At the end of the 18th century, tambour evolved into what the French called crochet in the air, when the background fabric was discarded and the stitch worked on its own. Crochet began turning up in Europe in the early 1800s and was given a tremendous boost by Mlle.
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Public Service Advertisements go by many names. In the UK, the are called Public Information Films, and some of them have become famous (one in particular, Charlie Says, was sampled by the techno group The Prodigy). In the US, they are also known as Public Service Announcements, and are handled by the Ad Council.