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Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Pangaea split into two, so there were not eastern and western halves.
frankbeswick, on 05/27/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Also, is there a consensus as to the meaning of Iona? Online information seems to be gravitating around people and things related to yew (Taxus spp).
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/26/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Thank you!
Do the eastern, northern and southern halves have names that I should know ;-D but don't ;-{ !
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/26/2022
Lough Corrib
Herring used to shoal in their millions to Loch Fyne in Scotland until one year they mysteriously stopped. They seem to have gone north,which makes me think that they went to Iceland. Where they went after the nineteen seventies I know not,but ...
frankbeswick, on 05/24/2022
Lough Corrib
Yes,the lands of the Earth move around, and several billion years are time sufficient for much movement. Did you know that Scotland north of the Great Glen is geologically a bit of Canada?
frankbeswick, on 05/24/2022
Dating pictures through fashion part 2 . 1910 - 1940s
It appears that materials are lighter-weight as the 20th century progresses. If so, does that make it more likely that hemlines will rise or, without hem weights, less likely because of what may be exposed under billowing skirts in blustery ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
Your mentioning trout at the beginning of your article brought to mind something that I'd meant to ask elsewhere, on one of your fish articles.
Trout still can be found too off Iceland.
But do you know about the herring trade that was quite ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
Big Bro and BSG,
Interestingly, when I was in Belfast a few years ago, I visited the Ulster Museum and in one room I was astonished to learn that there is a diagonal line from approx Dublin in the East to Limerick in the West. The geology ...
Veronica, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
I think that a tectonic plate boundarý runs through North west Ireland from West Mayo to Donegal.
frankbeswick, on 05/23/2022
Getting the children to eat veg
May 2022
Today, I was given an idea for disguising broccoli so children will not know they have eaten it. Absolutely pulverise it in to smithereens in a blender and add it to spaghetti ragu just before the end of cooking.
Veronica, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
North west Ireland is old precambrian shield rock geologically linked to North west Scotland,but the north coast of Ireland is Tertiary basalt,much later.The mountains of Mourne in the east of Northern Ireland are relatively recent granite. The ...
frankbeswick, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
The hilly rim is suggestive of techtonic plate collision. Some such features give a glimpse to pre-Pangean times. Have you uncovered the history of plate movement in the area from an earty Earth?
blackspanielgallery, on 05/23/2022
Dating pictures through fashion part 2 . 1910 - 1940s
BSG!
That is a fab idea. I feel a bit of research coming on. THANK YOU !
Veronica, on 05/23/2022
A fashion walk through time Pt 1
BSG
Thanks for your input.
Absolutely right.! there are viewers who will tear the costume departments to threads 0over the slightest mistake! Over here, there are college courses for this profession.
Veronica, on 05/23/2022
Dating pictures through fashion part 2 . 1910 - 1940s
The 1900s would be easier than the older periods, since more people have photo albums of the century.s ancestors. And more movies depicting the garb f the day have been made. Perhaps an interesting extension is to look at futuristic movies and ...
blackspanielgallery, on 05/23/2022