According to Pliny the Elder, Scipio Aemilianus was the first man to shave daily.
The origin of the name Boeing is Welsh. The family emigrated to the US from Germany, where they were called Böing, but this was a Germanisation of the Welsh patronymic ab Owen.
In Pembrokeshire there is a Church of St Elvis.
Helen Viola Jackson, the last recipient of a US Civil War widow’s pension, died in 2020.
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At the time of the Napoleonic wars, France was the fourth most populous country in the world, behind only China, India and Japan, with double the population of the UK.
The origin of the word ‘zydeco’ – to describe the Cajun musical genre – is uncertain. One theory is it was formed from ‘zarico’, derived from the French les haricots ne sont pas salés. This means ‘the beans aren’t salty’ and is used idiomatically to describe conditions of deprivation.
The starter motor for the Centurion tank was effectively the engine from a Morris Minor.
The postcode for the Falkland Islands is FIQQ 1ZZ.
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