Tag: History
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Halloween throughout the Universe
I love the Universe. Everything in it! (OK, some things niggle me slightly, but they’re part of the Universe too, so I can put up with them!) I hardly know anything about the workings of the Universe, not in this lifetime, anyway, but I love finding out snippets here, facts there and pictures everywhere! I’ve…
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From Iceland to Saturn in the Seventeenth Century and back again
I’ve been questing this evening. Looking for more information to fill in the blanks I have with 1642 and the surrounding years. Although I haven’t filled in any of those blanks with answers, I have filled them with a few more interesting facts and questions. Questions are good, I find, but the answers are obviously…
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Dear Diary… Saturday!
Dear Diary… I have had an extremely long and enjoyable Saturday today; just what the doctor has ordered! The afternoon was spent mostly chilling out, which, Diary, is by far my favourite pastime, and shopping. The weekly trip to Sainsbury’s was upon me (other supermarkets are available), and I wasn’t mistaken for any celebrities this…
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And?
It’s very strange the information that you come across when looking for something completely unrelated. One thing that I learned tonight, which seems so obvious I don’t know how I hadn’t realised it before, came to me while I was researching something to do with sleep for my post today. I think I must have…
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The Meteorite of 1642
An earth-shattering event – well, not exactly earth-shattering in the true sense of the word – occurred on 4th August 1642. The town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, England, or Alborow as it was spelled back then, played host to this astronomical escapade. A 4lb meteorite fell from the sky at 5 O’clock – five of…
The Mansionic Perspective 