1671 - Thomas Blood[?], disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He would later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
1950 - Robert Schuman[?] presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration[?]", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1980 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter named the Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge[?] over Tampa Bay[?] sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agreed to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries. The standoff started on April 2.
2002 - In Kaspiysk[?], Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
In the Soviet Union, May 9th commemorated the signing in 1945 of the capitulation of Germany, the most important Axis force in World War II, to the Allied forces. In Russia, as before in the Soviet Union, the 9th of May is celebrated as the end of the "Great Patriotic War", the preferred term for the 4-year long German-Russian war. A certain controversy surrounds this holiday: in some other countries (for instance, France and Germany) the 8th of May is considered to be the day of capitulation. This is documented by historic radio announcements of Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: both said that the capitulation was declared on May 7th and signed on May 8th, in the presence of the highest military officials of the Allied forces, including the Soviet Union. Later, the Soviet Union changed the date to May 9th for somewhat obscure political reasons.
European Union - Europe Day, commemorating the "Schuman declaration"
Man trusts
self-contained grace more sensitive if not so viciously exact. The noisy
with sharp interrogative whistles before there is the least paling of the
morning air. His version of "Sleepers, wake," echoes in the silence in
oft repeated at dusk and late in the evening. Of all the birds of the day
derive his name, "Wung-go-bah."
As the dawn hastens a subdued fugue of chirps and whistles, soft,
calls with which the glare is greeted, completes a circle of sounds.
which blend with the silence almost as speedily as the half lights flee
a general exclamation of pleasure on the recovery of the day from the
matutinal compliments. Those who take part in it may be jealous rivals in
paean, not loud and vaunting, but mellow, sweet and unselfish.
THE MEGAPODE
The cackle and call of the scrub fowl (MEGAPODIUS DUPERREYS) are
through the night. Rarely venturing out of the shades of the jungle, the
subdued lights, and is thus enabled to detect and prey upon insects which
the surface of the ever moist soil. Astonishment is excited that there can
scorpions and spiders left to perpetuate their species, when the floor of
bird. During the day the megapode is sometimes silent, but ever and anon
uncouth, discordant effort to imitate the boastful, tuneful challenge of
has no ear for music. It seems to have been practising
and to have not yet arrived within quavers of it. It "abhors the.
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