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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I do now find that this platform too has become too political. Too much about American politics. I’m out. Cheerio!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Never perhaps was there a period more important to America than the present." Providence, Rhode Island, almanac for 1775. Fr the collections @jcblibrary.bsky.social

Close cropped screenshot from the essay in the New England Almanac for 1775 of the essay "A brief View of the present Controversy between Great-Britain and America, with some Observations thereon."

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Today in 1848 10,000 people massed in Trafalgar Square to protest against the raising of income tax from 3% to 5%. Were that it was 5% now.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A wonder drug to cure headaches, Aspirin, was patented today in 1899. It was said to have almost magical properties. It was the first time a cheap reliable pain-killer became universally available.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Richard gave up his crusade in October 1192, just five-months before Saladin died in Damascus of fever, today in 1193.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

When Richard the Lionheart's horse was killed beneath him during the crusades, Saladin the first Sultan of Egypt, sent him another horse rather than order his death. A chivalrous man, Saladin also sent Richard the Lionheart chilled wine, pears and grapes from Damascus to ease life in camp.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The Star-Spangled Banner was adopted as the US national anthem today in 1931 - so recent, who knew? The Star-Spangled Banner lyrics were written by Francis Scott Key in 1814, the music by John Stafford Smith in 1780.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Today in 1943, 173 people were killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. How frightening!

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Today in 1966 the BBC announced that it would begin broadcasting television programmes in colour in 1967.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Elizabeth II needed three stitches in her hand today in 1991 after intervening in a corgi fight.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 02/03/2025

🔴 UNITED24 Media analysis shows Zelenskyy has thanked the U.S. 94 times on his official Telegram since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

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Fact-Check: Zelenskyy Has Thanked the U.S. at Least 94 Times

Analysis shows President Zelenskyy's gratitude to the U.S. has been expressed 94 times amid ongoing support during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Today in 1986 Queen Elizabeth II signed the Australia Bill, severing Britain's formal ties with its former colony after almost two centuries.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

On a different note - my latest knitting project - for a friend!

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Today 1969 the dream of space-age travel began when Concorde took to the skies from Toulouse. The dream was shattered after just 34 years.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Roderick Maclean made an unsuccessful attempt to shoot Qn Victoria as she was leaving Windsor rail station today 1882 - the crowd jumped him

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Mary and Lord Darnley met in February 1565 at Wemyss Castle in Fife. The marriage was to cause divisions amongst the Lords. With Elizabeth protesting strongly against it, Moray, Argyll and Chatelherault agreed to rebel in March 1565.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In early March 1564 Elizabeth I suggested that Mary Queen of Scots marry Lord Robert Darnley - both tall and well-educated. A good match? Mary Queen of Scots and Darnley married on 29 July 1565. That date rings a bell, ah yes, Prince Charles & Diana. Another doomed marriage!

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If the UK’s immigration rules mean what they say, Trump shouldn’t even be allowed to enter the country, let alone for a state visit ….

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KansasWoman @kansaswoman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

setting people up to fail and then blaming them for failing is the american way

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Today 1954 the US exploded the most powerful bomb ever made = 15M tons of TNT, and the Bikini Atoll island in the South Pacific died. The bomb was more powerful than expected - Japanese fishermen on boats more than 70 miles away were badly burnt by white ash.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

1562 saw an outbreak of monstrous births in England e.g. a mare birthed a foal with one body, two heads with a tail growing between the heads. Another monstrous 1562 birth was a pig with four legs like a man's arms with fingers. Yet another pig had two bodies, eight feet, but just one head.

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God @thegodshow.com · 28/02/2025

That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Exactly right. This was a setup.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Watson-Watt justified his choice of a nonoptimal frequency for his radar with his often-quoted “cult of the imperfect,” which he stated as “Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes.”

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Radar was demonstrated for the first time today in 1935 by Robert Watson-Watt at Daventry.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

French novelist, dramatist and poet, Victor Hugo, who wrote Les Miserables, was born today in 1802.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In Canada, Mexico, India, Russia and Israel, bank notes have braille-like markings on them for the blind. We were amazed when in the US to find that all the bank notes, of whatever value, were of the same size. How on earth do blind people manage there?

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Farage is learning to lie from the past-master of lying remember.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What unimaginative parents were Ma & Pa Beter.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

OTD 1962 The Beatles played a concert at the Birkenhead YMCA for £30. The audience didn't enjoy the show - they were booed off. WHAT!

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.”

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This means that since its introduction in 1582, there has been a discrepancy of several hours, with the result that the Gregorian calendar will be a full day ahead of the solar year by the year 4909.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar today in 1582 as a replacement for the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar omits 3 leap days every 400 years. Although the method closely synced the calendar with the seasons, his system is still off by 26 seconds.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Elizabeth I died OTD 1603, childless. She was succeeded by Mary Queen of Scots son, James - James I of England, VI of Scotland. Her last words were, “All my possessions for a moment of time". That puts acquisitiveness and the value of life into their correct places, doesn't it?

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Viscount Bernard Montgomery of Alamein, British Field Marshall and Commander of the Eighth Army in WWII, died today in 1976.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

English comedian Stan Laurel died today 1965. In 1961 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

English poet, John Keats, died of tuberculosis today in 1821 in Rome, aged just 25. His last wish was to be placed under a tombstone bearing no name/date. Keats lover, Fanny Brawne stayed in mourning for six years after his death. Of her he said, "Love is my religion ... I could die for you."

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Does Trump’s behaviour indicate that this may be true? Oh, wait, yes it does.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In a brutal Kremlin coup on the evening of 23 March 1801 (I’m a month ahead of myself - tant pis!) mentally unbalanced Tsar Paul I was strangled in his bed by a group of drunk Russian officers.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

London's first tramcars began operating, along the Bayswater Road, from Notting Hill to Marble Arch today in 1861.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles at the age of 79 today in 2011. She was wed more times than Henry VIII - eight marriages. One of the secrets of her beauty was that she had two rows of eyelashes, a bit like a camel.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born today in 1948 - happy 77th birthday Lord Lloyd Webber.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Except they would just move to another country.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Henry VIII's first baby boy, Henry Duke of Cornwall, died today in 1511.

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Marguerite de Bohun @mdebohun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Actually, there are more than two.

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