please empty your brain below
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I hope I've not forgotten anything important...
diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.05.06 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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9 March 1965 was an important date for some.
Great Aunt Annie | 15.05.06 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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And can we have a link for the 1907 event? I'm dying of curiosity.
Great Aunt Annie | 15.05.06 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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oh well no work today. I'm off house hunting for a house on a hill
peter | 15.05.06 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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You forgot 2054. Wembley expected to be ready for the 2055 cup final!!
WestUpperZombie | 15.05.06 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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Not to be pedantic, but in 1599, verily James and Richard Burbage erected ye Globe Theatre in Southwark. Shakespeare was their business partner. Even more accurately, verily the Burbages moved the timber of their old theatre, the original public Theatre, in Shoreditch (est 1576), south of the river after a tenancy dispute. Waste not, want not, in Elizabeth's Merrie England.
Super-pedantically, the idea that 'ye' was a version of 'the' isn't quite right. In written English, you could have a 'y', or a thing called fossil thorn, which looks like a 'y' but is actually 'th' (it's an Old English thing). Thorn became a 'th' abbreviation (you also see 'yat' and 'yis', not v often admittedly, but they do exist).
Right, pedantry over.
chloe | Homepage | 15.05.06 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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Sorry chloe.
Now I'm worried that some of my other facts might also be incorrect.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.05.06 - 1:34 p.m. | #
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The thing about there only having been 6 people killed in the Great Fire of London is probably not true. There were 6 corpses found, but that's not the same thing. The fire burned very hot for a long time, more thatn sufficient to reduce poorly-nourished skeletons to a pile of dust & ash, especially when shoddy timber buildings collapsed on top of them. Also, the fire started at night, a time when a lot of poor people would be collapsed dead drunk on a pile of straw somewhere, and they would have died without even waking. Poor record keeping meant that a lot of people just didn't officially exist, so their death wouldn't be obvious anyway, particularly if you add in the fact that a lot of parish records were destroyed in the fire.
Deborah | Homepage | 15.05.06 - 1:43 p.m. | #
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You forget:
1668: First recorded game of Mornington Crescent
Scaryduck | Homepage | 15.05.06 - 3:34 p.m. | #
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Don't worry DG, I'm sure your research is impeccable. I'm just in one of those moods!
chloe | Homepage | 15.05.06 - 4:01 p.m. | #
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