please empty your brain below
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Just one guess each, please.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.01.15 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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I'll go for...
q) The Post Office Tower
Chz | 01.01.15 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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n) the beginning of the successful invasion by King Cnut of Denmark.
Bob Lindsay-Smith | 01.01.15 - 12:33 p.m. | #
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c) release of The Sound of Music?
Claire | 01.01.15 - 12:41 p.m. | #
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t) Rudyard Kipling
Lynn | 01.01.15 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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d is Abraham Lincoln of course
Nick | 01.01.15 - 1:05 p.m. | #
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K) The Salvation Army ?
Luke | 01.01.15 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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g is the signing of the Magna Carta
RG | 01.01.15 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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p) Edith Cavell 1865-1915
amber | 01.01.15 - 1:21 p.m. | #
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e) Gallipoli landings
Colin | 01.01.15 - 1:36 p.m. | #
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b) Winston Churchill's state funeral
Thank you and all the best for 2015. I'm looking forward to another year of your blog.
Joachim | 01.01.15 - 1:44 p.m. | #
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h) is the Battle of Waterloo
John Simmons | 01.01.15 - 1:53 p.m. | #
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J) Referendum on UK membership of the E.E.C.
John | 01.01.15 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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r} alice in wonderland
mark | 01.01.15 - 2:22 p.m. | #
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O. Agincourt
Like many others, I'd really like to thank DG for his sterling efforts over the past decade. It is very much appreciated.
Here's to a Happy 2015 :)
Graham | 01.01.15 - 2:58 p.m. | #
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I. WI founded at llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
John R | 01.01.15 - 3:03 p.m. | #
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l) Live 8 concerts...
Ed | 01.01.15 - 3:03 p.m. | #
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s) The general theory of relativity
Simon W | 01.01.15 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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a = De Montfort's Parliament
Roger Goodacre | 01.01.15 - 3:30 p.m. | #
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(L)ive 8 concerts
Ed | 01.01.15 - 3:51 p.m. | #
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F = Dunkirk evacuation.
Steve Bird | 01.01.15 - 4:34 p.m. | #
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L must be the London Underground bombing. Hard to believe it's been 10 years already.
martin | 01.01.15 - 4:54 p.m. | #
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M - serialisation of The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan.
Jo W | 01.01.15 - 5:14 p.m. | #
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That's the lot!
Answers as follows.
a) Simon de Montfort's first Parliament
b) Winston Churchill's state funeral
c) The Sound of Music released
d) Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
e) Gallipoli landings, WW1
f) Retreat from Dunkirk, WW2
g) Magna Carta signed at Runnymede
h) The battle of Waterloo
i) Women's Institute founded
j) Common Market referendum
k) Salvation Army founded
l) London 2012 announced & 7/7 bombings
m) The Thirty-nine Steps published
n) Invasion of England by King Cnut
o) The battle of Agincourt
p) Edith Cavell executed
q) Post Office Tower opened
r) Alice in Wonderland published
s) Einstein's theory of general relativity
t) Rudyard Kipling born
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.01.15 - 5:15 p.m. | #
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