On this day:
Ramilles* was won
Brave Joan
of Arc’s **ideals undone
Tibet by
China was invaded***
And plants
by Linnaeus **** upgraded!
May 23rd
– short trivia list;
What other
events have I missed?
The
Internet fills knowledge gaps
And makes
us wiser, Folks – perhaps!
Facts learned
at school are now on line;
For today’s
youth that is fine
But nothing
beats our Memory Banks
No need for laptop check – but thanks!
(c) Poet in the woods 2025
Cornucopia - or the Horn of Plenty!
* 1706 - where the Duke of Malborough beat the French
** 1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians
*** 1951
**** 1707 - Carolus Linnaeus Swedish botanist and explorer was the first to frame principles for defining genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them,
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