Riding my GSX S 1000 GT make's me smile. itโs easy to get complacent when things are going well. Just because life improves itโs no time to slacken off. ๐ฌ๐ง๐
BREAKING NEWS; There will be NO RETRIAL In the case of the two brothers accused of causing ABH to a GMP Armed police officer at Manchester Airport;
@CPS have thrown in the towel; the Ramifications will be huge to the future of policing & making arrests!
Dreadful decision๐คทโโ๏ธ๐๐๐คฆโโ๏ธ
@visitnorthyork@Duffers102 Robin Hoods bay, we stayed there last year and had a wonderful experience even though it rained every day.
Longing to go back and walk to Whitby in the rain again.๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ง
Scurvy killed more British sailors than France and Spain ever did. ๐ฌ๐ง
The Royal Navy's greatest enemy wasn't cannon fire. It was a disease.
In 1747 a Scottish naval surgeon named James Lind had a theory.
He took twelve sailors suffering from scurvy aboard HMS Salisbury. Divided them into six pairs. Gave each pair a different remedy the navy believed in... Cider, vinegar, seawater.
And gave one pair two oranges and one lemon a day.
After six days, five pairs were unchanged.
The sixth pair were almost recovered. ๐
Lind had just conducted the first clinical trial in recorded history.
Every medicine you have ever taken was tested using his method.
He published his results in 1753.
The Admiralty ignored him for forty years.
Meanwhile Captain James Cook used citrus on his second voyage.
He lost only one sailor to scurvy in three years at sea.
The Admiralty noted it. Did nothing.
Tens of thousands of sailors died of a disease that had already been cured.
In 1794 one admiral finally acted. He ordered lemon juice issued to every sailor aboard HMS Suffolk for a twenty three week voyage to India.
Not one case of scurvy.
The following year the Royal Navy made it standard issue. Every sailor. Every ship.
Scurvy vanished from the fleet almost overnight. โ
Then the Navy switched from lemons to West Indian limes... Cheaper and easier to source from British colonies.
Limes carry a fraction of the vitamin C that lemons do.
American sailors watching British sailors drink their lime rations had a name for it.
They called us limeys. And it stuck.
Ten years later, at Trafalgar, Britain's navy was at full strength.
The French and Spanish fleets were not.
One Scottish surgeon. Twelve sailors. Two oranges and a lemon.
James Lind died in 1794. One year before the navy he served finally adopted his cure.
He invented the clinical trial. He saved more British sailors than any admiral in history.
Your ancestors proved the truth.
Did they teach you that?
It's time to prove the truth again.
Your support pays for the research, production and hours it takes to get it right.
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@RedBSierra@militariaFlickr I wouldnโt have thought so drama queen.
Normal practice when original unit breakdown.
The landing legs also down so definitely not de-coupledโฆโฆ..๐
@mototingle Iโve been with BIKESURE the past few years on a multi bike policy and itโs been good and competitive with a good call centre if needed.๐โโโ๐๐ค๐