Tuesday 24 December 2013

Interesting facts



1650 Ann Greene,who had been hanged for infanticide in Edinburgh,wakes up on an autopsy table; she is pardoned. 

- From Twenty Two Turbulent Years 


1495 - Syphilis is first definitely recorded during the French invasion of Naples.


Not sure who started that... but it seems that someone was having a good time.  Speaking of good times...


Also in 1495 - June 1st, A Friar named John Cor was the distiller of Lindores Abbey in the Kingdom of Fife, records the first known batch of Scotch Whiskey. On June 1st 1495, "To Friar John Cor, by order of the king, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt".



1642 September 8th. Colony of Massachusetts: Thomas Granger is executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality. 


1650 September 29th.Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters(1st historically documented dating service) in Threadneedle Street, London. 


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