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This Week in History, March 25–31
Medical and archeological breakthroughs mark this week.
Another week, another look back into history. Included in this week is a discovery that would have made Indiana Jones proud as well as a medical breakthrough that has made countless men happy. Women maybe not quite as much. And here we go.
March 25, 1306: Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland.
I have never heard of a position or title called the Bruce. Wouldn’t you have to be named Bruce to be the Bruce? I would think the Bruce would be the greatest of all Bruces. Did Robert change his name to Bruce? I’m thinking that Robert the Bruce would be not as good as being the Duke of Earl.
March 26, 1997: 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult were found dead.
They were apparently waiting for a spaceship to whisk them away from earth. There’s nothing funny about 39 people being found dead, but at first, I thought it was a different group who were victims of angry investors from the movie, “Heaven’s Gate.”
