Tag: History
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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…
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The Princess Royal
My quest to find as much information as I can about (and surrounding) the year 1642 has brought new information to me today. For a while now, I thought that I had reached a ‘brick wall’ in my search, as only information that I was already aware of was finding it’s way to me. I…
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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…
The Mansionic Perspective 