Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know.#5 including the war against the Bishop of Urgell in 1934.

Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know.#5 including the war against the Bishop of Urgell in 1934.



  • Boris Skossyreff was a Belarusian ‘adventurer’ who styled himself Boris I. In 1934 he plotted a coup in Andorra.  Having declared war on the Bishop of Urgell the Spanish authorities sent a Civil Guard Sergeant and three constables to arrest him.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Skossyreff 


  •  6th September 1944 marked an end to a phase in the war as far as the British Public were concerned. The Black Out was replaced by the Dim Out; Fire Watching was abolished outside of the South East and compulsory Home Guard training was ended.


  • The Fahrenheit scale was proposed in1724 by Daniel Gabriel of that name. He invented a mercury thermometer in 1714.


  • The earliest reference I have found so far to Pineapples and Cheese on sticks is in the West London Observer 23rd August 1957.   In Notes to the Hostess:


‘Other fascinating things to add to your supper are pineapple and cheese cubes on sticks or pineapple cubes with squares of ham, frankfurters split and smeared liberally with French mustard.,


  • One time King of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte, lived in the USA from 1815 to 1832.  He then moved to London. He died in Florence in 1844.

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