
# File: index81-1.txt (28)
# Scanned/edited by Andrew Davison, March 2025, ad@coe.psu.ac.th
# Issue: 1007, 1981-06-27, p.26,27
# Period: Jan to June 1981

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# A

Adam's Peak: Apr 18 1981
Agitators, Eureka Stockade: Jan 3 1981
Airplanes, anti-submarine patrol planes: June 6 1981
Airplanes, fastest: Jan 24 1981
Airplanes, flight, the first, Jan 3 1981
Airplanes, oldest: Jan 10 1981
Airplanes, veteran: Jan 10 1981
Alligators: May 30 1981
Along the Banks of the Shannon, series: Mar 28 - May 2 1981
Alternative Technology Centre: Feb 28 1981
America, South, Travels: Jan 31 1981
Animals, behaviour, study of: Mar 14 1981

Animals:$
  blackfish or pilot whale, bottle-nosed dolphin, bottle-nosed whale, Apr 18 1981
  Chacma baboon: Mar 28 1981
  common dolphin, Curier's whale: Apr 18 1981
  dogs, guide, for the blind: Apr 4 1981
  fin whale (common rorqual): Apr 18 1981
  hippopotamus: Feb 14 1981
  killer whale, lesser rorqual whale, porpoise, Risso's dolphin, Sei whale: Apr 18 1981
  sheep, North Ronaldsay: Jan 3 1981
  slime moulds: see under plants
  white-beaked dolphin, white-sided dolphin: Apr 18 1981
  wolverines: June 13 1981

Animals, from abroad, begins: Mar 21 1981
Animals, Asia: brown rat, Himalayan porcupine, mandarin duck, pheasant, ring-necked or green parakeet: Mar 21 1981
Animals, Australia and Africa: crested porcupine, domestic cat, Egyptian goose, rednecked wallaby: Apr 4 1981
Animals, Europe, ferret, frog, little owl, rabbit, redlegged partridge, zander: Mar 28 1981
Animals, North and South America, coypu, rey squirrel, mink, rainbow trout: Apr 11 1981

Animals, fungal, acrasiales, myxomycetes: May 2 1981
Animals, world's rarest, Arabian oryx, Dasogale fontoynonti (tendrac), Javan tiger, Kauai O-o (bird), West Indian monk seal: May 2 1981

April Fools' Day: Apr 4 1981
Astronomy, big bang theory: Jan 31 1981
Astronomy, radio: Mar 14 1981
At Your Service, the service industries, begins: Jan 10:
Service Industries:
  ambulance: Mar 14 1981
  Automobile Association's air ambulances: May 2 1981
  British Airports Authority: Mar 7 1981
  customs and excise: Apr 4 1981
  dustmen: Jan 10 1981
  electricity: Jan 17 1981
  fire brigades: Feb 21 1981
  Forestry Commission: Mar 21 1981
  gas: Jan 31 1981
  Milk Marketing Board: Apr 18 1981
  motorways: Apr 11 1981
  police: Mar 28 1981
  postal service: Feb 28 1981
  Royal Automobile Club: Apr 25 1981
  sewage: Jan 24 1981
  telephone system: Feb 7 1981
  water: Feb 14 1981
Atlantis: Feb 14 1981
Atmosphere, Earth's: Jan 10 1981

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# B

Baboon, Chacma: Mar 28 1981
Barnardo, Dr. Thomas John: Apr 11 1981
Barrage balloon: Feb 28 1981
Battle of Tsushima: Feb 21 1981
Beaman, Bob, world long jump champion: Mar 28 1981
Bee-eater: June 6 1981
Ben-Hur, serial: Jan 10 - May 23 1981
Birds:$
  Bee-eater: June 6 1981
  budgerigar: Apr 4 1981
  Egyptian goose: Apr 4 1981
  golden eagle: June 6 1981
  homing pigeon: Jan 31 1981
  little owl: Mar 28 1981
  mandarin duck: Mar 21 1981
  nightjar: May 23 1981
  North African ostrich: Feb 21 1981
  pheasant: Mar 21 1981
  red-legged partridge: Mar 28 1981
  ring-necked parakeet: Mar 21 1981
  sea eagle: Apr 25 1981
  snowy owl: June 6 1981
  swift, Alpine, spine-tailed: June 20 1981
Black Holes: May 16 1981
Blarney Stone: Mar 21 1981
Blinking: Apr 25 1981
Blushing: Apr 4 1981
Breakspear, Nicholas, Pope Adrian IV: Feb 28 1981
Britain's history, Our Islands' Story, begins: Jan 10 1981
Buckingham Palace, history: May 16 1981
Budget: Mar 7 1981
Burma Road: May 23 1981
Byrne, Tommy: Jan 24 1981

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# C

Cactus plants: Jan 31 1981
Caledonian Canal: Mar 14 1981
Canals, Britain's: May 30 1981
Canal locks: May 9 1981
Cannon, origin of: Feb 7 1981
Canterbury, archbishop: Jan 3 1981
Cats, domestic: Apr 4 1981
Centipede: Apr 18 1981
Channel, English, different ways of crossing, begins: June 6 1981
Channel, car ferries: June 13 1981
Channel, hovercraft: June 6 1981
Charlemagne: Feb 7 1981
Charles, Prince: May 9 1981
Cheese, manufacture: Feb 28 1981
Chess, the story of, begins: May 9 1981
Chess, origin: Mar 21 1981
Chicken soup: Jan 3 1981
Circuses, history: May 16 1981
Cleisthenes: Jan 17 1981
Cleopatra: Jan 31 1981
Cockerell, Sir Christopher: June 6 1981
Cod war: Mar 14 1981
Codex Vaticanus (bible), world's oldest book: Mar 7 1981
Confederacy in the USA: Jan 31 1981
Conkers, history: Feb 21 1981
Cookery, chicken soup: Jan 3 1981
Costumes, colourful, Archbishop of Canterbury, the, Jan 3 1981
Coypu: Apr 11 1981
Cricket, test series: June 20 1981
Crispin, Saint, day: Jan 31 1981
Cristofori, Bartolomeo, inventor of the piano: Jan 10 1981
Crufts, dog show: Feb 14 1981
Crystal set: Jan 17 1981

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# D

Dalai Lama: Mar 21, 28, Apr 4 1981
Darwin, Charles: Jan 17 1981
Designed to Deceive (cinema techniques), begins: Jan 3 1981
Dew, how it forms: Jan 24 1981
Diamonds: May 16 1981
Dogger Bank: June 13 1981
Dogs, guide: Apr 4 1981
Dolphins: Apr 18 1981
Duck, mandarin: Mar 28 1981

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# E

Eagle, golden: June 6 1981
Eagle, sea: Apr 25 1981
Egyptian mummies: Feb 28 1981
Elements, periodic table of: Jan 10 1981
Emergency call service: May 9 1981
Energy, Centre of Alternative Technology: Feb 28 1981
Eureka Stockade: Jan 3 1981
Evolution, meaning of: Jan 24 1981

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# F

Fairs, origin of: Feb 7 1981
Ferrets: Mar 28 1981
Finding Out, series: Jan 10 - May 2 1981
Finding Out:$
  animal behaviour: Mar 14 1981
  Aurora, Borealis and Australis (northern and southern lights): Jan 24 1981
  balance in inner ear: May 2 1981
  coal, series: Mar 21 - Apr 11 1981
  coal, origin: Mar 21 1981
  development of mining: Mar 28 1981
  coal, by-products: Apr 4 1981
  coal, future: Apr 11 1981
  dust: Apr 18 1981
  life expectancy: Jan 17 1981
  Marianas Trench: Feb 7 1981
  nova and supernova: Feb 28 1981
  nutrition and digestion: Jan 10 1981
  rainbow, how it is formed: Apr 25 1981
  rusting, of iron and steel: Jan 31 1981
  turf-cutting machines: Mar 7 1981
  taste, sense of: Feb 21 1981
  voice printing: Feb 14 1981

Fish, flatfish, brill, common sols, common topknot, dab, flounder, halibut, lemon sole, long rough dab, megrim, plaice, solenette, turbot: Jan 3 1981

Fish, fossils, living: crab, horseshoe, coelacanth, lepidurus, shrimp, tadpole, triops: May 9 1981
Fish, salmon farm: Mar 21 1981
Fish, trout, rainbow: Apr 11 1981
Fish, zander: Mar 28 1981

Football, Association cup final, history of: Jan 10 1981
Football, history: Jan 17 1981
Football, Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro: Apr 11 1981

Fossils, living: May 9 1981
Freckles: Mar 14 1981
Frogs, edible: Mar 28 1981

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# G

Giraffe: Jan 17 1981
Gold, quest for: Jan 17 1981

Golden Cities, the, begins: Jan 10 1981
Golden Cities:$
  Athens: Jan 10 - Feb 28 1981
  battle of Marathon: Jan 17 1981
  Cleomenes: Jan 17 1981
  Cleon: Feb 14 1981
  Datis: Jan 24 1981
  Delian League: Jan 24 1981
  Demosthenes: Feb 28 1981
  Hippias and Hipparchus: Jan 17 1981
  King Philip II: Feb 28 1981
  King Xerxes, Miltiades: Jan 24 1981
  Parthenon: Feb 7 1981
  Peisistratus: Jan 10 1981
  Pericles: Feb 7 1981
  Socrates: Feb 21 1981
  Themistocles: Jan 24 1981
  Byzantium: May 9 - June 13 1981
  Alexis III: May 30 1981
  Belisarius: May 23 1981
  Byzas: May 9 1981
  Crusaders: May 30 1981
  Dandolo, Enrico: May 30 1981
  Emperor Constantine: May 16 1981
  Emperor Justinian of Constantinople: May 23 1981
  Emperor Manuel II: June 6 1981
  Hagia Sophia: June 6 1981
  Murtzuphlus: May 30 1981
  Nika insurrection: May 23 1981
  Septimius Severus: May 9 1981
  Sultan Mehmed II, June 6 1981
  Sultan Suleyman: June 13 1981
  Carthage: Mar 7 - 28 1981
  Hamilcar Barca: Mar 21 1981
  Hannibal: Mar 28 1981
  Hasdrubal: Mar 21 1981
  Paris: Apr 4 - May 2 1981
  Abelard: Apr 11, 18 1981
  Bonaparte, Napoleon: May 2 1981
  Cathedral of Notre Dame: Apr 18 1981
  Clovis: Apr 11 1981
  Dionysius: Apr 4 1981
  Eiffel Tower: May 2 1981
  French Revolution: May 2 1981
  Geneviéve: Apr 4, 11 1981
  Haussmann, Baron Georges: May 2 1981
  Héloise: Apr 18 1981
  Henry of Navarre: Apr 25 1981
  Hugo, Victor: May 2 1981
  Jacquerie: Apr 18 1981
  King Charles VI of France: Apr 18 1981
  King Charles IX of France: Apr 25 1981
  King Francis I of France: Apr 25 1981
  King Henry II of France: Apr 25 1981
  King Henry V: Apr 18 1981
  King Louis VII of France: Apr 18 1981
  King Louis XIV of France: Apr 25 1981
  King Louis Philippe of France: May 2 1981
  King Philip Augustus: Apr 18 1981
  Louis Napoleon: May 2 1981
  Marcel, Etienne: Apr 18 1981
  Napoleon III: May 2 1981
  Robespierre, Maximilien: May 2 1981
Gordonstoun, summer school: Apr 4 1981
Guide dogs, for the blind: Apr 4 1981

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# H

Haddington Abbey: Apr 28 1981
Hair, reason for colour: Apr 18 1981
Hamburgers, origin: Mar 28 1981
Hannibal: Mar 21,28 1981
Hardy's Drawing Board, begins: Jan 10 1981
Hardy's Drawing Board:$
  aircraft wing design: Jan 10 1981
  aluminium: Mar 7 1981
  autogyros: May 9 1981
  Bell XV-15 tilt-rotor (aeroplane and helicopter): Feb 7 1981
  flying fire engines: Jan 24 1981
  fuel, location and drilling techniques: Apr 4 1981
  HiMAT (highly manoeuvrable aircraft technology) aircraft: Apr 25 1981
  Humber estuary bridge: Mar 28 1981
  hydraulics research station: May 30 1981
  hydrofoil: Feb 14 1981
  in-flight refuelling: Mar 21 1981
  offshore production platforms: Apr 11 1981
  optical fibres: May 23 1981
  OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion): May 2 1981
  Project Thrust, world land speed record: Feb 28 1981
  RAF 202 Squadron, air-sea rescue service: June 20 1981
  Russian space travel: Jan 31 1981
  sailiner: Apr 18 1981
  satellites: Feb 21 1981
  submersibles, Hawk and Mantis: May 16 1981
  Thames, flood barrier: Jan 17 1981
  tyres, road: June 6 1981
  weather forecast: Mar 7 1981
Hiccups: Mar 28 1981
Highland Journey along the River Dee, series: Feb 21 -  Mar 21 1981
Hippopotamus: Feb 14 1981
Hitler, Adolf: Apr 4 1981
Hockey, origin: May 9 1981
Horn, electric: Feb 7 1981
Horseshoe, why lucky: Apr 11 1981

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# I

Important events in 1980: Jan 3 1981
Ink: Feb 21 1981
Interpol: Apr 4 1981
Iran: June 13 1981

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# J

Jansky, Karl: Mar 14 1981
Jigsaws: Feb 14 1981
Journey down the Rhone, A, begins: June 6 1981
Judges' wigs: May 2 1981
Judo, origin: Feb 21 1981
Judson, Whitcomb, inventor of zip fasteners: Mar 7 1981

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# K

Ketch, Jack: Feb 28 1981
King Olav of Norway: May 2 1981
Kites, origin: Apr 18 1981
Kiwi: Mar 21 1981

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# L

Land-sailing: Feb 14 1981
Laser, long-range: May 2 1981
Law, history of Britain's legal system, begins: May 30 1981
Leaning Tower of Pisa: Feb 21 1981
Legends, series begins: Jan 10 1981
Legends:$
  Billy the Kid: Jan 31 1981
  Calamity Jane: Mar 21 1981
  Chapman, John (Johnny Appleseed): Feb 14 1981
  chivalry: Apr 25 1981
  Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill): Apr 18 1981
  Custer, General George Armstrong: May 2 1981
  Dracula, Count: Apr 11 1981
  Hood, Robin: Jan 10 1981
  James, Jesse: Feb 28 1981
  Kidd, Captain: Apr 4 1981
  King Arthur of Camelot: Jan 17 1981
  Miracle at the Battle of Mons: Mar 1 1981
  Russian invasion, 1914: Mar 28 1981
  Tell, William: Mar 7 1981
  Turpin, Dick: Feb 21 1981
  Tutankhamun, curse of: Feb 7 1981
  Whittington, Dick: Jan 24 1981
Liquorice: Jan 10 1981
Lizard, horned: Jan 17 1981
London Bridge, new: Apr 11 1981
Lorna Doone, begins: May 30 1981

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# M

Madame Tussaud's: Mar 7 1981
Marzipan: Jan 17 1981
Maundy money, origin: Apr 18 1981
Michelangelo Buonarroti: June 6 1981
Mikado: May 2 1981
Mink: Apr 11 1981
Mirror, origin: Jan 17 1981
Music, instruments, begins: Jan 10 1981
Music Instruments:$
  flute: Jan 31 1981
  guitar: Feb 14 1981
  percussion: Jan 24 1981
  piano: Jan 10 1981
  trumpet: Jan 17 1981
  violin: Feb 7 1981
Myxomycetes: May 2 1981

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# N

NASA: May 9 1981
Nightjar: May 23 1981
North Ronaldsay sheep: Jan 3 1981
Nose-bleed: Feb 7 1981
Nuclear submarine, first: Mar 14 1981
Number 13, superstition: May 23 1981
Nutrition: Jan 10 1981

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# O

Oil, discovery of: Jan 24 1981
Olav, King, Norway: May 2 1981
Ostrich, North African: Feb 21 1981

Other people's Countries, series begins: Jan 10 1981
Countries:$
  Acapulco (Mexico): Jan 24 1981
  Afghanistan: June 30 1981
  Albania: May 9 1981
  Algeria: Apr 18 1981
  Alexandria (Egypt): Mar 7 1981
  Aruba: Jan 17 1981
  Cartagena (Colombia): Jan 24 1981
  Djibouti (Ethiopia): Mar
  Everglades and Florida: Jan 17 1981
  Haifa (Israel): Mar 7 1981
  Hong Kong: Feb 14 1981
  Honolulu (Hawaii): Jan 31 1981
  Kenya: May 16 1981
  Kuwait: May 2 1981
  Los Angeles: Jan 31 1981
  Malaysia: May 23:
  Manila (Philippines): Feb 14:
  Messina (Sicily): Mar 14 1981
  Mombasa (Kenya): Feb 28 1981
  New York: Jan 10 1981
  Panama Canal: Jan 24 1981
  Piraeus (Greece): Mar 14 1981
  Port Everglades (Florida): Jan 17 1981
  San Marino: Apr 25 1981
  Seychelles: Feb 28 1981
  Southampton: Mar 14 1981
  Sudan: June 6 1981
  Suez Canal: Mar 7 1981
  Suva (Fiji): Feb 7 1981
  Sydney (Australia): Feb 7 1981
  Tangier (Morocco): Mar 14 1981
  Tonga: Feb 7 1981

Our Islands' Story, Britain's history, begins: Jan 10 1981
Our Islands' Story:$
  Agincourt, battle: Jan 31 1981
  Aragon, Catherine of: May 23 1981
  Boleyn, Anne: May 23 1981
  Bosworth, battle: Apr 25 1981
  Cade, Jack and his rebels (Henry VI): Mar 7 1981
  Graham, Sir Robert: Mar 21 1981
  Howard, Catherine: May 23 1981
  Joan of Arc: Feb 21 1981
  Parr, Catherine: May 23 1981
  Prince Edward and Prince Richard in the Tower: Apr 18 1981
  Prince Hal (Henry V): Jan 24 1981
  Roses, wars of: Mar 28 - Apr 25 1981
  Seymour, Jane: May 23 1981
  Warwick, Earl: Apr 4 1981

Our Islands' Kings and Queens:$
  Edward IV: Apr 4, 11 1981
  Edward VI: May 30 1981
  Henry IV: Jan 10, 17 1981
  Henry V: Jan 24, 31, Feb 7, 14 1981
  Henry VI: Feb 21, 28, Mar 7, 28, Apr 4 1981
  Henry VII: Apr 25, May 2, 9 1981
  Henry VIII: May 16 1981
  James I of Scotland: Mar 14, 21 1981
  James IV of Scotland: May 16 1981
  Richard III: Apr 25 1981
  Elizabeth I: June 13 1981
  Mary Tudor: June 6 1981
  Mary Queen of Scot: June 13 1981

Owl, snowy: June 6 1981

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# P

Pepper's ghost: Jan 10 1981
Pigeons, homing: Jan 31 1981
Pioneers of the Air, series ends: Jan 3 1981
Planets: origin of their names: Mar 1 1981
Plantagenet, the royal house, family tree: Feb 28 1981

Plants, fossils, living: club moss, giant horsetail, ginko (tree): May 9 1981

Plants, slime moulds: arcyria denudata, arcyria ferruginea, badhamia panicea, cribaria aurantiaca, diderma floriforme, didymium nigripes, physarum bitectum, physarum viride, stemanitis fusca, trichia botrytis, tubifera ferruginosa: May 2 1981

Polling Day in France: Apr 25 1981
Porcupine, crested: Apr 4 1981
Porcupine, Himalayan: Mar 21 1981
Port of London, series: May 9 - 23 1981
Portmeirion: Apr 25 1981
Potato: May 16 1981
Prince Charles: May 9 1981
Punch and Judy: Apr 25 1981

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# R

Rabbit: Mar 28 1981
Rabble-rousers, series ends: Jan 3 1981
Radar, inventor of: Feb 14 1981
Radio broadcast, first: May 23 1981
Railways, French, world's fastest: Apr 25 1981
Rat, brown: Mar 21 1981
Reagan, President Ronald: Jan 24 1981
Red Cross, history: Feb 21 1981
Reptiles:$
  alligator: May 30 1981
  frog, edible: Mar 28 1981
  lizard, horned: Jan 17 1981
Rhone, river: June 6 1981
Rivers:$
  Dee, A Highland Journey: Feb 21 - Mar 21 1981
  Rhone, Journey Down, begins: June 6 1981
  Shannon, Along the Banks of: Mar 28 - May 2 1981
  Tyne, Waters of: May 9 - 30 1981
Rivers, longest: May 23 1981
Robot, industrial: May 30 1981
Rogers' Rangers, series ends: Jan 3 1981
Royal Stuart Society: Feb 7 1981
Royal Worcester porcelain figures: May 2 1981
Rugby football, Calcutta Cup: Feb 21 1981
Rugby, origin: Apr 25 1981
Russia's Bloody Sunday: Apr 25 1981

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# S

Saint Crispin's Day: Jan 31 1981
Saint Valentine: Jan 17 1981
Salmon farm: Mar 21 1981
Sargasso Sea: Feb 21 1981
Saturn, photographs of: Mar 7 1981
Schafer, Albert: Mar 14 1981
Shannon, river: Mar 28 - May 2 1981
Shaw, Percy, inventor of cat's-eyes Mar 21 1981
Sheffield Outrages: Feb 28 1981

Ships That Survived, begins: Jan 17 1981
Ship, Albion Feb 28 1981
Ship, Aurora: Feb 21 1981
Ship, Balclutha: Jan 31 1981
Ship, Bat: Feb 14 1981
Ship, Bertha: Feb 7 1981
Ship, Black Prince: Jan 24 1981
Ship, Branksome: Feb 14 1981
Ship, Britannia: Jan 31 1981
Ship, Buffel: Jan 24 1981
Ship, Cambria: Feb 28 1981
Ship, Caroline Feb 21 1981
Ship, Charles W. Morgan: Feb 28 1981
Ship, Constitution: Jan 17 1981
Ship, Cutty Sark: Jan 31 1981
Ship, Dolly: Feb 14 1981
Ship, Ebe: Feb 28 1981
Ship, Falls of Clyde: Jan 31 1981
Ship, Foudroyant: Jan 17 1981
Ship, Great Britain: Feb 7 1981
Ship, Kassed Kheir: Mar 7 1981
Ship, Kathleen & May: Feb 28 1981
Ship, Mahroussa: Mar 7 1981
Ship, Mikasa: Feb 2 1981
Ship, Otto: Feb 14 1981
Ship, Turbinia: Feb 7 1981
Ship, Unicorn: Jan 17 1981
Ship, Vasa: Jan 17 1981
Ship, Victory: Jan 17 1981
Ship, Warrior: Jan 24 1981
Ship, Wavertree: Jan 31 1981
Ship, Yaruz: Feb 21 1981
Ship, Zetland: Feb 28 1981

Ships Beagle: Jan 17 1981
Ship, Lusitania: Mar 21 1981
Ship, QE2, imaginary world cruise (Other People's Countries) series: Jan 10 - Mar 14 1981
Ship, aboard the QE2: June 20 1981
Shrapnel, Henry: May 9 1981
Sistine Chapel: June 6 1981
Skin-diving: Apr 11 1981
Slate: Feb 7 1981
Slime mould: May 2 1981
Snooker, Benson and Hedges Masters: Jan 31 1981
Snow: Apr 18 1981
Socrates: Feb 21 1981
South America, travels: Jan 31 1981
Space, European space race: Jan 3 1981
Space, French children's space rocket designs: Feb 21 1981
Space travel, history of: May 23 1981
Space travel, re-entry into Earth's atmosphere: Jan 17 1981
Spanish Armada: June 20 1981
Spanish Main: Mar 14 1981
Spectacles, development of: May 9 1981
Sports, first organised: Feb 14 1981
Squash, game: Mar 28 1981
Squirrel, grey: Apr 11 1981
Stalagmites and stalactites: Mar 27 1981
Staple towns: Feb 28 1981
Strahov Stadium, Prague: Apr 11 1981
Submarine, story of, begins: Mar 14 1981
Submarine, anti-submarine development in World War II: Mar 28 1981
Submarine development: Mar 14 1981
Submarine disasters, HMS Squalus and Thetis: Apr 11 1981
Submarine, Nautilus, nuclear power: Apr 18 1981
Submarine, peaceful undersea activities: Apr 25 1981
Submarine, small submarines in World War II: Apr 4 1981
Submarine, U-boats in World War I: Mar 21 1981
Sunsets, red: Feb 14 1981
Sutherland, Graham: May 9 1981
Swiss Guards, in the Vatican City: Mar 7 1981
Swifts: June 30 1981
Swords that tell a story, begins Jan 31 1981
Swords:$
  Anderson, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander, sword of: Feb 28 1981
  Conyers, family sword: Feb 21 1981
  Keith, James: Jan 31 1981
  King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden: Mar 21 1981
  Marquis de Spinola's 16th century rapier: Feb 7 1981
  Nelson, Admiral Horatio: Mar 28 1981
  Pell, Watkin Owen, sword of honour: Mar 7 1981
  Stalingrad sword, the: Feb 14 1981
  Visconti's, Estare: Mar 14 1981

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# T

Talcum powder: Jan 31 1981
Telford, Thomas: Mar 14 1981
This Modern Age, begins: Jan 10 1981
This Modern Age:$
  airborne warning and control system (AWACS): May 2 1981
  airships: Mar 14 1981
  antibiotics: Apr 4 1981
  ejector seat: Apr 18 1981
  ergonomics, designs to make life easier: Feb 14 1981
  lasers: Jan 10 1981
  New London Bridge: Apr 11 1981
  nuclear-powered ships: Mar 28 1981
  Posiline device, navigational aid: Mar 21 1981
  power station, floating (EPOS): Feb 21 1981
  soya beans: Mar 7 1981
  sport: Jan 17, Feb 7 1981
  safety: Jan 24 1981
  artificial playing surfaces: Jan 31 1981
  dress and equipment: Feb 7 1981
  taste, sense of: Feb 21 1981
Tibet, Series: Mar 21 - Apr 11 1981
Toby jug: May 30 1981
Tombstones, history of: Jan 24 1981
Town criers: June 6 1981
Treasures from the Past, begins: Apr 4 1981

Treasures:$
  Bonaparte, Napoleon, Josephine's harp: Apr 18 1981
  Evans, Arthur, palace at Knossos: June 30 1981
  Fabergé, Carl, Easter eggs: May 1 1981
  Goya, Francisco, the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington: May 30 1981
  King Alfred the Great's jewel: Apr 25 1981
  King Charles I, his Decorated casket: Apr 11 1981
  Michaelangelo, Sistine Chapel: June 6 1981
  Portland vase, the: May 2 1981
  Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, the Night Watch: June 13 1981
  Rodin, Auguste, the Burghers of Calais: May 23 1981
  Sidney, Sir Philip, Penshurst Place: Apr 4 1981
  Spence, Sir Basil, Coventry Cathedral: May 9 1981

Tree Rings: Jan 17 1981
The Trigan Empire:$
  Series 83, 'The Zolt Exodus', 10 Jan - 25 Apr 1981
  Series 84, 'Terror of the Skorpiads', starts: 2 May 1981
Trooping the Colour: June 16 1981
Trotsky, Leon: May 23 1981
Tyburn: Jan 24 1981
Typewriters, first: Apr 4 1981

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# U

U-boats (submarines): Mar 21 1981
Underground Railway, first: May 2 1981
Uniforms, British Navy: Mar 21 1981

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# V

Valentine, Saint, day: Jan 17 1981
Van Drebbel, Dr. Cornelius: Mar 14 1981
Vatican City: May 30 1981
Victoria Cross: Feb 7 1981
Voyager 1: Mar 7 1981

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# W

Wallaby, red-necked: Apr 4 1981
War, World I, how it started: Feb 4 1981
Washington, George, and the cherry tree: May 2 1981
Watch, environment club, begins: May 9 1981
Watch the environment:$
  barns: May 30 1981
  birds in town: June 6 1981
  footpaths: May 16 1981
  greenfly: June 13 1981
  waterways: May 3 1981
  woods: May 9 1981
Waters of the Tyne, A journey along, begins: May 9 1981
Watt, James: Mar 14 1981
Weekdays, origin of names: Mar 7 1981
Whale family: Apr 18 1981

What Really Happened? mystery stories from the past, series: Jan 10 - May 2 1981
What Really Happened?:$
  Anastasia, did she die?: Feb 21 1981
  Bounty, the mutiny of the: Apr 4 1981
  charge of the Light Brigade: Mar 28 1981
  Devon Loch at the Grand National: Apr 18 1981
  Easter Island, idols of: Feb 14 1981
  islands that vanish: Mar 7 1981
  King Alfred and the burnt cakes: Jan 24 1981
  King Canute: Jan 10 1981
  King Harold, how he died: Jan 17 1981
  princes in the Tower: Jan 31 1981
  Mary Celeste, the fate of: Feb 7 1981
  Ney, Marshal Michel, his execution: May 2 1981
  Richthofen, Baron Manfred von (The Red Baron): Mar 14 1981
  Satan's footsteps: Mar 21 1981
  Tavernier blue diamond, the curse of: Feb 28 1981
  Todd, Sweeney, the demon barber: Apr 11 1981
  Troy, the wooden horse of: Apr 25 1981

Wheat, history of: Feb 14 1981
Wildlife Wonderlands, world's protected wildernesses, series: Jan 10 - Mar 14,

Wildernesses:$
  Antarctica: Mar 14 1981
  Chitawan National Park, Nepal: Jan 24 1981
  Coto Donana National Park, Spain: Feb 21 1981
  Galapagos Islands: Jan 17 1981
  Great Barrier Reef of Australia: Jan 31 1981
  Kruger National Park of Africa: Feb 7 1981
  Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya: Feb 28 1981
  Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: Mar 7 1981
  Taman Negara, Malaysia: Feb 14 1981
  Yellowstone National Park: Jan 10 1981

Will-o'-the wisp: Apr 11 1981
Women of Courage, begins: May 9 1981
Women of Courage:$
  Cavell, Nurse Edith: May 9 1981
  Cleland, Margaret: May 23 1981
  Francis, Clare: June 6 1981
  Mother Teresa: June 20 1981
  Scott, Sheila: May 30 1981
  Szabo, Violette: June 13 1981
  Tereshkova, Valentina: May 16 1981

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# X

X-ray: May 30 1981

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# Y

Young Ornithologists' Club: Mar 21 1981
Youth Hostels Association, history of: Jan 3 1981

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# Z

Zapata, Emiliano: Apr 18 1981
Zip fasteners: Mar 7 1981
Zoo, first British: May 16 1981

