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The first post-office cats were hired in 1868 when London Postmaster Frederick-Roger Jackson, worried over "very serious destruction and mutilation of paid money orders," became "emboldened to suggest that three cats be acquired to deal with mice in my department." The postmaster general reluctantly agreed to lay on...
As time went on, the new hands became so proficient that one of them alone sometimes caught as many as twelve mice in a single evening. A few days before their probation period expired, their pleased employer asked his superior to give them a sixpence raise. The raise was granted...
And so it was. For nearly three-quarters of a century, the London cats have had to make do on their 1873 scale; the cats in Manchester have struggled along on a mere one shilling. The only other British workers so discriminated against, reported the Guardian, are Britain's...
Hewing closely to the facts of Friese-Greene's career, the picture shows his rise to fashionable portrait photographer; his development of Britain's first practical movie camera in 1889 at about the same time that Thomas Edison in the U.S. and Louis Le Prince in France were...
His elder relatives were not so fortunate. By tradition, the heir apparent to Britain's throne has first claim on the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall (an estimated $300,000 yearly) for his own uses, so young Charles could afford to cuddle his rabbit without worrying where his...