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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 30, 20214 min read
Aug 29 Faraday discovers Electricity
Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...


Pearl of Great Price
Jul 22, 20214 min read
July 20 Buzz Aldrin takes communion on the Moon
The astronaut Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon after landing successfully with the Apollo 11 mission. This was the...

Pearl of Great Price
May 22, 20213 min read
May 23 The Baptist Slave rebellion in Jamaica
Samuel Sharpe was hanged today in Jamaica for his role in organising as slave uprising referred to by historians as 'The Baptist War'. ...


Pearl of Great Price
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Feb 2 - Candlemas
Today Christians all over the world celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple. In the Spanish Speaking world the...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 24 - Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
Today in 1918 the Gregorian calendar was introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars. This brought another...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Jan 5 - Twelfth Night
The fifth of January is the twelfth day of Christmas and so today we look at the rich tradition of Twelfth Night. In Spain, Twelfth...
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