dicksbro... darogle... Steph Thank you SO much for your contributions...... I must admit, I was beginning to wonder if anyone ever read these little ramblings I find; seems you do, AND enjoy them!! OK, you ASKED for it!!! DM

Today is the anniversary of the first action in war won by grenades, during WWI in 1915. It happened during an attack on the Hohenzollem Redoudt on the Western Front, and was won thanks to the "bowling arm" of one Second Lieutenant Fleming-Sandes


In 1987 an Australian judge rejected the British government's plea to extend the ban on former spy Peter Wright'sbook, Spycatcher, which had been blocked from publication


The first broadcast by BBC Radio's new "Third Programme", later to become Radio 3, wnet out today in 1946.


In 1714, a 54-year old German arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne, as King George I. (How many of you {Brit or toherwise} knew our Royals were, in fact, of German descent?!)

DM

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Me, I figure as each breath goes by
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