A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialFrench protests are absolute cinema.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialVirgin and Child on the rood screen of St Mary Steps, Exeter.
Restoration work was done on it just today, 15 October 2026.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialRichmond Park, London.
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social15 October 1917
Vera Brittain writes to her mother ‘We are still in a great rush & taking convoys every day; I have had a heavy day although I have managed to get off this evening. I am at the moment sitting in an extremely cold bath hut’
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social15 October 1918
Men of 20th Division unloading limbers to form a roadside dump of 18-pounder shells at Drocourt.
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 October 1998
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 October 1978
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 October 1973
Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 October 1964
Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 October 1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social16 October 1946
Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
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