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The death of Captain James Cook – 14 February 1779
No CommentsRead more“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” Whatever…
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Robert FitzRoy: Captain Fantastic
Read moreEveryone knows what a weather forecast is, most people have heard of Charles Darwin’s Voyage of HMS Beagle, and most British people have heard of the shipping forecast. So it’s very sad to think that more people don’t know about Robert FitzRoy who made all these things possible.
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The death of Johannes Gutenberg – 3 February 1468
No CommentsRead moreWhere would humanity be without the stone axe, the wheel, the plough, the compass and the steam engine? Likewise the…
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The extinction of the Great Auk – 3 July 1844
Read moreThe Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was once a common and magnificent sight in the sparkling waters of the North Atlantic.…
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Dr John Alexander Tomlinson: obituary
1 CommentRead morePlant pathologist, virologist, saviour of the British watercress industry, BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc My father, who died on Tuesday 12…
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The death of Captain Robert Falcon Scott – 29 March 1912
No CommentsRead moreIn the 1960s space was the final frontier. But just 50 years earlier, the final frontier was the South Pole.…
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Quagga – a great striped hope
Read moreOne hundred and twenty-five years ago today, on 12 August 1883, the last quagga died in Amsterdam zoo. ...
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All that remains
Read moreThis weekend was spent scattering the ashes of my best buddy Rebecca who died, aged 38, in January 2007. She…
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Remembering Rebecca
Read moreRebecca van der Putt, known to her friends as Bec or treaclechops, was my best mate. And now she’s gone,…
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