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The Gathering Tide: a review
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Me too, I'm not comfortable with stereotypes even as I laugh from time to time over one from my stay in Brazil.
A bus ride from Rio de Janeiro all the way to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
19th Century Gothic and Sensation Literature
The third subheading, Gothic literature authors and books, contains the following examples:
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Matthew Lewis- The Monk
James Hogg - Confessions of a justified sinner
Ann Radcliff - The Mysteries of Udolpho
Emily ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
The Christian View of Political Leadership
Thank you for your comment -- "Possibly Alfred the Great" -- three boxes below on Apr 6, 2023, in answer to my previous-day question about the "accuratest realization or closest approximation of a 'Biblically based leadership' at any place, any ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
As Winter Comes
Your comment below on Nov. 28, 2023, in answer to my previous, same-day question advises that "My children are not great tea drinkers, they prefer coffee, but I am a devotee of tea."
A recent continuing education unit dealt with Kew Gardens. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
My ablutions are almost entirely showers, so I don't need help at the moment. But we upgraded the bathroom so that the bath has access through a small doorl. Thus when I shower (in our combined bath and shower) i access through the bath door.? ...
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
The Gathering Tide: a review
I do not place great value on stereotypes. I recall catching a coach in Manchester to go on holiday to South West England. I was the only Englishman aboard, the rest were Scots, and what a friendly and lively crew they were. It was the jolliest ...
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
The Remote Islands of Britain
No, the only festival that I know is Up Hellly Ah, the mid winter fire festival. St Patrick's day is not celebrated.
On another point there is good soil in parts of Orkney.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Underland: a Review
Long term is what timescale is needed to store very radioactive material.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Understanding the British Political System
The dissolutionnaffects mainly the House of Commons, but during a dissolution the Lords does not sit.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Why do Christians Believe that Jesus was Divine
No traditions on these questions have been preserved.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Yes to deaconesses
Certainly. She was known in the Christian community as the Lady Mary. I think that her role in the Christian community would have been aiding devotikn to Jesus.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
The Road to Roaringwater
It is a Catholic church dedicated to St Patrick
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Walled Gardens
Yes it is an interesting question. We in the UK do not pay as much attention to the Tradescants'work in Virginia as we should.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Walled Gardens
The fourth paragraph to the second subheading, Sophisticated horticulture, advises us that "Growing pineapples was a sophisticated task, but one that brought high status to the owner and the head gardener. English head gardeners developed a hot ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/15/2024
The Road to Roaringwater
Thank you for your comment below on Jan. 29, 2020, in answer to my previous-day observation and question.
The fourth paragraph to the second subheading, Southwards through Connaught, considers pilgrims who climb Croagh Patrick ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/15/2024