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Happy St. George’s Day

The Irish have St Patrick’s Day; The United States has Indepence Day and the English have St. Georges Day.
St. George is the patron saint of England. This from Wikipedia:

A traditional custom at this time was to wear a red rose in one’s lapel, though with changes in fashion this is no longer common. Another [...]

Some Facts about the History of Surgery

The father of transplant surgery, Alexis Carrel, was a French surgeon who learnt how to repair flesh from the best seamstresses in Lyon in the early 1890s. He died under suspicion of being a Nazi collaborator.
The first man to have a hand transplant was New Zealander Clint Hallam, in 1998. Eventually, Clint asked to [...]

The Holy City

For at least a century, Charleston, South Carolina, has been known as the Holy City.
It’s not that its residents are any more God fearing or devout than the rest of the nation, and it’s not that the folks here are any better behaved than anywhere else either.
Quite simply, if you wander around downtown [...]

24 Hours

Round-the-clock drinking in England and Wales became a reality after new licensing laws came in force on this day three years ago, as part of the Licensing Act, 2003.
More than 1,000 pubs, clubs and supermarkets were granted 24-hour licenses to sell alcohol, according to government figures. This is actually quite a small percentage, when you [...]

Dorchester State Park

This park is located just outside Summerville, SC.
In 1697, settlers from Dorchester, Massachusetts, who had originally come from Dorchester,  England, founded a town here.
The church was built in 1719; a town fair was established in 1723, and even a Free school (which unusual for the time, educated girls too), in 1734.

The town prospered as [...]