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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
Who Was Otto Kubel?
The first paragraph to the second subheading, Oil paintings, mentions the Furstenfeldbruck artist colony.
Might the artists have made their homes from new-constructed buildings or pre-existing structures? And might there be an extant Otto Kubel ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
A New Piece of Land
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Business- and government-owned lands must be managed as non-private lands.
What would church- and royal-owned lands be managed as?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/06/2024
The Three Peaks Route
Thanks forbthisbinformation.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Spectres in the Tower
Insuppose drifting ice is a good explanation for the polar bear remains.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Role of the papacy
Officialndocumentsbare in Latin, but day to day discourse is in Italian. Mass can be either.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Philosopher and the Gospels: a review
I cannot say, butbthe Cisterciansbarevquite strict.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
The loch has currents which change with thebtimebof day. This is due to the configuration of the deeply sloping bed and the thermal gradients associated therewith.on the northern shore it is worse as the afternoon progresses.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024
The mystery of Flannan Isle
Meat and skins.
frankbeswick, on 06/06/2024