Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1994

On 4/21/2025 9:42 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

1994: At least four MPs die from unrelated causes, Tony Blair uses his
new position as leader of the Labour Party to make bold economic
statements unbounded by reality, and in a bold rebuke of a half million
years of effort to isolate Britain from the continent, the Chunnel opens.

Niggle:
While its true that Britain was cut off from Europe by a mega flood
about 450k years ago, during the last Ice Age the sea level fell
enough that Doggerland was exposed, reconnecting the two.
Its thought that the final severing was closer to 10,000 years ago.
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