
# File: index78-3.txt (23)
# Scanned/edited by Andrew Davison, March 2025, ad@coe.psu.ac.th
# Issue: 890, 1979-02-10, p.28, 29
# Period: August to December 1978

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# A

Aborigines, Australian: 30 Sep 1978
After The Legions Left, begins: 30 Sep 1978
Afghanistan, history: 12 Aug 1978
Agricultural advances: 7 Oct 1978
Aircraft, AVRO 504 biplane: 9 Dec 1978
Aircraft, Concorde: 16 Dec 1978
Aircraft, early airliners: 19 Aug 1978
Aircraft, purpose-built: 9 Sep 1978
Airmail, early: 2 Sep 1978
Airmen, Alcock and Brown: 21 Oct 1978
Alaska, purchase, 1867: 21 Oct 1978
Albert Memorial: 28 Oct 1978
Albert, Prince Consort: 28 Oct 1978
Alcock and Brown, aviators: 21 Oct 1978
Alfred, King: 2 Dec 1978
Algae, seaweed: 11 Nov 1978
American football: 4 Nov 1978
Amoco Cadiz, oil disaster: 12 Aug 1978
Anglo-Saxon England: 28 Oct 1978
Anglo-Saxons, conversion: 14 Oct 1978
Anglo-Saxons, invasions: 7 Oct 1978
Antarctica, conquest of: 21 Oct 1978
Antelopes, eland: 25 Nov 1978
Aragon, Ferdinand of: 21 Oct 1978
Archerfish: 14 Oct 1978
Arkwright, Sir Richard: 5 Aug 1978
Armadillo: 7 Oct 1978
Armistice, World War I: 26 Aug 1978
Aviation, civil, series begins: 5 Aug 1978
Augustine, Saint: 14 Oct 1978

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# B

Baggataway, sport: 30 Sep 1978
Baldock, Herts.: 19 Aug 1978
Balloons, in siege of Paris: 2 Sep 1978
Baseball, history of: 14 Oct 1978
Bath, Somerset: 23 Dec 1978
Bathing, history of: 7 Oct 1978
Bats, night-time vision: 4 Nov 1978
Battering-ram: 30 Sep 1978
Battle of Britain: 12 Aug 1978
Beamish Hall: 5 Aug 1978
Bear, Alaskan brown: 16 Sep 1978
Beetles, wood-eating: 18 Nov 1978
Binoculars: 23 Dec 1978
Birds, nest building: 30 Dec 1978
Birds, vultures: 21 Oct 1978
Blériot, Louis, aviator: 11 Nov 1978
Bligh, Capt. William: 5 Aug, 23 Dec 1978
Blood, circulation: 26 Aug 1978
Boadicea, Queen of Iceni: 7 Oct 1978
Boeing 747, first: 16 Sep 1978
Boer settlers in Africa: 9 Sep 1978
Boone, Daniel: 19 Aug 1978
Bounty, mutiny: 5 Aug 1978
'Boy on the burning deck': 28 Oct 1978
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom: 23 Dec 1978
Brydon, William: 12 Aug 1978
Buffalo: 19 Aug 1978
Bunsen burner: 19 Aug 1978
Bunsen, William: 19 Aug 1978
Bunyon, John: 2 Sep 1978
Burton, Richard, explorer: 2 Sep 1978
Butterflies: 23 Sep 1978
Byng, Admiral John: 28 Dec 1978

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# C

Cacti: 25 Nov 1978
Caesar, Julius, assassination: 4 Nov 1978
Calendar 1979: 23 Dec 1978; 6 Jan 1979
Camera, history of: 5 Aug 1978
Canada, exploration: 12 Aug 1978
Carnivorous plants: 5 Aug 1978
Cartier, Jacques: 12 Aug 1978
Cassette tapes, how they work: 14 Oct 1978
Castile, Isabella of: 21 Oct 1978
Catapult: 14 Oct 1978
Catherine the Great, empress of Russia: 18 Nov 1978
Gato Street Conspiracy: 16 Nov 1978
Catterick: 14 Oct 1978
Cave paintings, Spanish: 7 Oct 1978
Celtic Britain: 30 Sep 1978
Chamberlain, Neville: 16 Sep 1978
Channel, first man to fly: 11 Nov 1978
Charles I: 25 Nov 1978
Charles I and Earl of Strafford: 28 Oct 1978
Charles, Prince of Wales, investiture: 18 Nov 1978
Charlie, Bonnie Prince: 23 Sep 1978
Chartwell, home of heroes: 23 Dec 1978
Chatsworth House: 16 Dec 1978
Chaucer, Geoffrey, poet: 28 Oct 1978
Cheddar Caves Museum: 19 Aug 1978
Chichester, Sir Francis: 16 Dec 1978
Chips, silicon: 25 Nov 1978
Chloroform, invention of: 18 Nov 1978
Christmas, history of: 23 Dec 1978
Christ, statue: 9 Sep 1978
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt: 11 Nov 1978
Cleaning, history of: 11 Nov 1978
Cold, cryogenics: 2 Sep, 1978
Combine harvester: 19 Aug 1978
Communications, history of: 21 Oct 1978
Computerised information systems: 18 Nov 1978
Concorde, aircraft: 19 Aug, 16 Dec 1978
Coral, types of: 23 Dec 1978
Corday, Charlotte: 4 Nov 1978
Cotopaxi, volcano: 7 Oct 1978
Crimean War: 7 Oct 1978
Crossbows: 7 Oct 1978
Cryogenics: 2 Sep 1978
'Cuckoo-spit': 9 Dec 1978
Culloden, battle of: 23 Sep 1978
Custer, General George Armstrong: 5 Aug 1978

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# D

Desert, farming in: 30 Sep 1978
Desert, plant life: 25 Nov 1978
Destroyers, ships: 12 Aug 1978
Devizes: 30 Sep 1978
Diaghilev, Sergei: 23 Dec 1978
Disney, Walt: 9 Dec 1978
Dragonfly: 12 Aug 1978
Drake, Sir Francis: 7 Oct 1978
Dreyfus Affair: 25 Nov 1978
Drills, on oil rigs: 18 Nov 1978
Dvorak, Antonin, composer: 2 Sep 1978

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# E

East Anglia, history: 5 Aug 1978
Eden, Sir Anthony: 25 Nov 1978
Electronics: 19 Aug 1978
Elephants: 26 Aug 1978
Elizabeth I: 28 Oct 1978
Energy, solar: 28 Oct 1978
Energy, subterranean: 21 Oct 1978
English kings, early: 2 Dec 1978
Eskimos: 2, 9, 16 Sep 1978
Everest, conquest of: 19 Aug 1978

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# F

Farming, history of: 26 Aug 1978
Farming in deserts, 30 Sep 1978
Fawcett, Colonel: 30 Sep 1978
Fawkes, Guy: 9 Dec 1978
Fire extinguisher: 30 Sep 1978
Firefighting, history of: 16 Sep 1978
Fireflies: 14 Oct 1978
Fire, Great, 1666, 26 Aug 1978
Fish, archerfish: 14 Oct 1978
Fives, sport: 11 Nov 1978
Flamingoes: 23 Sep 1978
Flight, insect: 16 Sep 1978
Flowers, scent and colour: 16 Dec 1978
Flying boats: 2 Sep 1978
Football, American: 4 Nov 1978
Football, Gaelic: 23 Sep 1978
Football, Britain wins World Cup: 16 Sep 1978
Footwear museum, 9 Sep 1978
France, national anthem: 12 Aug 1978
French revolution: 23 Sep 1978
Frog-hopper: 9 Dec 1978
Fuchs, Dr. Vivian, explorer: 21 Oct 1978

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# G

Gaelic football: 23 Sep 1978
Gas, poison: 2 Dec 1978
Gazella walleri: 12 Aug 1978
General Strike, 1926: 21 Oct 1978
Gerenuk, 12 Aug 1978
Gettysburg, battle: 19 Aug 1978
Glass, Hugh, American frontiersman: 4 Nov 1978
Glow-worms: 14 Oct 1978
Goat, Rocky Mountain: 2 Sep 1978
Godwin, name, mean 12 Aug 1978
Gospel Oak, place, origin: 12 Aug 1978
Gotham, village: 25 Nov 1978
Grass: 7 Oct 1978
Great Eastern, steamship: 23 Dec 1978
Great train robbery, 1963: 30 Sep 1978
Great Trek, Boers: 9 Sep 1978
Green, meaning of name: 14 Oct 1978
Greenland, Eskimos: 2 Sep 1978
Gruber, Franz: 9 Sep 1978
Gunpowder Plot, the: 9 Dec 1978

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# H

Halberd, weapon: 11 Nov 1978
Handel, George Frederick, composer: 19 Aug 1978
Harvey, William: 26 Aug 1978
Hastings, fishermen's church: 12 Aug 1978
Hathaway, Anne, cottage: 2 Dec 1978
Haworth Parsonage: 9 Dec 1978
Heron: 2 Dec 1978
Herschel, William: 9 Sep 1978
Herstmonceux, Sussex: 16 Dec 1978
Hillary, Edmund: 19 Aug 1978
Holly: 23 Dec 1978
Holograms: 4 Nov 1978
Homes, famous, series begins: 2 Dec
Huskisson, William: 16 Dec 1978
Hydroponics: 7 Oct 1978
Hyenas: 9 Sep 1978
Hythe, Kent: 9 Dec 1978

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# I

Iguanas: 5 Aug 1978
Indians, Mohawk: 26 Aug 1978
Insect flight, origin: 16 Sep 1978
Insects, frog-hopper: 9 Dec 1978
Invasion, Britain, threat: 12 Aug 1978
Iron and steel industry: 12 Aug 1978
Ironbridge museum: 26 Aug 1978
Ironside, name: 23 Sep 1978
Israeli athletes, massacre: 2 Sep 1978
It Started A Sensation, begins: 23 Dec 1978
Ivy: 23 Dec 1978

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# J

Jerusalem: 21 Oct 1978
Jesus, betrayal of: 11 Nov 1978
Jet flight, early: 16 Sep 1978
John, King of England: 14 Oct 1978
Johnson, Dr. Samuel: 16 Dec 1978
Joyce, William, 'Lord Haw Haw': 11 Nov 1978
Judas Iscariot, disciple: 11 Nov 1978
Julius Caesar, assassination of: 4 Nov 1978

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# K

Kabul, retreat from: 12 Aug 1978
Kendo, Japanese sport: 18 Nov 1978
Kidd, Capt. William, privateer: 18 Nov 1978
Kingston-upon-Thames: 4 Nov 1978
King Solomon's Mines, begins: 5 Aug 1978
Kinkajous: 9 Dec 1978
Kon-Tiki, raft: 5 Aug 1978

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# L

Lacrosse: 30 Sep 1978
Lapps: 5 Aug 1978
Lee, General Robert E.: 19 Aug 1978
Lewis Gun: 9 Dec 1978
Lewisham, railway disaster: 26 Aug 1978
Liberty, statue: 5 Aug 1978
Lifeboat men, history of: 2 Sep, 28 Oct 1978
Lincoln, Abraham, American president: 14 Oct 1978
Lincoln, city: 26 Aug 1978
Livingstone, David: 7 Oct 1978
Locks, Yale dead lock: 21 Oct 1978
Locomotive, BR class 47 diesel-electric: 2 Sep 1978
Locomotives, Class 87 electric: 7 Oct 1978
Locomotive, steam, how works: 23 Sep 1978
Locusts: 19 Aug 1978
London, Great Fire of: 26 Aug 1978
'Lord Haw Haw', William Joyce: 11 Nov 1978
Lucknow: 12 Aug 1978
Lumberjacks, Australian: 11 Nov 1978
Lyon, name, meaning of: 30 Sep 1978

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# M

Mantis, praying: 4 Nov 1978
Marat, Jean Paul, murder of: 4 Nov 1978
Marie Antoinette, French queen: 4 Nov 1978
Marie Theresa, Austrian queen: 4 Nov 1978
Marine iguanas: 5 Aug 1978
Mark Antony, Roman soldier: 11 Nov 1978
Marsupials: 18 Nov 1978
Massachusetts: 30 Sep 1978
Matto Grosso: 30 Sep 1978
Mayflower, and Pilgrim Fathers: 23 Dec 1978
Mecca: 2 Sep 1978
Medicine, advances in: 11 Nov 1978
Mexico: 23 Dec 1978
Microprocessors: 25 Nov 1978
Milk pasteurisation: 30 Sep 1978
Minute Man, statue: 30 Sep 1978
Missionaries, early Christian: 21 Oct 1978
Mistletoe: 23 Dec 1978
Mixer, kitchen: 5 Aug 1978
Mohawk Indians: 26 Aug 1978
Monarch butterfly: 23 Sep 1978
Money, Anglo-Saxon: 4 Nov 1978
Monkwearmouth: 23 Sep 1978
Moon colonisation: 16 Dec 1978
More, Sir Thomas: 2 Dec 1978
Mormons: 4 Nov, 16 Dec 1978
Moths: 23, 30 Sep 1978
Mountain rescue aircraft: 9 Sep 1978
Muhammad Ali, boxer: 4 Nov 1978
Murmansk, Soviet port: 14 Oct 1978
Mushrooms: 9 Sep 1978
Munich Olympics, massacre: 2 Sep 1978

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# N

Nasser, President of Egypt: 25 Nov 1978
Nelson, Horatio: 9 Sep 1978
New York, discovery of: 14 Oct 1978
News reporting, history of: 21 Oct 1978
Nicholls, meaning of name: 21 Oct 1978
Nijinsky, ballet dancer: 23 Dec 1978
Norman Conquest, 1066: 9 Dec 1978
Norman feudalism: 9 Dec 1978
Norman Kings of England: 16 Dec 1978
Northern Lights, astral phenomenon: 21 Oct 1978
Northumbria, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom: 28 Oct 1978
Norway, under Nazis: 25 Nov 1978

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# O

Offa, King of Mercia: 4 Nov 1978
Offa's Dyke, earthwork: 4 Nov 1978
Oil, North Sea, found: 2 Dec 1978
Oil rigs, North Sea: 18 Nov 1978
Oil spill, Amoco Cadiz: 12 Aug 1978
Olympic massacre, Munich: 2 Sep 1978
Optic fibres: 25 Nov 1978
Otters, sea: 11 Nov 1978
Owens, Commodore Perry, Western Lawman: 25 Nov 1978

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# P

Palmer, meaning of name: 11 Nov 1978
Paris, siege of: 2 Sep 1978
Pasteur, Louis: 30 Sep 1978
Patrick, Irish saint: 21 Oct 1978
Peacocks: 4 Nov 1978
Peary, Robert: 23 Sep 1978
Peel, John: 7 Oct 1978
Percy, Major Henry: 30 Sep 1978
Peter III, Czar of Russia: 18 Nov 1978
Petrol pump: 16 Sep 1978
Photography: 5 Aug 1978
Piano, history and components of: 28 Oct 1978
Picts: 18 Nov 1978
Pilgrim Fathers: 23 Dec 1978
Pitcairn Island: 23 Dec 1978
Plague, the Great: 16 Sep 1978
Plant life, desert: 25 Nov 1978
Plants, carnivorous: 5 Aug 1978
Plants, holly, mistletoe, ivy: 23 Dec 1978
Plants, in cold climates: 2 Dec 1978
Plastic surgery: 11 Nov 1978
Plays, historical: 2 Sep 1978
Poison gas, in WWI: 2 Dec 1978
Pony Express: 23 Sep 1978
Praying mantis, insect: 4 Nov 1978
Prince Charles, investiture: 18 Nov 1978

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# Q

Quisling, Vidkun: 25 Nov 1978

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# R

Racoons: 28 Oct 1978
Radisson, Pierre: 26 Aug 1978
Railway disaster, Lewisham: 26 Aug 1978
Railway fatality, first: 16 Sep 1978
Railways, British, 200 km/h train: 28 Oct 1978
Reindeer: 5 Aug 1978
Remington, Frederick, painter: 7 Oct 1978
Revolution, French: 23 Sep 1978
Rhodesia, declaration of independence: 23 Sep 1978
Richmond, name of two English towns: 7 Oct 1978
Rio de Janeiro: 9 Sep 1978
Rocket-launcher, European: 25 Nov 1978
Rocky Mountain goat: 2 Sep 1978
Rocky Mountains, home of Mormons: 16 Sep 1978
Rome, Victor Emmanuel monument: 2 Sep:1978
Royal National Lifeboat Institution: 28 Oct 1978

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# S

Sailors, famous Elizabethan: 28 Oct 1
Salem, Witches of: 9 Dec 1978
Salt Lake City: 16 Sep, 4 Nov 1978
Samson, and Delilah: 18 Nov 1978
Samurai sword-play: 18 Nov 1978
Schubert, Franz: 26 Aug 1978
Schweitzer, Albert: 9 Sep 1978
Scotland, in Dark Ages: 18 Nov 1978
Seaweeds: 11 Nov 1978
Seal hunting: 9 Sep 1978
Sheba, Bilkis, queen of: 14 Oct 1978
Ships, square-riggers: 30 Sep 1978
Shopping, history of: 5 Aug 1978
Shoe museum: 9 Sep 1978
Silent Night, carol, origin: 9 Sep 1978
Silicon chips: 25 Nov 1978
Skin, composition: 21 Oct 1978
Sleeping sickness: 28 Oct 1978
Slugs: 2 Sep 1978
Snow, characteristics of: 16 Dec 1978
Solar energy: 28 Oct 1978
Solomon Islands: 16 Dec 1978
Sousaphone: 23 Sep 1978
Southern Cross, constellation: 14 Oct 1978
Southwark, London borough: 18 Nov 1978
Space travel: 16 Sep 1978
Sport, spotlight on, series begins: 23 Sep 1978
Solomon, king of Israel: 14 Oct 1978
Stanley, Henry: 7 Oct 1978
Steam engine: 23 Sep 1978
Steel industry: 12 Aug 1978
Stocks, history of: 11 Nov 1978
Stone of Scone, theft, 1950: 18 Nov 1978
Stone of Scone, history: 9 Dec 1978
Strafford, Thomas, Earl: 28 Oct 1978
Strike, General, 1926: 21 Oct 1978
St. Lawrence river, exploration: 12 Aug 1078
Stuart Charles Edward, prince: 23 Sep 1978
Submarines: nuclear-powered: 11 Nov 1978
Suez crisis: 25 Nov 1978
Sumo, Japanese sport: 28 Oct 1978
Supersonic flight, Concorde: 16 Dec 8
Surgery, spare part: 11 Nov 1978

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# T

Takraw, Eastern sport: 7 Oct 1978
Tanks, Chieftain: 4 Nov 1978
Tanks, early English: 21 Oct 1978
Tanks, Vickers Mark IV: 28 Oct 1978
Tasmania, animal life: 18 Nov 1978
Tay Bridge disaster: 14 Oct 1978
Tennis championship: 12 Aug 1978
Tenzing, Sherpa: 19 Aug 1978
'The Boy on the burning deck': 28 Oct 1978
The Rite Of Spring, ballet: 23 Dec 1978
The Sign Of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, begins: 25 Nov 1978
They Belonged To Britain, begins: 16 Dec 1978
Thor Heyerdahl: 5 Aug 1978
Three-dimensional pictures: 4 Nov 1978
Tibet: 26 Aug 1978
Tidal power: 23 Sep 1978
Tintagel, Cornish village: 28 Oct 1978
Tolpuddie Martyrs: 9 Dec 1978
Toys, museum: 2 Sep 1978
Trafalgar, battle: 9 Sep 1978
Train robbery, Britain, 1963: 30 Sep 1978
Transport, future: 9 Sep 1978
Travel of the future: 9 Sep 1978
Tree felling, sport: 11 Nov 1978
The Trigan Empire:$
  Series 75, 'Chase For a Traitor', ends: 12 Aug, 1978
  Series 76, 'The Voyage of the Perici', / 'Sub Mission', 11 Nov - 16 Dec, 1978
  Series 77, 'The Flowers of Forgetfulness', starts: 23 Dec, 1978
Tsetse fly, insect: 28 Oct 1978
Tulip-growing in Holland: 23 Sep 1978
Tundra, plant life: 2 Dec 1978
Typewriter, how it works: 9 Sep 1978

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# V

Verrazano, Giovanni da, explorer: 14 Oct 1978
Victor Emmanuel monument: 2 Sep 1978
Victoria, Queen and Albert, Prince Consort: 28 Oct 1978
Victoria, Queen: 25 Nov 1978
Vikings, raids on England: 25 Nov 1978
Vultures: 21 Oct 1978

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# W

Wade, Virginia: 12 Aug 1978
Wagner, Richard, 5 Aug 1978
Wakefield, Yorks: 2 Sep 1978
Wales, in Dark Ages: 11 Nov 1978
Wallace, William: 26 Aug 1978
Walrus hunting: 16 Sep 1978
Washing machines, history: 19 Aug 1978
War, First World, armistice: 26 Aug, 14 Nov 1978
War of the Austrian Succession: 4 Nov 1978
War, Second World, start: 16 Sep 1978
Waterloo, news of battle: 30 Sep 1978
Wrestling, Icelandic: 9 Dec 1978

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# Y

York, history of: 11 Nov 1978
Young, Brigham, Mormon leader: 4 Nov 1978

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# Z

Zebra: 9 Sep 1978
Zoor Khaneh, Iranian sport: 2 Dec 1978
