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It’s a great idea to get your iPad kitted out with a case from iPad cases uk to prevent it being damaged. If your iPad got damaged you might miss out on learning important things! For example, today I learnt about the 1981 Irish hunger strike which was recently brought to public attention again in the film ‘Hunger’ by Steve McQueen. The Irish hunger strike came at the culmination of a five-year protest held by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. In 1976 the British government withdrew SCS (Special Category Status) for convicted paramilitary prisoners which led to a blanket protest by prisoners. After a number of attacks on the republican prisoners upon leaving their cells, they began the dirty protest in which they refused to wash. The hunger strike prompted media attention from around the world making it effectively into a showdown between Members of Parliament and the prisoners. Ten prisoners starved themselves to death before the strike was called off. Sands’ funeral was attended by 100,000 people!

The Baker Street robbery took place on the night of 11th September 1971. The safe deposit boxes of Lloyds Bank, located on the corner of Marylebone Road and Baker Street, were stolen. The thieves rented a shop named Le Sac, a leather goods shop which was just two doors away from the bank, from which to tunnel into the bank. The distance of the tunnel was approximately 15 metres, bypassing the Chicken Inn restaurant that was locate between Le Sac and Lloyds Bank. Only digging on weekends to avoid being overheard, they had to ultimately use explosives to break into the vault. A radio ham operator named Robet Rowlands overheard conversations conducted between the robbers and their rooftop lookout at approximately 11pm. Though he contacted the police and tape recorded the conversations, there was little that could be done to prevent the robbery as there was inadequate information by which to pinpoint exactly which bank was being robbed. Police checked every bank within 10 miles of Mr. Rowlands’ receiver, a staggering 750 banks, and even checked the Baker Street Lloyds Bank. Though the thieves were actually still in the bank, the police didn’t realise as the security door was still locked. The robbers made off with £3 million in cash and valuables! Lucky there were no herrenuhren watches there!

A kiss is the action of pressing one’s lips against the lips or another body part of another person or object. The word derives from the Old English ‘cyssan’, ‘to kiss,’ which derives from ‘coss,’ ‘a kiss’. The natural historian Ernest Crawley researched the origins of the kiss in the early 20th century and noted that that act was infrequent among the “lower and semi-civilised races” but was “fully established as instinctive in the higher societies”. However, Crawley also noted differences within the higher civilisations; whilst the kiss was well established in early Assyria, India, and Greece, it was unknown to ancient Egypt. Crawley concurs with the 19th century anthropologist Cesare Lombroso’s opinion that the kiss of lovers originated and evolved from the maternal kiss. Crawley notes that pre 20th century Japanese society was “ignorant of the kiss except as applied by a mother to her infant”. Kissing is a rather important expression of erotic emotions and love. In Kristoffer Nyrop’s book, The Kiss and its History, Nyrop describes a kiss motivated by love as an “exultant message of the longing of love, love eternally young, the burning prayer of hot desire, which is born on the lovers’ lips, and rises.” Best pop to the florists after!

I am sure you are all familiar with the nursery rhyme below, but do you know the meaning behind it? Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row In fact the rhyme has acquired three competing historical explanations: - A religious allegory of Catholicism (in support for its reinstatement or for its persecution) “Silver bells”: The sanctus bells “Cockleshells”: The badge of those performing the pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia, Spain. - It concerns Mary Queen of Scots “How does your garden grow”: Mary’s reign over her realm “Silver bells”: The Catholic cathedral bells “Cockle shells”: Suggesting Mary’s husband was unfaithful “Pretty maids all in a row”: Mary’s ladies-in-waiting - It concerns Mary I of England “Silver bells”: Could refer to the instruments of torture used in the many executions under Mary I “How does your garden grow”: Referring to Mary I’s womb which produced no heirs “Pretty maids all in a row”: Concerns either her many miscarriages, her execution of Lady Jane Grey, or the many burnings of Protestants under her. No one can be too sure which interpretation is correct, who knows...it could even be about r4ds cards!

When I was stuck in a dying, painfully dead-end relationship I used to love the idea of being single. I figured the world would be my oyster and I'd meet lovely boys left right and centre to flirt with and maybe go on a date or two with. But I think that's always the way things seems when you're in a miserable relationship. The grass is always greener. The truth is that it's just as miserable dealing with all the awful greasy men in clubs and bars, cringey chat up lines and dud dates. I've gone on a couple of 'dates' - one guy must've been on some sort of personality pills the night I met him, but skipped them before our second date - he was as dull as a dishrag! The second was no better, he had plenty of personality, but did nothing but talk about himself, his mates, and how great he thought his body looked in a tight t-shirt and his Firetrap jeans. I mean, hello? Photo: Keturah Stickann (Flickr)