12 November 1912. The frozen remains of British explorer Robert Scott and his exploration team were found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The last entry in Scott’s diary was on the 29 March 1912 and it’s assumed this was the date on which he died.
I've been using this shoe brush all my life and I've only just noticed the writing on it. It's Admiralty issue and is the one my father used during WWII with the Royal Marines.
11 November 1920. Corpse of the “Unknown Warrior” an unknown British soldier killed in Europe, was buried in Westminster Abbey, to honour all the unknown fallen in WW1. A similar interment of a French unknown soldier took place at the Arc de Triomphe in France simultaneously.
Today is Armistice Day which marks the end of hostilities in the Great War of 1914-18. The guns fell silent on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. We now refer to the conflict as World War I.
#LestWeForget#WeWillRememberThem#ArmisticeDay
10 Nov 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in #Lake Superior during a terrible storm. All 29 men aboard lost their lives. She was the largest #ship to sink on the Great Lakes. Gordon Lightfoot sang about it in his 1976 hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". #History#OTD #ad https://t.co/juLxnV4rkn
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Another album (from 2002) I used to play all the time but haven't for quite a long while. Still a belter.Their current album when I first saw them. @lacuna_coil#Comalies#DolefullyDesired
10 November 1947. Greg Lake was born in Poole, Dorset. He co-founded prog-rock groups King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. His song, I Believe in Father Christmas is a festive classic though Lake said he wrote it as a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.
Although I've found some of the subsequent releases a little patchy at times this debut remains a great listen which every now and then I return to and enjoy. #Evanescence#Fallen
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I recently listened to an excellent series about #JacktheRipper on @TheRestHistory podcast. Warning: details about the murders are not for the squeamish.
I’m flying the #flag of #Germany 🇩🇪 for the anniversary of the fall of the #BerlinWall on this date in 1989, and to remember all those whose lives were lost trying to cross it from the #DDR to freedom in the west.
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#OTD in 1888 prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was murdered in the single room where she lived at 13 Miller's Court, Spitalfields. The mutilations to her body were so extreme that I won't show any photos. She is the last of the Canonical Five victims of #JacktheRipper .
7 November 1943. Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was born in Fort Macleod, Alberta. She won 9 Grammy Awards and had 9 US Top 100 hits. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone magazine described her as “one of the greatest songwriters ever”.
On this day in 1920 the body of The Unknown Warrior was selected randomly from four coffined bodies brought together in the French town of St Pol. The picture shows the Lying in State at Westminster Abbey prior to burial. #WeWillRememberThem#LestWeForget