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We Only Ever Talk About the Third Attack on Pearl Harbor
“Our prospective opponent has always started operations by attacking before a declaration of war.”
Zheng Yi Sao
Zheng Yi Sao (aka Ching Shih, Cheng I Sao, Ching Yih Saou or Mrs Cheng, d. 1844) was the chief of a massive pirate confederation which plundered the South China Sea in the early 19th century. She inhe...
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Happy St Nicholas Day!
St Nicholas Day
Have you ever wondered why people hang stockings up on Christmas Eve for Father Christmas (or Santa Claus) to fill…
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“Packed full of information about the mechanics of the dissolution, the record is of real historic importance since the skills learned during the suppression of Furness Abbey, the largest and richest ... View More
Plan for the Dissolution of the Monasteries discovered - Medievalists.net
A previously unseen historic document giving vital insight into the Dissolution of the Monasteries has been uncovered at the National Archives. Overlooked for almost 500 years, the document details th...
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Died today in 1817...William Bligh, Vice Admiral of the Blue, Governor of New South Wales and most famously, commander of HMS Bounty during the famous mutiny in 1789. Bligh and several loyal seamen we... View More
Mutiny on the Bounty
Back in the 1930s a blockbuster movie was made which reappears almost every year on the Christmas TV schedule. It tells the true story of the famous Mutiny on the Bounty that took place in 1789...
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#OnThisDay in 1803 Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Queen of Spain, was born as the daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony and his first wife, Princess Carolina of Parma.
Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony - The lost Queen of Spain - History of Royal Women
Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony was born on 6 December 1803 as the youngest daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony and his first wife Princess Carolina of Parma. Carolina died just four months after h...
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (l. 1330-1384, also John Wyclif) was an English theologian, priest, and scholar, recognized as a forerunner to the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Wycliffe condemned the practices of.....
Zheng Yi
Zheng Yi (also Cheng I, Ching Yih, Cheng Yao-I, Cheng Wen-Hsien, or Cheng Yud) was a Chinese pirate who lived from 1765 to 1807. Operating in the South China Sea, Zheng Yi famously led a 600-ship pira...
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Eyam, England's drastic response to the plague--including quarantines and social distancing--influenced later medical practice.
How One Small English Village Sacrificed Itself to Stop the Plague From Spreading
Eyam, England’s drastic response to the plague—including quarantines and social distancing—influenced later medical practice.
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Today in 1916... 35 women die in an explosion at the Barnbow munitions factory in Cross Gates, Leeds. The tragedy is hushed up for fear of damaging national morale...
The Barnbow Lasses, World War I factory workers
The story of the Barnbow lasses, workers at the munitions factory at Barnbow, Leeds and the explosion in 1916 that killed 35 women.
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