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I’m not sure how the same post managed to get published twice, but oh well… The blog is due a bit of a makeover by now, so while I’m poking at things, here’s hoping you enjoy the new theme

On this day…

In 1606, the trial in London of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators began, for their “Gunpowder Plot, the previous November 5th.

In 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born, in Salzburg, Austria.

In 1832, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born in Cheshire, England.

In 1880, Thomas Edison filed a patent for an electric incandescent lamp. Much as I [...]