Sunday, 3 April 2011

A Life in a Year – 13th February, Portugal isn’t Spain

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On 13th February 1668 Spain finally recognised Portugal as a separate and independent state. I have visited Portugal a number of times, in ...
Saturday, 2 April 2011

A Life in a Year – 12th February, Charles Darwin and the end of Bible Stories

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On 12th February 1809 Charles Darwin was born and if hadn’t been for Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution I might well have become a ...
Friday, 1 April 2011

A Life in a Year – 11th February, Thatcher becomes Leader of the Tory Party and I become a Dustman

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On 11th February 1975 the Conservative Party choose Margaret Thatcher as their new leader and when she eventually became the first woman Pr...
Thursday, 31 March 2011

A Life in a Year – 10th February, Robots are officially cleverer than Humans

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Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM and on February 10th 1996 it defeated Garry Kimovich Kasparov a Russian chess grand...

A Life in a Year – 9th February, Jim “Spud” Murphy investigates the disappearance of Shergar

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Shergar was a champion Irish racehorse and winner of the 1981 Epsom Derby by a record ten lengths the longest winning margin in the race’s ...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011

A Life in a Year – 8th February, The Devil Walks in Devon

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On the night of the 8th of February 1855 heavy snow fell on the countryside and small villages of South Devon. The last snow is thought to ...
Tuesday, 29 March 2011

A Life in a Year – 7th February, Monopoly and other Board (or Bored) Games

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In 1935 Parker Brothers bought the rights to Monopoly from the ‘inventor’, Charles Darrow. Monopoly is a board game named after the capital...