2014.jpg (7613 bytes) Some Headlines & Anniversaries...

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"

WELCOME to the YEAR of the HORSE

31st Jan 2014 - 18th Feb 2015

February

50th ANNIVERSARY

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

Beatles

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

"a second Flood can be expected"

March

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...

May

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

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

August

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

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