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Terry Carey
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On This Day.

Many thanks for that Scouse me old mate and as an addendum to your post Scott Joplin showed up in 1868 and later became credited with inventing ragtime music. The word ’ragtime’ is a corruption of ’ragged time’ where due to the syncopation used it appears that there is no regular beat. In fact the music is played in ’rubato’ style where the beginnings and endings are in time but the intervals between are not consistent with the values of the notes. For a further explanation the word ’rubato’ means ’to rob’ so really what is happening is that a bit of time is robbed here and there and the music speeds up at other times to compensate.

Also in 1434 the Thames froze over on this day.

In 1951 Austin and Morris motors agreed to merge.

In 1916 Sir Hiram Maxim, English born US machine gun inventor and manufacturer died.

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24/11/2007 15:02:25

Terry Carey
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On this day in 1503 Nostradamus was born and he was followed in 1895 by King George the Sixth. Lee Remick, actress made her appearance in 1935.
People snuffing it on this day were George Washington 1799, and Prince Albert - consort to Queen Victoria.

Now for the really interesting news:-

In 1900 Professor Max Planck of the Berlin University revealed his Quantum Theory. (So, if someone says ’You’re as thick as a plank’ think twice before thumping them - it may not be an insult.)

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14/12/2007 18:35:10

Keith Baron
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In 1918 for the first time in Britain women over 30 voted in a General Election.
In 1939 the Soviet union was expelled from the League Of Nations.
In 1959 Archibishop Makarios was elected Cyprus’ first President.
In 1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented the nut and bolt machine.

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14/12/2007 19:52:02

John (scouse) Hirons
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Today 15th December:-

1675 - �John Vermeer the Dutch painter popped his clogs.

1832 - Gustave Eiffel, the French engineer, was born. You could say that was a land mark day for the frogs.

1930 - �Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, West Indies, lbw). We English wish he had taken up football.

1961 - Adolf Eichmann, is condemned to death by an Israeli war crimes tribunal. Good ridence to bad rubbish.

1966 - �Walt Disney dies aged 65 & was put in suspended animation. Not the cartoon but the freezing type.

On this day in 2001, Italy�s Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened to the public, after a team of experts had spent 11 years and �14 million to strengthen the famous bell tower without eliminating its lean.

1982 - Spain opens border with the Rock of Gibraltar. The gates isolating the people of Gibraltar from Spain had been shut to pedestrians for 13 years.

& finally today Mike Pass discovered there was only 10 more days �til Christmas.

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15/12/2007 02:56:53

Terry Carey
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On This Day in AD37 Nero arrived to torment lots of people. He put his mother to death in AD59, his wife Octavia in AD62 and saw Rome destroyed by fire in AD64. His behaviour inspired a revolt which eventually led to his suicide. Nasty person.

In 1890 Chief Sitting Bull was falsely arrested and in the scuffle that followed he was shot dead by the Indian police. (I never knew that!!!!)

In 1654 a meteorological office established in Tuscany began recording daily temperatures.

Lastly in 1927 the British Parliament rejected the New BOok of Common Prayer because ’it leaned too far towards Rome’ and it was returned for further revision.

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