History, anything goes, including pictures

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This 17th-Century Cookbook Contained a Vicious Attack on Oliver Cromwell’s Wife
The Cromwell Museum has republished a text first issued by the English Lord Protector’s enemies as propaganda

The death of Oliver Cromwell, the embattled Lord Protector of 1650s England, didn’t stop his enemies from doing everything they could to tarnish his reputation. And these efforts included one very odd line of attack: namely, publishing a cookbook that claimed to offer recipes collected by the Parliamentarian’s wife Elizabeth.

The cookbook, newly republished by the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, contains 102 recipes, including barley broth, venison pasty and a rare Dutch pudding. Some ingredients listed, like eels from Cromwell’s native region of Fenland, may have been intended to paint the family as unsophisticated.

“It would be a bit like today, if you were to go out and buy a cookery book [supposedly] written by Michelle Obama and the first third of it was an essay by Donald Trump saying how awful Barack Obama was,” Orme tells Atlas Obscura’s Anne Ewbank.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...cious-attack-oliver-cromwells-wife-180977233/

 

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March 24
2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years


Muirfield golf course. It can now be put back on the list of 10 courses that can host the Open championship. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images
Scotland’s Muirfield golf course will allow women to join for the first time, after members had a change of heart following the loss of the right to hold the prestigious Open championship.

 

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14 March 1663 – Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.

Otto von Guericke (1602–1686) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. One of his major scientific achievements was the establishment of the physics of vacuums. To demonstrate his theory and an air pump that he had invented, von Guericke devised the Magdeburg hemispheres, a pair of large copper hemispheres, with mating rims. When the rims were sealed with grease and the air was pumped out, the sphere contained a vacuum and could not be pulled apart by teams of horses.

Otto von Guericke. Guericke's vacuum pump and his original Magdeburg hemispheres and in the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany. Sketch of Otto von Guericke's Magdeburg hemispheres experiment by Gaspar Schott, 1657.

 

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14 March 1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor is born.

Johann Strauss I, 1804 – 1849, was an Austrian Romantic composer. He was famous for his waltzes which he popularised thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty. He is perhaps best known for his composition of the Radetzky March, named after Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, and his waltz The Blue Danube.

Strauss was born in Vienna. His parents were innkeepers. His mother died of 'creeping fever' when he was seven and five years later his father drowned in the Danube river, possibly as a result of suicide. Strauss' guardian, the tailor Anton Muller, placed him as an apprentice to the bookbinder, Johann Lichtscheidl. In addition to fulfilling his apprenticeship Strauss took lessons in the violin and viola. He also studied music during his apprenticeship and eventually managed to secure a place in a local orchestra.

Strauss then left the orchestra to join a popular string quartet known as the Lanner Quartet who played Viennese Waltzes and rustic German dances and expanded into a small string orchestra in 1824. He soon became one of the best-known and most-loved dance composers in Vienna. During the carnival of 1826, Strauss inaugurated his long line of triumphs by introducing his own band to the public of Vienna at the Schwan in the suburb of Robau. He toured with his band to Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Britain. The conducting reins and management of this Strauss Orchestra would eventually be passed on to the hands of his sons until its disbandment by Eduard Strauss in 1901.

 

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Michael Rockefeller killed & eaten by cannibals in New Guinea



This photo of Michael Rockefeller among the Dani, 1961, was shot by Jan Broekhuijse, an anthropologist with the Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition. (Photo by Jan Broekhuijse, © 2006 President and Fellows of Harvard College)


…………..The aftermath, as Carl Hoffman described in a book he wrote on the subject, was brutal: the Asmat scalped him, ate his brain raw, cooked his flesh, and used his bones for tools. They drenched themselves in his blood. As they saw it, they had restored balance to the world…………..

https://boredomtherapy.com/s/michael-rockefeller-mystery?as=799&asv=1&bdk=0

 

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March 15
44BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome. By the time of his assassination on 15 March (the Ides of March) 44BC, Julius Caesar was at the height of his power, having recently been declared dictator perpetuo by the Roman Senate.

This kind of power made many senators nervous that Caesar would overthrow the senate and establish one-man tyranny. Thus they planned to murder him and restore the authority of the Roman Republic.

Despite being warned of the plot in the days before, Caesar went to the Senate on the 15th. There, a group of about 30 Senators - including Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius - attacked him with knives, stabbing him numerous times. Records of his last words vary; some mentioned that he said nothing, or said "You too, child?" in Greek. The most famous supposed phrase, "Et tu, Brute?" comes from William Shakespeare’s 1599 play Julius Caesar and has no basis in fact.

 

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15 March 1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.

The partnership began when Henry Royce was introduced to Charles Rolls in Manchester. Royce ran an electrical and mechanical business from 1884, while Rolls was one of Britain’s first car dealers. The thing that brought the two men together was the two-cylinder Royce 10 made by Royce in 1904. Rolls-Royce Limited was incorporated on 15 March 1906 as a vehicle for their ownership of their Rolls-Royce business.

The 10hp was the first car to be produced by the partnership between Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

In 1907, the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was declared ‘The Best Car in the World’ after its record breaking success. Travelling from London to Glasgow 27 times - covering 14,371 consecutive miles - the iconic motor car AX-201 broke the world record for a non-stop motor run while demonstrating unrivalled reliability and comfort.

The same Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, 40/50 chassis #60551 registration AX-201, displayed in 2004.

 

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15 March 2019 – The Christchurch mosque shootings are perpetrated by Brenton Tarrant.

Two consecutive mass shootings occurred at mosques in a terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday Prayer on 15 March 2019. The attack, carried out by a single gunman who entered both mosques, began at the Al Noor Mosque in the suburb of Riccarton at 1:40 pm and continued at Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52 pm. He killed 51 people and injured 40.

Floral tributes at Hagley Park in Christchurch. Inset: Brenton Tarrant in his car shortly before the shootings.

Brenton Harrison Tarrant, a 28-year-old man from Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, was arrested shortly afterward. He was described in media reports as a white supremacist and part of the alt-right. He had live-streamed the first shooting on Facebook, and prior to the attack, had published an online manifesto; both the video and manifesto were subsequently banned in New Zealand and Australia. After police investigations, he was charged with 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act. After initially pleading not guilty, on 26 March 2020 he changed his plea to guilty on all charges. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on 27 August 2020.

 

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In 1939, the top brass of the Lockheed Corporation—president Robert Gross, chief engineer Hall Hibbard, and chief research engineer Kelly Johnson—scheduled a key meeting with a VIP, a man with deep pockets who had recently shown an interest in buying not just one or a handful of new planes but a fleet of them.

The customer’s request had been ambitious. He hoped to hire Lockheed to design a revolutionary aircraft capable of comfortably shuttling 20 passengers and 6,000 pounds of cargo across the United States, offering commercial aviation’s first coast-to-coast, non-stop service.

But the Lockheed team had come to express even grander ambitions. They wanted to build the company’s first large transport, one that “would carry more people farther and faster than ever before, and economically enough to broaden the acceptance of flying as an alternative to train, ship and automobile,” said Johnson.

In the years to come, the plane would be named the Constellation—Connie for short—and be flown by airlines around the world, as well as the U.S. military over the ensuing three decades. Eventually, it would be remembered as an enduring symbol, the epitome of grace in propeller-driven aircraft. But at that moment in 1939 in Los Angeles, the Lockheed Corporation was focused on winning over one customer and one customer only. His name was Howard Hughes.

 

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The Beach boys in a recording studio in 1962


Loved these guys, such a distinctive sound.

 

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March 16
Jerry Lewis is born
Full Name: Joseph Levitch
Profession: Comedian

Nationality: American
Why Famous: Lewis came to fame as half of a comedy act with Dean Martin in the 1940s in nightclubs, then tv, radio and film. They spilt in 1956 and Lewis went on to have a successful solo film career ('The Nutty Professor'). During the 1960s he appeared in 3 different tv programmes. Since the 1950s he has championed the cause of muscular dystrophy, hosting successful telefons until 2011. Hugely popular in France in was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 2006

Born: March 16, 1926
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died: August 20, 2017 (aged 91)

 

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May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey pretty much sealed the fate of the dirigible forever.

 

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Sinking of the 'unsinkable' Titanic April 15, 1912 in the north Atlantic 375 miles south of Newfoundland Canada. Over 1,500 killed which at the time was a record for a single seafaring event.

 

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16 March 1774 – Birth of Matthew Flinders, circumnavigator of Australia.

Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.

Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean between 1791 and 1810. In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's Land was an island. In the third voyage, Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia, accompanied by Aboriginal man Bungaree, the first Aborigine to circumnavigate Australia.

Heading back to England in 1803, Flinders' vessel needed urgent repairs at Isle de France (Mauritius). Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the scientific nature of his work would ensure safe passage, but a suspicious governor kept him under arrest for more than six years. In captivity, he recorded details of his voyages for future publication, and put forward his rationale for naming the new continent 'Australia', a suggestion taken up later by Governor Macquarie. In June 1810 Flinders was finally paroled in Mauritius and travelled back to England.

On 19 July 1814, the day after the book and atlas was published, Matthew Flinders died, aged 40. He was buried at St James, Hampstead Road, though the grave has since been lost due to alterations to the churchyard. The grave site is thought to lie under what is now Platform 15 at Euston Station, and in early 2014 concerns were expressed that proposed new works might disturb the site.

In 2019, against the odds, and just in time for Australia Day, the grave of Matthew Flinders was found.

 

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16 March 1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his liquid-fueled model on 16 March 1926, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 kilometres and speeds as fast as 885 km/h.

Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold weather of 16 March 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention, the first liquid-fueled rocket. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was named in Goddard's honour in 1959.

Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that were to make spaceflight possible. He has been called the man who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Goddard's 214 patented inventions, a multi-stage rocket in 1914, and a liquid-fuel rocket also in 1914, were important milestones toward spaceflight.

 

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UK's Royal Mail unveils a new stamp collection depicting the story of King Arthur and Merlin.

 

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August 6, 1945 the Americans, flying in the Enola Gay, dropped the first ever wartime Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan, killing between 90,000 and 145.000 people. This plus the dropping of a second bomb on Nagasaki August 9, 1945 let to Japans' surrender to the allies on August 15th, 1945.




People near the drop zone were vaporized, leaving only a shadow imprint of themselves in the pavement.

 

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August 6, 1945 the Americans, flying in the Enola Gay, dropped the first ever wartime Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan, killing between 90,000 and 145.000 people. This plus the dropping of a second bomb on Nagasaki August 9, 1945 let to Japans' surrender to the allies on August 15th, 1945.


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People near the drop zone were vaporized, leaving only a shadow imprint of themselves in the pavement.
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Shocking loss of life but can't see the Japanese surrendering any other way, it really stopped the war dead in its tracks.

 

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Shocking loss of life but can't see the Japanese surrendering any other way, it really stopped the war dead in its tracks.

Possibly saved lives in the grand scheme of things?

 

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March 16, 1937 - Amelia Earhart receiving her last haircut from barber Walter Grieben at the Tribune Barber Shop in Oakland CA - Earhart disappeared July 2, 1937 over the Pacific Ocean in her attempt at becoming the first female to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe

 

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17 March 1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.

The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts. The Continental Congress formed the Continental Army from the militia on 14 June 1775, with George Washington as its Commander in Chief. The Americans laid siege to the British-occupied city.

Engraving depicting the British evacuation of Boston on 17 March 1776.

The 11-month siege of Boston ended when the Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, fortified Dorchester Heights in early March 1776 with cannons captured at Ticonderoga. British General William Howe, whose garrison and navy were threatened by these positions, was forced to decide between attack and retreat. To prevent what could have been a repeat of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Howe decided to retreat, withdrawing from Boston to Nova Scotia on 17 March 1776.

The British evacuation was Washington's first victory of the war. It was also a huge morale boost for the Thirteen Colonies, as the city where the rebellion began was the first to be liberated.

 

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17 March 2021 – Team New Zealand beats Italy's Luna Rossa 7-3 to retain the America's Cup.

The victory was New Zealand's fourth in an America's Cup match after triumphs in 1995, 2000 and 2017, and its second successful defence.

The first America’s Cup was offered as the Hundred Guinea Cup on 20 August 1851, by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain for a race around the Isle of Wight.

The cup was won by the America, a 30-metre schooner from New York City, and subsequently became known as the America’s Cup. The American winners of the cup donated it to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 for a perpetual international challenge competition. In 1987 the San Diego Yacht Club took control of the U.S. competition. In 1983, after American yachts sponsored by the New York Yacht Club had successfully defended the cup 24 times without a loss since the first defence in 1870, the Australian yacht Australia II won the cup.

 

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On March 18, 1922, a British colonial court convicted Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi of sedition after a protest march led to violence. He was sentenced to six years.

 

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18 March 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.

The Knights Templar was a Catholic military order founded in 1119 and active until around 1312. Templar knights were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades while the around 90% non-combatant members managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, developing innovative banking-like financial techniques and building its own network of nearly 1,000 commanderies and fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land.

Jacques de Molay. His coat of arms. Interrogation of Jacques de Molay, 19th century print. Typical Crusader knight.

Jacques de Molay (1243–1314) was the 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, leading the order from 20 April 1292 until it was dissolved. Molay along with many other French Templars was arrested in 1307 and tortured into making false confessions. The Templars were closely tied to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the order faded. Under pressure from Philip, Pope Clement issued a papal bull on 22 November 1307, which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

 

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18 March 1834 – Tolpuddle Martyrs: Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

Before 1824 the Combination Acts had outlawed "combining" or organising to gain better working conditions. In 1824/25 these acts were repealed, so trade unions were no longer illegal. In 1833, six men from Tolpuddle in Dorset founded the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to protest against the gradual lowering of agricultural wages. These Tolpuddle labourers refused to work for less than 10 shillings a week. In 1834, James Frampton, a local landowner and magistrate, wrote to Home Secretary Lord Melbourne to complain about the union. Melbourne recommended invoking the Unlawful Oaths Act 1797, an obscure law which prohibited the swearing of secret oaths.

On 18 March 1834, the Tolpuddle Martyrs were found guilty and sentenced to seven years' penal transportation to Australia.

In England they became popular heroes and 800,000 signatures were collected for their release. Their supporters organised a political march, one of the first successful marches in the UK, and all were pardoned, on condition of good conduct. At the time it was the largest public demonstration of its kind ever held in protest to a government action.

More than 25 thousand rallied on Copenhagen Fields near King's Cross, London organised by the Central Committee of the Metropolitan Trade Unions and marched through London to Kennington Common with a wagon carrying a petition with over 200,000 signatures for the remission of the Tolpuddle Martyrs' sentences.