Footscray dominated their final VFA years, finishing atop the ladder each season. In 1920, his last season, Johnny Craddock, whose deeds inspired the term ‘bulldog tenacity’, led his side to ...
There were several groups of people who wanted alcohol to be banned from American society. These included: These groups that wanted to ban alcohol were known as ‘dries’. Groups that wanted to ...
Prohibition already existed Prohibition had a long history in the USA at both local and state level. For example, the state of Maine turned ‘dry’ in 1851. Temperance groups Many campaigning ...
English air pioneers John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. Television is demonstrated for the first time by John Logie Baird at ...
Throughout the 1920s a long boom took stock prices to peaks never before seen. From 1920 to 1929 stocks more than quadrupled in value. Many investors became convinced that stocks were a sure thing ...
Long before aeroplanes were invented it was confidently hoped that vertical photographs would … greatly assist archaeology … It is usually imagined that the camera, when fixed in an aeroplane ...