Bernard Levin wrote in his review for the Daily Mail: “After a wait of 100 years this will do for a start” in 1987 the Pentagon confirmed that five specially trained dolphins had been sent to the Persian Gulf to assist US forces in detecting underwater mines placed by Iran to disrupt shipping. The Times review was headlined: “Routine Performance of Hamlet”. In 451 the Council of Chalcedon drafted a creed defining Jesus’s divinity in 1962 Nelson Mandela pleaded not guilty at the start of his treason trial in South Africa, to charges of incitement and leaving the country illegally (obituary, December 5, 2013) in 1963 the National Theatre Company, founded under Laurence Olivier, opened with Peter O’Toole starring in Hamlet at the temporary home of the Old Vic, London. In 1941 the Pulitzer prize jury voted unanimously for it to win the fiction prize, but this was vetoed by the ex-officio chairman of the board, who declared it indecent - no fiction award was given that year in 1966 a coal slag heap engulfed a school and houses in Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, killing 144 people, including 116 children. In 1843 William, his son, modified the process that is now used worldwide in 1940 Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was first published. In 1824 Joseph Aspdin, from Yorkshire, was granted a patent for Portland cement (resembling the quarried stone).
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