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Longitude - John Harrison's chronometers

Longitude is a measure of position vital for navigation. In the eighteenth century there was no way to measure it and ships were being lost at sea. Parliament passed an Act setting a prize for anyone who could solve the problem. The problem was solv...

Madeira - a fortified wine

Madeira is a fortified wine named after the Portugese Island where it is made. It has a unique production process which involves heating the wine to give it a distinct flavour. Less well known than Port or Sherry, the other fortified wines, madeira...

The Jervis Bay and convoy HX84

HX84 was a British navy convoy in the second world war. Attacked by the German battleship Admiral Sheer, the convoy's sole armed escort, the converted liner Jervis Bay, moved into the path of the battleship to buy time for the convoy to escape. ...

The Untouchables - Eliot Ness and Prohibition

After Prohibition was passed, a set of racketeers began to trade alcohol, including Al Capone. To take them on a special unit was formed at the Treasury department. Led by Elliot Ness, they became known as the Untouchables. Taking on men who would s...

Morecambe and Wise - the comedy legends

Morecambe and Wise were probably the greatest comedy duo Britain ever produced. Responsible for Christmas specials watched by more than half the country, Eric Morecambe "the tall one with glasses" and Ernie Wise "the short fat one with hairy legs" wo...

Hatching Games 

Free online Hatching games.

Free Online Hatching Games - Virtual Pet Sims

There are a lot of free online games that feature hatching and raising creatures online for easy amusement. The best known is probably Dragon Cave, but here are a few others. Most of these games involve adopting a creature, usually by collecting a...

Valenth - Mystery egg hatching

Valenth is a free online game where you raise creatures in testubes. Each creature can grow into a variety of adults depending on what they are fed. And, after a period of downtime, Valenth is back up!! Other Relevant Lenses: Free Online Hatching G...

Arvyre Pets - an online hatching game

Arvyre Pets is a free online game where you can adopt creatures and hatch them by giving them clicks. Its has a few useful features, as creatures don't die from neglect and you can see how many more clicks you need to grow it. The game is still in d...

My Mini City - a city sim game

MyMiniCity is an online sim game where you can develop a city by means of clicks from online visitors. These clicks affect six aspects of the city, helping it to grow. Choose where in the world you want your city to be based, create it (no registrati...

Mystery Egg Adoption - a hatching game

Mystery egg adoption is an adoption sim where you can take eggs from the page, put them on your webpage or sig, and after a certain amount of time they will hatch. Three eggs are available at any time. The game was created by Silverwolf and runs th...

Dragon Cave 

The free online hatching game

Dragon Breeding - how to breed dragons in Dragon Cave

As part of the Dragon Cave game, players raise and breed Dragons. The page is designed to give some help to those players trying to breed their Dragons. Whether you plan to give the eggs away, establish a lineage, or are just trying to get rares to...

Dragon Cave - the online hatching game

This Lens is about Dragon Cave, an online game where you raise Dragons from eggs by getting clicks and views. Specifically, it is also a place to share, display and discuss your dragons. If you are an advanced player looking for advice on Breeding D...

Dragon Cave - Types of Dragons

The lens works with DragonHatchery and DragonBreeding to provide an insight into the Dragon Cave game. This is not designed to be a comprehensive list of Dragons, and some will not have images. The only images used here are from my scroll or used wi...

Video Games 

Lenses about console games

Lost in Blue - DS Survival Game

The "Lost in Blue" games are a series of survival games by Konami for the Nintendo DS. In the games, the protagonists are stranded on a deserted island and need to survive and escape. Hunting, Fishing, Foraging and making tools to survive, avoiding...

Everblue and other Diving Games

There are a range of Diving games available on consoles. The best known is the Everblue series on PS2 (Everblue and Everblue 2) following Leo's progress as he becomes a famous salvage diver, but there are others. Two of these linked to the Everblue...

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Console Game

The Pheonix Wright Games are a series of games for the Nintendo DS and GBA. You play a young defense attorney in a legal system where trials last only three days, the default verdict in guilty and to get your client acquitted the only way is to find...

Lost Kingdoms - Nintendo card-based RPG games

Lost Kingdoms 1 & 2 are card-based RPGs for the Nintendo Gamecube. In both you play a heroine who uses the powers of cards (channeled by her runestone) to save the kingdom from the forces of darkness. Lost Kingdoms 2 removes a lot of the rough edges...

Sly Raccoon - games by SuckerPunch featuring Sly Cooper

The Sly Raccoon series feature Sly Cooper, a master thief from a long line of Raccoon thieves and his sidekicks Bentley and Murray. Made by SuckerPunch, they are a series of excellent platform games with a strong fan base. Set in a world with anthro...

The iconic cold war aircraft 

All about the classic British jets

Avro Vulcan V Bomber

All about the iconic cold-war bomber. The Delta winged Avro Vulcan B1 and B2 were the most recognisable members of the V-Force. With XH558 triumphantly returning to the air earlier this year, there has been renewed interest in this legendary aircraft...

The de Havilland Sea Vixen aircraft

The de Havilland Sea Vixen was a British warplane which served in the navy up to the 1970's. It was launched from carriers, and had a unique profile with a twin boom, most similar to the Vampire jet fighter. Unlike the Vampire, its wings folded to sa...

The TSR2 the most advanced aircraft intercepter

The TSR2, Tactical Strike/Reconnaissance aeroplane was designed as the most advanced strike aircraft in the world in the late 1960's. Capable of speeds above Mach 2, at hedgerow height, its destruction and the end of the project is one of the most co...

V-force the British cold war bombers

The V force was the British deterrant and bomber force during the Cold War. Consisting of three aircraft, the Vickers Valiant, Handley Page Victor and Avro Vulcan, the V-force was originally designed to function at high altitude. Ther three aircraft...

World War Two British bomber aircraft 

de Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber

One of the most famous aircraft of all time, the Mosquito was called the "Wooden Wonder", as it was entirely wood airframe. At the time of its development it was faster than the contemporary fighter planes, and so a fighter variant was developed. It...

The Avro Lancaster Bomber

The Avro Lancaster was the backbone of the British bomber command in World War II. Flying night sorties over occupied Europe, the aircraft's unique shape and distinctive sound made it instantly recogniseable. The Lancaster shown here is preserved at...

The Bristol Blenheim fighter bomber

The Bristol Blenheim was originally built as a civillian plane, sponsored by the Daily Mail who wanted something to get their reporters on scene first. When it was found to outperform the existing fighters, it was presented to the nation and served...

The Short Stirling bomber

Built by Short brothers, the Stirling was a four engined bomber in use at the start of World War II. It had a relatively short service life as a bomber, from 1941 to 1943 when it was replaced by the Halifax and Lancaster. It was then used to spread c...

Handley Page Halifax bomber

The Halifax was one of the four engineed bombers that played a great part in the second World War. Overshadowed by the more famous Lancaster, it flew from the start of the war in 1939, and production ceased in 1946. Total production was recorded as o...

Aviation thrillers 

Gavin Lyall's flight books

Gavin Lyall's Judas Country - an aviation thriller

"Judas Country" is one of Gavin Lyall's four flight books, an aviation thriller set in an exotic local and featuring first person narrative. Roy Case is an ex-RAF pilot making a living flying a Beechcraft Queen Air around the Mediterranian. The trou...

Gavin Lyall's flight thrillers

Gavin Lyall was a thriller author. Among his works were four books which have been grouped together as his flight books. Drawing on his experience in the RAF and as an aviation reporter, the books delve into the shady side of aviation (or more litera...

The Wrong side of the Sky - a Gavin Lyall Thriller

This lens is to highlight "The Wrong side of the Sky" an aviation thriller by Gavin Lyall. It also features information about the Douglas DC-3 Dakota, a classic aircraft. Captain Jack Clay, a charter pilot flying Dakotas, meets up with an old friend...

Gavin Lyall's Shooting Script - a thriller novel

This lens is about "Shooting Script" the thriller by Gavin Lyall. Set in a south American country it follows a veteran pilot who is flying a charter aircraft when he is hired by a group of film makers who are attempting to make a Western. In the midd...

Gavin Lyall's The Most Dangerous Game - an aviation thriller

"The Most Dangerous Game" is an aviation thriller by Gavin Lyall, one of the four books referred to as his flight books. Published in 1964, this followed "The Wrong Side of the Sky", his first thriller. An aerial survey pilot, making charter flights...