Tag: History
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Hope, Legends and Curses
Throughout my periodic searching for information to find my link to the year 1642, I have found quite a few random facts which are linked to the year. These facts bring in people from various countries around the world, and, inevitably, some of these people’s lives would have crossed over with each other. I have…
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Don’t you just hate repeats?
I’m having to resort to an old post for today’s post. Yesterday’s post was a fill-in post too, due to time constraints, but that one was an original. Tonight’s, unfortunately, is a repeat. First posted on May 22 2010, just over a week after I had started this blog. I had no idea where I…
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Eh? No f!
ſo, today is Monday, Decembre the Twelfth, in the yeare 2011. I’ve decided to wryte as I would have wrytten back in the ſeventeenth century. Well, almoſt. Its not at all eaſy, what with the ſpecial character for the letter ‘s’ that was uſed back then. The normal letter ‘s’ was alſo uſed, which made…
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11.12.11.12.11
Just recording the time! Twelve minutes past eleven, on the eleventh of the twelfth eleven. This time and date combination won’t happen again for a hundred years! Well, after the time and date combination tonight, that is!
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Who links the Norseman?
Charing Cross is an area of London that denotes the junction of Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street in central London. It is so named after a monument that was built in the late Thirteenth Century by King Edward I in memory of his late wife, Eleanor of Castile. The cross was one of twelve that…