30th March 2012

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Mic Porter

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Events1296 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England; perhaps 10,000 die. 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.1842 – Anaesthesia (ether) is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long. Later he uses it in other operations and childbirth.1856 – The Crimean War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

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Events1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about $4.19/km² (2 cent/acre). On the 3rd January ‘59 it becomes the 49th state of the union.1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction (the defeat of the confederacy).1909 – The cantilever designed Queensboro Bridge (aka NY’s 59th Street Bridge) opens, Manhattan and Queens are linked and a ferry closes.1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph. After the war Heinkel is forbidden to build aeroplanes but does bicycles, motor scoters and the (?)first micro car.

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Heinkel, Type 153 – "Motocoupé" with front door(Production: 1956–1957) Single cylinder, air-cooled, ohv, four stroke 174cc producing 6.8 kW/9bhpCurb Weight: 250 kg Length x Width x Height: 2550 x 1370 x 1320 mmWheelbase: 1760 mm

Original Smart “city” car – 2 door hatchback(Production: 2000 – 2001)Three cylinder, water cooled, ohc, four stroke: 599cc producing 33kW/44 bhpCurb Weight: 750 kgLength x Width x Height: 2500 x 1515 x 1549Wheelbase: 1812 mm

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Events1944 – Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg; 795 aircraft are despatched of which 95 bombers are lost. The largest Bomber Command loss of WWII.1954 – The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.1979 – Airey Neave, MP is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. Neave was a Colditz “home run” escapee. Later he joins MI9 and is Michael Bentine’s (Goon founding member and Peruvian Ambassador) superior officer. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility for the bomb..

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Events1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. He lives with an enhanced approval rating and a confidence that God had spared him as he had a special purpose in mind for him and his presidency.1982 – Space Shuttle STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law; creating new offences and powers some of which have, now, been overturned by the Courts.

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Terrorism Act 2000“The power to stop and search someone under S44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 no longer exists. […]Police officers continue to have the power to stop and search anyone who they reasonably suspect to be a terrorist under S43 of the Terrorism Act. […]Officers have the power to view digital images contained in mobile telephones or cameras carried by a person searched under S43 […] to discover whether the images constitute evidence that the person is involved in terrorism. Officers also have the power to seize and retain any article found during the search which the officer reasonably suspects may constitute evidence that the person is a terrorist. This includes any mobile telephone or camera containing such evidence.Officers do not have the power to delete digital images or destroy film at any point during a search. Deletion or destruction may only take place following seizure if there is a lawful power (such as a court order) that permits such deletion or destruction[http://www.met.police.uk/about/photography.htm]

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Ins…1811 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899)1857 – Leon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer and devisor of the concept of the Thévenin equivalence circuit whereby a complex circuit is simply replaced by its electrical equivalence thus simplifying subsequent analytical calculations. (d. 1926)1880 – Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (eg “Juno and the Paycock”) who worked with the Abbey Theatre (Dublin) (d. 1964)1902 – Ted Heath, British musician and band leader – not the conservative Politian (d. 1969)

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Ins…1928 – Tom Sharpe, English satirical author1930 – Rolf Harris, Australian artist/entertainer.1945 – Eric Clapton, British guitarist1945 – Johnnie Walker, DJ1948 – Mervyn King, British economist, Governor of the Bank of England (2003–present)1948 – Eddie Jordan, former owner of Jordan Grand Prix, now a F1 TV summarizer and pundit. 1950 – Robbie (“big jazzier”) Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian1965 – Piers Morgan, journalist and television interviewer and talent show judge.

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Outs…1454 - Thomas Bourchier sometime Archbishop of Canterbury at Knowle House (now NT) (b(?)1404)1783 – William Hunter, Scottish Physician, obstetrician, anatomist, fellow of the Royal Society and coin and book collector. strong connections to the artistic world. The Glasgow house he built in 1770 for his practice of medicine and science (and its contents) became the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum and Art Galley. (b. 1718)1840 – Beau Brummell, English celebrity and (understated – think today’s gentleman's dark suit and tie) dandy who, apparently, had his boots polished with Champaign. (b. 1778)

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Outs…1949 - Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius, German Chemist and Nobel laureate for his work on high pressure seeking to get Oil from Coal, Sugar from wood etc. Died in Argentina where he had been advising their Ministry of Industry.(b. 1884)[In the late 1950s the NCB ran research group (Dir. Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) investigating the Lurgi-Ruhrgas process for a lower temperature liquefaction of low grade “brown” coal. An administrator on this project was one Len Porter. The outcome was never financially satisfactory and then Oil & Gas was found in the North Sea!]

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Outs…1979 – Airey Neave, politician & WW2 vet. (b.1916)1986 – James Cagney, American Gangster actor who would not be pushed around and thus was called, by Jack Warner “The Professional Againster” (b. 1899)2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen consort of George VI (“Kings Speech”) and after his death (1952) our dear Queen Mother (b. 1900)2004 – Alistair Cooke, English-born, American based journalist. “Letter from America” & “Alistair Cooke’s America” Who’s best man at his wedding (1934) was to be Charlie Chaplin but he didn’t show! (b. 1908)

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Outs…2006 – John McGahern, Irish influential (and sometimes banned) novelist (b. 1934)2006 - Richard Lloyd racing car driver & “PR person” who dies (with 4 others) in a plane crash at Farnborough shortly after taking off from Biggin Hill Aerodrome. (b. 1945)2008 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer, taxi driver, escapee, refugee and survivor of torture. He coins the descriptive term “The Killing Fields” for the remains of the genocide he discovers while fleeing Cambodia. Later an Academy Award Winning Film. (b. 1942)

Lego, interconnectivity & Moon Geese and a slow car crash

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7kbgtBXKm4&feature=relmfu

• http://inhabitat.com/inhabitat-exclusive-pics-newcastle-university-invites-the-public-to-build-a-model-lego-city/newcastle-urban-planning-lego-5-copy

• http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/

• http://vimeo.com/38092197

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN-w8HnMPpA• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlUOY7Pyug• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIoW_Sm3w8

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