2013.jpg (5965 bytes) Some Headlines & Anniversaries...

 

January

 

This month must have been..... strangely uneventful - just more of the usual: wars, extreme weather, disasters….

click pic?

Tiananmen Square, Air Pollution, daytime, 29 Jan 2013

Don't worry, sky looks clean & bright on screen.

February

 

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50th Anniversary

of the Beatles making their first LP, Please Please Me (11th February 1963), recorded in only 585 minutes.

BeatlesMix

 

March

 

 

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2nd Anniversary of Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami & Nuclear Disaster...

 

That was quite a day!

 

Look

 

 

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10th Anniversary of illegal US/ UK invasion of Iraq

(19th March 2003)

See here

 

April

 

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THATCHER DEAD!

Hurray!

(8th April 2013)

* La Maggiore

* Maggie the movie

* Rejoice!

 

May

Merry month - no news to speak of...

June

 

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Man crosses Grand Canyon on tightrope

(24th June 2013)

But see another death-defying stunt here

July

 

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100th Anniversary

of Tour de France

29th June - 21st July 2013

"but cycling is prohibited..."

 

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So-called "Royal" baby, by George!

(22nd July 2013)

ANOTHER HAPPY EVENT

ANTI-monarchy

 

 

August

 

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50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech

(28th August 1963)

 

Dream

MLK's Birthday

Assassinated

 

Sept

 

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FAR OUT:

Voyager 1 leaves Solar System...

(12th September 2013)

Universe

 

See, also, 30th Anniversary

Oct

 

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Professor Higgs Wins Nobel for Boson

(8th October 2013)

 

Celebrate with some QUANTUM DANCING!

 

 

 

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AS EASY AS ABC

Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station to be built.

(Don't mention decommissioning costs for A & B)

Have we not learned the lesson of Fukushima?

(21st Oct. 2013)

NUCLEAR

 

 

Nov

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World Beard and Moustache Championships in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, on November 2, 2013.

see Long White Beard

for more facial hair....

 

Dec

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Nelson Mandela (Madiba) dies aged 95 on

5th December 2013

"All this has led me to feel that in my search for a political formula, I should be absolutely impartial and objective. I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than that of socialism."

Apartheid Song

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