Burial place of Scotland’s first working-class martyrs.
Graveyards of Glasgow: Calton Burial Ground — The Glasgow Gallivanter
Graveyards of Glasgow: Calton Burial Ground — The Glasgow Gallivanter (Reblog)
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December 17, 1908 — 109loveletters (Reblog)
My dearest John, I received the dearest sweetest letter from my sweetheart yesterday so full of love how could I otherwise be than very happy. Sweetheart, you must not worry about me; I am very strong and tho I get such attacks of headaches etc., it is nothing serious. I am very strong. The fact […]
December 17, 1908 — 109loveletters
On This Day December 16 — The Boston Tea Party
On December 16 1773, the incident we now know as ‘The Boston Tea Party‘ occurred.
This was a protest against the East India Company’s recently legalised trade monopoly and the tax on tea. It was carried out by furious American patriots in Boston Harbor, who, dressing themselves as Mohawk Indians, stormed East India Company vessels and threw more than three hundred chests of tea into the freezing waters.
This famous incident followed the passing of the Tea Act in the British Parliament in London, earlier in 1773. This was designed to aid the supposedly struggling East India Company at the British colonies’ expense — an act which was to have severe and momentous consequences in the long term.
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The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LI — The Renaissance Mathematicus (Reblog)
By the middle of the nineteenth century there was no doubt that the Earth rotated on its own axis, but there was still no direct empirical evidence that it did so. There was the indirect evidence provided by the Newton-Huygens theory of the shape of the Earth that had been measured in the middle […]
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LI — The Renaissance Mathematicus
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