Radcliffe is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It lies in the Irwell Valley 2.5 miles (4 km) south-west of Bury and 6.5 miles (10 km) north-northwest of Manchester. The disused Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal bisects the town. Historically a part of Lancashire, the town and its surroundings show evidence of Mesolithic, Roman and Norman activity. A Roman road passes along the border between Radcliffe and Bury. In the High Middle Ages, the town was recorded in an entry of the Domesday Book as "Radeclive"; it formed a small parish and township centred on the Church of St Mary (current church pictured) and the manorial Radcliffe Tower, both of which are Grade I listed buildings. Coal was mined nearby during the Industrial Revolution, providing fuel for the cotton-spinning and papermaking industries. By the mid-19th century, Radcliffe was an important mill town with cotton mills and bleachworks. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe,_Greater_Manchester> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1907: More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March, the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_%28suffragists%29> 1920: The Svalbard Treaty was signed, recognizing Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard> 1950: U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy accused 205 employees of the State Department of being communists, sparking a period of strong anti- communist sentiment that became known as McCarthyism. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism> 1996: Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, first created the chemical element copernicium. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: gassy: 1. Having the nature of, or containing, gas. 2. (specifically) Of a beverage: containing dissolved gas (usually carbon dioxide); fizzy. 3. (specifically) Of a person: tending to burp; burpy. 4. (specifically) Of a person: tending to release flatus; flatulent. 5. Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence. 6. (figuratively, informal) Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gassy> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.   --J. M. Coetzee <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee>