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The Loveday of 1458 was a ritualistic reconciliation between warring factions of the English nobility at St Paul's Cathedral on 25 March 1458. It followed the start of the Wars of the Roses in 1455 and was the result of long negotiations initiated by King Henry VI to resolve the lords' rivalries. The result of these efforts was a settlement of some grievances and a public display of friendship. A procession went from Westminster Palace to St Paul's, with adversaries walking together, holding hands. Contemporaries varied in their views of the accord. Some wrote verses expressing hope that it would lead to new-found peace and prosperity; others were more pessimistic. In the long run, the King's Loveday and its agreements had no long-lasting benefit. Within a few months, petty violence between the lords had broken out again. Historians debate who—if anyone—gained from the 1458 Loveday, as the war it was intended to prevent was only deferred. (Full article...)
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On this day: March 25
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- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American Patriot forces in Georgia conducted a raid on Tybee Island, with the primary goal of capturing runaway slaves seeking refuge with the British.
- 1903 – The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (ship pictured) anchored in the South Orkney Islands with the intention of establishing the first weather station in Antarctic territory.
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- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].