
# File: index81-2.txt (29)
# Scanned/edited by Andrew Davison, March 2025, ad@coe.psu.ac.th
# Issue: 1034, 1982-01-02, p.28, 29 1981
# Period: July to Dec 1981 1981

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# A

Adder: Sep 12 1981
Addison, Thomas: Sep 26 (Addison's anaemia/pernicious anaemia)
Adventurers, 20th-Century, begins: Aug 15 1981
Adventurers:$
  Adams, James Capen (Grizzly Adams): Aug 29 1981
  Allan, Dr.: Oct 31 1981
  Amundsen, Roald: Oct 24 1981
  Atkinson, Edward: Oct 24 1981
  Balchen, Bernt: Dec 12 1981
  Blyth, Chay: Sep 19 1981
  Bowes, Lieutenant Henry: Oct 24 1981
  Byrd, Commander Richard E.: Dec 12 1981
  Campbell, Sir Malcolm: Nov 14 1981
  Hillary, Edmund: Oct 17 1981
  Hunt, Colonel John: Oct 17 1981
  June, Harold: Dec 12 1981
  Kondos, Demetrios: Sep 5 1981
  Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Lawrence of Arabia): Dec 19 1981
  Leonov, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexei: Aug 22 1981
  Lewis, Dr: Oct 31 1981
  McKinley, Ashley: Dec 12 1981
  Manry, Robert: Aug 15 1981
  Murray, Harry: Dec 26 1981
  Oates, Captain 'Titus' Oates: Oct 24 1981
  Petro, W.: Nov 28 1981
  Piccard, Auguste: Oct 3 1981
  Scott, Captain Robert Falcon: Oct 24 1981
  Shackleton, Sir Ernest: Nov 21 1981
  Stadiatis, Elias: Sep 5 1981
  Stefansson, Vilhjalmar: Nov 7 1981
  Tazieff, Haroun: Dec 5 1981
  Tenzing, Norgay: Oct 17 1981
  Thomas, Betram: Sep 19 1981
  Tschiffely, A.F. Oct 10 1981
  Walker, Fred: Aug 29 1981
  Wilson, Dr. Edward: Oct 24 1981
  Young, Brett: Sep 12 1981
Air Balloon, history of: Oct 17 1981
Air Balloon, Eshoo, Frederick: Oct 17 1981
Aircraft carrier, history of: Oct 3 - Nov 7 1981
Aircraft, Grumman EA-6B Prowler ECM: July 4 1981
Aircraft, Spitfire: Oct 10 1981
America, Folk Tales of, July 11 - Aug 22 1981 :$
  Feud of the Hatfields and McCoys: Aug 8 1981
  Gloucester Sea Serpent: Aug 22 1981
  Henry, John: July 25 1981
  Madoc, Prince: July 11 1981
  Quick, Tom: Aug 15 1981
  Sky Woman, the: July 1 1981
  Wisaka, white buffalo: Aug 1 1981
Angelica: July 25 1981
Angelico, Fra: Dec 5 1981
Animals:$
  Badgers: July 4 1981
  Basenji: July 25 1981
  Bats, Vampire: Aug 22 1981
  Behaviour, flash coloration: Sep 12 1981
  Bioluminescent animals: Aug 1 1981
  Buffalo: Aug 15 1981
  Creatures that Glide: Dec 5 1981
  Dromedary or one-humped camel: Aug 1 1981
  Flamingo: Aug 18 1981
  Hyaena: July 4 1981
  Koala Bear: Sep 19 1981
  Poisonous Animals and Insects: Sep 12 1981
  Rabbits: Oct 24 1981
  Sea snake: Nov 7 1981
  Small-scaled or Fierce Snake: Nov 7 1981
  Wasp: Sep 12 1981
  Wonders of Wales: Sep 5 1981
Ants: Nov 28 1981
Aphids: Nov 28 1981
Architecture (see Buildings of Britain): Oct 3 1981
Astronomy, Pluto: Aug 29 1981
Astronomy, Proxima Centauri: Aug 8 1981
Athletics, Running a Mile: Bannister, Roger; Landy, John; Ovett, Steve: Aug 15 1981

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# B

Babbage, Charles: Sep 19 1981
Bandicoot: Oct 3 1981
Basketball: July 25 1981
Baden-Powell, Lady Olave: Nov 7 1981
Badgers: July 4 1981
Bats: Dec 5 1981
Bats, Vampire: Aug 22 1981
Battles:$
  Boyne: Aug 8 1981
  Hastings: Dec 5 1981
  Isandhlwana: Oct 3 1981
  Marne: Oct 17 1981
  Mons: Oct 17 1981
  Omdurman: Oct 3 1981
  Somme: Oct 17 1981
  Vimy Ridge: Oct 17 1981
  Waterloo: Sep 5, 12 1981
  Ypres: Oct 17 1981
Bay of Pigs: Dec 19 1981
Bee: July 18 1981
Beetle, Cardinal: Sep 12 1981
Bentham, Jeremy (Utilitarianism): Oct 3 1981
Black-and-Tans: Oct 24 1981
Blyton, Enid: Nov 28 1981
Borrow, George: Dec 5 1981
Bower bird: Oct 3 1981
Brahe, Tycho: July 11 1981
Britain, Builders of, Part I: Oct 3 - Dec 19 1981
Britain, Builders:$
  Adam, James, John, Robert and William: Dec 5 1981
  Anglo-Saxon AD 450-1066: Oct 10 1981
  Barry, Sir Charles: Dec 12 1981
  Behrens, Peter: Dec 19 1981
  Chambers, Sir William: Dec 5 1981
  Decorated Gothic: Oct 31 1981
  Early Stuart Ornamentation: Nov 21 1981
  Georgian Period: Dec 5 1981
  Gilbert Scott, Sir Giles: Dec 19 1981
  Gothic: Oct 24, Dec 12 1981
  Jones, Inigo: Nov 21 1981
  Matthew, Sir Robert H.: Dec 19 1981
  Modern British architecture: Dec 19 1981
  Nash, John: Dec 5, 12 1981
  Norman: Oct 17 1981
  Palladian style: Nov 21, 28 1981
  Perpendicular (Early Gothic): Nov 7 1981
  Pre-Roman: Oct 3 1981
  Pugin, A.W.N.: Dec 12 1981
  Renaissance Period: Nov 21, 28, Dec 12 1981
  Roman AD 43-410: Oct 10 1981
  Tudor: Nov 14 1981
  Wren, Sir Christopher: Nov 28 1981
  Wyatt, James: Dec 12 1981
  Wyattville, Sir Jeffry: Dec 12 1981
British Broadcasting Corporation, history: Dec 12-26 1981
BBC, Dimbleby, Richard: Dec: 12 1981
BBC, Reith, John: Dec 12 1981
Brownian Motion (Kinetic Theory of Matter): Aug 29 1981
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (A Man of Genius): Aug 8 - Sep 5 1981 :$
  Alecto: Aug 29 1981
  Clifton suspension bridge: Aug 8 1981
  Firefly: Aug 15, 22 1981
  Gooch, Daniel: Aug 15 1981
  Great Britain: Aug 29 1981
  Great Eastern, Leviathan: Sep 5 1981
  Great Exhibition: Aug 29 1981
  Great Western: Aug 29 1981
  Great Western Railway: Aug 8, 15, 29 1981
  Great Western Railway Company: Aug 29 1981
  Ixian: Aug 22 1981
  North Star: Aug 15 1981
  Paddington Station: Aug 22 1981
  Phlegethon: Aug 15 1981
  Rattler: Aug 29 1981
  Royal Albert Bridge: Aug 22 1981
  Russell, John Scott: Sep 5 1981
  Sirius: Aug 29 1981
  Thames Tunnel: Aug 8 1981
Buffalo: Aug 15 1981
Buntings, Cire: Sep 5 1981
Butterflies, British (see 'Watch'): July 25 1981
Butterfly, Orange Tip: Sep 19 1981

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# C

Calais: Aug 8 1981
Calcutta, 'Black Hole’: Oct 3 1981
Calendar, origin: Oct 17 1981
Camel, the one-humped or dromedary: Aug 1 1981
Careers: see 'What Do You Want To Be'
Cashew nut: Aug 29 1981
Cats' Festival, Ypres: Sep 5 1981
Census, history: Aug 1 1981
Channel, English, different ways of crossing: July 4 - 11 1981
Channel, English:$
  Channel Tunnel: July 11 1981
  Cote d'Azur: July 4 1981
  St. Anselm, the (Sealink Ferry): July 4 1981
  St. Christopher: July 4 1981
Charriere, Henri (Papillon): Aug 15 1981
Chough: Sep 5 1981
Clemenceau, Georges: Aug 8 1981
Cleopatra's Needle: Nov 28 1981
Clock, the story of: Sep 12 - 26 1981
Clocks:$
  Bureau International de l'Heure, Paris: Sep 26 1981
  Galileo: Sep 19 1981
  Graham, George: Sep 19 1981
  Greenwich Mean Time: Sep 19 1981
  Harrison, John: Sep 19 1981
  Hooke, Robert: Sep 19 1981
  Huygens, Christiaan: Sep 19 1981
  Mudge, Thomas: Sep 19 1981
  Shortt, W.H.: Sep 26 1981
Cockatiel, Oct 3 1981
Coding, Bar: July 25 1981
Copernicus, Nicolaus: July 11 1981
Cricket bats, treatment with linseed oil: July 11 1981
Crown Coin, British: Nov 7 1981
Crown Jewels, the imperial Collection: Dec 26 1981
Currency, history of: Aug 1 1981
Cuscus: Oct 3 1981

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# D

Damsel flies: July 4 1981
Dandruff: Sep 12 1981
Delhi: Oct 31 1981
De Stijl: Dec 19 1981
Devil's Island: Aug 15 1981
Diatoms: Aug 8 1981
Dingo: Oct 3 1981
Disappearing Countryside, Oct 10 - Nov 14 1981 :$
  Part 1: Chalk downlands, estuaries, heathland, lowland meadows, moorland, peat bogs, ponds, sand dunes, woodlands: Oct 10 1981
  Part 2: Sand dunes, Studland Heath: Oct 17 1981
  Part 3: Woodlands, Epping Forest: Oct 24 1981
  Part 4: Estuaries, salt marshes:  Oct 31 1981
  Part 5: Meadows, National Nature Reserve, North Meadow, Wiltshire: Nov 7 1981
  Part 6: Boglands, Cors Caron, Dyfed, north-west Wales: Nov 14 1981
Dodd, Charlotte (Lottie): Sep 19 1981
Doesburg, Theo Van: Dec 19 1981
Dragonfly: July 11 1981
Dreaming, what is: Nov 7 1981

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# E

Echidna: Oct 3 1981
Eclipse, next: Aug 22 1981
Edgerton, Dr. Harold: July 11 1981
Emu: Oct 3 1981

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# F

Fawkes, Guy: Aug 15 1981
Fermi, Enrico: Sep 12 1981
Field of Cloth of Gold: Oct 31 1981
Fingal's Cave: Oct 24 1981
Fire-fighting, history of: July 18 1981
Fire-fighting, Super Pumper Complex, New York City's Fire Department: Aug 15 1981
Fire-flies: Aug 1 1981
Fish:$
  Angler fish (melanocetus): Aug 1 1981
  Blenny fish: Sep 5 1981
  Flying fish (Cypselurus heterurus, Exocoetus volitaris): Dec 5 1981
Flamingo: Aug 8 1981
For Valour, military medals and Decorations, Oct 17 - Nov 21 1981 :$
  Crimean War: Oct 17 1981
  First China War (Opium War): Nov 7 1981
  Indian General Service Medals: Nov 14 1981
  Indian Empire, campaigns of: Oct 24 1981
  Peninsular War: Oct 24 1981
  Second China War: Nov 7 1981
  Third China War (Boxer Rebellion): Nov 7 1981
  World War Two: Nov 21 1981
Franklin, Benjamin (the inventor): Aug 15 1981
Frogs:$
  Arrow poison frog: Sep 12 1981
  Flying frog (Rhacophorus): Dec 5 1981
  Painted frog of Panama: Sep 12 1981

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# G

Galilei, Galileo: July 11 1981
Garfield, James Abram: Aug 22 1981
Gecko, the flying fringed: Dec 5 1981
Gecko, spine-bush: Oct 3 1981
Girl Guides, history: Nov 7 1981
Glidden, Joseph Farwell (inventor of barbed wire): July 18 1981
Glow-worms: Aug 1 1981
Goering, Hermann: Nov 14 1981
Gold: Oct 10 1981
Golden Cities, July 4 - Aug 8 1981 :$
  Aesculapius: July 4 1981
  Alaric: July 23, Aug 1 1981
  Attila the Hun: Aug 1 1981
  Aurelian: July 18 1981
  Battle of Milvian: July 25 1981
  Boethius: Aug 1 1981
  Brutus: July 11 1981
  Caesar, Julius: July 11 1981
  Cassiodorus: Aug 1 1981
  Cassius: July 11 1981
  Cato: July 4 1981
  Christianity: July 18, 25 1981
  Circus Maximus: July 4, 11 1981
  Clodius: July 11 1981
  Colosseum: Aug 8 1981
  Constantine: July 25 1981
  Cybele: July 4 1981
  Diocletian, Emperor: July 5, 18 1981
  Fulgentius: Aug 1 1981
  Goths: Aug 8 1981
  Gracchus Brothers, Gaius and Tiberius: July 4 1981
  Hamilcar: July 4 1981
  Hannibal: July 4 1981
  Janus: July 4 1981
  Lombards: Aug 8 1981
  Lucullus: July 11 1981
  Marius Gaius: July 11 1981
  Maxentius, Emperor: July 25 1981
  Maximian: July 18, 25 1981
  Melania: July 25 1981
  Nero, Emperor: July 18 1981
  Octavian: July 11, 18 1981
  Odocar: Aug 1 1981
  Ostrogoths: Aug 1 1981
  Pompey: July 11 1981
  Pope Gregory I: Aug 8 1981
  Pope Leo I: Aug 1 1981
  Pyrrhus: July 4 1981
  Rome, Part 3: July 4 1981
  Spartacus: July 11 1981
  Sulla: July 11 1981
  Tacitus: July 18 1981
  Theodahad, King: Aug 8 1981
  Theodoric: Aug 1 1981
  Tiberius: July 18 1981
  Tragan: July 18 1981
  Vandals, the: Aug 1 1981
  Visigoths, the: Aug 1 1981
Great Fire of London, the: Sep 12 1981
Guernica: Oct 31 1981
Gunpowder Plot: Aug 15 1981

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# H

Hardy's Drawing Board:$
  Air Support Unit, London Metropolitan Police: Nov 7 1981
  BAe 146: Aug 29 1981
  Car Design: Sep 5 1981
  Cement: Dec 12 1981
  China and Pottery Industry: Nov 21 1981
  Crop Spraying Aircraft: Dec 19 1981
  Deep Submarine Rescue Vehicles: Oct 31 1981
  Diamonds: Oct 3 1981
  Hang-gliders: Oct 1 1981
  Illusion, Sailing Boat: Dec 5 1981
  Lighthouse System (Trinity House): Sep 19 1981
  Locomotives: July 25 1981
  Manufacture of Ice Cream: Aug 1 1981
  Nuclear Power Stations: Nov 28 1981
  Oil tankers: Aug 22 1981
  Peanut industry: Nov 14 1981
  Rance Power Dam: Sep 26 1981
  Refrigerators: Oct 24 1981
  Solar-powered aircraft (Solar Challenger): July 4 1981
  Space Suits: Aug 8 1981
  Stolport: Aug 15 1981
  Telescopes: July 11 1981
  TV Computer Games: Dec 26 1981
  Voyager spacecraft, information from: Sep 12 1981
Headaches: Oct 3 1981
Henry V: Oct 17 - Nov 14 1981
Herschel, Sir William: July 11 1981
Hillman, Denis: July 18 1981
Horses:$
  Horse of the Year Show: Oct 10 1981
  Horses, the height of: Sep 26 1981
  Louis Dronion's Horse Clinic: Nov 21 1981
  New Forest ponies: Dec 5 1981
Hungarian Uprising, the: Oct 3 1981
Hurricanes: Aug 22 1981
Hyaena: July 4 1981

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# I

Insects:$
  Bee: July 18 1981
  Dragonfly: July 1 1981
  Damselflies: July 4 1981
  Mastaphara spider (Cowboy): Sep 26 1981
  Jungle at your feet (ants, aphids, jumping spiders, ladybirds, millipede, wolf spiders): Nov 28 1981
Iodine: Dec 19 1981
Irish potato famine: Nov 14 1981
Iron Lung, history of: Oct 24 1981
Ivory: Nov 21 1981

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# J

Jason and the Argonauts: Sep 12 - Oct 24 1981
Juke boxes: July 4 1981

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# K

Kangaroo: Oct 3 1981
Kepler, Johannes: July 11 1981
Kinetic Theory of Matter (Brownian Motion): Aug 29 1981
Kingfisher (Amazon, belted, chestnut-collared, European, grey-headed, indian three-toed, rufous-bellied giant, shovel-billed (crab eating), white-breasted, white-collared, (Australian kookaburra): Nov 21 1981
Kite, red: Sep 5 1981
Koala bear: Sep 19, Oct 3 1981
Kookaburra: Oct 3 1981

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# L

Ladybird: Sep 12, Nov 28 1981
Languages, how many: Aug 15 1981
Law of the West, the, begins: Nov 21 1981 :$
  Bean, Judge Roy: Dec 5 1981
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Dec 26 1981
  Dodge City: Dec 19 1981
  Doolin Gang: Nov 28 1981
  Earp, Wyatt: Nov 21, Dec 19 1981
  Hickok, Wild Bill: Nov 21 1981
  Holliday, Doc John: Nov 21, Dec 19 1981
  Houston, Temple Lee: Dec 5 1981
  Ingalls Gun Battle: Nov 28 1981
  James, Frank: Dec 26 1981
  James, Gang: Dec 26 1981
  James, Jesse: Dec 26 1981
  Masterson, William (Bat): Dec 19 1981
  Parker, Judge Isaac (the hanging judge): Dec 12 1981
  Parker, Robert LeRoy, alias Butch Cassidy: Dec 26 1981
  Pinkerton's National Detective Agency: Dec 26 1981
  Sundance Kid (Harry Longbaugh from Sundance, Wyoming): Dec 26 1981
  Younger, Bob, Cole and Jim: Dec 26 1981
  Wild Bunch: Dec 26 1981
Lentini, Francesco: Sep 26 1981
Lightning Conductor, history of: Aug 15 1981
Lizard, flying (or flying dragon): Dec 5 1981
Loch Ness Monster: July 25 1981
Lorna Doone, July 4 - Aug 29 1981
Lyre bird: Oct 3 1981

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# M

Marbles, history of the game: July 19 1981
Marsupials: Oct 3 1981
Marten, pine: Sep 5 1981
Mastaphora (cowboy) spider: Sep 26 1981
Merlin: Sep 5 1981
Merseyrail: Aug 29 1981
Microscope: Oct 31 1981
Microwave Ovens: Aug 1 1981
Millipede: Nov 28 1981
Missionaries, begins Oct 10 1981 :$
  Evans, James: Nov 21 1981
  de Foucauld, Charles: Nov 7 1981
  Gabet, Joseph: Oct 17 1981
  Grenfell, Sir Wilfred: Oct 24 1981
  Holland, Henry: Nov 14 1981
  Huc, Evariste: Oct 17 1981
  Livingstone, David: Oct 24 1981
  Slessor, Mary: Oct 10 1981
  Stanley, Henry Morton: Oct 24 1981
Moloch Horridus: Oct 3 1981
Mondrian, Piet: Dec 19 1981
Monster, Loch Ness: July 25 1981
Moped Marathon, Bordeaux: Oct 3 1981
Moth, Tiger: Sep 12 1981
Motor Museum, Beaulieu: Aug 1 1981
Motor-Racing:$
  British Grand Prix, Silverstone: July 18 1981
  R.A.C. International Rally of Great Britain: Nov 28 1981
Mount Rushmore National Memorial: Oct 3 1981
Mulga snake: Oct 3 1981
Murra bird (thick-billed guillemot): Aug 29 1981
Muscles: Sep 12 1981
Mushroom farming: July 25 1981
Music-Makers, Oct 31 1981 :$
  Bach, Johann Sebastian: Nov 21 1981
  Elgar, Edward: Dec 19 1981
  Gilbert, William Schwenck: Dec 26 1981
  Handel, George Frederick: Dec 12 1981
  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Nov 28 1981
  Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Nov 14 1981
  Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio: Dec 5 1981
  Sullivan, Arthur: Dec 26 1981
  Tchaikovsky, Peter Illich: Nov 7 1981
  Wagner, Richard: Oct 31 1981
Mysteries, True-Life, Sep 19 1981 :$
  Angel of Mons: Sep 19 1981
  Disappearance of David Long: Sep 19 1981
  Dauphin (Louis XVII): Sep 19 1981
  Earhart, Amelia, her disappearance: Oct 3 1981
  Giant Octopus, the: Oct 3 1981
  Johnson, Amy: Oct 3 1981
  Mermaids: Oct 3 1981
  Miller, Glen: Oct 3 1981
  Noonan, Fred, his disappearance: Oct 3 1981
  Phantom Sentry of Ypres, the: Sep 19 1981
  Secret of Oak Island: Sep 26, Oct 3 1981
  Treasure of Lake Toplitz: Sep 19 1981
  U-6S {the Ghost Submarine): Sep 26 1981

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# N

Nails: Oct 31 1981
Needles: Nov 28 1981
Newt, crested or warty: Sep 12 1981
Newton, Sir Isaac: July 11 1981
Nutmeg: Aug 1 1981

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# O

O.K., origin of: July 18 1981
Ocean Mining: Aug 22 1981
Ocean Salt: July 4 1981
Olduvai Gorge: Nov 14 1981
Olympic Games: Sep 12 1981
Orchestra, organisation of: Oct 24 1981
Othello: Nov 21 - Dec 19 1981
Other People's Countries: July 4 1981 :$
  Australia: July 18 1981
  Brazil: Dec 12 1981
  Bulgaria: Nov 21 1981
  Chile: Sep 12 1981
  Czechoslovakia: July 25 1981
  Ethiopia: Aug 15 1981
  Finland: Oct 10 1981
  Guatemala: Oct 17 1981
  India, Part I (Calcutta): Aug 1 1981
  India Part II: Aug 8 1981
  Istanbul: Dec 26 1981
  Jamaica: Dec 5 1981
  Japan: Nov 28 1981
  Liechtenstein: Aug 29 1981
  Malawi: Nov 14 1981
  Mauritius: Sep 19 1981
  Mexico: July 4 1981
  Nicaragua: Nov 7 1981
  Pakistan: Aug 22 1981
  Poland: Oct 3 1981
  Soviet Union: Oct 24 1981
  Taiwan: Sep 5 1981
  United Arab Emirates: Sep 26 1981
  Yugoslavia: Dec 19 1981
  Zimbabwe: July 11 1981
Our Islands' Story, Britain's history, July 4 - Nov 7 1981 :$
  Abdication: Oct 24 1981
  Act of Catholic Emancipation: Sep 12 1981
  Act of Union 1707: Aug 17 1981
  Afghan War: Oct 3 1981
  American Declaration of Independence: Sep 5 1981
  Archduke Ferdinand: Oct 17 1981
  Attlee, Clement: Oct 31 1981
  Battle of the Boyne: Aug 8 1981
  Battle of Isandhiwana: Oct 3 1981
  Battle of the Marne: Oct 17 1981
  Battle of Mons: Oct 17 1981
  Battle of Omdurman: Oct 3 1981
  Battle of the Somme: Oct 17 1981
  Battle of Vimy Ridge: Oct 17 1981
  Battle of Waterloo: Sep 5, 12 1981
  Battle of Ypres: Oct 17 1981
  Bay of Navarino, battle of: Sep 12 1981
  Bevin, Ernest: Oct 31 1981
  Boer War: Oct 3, 10 1981
  Boston Tea Party: Sep 5 1981
  British East India Company: Oct 3 1981
  Buckingham Palace: Sep 12 1981
  Bunyan, John: July 25 1981
  Bute, Lord: Sep 5 1981
  Canning, George: Sep 12 1981
  Castlereagh, Lord: Sep 12 1981
  Cato Street Conspiracy: Sep 12 1981
  Chamberlain, Neville: Oct 17 1981
  Charge of the Light Brigade: Sep 26 1981
  Charles Edward, the Young Pretender (Bonnie Prince Charlie): Aug 29 1981
  Chartists: Sep 26 1981
  Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough: Aug 1 1981
  Churchill, Winston: Oct 31, Nov 7 1981
  Clive, Robert: Aug 29 1981
  Common Market: Nov 7 1981
  Crimean War: Sep 26 1981
  Cromwell, Oliver: July 11, 18 1981
  Crystal Palace: Oct 3 1981
  Disraeli, Benjamin: Oct 3 1981
  Duke and Duchess of Marlborough: Aug 15 1981
  Duke of Newcastle: Aug 29 1981
  Duke of Wellington (see Sir Arthur Wellesley): Sep 5, 12 1981
  Duke and Duchess of Windsor: Oct 24 1981
  Earl of Strafford: July 4 1981
  Easter Rebellion: Oct 17 1981
  Elizabeth, Duchess of York: Oct 31 1981
  Emperor Wilhelm ll: Oct 3 1981
  English Civil War 1641: July 4, 11 1981
  Entente Cordiale: Oct 10 1981
  Fox, Charles James: Sep 5 1981
  Frederick, Prince of Wales: Aug 29 1981
  General Strike: Oct 17 1981
  George, Lloyd: Oct 17 1981
  Gladstone, William: Oct 3 1981
  Gordon, General Charles: Oct 3 1981
  Great Exhibition: Oct 3 1981
  Great Fire of London: July 25 1981
  Grenville, George: Sep 5 1981
  Grey, Lord: Sep 19 1981
  Gwynne, Nell: July 25 1981
  Hampden, Squire John: July 4 1981
  Hawke, Admiral (Quiberon Bay): Aug 29 1981
  Huskisson, William: Sep 19 1981
  Hyde, Anne: Aug 1 1981
  Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon: July 25 1981
  Indian Mutiny: Oct 3 1981
  Industrial Revolution: Sep 5 1981
  James, Duke of Monmouth: Aug 1 1981
  James, Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender: Aug 22 1981
  Jeffreys, Judge: Aug 1 1981
  Khartoum, Fall of: Oct 3 1981
  King Cetewayo: Oct 3 1981
  King Charles I: July 4, 11 1981
  King Charles II: July 25 1981
  King Charles X of France: Sep 19 1981
  King Edward VII: Oct 10 1981
  King Edward VIII: Oct 17 1981
  King George I: Aug 22 1981
  King George II: Aug 29 1981
  King George III: Sep 5 1981
  King George IV: Sep 12 1981
  King George V: Oct 10, 17 1981
  King George VI Oct 24 1981
  King James II: Aug 1 1981
  King Louis Philippe of Orleans: Sep 19 1981
  King William and Queen Mary of Orange: Aug 1 1981
  King William III: Aug 18 1981
  King William IV (Duke of Clarence): Sep 19 1981
  Kitchener, Lord: Oct 3 1981
  Laud, William, Bishop of Bath and Wells: July 4 1981
  Liverpool and Manchester Railway: Sep 19 1981
  Lusitania, the: Oct 17 1981
  MacDonald, Ramsay: Oct 17 1981
  Marquess of Salisbury: Oct 10 1981
  Mary of Modena: Aug 1 1981
  Melbourne, Lord: Oct 3 1981
  Montcalm, Marquis de (Heights of Abraham): Aug 29 1981
  Napoleon, Emperor: Sep 5 1981
  Nash, John: Sep 12 1981
  Nelson, Lord: Sep 5 1981
  Nightingale, Florence: Sep 26 1981
  North, Lord: Sep 5 1981
  Oates, Titus: July 25 1981
  Old Age Pensioners Act: Oct 10 1981
  Palmerston, Henry: Oct 3 1981
  Paxton, Sir Joseph: Oct 3 1981
  Peel, Sir Robert: Sep 12, 26 1981
  Pelham, Henry: Aug 29 1981
  Peninsular War: Sep 5 1981
  Penny post: Oct 3 1981
  Pitt, William (Lord Chatham): Sep 5 1981
  Pitt, William, the Younger: Sep 5 1981
  Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg: Sep 26, Oct 3 1981
  Prince Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie) the Young Pretender: Aug 29 1981
  Prince Philip of Greece (Lieutenant Mountbatten): Oct 31, Nov 7 1981
  Prince Regent: Sep 5 1981
  ranges: Alexandra of Denmark: Oct 10 1981
  Princess Caroline of Brunswick: Sep 12 1981
  Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: Sep 5 1981
  Princess Elizabeth: Oct 31 1981
  Princess Margaret: Oct 31 1981
  Pym, John: July 4 1981
  Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen: Sep 19 1981
  Queen Anne: Aug 15 1981
  Queen Caroline of Anspach: Aug 29 1981
  Queen Catherine of Braganza: July 25 1981
  Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: Oct 31 1981
  Queen Elizabeth II Oct 31 1981
  Queen Henrietta Maria: July 4, 11 1981
  Queen Mary: Oct 17 1981
  Queen Sophia, Dorothea of Zell: Aug 22 1981
  Queen Victoria: Sep 26, Oct 3, 10 1981
  Reform Act: Sep 19 1981
  Reform Bill, the first 1831: Sep 19 1981
  Roberts, Lord: Oct 3 1981
  Royal Lodge, Windsor: Sep 12 1981
  Royal Pavilion, Brighton: Sep 12 1981
  Russell, Lord John: Sep 19 1981
  Seven Years War: Aug 29, Sep 5 1981
  Simpson, Mrs Wallis: Oct 24 1981
  Sinn Fein: Oct 17 1981
  Snowdon, Earl of (Anthony Armstrong-Jones): Nov 7 1981
  South Sea Company: Aug 21 1981
  Spanish War: Aug 29 1981
  Suez Canal: Oct 3, Nov 7 1981
  Townsend, Group Captain Peter: Nov 7 1981
  Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: Aug 29 1981
  Victoria Cross: Oct 3 1981
  Villiers, George (Duke of Buckingham): July 4 1981
  Walpole, Sir Robert: Aug 22, 29 1981
  War of the Austrian Succession: Aug 29 1981
  Washington, George: Sep 5 1981
  Watt, James: Sep 5 1981
  Wellesley, Sir Arthur (see Duke of Wellington): Sep 5 1981
  Wolfe, James: Aug 29 1981
  World War I: Oct 17 1981
  World War II: Oct 31 1981
  Wren, Sir Christopher: July 25 1981
Oystercatcher: Sep 5 1981

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# P

Paper, history of: Sep 26 1981
Parliament, Black Rod: Oct 3 1981
Patent, how to obtain one: July 4 1981
Peel, John: July 18 1981
Pelorus Jack: Aug 22 1981
Pentagon, the: Aug 22 1981
Percival, Spencer: Aug 1 1981
Petrel, Storm: Sep 5 1981
Phalanger: Oct 3 1981
Leadbeater's Phalanger: Oct 3 1981
Photography, film processing: Aug 29 1981
High-speed photography: July 11 1981
Physics, perpetual motion: Oct 31 1981
Picasso, Pablo: Oct 31 1981
Pigeon racing, history of: Aug 29 1981
Pillar boxes, history of: Sep 26 1981
Pitcairn Islands: Nov 21 1981
Plants:$
  Autumn: Gladden lily (stinking iris), hawthorn, horse chestnut (conker), oak tree (acorn), plane tree, rowan (mountain ash) scots pine, sycamore: Sep 19 1981
  Orchids: (bee, birds-nest, broad-leaved helleborine, burnt (dwarf), early purple, early spider, fen, fly, fragrant, frog, lady, late spider, lesser twayblade, lizard, man, monkey, red helleborine, southern marsh, violet helleborine, wasp): Aug 22 1981
  Plankton: Aug 1 1981
  Rafflesia (Corpse Lily): Aug 15 1981
Platypus: Oct 3 1981
Polecats: Sep 5 1981
Pollock, Jackson: Oct 10 1981
Posteards, origin of: Oct 31 1981
Pyrosoma: Aug 1 1981

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# Q

Queen Victoria's children: July 11 1981
Quokka: Oct 3 1981

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# R

Rabbits: Oct 24 1981
Railway Engines, history: Dec 5 1981
Rattlesnake: Sep 12 1981
Renaldi, Kathy: Sep 19 1981
River, Rhone, Journey Down: July 4 - Aug 1 1981
River Seine, Story of: Aug 8 - Nov 28 1981
Rothschild family: Aug 8 1981
Royal Shields of Arms, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer: Aug 1 1981

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# S

Saccharin: Dec 19 1981
Saffron: Nov 28 1981
Schools, history of: Aug 8 1981
Scorpion: Oct 3 1981
Second Sight (great buildings of the world) begins: Nov 14 1981
Buildings:$
  Colosseum, Roman: Dec 12 1981
  Hadrian's Wall: Nov 28 1981
  Heidelberg Castle: Dec 26 1981
  Ruins of Persepolis: Nov 21 1981
  Temple of Amun at Karnak: Nov 14 1981
  Tenochtitlan, City of: Dec 5 1981
Senlac Hill, Battle of Hastings: July 18 1981
Shakespeare, William, Henry V: Oct 17 - Nov 14 1981
Shakespeare, William, Othello, begins: Nov 21 1981
Ships, sailing, history of: Sep 19 1981
Singidunum, City of: July 4 1981
Snakes:$
  coral snake: Sep 12 1981
  flying snake (golden tree snake): Dec 5 1981
  sea snake (Hydrophis belcheri): Nov 7 1981
  small-scaled or fierce snake (Parademansia microlepidotus): Nov 7 1981
Snow-plough, the Beilhack road and railway: Nov 28 1981
Somewhere To Go (places to visit in the British Isles), begins: July 4 1981
  Abbeydale Steel Works, Sheffield: July 18 1981
  Beaulieu Motor Museum: Aug 1 1981
  Bekonscot Model Village: Aug 8 1981
  Blackgang Chine: Aug 29 1981
  Dairyland, Cornwall: July 25 1981
  Hatfield House: Aug 29 1981
  Ironbridge Gorge Museum: Aug 15 1981
  Kew Bridge Engines Trust and Water Supply Museum: Aug 22 1981
  London Dungeon: Sep 5 1981
  Lullingstone Silk Farm: Aug 22 1981
  Nene Valley Railway: Sep 5 1981
  Stoke Bruerne Waterways Museum: July 11 1981
  Vale of Rheidol Railway, Aberystwyth to Devil's Bridge: July 4 1981
Space, what next in, Sep 12 - Oct 3 1981 :$
  Asteroids: Sep 26 1981
  Atlantis: Sep 12 1981
  Challenger: Sep 12 1981
  Columbia: Sep 19 1981
  Crippen, Bob: Sep 12 1981
  Discovery: Sep 12 1981
  Enterprise: Sep 12 1981
  Free-flying power module: Sep 19 1981
  Life in space: Sep 26 1981
  Pulsars: Oct 3 1981
  Quasars: Oct 3 1981
  Radio astronomy: Oct 3 1981
  Ryle, Sir Martin: Oct 3 1981
  Solar power satellites: Sep 19 1981
  Space shuttle Columbus (space transportation system 102): Sep 12 1981
  Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB): Sep 12 1981
  Young, John: Sep 12 1981
Special Skills, Aug 8 - Oct 3 1981 :$
  Boatbuilders (shipwrights): Sep 19 1981
  Handicrafts: Sep 5 1981
  Masons: Aug 15 1981
  Saddlers: Aug 29 1981
  Stained glass windows: Sep 12 1981
  Thatchers: Aug 22 1981
  Wheelwrights: Aug 8 1981
  Wood craftsmen: Oct 3 1981
Speedway championship final, world: Sep 5 1981
Spelaeology: Oct 10 1981
Spider, Black Widow: Sep 12 1981
Spider, Mastaphara (Cowboy): Sep 26 1981
Spider, wolf: Nov 28 1981
Squid, deep-sea (Abraliopsis): Aug 1 1981
Squirrel, North American flying: Dec 5 1981
Stereo, Sony Walkman 2: Dec 5 1981
Submarines, the deepest descent: Oct 17 1981
Superman, history of: July 11 1981

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# T

Tachyon: Oct 10 1981
Tasmanian Devil: Oct 3 1981
Tell, William: Oct 17 1981
Tennis, All England Tennis Championships, Wimbledon: July 4 1981
Tennis, Davis Cup: Nov 21 1981
Thumb, General Tom: July 25 1981
Thunder, how it is caused: Oct 17 1981
Timbuktu: Sep 19 1981
Time Travellers, begins: Nov. 14 1981

Time Travellers, Aircraft: Avro Lancaster, four-engined bomber, B29 superfortress, Biplane 1909-1910, Blériot XI monoplane, British Box Kite 1910 Concorde, de Havilland Rapide, Deperdussin, Douglas DC-3 Dakota, Fairey Swordfish, Fokker Dr 1 Triplane, Gloster Gladiator, Hurricane, Junkers JU 87 Stuka dive bomber, Messerschmidt BF 109E, Santes-Dumont, Albert, Short Sunderland, Sopwith camel, Sopwith pup, Spitfire fighter plane, Tiger Moth, Wright, Orville and Wilbur: Dec 12 1981

Time Travellers, Buses: Clarkson's steam buses, Clarkson, Thomas, Gurney, Goldsworthy, Gurney's Royal Patent Steam Omnibus, Hancock, Walter, Leyland X Type, Shillibeer, George, T. Ford bus, Filling, Thomas: Dec 19 1981

Time Travellers, Paddle Steamers: Balmoral, Delta Queen, Princess Elizabeth, Schiller, Tern, Waverley: Nov 21 1981

Time Travellers, Sailing ships: Cutty Sark, Hardresse, Phoenix, Sirius, TS Royalist, Victory: Dec 5 1981

Time Travellers, Steam Engines: Aveling, Thomas, Burrell, Charles, Burrell showman's scenic road locomotive 1922, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Foden lorry, Fowler, John (steam roller), Fowler tractor 1908, McLaren road tractor 1936, Robey Road Roller 1930: Nov 28 1981

Time Travellers, Steam Locomotives American excursion train no 759, Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 4-4-0, Caledonian railways, 4-2-2, Flying Scotsman, the, Gresley, Sir Nigel, Lancashire and Yorkshire 0-6-0, LMS tank 2-6-2T, Locomotive no 3801, Mallard, Mallets, 0-4-4 tank: Nov 14 1981

Time Travellers, Veteran Motor Cars: Austin, Lord, Austin Seven tourer 1922, Bentley (late 1920s), Benz, Carl, Berardi, Count Enrico, Bull-nosed Morris (1920s), Daimler 1897, Daimler, Gottlieb, Ford, Henry, Ford, Model T. (1925), Lanchester, Dr. Frederick, Locomobile steamer, MG-TC (1950s), Morris, William (Lord Nuffield), Rolls, Charles Stewart, Rolls Royce 'Silver Ghost' 1906, Rose, Max, Royce, Frederick Henry: Dec 26 1981

Tokyo: Aug 8 1981
Treasures From The Past: July 4 1981 :$
  Degas, Edgar Germain Hilaire, Little Dancer aged 14: July 11 1981
  Elgin Marbles: July 4 1981
  Gutenberg Bible: Aug 1 1981
  Lascaux Caves: July 18 1981
  Sutton Hoo treasure: July 25 1981
Trevithick, Richard: Dec 5 1981
Tricolor flag, history of: Dec 19 1981
The Trigan Empire:$
  Series 84, 'Terror of the Skorpiads', ends: 1 Aug, 1981
  Series 85, 'Search Mission', / 'The Quest of Fidelius', 8 Aug - 14 Nov 1981
  Series 86, 'Alien Mission', / 'Bad Moon Arising', starts:
21 Nov 1981 
Twain, Mark: July 25 1981

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# U

Umbrella, history of: Dec 19 1981
Utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham): Oct 3 1981

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# V

Valentino, Rudolf: Nov 7 1981

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# W

Wailing Wall: Nov 28 1981
Wallaby: Oct 3 1981
Wallpaper, history of: Sep 19 1981
Walpole, Sir Robert: July 11 1981
Wasp: Sep 12 1981
Watch, environment club, continues: July 4 1981 :$
  Barnacles: Aug 29 1981
  Bindweed, common: Sep 26 1981
  Butterfly survey: (Brimstone, Common Blue (male and female), Large White, Meadow Brown, Peacock, Red Admiral, Small Copper, Small Heath, Small Skipper, Small Tortoiseshell): July 25 1981
  Daisies: Sep 26 1981
  Garden pond, make a: July 4 1981
  Harvesting barley, oats, rye, wheat: Sep 5 1981
  Hedge, date your: July 11 1981
  Limpets: Aug 29 1981
  Moles: Sep 2 1981
  Morning glory: Sep 26 1981
  Night-scented stock: Sep 26 1981
  Owls: Sep 26 1981
  Oxford ragwort: Aug 8 1981
  Rosebay willow-herb: Aug 8 1981
  Sand, secrets in: Sep 1 1981
  Wild flowers: Aug 8 1981
Weapons Of War, begins: Dec 12 1981
Weapons Of War, Bowmen: Dec 12 1981
Weapons Of War, Rifle: Dec 19 1981
What Do You Want To Be? begins: Sep 12 1981 :$
  British Rail: Oct 17 1981
  Dairy industry: Nov 14 1981
  Dentistry: Sep 19 1981
  Hairdressing: Nov 21 1981
  Hotel industry: Oct 3 1981
  Journalism: Sep 26 1981
  Librarian: Dec 26 1981
  Nursing: Nov 28 1981
  Painters and decorators: Oct 31 1981
  Photography: Nov 7 1981
  Secretary: Oct 10 1981
  Social work: Oct 24 1981
  Travel agent: Dec 5 1981
Wild Wales, picture serial begins: Dec 5 1981
William the Conqueror: Dec 5 1981
Wine, history of: Aug 29 1981
Wombat: Oct 3 1981
Women Of Courage, series: July 4 - Aug 8 1981 :$
  Aylward, Gladys: July 4 1981
  Earhart, Amelia: July 25 1981
  Harrison, Barbara: July 11 1981
  Inglis, Elsie: Aug 8 1981
  Koepeke, Juliane: Aug 1 1981
  Sansom, Odette: July 18 1981

Women And The Vote, begins: Aug 15 - Sep 26 1981 :$
  Association for the promotion of the employment of women: Sep 5 1981
  Astor, Lady: Sep 19 1981
  Baldwin, Stanley: Sep 19 1981
  Beale, Dorothea: Aug 22 1981
  Becker, Lydia: Aug 1 1981
  Blackwell, Elizabeth: Aug 29 1981
  Bodichon, Barbara: Sep 5 1981
  British Women's Temperance Association: Sep 12 1981
  Buss, Frances: Aug 22 1981
  Butler, Josephine: Aug 15 1981
  Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry: Sep 12 1981
  Chartist movement: Aug 15 1981
  Churchill, Winston: Sep 12 1981
  Clough, Anna Jemima: Aug 22 1981
  Co-operative movement: Sep 12 1981
  Davies, Emily: Aug 15, 22, 29, Sep 5, 19 1981
  Davison, Emily Wilding: Sep 12 1981
  Equal Franchise Act 1828: Sep 19 1981
  Equal Pay Act 1970: Sep 26 1981
  Fawcett, Millicent: Sep 12, 19 1981
  Fonda, Jane: Sep 2 1981
  Friedan, Betty: Sep 21 1981
  Gandhi, Indira: Sep 26 1981
  Garrett, Elizabeth: Aug 15, 29, Sep 5 1981
  Garrett, Millicent: Aug 29 1981
  George, Lloyd: Sep 19 1981
  Grey, Sir Edward: Sep 12 1981
  Hardie, James Keir: Sep 12 1981
  Heilbron, Justice Rose: Sep 26 1981
  Jex-Blake, Sophia: Aug 29 1981
  Kenney, Annie: Sep 12 1981
  Lytton, Lady Constance (Jane Wharton): Sep 12 1981
  Markievicz, Countess: Sep 19 1981
  Meir, Golda: Sep 26 1981
  Mill, John Stuart: Aug 15 1981
  National Organisation for Women: Sep 26 1981
  National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies: Sep 19 1981
  Nightingale, Florence: Aug 15 1981
  Pankhurst, Emily: Sep 12, 19 1981
  Pankhurst, Christabel: Sep 12 1981
  Paterson, Emma: Sep 5 1981
  Peachey, Edith: Aug 29 1981
  Queen's College for Women: Aug 2 1981
  Riot at Surgeons' Hall: Aug 29 1981
  Twining, Louisa: Aug 15 1981
  Wollstonecraft, Mary: Sep 26 1981
Women's Liberation Movement: Sep 26 1981
Women's Protective and Provident League: Sep 5 1981
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU): Sep 12, 19 1981
Women's Suffrage Bill: Sep 12 1981
Women's Suffrage Clause of the Representation of the People Bill: Sep 19 1981
Women's Suffrage Committee, the first: Aug 15, 29 1981
Women's Trade Union League: Sep 5 1981

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# Y

Yacht Racing, America's Cup, the: Nov 14 1981
Yawning, reason for: July 18 1981
