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Digging Around Nazareth
No. The sect did not survive the troubles of the rebellion of AD 70
frankbeswick, on 08/07/2024
The Quiet Servants
Of course, private charity has its place.
frankbeswick, on 08/07/2024
The Quiet Servants
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Your answer indicates "other sources, such as the state, help." Is there such a thing as private contributions?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
Digging Around Nazareth
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Essenes becoming extinct intrigues me as much as it saddens me.
Would there be any tradition of Essenes relocating and surviving elsewhere?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
Understanding the doctrine of the Trinity
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The second paragraph to the third subheading, Various systems, advises us that "The Nestorians still exist today, though depleted partly by mass conversion to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
Understanding Tropism
Thank you for your comment below in answer Sep. 17, 2020, to my previous, same-day observation and question.
The educational displays acts as such community-education tools. Did the tropism-related display get realized?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
The living soil: encouraging soil fungi
Thank you for your correction of the errant spell-checker, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Leaf size and texture convince me that holly and laurel leaves deserve pre-compost shredding -- with something other than scissors ;-D ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
The Great British Brexit Mess
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The first sentence to the third subheading, Failures of planning, catches my attention.
Why does the saying "The best laid plans of mice and men are apt to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
The Fall of the Hawkhurst Gang
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Brandy, coffee and tea as popular, profitable smuggled goods intrigue me.
Why was whisky not on that list?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
Stiperstones: a hill with legends
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Sheep, so beautiful and so prescient in their appearance, behavior, photogenic-ity and products; in their company that they keep, such as King David and Jesus ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
Walking the Great Glen
Thank you for your comment below in answer Sep. 14, 2022, to my previous observation and question Sep. 13, 2022.
Coffin-carrying appears dramatic even as it perhaps attracts body-wide pain from the wood load if not body and wood load.
Is there ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/06/2024
Why God Man: Reflections on the Incarnation
There may be legends, which may have been the basis forbthe fictional film, the Robe, but there is no documentary evidence.
frankbeswick, on 08/06/2024
Alternatives to Capitalism and Socialism
British laws would apply
frankbeswick, on 08/06/2024
What Think You of Christ?
The Assyrian church was Nestorian in theology, that is that they believed that the two natures in Christ were merely in moral union, which the Catholic Church says did not give a strong enough accounte of the oneness of Christ. But in theb1930s ...
frankbeswick, on 08/06/2024
Greenhouse Gardening
Utility poles are an American custom, we do not have them in Britain.
frankbeswick, on 08/06/2024