Secularism

The idea that state and religion should be separate.

Fact of the Day

Henry I kept lions, leopards and camels at Woodstock in the 12th century.

"Shoot, you devil! Shoot, in the devil’s name! Shoot, or it will be worse for you! "

~ William II reportedly speaking to the renowned bowman Walter Tirel on a stag hunt, just before Tirel missed and killed the king

1537 Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, died of a fever following the birth of her son.

1648 The Treaty of Westphalia marked the end of the Thirty Years War. The first six months of the peace conference was spent arguing about protocol.

1901 Annie Edson Taylor, a 63 year old schoolteacher was the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1945 The United Nations was founded.

2003 Concorde completed its final commercial passenger flight.