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Blighty (other)
Blighty is an English slang term for Britain. Blighty may also refer to: * Blighty, New South Wales, a town in Australia * Blighty (TV channel) Blighty was a British pay television channel broadcasting as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel was originally launched on 8 March 2004. History The channel launched on 8 March 2004 as UKTV People, showing repeats of lighter fa ..., a former UKTV channel * ''Blighty'' (magazine) or ''Parade'', a British magazine for men * ''Blighty'' (film), a 1927 silent film by Adrian Brunel {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blighty
"Blighty" is a British English slang term for Great Britain, or often specifically England."Why Do the Brits Call the U.K. 'Blighty'?" on ''Anglophenia'', . Accessed 30 December 2020. Though it was used throughout the 1800s in the to mean an English or British visitor, it was first used during the in the specific meaning of homeland for the English or British, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blighty, New South Wales
Blighty is a small town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The town lies on the Riverina Highway between the towns of Finley and Deniliquin. It is located in the Edward River Council local government area. At the , Blighty and the surrounding area had a population of 396. Blighty Post Office opened on 16 February 1926 and closed in 1932. It reopened in 1956 and closed again in 1991. Blighty consists of a Hotel, school and an Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ... ground. The town has a team competing in the Picola & District Football League. The land around Blighty is mainly irrigated and used to produce rice and other grains. Blighty is also a major receival centre for the Ricegrowers Co-Operative Limited with a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blighty (TV Channel)
Blighty was a British pay television channel broadcasting as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel was originally launched on 8 March 2004. History The channel launched on 8 March 2004 as UKTV People, showing repeats of lighter factual programming, based on the people of the world with programmes such as ''Top Gear'' and the docusoap ''Airport''. Much of this programming had come from the spinoff for UK Horizons, which had closed down the day before. The channel itself, along with UKTV Documentary, replaced this channel formally. For the channel's first few months, it timeshared with UKTV Food +1, airing from 7pm-3am, but soon expanded to a full 24-hour schedule by 1 July. On 9 October 2008, UKTV announced plans to rebrand UKTV People and UKTV Documentary in early 2009. The news came just two days after UKTV's entertainment channels were rebranded to Watch, Gold and Alibi. They announced that UKTV People would be rebranded as Blighty and this rebrand took place o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blighty (magazine)
''Parade'' was a British magazine for men. With origins dating back to 1916, the magazine went through a number of different incarnations and different publishers until it went defunct sometime in the mid-2000s. It was originally known as ''Blighty'' between 1916 and 1920 and was intended as a humorous magazine for servicemen. Relaunched in 1939, as ''Blighty Parade'', it was turned into a pin-up magazine. Renamed ''Parade'' in 1960, by the 1970s content had progressed to topless and nude photos of models, and at the end of the 1990s it went hardcore. Publication history W. Speaight & Sons ''Blighty'' was launched in 1916 by W. Speaight & Sons, intended as a humorous magazine for servicemen during the First World War.Union Jack, A Scrapbook, British Forces' Newspapers 1939–45 HMSO & Imperial War Museum, 1993 () ("Blighty" is a British English military slang term for Great Britain, or often specifically England.) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
