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The Origins of the Irish: a review
Your first comment on blackspanielgallery's questions considers the problematic Beaufort Dyke.
Does anyone, anything anywhere furnish the when, where and why of the naming of such a problematic area? Its anti-environmentalism and its sabotaging ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/17/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
If there is I don't know it. Sorry.
frankbeswick, on 07/17/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
Online sources identify as Ephesus deriving from Luwian Apa-ša ("later-city") and as cognate with Greek ἐπί ("on, over") incompletely (since it tells not on or over what! -;D) and with Hittite ḫa-pa-aš ("river").
Is there any more consistent, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/17/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
There is evidence of animals crossing the Irish Sea. The common shrew, which burrows with its snout, is found in Britain but not Ireland, and this points to its limitation that it cannot successfully forage in wet ground; whereas the pygmy ...
frankbeswick, on 07/17/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
The precise depth of glacial ice and the fullness of coverage is not clear. But between Scotland and Northern Ireland lies the Beaufort Dyke, which is deep and probably filled with Atlantic water quite quickly. Whether the ice above this trench ...
frankbeswick, on 07/17/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
I see no reference to any Viking influence. Since the Vikings have left traces of early visits as far as North America, and have certainly gone into England, France and even Russian rivers, it seems unlikely they did not have some contact with ...
blackspanielgallery, on 07/17/2023
A Forest for the Future
Ireland is legally bilingual, so every place has an English and Irish place name.
frankbeswick, on 07/16/2023
A Forest for the Future
The second paragraph to the subheading Get to Know the Forest mentions Ireland's Wicklow Mountains.
Online sources note Sléibhte Chill Mhantáin as the Irish name. Would that name be official or would it one day become so due to an impulse ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/15/2023
A Forest for the Future
Summer house is not an exact translation, as in modern English a summer house is a building generally in a garden for easy relaxation, whereas a Harold was a transhumance building for summer farming.
Garegog seems to originate in a a word in ...
frankbeswick, on 07/15/2023
A Forest for the Future
Internet sources give different spellings to the Hafod forest. One source, for example, has the place name as Hafod y Garreg.
But it looks like there may be the most agreement on Hafod Garegog as modernest and Hafod Garregog as next-modernest ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/15/2023
A Forest for the Future
Yes. These rain forests are temperate.
frankbeswick, on 07/12/2023
A Forest for the Future
The introductory statement describes the surviving rain forests of west Britain.
Continental Unitedstatesian rain forests remain, as temperate-climate manifestations, along the upper northwesternmost coast of Washington state..
Would your ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/11/2023
A Forest for the Future
Yes. The motion was passed, but it probably won't make much difference in Every day speech.
frankbeswick, on 07/10/2023
A Forest for the Future
An article by Steven Morris, Yr Wyddfa: push for Snowdon to be known only by Welsh name, for the April 29, 2021, issue of The Guardian considers a motion by county councillor John Pughe Roberts to call Snowdon mountain only Yr Wyddfa and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/10/2023
Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards
The German Wikipedia article on Frances describes her as primarily an illustrator to other people's works even as she illustrated and wrote the children's book Adventures of Jack.
Were there few or many instances of Frances as author and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/10/2023