Cutting turf to heat homes has been a tradition for millennia, but the EU has ruled that it must stop.
Turf Cutting, Co. Roscommon
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Category Archives: then and now
Leeds Bridge 2018 & 1888
Leeds Bridge June 2018
Leeds Bridge June 1888
Image by Louis Le Prince. It is claimed Le Prince filmed the first ever moving images on Leeds Bridge in 1888.
Source: http://www.leodis.net
1982
What I want for Christmas (1976)
Dear Santa,
Please can I have an Electrical Lab 3 for £5.95.
Thank you,
1605 vs 2011
Gunpowder Plot 1605
Or
“A brief account of that bloudy & subtle Design laid against the King, his Lords and Commons in Parliament, and of a Happy Deliverance by Divine Power.”
Real IRA Plot 2011
The planting of bombs and buying guns is an example of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, although the sentences for those arrested are now much less severe:
The plotters were hung, drawn and quartered and their heads displayed in Westminster
A Google news search for ‘terrorist plot’ gathered 2,110 results. In 2011 the alledged perpetrators of terrorism are:
an ex-Soviet officer in Columbia, the ‘Real’ IRA, various Islamist conspiracies, two Swedes found to be innocent, Iran & the USA making accusations and counter-accusations … and the list goes on.