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If it ever happens we will not be alive to see it.

Shamanism was in the ancient culture of Britain, but whether any shamanism survived until the modern era is unlikely.

Two generational tenancies are gone, now we have short term rentals. Thatcher introduced these and called it progress.

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Your first answer advises us that "Once we used to have three-generation agricultural tenancies for rented farms, so children and grandchildren could take over."

Do two-generation tenancies just involve the owners and their children without any thought for grandchildren?

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The United States draws from native cultures shamanist tales and techniques.

Might the British Isles draw upon shamanist legacies from all the ancient insular cultures?

(For example, the Picts seem like shamanist candidates. Would there be any such legacy from them?)

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So our sun can replenish whatever light energy circulates Earthward. That's reassuring!

Brian May of astrophysics and Queen fame describes the solar system as our sun gets older and older. External and internal changes impel our Earth over time more and more away from our sun. He identifies as one solution if technology modifies our Earth into its own spaceship.

Our Earth traveling through space as its own transportation mode would be quite an adventure, wouldn't it? (In such a case, we would be alive to mourn our sun's passing!)

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The second paragraph to the first subheading, Different positions, advises us that "Humanist ethics is based on the notion that what individuals are legally free to do is right as long as they do not harm others."

Did humanist ethics not distinguish between harming oneself and harming others?

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Repurposed stones intrigue me.

Would such seemingly valuable stones have been repurposed as mundane outside walks and walls or as singular flooring, thresholds or walls?

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Cornish not vocalized intrigues me.

Might Cornish sounds have been preserved in nursery and religious songs and in popular ditties?

Otherwise, how were any reintroduction efforts able to reinstate intonation and pronunciation?

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Some Unitedstatesians appreciate biodegradable containers for in-ground, outside transplants, particularly of what can be eaten when mature.

Your answer generally associates such containers with plant propagation.

Would that plant propagation be more for research and in business than individually and home gardening-wise?

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The United States once closed businesses between noon and 3 p.m. Good Friday. Some Unitedstatesian churches once followed day-long fasting on that day.

The first practice is non-existent. The second is rare.

What is the Church guideline for extended fasting? Is it absolutely nothing or is it perhaps water or water and bread?

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The third paragraph to the second subheading, Hard work, advises us that "Often the sisters have to travel long distances to reach a village, and with the transport that they have available the sisters start early and finish late."

Do the Amrat sisters travel by private or public or both transportation means?

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Syriac, through its religious texts, therefore achieves a written function within Nestorian culture. Does it also serve as the spoken and the sung language of Nestorian services?

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The COVID shutdown had such a wide socio-politico-economic impact!

Is it possible that the society losing members means not only no tropism display but also no displays ever at all?

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The third paragraph to the first subheading, Starting the journey, advises us that "It [the route] crosses an area known as Corpach, a site of a mediaeval clan battle when in 1454 Clan Cameron routed the forces of Clan Maclean. Corpach was also a place where funeral processions used to halt for a rest on their journey to the graveyards, hence the word corp for corpse."

English Wikipedia gives A' Chorpaich as the Scots Gaelic for Corpach. It gives the English equivalent as "field of corpses."

Might that mean that -aich means "field of"?

(English Wiktionary offers it as a verb-forming suffix!)