad: 22 Apr 1978
All Blacks, The: 8 Apr 1978
Ambulance service: 11 Feb 1978
Amoeba: 8 July 1978
Anesthetics: 3 June 1978
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett: 15 Apr 1978
Anemone: 13 May 1978
Angkor Wat, temple: 22 July 1978
Animals, poisonous: 15 Apr 1978
Anson, George: 22 July 1978
Antarctica, development of, begins: 18 Feb 1978
Ant communities: 17 June 1978
Aqualung: 13 May 1978
Archeology: 11 Mar 1978
Armada, Spanish: 4 Feb 1978
Articulated lorries: 18 Feb 1978
Athletes: 25 Mar 1978
Athletics: 1 Apr 1978
Atom, splitting of: 13 May 1978
Authors:$
  Balzac Honoré de: 6 May 1978
  Blackmore, R.D.: 22 July 1978
  Buchan, John: 8 July 1978
  Carroll, Lewis: 24 June 1978
  Conrad, Joseph: 18 Mar 1978
  Defoe, Daniel: 27 May 1978
  Dickens, Charles: 20 May 1978
  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: 22 Apr 1978
  Dumas, Alexandre: 10 June 1978
  Fielding, Henry: 1 Apr 1978
  Kipling, Rudyard: 8 Apr 1978
  London, Jack: 17 June 1978
  Melville, Herman: 29 Apr 1978
  Orwell, George: 29 July 1978
  Scott, Sir Walter: 3 June 1978
  Tolstoy, Leo: 15 Apr 1978
  Trollope, Anthony: 15 July 1978
  Verne, Jules: 13 May 1978
  Wells, H.G.: 25 Mar 1978
  Zola, Emile: 1 July 1978
Avoncroft museum, Worcs.: 15 July 1978

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# B

Babylon, Hanging Gardens of: 20 May 1978
Bacteria: 15 Apr 1978
Balzac, Honoré de: 6 May 1978
Bears, grizzly: 25 Feb 1978
Beaver, North American: 17 June 1978
Beckenbauer, Franz: 18 Mar 1978
Bees, stinging mechanism: 15 Apr 1978
Bell, Alexander Graham: 22 July 1978
Bilma, desert village: 22 July 1978
Bishop, Isabella Bird: 20 May 1978
Blackmore, R.D.: 22 July 1978
Blitz, the: 11 Feb 1978
Blood, Colonel Thomas: 11 Feb 1978
Bluebell Railway: 25 Mar 1978
Blue Riband Trophy, history of, begins: 10 Feb 1978
Boers: 4 Mar 1978
Borglum, Gutzon: 27 May 1978
Brazil: 29 July 1978
Breathing underwater: 22 Apr 1978
British Lions: 8 Apr 1978
Buccaneers, Henry Morgan: 1 July 1978
Buchan, John: 8 July 1978
Bucklers Hard, shipyard: 4 Mar 1978
Budget, the: 4 Feb 1978
Buffalo, water: 15 Apr 1978
Byrd, Richard: 4 Mar 1978

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# C

Cabot, John: 8 Apr 1978
Cabot, Sebastian: 8 Apr 1978
Calculators, electronic: 25 Mar 1978
Calendar: 18 Mar 1978
Canada, discovery of: 8 Apr 1978
Canada: 25 Mar 1978
Canal, Panama: 10 June 1978
Canned food: 18 Feb 1978
Carbon dating: 11 Mar 1978
Caribou: 4 Mar 1978
Carroll, Lewis: 24 June 1978
Cavell, Edith: 1 July 1978
Centipede: 20 May 1978
Chamberlain, Sir Neville: 3 June 1978
Chancellor, Richard: 13 May 1978
Channel tunnel: 11 Mar 1978
Charles II: 11 Feb 1978
Charlton, Bobby: 18 Mar 1978
Chataway, Christopher: 1 Apr 1978
Cheetahs: 25 Feb 1978
Child labour, history of: 29 July 1978
Chimney, development of: 22 Apr 1978
Chlorophyll: 18 Mar 1978
Clocks, history of: 13 May 1978
Clogs: 4 Feb 1978
Cobra: 6 May 1978
Collins, E.K.: 16 June 1978
Coloration, in wildlife: 11 Feb 1978
Colosseum: 1 July 1978
Columbus, Christopher: 1 Apr 1978
Computers: 25 Feb 1978
Conrad, Joseph: 18 Mar 1978
Cook, James: 15 July 1978
Cookery techniques: 18 Mar 1978
Courts of Justice: 11 Feb 1978
Cortes, Hernando: 22 Apr 1978
Crete: 8 Apr 1978
Crimea: 25 Mar 1978
Crippen, Dr.: 29 Apr 1978
Crocodiles: 1 Apr 1978
Crown Jewels; 11 Feb 1978
Cuba crisis: 15 July 1978
Cunard, Samuel: 10 June 1978
Curie, Marie: 29 Apr 1978
Cuttlefish: 20 May 1978

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# D

Da Gama, Vasco: 18 Mar 1978
Dalai Lama: 17 June 1978
Dampier, William: 8 July 1978
Davison, Emily Wilding: 25 Mar 1978
Dayan, Moishe: 4 Mar 1978
Defoe, Daniel: 27 May 1978
Devonport dock complex: 4 Feb 1978
Dickens, Charles: 20 May 1978
Diesel engine: 18 Feb 1978
Diving Beetle: 25 Mar 1978
DNA: 16 June 1978
Docks, dry: 4 Feb 1978
Doctors, in history: 15 July 1978
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: 22 Apr 1978
Drake, Sir Francis: 6 May 1978
Drill, electric: 29 Apr 1978
Drill, pneumatic: 17 June 1978
Druids: 29 Apr 1978
Duelling, history of: 10 June 1978
Dumas, Alexandre: 10 June 1978
Dunlop, John Boyd: 25 Feb 1978

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# E

Eagles: 8 Apr 1978
Earthquakes, Skopje: 6 May 1978
Eddystone lighthouse: 8 July 1978
Eden, Sir Anthony: 4 Mar 1978
Education, history of: 1 July 1978
Edward VIII, abdication of: 22 Apr 1978
Egypt, and Suez Canal: 4 Mar 1978
Eiffel Tower: 29 July 1978
Electric lighting: 15 Apr 1978
Electron microscope: 15 July 1978
Elephants: 4 Mar 1978
Elevator: 22 Apr 1978
Elgin, Lord: 13 May 1978
Engine, automobile: 18 Mar 1978
Engine, diesel: 18 Feb 1978
Engine, turbine: 15 Apr 1978
Ephesus, temple at: 24 June 1978
Ericsson, Leif: 25 Mar 1978
Everest, ascent of: 1 June 1978
Exeter Maritime Museum: 22 July 1978

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# F

Fawcett, Millicent Garret: 13 May 1978
Fawcett, Major Percy Harrison: 11 Mar 1978
Ferns: 8 Apr 1978
Festivals, Dendermonde: 22 Apr 1978
Festivals, flower: 25 Feb 1978
Fielding, Henry: 1 Apr 1978
Finney, Tom: 29 Apr 1978
Fire-fighting, aerial: 15 Apr 1978
Fish, breathing apparatus: 22 Apr 1978
Fish, on land: 29 Apr 1978
Flea: 1 July 1978
Fleming, Sir Alexander: 22 Apr 1978
Flight, first: 18 Mar 1978
Fly, house: 20 May 1978
Flying Scotsman locomotive: 11 Mar 1978
Food preservation: 18 Feb 1978
Foxes: 1 July 1978
Franklin, Sir John: 29 July 1978
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke: 18 Feb 1978
Frazier, Joe: 22 Apr 1978
Frogs: 25 Mar 1978
Frogs, tree: 29 Apr 1978
Fry, Elizabeth: 8 Apr 1978
Fuchs, Sir Vivian: 4 Mar 1978
Fungus: 6 May 1978

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# G

Galileo: 15 July 1978
Galls: 1 July 1978
Gas lighting: 15 Apr 1978
Gas lighting, history of: 24 June 1978
Gaugamela, battle of: 11 Mar 1978
Gills: 22 Apr 1978
Gliding: 4 Mar 1978
Gorilla: 27 May 1978
Grand Prix: 4 Feb 1978
Gravity, theories of: 15 July 1978
Gresley, Sir Nigel: 11 Feb 1978
Grummond, Frances: 24 June 1978
Guards, the: starts 11 Feb 1978

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# H

Hadrian's Wall: 15 Apr 1978
Hair-drier: 6 May 1978
Hair fashions, history of: 24 June 1978
Harkness, Ruth: 11 Feb 1978
Hawkins, Sir John: 27 May 1978
Heating, domestic, history of: 22 Apr 1978
Hilary, Sir Edmund: 1 July 1978
Hindenburg, airship: 8 July 1978
Hippopotamus: 20 May 1978
Hitler, plot to kill: 4 Feb 1978
Hoad, Lew: 6 May 1978
Holland, land reclamation: 3 June 1978
Holmes, Sherlock: 22 Apr 1978
Hovercraft, cross-Channel: 18 Mar 1978
Horses:$
  Arkle: 15 Apr 1978
  Mill House: 15 Apr 1978
  Housing, history of: 8 July 1978
  Howard, Luke: 25 Feb 1978
  Hudson, Henry: 3 June 1978
  Hydrofoil: 4 Mar 1978

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# I

Iron, clothes, how it works: 1 Apr 1978
India, craftsmen: 20 May 1978
Indri (Madagascan lemur): 29 July 1978
Ivan the Terrible: 13 May 1978

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# J

James II: 25 Feb 1978
James, Jesse: 18 Feb 1978
Jefferies, Richard: 4 Feb 1978
Jellyfish: 15 Apr 1978
Jet engine, development of: 15 Apr 1978
Johnson, Amy: 18 Mar 1978
Jumbo Jet, Boeing 747: 10 June 1978

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# K

Kennedy, John F., assassination of: 13 May 1978
Kidd, Captain William: 25 Feb 1978
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, begins: 8 July 1978
Kingsley, Mary: 1 Apr 1978
Kipling, Rudyard: 8 Apr 1978
Kutz, Vladimir: 1 Apr 1978

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# L

Landy, John: 25 Mar 1978
Lasers: 18 Mar 1978
Legal system, British: 27 May 1978
Lemmings: 8 July 1978
Lenin: 11 Feb 1978
Leopards: 18 Mar 1978
Lichens: 6 May 1978
Life-boats: 4 Feb 1978
Lift, how it works: 22 Apr 1978
Light, artificial, history of: 15 Apr 1978
Light-emitting diodes: 25 Mar 1978
Lighthouses: 8 July 1978
Lighting, gas, history of: 24 June 1978
Lindbergh, Charles: 27 May 1978
Locomotion, in insects: 20 May 1978
London, development of: 11 Feb 1978
London, Jack: 17 June 1978
Lord's cricket ground: 29 July 1978
Louis Napoleon: 11 Mar 1978
Louis XIV: 25 Feb 1978
Lusitania, sinking of: 8 July 1978
Luxembourg: 4 Feb 1978

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# M

Magellan, Ferdinand: 29 Apr 1978
Malaria: 8 July 1978
Marconi, Guglielmo: 20 May 1978
Marco Polo: 17 June 1978
Matterhorn: 1 Apr 1978
Matthews, Sir Stanley: 29 Apr 1978
Mauretania: 8 July 1978
Mawson, Douglas: 25 Feb 1978
Melville, Herman: 29 Apr 1978
Metals, precious: 1 Apr 1978
Microfilm: 4 Mar 1978
Microscope, electron: 15 July 1978
Milestones: 4 Feb 1978
Minoans: 8 Apr 1978
Minos, king of Crete: 8 Apr 1978
Model aeroplanes: 18 Feb 1978
Money, history: 25 Mar 1978
Mongoose: 6 May 1978
Monmouth, Duke of: 11 Feb 1978
Mont Blanc tunnel: 17 June 1978
Montezuma, Aztec emperor: 22 Apr 1978
Montgomery, Field Marshal: 10 June  1978
Moon, first men on: 8 Apr 1978
Morgan, Henry: 1 July 1978
Morse Code: 29 Apr 1978
Morton, Thomas: 3 June 1978
Motor Racing in France: 4 Feb 1978
Munich agreement: 3 June 1978
Murdock, William: 24 June 1978
Museums:$
  Avoncroft: 15 July 1978
  Exeter Maritime: 22 July 1978
  Lord’s Cricket Ground: 29 July 1978
Music, recording: 11 Feb 1978

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# N

Namibia: 17 June 1978
Napoleon, Louis: 11 Mar 1978
Nasser, Gamal Abdel: 4 Mar 1978
Nebuchadrezzar, King: 20 May 1978
Newcomen, Thomas: 1 Apr 1978
Newfoundland, discovery of: 8 Apr 1978
Newton, Isaac: 15 July 1978
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia: 11 Feb 1978
Nightingale, Florence: 25 Mar 1978
Normandie, Atlantic liner: 15 July 1978
Nursing, history of: 22 July 1978
Nylon, invention of: 1 July 1978

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# O

Okapi: 18 Feb 1978
Old Bailey: 11 Feb 1978
Orange, William of: 25 Feb 1978
Orwell, George: 29 July 1978
Oswald, Lee Harvey: 20 May 1978
Otters: 13 May 1978
Outboard motor: 8 July 1978

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# P

Panama canal: 10 June 1978
Panda, discovery of: 11 Feb 1978
Panda, red or lesser: 24 June 1978
Panther, six-wheeled car: 18 Feb 1978
Parasites: 1 July 1978
Parthenon: 13 May 1978
Pasteurisation: 15 Apr 1978
Pasteur, Louis: 15 Apr 1978
Peck, Annie Smith: 6 May 1978
Pen, development of: 8 Apr 1978
Penicillin, discovery of: 22 Apr 1978
Pharos at Alexandria: 8 July 1978
Photosynthesis: 18 Mar 1978
Pike: 22 July 1978
Pirie, Gordon: 1 Apr 1978
Plankton: 15 July 1978
Plants, stinging: 27 May 1978
Poisonous animals: 15 Apr 1978
Poliomyelitis: 10 June 1978
Polo, Marco: 17 June 1978
Polymers: 1 July 1978
Pompeii: 25 Mar 1978
Pond skater, insect: 25 Mar 1978
Postal services, history of: 17 June 1978
Prisons, Newgate: 8 Apr 1978
Protozoa: 8 July 1978
Pyramids: 1 Apr 1978

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# Q

Queen Elizabeth, Atlantic liner: 15 July 1978
Queen Mary, Atlantic liner: 22 July 1978
Quisling, Vidkun: 4 Mar 1978

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# R

Radar, development of: 6 May 1978
Radioactivity: 29 Apr, 13 May 1978
Radio communication, invention of: 20 May 1978
Radium, discovery of: 29 Apr 1978
Railways:$
  American: 13 May 1978
  Dutch: 20 May 1978
  East African: 3 June 1978
  Indian: 8, 22 Apr 1978
  New Zealand: 27 May 1978
  Portuguese: 6 May 1978
  South African: 29 Apr 1978
  Welsh: 1 Apr 1978
Raleigh, Sir Walter: 20 May 1978
Recording technology: 11 Feb 1978
Red Badge of Courage, begins: 18 Feb 1978
Respiration, underwater: 22 Apr 1978
Restoration of old paintings: 4 Feb 1978
Revolution, Russian: 11 Feb 1978
Rhinoceros: 4 Feb 1978
Rontgen, Wilhelm: 8 Apr 1978
Rosewall, Ken: 6 May 1978
Ross, Sir Ronald: 8 July 1978
Royal National Life-boat Institution: 4 Feb 1978
Ruby, Jack: 20 May 1978
Rugby football: 8 Apr 1978
Rushmore, Mount: 27 May 1978
Russian Revolution: 11 Feb 1978
Rutherford, Ernest: 13 May 1978
Rye House Plot, 1683: 11 Feb 1978

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# S

Sahara Desert: 22 July 1978
Salk, Jonas E.: 10 June 1978
Sampson, Deborah: 22 Apr 1978
Sarajevo, 1914: 18 Feb 1978
Schools, history of: 1 July 1978
Scott, Captain Peter: 18 Feb 1978
Scott, Sheila, aviator: 3 June 1978
Scott, Sir Walter, author: 3 June 1978
Sea Urchin: 13 May 1978
Seal-hunting: 10 June 1978
Seaside holidays, history of: 6 May 1978
Seeds, distribution: 24 June 1978
Sensory perception, in animals: 3 June 1978
Serbia: 18 Feb 1978
Shackleton, Ernest: 18 Feb 1978
Sheppard, Jack: 4 Feb 1978
Ships and sailing: 1 Apr 1978
Silicon chips: 25 Mar 1978
Silkworm: 29 July 1978
Singapore, fall of, 1942: Feb 1978
Skopje, earthquake: 6 May 1978
Sloth, animal: 11 Mar 1978
Snakes, adder: 15 Apr 1978
Snakes, deadly: 11 Mar 1978
Soil, life in: 10 June 1978
Sonar: 18 Mar 1978
Spanish Armada: 18 Feb 1978
Spiders: 1 Apr 1978
Spiders, underwater: 22 July 1978
Starfish: 13 May 1978
Steam Locomotives, British: 11 Feb 1978
Steam power: 1 Apr 1978
Steam-powered road wagons: 11 Feb 1978
Stephenson, George: 1 Apr 1978
Stinging plants: 27 May 1978
Stonehenge, construction of: 29 Apr 1978
Storks, Marabou: 15 July 1978
Suffragettes: 25 Mar 1978
Swain, Clara: 10 June 1978
Swan-upping, ceremony of: 15 July 1978

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# T

Tadpoles: 29 Apr 1978
Tails, in animals: 18 Feb 1978
Taj Mahal: 1 July 1978
Tapeworm: 1 July 1978
Tasman, Abel: 10 June 1978
Taxation: 4 Feb 1$78
Teaching, and computers: 25 Feb 1978
Telegraphy, wireless: 20 May 1978
Telephone, how it works: 29 July 1978
Telephone, invention of: 22 July 1978
Television, colour: 20, 27 May 1978
Television, outside broadcast van: 24 June 1978
Temples:$
  Abu Simbel: 15 July 1978
  Angkor Wat: 22 July 1978
  Ephesus: 24 June 1978
Tensing, Sherpa: 1 July 1978
Tereshkova Valentina: 29 Apr 1978
Thoreau, Henry: 18 Feb 1978
Thorns, in plants: 27 May 1978
Timekeeping, history of: 20 May 1978
Titus Oates: 11 Feb 1978
Tolstoy, Leo: 15 Apr 1978
Torrey Canyon, oil disaster: 24 June 1978
Tower of London: 6 May 1978
Transport, road: 3 June 1978
Treasury, the: 4 Feb 1978
The Trigan Empire:$
  Series 72, 'The Killer', ends: 11 Mar 1978
  Series 73, 'The Rival', / 'Eruption!', 18 Mar - 6 May 1978
  Series 74, 'The Trigonium Thieves', 13 May - 1 July 1978
  Series 75, 'Chase For a Traitor', starts: 8 July 1978
Tristan da Cunha, volcano: 29 July 1978
Trees, respiration: 18 Mar 1978
Trollope, Anthony: 15 July 1978
Truffles: 13 May 1978
Tubman, Harriet: 27 May 1978
Tunnels, Mont Blanc: 17 June 1978
Turbine engines: 15 Apr 1978
Turkey: 22 Apr 1978
Turpin, Dick: 11 Mar 1978

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# U

Underwater insects: 25 Mar 1978
Underwater spiders: 22 July 1978
United States, Atlantic liner: 29 July 1978

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# V

Vacuum cleaner, how it works: 8 Apr 1978
Venice: 22 Apr 1978
Verne, Jules: 13 May 1978
Versailles, Palace of: 8 July 1978
Vikings: 25 Mar 1978
Villon, Francois: 4 Mar 1978
Volcanoes, Tristan da Cunha: 29 July 1978

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# W

Water boatman, insect: 25 Mar 1978
Water spider, insect: 25 Mar 1978
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert: 6 May 1978
Watt, James: 1 Apr 1978
Wells, H.G.: 25 Mar 1978
Welsbach, Baron Carl von: 24 June 1978
Whittle, Sir Frank: 15 Apr 1978
Whymper, Michael: 1 Apr 1978
William of Orange: 25 Feb 1978
Wild cat: 3 June 1978
Willoughby, Sir Hugh: 13 May 1978
Windmill, how it works: 1 July 1978
Wireless telegraphy: 20 May 1978
World War II, German surrender: 10 June 1978
Wright Brothers: 18 Mar 1978
Writing implements, history of: 8 Apr 1978

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# X

X-rays: 8 Apr 1978

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# Z

Zatopek, Emil: 1 Apr 1978
Zola, Emile: 1 July 1978
Zulus, history of, begins: 18 Feb 1978
