by David West | Mar 16, 2026 | News
On the 16th of March, 1966, Gemini 8 was launched with Neil Armstrong and David Scott on board. I would have been six years of age. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by flight and space flight, but the details of the Gemini missions are not lodged in my...
by David West | Mar 15, 2026 | News
Greenland has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Before Trump starts getting excited about New South Greenland, it doesn’t exist. But on the 15th of March, 1823, Benjamin Morrell erroneosly reported sighting it near Antarctica. Benjamin Morrell (1795–1839)...
by David West | Mar 14, 2026 | News
Casey Jones was born on the 14th of March, 1864. I used to love watching the TV series Casey Jones when I was young. IMDB tells me the series comprised 32 episodes and ran from 8th October 1957 to 5th May 1958 and starred Alan Hale Jr. as Casey. I must have watched...
by David West | Mar 13, 2026 | News
On the 13th of March, 1826, Pope Leo XII published the apostolic constitution Quo Gravioria in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics becoming Freemasons. My father was a Freemason so this caught my attention today. Quo Graviora (which is more serious?) was one...
by David West | Mar 12, 2026 | News
On the 12th of March, 538CE, the Byzantine general Belisarius forced Vitiges king of the Ostrogoths to end his siege of Rome and retreat to Ravenna. Flavius Belisarius (c. 500–565 CE) was the most brilliant general of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and one of the...
