The monks of Abingdon drank so much beer that they were limited to 20 pints a day each.
Fact of the Day
Quote of the Day
"A French bastard arriving with armed banditti and establishing himself the King of England against the consent of the natives is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original and certainly has no divinity in it.
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~ Thomas Paine, 1776
On This Day
1469 Political scientist and historian Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was born in Florence. His book The Prince gave rise to the term 'Machiavellian'.
1916 Irish rebels Tom Clarke, Patrick Pearse and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by firing squad for their role in the Easter Rising.
1926 At a minute to midnight Britain's first General Strike, in support of the miners pay dispute, began.
1956 Granada TV first broadcast from Manchester.