15 December

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 15 December:

1. This date in 1832 was the birth date of Alexander Gustave Eiffel, the French architect who designed the Eiffel Tower.
2. Jane Austen's Emma was published on this date in 1815, the day before her 40th birthday. In it she points out: "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
3. In 1995, for the first time ever, the quiz show Fifteen to One ended in a tie, between Ian Mullen and Nick Peel.
4. In 1986, Carnegie Hall reopened after a $50 million refurbishment. Violinist Isaac Stern arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to cut the ribbon.
5. Trumpeter John Shaw invented the tuning fork on this date in 1711.
6. In 1997, the distance of the Moon from the Earth was measured by laser aimed at mirrors. The answer was 15,134,310,000 inches.
7. In 1997, a New York doctor was convicted of defrauding McDonalds after the rat tail he claimed to have found in a burger was revealed to be from one of his lab Rats.
8. The last entry in the log of three Lighthouse keepers on uninhabited Flannen Isles, off Western Scotland was made on this date. The entry suggested nothing out of the ordinary, but when the supply ship Hesperus arrived, 11 days later, for a routine drop off, the crew found that all three keepers had vanished. There was an overturned chair in the kitchen and the Clock had stopped. A search of the island revealed that a rock weighing more than a ton had been moved and 30ft of turf had been ripped from the top of a cliff. The keepers were never found.
9. In 1979, two 30-year-old Canadians, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, came up with the idea for a game called Trivial Pursuit. It was manufactured 1982 and sold 45 million copies worldwide in its first five years.
10. In 2010, the mummified remains of the head of King Henri IV of France were discovered in the garage of a French pensioner.

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It is only when they meet again as adults that the connection becomes mutual; but before it can develop, Jason makes a discovery which rocks his entire world. He needs time alone, away from everyone, including Agnes. When Jason is finally ready to go back to his old life, Agnes has moved on and he cannot find her.

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