Exactly one year ago today, I posted my first article of ‘historical news’. The article was entitled ‘Channel Tunnel: Midway Meeting‘ and it referred to the event on 1st December 1990 when the English and the French tunnels beneath the English Channel finally linked up 75 metres below the sea bed. For me it was the start of my own one-year ‘tunnel’ which finally came to an end with yesterday’s article about the abolishing of the death penalty in The Grand Duchy of Tuscany on 30th November 1786.
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