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An Overview of the Top Foods to Eat to Lower Cholesterol

Great tips, Jane! I'm glad you joined us here on Wizzley :)

Mira, on 05/03/2014

Express Yourself: Fun Luggage Tags for All Styles of Travelers

Thank you, Kathleen!

Mira, on 05/03/2014

Redditors Rise Up Against Holocaust Deniers

Perhaps my trouble is that I am actually trying to understand something that simply cannot be understood.

Jo_Murphy, on 05/03/2014

Ynys Môn: The Ancestral Home of the Druids

Thanks, Jo. That's next book on the reading list after I finish my present one. What is worth noting in connection with what you say is that the Irish church used the druidic tonsure,in which the hair was shaven at the front. This does indicate ...

frankbeswick, on 05/03/2014

Ynys Môn: The Ancestral Home of the Druids

You REALLY should read Thomas Cahill's 'How the Irish Saved Civilisation'. He basically argues that the Druids in Ireland converted en masse to Christianity, and that the Church there was basically the Druidic network - and admin etc - under ...

JoHarrington, on 05/03/2014

Ynys Môn: The Ancestral Home of the Druids

That's interesting stuff. But today when reflecting on Ynys Mon and the fate of the Druids I realized how the Romans shot themselves in the foot with the massacre. In slaughtering Druids they destroyed/damaged the most intellectually vigorous ...

frankbeswick, on 05/03/2014

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.): Poet, Novelist and Proto-Feminist

Ember - The best way to 'get' poetry is to read it aloud and let your emotions analyze it for you. Breaking down the structure and word form is something to be done in English Lit. classes, not in general reading. Poetry has always been best ...

JoHarrington, on 05/03/2014

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.): Poet, Novelist and Proto-Feminist

Mira - Lots of things that we can identify with there, considering that we're both trying to make a living in precisely the same way. I wonder if L.E.L would have been on Wizzley, if she'd been alive today. Yep, she seriously did go for ...

JoHarrington, on 05/03/2014

Redditors Rise Up Against Holocaust Deniers

Thanks for reading Jo. The trouble with some is that they see the world just like us, but want to rewrite history to something more akin to their own doctrines of hatred.

JoHarrington, on 05/03/2014

Ynys Môn: The Ancestral Home of the Druids

At least two of my branches end up in Ireland too - though I suppose I'm looking at that like a historian, rather than a normal human being. The branches quite patently ended up here! Yes, I frequently encounter British people wandering around ...

JoHarrington, on 05/03/2014