Yorkshire on Friday 20 December 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 20 December 1697: Terrible flooding in the lower Don is caused by the failure of the colonist Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme to cope with snow-melt
- 20 December 1868: The Leeds authorities try to make Eliza Thurkill calmly admit she is dying so that, under English law, her hearsay statement may later hang her abortionist
- 20 December 1966: Greek-Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos appears before Leeds magistrates charged with obscenity under the Vagrancy Act 1838
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: 08:14-15:44, zenith 11:59
- Moon: set 11:36 rise 21:41, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 08:19-15:48, zenith 12:04
- Moon: set 11:41 rise 21:46, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 08:22-15:42, zenith 12:02
- Moon: set 11:42 rise 21:43, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 08:16-15:50, zenith 12:03
- Moon: set 11:40 rise 21:47, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 08:18-15:45, zenith 12:02
- Moon: set 11:40 rise 21:44, waning gibbous
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