The lengthy list of “Things that didn’t happen on time” due to last week’s extended power outage over much of the core area of downtown Davis includes the usual Friday afternoon posting of the agenda for the next Davis school board meeting.
The PG&E power outage last wee
COTHERSTONE has come home to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. A painting of the museum founder’s Derby-winning racehorse, on which he had riding bets worth £4m today, has been acquired at auction through a bequest left by a former headmistress of Polam Hall School in Darlington. John Bowes bred Cotherstone at his stud at Streatlam Castle, near Barney, in 1840, and, having named him after the Teesdale village, sent him for training at John Scott’s yard in Malton in Ryedale. Cotherstone became regarded as the greatest racehorse of his day, but in an era when the sport of kings was notoriously crooked, he lost first time out in late 1842 which caused him to drift out in the betting to 50-1 for the following year’s Derby.
COTHERSTONE has come home to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. A painting of the museum founder’s Derby-winning racehorse, on which he had bets worth £4m in today’s money riding, has been acquired at auction through a bequest left by a former headmistress of Polam Hall School in Darlington. John Bowes bred Cotherstone at his stud at Streatlam Castle, near Barney, in 1840, and, having named the horse after the Teesdale village, he sent him for training at John Scott’s yard in Malton in Ryedale. In those days, the sport of kings was notoriously crooked, and although Cotherstone was entered for the Epsom Derby of 1843, his first race in public in late 1842 ended in an unpromising defeat, causing him to drift from 20-1 to rank outside 50-1 for the Derby.
During marathon meetings on Tuesday and Thursday, Jan. 19 and 21, the Davis school board burned a bit of midnight oil as the trustees approved a series of motions, as well as special instructions to staff regarding further work, that provide much of the framework regarding what school will be like w
The American pirate who kicked off one of Hong Kong s earliest major political scandals
Updated 7:57 PM ET, Tue December 22, 2020
Hong Kong (CNN)The 1857 trial of American pirate Eli Boggs in Hong Kong was a riveting affair, filled with tales of plunder, kidnapping and murder on the high seas. But it was Boggs two-hour closing statement that shook the British colony s political establishment to its core.
Boggs accused a top colonial official, Daniel Caldwell, and another notorious pirate, Ma Chow Wong, of working together in secret to protect each others interests. Boggs claimed that Wong derived his power from Caldwell s protection racket, and Caldwell profited handsomely financially and professionally in return. Caldwell reportedly turned over other pirates to law enforcement so he could rise in the colony s professional ranks.