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Understanding the British Political System
Correct.
frankbeswick, 3 days ago
Thinking About Slavery
The weakness of England during the Norman conquest gave thevScotsvan opportunity, but the Normans gave them a good hammering.
frankbeswick, 3 days ago
Underland: a Review
Long termis always buried, SHORT term can stay on the surface.
frankbeswick, 3 days ago
Why do Christians Believe that Jesus was Divine
There probably were mediaeval legends, butbthere are no recorded last words.
frankbeswick, 3 days ago
Why do Christians Believe that Jesus was Divine
Thank you! So my comment in the second box below contains Jesus Christ's last words. Is there any Christian tradition about the last words of Our Lady Mary and of St. Joseph?
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Underland: a Review
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. A storage unit for nuclear waste could have either an above- or a below-ground component for nuclear waste in the United States. Which would it be in the ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Thinking About Slavery
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Your comment three boxes down advises us of the Scots as taking "many English slaves right up to the Norman period." Did the Norman victory at the Battle of ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Understanding the British Political System
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Queen Elizabeth II perhaps faced a time just before dying in which she perhaps had duties yet to discharge. The task for discharging any unfinished duties ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Walking the Length of Britain
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Perhaps that first walker in 1879 also set the custom then of stopping at Tan Hill inn?!
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Walled Gardens: a review
There indeed must be some growers in the British Isles. The BBC Gardeners World magazine numbers among its online articles "How to grow pineapples"! The aforementioned source offers as growing sites indoor conservatories, greenhouses or ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Where was Jesus Born
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Sepphoris intrigues me because of that Salt Lake City Library book. Salt Lake City kept two books -- the one listed above, the other listed below -- that I ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
The Royal Horticultural Society
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Education and training can deepen one's appreciation of plants or initiate that appreciation. Does RHS membership become available only to those already ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
The Resurrection of Jesus
Thank you for the comment below in correction of my previous observation. English Wiktionary gives as respective meanings "small" and "ask for, borrow" for the names Paul and Saul. Might St. Paul have chosen that name because of feeling small ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Cheadle Hulme History Walk, Cheshire
Thank you for inviting us along on such an educational, historic, pleasant walk. Your photos are so clear and so well-focused, that the green foliage and the white walls, especially in the last in-text image, are bright- and clean-looking. The ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
The Remote Islands of Britain
The northern isles have poor soil, so they must import some foodstuffs.
frankbeswick, 3 days ago

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