Thus I Have Landed provides us with our last chance to appreciate a Western publishing phenomenon, a writer whose relish of the intricacies of biology and evolution pioneered an explosion in the popularisation of science but who has never been bettered in the process.
One shouldn't underestimate the huge role illegal downloading has played in the popularisation of world cinema.
The upshot was its gradual popularisation in Europe, particularly in France.
Latest advances in additive manufacturing (AM) techniques and, in particular, the popularisation of 3D printing by fused deposition modelling (FDM), have opened new ways for the production of anatomical insoles.
In 1932 Lewis Spence writes in The Weekly Scotsman, in response to the popularisation of Margaret Murray's witch-cult hypothesis in Scotland, that "the Saxon word 'wicca', a witch" was "of immemorial usage" in the Scottish Lowlands.
The poor old Proms cops it, too, despite its rampant popularisation in recent years with Dr Who proms, proms based around film music and endless events for kids.
Comfort had written several works of scientific popularisation in the 1960s, but later books, such as I And That: Notes On The Biology of Religion (1979) and Reality And Empathy: Physics, Mind, And Science In The 21st Century (1984), were a good deal more abstruse.
For a while, then, they were "an American luxury", until their popularisation in the early decades of the 20th century.
Evans spoke of: Only Fools and Horses – and consequently John Sullivan – is credited with the popularisation in Britain of several words and phrases used by Del Boy regularly, particularly "Plonker", meaning a fool or an idiot, and two expressions of delight or approval: "Cushty" and "Lovely jubbly".
British trad jazz band-leader Chris Barber was one of the major figures in the development and popularisation of rhythm and blues in Britain the 1950s.
The Party has several commissions; the Commission for Popularisation and Education is in charge of science, culture, education and health.
