Salyut 7 – The forgotten rescue of a dead space station
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Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
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John Lennon shot 12-8-80 Howard Cosell tells the world twice John Lennon was dead
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Energy Deficient: Wind & Solar Obsessed Germany Faces Long Dark Winter
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With another bitter winter biting and suicidal renewable energy policies, Germans are reaping the whirlwind. Suffering Europe’s highest power prices and routine power rationing, is just the beginning. Mass blackouts and deliberate power cuts, like those suffered last winter, are guaranteed. Such is life when you attempt to run on sunshine and breezes.
Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt was Managing Director of RWE Innogy GmbH – the renewable energy sector – from 2008 to 2012. Until 2019, he was the sole director of the German Wildlife Foundation. Vahrenholt, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, has been an honorary professor at the University of Hamburg. He has been signalling the obvious for years now: Germany’s obsession with wind and solar is destroying it from within.
Gross Energy Mismanagement: Energy Expert Warns Of Europe Power Blackouts, “Numerous Deaths”
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
23 November 2021
In a recent interview with independent journalist Boris…
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The Loophole Behind NYC’s Skinny Skyscrapers – Cheddar Explains
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2017 National Poll Results – Abortion Law Reform gender gap
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December 11, 1688: The Glorious Revolution of 1688: King James II-VII is Captured at Faversham
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The Queen (Mary of Modena) and James Francis, Prince of Wales left for France on December 9, 1688 and King James II-VII followed separately on 10th. Accompanied only by Sir Edward Hales and Ralph Sheldon, James made his way to Faversham in Kent seeking passage to France, first dropping the Great Seal in the Thames in a last ditch attempt to prevent Parliament being summoned.
In London, his flight and rumours of a “Papist” invasion led to riots and destruction of Catholic property, which quickly spread throughout the country. To fill the power vacuum, the Earl of Rochester set up a temporary government including members of the Privy Council and City of London authorities, but it took them two days to restore order.
When news arrived James II-VII had been captured in Faversham on 11 December 11, by local fishermen, Lord Ailesbury, one of his personal attendants, was sent to…
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December 11, 1936: Acession of HRH Prince Albert, Duke of York as King George VI of the United Kingdom
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As King Edward VIII was unmarried and had no children, Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the heir presumptive to the throne. Less than a year later, on December 11, 1936, Edward abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson who was divorced from her first husband and in the process of divorcing her second.
Edward VIII had been advised by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin that he could not remain king and marry a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands. He abdicated and Albert, though he had been reluctant to accept the throne, became king. The day before the abdication, Albert went to London to see his mother, Queen Mary. He wrote in his diary, “When I told her what had happened, I broke down and sobbed like a child.”
As mentioned yesterday the abdication document was signed on December 10, 1936 At Fort Belvedere. King Edward VIII signed his…
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