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The Gregorian Calendar and Britain's Lost Eleven Days
2 September 1752 (read time: 5 mins.) When Britain finally adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, eleven days simply vanished. The public was baffled. The taxman was not. Some things never change.If you had lived in Great Britain o…
Captain James Cook and the Art of Careening
11 June 1770 (read time: 5 mins.) Heading north, Captain James Cook and the HMS Endeavour hit a reef. Holed and limping into a small river estuary, there was only one option left: the venerable art of ‘careening’. Imagine…