Florence Petty (1 December 1870 – 18 November 1948) was a Scottish social worker, cookery writer and broadcaster. During the 1900s she undertook social work in the deprived area of Somers Town in North London, demonstrating for working-class women how to cook inexpensive and nutritious foods. Much of the instruction was done in their homes. She published cookery-related works aimed at those also involved in social work, and a cookery book and pamphlet aimed at the public. From 1914 until the mid-1940s she toured Britain giving lecture- demonstrations of cost-efficient and nutritious ways to cook, including dealing with food shortages during the First World War. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, she was a BBC broadcaster on food and budgeting. Petty worked until she was in her seventies. She is considered to be a pioneer of social work innovations. Her approach to teaching the use of cheap nutritious food was a precursor to the method adopted by the Ministry of Food during the Second World War.

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1988:

Five armed men hijacked a bus carrying thirty schoolchildren and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, Russia), and were later given an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and ransom for the release of the hostages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Ordzhonikidze_bus_hijacking

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rime: 1. (transitive) 2. To cover (something) with rime (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost. 3. (figurative) To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat. 4. (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost. 5. Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1). 6. (figurative) 7. A film or slimy coating. 8. White hair as an indication of old age. 9. (meteorology) 10. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. 11. A coating or sheet of ice so formed. 12. (Britain, regional) A cold fog or mist. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rime

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