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All in the month of August The black boy who died for ‘flirting’ with a white woman The atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima The vicar who won Wimbledon Looking back on JAWS – 50 years on Pope Leo is a distant cousin of Madonna Wildfires in the UK The unlikely helper of red squirrels **... (2590 words)All in the month of August
It was 1,700 years ago, on 25th August 325 that the First Council of Nicaea ended with the adoption of the Nicene Creed. It summarised the Christian faith and established the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. 250 years ago, on 5th August 1775 that the first Europeans entered San Francisco Bay. Spanish explorer Juan de... (776 words)The black boy murdered for ‘flirting’ with a white woman
Seventy years ago, on 28th August 1955, Emmett Till, an African American teenager, was mutilated and killed in Mississippi after allegedly flirting with a white woman. His death was one of the key events to motivate the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett was only 14, and lived in Chicago, where in an urban context racial tensions... (300 words)The atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima
Eighty years ago, on 6th August 1945, the US Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The centre of the city was totally destroyed, and about 80,000 people were killed immediately. A further 60,000 died by the end of the year, from injury or radiation. Hiroshima was the... (289 words)The vicar who won Wimbledon
Ninety years ago, on 21st August 1935, John Hartley, the British tennis player, died. He was the only clergyman ever to win Wimbledon and was World Number One in both 1879 and 1880 – winning Wimbledon both years. The Revd John Thorneycroft Hartley was born in 1849 in Wolverhampton and was well connected: his parents... (276 words)Looking back on JAWS – 50 years on
The shark that came to Amity Island for dinner – most people aged 60 and over remember him as the scariest fish they ever saw. As this summer the famous film celebrates its golden anniversary, here are some fun facts about the film which you may not have known… When Jaws was released in the... (414 words)Pope Leo is a distant cousin of Madonna
Pope Leo has some surprising relatives. For one, he is related to the pop singer Madonna, who has clashed with the Roman Catholic Church over her use of religious imagery. But the Pope is also related to politician Hilary Clinton, actress Angelina Jolie, pop star Justin Bieber, former prime ministers Justin and Pierre Trudeau, and... (114 words)Wildfires in the UK
If you venture into the countryside this month, be careful and stay vigilant: be wildfire aware. So warns the National Fire Chiefs Council, after a record-breaking season for wildfires. The concern is based on some alarming data. By June (the most recent data on hand) firefighters had responded to more than 500 wildfires across England... (99 words)The unlikely helper of red squirrels
Red squirrels have found a surprising friend in their fight to survive against grey squirrels. It is the elusive pine martin, who is a natural predator of all squirrels. Now a recent study by Queen’s University, Belfast, has found that pine martens are increasing, and that they kill more grey squirrels than red squirrels. This... (136 words)
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