* In 2002, Fleming was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a nationwide vote.

-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.

The BBCi brand launched in 2001 and was conceived as a cohesive multi-platform brand name for all the BBC's digital interactive services, encompassing the corporation's digital teletext, interactive television and website services.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

This was a return to having a dedicated Controller for the channel in the same way as the rest of the BBC's domestic television channels.

The government was cleared of wrongdoing, while the BBC was strongly criticised by the subsequent inquiry, leading to the resignation of the BBC's chairman and director-general.

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence – funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.

In 2009, Anderson was the television host of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms.

" In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29.

Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1981 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal.

In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, he was ranked 29.

In 2002, Jenner was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote.

In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained " war work " when he was taken on full-time by the BBC's Eastern Service.

In 2002, Stephenson was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

Biden was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008 ; on 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama and Biden on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington.

In 1985, the BBC's London based soap opera EastEnders debuted and was a near instant success with viewers and critics alike, with the first episode attracting over 17 million viewers.

The initial intention was to ' visualise ' original recordings of 1950s Goon Show episodes, but this proved difficult to achieve in practice because of the rapid-fire dialogue and was ultimately frustrated by the BBC's refusal to allow the original audio to be used.

In the BBC's 2003 Big Read contest, viewers voted on the " Nation's Best-loved Book "; Mort was among the Top 100 and chosen as the most popular of Pratchett's novels.

Talk radio expanded dramatically when the BBC's monopoly on radio broadcasting was ended in the 1970s with the launch of Independent Local Radio.

He referred to his Liverpudlian son-in-law as " Shirley Temple " or a " randy Scouse git " ( Randy Scouse Git as a phrase caught the ear of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees who heard it while on tour in the UK-and who co-opted it as the title of the group's next single-though their record label renamed it " Alternate Title " in the UK market to avoid controversy ) and to his wife as a " silly moo " ( a substitute for " cow " which was vetoed by the BBC's head of comedy Frank Muir ).

The show was one of several held up by Mary Whitehouse as an example of the BBC's moral laxity.

Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology series, it caused dismay within the BBC and in government and was withdrawn from television transmission on 6 August 1965 ( the twentieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing ).

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

He was born at Ox Head, a small property on the Palatine Hill, very close to the Roman Forum.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

Anne was particularly close to Emily especially after Charlotte's departure for Roe Head School, in January 1831.

Aged 15, it was Anne's first time away from home, and she made few friends at Roe Head.

Anne and Charlotte do not appear to have been close while at Roe Head ( Charlotte's letters almost never mention her ) but Charlotte was concerned about her sister's health.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

" It concluded, among other things, that Head Start programs designed to boost African-American IQ scores had failed, and that this was likely never to be remedied, largely because, in Jensen's estimation, 80 % of the variance in IQ in the population studied was the result of genetic factors and the remainder was due to environmental influences.

The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

The artwork for " Pineapple Head " was created by Reg Mombassa of Mental As Anything.

One of his few religious artworks was created in 1960, Christ Head, with an angular " Modiglianiesque " portrait of Jesus Christ.

Three years later he was appointed Head of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the teaching hospitals of the University of Cape Town.

Later, Yegor Ligachev was appointed as Head of the Party Organisational Work Department of the Central Committee.

An important early film to move beyond the concept of the scenic was In the Land of the Head Hunters ( 1914 ), which embraced primitivism and exoticism in a staged story presented as truthful re-enactments of the life of Native Americans.

Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.

At seventeen, Emily attended the Roe Head girls ' school, where Charlotte was a teacher, but managed to stay only three months before being overcome by extreme homesickness.

Thomas ' 1969 performance of " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head ", in which actual water was sprinkled on him as a special effect.

Nevertheless, Elizabeth was forced to accept the title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England rather than the more contentious title of Supreme Head, which many thought unacceptable for a woman to bear.

In attempting to arrest members of the Kent family in County Cork on 2 May, a Head Constable was shot dead in a gun battle.

It was eight years before he directed another theatrical film, A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ) with Frank Sinatra, which was his first feature film in color.