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  1. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Slipknot - "Medicine For The Dead" (2022)
  2. Blackleaf

    The King will not attend COP27

    King Charles will not attend COP27, says Palace BBC News Saturday 1st October 2022 King Charles will not attend the climate change conference COP27, which is due to be held in Egypt later this year, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The Palace was responding to a story in The Sunday Times...
  3. Blackleaf

    Brooch containing Lord Nelson's hair sells for thousands

    Brooch containing Lord Nelson's hair sells for thousands BBC News Saturday 24th September 2022 Horatio Nelson was born in Norfolk and was the sixth child of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine A brooch containing a lock of Lord Nelson's hair, given to an officer who fought...
  4. Blackleaf

    Ceremony for Flag Fen Iron Age roundhouse

    Ceremony for Flag Fen Iron Age roundhouse BBC News Saturday 1st October 2022 The Iron Age roundhouse exterior will be painted with white clay and red and yellow patterns A "fantastic bunch of volunteers" have built a replica Iron Age roundhouse on a large Bronze Age causeway dating back 3,500...
  5. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    That's true.
  6. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    Royal Mint unveils King's coin effigy The Royal Mint - the UK's oldest company, which is based in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf - has unveiled the portrait of King Charles III that will soon start appearing on the country's coins. Elizabeth II faces to the right on coins but her son will...
  7. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    He should have warned his classmates that they had better watch out because one day HE will be king. (King George VII, unless he uses one of his two middle names).
  8. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Now for artists a bit different from the Moody Blues... Slipknot H377 (2022) Hive Mind (2022) Heirloom (2022)
  9. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    I drive a man-up truck around a huge warehouse for 40 hours per week while order picking and it's one of the songs that I like to sing (badly) to myself to stop the boredom setting in.
  10. Blackleaf

    Space Thread

    In the coming hours, the American space agency will crash a probe into an asteroid. Nasa's Dart mission wants to see how difficult it would be to stop a sizeable space rock from hitting Earth. The demonstration is taking place some 11 million km away (7 million miles) on a target called...
  11. Blackleaf

    Bundesliga 2022

    England and Germany drew 3-3 at Wembley tonight in Europe's Nations League. All the goals came in the second half with Germany taking a 2-0 lead. England fought back to take a 3-2 lead and then Germany equalised. The match was meaningless to England as they had been relegated to the lower...
  12. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    As I say: That's what all the woke set say when faced with that inconvenient truth. But it IS the truth. Just because you don't like that fact doesn't mean you can just deny it and that history will change. Canada and the United States and many other countries owe their existence to the British...
  13. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    A postbox built under the reign of Elizabeth II with her cypher. Those built under the reign of Charles III will have his cypher.
  14. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    King Charles III: New royal cypher revealed By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent BBC News The cypher will first be used to frank letters sent from Buckingham Palace The cypher of King Charles III has been revealed, showing an image to be used by government departments and on state documents...
  15. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    Yeah. All the woke set say that, because it's an inconvenient truth for them. Of course, it's clearly not true.
  16. Blackleaf

    The Funeral of Kings and Queens

    The funeral of Queen Victoria - King Charles III's great-great-great-grandmother - 2nd February 1901...
  17. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    CNN host Don Lemon gets owned when asking woman about British reparations for slavery
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    Space Thread

    The recently launched super space telescope James Webb has returned spectacular new imagery of Neptune. The observatory's infrared instruments highlight features not seen in such detail since the Voyager 2 probe flew past the planet in 1989. These include the rings and dust bands that encircle...
  19. Blackleaf

    Queen Elizabeth

    It was the empire which created Canada, of course. Canada owes its very existence to the British Empire and should therefore be grateful.