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1821: Excerpt for the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Remarks, Thursday, Dec. 20 Commences moderate and pleasant, a strange Ship in sight ahead which we

Lily Keohane, commercial manager at Waterstone’s Cork, talks with Donal O’Keeffe about the job she loves, as she gets ready for the traditional ...

Scots love giving things creative names - from Hurricane Bawbag of 2011 to the many gritters that clear our roads during winter.

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1821: Excerpt for the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: No remarkable event, under all drawing sail making rapid progress to the Westward. Lat. 12.06 Long.

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1821: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: No Remarkable event this day. Unbent our Foresail for the purpose of middle Stitching it —

AS Bamber used to say, here’s your starter for ten. Which Worcester thoroughfare was at one time considered to be among the finest streets in Europe? Not High Street, not Friar Street, not The Shambles, pause for drum roll, it was Foregate Street. By the end of the 18th century, and with England in its Georgian hey-day, the quarter mile or so length of road from the end of The Foregate north to the junction with Castle Street, was in its prime. Even today it is the street in the city rich...

1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 4:30 and walked to the Salt Ponds, returned home and bathed. At 8 a.m. barometer 29.57, thermometer 75, wind northeast, clouds 2. Wrote to Mother and mailed my letters. The USS Fulton came in about 8 a.m. The steamer Isabel got in about 4 p.m. and the Fulton went to sea at 5 p.m. The steamer Florida went to sea at 5:30. Mrs. Charles Tift and children went on her on a visit to a sister in Mississippi. The steamer Isabel went to sea at 6 p.m. W...

Jacob William Wall, 28, is faces counts of aggravated assault, drug possession, and other charges.