Sevastopol fell to the British and French armies today in 1855 after an 11-month siege. It should never have taken that long but the Crimean War holds the record for the biggest number of military cock-ups in history (Ten Zed Oh - I will be needing more detail in your holiday projects, which I assume most of you busy writing today ahead of our first lesson together since July which is Period 3 the day after tomorrow, if I recall my timetable accurately). If you're ever in the Ukraine, go to the Panorama, a huge circular building lit by natural light which shows a single day during the siege in a 360 degree montage of paint and 3D models. It is an astonishing work of art. Imagine how much better it would have been if the Russians had won!
In other news ...
Today in 1962, Martin Luther King said, 'I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.' Think about that. It's really clever.
