Next some old Thanet photos
the answers
1 the bakelite plug allowed you to plug electric appliances into the the ceiling light socket where you would normally put the lightbulb.
Boarding school, my school was definitely worse than yours, had no wall sockets, no curtains in the dorms either, I had a record player, plugged into the ceiling with an earth wire clipped to the radiator to reduce the hum, with records being so expensive. After that poor student accommodation and slum accommodation, the rent included the electric light, heat and cooker were gas and supplied through a slot meter that took shillings 5ps., for music and when the shillings ran out. You could gauge what you could get away with from the smell of the wiring.
2 First mention of Thanet
Here is the actual text from the book Isidore of Seville's Etymologies
2. Britannia, an island of the Ocean, completely separated from the circle of lands by the sea that flows between, is called by the name of its people. It lies in the rear of the Gauls and looks toward Spain. Its circuit is 4,875 miles; there are many large rivers in it and hot springs, and an abundant and varied supply of metals. Jet is very common there, and pearls.
3. Thanatos, an island of the Ocean in the Gallic sea, separated from Britain by a narrow strait, with fields rich in grain and a fertile soil. It is called Thanatos from the death of snakes, for it is destitute of them itself, and earth taken thence to any part of the world kills snakes at once.
4. Thyle is the furthest island in the Ocean, between the region of North and that of West, beyond Britain, having its name from the sun, because there the sun makes its summer halt, and there is no day beyond it; whence the sea there is sluggish and frozen.
There is a lot of confusion in textbooks and history books over where the text originated from and you will find other answers online.
The earliest reference to the town is in the Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274-5, "Christina de Remmesgate have stopped a common road at Remisgate" before spelling so Ramsgate is spelt differently in the same line.
Out and about photos, exercise and chemist so obeying the rules
If you came here to escape, pandemic at the end, so some photo fillers
Ok here are the coronavirus stats and thoughts.
I think it is important to understand that it isn't Coronavirus that is killing people but peoples own immune systems reacting badly to a new virus. I think as this progresses treatment will improve, at the moment lots of people reacting in different ways and needing different treatments
NOTE:
1. This is daily deaths per ten million residents, counting from the day of first reported death.
2. The dotted line shows the three-day moving average.
3. The chart has been condensed, for clarity, by removing the first 11 days.
As you see we have now overtaken the others.
the table is from the Euronews website
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