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zstairlessone said:
Thanks for the reminder too. I went away to listen to American Pie (usually do it in the morning on the anniversary - have it in Calendar)
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You're welcome. :-)
 
scifan57 said:
February 3, 1966; the Soviet Union's Lunik 9 makes the first controlled landing on the Moon in the Ocean of Storms, where it transmitted the first pictures and television images from the surface of the Moon.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9
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When I was a kid, growing up in England, the space race was in full swing. One of our tea companies, Brooke Bond, I believe, used to do the equivalent of the American baseball cards, and give a card away in each pack of tea. On of those series of cards was the Space series. Bearing in mind, I was 10 years old or so, I remember collecting all 50? of those cards. For some reason, I can still see Telstar in my mind's eye. In those days, in England, the Cold War hadn't set in (or my adults protected me from it), so we were able to celebrate Russian achievement as well as American, and Sputnik, Soyuz and Lunik were as much a part of my vocabulary as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Ours is a strange generation. We see the Space Shuttle and other LOE operations as something akin to taking the bus, because WE saw the real thing. Apollo and Lunik did what man dreamed of for centuries, and travelled to another world.
 
KevinJS said:
When I was a kid, growing up in England, the space race was in full swing. One of our tea companies, Brooke Bond, I believe, used to do the equivalent of the American baseball cards, and give a card away in each pack of tea. On of those series of cards was the Space series. Bearing in mind, I was 10 years old or so, I remember collecting all 50? of those cards. For some reason, I can still see Telstar in my mind's eye. In those days, in England, the Cold War hadn't set in (or my adults protected me from it), so we were able to celebrate Russian achievement as well as American, and Sputnik, Soyuz and Lunik were as much a part of my vocabulary as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Ours is a strange generation. We see the Space Shuttle and other LOE operations as something akin to taking the bus, because WE saw the real thing. Apollo and Lunik did what man dreamed of for centuries, and travelled to another world.
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I don't have the space series, but I have most of the other sets Brooke Bond put out, complete in the albums they sold to those who collected the cards.
 
scifan57 said:
I don't have the space series, but I have most of the other sets Brooke Bond put out, complete in the albums they sold to those who collected the cards.
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Well, here's your chance. My set, complete though it was, and I now find out was in 1971, is long gone but for £6, which is about 9 of our Canadian dollars, you can get the set, in mint condition, no less. Funny, I thought they would be worth more. Also, I never knew they were issued by a cigarette company.

http://www.londoncigcard.co.uk/product.php?id=4323
 
February 3, 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida
 
Richard Brown said:
On 4th February, 2013 an announcement was made that a skeleton exhumed from under a Leicester, UK car park is that of King Richard III.

The proof was through DNA tests.

Richard III was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

There is more here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882

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Even here in Austria I've already heard about it.
 
Just found out today that Richard III was born at Fotheringhay Castle, the same place as Mary, Queen of Scots was executed.
 
KevinJS said:
Just found out today that Richard III was born at Fotheringhay Castle, the same place as Mary, Queen of Scots was executed.
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It's amazing what can be found underground in Britain. I lived in a 400 year old pub in Twyford Berkshire. I took my second wife to see it during a visit back to UK...and it was a parking lot !!

I wonder what structure was originally over the parking lot where Richard lll was buried? Any ideas Richard?
 
It was Greyfriars Church.


The church was demolished in the 16th century and it's location forgotten, until now.
 
Richard Brown said:
On 4th February, 2013 an announcement was made that a skeleton exhumed from under a Leicester, UK car park is that of King Richard III.

The proof was through DNA tests.

Richard III was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

There is more here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882

Sent from my iPad 1 using iPF - Greetings
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Wow!!

Sent from my WiFi Black 64GB iPad with Retina Display in NYC using iPF
 
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