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Amelia Earhart disappears – 2 July 1937
Read more“…first lady of the skies, she had no guy holding her down, no one could clip her wings, she was…
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Guernica – 26 April 1937
No CommentsRead moreOn 26 April 1937, it was market day in Guernica, a small town in northern Spain considered to be the…
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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 Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest – 14 October 1066
No CommentsRead moreThe British Isles has a long history of invaders: Angles, Danes, Saxons, Vikings. But on the 28 September 1066, when…
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The death of Paul Gauguin – 8 May 1903
No CommentsRead more“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of ‘revolutionary’; and it is…
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The self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi – 17 December 2010
No CommentsRead moreWhat a magic carpet ride it was for our brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Middle East. Egypt’s…
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Greenham Common Peace Women ‘Embrace the Base’
No CommentsRead moreA cold day in the Cold War The 12th December 1982 was cold. Not really the kind of day to…
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The death of Hernán Cortés – 2 December 1547
No CommentsRead more“He came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns, Looking for the new world in that palace in…
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Harper Lee publishes To Kill A Mockingbird – 11 July 1960
No CommentsRead more“…Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”…
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and the first photograph
No CommentsRead moreLook at the camera and say ‘cheese’ and ‘thank you’ to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce who died on this day in…
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