A General Chronological History of the Air

Thomas Short, A General Chronological History of the Air
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General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. In Sundry Places and different Times; more particularly for the Space of 250 Years. Together with some of their most Remarkable Effects on Animal (especially Human) Bodies, and Vegetables in Two Volumes.

VOL. I.

By Thomas Short, London: T. Longman and A. Millar (1749)

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Fact of the Day

Had you stolen an item over 14d in Halifax in 1600, you would be sentenced to die by gibbet

Quote of the Day

"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace "
~ Tacitus

On This Day

1846 Scottish surgeon Robert Liston was the first European to use anaesthesia during an amputation. He could amputate a leg in two and a half minutes.
1898 Scientists 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
1946 A tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake killed at least 1,362 and left thousands homeless in Japan.
1967 Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, died in Cape Town, South Africa, 18 days after his operation.
1988 Pan Am Flight 103 exploded as it was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland. All 243 passengers and 16 crew, and 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed