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Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...
In the days before the invention of sweet solid chocolate for eating, the word "chocolate" was usually used to refer to the drink. For a while after the chocolate bar was invented it was referred to as "bar chocolate", but due to its rise in popularity in the latter half of the 19th century it eventually laid claim to the basic word. [4] House call
William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940. The character has appeared in novels, on television, in stage ...
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him: 1916 United States Traditional Animation Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G' 1916 United States Traditional Animation Krazy Kat Invalid: 1916 United States Traditional Animation Battle of a Monkey and a Crab: 1917 Japan Anime The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric ...
This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after). For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies . The list
Memory Banks was the name given to a comic cartoon strip created by Mark Bennington, which appeared in Whizzer and Chips and then went on to appear in Buster. [1] [2] The cartoon strip was about a boy called Bernie Banks, who had a very bad memory. The name of the strip was an ironic and sarcastic take on this.
Tri-Man: Johnny Small obtained three amazing superpowers from a ray devised by Professor Meek – super-sight, super-speed, and super-strength – an used them to become the superhero Tri-Man. He was a prisoner until The Spider encouraged him to attempt an escape with Rubberman.
In 1950 Zenith came up with a remote control called the "Lazy Bones" which was connected with wires to the TV set. The next development was the "Flashmatic" (1955), designed by Eugene Polley, a wireless remote control that used a light beam to signal the TV (with a photosensitive pickup device) to change stations. One problem was that during ...