Good Morning!

Today is eeeeeelection day.

If you live in Cambridge like I do you can find where you polling station with this handy website https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/find-your-local-polling-station

Polls are open from 0700-2200 (here, and I think everywhere), you don't need your polling card (but you do need to have registered to vote).

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Died on this day in 1718 aged 59 Maria (Mary) of Modena (my toy,wikipedia). Wife of James VII and II. Her marriage to the King was not popular (she was Catholic) and there was controversy about the birth of her son (it was claimed he had been smuggled in, and wasn't hers, this is unlikely to be true), unhappiness with James' Catholic tendencies lead to the Glorious Revolution and James and Mary lived the rest of their lives in exile in France. Mary was not much involved in politics.

Born on this day in 1767 to King Frederick II of Prussia and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Princess Frederica of Prussia (my toy,wikipedia). Daughter-in-law of George III, also a great-great-grand-daughter of George I (so her husband's 3rd cousin (also George III's)). Her parents (Frederick and Elisabeth) were double first cousins - which means that their parents were two siblings who had married two siblings, and also that she had only 4 grand parents (also they didn't get on at all well). She had no children with the Duke of York, and separated (but did not get officially divorced) from him and lived eccentrically with her animals. Her husband and father were both Fredericks, and she was a Frederica... I think Frederick was a very popular name in the 18th century in Germany.

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Weirdest Bug -

Using Open Office, open a new spreadsheet. In cell A1 type 'ID', in cell B1 type 'Pre' (no quotes). Save as a .csv using ; as a separator. Now open the resulting .csv file using Open Office. If you are *me* then this just straight-up doesn't work - you get a blank .csv file. Loads of *other* text works; It seems to be only if I have a word starting with P in B1 and NOT in A1. Also it works if I use , as a separator (but the bloody file is full of ,s maybe I need to trust the quoting more)?

ALSO annoyingly if a cell contents is '.' it reads (in OO) as '0' (it's not, if I read the text file it has '.'). Does not happen if cell contents is '.,.' or other '.' containing strings.