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Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory is a United Kingdom television documentary series broadcast on Channel 4 in March 2008. Filmed in "fly-on-the-wall" style, it shows the efforts of Willie Harcourt-Cooze to establish a brand of 100% cacao chocolate in the UK.
William George Harcourt-Cooze (born 29 April 1964) is a British-based chocolate maker and entrepreneur. He came to public prominence in 2008 with the airing of the Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall documentary, Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory , which centred on his efforts to grow, import and produce his own chocolate.
House of Harcourt, a British and French noble house; Collège d'Harcourt, in Paris, renamed the Lycée Saint-Louis in 1820; Harcourt House, Edmonton, an art gallery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Harcourt House, London, Cavendish Square, London, a building; USS Harcourt (1864), a Union Navy tugboat in the American Civil War
Jean II d'Harcourt, for example, was named Marshal of France (French: maréchal de France) and accommodated in his residence King Philip III. In 1338, King Philip VI, set up the seigniory of Harcourt, with the Château d'Harcourt forming its principal town. The fortress appears to have seldom been under siege through history.
The House of Harcourt is a Norman family, and named after its seigneurie of Harcourt in Normandy.Its mottos were "Gesta verbis praeveniant" (Olonde branch), "Gesta verbis praevenient" (Beuvron branch), and "Le bon temps viendra ... de France" (English branch).
The Lost Apple Project is a nonprofit organization that searches abandoned farms and orchards in the Pacific Northwest to locate old apple varieties that have been thought to be lost or extinct. At one time, there were approximately 17,000 named varieties of domesticated apples in the United States, but only about 4,500 are known to exist today.
The 1933 Yakima Valley strike (also known as the Congdon Orchards Battle) took place on 24 August 1933 in the Yakima Valley, Washington, United States.It is notable as the most serious and highly publicized agricultural labor disturbance in Washington history and as a brief revitalization of the Industrial Workers of the World in the region.
Barbarians is a 2004 miniseries on The History Channel which tells the story of tribes from the Early Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages.Two series have currently been produced, each consisting of four episodes – the first aired in 2004, and the second aired in 2007.