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  • Check out this amazing ad!!! 12 Decades of English History in 2 minutes.

    09/15/2008 11:25:40 AM PDT · by C19fan · 24 replies · 133+ views
    What an amazing ad from UK bakery Hovis. A little boy taking a loaf home goes through 120 years of British history, the bakery is celebrating its 120 anniversary. What a great scene of the Tommies marching off to Flanders and a Spitfire.
  • Crumbs! The new Hovis TV advert that's a real slice of British history

    09/11/2008 10:56:51 AM PDT · by C19fan · 62+ views
    [UK] Daily Main ^ | 09/11/2008 | Nigel Jones and Lawrence James
    At 122 seconds, it is one of the longest adverts ever shown. Advertising the little brown Hovis loaf, which was first sold 122 years ago, it follows a 13-year-old boy through 12 decades of British history and will be shown for the first time on Friday, in the middle of ITV's Coronation Street. This scene is one stop on the boy's extraordinary journey and vividly brings a bustling Victorian street back to life.
  • 'HOGAN'S HEROES' 'SGT. CARTER' DEAD

    09/12/2003 9:09:43 PM PDT · by Captain Peter Blood · 20 replies · 572+ views
    New York Post ^ | 09-12-2003 | A P Wire
    <p>September 12, 2003 -- SAN MARCOS, Texas - Actor Larry Hovis, best known for his role as Sgt. Carter on the 1960s television series "Hogan's Heroes" has died after a bout with cancer. He was 67.</p> <p>Hovis, who taught acting at Texas State University-San Marcos, died Tuesday, the school's public relations office said yesterday.</p>