My Other Car Is Not A Beetle

      Interestingly by the order of none other than Adolf Hitler, saw the creation of the Volks-Wagen Beetle, the People's Car. The task of designing the now iconic vehicle befell the engineer Ferdinand Porsche who was told to design and produce a car for the German people which would be inexpensive to purchase and cost effective to run. From the first fledgling production to a total of  21 million Bettles being produced.and sold worldwide, it now appears the car has come to the end of it's long and consistent journey.
      The Beetle seems to have lost much of it's popularity in Europe after the introduction of the VW Golf in the 1970's but have enjoyed an almost second life in Latin America. Only now is production finally at a close, with the final factory line in Mexico switching to other popular VW cars.     

The King's Displeasure

      The reign of the English King Henry VIII saw the end of the power of the Monastic Order. It was Henry through the administration of Thomas Cromwell who brought about their demise and seized their great wealth for the Crown in what was understood to be an often violent and bloody campaign.
      Now almost five centuries later, the now Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, is expected to become the Anglican Primate, who will supervise communities of Monks and Nuns with legal recognition of their organisations, when this is completed in the Spring of 2020. Which will reinstate as many as eighty semi-official religious groups back as full members of the Anglican Family.