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September 04, 2023
Pawning the Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland
Perhaps the most astounding, if not largest in monetary value, thing to be pawned in history was the northernmost constituency of Great Britain, consisting of around 177 islands and nearly 1000 square miles of land.
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Explosion of HMS Bulwark, 1914
On November 26, 1914 the battleship HMS Bulwark was moored in the river Medway, part of a fleet assembled in anticipation of a possible raid against London by the Imperial German fleet when, without any warning, as one witness reported, “there was a flash, a cloud of smoke, and the ship vanished.”
Unfortunate Epithets
An epithet is a byname, a characterizing word or phrase that accompanies or occurs in place of the name of a person or thing. Historically, some have been unfortunate- just ask Alfonso the Slobberer or Eystein Foul-Fart.
