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The Snowdonia Slate Trail
Thank you for your comment below on Dec. 3, 2021, in answer to my previous-day observation and question on Dec. 2, 2021.
What labels do you most appreciate among blue and goat's cheeses?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
The Role of the papacy
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It seems to me like Vatican people are bilingual in Italian and Latin. Would that be true of Vatican City people?
(Would everyone in Vatican City be current ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
Religious Minorities in Iraq
Friendly, The Yazidis need as many friends as they can get.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Light in the West:Celtic Christianity
120 is the limit to human longevity, so this age is not impossible.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Philosopher and the Gospels: a review
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Does it seem that Cistercians might agree with Dominicans and that Benedictines might agree with Franciscans in the three-way tale of Dominicans, Franciscans ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
The mystery of Flannan Isle
Subsistence culture in Western Scotland and Ireland. Combine crops, fishing and hunting.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
No, I had Maureen with me, so I played it safe and went back to shore
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
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My university has an outing club that includes water activities, such as boating and kayaking, on its lake. Water activities involved balmy- and bad-weather ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
The mystery of Flannan Isle
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Seal meat and skins correlate in my mind more with Inuit culture than with British, English, Gaelic, Irish, Norse, Scottish cultures.
What culture did the seal ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
The Light in the West:Celtic Christianity
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The third paragraph to the first subheading, Celtic cross, advises us that "A major influence upon Irish monasticism was Egyptian Christianity, which seems to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
Religious Minorities in Iraq
Thank you for your comment below on Mar 30, 2023, in answer to my previous-day observation and question.
The third paragraph to the first subheading, Yazidis, advises us of the latter as followers of "Melek Taur, the Peacock Angel."
English ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
The order of the peerage, starting from the bottom: bayonet, baron (Lord or lady), viscount, earl or he equivalent of a count, duke, royal duke, which is a title only held by members of the royal family, Prince, Queenie Prince consort, ...
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
Book Review: The Moor
The collapse does not always affect all the bog at once. The collapse is often a slow procee, so the Brontes were lucky enough to be away from the place where the collapse started.avalanches and bog collapses are similar, though the avalanche is ...
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
Book Review: The Moor
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How does one make one's own luck amid or near bog collapse? Does it come down to jumping high or running away fast enough?
Online sources lack any information ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
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Rising to higher peerage levels likewise catches my attention.
What might prompt a higher-level title? For example, might it be money-based -- an invention or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024