Sunday 14 July 2019

'89

1689 – the so-called Glorious Revolution in England.

1789 – the best known of all the so-called French Revolutions.

1989 – the so-called Velvet Revolution in the then Czechoslovakia.

What is it about ‘89 and ‘Revolutions’* and how come there was none in 1889?


(* put inside quotation marks as two of these are outside the scope of my definition of the word)


(originally published on Tumblr)

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