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The first paragraph beneath the in-text image under the subheading Build your community with Blogspot alerts us to the fact that "Every Google account allows you to open up to one hundred million blogs with different names."
Is it known whether ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Quasi-sensory experiences: religious visual and auditory phenomena
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Unitedstatesian seekers of accessible-topic knowledge initially may opt for an encyclopedia article, digital or published.
Might the Catholic Encyclopedia be a helpful starting point for other-religion questions and quests?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Macclesfield Treacle Fair
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It all sounds like a delicious end to a delightful day.
What would he have served himself, you and Maureen for dessert and drinks and what would he have served his son (your and your wife's grandson)?
(Probably it would have been ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Lord of the World: a review
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Every Lent I go through the entire Bible -- audio versions -- in the non-English languages that I know. So that keeps me quite busy this February and March.
Basically, my question might reflect more accurately my interest by the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Bodnant Gardens: one of Wales' little gems
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All three birds -- cuckoo, marten, swift -- can be found here among springtime species even as they do not have first-come honors.
The backyard unreliable creek alongside the reliable ephemeral pool sometimes gets mute (Cygnus ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Life of a Chalk Stream
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Online search terms are not forthcoming about northern France's equivalent areas.
Might there be any article or book about the northern French counterparts?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
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It's all so interesting, particularly the last paragraph which lists among component parts mere for "lake."
The last-mentioned word either orients me to French, with mère ("mother"), or with Unitedstatesian mere ("nothing ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
A day at the Harrogate Flower Show
The first paragraph to the last, Conclusion subheading describes for us that "Harrowgate is sited in the lovely Vale of York,a train ride of an hour and half from where I live in Greater Manchester. I had never been to the town before, but I ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
Interesting points indeed. The Nordic and the Celtic languages are related, so similarities are to be expected. You mention unnr , wave. The Celtic word for wave, which comes in the place name Ard na Murchan, meaning the height of the sea waves, ...
frankbeswick, on 02/24/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
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The Nordic Names site gives Taran -- which persists in some of the Norse-language family-speaking countries today) -- an etymology from the Old Norse Þórunnr, from Old Norse Þór (Thor, "thunder") and unnr (unn, "wave"). And, as has ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
There is no knowledge available on this side of the Atlantic that is not available in the USA. Names sometimes might have more than one meaning, but I don't see Taransay as the seat of high kings, for the seat of the Scottish Gaelic high kings ...
frankbeswick, on 02/24/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
Online sources identify Tarasay as from Scots Gaelic Tarasaigh.
They indicate the name as of the seat of the high kings. Some mention tara as meaning "rocky hill" even as they muster up nothing for saigh.
At first look, I pondered Norse inputs ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/24/2024
A day at the Harrogate Flower Show
There is no set or discernible pattern in this matter.
frankbeswick, on 02/24/2024
Life of a Chalk Stream
The book concentrates on southern England.
frankbeswick, on 02/24/2024
Bodnant Gardens: one of Wales' little gems
Swifts, Martens, followed now more rarely by the cuckoo. Returning geese are noticeable for their calls.
frankbeswick, on 02/24/2024