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No. Latin is for the clerics. The !ordinary workers use Italian. Retired people do not usually live in the Vatican, they tend to live in Rome.

I have not a label for goat's cheese. We get it from craft cheesemakers. We have none in the fridge at the moment. We get some at the supermarket.

Fur, I think. But successfully hunting a bear wasva sporting achievement.

No. Sir is for lifetime achievement.

No, it is known in the more remote areas, along with low flying.

I am not sure, but pewter is less costly than steel.

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It's disappointing that Crookley woods is no more.

Why is it that its remnant carriageway is name-changed to Crookily Way (instead of Crookley Way)?

Thank you for your comment below on Sep. 17, 2019, in answer to my same-day observation and question.

The metal structures atop the local graves intrigue me.
What might the metal be?
It photographs beautifully pewter-like.

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Is this the only photo-bombing area on the east-pond side?

English Wikipedia associates the Tilman last trip with a Smith Island climb.

The Smith Island article describes the island as without camps or stations and with rare mountaineering and scientific visitors.

The aforementioned article mentions the island interior as dominated by the Imeon Range whose Mount Foster and Antrim Peak Greg Landreth, Brice Dowrick, Dan Mannix and Roger Thompson of New Zealand and Mathieu Cortial, Lionel Daudet and Patrick Wagnon of France respectively made first climbs Jan. 29-30, 1996 and Jan. 12, 2010.

So perhaps Bill Tilman was hoping for a first climb by an English team!

(Would that feat have merited a "Sir" before his name?)

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So the British Isles lack native grizzly and polar bears even as British Isles-ers perhaps liked brown-bear parts so much as to let hunting lead them to brown-bear extinction.

Was it the fur or the meat or the trophy parts, such as claws, that worked against brown-bear survival?

Thank you for your comment below on Dec. 3, 2021, in answer to my previous-day observation and question on Dec. 2, 2021.

What labels do you most appreciate among blue and goat's cheeses?

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It seems to me like Vatican people are bilingual in Italian and Latin. Would that be true of Vatican City people?

(Would everyone in Vatican City be current and retired Vatican workers?)

Friendly, The Yazidis need as many friends as they can get.

120 is the limit to human longevity, so this age is not impossible.