Friday, 22 August 1485, Bosworth Field – “Richard’s corpse, naked and torn by wounds, was bound across a horse, with his head and long hair hanging down, bloody and hideous, and in this condition borne into Leicester for all men to see”.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (480-425 B.C.) wrote the earliest account of the geography, people and customs of the ancient world.

Never heard of him? Not surprising.
He wasn’t as famous as Cochise or Geronimo, though many consider him the equal of both as warrior, and perhaps better as a military strategist.

Did ever you hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike,
Crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,
With two yoke of oxen and one spotted hog,
A tall shanghai rooster, and an old yeller dog.

Friday / October 30, 1874 / Bethany, Missouri: A piercing northwest wind swirled icy cold & and a powdery haze of falling snow through the crowd.

“Yoo hoo, it’s me, my name is Pinky Lee” he sang, as he danced his odd little sideways shuffle back and forth across the stage.

On June 17, in the year 2 B.C., there was a conjunction of the planet Venus with the planet Jupiter.

The doctrine of the divine right of Kings was accepted as inviolable for nearly a thousand years.