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Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

That's quite interesting about concomitant distinctions between, but movement back and forth among, civil and crown service.

Might they have the same benefits and pension plans?

(Congratulations on your youngest son's crown service!)

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

It's heartening that Celtic saints are remembered even as it's disheartening that that memory is so incomplete.

Might these incomplete histories and stories be because the information source is not known at all or because it's inaccessible or undecipherable?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

The third paragraph to the first subheading, The young trooper, advises us that "But one incident had a lasting effect. Early in the siege the Allies became convinced that the Germans were sheltering in the monastery rather than just camped and dug in around the wall, so General Alexander took the hardest decision of his life:to call in the bombers, so in the early light of a February morning in 1944 the United States Air Force launched its awesome power. Hundreds of tons of high explosive hit the monastery, which fortunately had been emptied of monks, but sadly not of refugees, pounding it to rubble and killing two hundred innocents. The bombing made the situation worse, as the surviving Germans were able to fortify the rubble and did so with Germanic efficiency."

It's quite sad that the bombing is not interpreted, then or since or now, as a success, particularly since it terminally imperiled 200 innocents, isn't it?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

That's such good news. How glorious it is indeed!

Might it be known how that sacred flame musters continuously, because managed by one or two or more nuns?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

Your comment three boxes down, on Dec. 20, 2023, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and comment Dec. 19, 2023, considered that "The stumps are cut to about three inches,but the shoots will be left to grow until they reach the desired length."

Is there a standard "desired length"?

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When did the Welsh southward to northward stretch along west Britain develop?

It might not have been such an imagination tug that Fleance in the play Macbeth managed to move from Scotland to Wales!

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

When did the Welsh southward to northward stretch along west Britain develop?

It might not have been such a stretch that Fleance in the play Macbeth managed to move from Scotland to Wales!

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

When did the Welsh southward to northward stretch along west Britain develop?

It might not have been such a stretch that Fleance in the play Macbeth managed to move from Scotland to Wales!

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

When did the Welsh southward to northward stretch along west Britain develop?

It might not have been such a stretch that Fleance in the play Macbeth managed to move from Scotland to Wales!

The third paragraph to the second subheading, The origins and history of Mexican folk art, advises us that "Another notable aspect of Mexican folk art is the vibrant and detailed work of alebrijes. These fantastical creatures, often made from papier-mâché or carved from wood, are painted in bright colors and intricate patterns. Alebrijes originated in Oaxaca in the 1930s when artist Pedro Linares had a dream during an illness in which he saw these creatures. When he recovered, he began to recreate them in his art, and the tradition quickly spread."

The word alebrije appears to be something that Linares heard in a dream.

And yet it never manifests in any etymological dictionary. Online sources mention it as paper-made or wood-carved fantastic animal. But they never offer where the word parts originate.

Would it be fantastic animal?

My exercise concentrates on gardening and lawn and yard work as well as walking, all of which generate fitness through calories, muscle power and perspiration.

For all the above, I lean towards overdressing to maximize calorie-burning and fitness.

Might it make zumba dancing even more calorie-burning than 800-1200 calories to pursue such sessions in sweats on a hot day?

Such a long country would have been hard to organise. It was a loose bond between small kingdoms, using the languages of several dialects of Welsh, a number of dialects of Cumbric, Pictish and Irish Gaelic.. unwieldy.

There is no limit to the stems that can bud from a healthy tree. The gap sycamore is now sprouting shoots. Wonderful.

Yes. How glorious.

I am unsure. Most people were known by someone, but not necessarily all.