Forum: Idle Banter
21-10-18, 04:34 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
This day in 1805 the English Navy defeated the combined French and Spanish Navies at the Battle of Trafalgar.
The news of the victory was conveyed to Falmouth aboard HMS Pickle and from there by a...
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14-04-18, 08:40 AM
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08-04-18, 07:47 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
8th April 1968
Barbara Jane Harrison, aged 22, was a flight attendant on Flight 712 to Sydney, Australia from Heathrow. Within a minute from takeoff number 2 engine on the Boeing 707 caught fire and...
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14-08-17, 09:33 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
50 years ago, H M Gov banned offshore pirate radio.Have somewhere a photo of Radio 270 which sailed out of Scarborough but it's lost somewhere in the puny archive of fame!
This action led to the...
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Forum: Idle Banter
29-04-17, 07:44 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
29 April 1942 the Germans inflicted their Baedeker Raid on York.
Bar Convent was severely damaged, but not as much as Sir Ralph Wedgwood:
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Forum: Idle Banter
26-08-16, 08:49 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
2500 years ago a slave call girl from Sardinia named Gedophamee (pronounced
Get-offa'-me) was attending a great athletic festival in Greece.
This festival had no name.
In those days the...
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30-07-16, 08:30 AM
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04-05-16, 08:22 AM
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05-03-16, 10:53 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
This day in 1936:
At 16.35, first flight of K5054, prototype Spitfire
http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss267/punyXpress/070508c1-0c19-4521-9175-3ed91a627284.jpg...
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29-01-16, 10:56 PM
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22-12-15, 05:03 PM
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26-10-15, 10:23 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
09-08-15, 10:17 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
Seventy years ago today, the second A-bomb was dropped, this time on Nagasaki.
Surprised these earth moving ( in more ways than one ) events have not yet been mentioned. They, probably more than any...
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Forum: Idle Banter
16-12-14, 09:54 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
One hundred years ago today, the German Navy bombarded Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool.
Contrary to rumour, I wasn't there, neither did I take the picture.The wife of the owner of this shop in...
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Forum: Idle Banter
04-04-14, 08:41 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
Lots of facts really - a veritable history lesson:
Where did "P1$$ Poor" come from? Interesting history.
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot.
And...
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20-01-14, 11:10 AM
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04-10-13, 01:38 PM
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20-09-13, 12:02 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
Last flight of VC10 today, in fact landing in just over an hour:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-24165590 :(
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08-09-13, 10:51 AM
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28-08-13, 09:07 AM
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15-08-13, 03:28 PM
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12-08-13, 12:16 PM
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08-05-13, 09:59 PM
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01-05-13, 10:14 AM
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19-04-13, 07:13 PM
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