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An estimated quarter of British migrants returned to the UK within the qualifying period; however, half of these—the so-called "Boomerang Poms"—returned to Australia. [8] Before 1 December 1973, migrants to Australia from Commonwealth countries were eligible to apply for Australian citizenship after one year's residence in Australia. In ...
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person. Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912, with it appearing first in Western Australia, and was said to be short for pomegranate, with the terms "jimmy" and "jimmigrant" also in use.
A pair of cheerleading pom-poms Cheerleaders using pom-poms to spell out letters. Cheerleading innovator Lawrence Herkimer received a patent for the pom-pom in 1968. His original patent application, for which he called the invention pom-pon, mentioned that they were made out of crepe paper or other similar material.
These days, Poms are mostly known as companions but that wasn't always the case. View the original article to see embedded media. Pomeranians can be downright tiny.
On Tuesday, Danny Brocklehurst’s “Ten Pound Poms” won the Golden Nymph award for best series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. Lead actors Faye Marsay and Warren Brown sat down with ...
Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate British community or those on holiday to refer to home. In Hobson-Jobson, an 1886 historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.
The 2-pounder gun, officially the QF 2-pounder (QF denoting "quick firing") and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 40 mm (1.6 in) British autocannon, used as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy. [note 1] The name came from the sound that the original models make when firing.
Candy Favorites proclaims these bright blue discs, made with real peppermint oil, “one of the best-selling hard candies of all time.”Even so, this refreshing candy-dish mainstay is no longer ...