"What were you doing on Black Monday?" I asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I dropped by to see him this week. "You'll have to be a bit more specific as we've had a few over the years," he replied.
"Still, I presume you don't mean the one in 1209 when a group of 500 settlers from Bristol were massacred in Dublin by warriors of the Gaelic O'Byrne clan. "Or indeed the one in 1360 when inclement weather killed men and horses in the army of Edward III during the Hundred Years' War? Or in 1689 when ...
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