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The Oxhill News August 2003 |
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This months News |
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It happened in August August 1st, Lammas Day, is
a quarter day in The August Bank Holiday is the last Monday in August, this year the 25th. The Scots, never liking to do anything the English do, stick to the first Monday, the 4th. The Princes in the Tower disappeared in August 1483. They may have been murdered on the orders of Richard III. Or they could have been abducted by aliens. The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre began on 24 August 1572, in Paris as the Huguenots were slaughtered by the orders of Charles IX of France under the influence of his mother, Catherine de’ Medici. The Battle of Blenheim was fought on The Battle of Bosworth Field was
fought on The Battle of Crécy was fought on The And they call August a slow news month. Editor |
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