Tuesday, 30 April 2024

A Myth about hangover

 This is my latest YouTube video, a myth about hangover 

International Day to End Corporal Punishment

 30 April is International Day to End Corporal Punishment. Here is my history of corporal punishment.

Monday, 29 April 2024

Penzance

 I wrote a history of the Cornish town of Penzance  

Mary Timney

On 29 April 1862, Mary Timney became the last woman to be hanged in public in Scotland. She was hanged in Dumfries.

Saturday, 27 April 2024

Last woman to be guillotined

 Today’s useless info: In 1949 Germaine Leloy-Godefroy became the last French woman to be guillotined. (She was having an affair and she killed her husband with an axe while he was asleep).

Friday, 26 April 2024