Lord Kitchener had four spaniels, called Shot, Bang, Miss, and Damn
Quote of the Day
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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~ Cardinal Richelieu
On This Day
1227Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire and responsible for perhaps 40 million deaths, died.
1510Henry VII's two most hated - and most efficient - servants, Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, were executed on the orders of Henry VIII in what was possibly his first act of judicial murder.
1590The Roanoke colony was found mysteriously deserted, with the word 'CROATOAN' carved on the pallisade.
1783A huge fiery meteor was seen in the sky over the east coast of Scotland and England, before moving over the Continent. Some reports have it that the meteor finally disappeared over northern Italy.
1939The Nazis set up the Reich Committee to assess whether each newborn child with a disability should be 'euthanised'.
