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Today is the start of Saturnalia, when slaves rule their masters, when nobody works, but all indulge in feasting, drinking and gift-giving, and men wear women’s clothing. Catullus calls it ‘the best of days’, but Pliny tries to escape by spending the day alone in his summerhouse.

Grey seals or selkies can also turn back into human form. Seal hunters on the Monach Islands heard this singing:
Woe to the land, woe to the land!
Eating people for your food;
See the chief of all our nation
Boiled to death on a blazing fire.
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27 September 1066: After weeks of delay waiting for the wind to change, William, Duke of Normandy, finally sets sail for England.
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3 August 1460: James II, King of Scots, is killed by when one of his cannons explodes at the siege of Roxburgh Castle.
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9 May 1671: Having incapacitated the guard at the Tower of London, Colonel Thomas Blood and his associates make off with the Crown Jewels including crown, orb & sceptre. When caught he declares, “It was a gallant attempt, however unsuccessful! It was for a crown!”
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9 Jan 1806: Admiral Lord Nelson's funeral at St Paul's, attended by thousands including the Prince of Wales. The funeral procession includes 32 admirals, over 100 captains, and 10,000 soldiers. The sailors carrying his coffin tear the flag to shreds as mememtos.
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5 August 1100: Three days after the death of his brother, King William Rufus, Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, promising a return to the laws of Edward the Confessor.
Henry’s older brother Robert ‘Curthose’ remains Duke of Normandy.
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24 July 1603: Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son, who accedes to the throne as King James VI of Scots.
Patrick Lindsay told his queen, if she didn't sign "she would compel them to cut her throat, however unwilling they might be".
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27 May 1199: John ‘Lackland’, sole surviving son of King Henry II and brother of Richard Cœur de Lion, is crowned King of England. Much of his reign will be taken up with unsuccessful attempts to assert his hoped-for dominance in Europe over France and the Pope.
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