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wolfgang59

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12 Mar 17

wolfgang59

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01 Feb 18

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
Hardly. He was trying to establish a Papocracy.

It was a joke not a political debate!!! 🙄

Very Rusty

Treat Everyone Equal

Halifax, Nova Scotia

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01 Feb 18

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Feb1
February is Black History Month in Canada. Today's Features:
1849 - William Lyon Mackenzie returns to Toronto from exile in New York.
1870 - Founding of the Québec Provincial Police force; la Sûreté du Québec (SQ).
1920 - Founding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a merger of the RNWMP and Dominion Police.
1955 - Bank of Toronto and Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

wolfgang59

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04 Feb 18

100 years ago
The SS Tuscania is torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland.
The first US troop carrying ship to suffer such a fate.

Very Rusty

Treat Everyone Equal

Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Moves: 600405

04 Feb 18

February 4, 1858 - Gold is discovered along British Columbia's Fraser River; leads to gold rush. Langley, BC

Very Rusty

Treat Everyone Equal

Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Moves: 600405

06 Feb 18

February 6, 1990 - Hockey - Brett Hull becomes the First son of an NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby Hull) to score 50 goals himself. Chicago, Illinois

The Gravedigger

Jack Torrance

Overlook Hotel

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06 Feb 18

100 years ago British women got the vote

Very Rusty

Treat Everyone Equal

Halifax, Nova Scotia

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06 Feb 18

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Originally posted by @the-gravedigger
100 years ago British women got the vote

100 YEARS AGO today, Irish women were given the right to vote. But not every woman – just women over 30, who had property rights or a university education.

wolfgang59

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19 Feb 18

300 years ago today David Garrick was born (d. 20 Jan 1779)
(theatre manager & actor)

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

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14 Mar 18

-1

Henry Bessemer, famous engineer (invention of the Bessemer process) died 1898

wolfgang59

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01 Apr 18

1st April

700 years ago today.

Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by Scotland from England.

Shallow Blue

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Moves: 12472

01 Apr 18

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
1st April

700 years ago today.

Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by Scotland from England.

And 436 years ago, Den Briel was liberated from the Spanish by the Watergeuzen.

wolfgang59

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06 Apr 18

50 years ago today

Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election,
and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

wolfgang59

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06 Apr 18

LEST WE FORGET

75 years ago today.

UKRAINE
Germans order 1,100 Jews In Terebovlia to undress, and march them naked
through the city to a nearby village where they are shot and buried in ditches.

Torunn

Gothenburg

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08 Apr 18

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
LEST WE FORGET

75 years ago today.

UKRAINE
Germans order 1,100 Jews In Terebovlia to undress, and march them naked
through the city to a nearby village where they are shot and buried in ditches.

Unbelievable if I didn't know things like that actually happen.

wolfgang59

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09 Apr 18

10th April

20 years ago today the Good Friday Agreement was signed.