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Lord Nelson:
🎵 A party for Santa Claus

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[07:55] College trekt lessen uit sloop van Lord Nelson. Motie van treurnis redt het niet

Wethouder Klaas Smidt gaf donderdagavond tijdens het debat over de sloop van de panden van Lord Nelson aan dat erfgoedverenigingen in de toekomst betrokken zullen worden bij plannen voor nieuwbouw in de historische binnenstad van Meppel. Tevens wil de gemeente twee ambtenaren aanstellen, één voor controle en handhaving en één voor expertise en advies op het gebied van cultureel erfgoed.

https://www.dvhn.nl/drenthe/meppel/College-trekt-lessen-uit-sloop-van-Lord-Nelson.-Motie-van-treurnis-redt-het-niet-29358864.html

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Reaching Nelson

This morning I published another paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics and in the process I noticed that took us to a total 111 articles this year. I got to thinking about the significance of that number in cricket, where it goes by the name of Nelson…

In cricket – at least in England – Nelson is supposed to be an unlucky number. The reason for this could well be that the number 111 looks like a set of stumps without the bails (see left). (For those of you not up with the lingo, the bails are two smaller bits of wood that sit on top of the stumps. ) The absence of the bails could mean that they have been dislodged, signifying that a batter is out. Also umpires remove the bails at close of play, so it could indicate that the match is over.

What’s less clear is the connection with Horatio, Lord Nelson (right). The version I was told at school was that Nelson had “one eye, one arm, and one Trafalgar”. Some also say “Destiny” instead of “Trafalgar”. Those are polite versions. Others say the third one refers to a part of the male anatomy. Bill Frindall used to say “one eye, one arm, and one et cetera“. Who knows which, if any, of these is right?

In any case this does give me the chance to point out that, contrary to popular myth, Nelson didn’t lose an eye anyway. In 1794, Nelson was in action at the Siege of Calvi during the Invasion of Corsica when a cannonball struck a nearby sandbag and sprayed him with sand and gravel. Nelson’s right eye was damaged by this, but he didn’t lose it although he had little effective vision through it thereafter.

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[10:07] Onduidelijk of archeologisch bodemonderzoek op locatie Lord Nelson heeft plaatsgevonden. Sterk Meppel stelt vragen

De fractie van Sterk Meppel krijgt signalen dat er geen archeologisch bodemonderzoek is gedaan op de locatie van de voormalige Lord Nelson, wat daar verplicht zou zijn. De partij stelt daarom vragen aan het college.

https://www.dvhn.nl/drenthe/meppel/Onduidelijk-of-archeologisch-bodemonderzoek-op-locatie-Lord-Nelson-heeft-plaatsgevonden.-Sterk-Meppel-stelt-vragen-29238730.html

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