Although the ownership of some property can be traced back to Edward the Confessor, the estate as a whole essentially dates from the time of the Norman Conquest. In 1760, George III reached an agreement with the Government over the estate. The Crown Lands would be managed on behalf of the Government and the surplus revenue would go to the Treasury. In return the King would receive a fixed annual payment – what we call today the Civil List.

The name comes from the founders of the company, widows and widowers, who found one another in chat rooms on America Online. See also our History page.

The Crown Estate belongs to the reigning monarch ‘in right of The Crown’, that is, it is inherent with the accession to the throne. But it is not the private property of the monarch – it cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the sovereign. The Government also does not own The Crown Estate.

The Crown Estate owns about 55% of the foreshore around the UK coastline, although much of this is leased to third parties such as local authorities and English Nature. The other 45% is owned by bodies such as the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, local authorities, port authorities, statutory bodies, government departments and the following distinctive examples: The Crown Estate does not generally own the foreshore around the coastline of Cornwall, Sutherland and the Shetland Isles.

No. Whales, amongst other species, are part of what is known as ‘Royal fish’, and when beached, theoretically The Queen can claim ownership. In practice however, they are dealt with by a government agency, dependent on the location of the whale. The responsibility for Royal fish less than 25 feet in length rests with the local authority, who may wish to arrange for their disposal.

The disease is believed to have first emerged in Guangdong province in China in November and then spread to Hong Kong and elsewhere.

According to information presented in Encyclopedia Britannica, sugar was known in India as early as 3000 BC. Gaura, an old Indian word for sugar, was apparently derived from the name Gur, an ancient monarchy in Bengal.

A brief history: Both beekeepers had difficulty in shaking and brushing bees at harvest. The son kept designing new and innovative escape boards, bought a very expensive, powerful, and noisy Stihl backpack-type blower, and after getting frustrated with each approach, bought a bottle of Butyric Anhydride.

The Solar System Simulator originated as JPL's SPACE software package, which consisted of a set of computer graphics programs designed to simulate spacecraft trajectories and produce various photographic and video products. The SPACE package was specifically designed for animating space missions and was uniquely suited to JPL mission design.

Adam has said... "JP Plunier introduced me to Jack. I was in a Latin Group with Merlo. I suggested him and it went from there"

I could tell you what I've read about evolution, the big-bang, super-universes, quantum foam, and all that stuff. Eventually you'd ask a question I can't answer, then I'd have to go look it up. Even If I had the time for that shit, in the end you'd ask a question science hasn't answered yet. So let's save time and skip ahead to "I don't know."

Yes, the product is named after some guy who has been dead for 276 years: Sir Isaac Newton, considered by many to be the greatest scientific mind in human history. From the very beginning we wanted to develop a system that would offset the head loads that occured during rapid deceleration. In a perfect world this would be an "equal and opposite reaction," Newton's Third Law of Motion.

Randall cattle originated on the farm of Samuel J. Randall and his son Everett in Sunderland, Vermont. Genetic isolation, subsistence farm management and selection on that farm resulted in the Randall breed we have today. Blood typing, anecdotal evidence and careful observation yield a general overview of the breed's unique ancestry.

By September 1994, a very large number of Dragons had given up on Prodigy and written the Prodigy Dragons off as a lost cause. That month, it was discovered that some Dragons had Internet email addresses, and knew someone that knew someone else's address, and so on... the upshot being that, in the space of roughly a week, about two dozen Dragons had been reunited from across the United States.

A) The programme content was originally designed to address the problem of travel sickness. It has long been established that one of the primary emetic detectors in the process of Emesis (the physical act of being sick) is the vestibular system. The DAVAL programme addresses the vestibular system in the most logical fashion - incidentally a mode which has never been done before.

In 1944, Congress authorized construction of an interstate expressway system connecting major cities and industrial centers. No money was involved in the bill. The project never took off until the awarding of the first contract for I-70 in Missouri, in 1956. North Dakota was the first state to complete its Interstates. More information is available at http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer96/p96su10.htm and http://eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/InterstateHighways/InterstateHighwaysdocuments.html .

Almost all information contained in this FAQ comes from Sascha K. or the KMFDM page at http://www.kmfdm.net

Contrary to popular belief, the name Black Sox was not given to the 1919 White Sox because of the 1919 World Series scandal. The name was given to them because they played in dirty uniforms because their owner Charles Comiskey used to charge the players .25 cents for cleaning their uniforms. The players refused to pay to have their uniforms cleaned and chose instead to play in dirty uniforms, hence the name Black Sox.

Camry is based on the word "kan muri," or "crown." Toyota produced a car called the Crown, as well as the Corona, which is related to the word "crown." (From Camryman's Camry Reference page which no longer appears to be around.) Cressida - Cressida was a Shakespeare character (the daughter of Calchas in Troilus and Cressida) and the name of the fourth satellite out from Uranus, named after that character.