That is one woolly sheep!
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You must tell yourself: “No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.” | Les Brown
The brain often makes decisions emotionally first, then justifies them logically.
1192 Jerusalem’s King Conrad is assassinated, two days after his regency is confirmed. The deed is carried out by the Hashshashin, from whom we get the word ‘assassin’.
1639 Heroic clergyman William Mompesson is born. During the Great Plague of 1655, he led the population of the infected village of Eyam, north of London, to isolate themselves, preventing the spread of the disease. Grateful outsiders left food and money at the village boundary. Of the settlement’s 350 inhabitants, 260 died from the plague.
1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on the HMS Bounty and sets Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift, but, being a skilled navigator, Bligh manages the incredible feat of sailing to safety in Timor, in the Dutch East Indies, nearly 4 000 nautical miles away.
1869 Chinese and Irish labourers of the Central Pacific Railroad lay 16km of track in one day in a race to build a transcontinental US railway. The track-laying race was an unofficial contest between crews of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, held during the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. The competition was to see who would first reach the meeting place at Promontory, Utah. Starting in 1868, they set and broke each other’s world records for the longest length of track laid in a single day. The record was broken in August 1870, by about 300m, by two crews of the Kansas Pacific, working from opposite ends of the same track.
1902 The one billionth minute since the start of January 1 Year Zero is at 10.40am.
1923 Wembley Stadium opens to host the FA Cup Final between Bolton and West Ham.
1944 German torpedo boats attack D-Day rehearsals off Devon, killing 946 Allied troops.
1986 High levels of radiation from the Chernobyl disaster are detected in Sweden, leading the Soviets to own up.
2004 Live TV shows a woolly Shrek, a New Zealand sheep, finally being shorn after avoiding the shears for six years. Its fleece weighed 27kg.
2024 A worse than usual rainy season across East Africa, due to El Niño, kills at least 155 people in Tanzania and 60 in Kenya, with hundreds of thousands displaced.
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