because knights in the Middle Ages riding on horseback wanted to keep their right hand, usually their sword hand ready ... so they would keep to the left when travelling.
and for same reason many countries under French rule at some time, drive on the right as Napoleon was left handed
The price of renting a cherry tree is £35. For this, the orchard will look after your tree for you to pick at harvest. All the cherries on ‘your’ tree are yours.
As a guide, the price of cherries in supermarkets can range from £6 - £12 a kilogram. The yield on your tree will vary, but in an optimum year could be as much as 15-20 kilograms.
near my mum and dad's home, an old oak tree fell down last year and have a slab of the tree to make a table, its taken some time to sand it down but counted the rings today and there are about 130 - guess that means it was a little acorn in ~1878.
Thats when weather data started to be collected, Cleopatras Needle arrived in London, Thomas Edison patented the gramophone, the Edison light company began, some of the first telephone exchanges were installed, the Tokyo Stock exchange was established and Disraeli anticipated war with Russia