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Blog your way into history (UK)

What you had for breakfast on Tuesday could make history.

That meal, or perhaps the way you went to work or what you saw on TV on this one day, Tuesday October 17 are wanted by a Web site hoping to create a national online archive.

The National Trust is aiming to create Britain's biggest blog as part of its History Matters campaign.

The blogs can include everyday events, but bloggers are encouraged to include an historical twist, even if it is only to describe watching a repeat of "The Two Ronnies."

October 17 has been chosen deliberately as "an ordinary' Tuesday of no particular significance."
Read entire article at Reuters