Yorkshire on Sunday 17 March 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 17 March 1190: Jewish survivors of preceding massacres and overnight suicides plead from York castle walls to be allowed to convert to Christianity
- 17 March 1854: Samuel Jackson of Green Hammerton (Harrogate) writes to his 18-year-old son, John Hughlings Jackson, a student at York Medical and Surgical School
- 17 March 1914: Months before murdering his lover, the painter John Currie lectures at Leeds University and has a late-night heart-to-heart with its vice-chancellor, Michael Sadler
- 17 March 1990: J. Salter encounters a swarm of ladybirds on the North York Moors
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 06:07-18:11, zenith 12:09
- Moon: set 03:13 rise 09:09, first quarter
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 06:12-18:16, zenith 12:14
- Moon: set 03:19 rise 09:13, first quarter
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 06:11-18:14, zenith 12:13
- Moon: set 03:25 rise 09:04, first quarter
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 06:12-18:15, zenith 12:14
- Moon: set 03:15 rise 09:17, first quarter
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 06:10-18:14, zenith 12:12
- Moon: set 03:18 rise 09:10, first quarter
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Passion Sunday ✝ Patrick – patron of Ireland, protection against snakes ! Carlin Sunday – grey peas softened in water and fried with pepper, salt and butter (Bedell 1847)
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