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Nonpareils are a decorative confectionery of tiny balls made with sugar and starch, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. They are also known as hundreds and thousands in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa [1] and the United Kingdom. In the United States, the same confectionery topping would generally be referred to ...
For example, hundreds and thousands is the most popular denotation used in United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to refer to nonpareils, a type of sprinkles. Another UK variant of the term is vermicelli, especially when said of chocolate sprinkles. [1] [2] This name can be seen borrowed into spoken Egyptian Arabic as ...
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White bread, butter, Hundreds and Thousands, sprinkles. Media: Fairy bread. Fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with butter or margarine and covered with "Hundreds and Thousands", [1] often served at children's parties in Australia and New Zealand. [2][3][4] It is typically cut into triangles. [5]
Fossils of very early Neanderthals dating to around 400,000 years ago have been found at Swanscombe in Kent, and of classic Neanderthals about 225,000 years old at Pontnewydd in Wales. Britain was unoccupied by humans between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago, when Neanderthals returned.
a money order designed to be sent through the post, issued by the UK Post Office (US: money order, or postal money order if the context is ambiguous) postbox, post box box in the street for receiving outgoing mail (US: mailbox; drop box); see also letter box, pillar box postcode alphanumeric code used to identify an address, part of a UK-wide ...
(Bit of currency trivia for you: It costs about as much to print a $100 bill as it does to mint a nickel.) While that's only about 0.1 percent of the value of the defective money, it's still an ...
Sixteen artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1971. Bay City Rollers, Elton John, The New Seekers, Rod Stewart and Slade were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1971. The 1970 Christmas number-one, "I Hear You Knocking" by Dave Edmunds, remained at number-one for the first week of 1971.