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The Philosopher and the Gospels: a review
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Your short story Genius loci draws upon a real person. I like not to fabricate about real people.
But a short story might manifest order differences by the Devil ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
The Snowdonia Slate Trail
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Craft cheesemakers perhaps make special cheeses, such as goat's cheeses.
Might cow's cheeses also be eligible for craft cheese-making?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
The Three Peaks Route
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What or who determines whose lifetime achievements merit a "Sir"?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
Walking in North East Snowdonia: a quiet little jewel
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What is an example of remote areas for such activities as low-flying and photo-bombing?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
The Spectres in the Tower
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Might bear fur have been made into clothing such as coats, rugs or wall hangings?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
The Role of the papacy
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Pope Francis calls Vatican City lodgings home even as he commutes -- ;-D -- to and from the Vatican.
Is that likewise with the other Vatican City ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
The mystery of Flannan Isle
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Would Flannan Isle hunters have kept their seal meat and skins to themselves or would they have traded with hunters from Norway or Iceland or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
The Light in the West:Celtic Christianity
The fourth paragraph to the first subheading, The Celtic Cross, advises us that "Evidence of an Egyptian influence is that Kevin is said to have prayed in the Egyptian way, standing with arms stretched wide."
Is it known how it is that St. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
Walking in the Dolomites
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Grave-top sculptures perhaps are intended to last beyond the lifetimes of those who inspect them so that they invoke their inhabitants' memories and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
Religious Minorities in Iraq
Freddie Mercury was born into the Zoroastrian faith.
So Zoroastrian peoples would be found outside their ancestral homeland, in such places as the British Isles.
Would there happen to be Yazidi populations there?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
Book Review: The Moor
Bogs develop in poor ground, so after a bog slide the ground is unlikely to be improved, it will remain poor ground. If the slide lands on good ground the mess can be cleared and the ground restored.
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
A princess or Prince will hold a royal duke or duchess rank. Hence Prince Harry is the Duke of Sussex, but his wife, Megan, is not a princess, as she is not royal, but is simply a duchess.
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024
Book Review: The Moor
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The BBC article associated a specific bog collapse with a landscape- and water body-altering landslide.
Do bogs remain bogs after their collapse or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
There is a distinction between hereditary peers and life peers. Hereditary peers inherit their titles, and descend from either ancient Norman families or from families ennobled by subsequent monarchs, and they came either from Tudor mercenary ...
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
The female for baronet is a dame, the female for lord is lady. A viscount's wife is s viscountess. An earl's wife is a countess. I forget one rank between earl and duke, which is a marquis, the female equivalent being a marchioness. A duke's ...
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024