Seventeenth-century butchers could be fined for killing bulls without baiting them first. Baiting was thought to improve the quality of the meat.
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"Who has appointed the Germans the judges of nations?
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~ John of Salisbury
On This Day
1286 Alexander III of Scotland died of a broken neck after falling from his horse in the dark and tumbling down a hill.
1649 The House of Commons passed an Act abolishing the House of Lords. They called it 'useless and dangerous to the people of England'.
1932 The world's tallest steel arch bridge, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was opened.
1945 Hitler issued his Nero Decree, a scorched earth policy that aimed to destroy all German infrastructure to prevent its use by the advancing Allies.