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  • On the Origin of Species

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    Today MCI wants to celebrate that in 1859, On the Origin of Species was published by Charles Darwin.  It isn’t a surprise then, that this day is also celebrated annually as Evolution Day.  Darwin decided to write ‘On the Origin of Species’ after travelling around the Galápagos Islands on the…

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  • Remembrance Sunday

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    It is Remembrance Sunday this week.  We at MCI think that, given the terrible conflicts in this world, that it is more poignant than ever to take time to think of everyone affected by the conflicts.

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  • Remember, Remember

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    MCI is celebrating Bonfire Night (otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Night) this weekend. This celebration only happens in the UK and marks the night that Guy Fawkes and his followers were stopped from blowing up Parliament. Most children in the UK know the rhyme: ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November,Gunpowder,…

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  • Happy Halloween 2023

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    MCI is celebrating gremlins for Halloween this year. Some of you will remember the films of the same name with fluffy creatures that mustn’t be fed after midnight. However, we are going further back into history than that, to WW2. RAF pilots sometimes had intermittent faults with their machinery. The…

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  • Fall Back for Winter

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    MCI want to remind all its friends that the clocks go back by an hour this weekend. As we were taught at school: Fall back for winter, Spring Forward for Summer. As we get ready for the long nights here in Scotland and hope to see the Northern Lights, we…

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  • Grace Darling

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    MCI wants to commemorate the life of Grace Darling who died today, the 20th October 1842.  Many of you will have never heard of Grace Darling or her heroic actions that ensured that she was embedded in the history of lifeboats forever.  She was a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived…

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  • Battle of Hastings

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    MCI wants to mark the date of the Battle of Hastings which took place today, Friday the 13th 1066. Many children in schools around the UK have heard of how two kings were both claiming the English throne at the same time. These kings were William and Harold. William came…

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  • Quantum Dots

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    MCI wish to congratulate, the scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov for winning the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of quantum dots on the 4th October. For those of you who are not familiar with quantum dots, they are semiconductor nanocrystals. The dots are only a…

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  • Rudolph Diesel

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    Today MCI has a history mystery for you.  The 29th September 1913 was the date that Rudolf Diesel disappeared.  As you can probably guess from the name, Rudolph Diesel was the inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine.  He was a French – German engineer who wanted to create the…

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  • Working Week

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    Today MCI takes a closer look at the working week as we celebrate the invention of the 5 day working week courtesy of Henry Ford this day in 1926.  If you hate Mondays, think back to the turn of the 20th century when there wasn’t a weekend off.  Henry Ford…

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