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
Both England and Russia imposed a tax on beards in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, making having a beard a status symbol.
Quote of the Day
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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~ Friedrich Engels
On This Day
1715James Stuart, 'warming pan baby' and son of deposed king James II, landed in Scotland, to lead the Jacobite Rebellion. It failed.
1808Beethoven's Fifth Symphony received its premiere. Badly performed in a freezing concert hall, it didn't receive good reviews.
1894French Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in a case of blatant antisemitism that the government tried to cover up
1895German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen took the first x-ray, of his wife's left hand
1917Peace negotiations between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Ottoman) began at Brest-Litovsk
1943Children's author, Beatrix Potter, died of complications from pneumonia and heart disease
1989The Romanian army defected to the rebels, causing the downfall of Ceausescu's government. He and his wife were executed on Christmas Day
