Bird Xit or not, you have to see this:
Today is Trooping the Colour in London. I thought you might like to see this very rare 12-second snippet of the Trooping filmed in colour 118 years ago. I’ve always had a fascination for early colour film, and this excerpt from 1906 has been on my hard-drive for some years. Today… pic.twitter.com/47e2PXCioH
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) June 15, 2024
Mind bender: My birthdate, 21 June 1949, is closer in time to the Battle of Little Bighorn (72 years 361 days) than it is to the present day (74 years 360 days).
I was just talking to someone about something that happened in 1992. That is as far in the past as 1917 and World War I were when I was born.