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In the 19th century, a new breed of hero appeared. In an explosion of creative energy, a group of remarkable men emerged who were to invent the modern world .
Brunel faced a challenge when expanding his Broad-Gauge railway system – The Tamar River. He invented an elaborate method to sink the pillars in place to .
The Harmsworth Challenge is the Americas Cup of the power boat world. In the 1920s and 30s in these gladiatorial combats, the fastest men on land .
In the 1930s, Britain had a railway network that was envied around the world. The East and West Coast railway companies fought to transport passengers from .
AskEdd 5 (...stopped waiting...did I get my tools back?)
AskEdd 5
1, The cjrshop asked:
Did you get your tools back?
Mikeroark819 asked:
But did they let you in?
Steve Worrell, Donald Davis, Andrew Gormley and Karen J and many others all asked similar questions:…
It has been some weeks now since I was in America and many of you have asked; was I allowed in to clear out my desk. Well the short answer is, no. Instead I was sent a message saying that they were going to round up what they considered to be my stuff, pack it into a container and send it back to the UK. This morning I got a message from someone else letting me know the container has arrived and has already been unpacked. Hurrah, my stuff is here! Rather conveniently ‘here’ is only an hour and a half from my house! So, it’s another opportunity to answer to your questions…
2, Brian McDermott asked:
I’m considering buying a 1983 Porsche 911 that, for whatever reason, the current owner has swapped a GM 350 V8 into, whatwill be the most difficult part of putting back an original engine in?
Now, Chuck Schilling commented: that he couldn’t imagine how a 350 could be squeezed into a 911 engine bay without thoroughly destroying the structural integrity and value of the car…and it is a good point!...
3, TheTexasRaceFan57 asked:
Edd, seems like you have trouble fitting into most cars, what is your personal car you drive?
Lenny Brassneck asked:
Edd, what’s your daily driver, and why?
In UK; Range Rover (Full size obviously), Casual Lofa (sofa car).
In United States; Cadillac Escalade ESV, Nissan NV V8, for 9 inlaws.
4, Jade Latent from the Edd China Appreciation Group asked:
From where does Edd get all his cool and crazy shirts from?
JohanssonFoitek asked:
Hi Edd, remember you wearing a nice MonzaGP56 or so t-shirt! Where did you buy it? Is there a plan to sell on your website?
5, Trey Pontious asked:
When are new episodes of Wheeler Dealers coming?
HR Grapevine interviews Volvo Car UK's Managing Director, Nick Connor
Calum Di Lieto from HR Grapevine magazine interviews Nick Connor, Managing Director of Volvo Car UK Ltd.
They discuss driving employee engagement with a caring culture.
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De Beers
De Beers is a cartel of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond shops, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea. Mining takes place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada.
The company was founded in 1888 by British businessman Cecil Rhodes, who was financed by South African diamond magnate Alfred Beit and the London-based N M Rothschild & Sons bank. In 1927, Ernest Oppenheimer, a German immigrant to Britain who had earlier founded mining giant Anglo American plc with American financier J.P. Morgan, took over De Beers. He built and consolidated the company's global monopoly over the diamond industry until his retirement. During this time, he was involved in a number of controversies, including price fixing, antitrust behaviour and an allegation of not releasing industrial diamonds for the US war effort during World War II.
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River Thames | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:28 1 Etymology
00:08:25 2 Administration
00:08:54 3 Human activity
00:11:32 4 Physical and natural aspects
00:16:37 4.1 Sea level
00:17:46 4.2 Catchment area and discharge
00:19:17 4.2.1 The non-tidal section
00:22:30 4.2.2 The tidal section
00:25:38 4.3 Islands
00:27:48 4.4 Geological and topographic history
00:30:42 4.4.1 Ice age
00:34:08 4.4.2 Conversion of marshland
00:36:22 4.5 Wildlife
00:40:36 5 Human history
00:42:34 5.1 Roman Britain
00:44:48 5.2 Middle Ages
00:48:39 5.3 Early modern period
00:51:39 5.4 Victorian era
00:54:47 5.5 20th century
00:57:20 5.6 21st century
00:57:43 6 The active river
00:59:19 6.1 Transport and tourism
00:59:29 6.1.1 The tidal river
01:00:07 6.1.2 The upper river
01:01:25 6.1.3 Aerial lift
01:01:47 6.2 Police and lifeboats
01:03:17 6.3 Navigation
01:07:32 6.3.1 History of the management of the river
01:10:32 6.4 The river as a boundary
01:12:18 6.5 Crossings
01:17:05 7 Pollution
01:17:15 7.1 Treated sewage
01:19:09 7.2 Mercury levels
01:20:57 7.3 Natural carbon compounds
01:21:53 8 Sport
01:22:16 8.1 Rowing
01:24:59 8.2 Sailing
01:25:36 8.3 Skiffing
01:26:04 8.4 Punting
01:26:32 8.5 Kayaking and canoeing
01:27:49 8.6 Swimming
01:29:50 8.7 Meanders
01:30:19 9 The Thames in the arts
01:30:32 9.1 Visual arts
01:31:28 9.2 Literature
01:41:05 9.3 Music
01:44:23 10 Major flood events
01:44:33 10.1 London flood of 1928
01:45:36 10.2 Thames Valley flood of 1947
01:46:55 10.3 Canvey Island flood of 1953
01:48:01 11 See also
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The River Thames ( (listen) TEMZ) is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 miles (346 km), it is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.
It flows through Oxford (where it is called the Isis), Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary. The Thames drains the whole of Greater London.Its tidal section, reaching up to Teddington Lock, includes most of its London stretch and has a rise and fall of 23 feet (7 m). Running through some of the driest parts of mainland Britain and heavily abstracted for drinking water, the Thames' discharge is low considering its length and breadth: the Severn has a discharge almost twice as large on average despite having a smaller drainage basin. In Scotland, the Tay achieves more than double the Thames' average discharge from a drainage basin that is 60% smaller.
Along its course are 45 navigation locks with accompanying weirs. Its catchment area covers a large part of south-eastern and a small part of western England; the river is fed by at least 50 named tributaries. The river contains over 80 islands. With its waters varying from freshwater to almost seawater, the Thames supports a variety of wildlife and has a number of adjoining Sites of Special Scientific Interest, with the largest being in the remaining parts of the North Kent Marshes and covering 5,449 hectares (13,460 acres).
Look Out Tower Issue Title - Eyes Right (1941)
No title - Look out tower.
Somewhere on the South coast of England, exact location unknown.
M/S of the sea lapping against the cliff, the camera pans up to the ruins of an ancient look out tower. M/S of woman stood in the doorway. The camera pans across the ruined roof, and down to the woman greengrocer polishing apples. She is selling her goods here since her own shop was bombed. She wipes the weighing scale and sits by it. A man comes in and buys some potatoes. Various shots as she looks out to sea.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. He is the third-top-selling singles artist in the United Kingdom's history, with total sales of over 21 million units in the UK and has reportedly sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (/ˈɪzəmbɑrd bruːˈnɛl/; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. During his short career, Brunel achieved many engineering firsts, including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, which was at the time (1843) also the largest ship ever built.
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Liverpool Street station
Liverpool Street, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London. It is the London terminus of the West Anglia Main Line to Cambridge, the busier Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich, local and regional commuter trains serving east London and destinations in the East of England, and the Stansted Express to London Stansted Airport.
It was opened in 1874 as a replacement for the Great Eastern Railway's main London terminus, Bishopsgate station, which was subsequently converted into a goods yard. Liverpool Street was built as a dual-level station with an underground station opened in 1875 for the Metropolitan Railway, named Bishopsgate until 1909 when it was renamed Liverpool Street. An additional station called Bishopsgate (Low Level) existed on the mainline just outside of Liverpool Street from 1872 until 1916.
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Mike Brewer talking bad about Edd China and the end of Wheeler Dealers
Video of Mike Brewer talking bad about Edd China on why Wheeler Dealers fell apart at a car show in Connecticut.
Oxford | Wikipedia audio article
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Oxford
00:01:10 1 History
00:01:19 1.1 Medieval
00:05:43 1.1.1 University of Oxford
00:07:43 1.2 Early modern
00:07:51 1.2.1 English Civil War
00:08:32 1.3 Late modern
00:10:14 1.4 20th and 21st centuries
00:13:52 2 Geography
00:14:01 2.1 Physical
00:14:09 2.1.1 Location
00:15:13 2.1.2 Climate
00:16:16 2.2 Human
00:16:32 2.2.1 Suburbs
00:17:26 2.2.2 Green belt
00:18:18 3 Economy
00:18:35 3.1 Car production
00:18:59 3.2 Publishing
00:19:25 3.3 Science and technology
00:20:11 3.4 Education
00:20:37 3.5 Brewing
00:22:46 3.6 Bellfounding
00:23:02 4 Shopping
00:24:06 5 Landmarks
00:24:40 5.1 University of Oxford
00:25:22 5.2 The city centre
00:27:13 5.3 The Bodleian Library
00:28:12 5.4 Museums and galleries
00:30:57 5.5 Other attractions
00:31:31 5.6 Parks and nature walks
00:32:14 6 Transport
00:32:22 6.1 Air
00:32:46 6.2 Buses
00:35:00 6.3 Coach
00:35:46 6.4 Cycling
00:36:00 6.5 Rail
00:39:17 6.6 Rail–airport links
00:39:39 6.7 River and canal
00:40:30 6.8 Roads
00:41:17 6.8.1 A roads
00:42:38 6.8.2 Motorway
00:43:20 7 Education
00:43:29 7.1 Schools
00:43:37 7.2 Universities and colleges
00:44:04 8 Media
00:45:43 9 Culture
00:45:52 9.1 Theatres and cinemas
00:46:38 9.2 Literature and film
00:50:50 9.3 Music
00:52:33 10 Sport
00:52:42 10.1 Football
00:54:32 10.2 Rugby league
00:55:03 10.3 Rugby union
00:55:59 10.4 Speedway and greyhound racing
00:56:52 10.5 Hockey
00:57:25 10.6 Ice hockey
00:58:03 10.7 American football
00:58:27 10.8 Cricket
00:58:51 10.9 Rowing
00:59:20 10.10 Other sports
00:59:46 11 Twin towns
01:00:10 12 Gallery
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- Socrates
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Oxford ( OKS-fərd) is a city in south central England and the county town of Oxfordshire. With an estimated 2016 population of 170,350, it is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom, and one of the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse. The city is 51 miles (82 km) from London, 61 miles (98 km) from Bristol, 59 miles (95 km) from Southampton, 57 miles (92 km) from Birmingham and 24 miles (39 km) from Reading.
The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the late Saxon period. Oxford is known as the city of dreaming spires, a term coined by poet Matthew Arnold. Oxford has a broad economic base. Its industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing and a large number of information technology and science-based businesses, some being academic offshoots.
Fairey Aviation Company | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:46 1 History
00:05:45 2 The collapse of the Fairey Group
00:08:52 3 Subsidiary companies
00:09:02 3.1 Avions Fairey
00:09:43 3.2 Fairey Aviation of Canada
00:12:00 3.3 Fairey Aviation Company of Australasia Pty. Ltd
00:14:13 3.4 Aerial Survey
00:15:59 4 Engineering
00:16:08 4.1 Heaton Chapel
00:18:07 4.2 Land Rover hubs and overdrives
00:19:29 5 Aircraft
00:19:38 5.1 Fairey aircraft
00:22:23 5.2 Avions Fairey aircraft
00:22:42 5.3 Subcontract production
00:23:19 6 Aircraft engines
00:23:58 7 Missiles and drones
00:31:45 8 Fairey Marine
00:32:47 9 Fairey Band
00:33:28 10 See also
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- Socrates
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The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Lancashire. Notable for the design of a number of important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet, it had a strong presence in the supply of naval aircraft, and also built bombers for the RAF.
After World War II the company diversified into mechanical engineering and boat-building. The aircraft manufacturing arm was taken over by Westland Aircraft in 1960. Following a series of mergers and takeovers, the principal successor businesses to the company now trade as FBM Babcock Marine Ltd, Spectris plc, and WFEL (formerly Williams Fairey Engineering Limited), the latter manufacturing portable bridges.
Oxford | Wikipedia audio article
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Oxford
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Oxford ( OKS-fərd) is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire. With an estimated 2016 population of 170,350, it is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom, and one of the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse. The city is 51 miles (82 km) from London, 61 miles (98 km) from Bristol, 59 miles (95 km) from Southampton, 57 miles (92 km) from Birmingham and 24 miles (39 km) from Reading.
The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the late Saxon period. Oxford is known as the city of dreaming spires, a term coined by poet Matthew Arnold. Oxford has a broad economic base. Its industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing and a large number of information technology and science-based businesses, some being academic offshoots.
Oxford | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:40 1 History
00:01:50 1.1 Medieval
00:07:45 1.1.1 University of Oxford
00:10:26 1.2 Early modern
00:10:35 1.2.1 English Civil War
00:11:29 1.3 Late modern
00:13:40 1.4 20th and 21st centuries
00:18:34 2 Geography
00:18:44 2.1 Physical
00:18:52 2.1.1 Location
00:20:17 2.1.2 Climate
00:21:42 2.2 Human
00:22:00 2.2.1 Suburbs
00:23:11 2.2.2 Green belt
00:24:37 3 Economy
00:24:58 3.1 Car production
00:25:27 3.2 Publishing
00:25:59 3.3 Science and technology
00:27:00 3.4 Education
00:27:32 3.5 Brewing
00:30:26 3.6 Bellfounding
00:30:45 4 Shopping
00:32:08 5 Landmarks
00:32:50 5.1 University of Oxford
00:33:45 5.2 The city centre
00:36:11 5.3 The Bodleian Library
00:37:27 5.4 Museums and galleries
00:41:11 5.5 Other attractions
00:41:54 5.6 Parks and nature walks
00:42:50 6 Transport
00:43:00 6.1 Air
00:43:29 6.2 Buses
00:46:32 6.3 Coach
00:47:30 6.4 Cycling
00:47:48 6.5 Rail
00:52:16 6.6 Rail–airport links
00:52:46 6.7 River and canal
00:53:52 6.8 Roads
00:55:04 6.8.1 A roads
00:56:51 6.8.2 Motorway
00:57:47 7 Education
00:57:56 7.1 Schools
00:58:05 7.2 Universities and colleges
00:58:39 8 Media
01:00:51 9 Culture
01:01:00 9.1 Theatres and cinemas
01:02:00 9.2 Literature and film
01:07:39 9.3 Music
01:09:54 10 Sport
01:10:04 10.1 Football
01:12:30 10.2 Rugby league
01:13:11 10.3 Rugby union
01:14:22 10.4 Speedway and greyhound racing
01:15:31 10.5 Hockey
01:16:14 10.6 Ice hockey
01:17:02 10.7 American football
01:17:31 10.8 Cricket
01:18:00 10.9 Rowing
01:18:36 10.10 Other sports
01:19:09 11 Twin towns
01:19:41 12 Gallery
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- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-C
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Oxford ( OKS-fərd) is a university city in south central England and the county town of Oxfordshire. With a population of approximately 155,000, it is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom, with one of the fastest growing populations in the UK, and it remains the most ethnically diverse area in Oxfordshire county. The city is 51 miles (82 km) from London, 61 miles (98 km) from Bristol, 59 miles (95 km) from Southampton, 57 miles (92 km) from Birmingham and 24 miles (39 km) from Reading.
The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the late Saxon period. Oxford is known as the City of Dreaming Spires, a term coined by poet Matthew Arnold. Oxford has a broad economic base. Its industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing and a large number of information technology and science-based businesses, some being academic offshoots.