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What is the Difference Between the UK and Britain?
The issue of Normanisation is complex. The first Normans to become established in Scotland were those who took service with David in 1138, after the Scottish defeat at Northallerton. They were Normans serving empress Maud, who was in alliance ...
frankbeswick, on 07/11/2014
Confessions of a Male Stripper: Channel Four documentary
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Safloat, on 07/11/2014
Between Christian and Pagan: a review
I see now. In some ways the timing of the birthday of Jesus was pragmatic, as it was politic to fit into the festivities that attended Mithras. But there is also the point that there is a sacred cycle of the year, as you know from your own ...
frankbeswick, on 07/11/2014
What is the Difference Between the UK and Britain?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and a hundred times yes. It's this level of divide and conquer which comes through time and time again. In many ways, the worse thing that happened to the Scots was winning Bannockburn, simply because it put the Norman ...
JoHarrington, on 07/11/2014
Between Christian and Pagan: a review
I meant like shifting the Nativity to December 25th, in order to accommodate Mithras etc. Turning Pagan elements into Christian ones, so that they may be assimilated.
JoHarrington, on 07/11/2014
Between Christian and Pagan: a review
There are certain elements in Christianity that have affinities with pre-Christian practice, these including the honouring of saints and sacred places and objects, and also the sacred meal, the Eucharist [the Eucharist goes back to Jesus ...
frankbeswick, on 07/11/2014
Gifts and Buttons for Angry Deaf People
2/2 To my mind, everyone has something for which leeway is required. It might be my deafness, your anxiety or my Dutch friends switching to speaking English because one of us lazy Brits has entered the call. There has to be a balance between ...
JoHarrington, on 07/11/2014
Gifts and Buttons for Angry Deaf People
Ian James - I'm always up for a debate on Audism. Here is as good a place as any. :)
I've had someone, panicking that a third party was about to tell me something, suddenly unmute the telly and talk over the top of it. It was a deliberate ...
JoHarrington, on 07/11/2014
What is the Difference Between the UK and Britain?
His book emphasises John Seymour's point that the struggle is not between nations but between people and those who would control them. The guilty parties in the clearances were Scottish landowners in league with English mill owners. The victims ...
frankbeswick, on 07/11/2014
Gifts and Buttons for Angry Deaf People
WordChazer - Sorry to hear that your tinnitus is playing up, particularly when THAT is the apparent cause! :o Oh no! :o
You should make some Zazzle stuff too! You also have an insight.
JoHarrington, on 07/11/2014
What is the Difference Between the UK and Britain?
John Prebble's 'The Highland Clearances' is an amazing book. In fact anything by him is that. He certainly highlighted the divide and conquer in all its murky reality.
JoHarrington, on 07/11/2014
Holocaust Memorial Day Interview with Auschwitz Survivor Eva Mozes Kor
As horrific as it is, I can grasp it. That's one of the unseen horrors of the Holocaust, that it can and will happen again. I'm glad that people like you are moved by these stories, as you will help us stop the next one.
JoHarrington, on 07/11/2014
Gifts and Buttons for Angry Deaf People
I'm aware you don't really want a debate on audism here, and, genuinely, how great that you've taken such a negative experience and turned it around in the way you have. I'm relieved to see your definition of casual audism as a deliberate ...
Ianjames, on 07/10/2014
Holocaust Memorial Day Interview with Auschwitz Survivor Eva Mozes Kor
I can't even grasp how humanity ever let this happen. It is just pure evil. I'm fighting tears as I write this. I feel so bad for what all of these people went through. I know I'm late in reading this but what a powerful piece. Well done Jo.
KaitlynDeMetro, on 07/10/2014
Ten TV Shows to Binge-Watch this Summer - Part 3
@Ember I don't believe it is on Netflix due to the rights attached to it. It is a BBC America production so doesn't have the usual BBC system of being aired on BBC America and then placed on Netflix, nor does it have the normal path of being ...
Audioworm, on 07/10/2014