6th August 1926 - The American Olympic athlete, Gertrude Ederle, became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. It took her 14 hours, 39 minutes to swim the 56 kilometers from France to England. She held the record for 35 years. 1945 - The world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. An […]
25th July 1943 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini stepped down as head of the armed forces and the government. 1969 - Senator Edward Kennedy plead guilty to leaving the scene of a crime following the Chappaquiddick car crash. 1978 - The first so called 'test tube baby' was born in Manchester, England. 1992 - The […]
The only way to afford a ticket is to move out and camp...
Or does it? This is a clever mash up, and very tongue in cheek, but with a real political sting in the tail. I have nothing against the Olympics, and I really hope that everyone who goes there has a great time. But the way it's been hijacked by big money and the cult of […]
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", a line from Alfred Tennyson's poem, Ulysses, has been chosen to inspire athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It will be engraved as a permanent installation in the centre of the Olympic Village.