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1864 The Clifton Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was finally opened in Bristol, England, 5 years after his death
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December 8, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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2014 The Archbishop of Canterbury claims that he is more shocked by the plight of UK's hunger-stricken poor than the suffering in African refugee camps. He has now resigned over covering up child abuse.
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December 7, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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1990 British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie appears in public for 1st time in 2 years after Iran called for his assassination
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December 5, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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1791 The Observer was first published, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world
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December 4, 2024 at 6:38 AM
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Rowland Hill was born 03/12/1795
English inventor who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840), born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
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December 3, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Biden pardons his son.
Where are the checks and balances that American people should have.
Both Republican and Democrat should hang their heads in shame.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 2, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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1682 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam following the failure of his plots to prevent a Catholic succession should King Charles II die
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December 2, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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1919 Lady Nancy Astor was sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament. She was antisemitic, xenophobic and regarded Nazism as good. She held her seat until her retirement in 1945.
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December 1, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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In 1678 all Catholics except the Duke of York (the future James II) were excluded from Parliament. This was not repealed until 1829.
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November 30, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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1530 Thomas Wolsey, English Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, died en route from York to his imprisonment in the Tower of London.
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November 29, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
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November 28, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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1826 John Walker invented the friction match. Wooden splints or sticks of cardboard coated with sulphur and tipped with a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash and gum.
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November 27, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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1477 First English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton is printed at his press in London
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November 18, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Is Biden competent to make such a decision? As he was deemed too ill to stand for reelection.
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024...
Biden gives Ukraine green light to use long-range missiles to strike inside Russia
The US president signs off on deploying ATACMS rockets within the Kursk region as North Korea sends in troops
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 7:11 PM
It's a start but will the Democrats listen
"Moulton told MSNBC that he was "just speaking authentically as a dad" when he told The New York Times that he doesn't want his two daughters "getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete.""
www.newsweek.com/seth-moulton...
Seth Moulton says Dems proving his point after backlash to trans comments
Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton has faced some heat since the election about his comments about transgender athletes.
www.newsweek.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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That so many on here from UK are likening approvingly this site to Twitter circa 2018/19 doesn’t say much for your commitment to universal equality and human rights and the correct application of the #Equality Act 2010 (including prohibitions on belief discrimination)
November 16, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Hope and Echo decided that the birdbath was the place to hang out
November 17, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Dear @foliageandfiction.bsky.social

Just so we’re clear. I had just arrived here, where I was abused by TRA members of YOUR club. I was biting BACK. I’m assuming that’s what you’re twisting when you say ‘abuse’. Your assertion that I ‘dox’ people is also a lie.

So.

Wind your neck in.

Yrs etc.
November 16, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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Hey @moderation.bsky.app, can you explain your censorship of this expert employment law barrister? In whose opinion is she demonstrating ‘intolerance’? On what subject? Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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No fact today just a musical tribute to Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Apologies this might not be to everyone's taste in music 😉
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YouTube video by The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing - Topic
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November 16, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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This place is a charm. I see the Q+ lot are still as misogynistic as ever…🙄
November 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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1969 The 1st ever colour television commercial in the UK, for Birds Eye peas, airs on ATV in the Midlands during a Thunderbirds episode
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November 15, 2024 at 7:19 AM