Anglo Celt-Sympathy and silence for victims of recent tragedies. A minuteâs silence was observed at the council meeting this afternoon (Monday, October 12) for the victims of the Carrickmines fire tragedy and for Gda Anthony Golden who was shot dead in Omeath on Sunday.nglo Celt-Victims of Carrickmines fire remembered locally. A book of condolence has been opened at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Felim in Cavan Town in memory of the ten lives lost in a fire at a Traveller halting site in Carrickmines, Co Dublin last weekend.
It's funny how it took scientists until 1894 to discover the most common noble gas on Earth. That's right, argon (Ar) makes up a little over one percent of our atmosphere. Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay discovered and isolated argon gas, but we joke about how long it took. They could never have done it earlier, because the technology wasn't available. We say that today's scientists are on the cutting edge and discovering elements that will have atomic numbers over 120.
Around 2,300 BC, the independent city-states of Sumer were conquered by a man called Sargon the Great of Akkad, who had once ruled the city-state of Kish. Sargon was an Akkadian, a Semitic group of desert nomads who eventually settled in Mesopotamia just north of Sumer. The Sumerian king, Lugal-Zaggisi, tried to form a coalition of Sumerian city-states against Sargon, but he was defeated by the Akkadian. Sargon is considered the first empire builder.