20TH CENTURY BRITISH INVENTIONS
Invention Inventor
Television John Logie Baird
Radar Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Turing Machine Alan Turin
Insuline John Mcleod
Jet Engine Frank Whittle
Hovercraft Sir Christopher Cockerel
Concorde Uk & France
Penicillin Alexander Fleming
Cloning Dolly the Sheep Sir Ian Wilmut & Keith Campbell
World Wide Web Sir Tim-Barners Lee
PROTESTANT GROUPS IN THE UK
- The following are protestant groups in the UK: Methodists, Baptists, Presbytarian,
quakers
CHURCHES
- Wales and Northern ireland have no established churches
- England has the church of england.
- Scotland has the church of scotland which is presbytarian.
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS
Lent → period of 40 days before Easter. The day before lent is called Shrove Tuesday and the
day it begins is called Ash Wednesday
Diwali → Lasts 5 days, Celebrated by Sikhs and Hindus
Hanukkah → Jewish holiday celebrated either November or December which lasts 8 days
Hogmanay → Scottish holidays elebrated on 31st december and regarded as more important
than Christmas
Mothers day → Celebrated the Sunday 3 weeks before Easter
Fathers day → Third Sunday in June
Bonfire night → Celebrate on 5th november
Remembrance day → 2 minute silence for WW1
Invention Inventor
Television John Logie Baird
Radar Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Turing Machine Alan Turin
Insuline John Mcleod
Jet Engine Frank Whittle
Hovercraft Sir Christopher Cockerel
Concorde Uk & France
Penicillin Alexander Fleming
Cloning Dolly the Sheep Sir Ian Wilmut & Keith Campbell
World Wide Web Sir Tim-Barners Lee
PROTESTANT GROUPS IN THE UK
- The following are protestant groups in the UK: Methodists, Baptists, Presbytarian,
quakers
CHURCHES
- Wales and Northern ireland have no established churches
- England has the church of england.
- Scotland has the church of scotland which is presbytarian.
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS
Lent → period of 40 days before Easter. The day before lent is called Shrove Tuesday and the
day it begins is called Ash Wednesday
Diwali → Lasts 5 days, Celebrated by Sikhs and Hindus
Hanukkah → Jewish holiday celebrated either November or December which lasts 8 days
Hogmanay → Scottish holidays elebrated on 31st december and regarded as more important
than Christmas
Mothers day → Celebrated the Sunday 3 weeks before Easter
Fathers day → Third Sunday in June
Bonfire night → Celebrate on 5th november
Remembrance day → 2 minute silence for WW1
