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02/04/2022

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There's a phantom blacksmith at Berkshire Downs. Legend has it that if a passing horse loses its shoe the rider should leave the animal at the ancient stone monument with a few coins. On return, he will find the horse newly shod and the money gone.

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01/04/2022

Birmingham Curzon Street railway station (1838–1966) Grade I listed entrance building was designed by Philip Hardwick as the company's offices and boardroom. Built in 1838, it is among the world's oldest surviving pieces of monumental railway architecture. Costing £28,000 to build, the architecture is Roman inspired, following Hardwick's trip to Italy in 1818–19.
The design mirrored the Euston Arch at the London end of the L&BR. The interior was modified in 1839 to accommodate a 'hotel' (the Victoria), although this was probably more in the nature of a refreshment room or public house, and later the booking hall. It is three storeys tall but relatively small.
The building was acquired by Birmingham City Council in 1979.
The Railway Hotel closed in June 1900 for conversion to railway offices and was demolished ca. 1980 by Birmingham City Council.
On 27 January 1847, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was established with George Stephenson as its first president in the Queen's Hotel; a plaque commemorating the centenary of the event was placed inside the station building when the hotel was demolished.
Ansells Brewery had a purpose built public house built opposite the station in 1897. This was called The Woodman and it is still open in 2022.
Hardwick's station building was acquired by Birmingham City Council in 1979.and was used by a University of Birmingham student theatre group. The building was also proposed as a home for the Royal College of Organists, but the proposal foundered in 2005 for lack of funds. A Parcelforce depot to the rear of the station was demolished in May 2006.
A commemorative plaque was installed next to the station entrance in 1988 which reads: "THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM TRAIN AT THIS STATION ON MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 1838".
The building was expected to be the centrepiece of the City Park and Masshouse development scheme, However, these plans were superseded by the High Speed 2 proposal, which will incorporate the surviving entrance building into the eastern entrance of a new station.
A masonry colonnade screen will connect the historic structure and the new HS2 station viaducts and eastern concourse at New Canal Street. The renovated building will have a visitor centre and office space that will be used by HS2 Ltd, Birmingham City University, and Historic England.

01/04/2022

The impending destruction of the Euston Arch in January 1960 sparked a public outcry, and the newly-founded Victorian Society's first great campaign.

“[There is] no worthier memorial to the fact that Britain built the first railways than to re-construct this Arch, its lodges and railings on the Euston Road itself,” John Betjeman, a founding member of the Society, wrote in the Telegraph.

In February 1960, MP Woodrow Wyatt tabled a motion in the House of Commons to demand that the Arch be retained, and the London County Council agreed that it was necessary to re-erect the Arch on an alternative appropriate site.

But Minister of Transport, Ernest Marples, was adamant that the cheaper option of demolition rather than removal was the only practical solution.

With an aim of raising £90,000 to pay for the relocation of the Euston Arch, the Victorian Society requested that any decisions about the building’s future to be delayed until the money was raised.

On 24th October 1961, a group of campaigners from the Victorian Society visited the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, but he refused to allow more time to raise funds.

Two weeks later Macmillan announced that the lack of available land and the removal costs made moving the Euston Arch impossible.

In a final act of defiance, a group of architects climbed the scaffolding around the Arch and unfurled a 50ft banner exclaiming ‘Save the Arch’.

Demolition began in December 1961.

“Without pleasure” were the exact words that Frank Valori, the demolition contractor, used to describe the job of destroying the monument, and his offers to facilitate the reconstruction of Euston Arch were rejected by the government.

Instead, Valori incorporated part of the arch into his own house and garden, while the ornamental iron gates can now be seen at the National Railway Museum in York. The rest was thrown into the River Lea.

He also presented a silver model of the Euston Arch to the Victorian Society, with the inscription ‘to perpetuate the memory of one of London’s finest historic monuments’.

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01/04/2022

30/03/2022

🇺🇦 At the entrance to the memorial park in Kyiv, there is a sculpture of an extremely thin girl with a very sad look holding a handful of wheat in her hands. Behind her back is the Candle of Remembrance. This monument commemorates the Holodomor.

What is the Holodomor?
After the end of the First World War, Ukraine was an independent state, but in 1919 the Soviet Union "sucked" it into the community of Soviet states. The Ukrainians considered themselves a Central European country, like Poland, and not an Eastern European country like Russia. They tried to restore Ukraine's independence.

In 1932, not wanting to lose control of Europe's main source of grain, Stalin took away the grain-producing land from the Ukrainian peasants and also all the grain, creating an artificial famine. The goal was to "teach Ukrainians to be smart" so that they would no longer oppose Moscow. The people who produced the most grain in Europe were left without a crumb of bread.

The peak of the Holodomor was in the spring of 1933. In Ukraine at that time, 17 people died of hunger every minute, more than 1,000 every hour, and almost 24,500 every day. People were starving to death in the streets.

Stalin settled Russians into the emptied Ukrainian villages. During the next census, there was a huge shortage of population. Therefore, the Soviet government annulled the census, destroyed the census documents, and the census takers were shot or sent to the gulag, in order to hide the truth.

Today, 28 countries around the world present the Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians. You couldn't learn about in school because almost all evidence was destroyed and victims were covered up for decades. To this day mass graves are being uncovered.

Books are now being written. Movies are now being made (see Bitter Harvest movie from 2017 starring Max Irons and Barry Pepper: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3182620/).
The Holodomor at that time broke the Ukrainian resistance, but it made the desire for Ukraine's independence from Russia eternal.

24/03/2022

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02/12/2021

If you are looking for an unusual present for a friend or family member, have you considered a walking tour of the City Centre or the Jewellery Quarter. Contact me for ideas for a tour.

09/11/2021

Last week, a study published in the Lancet journal provided us with something amazing: the first ever concrete proof that the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer and therefore saves lives.

The impact is of the vaccine is huge – the incidence of cervical cancer has reduced by 87% in women in their 20s.

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05/10/2021

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29/09/2021

We’re already looking forward to stepping into Christmas with the Festive Fayre 2021 🎄

From Friday 3 to Sunday 5 December, Hampton Court Palace’s courtyards will be transformed into a Christmas wonderland with artisanal food, drinks and gifts to fill your stockings with.

But wait, there’s myrrh! Soak up the festive atmosphere with family fun and sing-along classics from the East Front Bandstand.

Treat yourself to tickets here 👉 bit.ly/hcp-fayre

19/09/2021

Walking Tours in the Jewellery Quarter 2nd and 3rd October at 11.00 from St Paul’s Church. Contact me or visit my website www.BirminghamTours.co for more information

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19/09/2021

Jewellery Quarter Walking Tours 2nd and 3rd October from St Pauls Church. See my BirminghamTours website for more info.

14/09/2021

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06/08/2021

PHOTO: 1945 The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively,

On This Day - 6th August

1497 Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) - first European to do so since the Vikings

1504 Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury was born. He had an extremely long nose and was extremely inquisitive, hence the expression 'Nosy Parker'.

1623. Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare died.

1699. HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Sharks Bay, Western Australia in the first British Scientific expedition to Australia.

1809 Alfred Tennyson, English poet was born. He is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, (after Shakespeare). Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all", and "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die".

1844 The first UK press telegram was sent, to The Times, announcing the birth of Prince Alfred to Queen Victoria.

1856. The Great Bell is cast for the Great Clock of Westminster, London (Big Ben)

1859. The world’s first advertising slogan – “Beecham’s Pills: Worth a Guinea a Box” – appeared on this day. In those days there were 20 shillings to a pound and a guinea amounted to 21 shillings – a fantastic amount for a pick-me-up box of pills.

1880. In a remarkable race at the Astley Stakes in Lewes, East Sussex, 5 of the 9 horses passed the winning post virtually simultaneously. The judge declared a triple dead heat for first place, with a double dead heat for fourth.

1881. Sir Alexander Fleming, scientist, Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin was born here - Lochfield Farm at Darvel in Ayrshire. His 'bacteria killer' discovery changed the world of modern medicine and has saved millions of people around the world.

1889. The Savoy Hotel in London was opened.

1914. World War I: The first Battle of the Atlantic took place On This Day. Two days after war had been declared war on Germany over their invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats left their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

1915 The British land more troops at Suvla Bay on the northern shore of Gallipoli in an effort to break the stalemate on the peninsula during WWI

1922 The birth of Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966. He was one of the first airline owners to adopt the 'no-frills' airline business model.

1926 American Gertrude Ederle (20) becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel in 14 hours, 39 minutes, a record for male or female

1934 Chris Bonington, British mountaineer was born. His career included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest and the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna, in Nepal.

1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins

1945 The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.

1945 Australian Test cricket all-rounder Keith Miller scores 110 not out for Australian Services on Day 1 of drawn 4th Victory Test against England at Lord's

1949. The 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh was executed. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed a total of nine, dissolving their bodies in concentrated sulphuric acid before forging papers in order to sell their possessions and collect substantial sums of money.

1962 Jamaica became independent, after being a British colony for 300 years.

1971. Chay Blyth became the first to sail the world solo, non-stop, in the "wrong" direction i.e. east to west - against the prevailing winds and currents. His journey took 292 days.

1976. The government passed the Drought Act to combat the continued UK drought.

1987. SDP leader Dr David Owen resigned after members of his party voted to merge with the Liberals.

1990. Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

1996. NASA. announces that life may have existed on Mars after examining meteorite ALH84001, thought to be from Mars

2006 Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3 stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan
2009 The funeral service took place at Wells Cathedral for Britain's last World War I veteran Harry Patch, aged 111.

2012. Pioneering astronomer and physicist Sir Bernard Lovell, the founder of University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory died,
aged 98. The main telescope at Jodrell Bank is known as the Lovell Telescope.

2016 Australian women's 4 × 100m freestyle relay team of Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Bronte Campbell & Cate Campbell sets a new world record 3:30.65 to win gold ahead of US and Canada at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics

2019 A quarter of humanity is running out of water with 17 countries under extreme water stress including Cape Town, Los Angeles and Bangalore, according to report by the World Resources Institute

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05/08/2021

Photo: 1305 Sir William Wallace, Scottish hero and champion of Scottish independence who beat Edward I at the battle of Stirling Bridge, was captured by the English and later executed as a traitor.

On This Day - 5th August

642 The Battle of Maserfield (now widely identified as Oswestry), between the Anglo-Saxon kings Oswald of Northumbria and Penda of Mercia. The battle ended in Oswald's defeat, death, and dismemberment.

910 The last major Viking army to raid England was defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.

1100 Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

1305 Sir William Wallace, Scottish hero and champion of Scottish independence who beat Edward I at the battle of Stirling Bridge, was captured by the English and later executed as a traitor.

1583 English soldier and navigator Sir Humphrey Gilbert (half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh) established the first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland and claimed it for Elizabeth I.

1620 The Mayflower departed from Southampton on its first attempt to reach North America but the sister ship, the Speedwell developed a leak. It had to be refitted at Dartmouth and, after further leaks (or possibly sabotage) the Mayflower made the 60 day crossing alone.

1729 The death of Thomas Newcomen. Newcomen created the first practical steam engine for pumping water from tin mines. Prior to his invention, flooding was a major problem, thus limiting the depth at which the mineral could be mined. This Newcomen engine at Elsecar in South Yorkshire was built in 1795 to extract water from the local colliery. It is the only one of its kind in the world to remain in its original location.

1792. The death of Lord Frederick North, British Prime Minister whose indecisive leadership led to the loss of the American colonies.

1816 Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph in his garden on Hammersmith's Upper Mall. He offered his new invention to the Government, who dismissed it as being 'wholly unnecessary'. At this time the government was relying on a visual system (the semaphore) and it took a further 20 years for the electric telegraph to be commercialised. You can find out more about Francis Ronalds and his many other inventions via this link.

1858. The first transatlantic cable was officially opened, with Queen Victoria sending a telegraphic message to US President James Buchanan.

1901 Britain's first cinema, the Mohawk, opened in Islington, north London. Films were accompanied by the 16-piece Fonobian Orchestra. At the height of their popularity in the 1940s, cinemas in Britain had average weekly attendances of 30 million.

1925. The political party Plaid Cymru was formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language which was, at the time, in danger of dying out.

1926. In his last public stunt, American magician Harry Houdini stayed in an underwater airtight coffin for some 90 minutes; he bested rival magician Rahman Bey's time of one hour.

1963. A Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in Moscow by Russia, the United States and Britain. Under the treaty, nuclear tests in the Earth's atmosphere, in space or under the sea were outlawed.

1975 Forestry Commission officials announced that Dutch elm disease, which had attacked more than three million trees in Britain, was spreading.

1976 The clock overlooking the Houses of Parliament stopped for the first time in 117 years.

1981. U.S. President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who were on strike.

1983 Twenty two members of the IRA were jailed for a total of more than 4,000 years following Northern Ireland's biggest-ever terrorist trial.

1984The death of Richard Burton, Welsh actor, aged 58. Born at Pontrhydyfen, this Richard Burton sculpture is on the Richard Burton Trail in the Afan Forest Park in Neath - Port Talbot

1986 Princess Anne rode Gulfland to win the 3.45 at Redcar; her first victory as a jockey.

2010. Thirty-three workers became trapped after a mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile collapsed, and the resulting rescue took 69 days, attracting international attention.

2019. Continued antigovernment protests and a general strike brought Hong Kong to a near standstill; among the demonstrators' demands were universal suffrage and investigations into allegations of police brutality.

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04/08/2021

On This Day - 4th August

Photo: 1265, one of the most bloody battles in England's history took place in Evesham between the forces of Prince Edward (later Edward I) and Simon de Montfort (earl of Leicester), following months of bitter wrangling over the control of the king, the enforcement of the Magna Carta and the barons rights under law. Simon's forces were outnumbered and thoroughly routed with Simon himself taking the brunt of a most vicious attack and dying on the field. Eye witness accounts called it "the murder at Evesham, for battle it was none".

1265 The Battle of Evesham (Worcestershire) took place, in which the army of Prince Edward, the future king Edward I of England, defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. De Montfort and many of his allies were killed.

1704. Gibraltar was captured for the British by Admiral Sir George Rooke.

1792 The birth of Percy Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets. In September 1812 Shelley, pursued by debtors and authorities who wished to question the poet about his radical political activities fled to Tremadog and lived at at Tan-yr-allt the former home of William Madocks, the designer and builder of most of Tremadog.

1870. The British Red Cross Society was founded, by Lord Wantage.

1914 Britain declared war on Germany after the Germans had violated the Treaty of London by invading Belgium, and so began 'the war to end all wars'. The United States declared their neutrality.

1917. Captain Noel Chavasse, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, only the second man to be awarded the additional bar to the Victorian Cross for bravery, died from injuries sustained in battle four days earlier.

1923 The BBC began using the 'pips' as a time signal in its broadcasts.

1954 Britain's first supersonic fighter plane, the English Electric Lightning P-1, made its maiden flight.

1972. President Idi Amin declared that Uganda would expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.

1985 The death of Don Whillans rock climber and mountaineer who climbed with both Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both. The British Mountaineering Council maintain a climbing hut near the Roaches, Staffordshire, in his memory.

1987 Moors murderer Ian Brady claimed that he was involved in another five killings.

1989 'Licence to Kill' went on general cinema release in the United Kingdom. It was the sixteenth entry in the James Bond film series by Eon Productions, and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel.

2000 Celebrations took place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. She was the first ever member of the Royal Family to reach her centenary.

2002. Police in Soham, Cambridgeshire were 'extremely concerned' over the disappearance of two 10-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Their school caretaker Ian Huntley was later found guilty of their murder.

2005. Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri warned that London would face more attacks because of Tony Blair's foreign policy decisions. The al-Qaeda deputy said: "Blair has brought you destruction to the heart of London, and he will bring more destruction, God willing."

2012 The annual stinging nettle-eating competition, started in 1986, was held at The Bottle Inn pub at Marshwood near Bridport in Dorset. The current record at the event for the most amount of nettles eaten in one hour is 76ft (23m).

2012. Great Britain enjoyed its most successful day at an Olympics in 104 years by winning six gold medals on day eight of the London Games.

2014. People in the UK were encouraged to turn off their lights between 10pm and 11pm, leaving only a single light or candle for a symbolic act of reflection and hope in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War 1. On the eve of Britain officially entering the war, Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, uttered the words "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

2019 Frank Zapata is the first person to cross the English Channel by flyboard in 22 minutes

2020 UN says COVID-19 pandemic has created biggest educational disruption in history affecting nearly 1.6 million students in 190 countries, 94% worldwide.

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03/08/2021

Photo: 1492. Hoping to find a westward route to India, Christopher Columbus set sail on his first transatlantic voyage, departing from Palos, Spain, with three small ships—the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María.

On This Day - 3rd August

1326 The death, in the Tower of London, of Roger Mortimer de Chirk, opposer of Edward II during the Despenser War. His nephew Roger Mortimer later led a successful rebellion against the King and completed Chirk Castle

1460. James II, King of Scotland, died after being injured by an exploding cannon at Kelso, in the Scottish Borders. Kelso Abbey was the venue for the hasty coronation of the infant king, James III, which quickly followed.

1492. Hoping to find a westward route to India, Christopher Columbus set sail on his first transatlantic voyage, departing from Palos, Spain, with three small ships—the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María.

1692 The birth of John Henley, English clergyman. He was known as 'Orator Henley' for his showmanship and eccentricity. He charged people the sum of one shilling to attend his meetings because the seats were his personal property!

1792. The death, at Cromford, of Richard Arkwright, one of the central figures of the Industrial Revolution and founder of the factory system that transformed England into the workshop of the world.

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates

1803 The birth of Joseph Paxton, English gardener, designer, writer and creator of one of the most famous buildings of Queen Victoria's reign, the Crystal Palace.

1805. The first recorded cricket match between English public schools Eton and Harrow.

1856. London was divided into postal districts, in order to speed up letter deliveries.

1858. Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile, was discovered by the explorer John Speke.

1867 The birth of Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister from 1923-29. This term of office saw the General Strike of 1926, and during his third term, (1935-7), Edward VIII abdicated.

1887. The birth of Rupert Brooke, the English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially ' The Soldier' that begins 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.'

1908 The Post Office sent its first parcel mail to the US on the White Star liner, Teutonic

1916. Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist, was hanged in London for treason, following his attempts to induce Germany to support the cause of Irish independence.

1926. Britain installed its first traffic lights - at Piccadilly Circus, in London.

1946 The birth of Jack Straw former Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and MP for Blackburn since 1979.

1957. Footballer John Charles was transferred from Leeds to Juventus for a £65,000 fee. He was the first British footballer to be transferred to a foreign club.

1958. The U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus passed beneath the thick ice cap of the North Pole, an unprecedented feat.

1963 The Beatles performed at The Cavern Club (on 10, Mathew Street, Liverpool), for the 292nd, and last time. They received a fee of £300 pounds for the performance.

1967 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam

Sanquhar Post Office in Dumfries and Galloway became a Category B Listed Building. It is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest post office in the world and has been in continuous service since 1712.

1978 The Queen officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.

1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Ronald Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated’

1998 The Oval stages first competitive cricket match played under floodlights in London when home team Surrey loses to Sussex by 8 wickets in the day/night 40-over fixture

2001 A bomb exploded in a busy west London street, injuring seven people. Dissident Irish republicans were blamed for the atrocity.

2002. The death of Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British comic actress who starred in the television programme, 'Allo Allo!' (written by David Croft & Jeremy Lloyd) as Edith Artois, wife of the cafe owner René.

2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks

2012. American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100m butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17

2016 International Olympic Committee approves baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding to be included in the sports program for 2020 Games only; total number of sports, 33.

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02/08/2021

This year's Olympic Medals are made from e-waste that the Japanese residents were encouraged to donate.