Now! Then! July 15

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Yorkshire in history:

15 July 1802: In the Hambleton Hills, Dorothy and William Wordsworth visit Rievaulx and see Scottish cattle travelling to London
15 July 1855: At Sevastopol in the Crimea, boatswain’s mate John Sheppard of Hull wins a VC trying to row through enemy lines on an improvised explosive punt to blow up a Russian warship

Proverbially:

Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

Sun: 04:48-21:26, zenith 13:07
Moon: set 00:07 rise 15:47, waxing gibbous

Heavenly data for Leeds:

Sun: 04:53-21:31, zenith 13:12
Moon: set 00:11 rise 15:52, waxing gibbous

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

Sun: 04:47-21:34, zenith 13:11
Moon: set 00:08 rise 15:55, waxing gibbous

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

Sun: 04:55-21:28, zenith 13:11
Moon: set 00:12 rise 15:50, waxing gibbous

Heavenly data for York:

Sun: 04:50-21:30, zenith 13:10
Moon: set 00:09 rise 15:51, waxing gibbous

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Now! Then! A Yorkshire Almanac is a book-length calendar portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 905 historical serendipities (704K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,472 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,429 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Bradford, Horse, poetry, East Riding of Yorkshire ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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