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Basically they are claiming CAR(A)=Caratacus famous resister of Romans.
'They' = Tacitus and Dio Cassius

Caratacus's name appears as both Caratacus and Caractacus in manuscripts of Tacitus, and ...

only 20 miles from where it was minted in modern day Silchester - then Calleva - 2,000 years ago.
Reading University, which exhaustively excavated Silchester/Calleva for decades, never mentioned a mi ...

The National Portrait Gallery has a painting allegedly of Elizabeth Pepys. 'After John Hayls' they say, as per an entry dated 1666 in Pepys' Diary.

NPG lists the painting as

Elizabeth Pepys
...

The Ricardi family were art forgers who began with a few sherds and moved on to whole jars before constructing a trio of statues, known as the Etruscan Terracotta Warriors

The Etruscan terracotta ...

Thanks, Wiles. It's never explained, or considered necessary to explain, how carved features remain so well defined after, allegedly, two thousand years of exposure to the elements, unlike the third f ...

The destablisation of Assad's Syria is particularly useful to the somewhat beleaguered Israeli government. It's unlikely that the land the IDF grabbed in the Golan Heights will be returned to Syria an ...

Cormorants or rather shags seem to be particularly associated with islands (Shetland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Sark) so there may be a connection between a 'boarding bridge' and a causeway or bridge.

Going back to a nagging question about cormorants being 'sea-crows' because they were reportedly known as corvus marinus in Latin, I came across a Wiki article about corvus marinus being a boarding br ...

This notion of Welsh being the aboriginal language of Britain seems to have taken hold thanks to a Welsh antiquarian, Humphrey Llwyd, paraphrasing Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568) ...

I just learned that Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a worthy successor to the venerable Patrick Moore, is dyslexic. For some reason I thought this makes her even more special.

This political map is better for broad picture purposes perhaps?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Soviet_Caucasus_map.svg/712px-Soviet_Caucasus_map.svg.png

Would a map help?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Location_Nagorno-Karabakh2.png/500px-Location_Nagorno-Karabakh2.png

This mass destruction, judging by the piece, occurred in the space of a hundred years, which is three generations, i.e. within living memory. He's not claiming that every single person in the Middle E ...

Stoppard's plays vary a lot, they tend to be too high-brow for English audiences. 'The Coast of Utopia' is the best play, or rather trilogy, I've ever seen. Next best is 'Arcadia', an earlier, more ac ...

I could not help but wonder how such words and phrases would enter the language if falconry was, as advertised, merely the plaything of the idle rich
My first impression was some or even most of the ...

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Topic: All Things Roman
Hatty Replies: 231 Views: 63875	Forum: History Posted: 11:27 am Subject: All Things Roman
Hatty Replies: 231 Views: 63875	Basically they are claiming CAR(A)=Caratacus famous resister of Romans. 'They' = Tacitus and Dio Cassius Caratacus's name appears as both Caratacus and Caractacus in manuscripts of Tacitus, and ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Hatty Replies: 231 Views: 63875	Forum: History Posted: 8:02 am Subject: All Things Roman
Hatty Replies: 231 Views: 63875	only 20 miles from where it was minted in modern day Silchester - then Calleva - 2,000 years ago. Reading University, which exhaustively excavated Silchester/Calleva for decades, never mentioned a mi ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2246 Views: 257890	Forum: British History Posted: 8:15 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2246 Views: 257890	The National Portrait Gallery has a painting allegedly of Elizabeth Pepys. 'After John Hayls' they say, as per an entry dated 1666 in Pepys' Diary. NPG lists the painting as Elizabeth Pepys ...
Topic: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 349 Views: 51220	Forum: British History Posted: 12:58 pm Subject: Forgery: Modus operandi
Hatty Replies: 349 Views: 51220	The Ricardi family were art forgers who began with a few sherds and moved on to whole jars before constructing a trio of statues, known as the Etruscan Terracotta Warriors The Etruscan terracotta ...
Topic: Recent Archaeological Discoveries
Hatty Replies: 76 Views: 21794	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:13 pm Subject: Recent Archaeological Discoveries
Hatty Replies: 76 Views: 21794	Thanks, Wiles. It's never explained, or considered necessary to explain, how carved features remain so well defined after, allegedly, two thousand years of exposure to the elements, unlike the third f ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 2677 Views: 211518	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:42 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 2677 Views: 211518	The destablisation of Assad's Syria is particularly useful to the somewhat beleaguered Israeli government. It's unlikely that the land the IDF grabbed in the Golan Heights will be returned to Syria an ...
Topic: Crying Wolf
Hatty Replies: 808 Views: 146194	Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 7:57 am Subject: Crying Wolf
Hatty Replies: 808 Views: 146194	Cormorants or rather shags seem to be particularly associated with islands (Shetland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Sark) so there may be a connection between a 'boarding bridge' and a causeway or bridge.
Topic: Crying Wolf
Hatty Replies: 808 Views: 146194	Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 11:09 pm Subject: Crying Wolf
Hatty Replies: 808 Views: 146194	Going back to a nagging question about cormorants being 'sea-crows' because they were reportedly known as corvus marinus in Latin, I came across a Wiki article about corvus marinus being a boarding br ...
Topic: Seven Words
Hatty Replies: 23 Views: 15814	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 3:59 pm Subject: Seven Words
Hatty Replies: 23 Views: 15814	This notion of Welsh being the aboriginal language of Britain seems to have taken hold thanks to a Welsh antiquarian, Humphrey Llwyd, paraphrasing Geoffrey of Monmouth. Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568) ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 1277 Views: 130740	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:58 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 1277 Views: 130740	I just learned that Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a worthy successor to the venerable Patrick Moore, is dyslexic. For some reason I thought this makes her even more special.
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 2677 Views: 211518	Forum: Politics Posted: 5:55 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 2677 Views: 211518	This political map is better for broad picture purposes perhaps? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Soviet_Caucasus_map.svg/712px-Soviet_Caucasus_map.svg.png
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 2677 Views: 211518	Forum: Politics Posted: 4:27 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day
Hatty Replies: 2677 Views: 211518	Would a map help? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Location_Nagorno-Karabakh2.png/500px-Location_Nagorno-Karabakh2.png
Topic: Dark Age Obscured
Hatty Replies: 597 Views: 64075	Forum: History Posted: 2:26 pm Subject: Dark Age Obscured
Hatty Replies: 597 Views: 64075	This mass destruction, judging by the piece, occurred in the space of a hundred years, which is three generations, i.e. within living memory. He's not claiming that every single person in the Middle E ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 1277 Views: 130740	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:40 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Hatty Replies: 1277 Views: 130740	Stoppard's plays vary a lot, they tend to be too high-brow for English audiences. 'The Coast of Utopia' is the best play, or rather trilogy, I've ever seen. Next best is 'Arcadia', an earlier, more ac ...
Topic: Who Built The Stones?
Hatty Replies: 186 Views: 48826	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 10:46 am Subject: Who Built The Stones?
Hatty Replies: 186 Views: 48826	I could not help but wonder how such words and phrases would enter the language if falconry was, as advertised, merely the plaything of the idle rich My first impression was some or even most of the ...