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January

 

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ARTIFICIAL SUNRISE

China's coal-fired power stations & heavy industry produce lots of air pollution. While Beijing is shrouded in smog, a huge LED screen in Tianaman Square shows images of sunrise & clear blue skies. So that's alright then. (January 2014)

"visibility nil due to permanent smog"

 

 

 

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WELCOME to the YEAR of the HORSE

31st Jan 2014 - 18th Feb 2015

 

 

February

 

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50th ANNIVERSARY

On 7th February 1964, the Beatles first arrive in America.

Beatles

 

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Widespread flooding in Somerset & some other parts of Britain (Feb 2014)

"a second Flood can be expected"

 

 

March

 

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30th ANNIVERSARY

Miners' Strike (March 1984-5)

 

April

 

BARD'S BIRTHDAY

This year marks the 450th Anniversary of Shakespeare's birth on 23rd April 1564.

 

Here is a newly-discovered fragment of a play believed by some to have been written by Shakespeare himself:

read on...

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May

 

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GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART BLAZE

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Art Nouveau Glasgow School of Art badly damaged by fire (23rd May 2014). Devastating.

Glasgow School of Art

 

June

 

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Shulgin dies

Sasha Shulgin, chemist, psychopharmacologist & psychedelic alchemist, died 2nd June 2014, aged 88.

 

Thanks for the MDMA.

 

psychedelic pioneer

 

 

July

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Tour de France

The 2014 Tour de France starts in England (you know it makes sense) on 5th July.

 

But don't forget,

 

Cycling is Prohibited

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August

 

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FIRST WORLD WAR 100

100th Anniversary of outbreak of World War I. Germany declared war on Russia, 1st August 1914.

 

War

 

"mother & father fought the First World War..."

 

Sept

 

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REFERENDUM

FOR SCOTTISH

INDEPENDENCE

 

(18th September 2014)

 

Scotland the Brave

don't be a slave

rejecting NO

is the way to go

saying YES

leads to success

 

Scotland

 

Oct

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Dylan Thomas 100

100th anniversary of the birth of Welsh writer, Dylan Thomas, born 27th October 1914.

 

Nov 

Chinese pass anti-pun law - no play on words intended (28/11/14) They wouldn't like this then.

Dec

U.S Senate Torture Report: C.I.A. tortured & lied about it. (9/12/14)

Torture

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