Yorkshire on Friday 16 February 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 16 February 1114: The morbidly obese Archbishop Thomas II of York ignores medical advice and dies chaste, unlike an 18th century successor
- 16 February 1789: Thomas Paine writes to Thomas Jefferson telling of the “revolutionary” iron bridge being built to his design by the Walkers of Masbrough (Rotherham)
- 16 February 1886: Clifford Allbutt explains to James Crichton-Browne why three years later he was to trade a lucrative medical consulting career in Leeds for a less well paid Commissionership in Lunacy in London
- 16 February 1909: Clifford Allbutt, supporting George Bernard Shaw’s proposal that medicine be socialised, gives a Yorkshire example of a physician drawn by vocation, not money
Proverbially:
Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 07:17-17:13, zenith 12:15
- Moon: set 01:26 rise 09:31, first quarter
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 07:22-17:18, zenith 12:20
- Moon: set 01:32 rise 09:36, first quarter
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 07:22-17:15, zenith 12:19
- Moon: set 01:35 rise 09:30, first quarter
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 07:20-17:18, zenith 12:19
- Moon: set 01:29 rise 09:37, first quarter
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 07:20-17:16, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 01:31 rise 09:33, first quarter
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