Toby's experience comes from website design as well as experience running large forums and communities. After he married Debbie he developed a keen interest in history and found himself discussing history quite a lot!
Fact of the Day
In late antiquity, alongside the Goths, Vandals and Huns, there was a tribe called the Alans.
Quote of the Day
"The enemy should have to carve his way over heaps of corpses.
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~ General von Below's orders to the German army on the Somme, 1916
On This Day
1586American colonists arrived in Plymouth with large quantities of tobacco. Smoking caught on quickly, though it was also used in tea.
1694The Bank of England was founded by an act of parliament as a way to finance government debt by private subscription.
1943The concentrated Allied bombing of Hamburg led to a three hour firestorm that killed approx 30,000 civilians.