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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 3h

State censorship is a cultural barometer and highlights that a nation is not confident in itself.

James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 3h

Recently came across this stash of paperbacks from 1960s. The thing they all have in common is that they were banned by the Censorship of Publications Act 1929 in Ireland.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 4h

9 October 768. Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are both crowned King of the Franks as was Frankish custom. Charlemagne is known as the "Father of Europe" because his rule laid the foundations for the modern European world. www.historyhit.com/814-death-ch...

Who Was Charlemagne and Why Is He Called the ‘Father of Europe?’

Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, was the founder of the Carolingian Empire, and was best known for uniting Western Europe for the first...

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 1d

8 October 2018. Major climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says the planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN

Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 2d

7 October 1571. Battle of Lepanto, where the Holy League, a coalition of Christian European states, decisively defeated the Ottoman navy in a major naval engagement off the coast of Greece.
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The battle of Lepanto: when Ottoman forces clashed with Christians

On 7 October 1571, Ottoman forces clashed with the Holy League's fleet in a huge naval battle in the Mediterranean. Writing for BBC World Histories in 2017, Jerry Brotton looks at both sides of an enc...

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 3d

6 October 2017. Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and for its efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of these weapons.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 4d

5 October 2018. Banksy work "Girl With Balloon" automatically shreds via a shredder hidden in its frame moments after being sold for 1 million pounds in London, renamed "Love is in the Bin.”

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 5d

4 October 2023. Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” These discoveries have led to their use in LED lights, TV screens, and medical applications.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 7d

2 October 1869. Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. This date is celebrated annually in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday. The United Nations also designated October 2nd as the International Day of Non-Violence in 2007.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 8d

1 October 1939. Sir Winston Churchill, in a BBC radio broadcast, referred to Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” The phrase captured the difficulty for the Western world in comprehending the intentions of Joseph Stalin at that time. winstonchurchill.org/publications...

The Enigma of Russia

David Owen, Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British–Russian Relations, Haus Publishing, 2021, 354 pages, £15.59/$29.95. ISBN 978-1913368395 Review by W. MARK HAMILTON This timely and...

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 9d

30 September 420. St. Jerome, the Bible translator, dies near Bethlehem. Jerome is known mostly for his endeavour to translate most of the Bible into Latin from the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. St. Jerome is considered the patron saint of translators. #InternationalTranslationDay

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 10d

St Raphael in the war memorial window at Nacton, Suffolk, 1920, probably by Clayton & Bell.

Today's the feast of St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Michaelmas … traditionally, marking the beginning of the university year.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 11d

The parable of Dives and Lazarus, today's gospel. In the background, Dives entertains his rich friends to a feast. In the foreground, Lazarus stands in the garb of a leper, bowl and clapper in hand, the dogs licking his sores. A Flemish roundel of c1530 now at Earsham, Norfolk.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 11d

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A Paris cinema in 1958. 📷 alamy images

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 11d

28 September 1928. Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first broadly effective antibiotic.
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Alexander Fleming Discovery and Development of Penicillin - Landmark - American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 12d

27 September 1962. Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book exposing the harmful environmental impacts of pesticides. The book is credited with sparking the modern environmental movement.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 13d

26 September 1665. Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week. www.rmg.co.uk/stories/roya...

The Great Plague

Bubonic plague terrorised Europe for centuries. In 1665 a devastating epidemic struck this country killing thousands of people.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 13d

2025 is turning out to be a mast year for fruit and nuts.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 14d

25 September 1976. Larry Mullen Jr., a 14-year-old student and aspiring drummer, posted a note on his school's bulletin board at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, looking for musicians to form a band, which became the nascent U2. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

U2 at 40: From teenage dreams in a kitchen jam to the top of rock's hierarchy

Forty years on from their first jam in a Dublin kitchen, friends of U2 tell how the band rose to the top of the rock hierarchy.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 14d

24 September 1827. Catherine McAuley opened the first House of Mercy on Baggot Street, Dublin, a date now celebrated annually as Mercy Day. This event marked the beginning of her work in caring for poor and homeless women and children, and it led to the eventual founding of the Sisters of Mercy.

James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 15d

24 September 2015. Pope Francis became the first pontiff to address the U.S. Congress, where he named Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton as exemplary Americans who embody the spirit of the nation. www.npr.org/sections/the...:

In Pope Francis' Congress Speech, Praise For Dorothy Day And Thomas Merton

Calling them "four representatives of the American people," Pope Francis lauded Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 16d

23 September 1949. Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier. The White House did not explain how the United States had detected the test, which had occurred on 29 August 1949 at Semipalatinsk, in northeastern Kazakhstan.

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James G. R. Cronin @jamesgrcronin.bsky.social · 17d

22 September 1692. The last mass execution of the Salem Witch Trials took place, with eight people hanged at Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts.