And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Dagen H, today usually called "Högertrafikomläggningen", was the day on 3 September 1967, in which the traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right.
True to form, at the time here in the UK there was an Irish joke. "Due to the problem Sweden has had with the driving change, Ireland has proposed that cars will change on the Monday, buses on the Tuesday, trucks on the Wednesday . . ."
True to form, at the time here in the UK there was an Irish joke.
ReplyDelete"Due to the problem Sweden has had with the driving change, Ireland has proposed that cars will change on the Monday, buses on the Tuesday, trucks on the Wednesday . . ."
Somebody dropped the ball on that plan, big time.
ReplyDeleteOkinawa had the opposite when it reverted to Japan.
ReplyDeleteLove that '64 Chebby in the foreground.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of when after doing something incorrectly for far too long is then corrected.
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