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vendredi 30 août 1918, Journaux, Sherbrooke, Que. :[Eastern Township Publishing],[1897]-1969
[" M Sherbrooke Daily Record Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE., FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918.Twenty-second Year THE THREATENING WEATHER CHECKED FLOW OF SPECTATORS TO THE FAIR YESTERDAY, BUT NEVERTHELESS A LARGE CROWD ATTENDED (The Railway Officials Were the Chief Guests at the Luncheon Tendered By the Directors Yesterday\u2014\u201cAlstead Arbutus\u201d a Field Spaniel, Valued at Over $600, Died from Pneumonia\u2014Sam Boy, Owned By Mr.Bernier, of Victoria-ville, Accounted for the King George State.VÏ 4 The threatening weather undoubtedly acted as a check on the flow of people to that bright and lively spacious enclosure situated on the east side of the St.Francis River to witness the programme offered yesterday by the directors of Canada\u2019s Great Eastern Exhibition.Nevertheless, there were nearly twenty thousand persons in attendance in the afternoon and over ten thousand during the evening, of which total number about twenty thousand were paid admissions.Consequently, the exhibitors, patriotic workers, officials and the Midway performers put in another busy day, but also a profitable day.Notwithstanding the threatening weather, visitors started to arrive at the grounds early in the morning, and over ten thousand witnessed the programme of harness races and the vaudeville performance in the afternoon.One of the outstanding features of yesterday\u2019s attraction programme was the grand parade of horses, live stock and prize dogs.The horses attracted special attention, for they were undoubtedly as high a grade as has ever been seen in this vicinity.The live stock displayed also had many admirers, while the prize dogs interested one and all.Valuable Dog Died.The dog show jud

British WWII portable temporary harbours

The Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Alliedinvasion of Normandy in June 1944. They were designed in 1942 then built in under a year in great secrecy; within hours of the Allies creating beachheads after D-Day, sections of the two prefabricated harbours were towed across the English Channel from southern England and placed in position off Omaha Beach (Mulberry "A") and Gold Beach (Mulberry "B"), along with old ships to be sunk as breakwaters.

The Mulberry harbours solved the problem of needing deepwater jetties and a harbour to provide the invasion force with the necessary reinforcements and supplies, and were to be used until major French ports could be captured and brought back into use after repair of the inevitable sabotage by German defenders. Comprising floating but sinkable breakwaters, floating pontoons, piers and floating roadways, this innovative and technically difficult system was being used for the first time.

The Mulberry B harbour at Gold Beach was used for ten months after D-Day, while over two million men, four million tons of supplies and half a million vehicles were landed before it was fully decommissioned. The partially completed Mulberry A harbour at Omaha Beach was damaged on 19 June by a violent storm that arrived from the northeast before the pontoons were securely anchored. After three days the storm finally abated and damage was found to be so severe that the harbour was abandoned and the Americans resorted to landing men and material over the open beaches.

Background

The Dieppe Raid of 1942 had shown that the Allies could not rely on being able to penetrate the Atlantic Wall to capture a port on the north French coast. The problem was that large ocean-going ships of the type needed to transport heav

News in The Times today (Thursday, Sept 26) that Bronze Age cheese crumbs had apparently been smeared over the bodies of mummies 3,600 years ago may bring memories flooding back to veteran children’s TV presenters Andy Crane, Pat Sharp and Yvette Fielding.

The trio were hosting a wild and wacky Saturday morning show called What’s Up Doc? in the wilds of Maidstone, Kent, back in 1993 when a producer stumbled over a similar cutting.

A rare 200-year-old lump of Tibetan cheese was about to be auctioned at Sotheby’s.

At the time, the programme also featured a weird character called Simon Perry who wore a bright orange cagoule, a knitted blue balaclava helmet and who also had an unhealthy interest in the snack.

It was decided that Simon (played by actor Stephen Taylor Woodrow) would attend the auction house and bid for said cheese as a publicity stunt. It was assumed the mouldy block of dairy could be snapped up for a song. Who else in their right mind would want it?

As it happened, another cheese collector had read the same piece and was also in the room. He was determined to get his hands on the crumbling cube and insisted on taking part in a bidding war against the unlikely-looking Scottish TV representative.

The chunk of Tibetan history finally went under the hammer for a tidy £1,000, virtually blowing the TV station’s total publicity budget at a stroke.

I was the show’s publicity man at the time. It turned out to be just what the doctor ordered. The unlikely sale made all the newspapers the following day and led to journalists clamouring for interviews.

Simon was quoted as saying: “I’m over the moon, which I hope is made of cheese.”

The dry yellow remains reported in The Times were discovered hidden in tombs in the Taklamakan desert in northwest China back in the 1930s but scientist have only recently used DNA samples to confirm they are of kefir, a type of cheese still made today.

The study shows that the ancient Xiaohe people created cheese