Today in 1520, Montezuma, king of the Aztecs, was killed by Hernando Cortez's men in Tenochtitlan. He got his revenge however, as anyone who has ever eaten in a tapas bar can testify.
In other news ...
What is wrong with this sentence?
'At the trooping of the colour today the police arrested a youth who stepped from the crowd and fired a pistol at the Queen.'
Did you spot it? The queen was surrounded by hundreds of her soldiers, men armed to the teeth. They were, by definition, the Household Cavalry and the Guards. Their job when they were formed and when this incident happened in 1981 was and is to protect and defend the monarch. Instead, they let the police do it. What is the world coming to?
