Toby's experience comes from website design as well as experience running large forums and communities. After he married Debbie he developed a keen interest in history and found himself discussing history quite a lot!
Fact of the Day
When Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins came to Lavenham, he forced a woman to confess to keeping imps in the form of blue kittens.
Quote of the Day
"It is better for aged diplomats to be bored than for young men to die.
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~ Warren Robinson Austin, US ambassador to the UN
On This Day
1846Scottish surgeon Robert Liston was the first European to use anaesthesia during an amputation. He could amputate a leg in two and a half minutes.
1898Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
1937'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', the world's first full-length animated film, premiered in the USA
1946A tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake killed at least 1,362 and left thousands homeless in Japan.
1967Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, died in Cape Town, South Africa, 18 days after his operation.
1988Pan Am Flight 103 exploded as it was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland. All 243 passengers and 16 crew, and 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed
