Britain is in festa for four days to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. The anniversary was in fact in February but it doesn't pay to hold celebrations in Britain in the winter months; indeed it seems likely it will rain on the flotilla tomorrow, but spirits are so high it won't matter.
The only other monarch to have a diamond jubilee was Queen Victoria. In those days a diamond jubilee was 75 years but it was reduced to 60 years because they needed to hold a trade festival.
Best wishes to Her Maj.
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TIM - The Cable News Network [CNN] pre- empted normal programming and Sunday talk shows on its telecast 'live' the boats along The Thames River - And I WAS MOVED TO REAL TEARS at The Royal Philharmonic and 12-voices tributes! ** THEN the program was again re- telecast by CNN earlier this morning [Pacific Time Zone} - MORE TEARS! * NARY A WORD nor MENTION, however and sadly so - From The FOX News Network [conservative] of New York City - and shame on them all for such poor choices! -30- ** BTW - TYou might get some inquires from 'strange names' in the AMerican science-technology-high tech arena -- I HAVE OPENED A CAN OF "whoop a*s" here ;-) -- Mentioning in only highly favorable terms: Your BLOG! "FAIR WARNING"! ;-)
TIM -- IN THE INTERESTS OF GETTING THIS TO YOU SOONEST == The Council on Foreign Relations [New York City, NY] - JUST Reports: "G-7 Emergency Meeting" re: EURO zone economic / financial crises! Sent to you as an "F.Y.I." DAVE PHILLIPS in Reno, NV [U.S.A.] . . . . -30-
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