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Walking in the Dolomites
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
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
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
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
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
The computer crashed before I could continue another component to the question below.
There perhaps is a difference in invoking "ordinary" -- ;-{ -- duchesses and dukes and royal duchesses and dukes.
Might a royal duchess and her duke be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day question.
The female equivalents of the peered titles are not as well known among Unitedstatesian west-ponders, who are without literal, official royalty ;-D!
So here goes. Is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
Who Was Otto Kubel?
The third subheading, Postcards, advises us of Kubel achievements in oil-painted and postcard landscapes.
Did Otto Kubel do the same landscapes for both genres or did an oil-painted landscape never do duty as a postcard landscape and vice versa?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2024
The Philosopher and the Gospels: a review
I don't think it is as simple as that. Theologicalmopinions are quite varied.
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024
The Role of the papacy
No. Latin is for the clerics. The !ordinary workers use Italian. Retired people do not usually live in the Vatican, they tend to live in Rome.
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024
The Snowdonia Slate Trail
I have not a label for goat's cheese. We get it from craft cheesemakers. We have none in the fridge at the moment. We get some at the supermarket.
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024
The Spectres in the Tower
Fur, I think. But successfully hunting a bear wasva sporting achievement.
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024
The Three Peaks Route
No. Sir is for lifetime achievement.
frankbeswick, on 06/07/2024