This interglacial lasted from about 130000BP until about 115000BP (although some say until 75000BP). See 'A Brief History of Climate Change'.
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Fact of the Day
When George Washington campaigned for the Virginia election in 1758, he bought every eligible voter three pints of alcohol.
Quote of the Day
"It shall make a delightful summer capital when we invade Britain.
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~ Joseph Goebbels on Edinburgh
On This Day
69 Otho, the second Roman emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors, stabbed himself in the heart after losing to Vitellian troops. He had been emperor for just three months.
1705 Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton.
1746 The Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuart were decisively crushed at Battle of Culloden, ending the Jacobite Rising with disastrous consequences for the Scottish clans.