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In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Blōtmōnaþ (modern English: blót month) was the month roughly corresponding to November. [1]The month was recorded by the English scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying "Blod-monath is month of immolations, for it was in this month that the cattle which were to be slaughtered were dedicated to the gods.” [2]
Ivan Averill Cooper (5 January 1944 – 26 June 2019) [1] was a nationalist politician from Northern Ireland. He was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). He is best known for leading the civil rights march on 30 January 1972 that developed into the Bloody Sunday ...
The shootings were later referred to as Belfast's Bloody Sunday, a reference to the killing of civilians by the same battalion in Derry a few months later, known as Bloody Sunday. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 1972 inquests had returned an open verdict on all of the killings, [ 3 ] but a 2021 coroner's report found that all those killed had been innocent and ...
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
On 16 October 2004, McAlinden, a convicted thief, prostitute, and homeless drifter, was released from prison, having served a nine-month sentence for a serious assault.. She visited a top-floor flat [2] on Dixon Avenue, in Crosshill, where her boyfriend David Gillespie, 42, lived with fellow tenant Anthony Coyle, 71, and landlord Ian Mitchell, 67, whom McAlinden referred as "Pop
The Partington house had six bedrooms, two parlors, a recreation room, a windmill which pumped water directly to the house and barns, a 3,000 gallon water tank, and plumbing which carried sewage to a nearby pond. [1] The house was described as the "marvel" of the area. [1] For much of Mary's youth, her home was a hub of activity in the ...
According to Fernand Petiot, the first two customers for whom he made the drink "were from Chicago, and they say there is a bar there named the Bucket of Blood. And there is a waitress there everybody calls Bloody Mary. One of the boys said that the drink reminds him of Bloody Mary, and the name stuck."
The school participates as the host school / lead agency in a joint ice hockey team with New Milford High School and Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [31] The girls cross country team won the Group III state championship in ...