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The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna
Thank you for your comment below, on Nov. 29, 2023, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Your answer alerts us to public cemeteries as open to all. Are there set visiting hours?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/03/2024
Loch Ness: new thinking about the monster
Thank you for your comment below, on Mar 23, 2023, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question.
Your answer alerts us to "a large eel" in Loch Morar. How large is large?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/03/2024
Exploring Traditional Japanese Tapestry Landscape Art: A Window into Nature’s Serenity
Hi Blackspanielgallery, yes it's fascinating. All very Zen like and peaceful, a beautiful reminder to stay in the moment and whatever might be happening in your life, it's fleeting and will pass
HollieT, on 09/03/2024
Exploring Traditional Japanese Tapestry Landscape Art: A Window into Nature’s Serenity
I did not realize the symbolism.
blackspanielgallery, on 09/03/2024
England's Nazareth: the shrine at Walsingham
My article suggests that the burned statue was a substitute. The realmstatue survived.
frankbeswick, on 09/01/2024
Apocalypse Soon?
Fewer prophets arose.
frankbeswick, on 09/01/2024
Britain's Drowned History
True about the battlefield. But I read that she remarried a Welsh nobleman.
frankbeswick, on 09/01/2024
Celebrating Christmas
No, there is no similar situation in Britain. We don't celebrate thanksgiving.
frankbeswick, on 09/01/2024
Celebrating Christmas
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Some Unitedstatesians criticize the concentration on Christmas decorations- and gifts-getting for less attention to Thanksgiving. They sometimes criticize such ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/31/2024
Britain's Drowned History
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Online sources describe Edith of the Swan's Neck as identifying Harold the Fair's body on the Hastings battlefield.
Is that her last known appearance?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/31/2024
Apocalypse Soon?
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Your answer about a possible association between declining prophecy and rising apocalyptic writing intrigues me.
Might prophecy have declined because people ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/31/2024
England's Nazareth: the shrine at Walsingham
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The ancient statue of Our Lady Mary burned at an execution place disappoints me. Do we know what was done with the statue ashes?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/31/2024
England's Nazareth: the shrine at Walsingham
Tyburn in London was the official place of execution. So certain major burnings took place there
frankbeswick, on 08/31/2024
England and Scotland: a personal reflection
Shakespeare used some names for known historical characters, but he did invent names when required, e.g. Falstaff.
frankbeswick, on 08/31/2024
Apocalypse Soon?
It may have arisen to fill a gap left by the decline of prophecy in the late first millennium B
B.C. b.it the issue still arouses discussion among scholars.
frankbeswick, on 08/31/2024