BuffaloPhil

Wednesday 301. Starting point for a kids game of darts!

What's the current scoring system please? I think I should have scored today with my 125 (given that people who went higher and lower than me have both scored )

Monday - sticking with my train-based 125

118118? That's more like the overall total, isn't it?

I did... let me resend it as a new one.

I'm in... cue Nantonian hitting a last minute first round winner!

Sunday 125 - the legendary British locomotive.

Yes I did wonder about that when gleefully plagiarising Wikipedia, but couldn't think of a better word in all honesty! "Written" doesn't seem right since most of it's pictures (or so I'm led to believe)

Saturday 300 - the Kama Sutra was produced.

Friday 333. The Romans abandon work on Hadrian's Wall and pull out of Britain.

Wednesday 432 - Christmas is celebrated for the first time on the 25th December in Alexandria.

Tuesday 497 - Indian mathematician Aryabhata calculates pi to be 62832/20000 (3.1416) - correct to four decimal places. Mmmmm... pie.

Sunday 271. First use of the magnetic compass.

Saturday - 451 - either a slightly more defensive formation, or the year Attila and the Huns smashed through present-day Germany and into France.

Friday 528 - very little happened, it seems

Thursday 565. Earliest reported encounter with the Loch Ness Monster, by Saint Columba.

Wednesday 713 - Queen Cuthburh founds a monastery in my home-town of Wimborne.

I think this government is absolutely appalling - corrupt and incompetent. However I have to give them credit for the vaccine rollout - they've hit every target they promised and are only failing in places because of the antivaxxers persuading a lot of people that the vaccine will allow Bill Gates to track their movements or something equally stupid. Anyway, Tuesday 555. Death of King Erb of Gwent. Probably not the most noteworthy King in history.

Sunday 376. Birth of Cyril of Alexandria

Saturday 630. Muhammad conquers Mecca and makes it the holy city of Islam. Amongst various other religious based massacres.

Friday 666. The Number of the Beast. Also apparently the year of death of Ramla Bint Abi Sufyan, one of Muhammad's wives.

Thursday 931. Death of King Harald Fairhair of Norway, who is succeeded by his delightfully-named son Eric Bloodaxe.

Wednesday 964. Birth of Bertha of Burgundy. Try saying that five times quickly.

Tuesday 732. Battle of Tours.

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm finding this game to be a tremendous history lesson lately!