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Thu Aug-11-05 06:07 AM
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On this Day in History: 11th August |
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On this Day in History: 11th August
1996: (Soccer, Sarajevo) Bosnian Croats/Muslims XI beat Bosnian Serbs XI 4-2 on penalties after a 0-0 draw. The match was designated by the Dayton Peace Accords to decide who should win the Bosnian war.
1988: (Law & order, Britain) A U.K. law that punishes naked country rambling by flogging (brought in by the Conservative government in 1986) is struck down by the European Court.
1981: (Politics, U.S.A.) Ronald Reagan while giving a speech in Sacramento, California to local businessmen forgets the name of the country he is president of.
1976: (Winter sports, Innsbruck, Austria) Snow alpine volleyball is introduced into the Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport.
1970: (Politics, U.S.A.) President Richard M Nixon makes his famous “of course we won’t secretly bomb Laos and Cambodia” speech to rapturous applause.
1948: (Economics, Britain) Britain’s cottage cheese industry is nationalised by Clem Atlee’s Labour government.
1916: (Parliamentary scandal, Britain) Prime Minister David Lloyd George is forced to answer questions in the Commons about allegations about using HMS Dreadnought as a holiday yacht.
1170: (Ecclesiastics, England) Willie the English sheepdog is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by the Ecclesiastical Chapter. He succeeded Thomas Becket and became the first dog to achieve high temporal office.
899: (Technology, France) Francois Crois’bowe of Lyon, France invents the crossbow.
415: (War & pillage, Italy) Alcryth the Visigoth sacks Rome
412: (War & pillage, Italy) Thayrh the Ostrogoth sacks Rome
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Thu Aug-11-05 06:18 AM
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Those goths could sure throw a good scaking
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Thu Aug-11-05 06:55 AM
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2. I've often wondered whether Clem Attlee was wise to nationalise ... |
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... the Cottage Cheese Industry.
It gave the Tories - especially the thinner ones - some valuable ammunition.
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:31 PM
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4. I'm still bitter about the re-privatisation of cheese |
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But I suppose it was inevitable that Thatcher would do that to break the power of the National Union of Cheesewrights and their formidable leader, Red Lester.
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:48 PM
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5. "How can you govern a country that produces 246 different cheeses?" |
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General de Gaulle. Never underestimate the effect of cheese on world affairs.
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Thu Aug-11-05 04:01 PM
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7. That literary gorgon, Zola, would have agreed, Muriel. |
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:51 AM
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3. Now I know why the fundie-Tories think that the UK is decadent! |
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We're no longer allowed to flog people for going on naked country rambles? Now, now, that really is the end of Civilization as We Know It!
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Thu Aug-11-05 03:24 PM
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6. 1988: (Law & order, Britain) |
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Edited on Thu Aug-11-05 03:26 PM by english guy
A U.K. law that punishes naked country rambling by flogging (brought in by the Conservative government in 1986) is struck down by the European Court.
Damn those activist judges! ;-)
What will Michael Howard say?
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