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"The Biggest Aspidistra in the World" is a comic song first recorded by English singer Gracie Fields in November 1938, for inclusion in the film Keep Smiling. The song was written by Tommie Connor and Jimmy Harper (aka James S. Hancock), co-credited to music publisher Will Haines, and the recording was arranged by George Scott-Wood .
"Aspidistra" was the codename (inspired by the above song) of a very powerful British radio transmitter used for propaganda and deception purposes against Nazi Germany during World War II. [16] The 1980s British television show The Adventure Game featured a moving aspidistra called the Rangdo of Arg, operated by Kenny Baker. [17] [18]
At times in Aspidistra ' s history it was the most powerful broadcast transmitter in the world, though for most of its wartime service it was less powerful than a BBC longwave transmitter at Ottringham, near Hull, which was also used for broadcasting to continental Europe and continued in service until 1953.
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A Big Maple Leaf measures 2.8 centimetres (1.1 in) thick and 50 centimetres (20 in) in diameter and is 999.99/1000 pure. The obverse of the BML shows Queen Elizabeth II as she has appeared on Canadian coinage since 2003, [5] when Susanna Blunt's design became the third iteration of the queen's effigy to appear on coinage (the others were 1965 and 1990).
According to the World Gold Council, central banks purchased a record 483 tons of gold in the first half of the year. Central banks from Turkey, India, and China topped the list of the biggest buyers.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status , and the dismal life that results.
China says it has discovered the world’s largest known deposit of gold, estimated to be worth over $80bn (£63bn).. The deposit at the Wangu goldfield in central China could yield more than ...