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24th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1819 Queen Victoria (Queen of England)
Died:
1543 Copernicus (astronomer & mathematician)
On This Day:
1862 Westminster Bridge, London (crossing the Thames) is officially opened
Have a good Thursday, 24th May
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18th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1893 Wilfred Owen (anti-war poet)
Died:
1745 Robert Walpole (First British Prime Minister)
On This Day:
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is ratified
Have a good Sunday, 18th March
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
– William Wordsworth
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