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The Origins of the Irish: a review
The Beaufort Dyke is .named after Admiral Beaufort, a royal naval oceanographer who mapped the seabed round the British Isles. The Dyke does not intentionally sabotage the crossings,but is a natural impediment to engineering projects, as the ...
frankbeswick, on 07/17/2023
A Forest for the Future
The islands of the British Isle probably are not big enough to support extensive forests and woodlands, correct?
But which island would have the most forested, woodlanded cover? And if so, would that have been a longstanding trend or a recent ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/17/2023
Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards
Rembrandt seems like such a strong choice for a child.
Was it a style in the 19th century to name offspring after famous people instead of cherished close friends or family members? Or would that name suggest a collateral descent from the Dutch ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/17/2023
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