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What is BT 1471?
BT 1471 tells you the last number that called - unless the caller withheld their number by dialling 141 before dialling your number, or the call came from a switchboard extension number. 1471 Call Return also lets you return the call straight away, by pressing 3. 1471 is always active and useful even if you have an answering machine.
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1553):

Cranach was one of the leading German painters and printmakers of the early 16th century. As court painter of the Elector of Saxony, the patron of Luther, Cranach is remembered as the chief artist of the Reformation. He painted altarpieces, Lutheran subject pictures and portraits, as well as mythological decorative works and nudes, such as the 'Cupid complaining to Venus' in the Collection.
 
On February 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, a city in north-central Poland on the Vistula River. The father of modern astronomy, he was the first modern European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

Evening Woopert - damp morning - tomorrow dawns as SB3 demands customer service Air France didn't know was in the manual !!! ATB
 
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The Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1474 after the Anglo-Hanseatic War between England and the Hanseatic League.

This naval war had begun in 1470 using the naval strategy of commerce raiding in the North sea and the Channel. One of the most successful Man of war was the Peter von Danzig. The war, mainly driven by the cities Danzig and Lübeck, was a war against increasing English pressure against the trade of the Hanseatic cities of the southern coast of the Baltic sea, while Cologne had opposed and was therefore temporarily excluded from the Hansa. The treaty negotiated by Lübeck's mayor Hinrich Castorp granted the threatened privileges and the Hanseatic League gained ownership of the London Steelyard premises, which were secured this way until the middle of the 19th century as Hanseatic property in London.


Evening anti. I hope someone has 'phoned ahead to Brazil, to warn them of SB3's imminent arrival, complete with his maracas ! Really hot here today, hope Tuesday will be the same. Have a good day.
 
The unit was formed on the 12th June 1941 as 1475 (3rd Lewisham) Squadron of the Air Training Corps under a Royal Warrant signed by His late Majesty King George VI dated 5th February 1941. The Squadron is one of over 1000 in the Air Training Corps (with a membership of 60000 cadets, aged 13 to 20 years, and volunteer staff). The ATC is a national youth organisation funded by the Royal Air Force to provide young people with training which will be useful in adult life, to foster an interest in the Royal Air Force and aviation. The "squadron" is the basic operating unit of the Corps with very close ties to its local community. It was those local ties that led to 1475 Squadron changing its title to reflect its present location when it moved to Dulwich after the war.
 
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Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476/77), was a member of the House of Drăculești, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known by his patronymic name: Dracula. He was posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș pronounced [ˈvlad ˈt͡sepeʃ]), and was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462, the period of the incipient Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. His father, Vlad II Dracul, was a member of the Order of the Dragon, which was founded to protect Christianity in Eastern Europe. Vlad III is revered as a folk hero in Romania as well as other parts of Europe for his protection of the Romanian population both south and north of the Danube. A significant number of Romanian and Bulgarian common folk and remaining boyars (nobles) moved north of the Danube to Wallachia, recognized his leadership and settled there following his raids on the Ottomans.[1]

As the cognomen 'The Impaler' suggests, his practice of impaling his enemies is part of his historical reputation.[2] During his lifetime, his reputation for excessive cruelty spread abroad, to Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad's patronymic.[2]
 
Both Thomas More and Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham were born in the year 1478.


Good Evening anti - lovely day again today. We have the Isle of Wight Pop Festival starting this Thursday, until next Monday, with up to a possible 90,000 people attending. Hope the weather stays decent for them.
 
Sep 4th 1479- King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castile.

And then it all fell down - ah the isle of wight festival went there in 1970 saw Dylan Hendrix the who ten years after moody blues - hosed down and took 7 hours to get off the island but happy memories
 
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WZRC AM1480 - WZRC is a broadcast radio station in New York City, New York, United States, providing Cantonese language News, Talk and Entertainment.

Wow, both Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix ?! Was that down in Freshwater, or at Woodside, Wootton Bridge ?
 
The Battle of Westbroek was a battle that occurred on December 26, 1481 between the armies of the prince-bishopric of Utrecht and the county of Holland. It was one of the last battles of the Hook and Cod wars.

That war had already been decided in Holland in favour of the Cods and their Burgundian allies. But in Utrecht, they had lost the power, when Bishop David of Burgundy, who had ruled Utrecht since 1456, was chased there after the outbreak of the Second Utrecht Civil War.

On December 26, 1481, David sent an army of 4-5000 men from Holland in the direction of Utrecht. When they reached the village of Westbroek, they burnt the village to the ground and killed all the inhabitants.

When this news reached Utrecht, an armed mob headed towards Westbroek to take revenge. But when they saw the size of the army of the enemy, they fled back to the city. The Hollanders pursued them and killed everybody they could. No mercy was given and some 1500 Utrechters are said to have been slain. [1]
 
Sep 1st 1482- Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev - that's about it really probably had a cup of tea and a lie down created Chicken Kiev and moved on !!!

Good Evening Woopert - it was at East Afton Farm on the west coast of the island probably a tower block now - hope not - shopping this morning with the AB - ATB hope its still warm
 
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Buckingham's rebellion was a failed but significant uprising, or collection of uprisings, of late 1483 in England and parts of Wales against Richard III of England. To the extent that these local risings had a central coordination, the plot revolved around Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who had become disaffected from Richard, and had backing from the exiled Henry of Richmond (the future king Henry VII). Buckingham's precise motivation has been called "obscure"; he had been treated well by Richard. The traditional naming of the rebellion after him has been labelled a misnomer, with John Morton and Reginald Bray more plausible leaders.


Still fields down there luckily - no sign of any high rise flats as of yet !
 
Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858
The vast majority of Ireland's testamentary records (wills, administrations, probates, etc.) were destroyed in the explosion that engulfed the Public Record Office of Ireland during the early stages of the Irish civil war in 1922. As near complete as that obliteration was, not everything was incinerated. Several volumes of original will and grant books, which had been used as cover against gunfire during the battle survived. More importantly the staff at the National Archives of Ireland (the successor organisation to the PROI) have spent the intervening years trying to recover from that loss.
 
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Jul 22nd, 1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.

Evening anti. Really hot today, and should stay the same for the weekend. How has your day been ?
 
1485 - the beginning of the reign of the Tudors in good old Blighty

Aug 1st - Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
Aug 7th - Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South Wales
Aug 22nd - Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
Aug 25th - Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III
Oct 30th - Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey, London
 
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16 Jun 1487~
The End of the Wars of the Roses
The early years of Henry VII’s reign were by no means carefree; his dynasty was beset by enemies in Britain and at the court of Burgundy; in the spring of 1487 a serious insurrection was launched from Ireland.

Greetings Woopert - my day has started slowly with my swimming partner on the blower with a hangover crying off todays exertion - pussy - sporty weekend culminating on Sunday morning 8am with England Italy - going round a friends house (he's Uruguayan) to watch it with some lads he is serving spare ribs and U R Gayan pork bangers for breakfast which should considerably save on petrol next week - glad its still toasty with you long may it continue ATB
 
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1488 Collision - Magnolia, TX - Collision - Paint & Body

1488 Collision is a locally owned and operated collision repair facility nearing our fourth year serving the Magnolia area. Thanks to our customers, 1488 Collision is also the fastest growing and highest volume shop in Magnolia, Texas.

Yet another glorious day. Just watching the Spain v Holland match - they both play nice attractive football. England v Italy tomorrow evening should be interesting. Could go either way. Your breakfast sounds interesting !
 
Battle of Stoke
June 16, 1487
‘There was not one left to piss against the wall’. Sir Thomas Craig.
Craig’s pithy observation concerning the Plantaganet line is broadly correct though, as Professor Pollard points out, the extinction was due, in no small part, to the assiduous elimination of likely competitors by the first two Tudor rulers. Even those families who poured out their blood in torrents, the Percies being a case in point, the second and third earls died in battle as did Lord Egremont and several younger sons, yet the line was not extinguished. The 4th Earl remained a powerful figure and the traditional Percy hegemony in Northumberland continued largely as before. Many magnatial families suffered through loss and forfeiture of course, and even in many attainders were later reversed, the wars proved the ruin of some. Nonetheless, it cannot be said that the overall rate of attrition amongst the landed classes was markedly higher during the period that at other times.

Greetings Woopert. 5 pumped past the world cup champs didn't see that coming and who said old men cant Jump Cahill did and its 2-1 at half time - yes breakfast does sound interesting I fear I will be still tasting it come Tuesday - enjoy the weather ATB
 
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