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« Reply #450 on: July 30, 2015, 12:22:29 PM »

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« Reply #451 on: August 02, 2015, 09:47:44 AM »



1973, Isle of Man


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« Reply #452 on: August 02, 2015, 09:52:35 AM »


1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait

This never ended well.

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« Reply #453 on: August 03, 2015, 10:21:57 AM »

16th Years ago today something wonderful happened in North London.

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« Reply #454 on: August 05, 2015, 11:05:44 AM »



1962


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She featured in one of the most famous & reproduced photos ever, as well as having an affair with JFK. Quite a life.






She also had a very famous sing written about her, which, several decades later, became the Diana song. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_in_the_Wind
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« Reply #455 on: August 05, 2015, 11:11:09 AM »


1975

Dutch Elm disease was killing elm trees across the world, especially so in Great Britain.



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« Reply #456 on: August 05, 2015, 11:49:17 AM »


Traffic Lights, as we know them, were first used 101 years ago today, according to google, which does not really elicit much by way of excitement.

However, in looking at that, I discovered two cracking You Tube Videos, "life without traffic lights".

This one, from Ethiopia, is awesome, almost hypnotic.






This one, from Vietnam,  is almost as good - how do they not collide?



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« Reply #457 on: August 06, 2015, 09:38:42 AM »

1945

The USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, obliterating a whole city at a stroke.

Around 150,000 people were killed, the vast majority were civilians.

In a TV programme about it last week, it was stated that the bomb was originally designed to bring an end to war in Europe, & would have been dropped on Germany had matters not already been concluded.


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« Reply #458 on: August 07, 2015, 10:18:26 AM »


1972

In one of the most remarkable stories I can ever recall, Idi Amin - a thoroughly nasty piece of work by any reckoning - ordered all Asians living in Uganda (mostly Indians) to leave the country within 90 days.

As it happened, it worked out rather well for Great Britain, (which was the destination for 22,000 of them) & for them too, as they soon established themselves as hard working & good businessmen, largely successful, & popular amongst most of us.



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« Reply #459 on: August 08, 2015, 11:25:43 AM »


1963



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« Reply #460 on: August 08, 2015, 11:29:10 AM »



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« Reply #461 on: August 08, 2015, 11:31:13 AM »

I was reading somewhere that the train robbers stole the equivalent of 48 million in today's money.
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« Reply #462 on: August 08, 2015, 11:39:42 AM »

I was reading somewhere that the train robbers stole the equivalent of 48 million in today's money.

Possibly. Think it was £2.6 million iirc.

They certainly never profited from it, or not much, most got between 27 & 30 years in prison. The £2.6 million had to be chopped about 20 ways, too, so about £130,000 each, much of which went on paying hush money, or trying to escape arrest.

Wonderful story all in all.
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« Reply #463 on: August 08, 2015, 11:53:19 AM »



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Another tremendous story - John McCarthy was held as a hostage for 5 years before being released.

What character & mental strength he must have possessed.


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« Reply #464 on: August 08, 2015, 04:32:10 PM »

I was reading somewhere that the train robbers stole the equivalent of 48 million in today's money.

Possibly. Think it was £2.6 million iirc.

They certainly never profited from it, or not much, most got between 27 & 30 years in prison. The £2.6 million had to be chopped about 20 ways, too, so about £130,000 each, much of which went on paying hush money, or trying to escape arrest.

Wonderful story all in all.

I wonder if Jack Mills thought it wonderful?
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