The statue of Cromwell in battledress, body armour and drawn sword is by Matthew Noble. It was a gift to the city from Mrs Abel Heywood in memory of her first husband. When it went up, it annoyed the city’s large Irish immigrant population as Cromwell had ruthlessly put down Irish uprisings. Where is the …
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It’s orange but not orange flavoured but it’s exactly how you would imagine an orange drink that isn’t orange flavoured would taste, all orangey (but not orange). Their main flavouring is banana extract. ‘ What flavour actually is Irn-Bru? Irn Bru’s quite sweet and has a deep flavor of blackcurrant, which makes it excellent for …
1948. That’s how long the experimental Manchester “Baby” ran a 17-instruction program using a “memory tube” devised by Freddy Williams and Tom Kilburn. On June 21st, 1948, the stored-program computer had been born. When did the first computer run a program from memory? First computer with a program stored in memory First delivered to the …
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Bristol. Ribena was originally manufactured in England by the Bristol-based food and drink company HW Carter as a blackcurrant squash. Development research into pure fruit syrups for the manufacture of milkshakes had been done at the Long Ashton Agriculture and Horticulture Research Station in North Somerset using a pectinase Is Ribena a British drink? The …
Manchester Baby. Manchester Baby: world’s first stored program computer In technical terms, the Williams-Kilburn tube was the earliest form of random access memory, or RAM. The Baby’s memory consisted of one of these tubes, able to store up to 1,024 bits—equivalent to just 128 bytes. What was the first stored program? the Manchester Mark INevertheless, …
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Most Americans have never heard of Vimto, a syrupy purple concoction invented in Manchester, England in 1908. (Kool-Aid is perhaps the nearest U.S. equivalent.) Do they have Vimto in America? The USA. Over the pond we go, Vimto has made it to America! Vimto is now sold in over 3,000 ethnic outlets across North America, …
It seems huge, but the ENIAC computer built in America two years earlier—which couldn’t store a memory—was almost 95 feet long and weighed 27 tons. So, Baby was probably an appropriate nickname, even if we wouldn’t think so today. Who invented the Baby computer? That program was written by Tom Kilburn who, along with the …
Kūmara (sweet potato) has a long history of cultivation in New Zealand. Kūmara was brought here over one thousand years ago from the Pacific islands by early Maori settlers. What is the Maori name for the sweet potato? The Polynesian ancestors of Māori brought kūmara (sweet potato) with them as a food plant when they …
Pommy or Pom The terms Pommy, Pommie and Pom, in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand usually denotes a British person. Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912. What do New Zealand people call the English? PomThe nickname ‘Pom‘, which is used mostly by Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans to describe folks …
Kiwis. “Kiwis” came to mean the men of New Zealand regiments. The nickname is not thought to have originated as a reference to the physical attributes of the New Zealand servicemen (i.e. implying they were short and stocky or nocturnal like the bird). What do you call a New Zealand man? During the First World …
