(In case youâre not familiar with it, Weight Watchers followers have a set number of points they can use for the day, and zero-point foods are a BFD.) The zero-points list used to just be fruits and vegetables, so this is a huge change.
While Thomas Crapper is commonly given credit for inventing the first flushing toilet in the late 1800s, the first version can actually be traced back to 1596. At this time, a British nobleman, Sir John Harrington, first engineered and invented a valve that could release water from the water closet (WC) when pulled.
, Enjoys Travelling. 1  The WadeâGiles was developed by Thomas Francis Wade in 1892, a scholar of Chinese and a British ambassador in China who was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.It was created to allow English-speaking people living in the British Empire a formal system to read, write, listen and pronounce Mandarin characters.