on this day
In 1838 the coronation of Queen Victoria, aged 19, took place at Westminster Abbey; in 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo; in 1960 45 miners died in a gas explosion at the Six Bells Colliery in Monmouthshire, Wales; in 1991 the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher (obituary, April 8, 2013) declared that she would retire from the House of Commons at the next general election; in 2004 US-led coalition forces in Iraq transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government in Baghdad, two days ahead of schedule. It came just over a year after the March 2003 invasion.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depths of our answers.
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WW2 where did the soldiers come from?
" India mobilised two and half million soldiers, the largest volunteer army ever assembled, while a thousand men from the Cayman Islands joined the Royal Navy – equivalent to roughly two thirds of the adult male population."
" India mobilised two and half million soldiers, the largest volunteer army ever assembled, while a thousand men from the Cayman Islands joined the Royal Navy – equivalent to roughly two thirds of the adult male population."
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Steam fog horn (1853/1854)
Conceived by Scottish-born Canadian Robert Foulis in either 1853 or 1854, the first steam-powered fog horn was installed on New Brunswick's Partridge Island in 1859.
Foulis was inspired to create the warning device after reading about a shipwreck off the Newfoundland coast. His invention has undoubtedly saved an untold number of lives around the world.
Conceived by Scottish-born Canadian Robert Foulis in either 1853 or 1854, the first steam-powered fog horn was installed on New Brunswick's Partridge Island in 1859.
Foulis was inspired to create the warning device after reading about a shipwreck off the Newfoundland coast. His invention has undoubtedly saved an untold number of lives around the world.
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Electric oven (1882)
©Courtesy Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation
Wowing his dinner guests, Ottawan engineer Thomas Ahearn scored a world-first in 1882 when he cooked a meal in an electric range he had developed in secret.
The technology was brought to market a decade later when the first commercial electric oven was installed in the Canadian capital's Windsor Hotel.
©Courtesy Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation
Wowing his dinner guests, Ottawan engineer Thomas Ahearn scored a world-first in 1882 when he cooked a meal in an electric range he had developed in secret.
The technology was brought to market a decade later when the first commercial electric oven was installed in the Canadian capital's Windsor Hotel.
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Paint roller (1940)
Professional decorators and DIY-ers the world over have Toronto's Norman Breakey to thank for inventing the paint roller, the time-saving marvel that almost guarantees the smoothest of paint finishes.
Sadly, Breakey failed to patent his innovation and was pipped to the post by American Richard Croxton Adams, who registered a rival design.
Professional decorators and DIY-ers the world over have Toronto's Norman Breakey to thank for inventing the paint roller, the time-saving marvel that almost guarantees the smoothest of paint finishes.
Sadly, Breakey failed to patent his innovation and was pipped to the post by American Richard Croxton Adams, who registered a rival design.