An eleventh-century bishop of Séez accidentally burned down his own cathedral during a military operation.
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Quote of the Day
"Were this the skeleton of the oldest man, then the oldest man was a freak
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~ Mayer on the Neanderthal, 1864.
On This Day
1154 Nicholas Breakspear became the only Englishman ever to become pope, as Adrian IV.
1586 Mary Queen of Scots was publicly proclaimed guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I.
1791 Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer, was first published