Tag: History
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Just January…
I’m sure that there are some fun facts about January that I could include in this blog if I had the time to find them. Only I don’t have the time to look in any great depth, and of the facts that I did find I wouldn’t really say they were ‘fun’. In 1642, for…
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England’s Earthquakes
We’ve experienced a couple of earthquakes over the last few weeks, one a couple of days ago in Yorkshire, and another last month in Cumbria. I didn’t feel the earth move with these most recent ones, and, for that matter, I’ve not really noticed any of the others that have affected us for some time.…
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Counting down to nothing
As 2010 draws to a close plans are being made. Plans for the future, with dreams coming true, ideas bursting into fruition and expectant excitement for things to be better. Or for things to be no worse than they are now. If we want to improve ourselves and our situation, only we can do it.…
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Pink skies and Moonrise…
I’ve just discovered that in 1638 there was a Total Lunar Eclipse that fell on the same day as the Winter Solstice. 372 years later and we have another one. Lunar Eclipses happen quite regularly, and there is nothing unusual in that. It is much more rare that they occur on the Solstice. What is…
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Carols
Well, it’s getting close to Christmas, and I’ve already mentioned it in a couple of my posts recently, so here is my first official Christmas post! I know it is only the twelfth of December, but for years I thought this was the first day in the carol ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’, so it’s…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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