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Walking Among Illuminated Art: China Lights
Thanks for the comments. This is apparently a group of several displays, and the videos show some of them. Yes, the dragon is impressive, and difficult to photograph because of its length. The bottles are apparently a new edition and have not ...
blackspanielgallery, on 03/18/2016
Walking Among Illuminated Art: China Lights
Wow! That display looks amazing. I would love to see that dragon!
jptanabe, on 03/18/2016
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I have just done some research. There is a condition known as Androgen insensitivity syndrome. The individuals who suffer it have both X and Y chromosomes, which makes them male, but they cannot respond to male hormone and so have female bodies ...
frankbeswick, on 03/18/2016
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I don't think that she was male, but she might have been one of those individuals who have the physical traits of both sexes. All this fits with the secrecy about her body that you mention. She clearly had a visible female shape, but her dress ...
frankbeswick, on 03/18/2016
Walking Among Illuminated Art: China Lights
Beautiful stuff. I like that idea of using bottles with colored water!
Mira, on 03/18/2016
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"feminine ability " leads us to a completely different issue as to was Elizabeth 1st really a man, a male child substituted in infancy for a deceased Elizabeth. She never married and resisted it fully and wholeheartedly. would only allow one ...
Veronica, on 03/18/2016
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The decision that no rule other than the Benedictine one be followed applied only to monks. The friars [mendicants] were not touched by it. There is also a rule operating from the Middle Ages that no new orders can be founded. However, this ...
frankbeswick, on 03/18/2016
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Elizabeth survived through a combination of cunning, a feminine ability to manipulate people and cruelty when she thought necessary, besides being very intelligent. Some of the cruelty came from her horrid underlings, such as Cecil, who was ...
frankbeswick, on 03/18/2016
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You are a genius
Veronica, on 03/18/2016
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In response to your message. There was a papal edict that all monastic orders in the RC church follow the Benedictine rule, so the Celtic orders were forced to become Benedictines. Thus the now extinct Cluniacs, the Cistercians, Carthusian and ...
frankbeswick, on 03/18/2016
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Henry was a dreadful cruel man . So many people were hideously executed in his reign The Tudors were weak until Elizabeth 1st. The cruelty was a cover for their weakness, Elizabeth 1st included.
They knew they had no real claim to the throne.
Veronica, on 03/18/2016
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The dissolution of the monasteries was followed by the atrocity of the Pilgrimage of Grace. This happened when northern Catholics protested to Henry. He got them to disperse with promises of consultation, then he slaughtered them. Henry was a ...
frankbeswick, on 03/18/2016
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The wizzley link for my wars of the roses pages here
https://wizzley.com/the-wars-of-the-roses-in-a-nutshell-a-very-brief-guide/
Veronica, on 03/18/2016
The Keep 32 (Teeth) Molecule - Makes Your Teeth Bullet-Proof To Plaque, Cavities, And More
I lost alot of strength in my teeth while expecting my babies, I didn't realize the prenatal vitamins had no vit d calcium or magnesium in it so I started taking them while pregnant and stopped ...
Amanda, on 03/18/2016
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It's the British intellectual property rights, health and safety rules, licensing rights etc. that keeps Britain in an absolute straight-jacket for doing lovely things such as this.
Veronica, on 03/18/2016