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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 1st of May”.
1006Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus
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Chandra’s image of SN 1006 shows X-rays from multimillion degree gas (red/green) and high-energy electrons (blue). In the year 1006 a “new star” appeared in the sky and in just a few days it became brighter than the planet Venus. We now know that the event heralded not the appearance of a new star, but the cataclysmic death of an old one. It was likely a white dwarf star that had been pulling matter off an orbiting companion star. When the white dwarf mass exceeded the stability limit (known as the Chandrasekhar limit), it exploded. Material ejected i
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Quebec Act Of 1774 Research Paper - 184 Words
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By Hamish MacPherson
BACK IN THE DAY
An archivist at The National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh, looks over the Act of Union of the Scottish Parliament, which dates back to January 16, 1707 IN this second of two columns on the Act of Union, I will show how the British Empire was founded on several articles of the Union, how England was favoured by most of the Articles, and I will end with a suggestion on how we Scots can put an end to the Union. One of the principal drivers for Scottish participation in the Union was trade. The growing mercantile classes in Scotland were desperate to have access to parts of the world that had hitherto been for England-only trade, a restriction which was enforced by the Royal Navy. It is wrong to say that Scotland had no “navy” of its own in 1707, but it was minuscule compared to the Royal Navy. Scotland had a growing number of trading ships and the protection of that Royal Navy