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The Sliding of Solway Moss
There are different kinds of bog, each with their own characteristic vegetation. Raised bog is a filled-in swamp/fen, which can be dome-shaped, and this tens to slide when on a slope. There is upland blanket bog and lowland, which tend to be ...
frankbeswick, on 03/27/2018
The Sliding of Solway Moss
I was unaware of bogs being able to move out and act as a landslide.
blackspanielgallery, on 03/27/2018
The Sliding of Solway Moss
The cockle fishers could have been saved had they been on the beach, but they went out at night too far onto sandbanks where no wise person treads without very good cause and even then not alone.The tide there races in faster than a person can ...
frankbeswick, on 03/27/2018
The Sliding of Solway Moss
Again the beauty of Wizzley for me is its educational value. It is like doing a world tour with experts. I love reading about all these features from around the world.
Frank and I live over 50 miles from the North West coast. It is ...
Veronica, on 03/27/2018
The Sliding of Solway Moss
The speed of flow depends on gravity. On a slope it can be fast indeed, but the problem at Solway Moss was that while the land sloped but gently, the bog was fifty feet higher than the surrounding land. The peat is also more viscous that mud, so ...
frankbeswick, on 03/27/2018
The Sliding of Solway Moss
Thankyou. The Solway Firth is a dangerous place, with the powerful estuarine flow meeting tides and currents sluicing south down the Irish Sea.
frankbeswick, on 03/27/2018
The Sliding of Solway Moss
I've never heard of such a thing. I'm curious as to why no one built on the site after the slide. Is there simply no good dirt to use because it is covered in peat? How fast does this kind of thing move? Is it like a mudslide?
dustytoes, on 03/27/2018
The Sliding of Solway Moss
This is an excellent description of a very dangerous piece of the North west coast line.
Further south along this coast line is the deadly Morecambe Bay and quicksand. here is also a Bore at Arnside which is a combination of high tidal waters ...
Veronica, on 03/27/2018
Paranormal Society of New Orleans Goes Ghost Hunting the Jimani Sports Bar and Upstairs Lounge
Stories like this make us ask questions about how well we understand the afterlife.
frankbeswick, on 03/20/2018
Paranormal Society of New Orleans Goes Ghost Hunting the Jimani Sports Bar and Upstairs Lounge
New Orleans is definitely on my list. I would love to meet some ghost hunters!
Tolovaj, on 03/20/2018
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Nelda_Hoxie, on 03/20/2018
Miracles
We have to ask ourselves how the saintly intercession works. The model in which people plead with God until he gives them what they ask or seems dubious to me. I suggest that a more convincing model is that God works through holy people, such as ...
frankbeswick, on 03/19/2018
Miracles
Indeed there are multiple definitions in use. The religious definition is the basis for canonization, for there must be evidence of more than one miracle associated with the intervention of the candidate. So, with so many canonized saints, ...
blackspanielgallery, on 03/19/2018
Lancashire ;- The Pendle Witches
It is a pernicious myth that Henry turned England Protestant, for not only did he execute Protestants as well as Catholics, but there were serious pro-Catholic risings in the country. Henry was a schismatic Catholic. Protestantism got a grip ...
frankbeswick, on 03/18/2018