todays history lesson

katcha · **Posted:** Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:00 pm

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1645: Oliver Cromwell routs the Royalists at the Battle of Naseby, giving parliament victory in the civil war.
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1822: British scientist Charles Babbage proposes a 'difference engine', the forerunner of the modern computer.
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1982: The Falklands War ends as the Argentinean garrison in Port Stanley surrenders to British troops.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6473

1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37258

katcha wrote:

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1645: Oliver Cromwell routs the Royalists at the Battle of Naseby, giving parliament victory in the civil war.
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If you lived then, who would you support?.. I'd go for Cromwell.

katcha · **Posted:** Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:32 pm

mmm, but you have to admire charles' wigs

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:43 pm

1568 - the Spanish Inquisition sentences the entire Netherlands to death

katcha · **Posted:** Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:43 pm

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

1568 - the Spanish Inquisition sentences the entire Netherlands to death

All over a game of footy

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:58 pm

ADG wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

1568 - the Spanish Inquisition sentences the entire Netherlands to death

I blame the EU. And those foookin straight bananas. And the dutch's insistance on measuring in inches.

Same comment in two posts? Oh deary me, sir.

But I think the inches measuring is to do with the booming sex trade there rolfl

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