People are already speculating about a name for our new town hall / arts centre - so let me make an early pitch for John ...

Walk around Soho and Covent Garden and one name pops up time and time again. John Logie Baird, Scottish-born inventor of television, seems to have broadcast his achievements to half the streets in the ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.

The gate reading in German "Arbeit Macht Frei" meaning, "Work Makes You Free" is seen near the entrance to the former German Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz I in Oswiecim, Poland. On January 27 ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 ...

John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a pictorial-transmission machine he calls a televisor. Baird's invention used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving ...

East Ayrshire Leisure has announced the opening of 'A Road Well Travelled', an exhibition by Ayrshire artist Jack Rigg at the Baird Institute in Cumnock. Running from January 18 to April 19, this ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

Routine improvements in the basis of mechanical television machines were continually being developed, but it wasn't until John Logie Baird's "Televisor" machine came into being that TV technology ...

A thief who scouted out a Bacchus Marsh home jumped a fence and ransacked the property of more than $13,000 worth of valuables, a court has heard. Simon John Baird, 49, appeared from custody and ...