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Might bear fur have been made into clothing such as coats, rugs or wall hangings?

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Pope Francis calls Vatican City lodgings home even as he commutes -- ;-D -- to and from the Vatican.

Is that likewise with the other Vatican City inhabitants?

Or is it possible to inhabit Vatican City even as one journeys back and forth from a Rome-based job or a Rome component of a Vatican job?

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Would Flannan Isle hunters have kept their seal meat and skins to themselves or would they have traded with hunters from Norway or Iceland or Greenland?

The fourth paragraph to the first subheading, The Celtic Cross, advises us that "Evidence of an Egyptian influence is that Kevin is said to have prayed in the Egyptian way, standing with arms stretched wide."

Is it known how it is that St. Kevin was versed in Egyptian ways?

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Grave-top sculptures perhaps are intended to last beyond the lifetimes of those who inspect them so that they invoke their inhabitants' memories and spirits.

Would pewter or steel or some other metal be commoner for grave-top sculptures?

Freddie Mercury was born into the Zoroastrian faith.

So Zoroastrian peoples would be found outside their ancestral homeland, in such places as the British Isles.

Would there happen to be Yazidi populations there?

Bogs develop in poor ground, so after a bog slide the ground is unlikely to be improved, it will remain poor ground. If the slide lands on good ground the mess can be cleared and the ground restored.

A princess or Prince will hold a royal duke or duchess rank. Hence Prince Harry is the Duke of Sussex, but his wife, Megan, is not a princess, as she is not royal, but is simply a duchess.

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The BBC article associated a specific bog collapse with a landscape- and water body-altering landslide.

Do bogs remain bogs after their collapse or do they resurrect as bogs with human or Mother Nature help?

There is a distinction between hereditary peers and life peers. Hereditary peers inherit their titles, and descend from either ancient Norman families or from families ennobled by subsequent monarchs, and they came either from Tudor mercenary captains or families who did well out of robbing the church at the Reformation. Life peers are people who have a title only for life, and they are ennobled business people or politicians retired from office but deemed to have more to offer. They join the House of Lord's, the upper chamber of our bicameral legislature.

The female for baronet is a dame, the female for lord is lady. A viscount's wife is s viscountess. An earl's wife is a countess. I forget one rank between earl and duke, which is a marquis, the female equivalent being a marchioness. A duke's wife is a duchess, and the female equivalent of a Prince is a princess.

A baronet is a strange rank, for its holders are peers, but are officially commoners.

The computer crashed before I could continue another component to the question below.

There perhaps is a difference in invoking "ordinary" -- ;-{ -- duchesses and dukes and royal duchesses and dukes.

Might a royal duchess and her duke be monikered Princess and Prince?

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The female equivalents of the peered titles are not as well known among Unitedstatesian west-ponders, who are without literal, official royalty ;-D!

So here goes. Is it baronetess with a baronet, viscountess with a count, marchioness with a marquis and duchess with a duke?

The third subheading, Postcards, advises us of Kubel achievements in oil-painted and postcard landscapes.

Did Otto Kubel do the same landscapes for both genres or did an oil-painted landscape never do duty as a postcard landscape and vice versa?

I don't think it is as simple as that. Theologicalmopinions are quite varied.