A ‘boycott’ is named after Charles Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland.
Working for the landowner, the 3rd earl of Erne, Charles Boycott wanted to evict farmers.
The local community joined forces so his staff abandoned him and shops refused to serve him.
Minitel was an interactive online service using phone lines and was the world’s first mass-market online service before the World Wide Web.
Launched in France in 1980, users could make online purchases, access services, book tickets, search the phone directory, mail and chat.
On 18 April 1930, a BBC news announcer had no news to share. “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news” was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin.
This was followed by piano music for the remainder of the 15-minute segment.
He was taller than a grizzly bear standing on its hind legs!
The peace symbol was first used in 1958 at a protest in London.
Designed by Gerald Holtom, it first appeared on signs at a protest held by the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and shows the letters N and D in flag semaphore.
It has since become an international peace symbol.
Andorra is the world’s largest country without an airport.
Its nearest airport is ‘Andorra–La Seu d’Urgell’, located 12 km south of the country of 90 000, in neighbouring Spain.
Its nearest large airport is ‘Barcelona El Prat Airport’, a three-hour bus ride away.
I can't imagine it being any other color other than red!
Maltese is the only semitic language written in the Latin script and the only semitic language that is an official language of the EU.
Spoken natively by over half a million people on the Mediterranean island of Malta, the language is closest to historical Arabic.
Though only Europe’s fourth-largest airport in passenger numbers, Amsterdam Schiphol has Europe’s largest number of runways, six.
Five runways exceed 3300 m, a shorter one for general aviation measures 2014 m, the various orientations providing wind resilience.
Charnita Fance
MediaFaro Magazine