The rivalry between the House of Plantagenet's two cadet branches of York and Lancaster brought about the Wars of the Roses, a decades-long fight for the English succession, culminating in the Battle of Bosworth Field in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_…
1485, when the reign of the Plantagenets and the English Middle Ages both met their end with the death of King Richard III. Henry VII, of Lancastrian descent, became king of England; five months later, he married Elizabeth of York, thus ending the Wars of the Roses, and giving
rise to the Tudor dynasty.
The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. The first house was created when King Henry III of England created the Earldom of Lancaster—from which the house was named—for his second son Edmund Crouchback in 1267.
The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet. Three of its members became kings of England in the late 15th century. The House of York descended in the male line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, the fourth surviving son of Edward III.
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Three of the founders were Georg Siemens, whose father's cousin had founded Siemens and Halske; Adelbert Delbrück and Ludwig Bamberger. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_…
Siemens invented a telegraph that used a needle to point to the right letter, instead of using Morse code.[6] Based on this invention, he founded the company Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske on 1 October 1847, with the company opening a workshop on 12 October.
Gottlieb Adelbert Delbrück (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdl̩bɛʁt ˈdɛl.bʁʏk] (listen); January 16, 1822 in Magdeburg – May 26, 1890 in Kreuzlingen) was a German banker and businessman.
In 1854, he founded Delbrück Leo & Co. In 1870, Delbrück was a co-founder of German company
The House of Wessex, also known as the Cerdicings and the West Saxon dynasty, refers to the family, traditionally founded by Cerdic, that ruled Wessex in Southern England from the early 6th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_…
The House of Wessex predominantly ruled from Winchester (Wintan-ceastre).
Jews lived in Winchester from at least 1148, and in the 13th century the Jewish community in the city was one of the most important in England.
There were a series of blood libel claims against the
Jewish community in the 1220s and 1230s, which likely was the cause of the hanging of the community's leader, Abraham Pinch, in front of the synagogue of which he was the head. Simon de Montfort ransacked the Jewish quarter in 1264, and in 1290 all Jews were expelled from
The Earl Grey blend, or "Earl Grey's Mixture", is assumed to have been named after Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Prime Minister in the 1830s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Grey…
Grey was a long-time leader of multiple reform movements, and as prime minister, his government was known for bringing about two notable reforms. The Reform Act 1832 brought about parliamentary reform, bringing changes to the House of Commons. His government also enacted the
Slavery Abolition Act 1833, bringing about the abolition of slavery in most of the British Empire.
The Act provided for payments to slave-owners. The amount of money to be spent on the payments was set at "the Sum of Twenty Million Pounds Sterling".
A Song dynasty military treatise of 1044 AD described various formulas for Chinese black powder, which is a mixture of potassium nitrate (KNO
3), charcoal, and sulfur. It remains an ingredient of black gunpowder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur
Potassium nitrate is one of several nitrogen-containing compounds collectively referred to as saltpetre (or saltpeter in North America).
Perhaps the most exhaustive discussion of the production of saltpeter is the 1862 LeConte text. He was writing with the express purpose of
increasing production in the Confederate States to support their needs during the American Civil War. Since he was calling for the assistance of rural farming communities, the descriptions and instructions are both simple and explicit. He details the "French Method", along with
In 1851, the Great Exhibition was organised as an exhibition of culture and industry by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_…
In this capacity Cole was instrumental in the development of the Victoria and Albert Museum which had begun as the Museum of Ornamental Art in Marlborough House. Cole oversaw its move to its current site, and became first director of what was called South Kensington Museum
from 1857 to 1873. In 1974 a part of the museum that was once known as the Huxley Building was renamed the Henry Cole Building; today it forms the Henry Cole Wing of the V&A.
The official opening by Queen Victoria was on 20 June 1857. In the following year, late-night openings
Peter Strzok Has a Warning About Russia—and Trump | WIRED
Strzok as a counterintelligence agent had tried hard to stay out of the public eye. He relates the story of how 19 years ago, as a relatively junior agent in Boston on September 11, 2001, he and wired.com/story/peter-st…
his partner located the car in the Logan Airport parking garage left behind by the hijackers, and then how, as news crews descended on the scene, he had to step behind a concrete pillar to hide his face. Even then, his day job was tracking Russian spies, surveilling and watching
two of what would later be exposed as “the Illegals,” the deep-cover Russian intelligence officers living ordinary lives in the United States that would inspire the hit FX TV show, The Americans.
Strzok had been a lead agent in the FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" against Andrey