Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
He wouldn't have done it without the help of Ada Lovelace (coincidentally, Lord Byron's daughter) though - which is why one of the first computer programming languages (ADA) is named after her.
Patience any of various forms of card game for one player, the object of which is to use up all one's cards by forming particular arrangements and sequences. Also called Solitaire
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943-1945. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs and not by a stored program. Colossus was designed by General Post Office (GPO) research telephone engineer Tommy Flowers to solve a problem posed by mathematician Max Newman at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. Alan Turing's use of probability in cryptanalysis contributed to its design. It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma. (Turing's machine that helped decode Enigma was the electromechanical Bombe, not Colossus.)
Ever get the chance go to Bletchley Park - it’s amazing for history buffs interested in the work done in WW2 by Alan Turin and the people working to decide the German transmissions.
Heath was shown innapropriately, because the PM at the Suez crisis was Eden, who resigned because of the invasion (made by Britain and France without reference to the UN.)
Ironically funny that you mention Doctor Who after the Sherlock Holmes bit. The version of Holmes she calls "a cricketer" is Peter Davison, and the picture is of him as the fifth incarnation of The Doctor. Peter Davison has never played Sherlock Holmes, though he was a "Planetarium Voiceover" (uncredited) in "Sherlock", the Benedict Cumberbatch reimagining of Holmes. Which, going full circle, was written by Steven Moffat (showrunner of Doctor Who for several years) and Mark Gatiss (written and also acted in several Doctor Who episodes).
@@HumorAndHistory Cheers! Loving your Cunk reactions. It's a shame there aren't awards for keeping a straight face while knowingly asking ridiculous questions. Diane would win gold, silver and bronze.
I have heard that too, and I see that. Years ago my father and I had a discussions on Churchill. He called him a “Pyrrhic Victory” 🤷♂️. Perhaps I need to revisit writing and 1st person accounts of Churchill. That’s a good comment, thanks!
I think the closest we have to Darth Vader would be Oliver Cromwell. Started out trying to deal with a corrupt regime. Fought a civil war in the name of the democratic government. Ended up a tyrant who slaughtered women and children in Ireland.
Back in the day, many in England and especially Australia, never forgave "Winton" Churchill for the disaster at Gallipoli in 1915. "Winton" was First Sea Lord and pushed for the attack on the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli. The plan was to knock the Ottomans out of the war and open a new front on the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany through the Black Sea. Poor intelligence and the even worse execution of the plan to take the Dardanelle straights led to the bloodbath and ignominious defeat that defined the Gallipoli campaign.
I'm a German teacher from Europe (it's my native language, the local language and I taught it as first and foreign language to children and adults): The best method to teach English speaking students is "immersion". If course it's only possible in a German speaking environment. But you can give them texts with pictures or watch short clips and let them figure out the meaning. German and English are pretty close. Do not spend a lot of time on the articles (der, die, das) or the four cases. It's frustrating and unnecessary for everyday conversations. Once they can understand things, express themselves, and listen to it, they will learn them like children learn them.
Philomena Cunk is fantastic. Have you seen 'Moments of Wonder', all of Cunk on Britain, Cunk on Earth*, Cunk on Shakespeare? Almost everything she says has a reference, the choice of background music, there's so much in each episode. Plus she loves crisps (potato chips), trips over a lot, and dislikes her ex, Shaun. *I don't think you'll be able to show this one yet, it's too recent or copyrighted or something, as other reaction channels have had issues but watch it for yourself anyway, it's fab 🤩xx
Darth Vader is of course Cecil Rhodes. But Luke and Chewbacca were against the empire, so they would be the Made Mardi and George Washington - same thing.
I love the American adaptation of Holmes and Watson (Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu respectively) called Elementary. I feel like it found the perfect way of balancing Sherlock's incomparable intelligence while giving Watson her own strengths that didn't rely on Holmes and adapting the stories into the 21st century. I'm actually in the middle of my 4th rewatch of the show! Maybe I enjoy it so much because well, South Africa was an English colony so maybe that stayed lol
The funny thing is Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch (star of the UK modern version) both played a theater piece Frankenstein where they changed each day or regularly who played Frankenstein and who played the monster
The highlights are fun, but it's better seeing them in context within a whole episode - the Shakespeare one is excellent & while not the right season at the moment, the Christmas one is fantastic too.
Together with Helmut Schreyer, Konrad Zuse designed the first functioning digital computer, the Z3. It was thus the world's first fully automatic, program-controlled and programmable computer. They started development in 1938 and presented the finished Z3 in 1941.
Free Cell, Minesweeper, Nokia Snake. Surely?! A not much more powerful machine, just a few years later had “Tennis”, which we would now call “Pong”. Played on an oscillator. The first computer game.
Arthur Conan Doyle (Author of the Sherlock Holmes stories), wasn't English, he was Scottish. (Born in Edinburgh, where there's a pub with his name standing opposite the site of the house he was born in). You're American so you get a pass on that one, but I wouldn't make that mistake if you're visiting Scotland.
Being into Sherlock Holmes is definately not a purely english thing. It is a worldwide famous literature character. For example Guiness world records gave Sherlock Holmes the award of being the "most portrayed literary human character in film & TV" in 2012. Sherlock Holmes has also been around for about 125 years at this point.
Firstly best history show. Secondly english growing up in Germany on camp, Germans oddly easier than expected as English owes it self to Germanic as well as multiple other languages
Conan Doyle was influenced by one of the Doctors when he was training who used to deduction to help him diagnose conditions in patients before talking to them . I agree he wasn't a great writer , the stories were a sideline as he ran his practice in Southsea and were published in the Strand magazine . They are written from the perspective of Dr Watson and he gets away with presenting the solution without giving away many vital clues . They were , of course very successful and revolutionised Police detection techniques . Incidentally Tom Baker , a former Dr Who , played Holmes in a BBC production of Hound of the Baskervilles .
It's absolutely disgusting the way the government treated Alan Turing (and other homosexual men of course) after the war, especially after all the incredible work he did.
I’ve seen philomena cunk in full and like this in “best reactions “. Very funny ( and some interesting info) however this was so chopped up some of the humour didn’t come through as clips were so edited ( to fill more in I suppose). Still good though.
Fun fact: The british team built the machine for enigma using calculation made by Polish mathematicians who actually broke the code first earlier. It is quite interesting story, yet not mentioned much, i guess because brits didnt like mentioning Polish people in fear of Stalin probably. Like when polish pilots saved Englands ass in the battle of Britain but they werent even allowed to march in victory parade
This is an excellent comment! The Polish Received lesser credit than deserved before, during and after the war. More recently it has been accepted as part of mainstream history. Good point about not upsetting Stalin.
@@HumorAndHistory A great man, but over-rated. Meaning that a large number of team members at Station X, who each made major contributions to breaking the array of codes being used, have effectively been ignored.
The Polish were given a great deal of credit in the Battle of Britain film in c1975. After the war Stalin occupied half Europe and they were trying to stop him going further by appeasing him.
I'm sure that bloke under is just copy and pasting stuff. I'm English and I don't like Sherlock Holmes or Dr Who, I prefer Stargate but they bloody axed that xD
