20th January 2015
Carlton Mid One-Day International Tri-Series - 3rd match
England v India
India 153 all out (39.3 overs; 174 mins)
STR Binny 44
MS Dhoni 34
AM Rahane 33
ST Finn 33-5
JM Anderson 18-4
England 156 for 1 (27.3 overs; 108 mins)
IR Bell 88 n.o.
JWA Taylor 56 n.o.
Originally posted by wolfgang59There's really no need to reply with a snide comment. Would you speak this way to an older brother or uncle? I rather doubt that you would.
for a pension - can't you read? ðŸ˜
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Balliol
On this day in 1356 Edward gave up his claim to the Scottish throne ... in exchange for a pension!"
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Doesn't "his claim to the Scottish throne" seem of far greater value than "a pension!" or was he too old to "lay claim..."?.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThe Raven (excerpt) by Edgar Allan Poe
"This Day in History Jan 19, 1809
On this day in 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
By the time he was three years old, both of Poe’s parents had died, leaving him in the care of his godfather, John Allan, a wealthy tobacco merchant. After attending school in England, Poe entered the Unive ...[text shortened]... o the hospital, he died on October 7, 1849, at age 40."
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
Only this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore —
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore —
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door —
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; —
This it is, and nothing more,"
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; —
Darkness there, and nothing more.
"The Raven (excerpt)" by Edgar Allan Poe. Public domain.
20th January 2005
George W. Bush was inaugurated as president for a second time. "Thousands of people in dozens of cities across the US walked out of work and school, held mock coronations, intoned the names of the Iraq war dead and held candlelight vigils to show their disapproval of President Bush." http://www.timelines.ws/days/01_20.HTML
" January 23, 1775: London merchants petition for reconciliation with America
On this day in 1775, London merchants petition Parliament for relief from the financial hardship put upon them by the curtailment of trade with the North American colonies.
In the petition, the merchants provided their own history of the dispute between the colonies and Parliament, beginning with the Stamp Act of 1765. Most critical to the merchants’ concerns were the £2 million sterling in outstanding debts owed to them by their North American counterparts.
The merchants claimed that, a total stop is now put to the export trade with the greatest and most important part of North America, the public revenue is threatened with a large and fatal diminution, the petitioners with grievous distress, and thousands of industrious artificers and manufacturers with utter ruin. The petitioners begged Parliament to consider re-implementing the system of mercantile trade between Britain and the American colonies, which had served the interests of all parties in the empire prior to 1764.
Following the Coercive Acts of 1774, the colonies had quickly agreed to reinstate the non-importation agreements first devised in response to the Stamp Act in the autumn of 1765. They threatened to enter non-exportation agreements if Britain failed to meet their demands by August 1775. Because debts the colonies owed British merchants were generally paid in exports, not currency, such an action would indeed have caused tremendous financial loss to the British economy. Non-importation had a comparatively minor impact, because British merchants could and did find other markets. However, no one else would pay the vast debts owed to the merchants by tobacco planters like Thomas Jefferson or New England shipping magnates like John Hancock." http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
24th January 2010
"In Indonesia gunmen attacked a convoy near the world's largest gold mine in Papua, wounding at least seven people including a foreigner." http://www.timelines.ws/days/01_24.HTML
Everything pointed to this being carried out by the military forces tasked with protecting the gold mine in their periodic efforts to increase the massive amounts of money they were already being paid to protect the gold mine whilst blaming it on the hapless Papuan separatists they were tasked with protecting the gold mine from. .