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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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On this day:
Scotland and France form their 'Auld Alliance' - 1295, Battle of Southwark - 1450, Newton’s Principia Published - 1687, Giant Hailstone Hits Plumstead - 1925, National Health Service established - 1948
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