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Thank you for your comment below on May 5, 2023, in answer to my previous-day observation and question.

What happens to monarchical duties and responsibilities if the latter be disabled permanently or temporarily?

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What is "geological instability"?

Might it refer to earthquakes?

Online sources present the British Isles as prone to magnitude-4 earthquakes every 2 years and magnitude-5 earthquakes every 10-20 years!

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It appears that at least three of the five nations in the British Isles slave-traded.

What about the Welsh? Were they slave-traders, slaves or neither?

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What are horticultural "qualifications"?

Thank you for your comment below on Sep. 5, 2017, in answer to my previous observations and questions.

Plight-trothing with one English lady and marrying another appears a bit unexpected to me regarding the wedding choices of English king Edward IV.

Did not his predecessors from the Battle of Hastings onward -- apart Henry I with Matilda of Scotland and John with Isabel of Gloucester and Henry IV with Mary de Bohun -- choose as their brides ladies from outside the British Isles?

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The Emmaus road figures as St. Paul's conversion site, correct? In that case, that significant event happens on the latter's way to Emmaus.

Is it possible that the Emmaus road numbers among religious- and spiritual-friendly, thin-veiled liminal places?

Your introduction advises us that "All of these isles are difficult of access and battered by stormy seas which cut them off for some of the year."

Is the storminess of the seas reflected in storminess of the air such as to preclude helicopter and plane travel?

The introductory paragraph advises us that "The North of England is not regarded as a fashionable place to be."

What parts of England does the north comprise?

Peter the Great (Jun 9, 1672-Feb. 8, 1725) had as favorite, royal mistress Mary Hamilton (died Mar 14, 1719), lady-in-waiting to his wife, Catherine I (Apr 15, 1684-May 17, 1727).

Mary Hamilton and her family lived in Russia as descendants of Volga River area-settling ancestors from the time of Ivan the Terrible (Aug. 25, 1530-Mar 28, 1584) onward.

Might the Irish have had similar settlements in Russia?

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The eye colors of the Holy Family members intrigue me.

Is there any tradition about St. Joseph's eye color?

The knee blanket and the twiddle mitts have such invigorating and yet tranquil and warm colors. For example, the knee blanket houses lively green and soporific blue and sunny yellow.

The second subheading, Decorations, indicates that "The mitt has decorations on the inside of it as well as the outside of it."

What might those inside decorations be like?

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So Brother Antony is Antony of Lérins (468?-520?), correct?

Is it your detail or his observation about the new-looking footwear of a traveler whose footwear therefore should show wear-and-tear?

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The first paragraph to the first subheading, Religion and Rationality, advises us that "C.S. Lewis once pointed out that if God does not exist, he is irrelevant, irrespective of whether any good is done by believing; but if God does exist he is utterly, infinitely relevant."

The aforementioned observation calls to my mind Isabelle Huppert's pedagogical statement in the film L'Avenir (The future literally, but Anglicized Things to come) about an in-class assignment for her students to consider Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (Jun 28, 1712-Jul 2, 1778) non-correlation of divine democratic government with human preferences.

Her character describes divine democratic government as perfect.

And yet do Christian traditions and writings defer to heavenly hierarchies with the Holy Trinity at the top?

Your St. Patrick's Day fare of "Corned beef and cabbage soup, Bangers and mash (Sausages and mashed potatoes), Bailey's Irish cream cheesecake (no bake cheesecake)" is delicious!

But what is a traditional cold drink and what is a traditional hot drink?

(Might the traditional hot drink be GREEN tea ;-D? Unitedstatesians St. Patrick's Day celebrants make green beer, milk and shakes, but nothing hot, not even green coffee!)

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Norse-language survivals intrigue me what with my maternal-line Norse heritage that inhabited every Irish county and Orkney.

So "residual words derived" from Norn means no present-day Norn speakers.

Might there have been, or will there possibly be Cornish-like, Norn-speaking revival attempts?