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According to Dark Age historians, Pope Gregory was 'the Apostle of the English' on account of having converted them to Christianity, though his cult seems to have been the brainchild of Lanfranc, cred ...

At its Annual Reps Meeting last week, the BMA voted to sever ties with the Israeli Medical Association until it confirms medical neutrality and condemns attacks on healthcare workers in Gaza, and are ...

Phil Foden's 'demise' may be more to do with Pep Guardiola's management style. Pep doesn't vary the set-up even when Manchester City are losing as happened in the FA cup final against Crystal Palace, ...

I gave up early doors, at the stage where we were informed Sicilians stopped speaking Sicilian and went over to Greek as the lingua franca of the Mediterranean, presumably because there are no written ...

The oldest manuscript in this class is MS Paris lat. 3864, written at Corbie in the last quarter of the ninth century.

The editio princeps was published by Giovanni Andrea Bussi at Rome in 1469. ...

In Wiley's mind the megaliths provided markers for the best long distance and short distance trading routes. It's your book so I will concede if I had this totally wrong. Maybe I read it as I wanted ...

Alternative name for the kraken is "the horv", said to be cognate with "harrow" (to plow).

Per Wiki (and a philologist named Finnur Johnson), the kraken and the horv are called ...

How did we get from "The Isis" to "Thames"?

I think the link might have been 'Tamesis' (or Thamesis). The problem is that the earliest reference to Tamesis is said to have been ...

Israel proceeded to break every undertaking it had made and when Hamas nevertheless expressed itself ready to move on to Stage Two, the Israelis and Trump castigated Hamas for breaking the terms of th ...

Channel 4 News has another first-rate reporter, Harry Fawcett. He seems to be independent but used to be with Al-Jazeera, a recommendation itself in view of A-J's generally sound reporting but also a ...

Orwell died on Jura in 1950
He should have gone to the Jura (Switzerland).

Last September I heard about a book 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama' by an American journalist called Nathan Thrall and ambled down to the local library to borrow their copy, unaware it had been awa ...

Someone in the Medieval England group on Facebook wrote a long piece about the Seax of Beagnoth, so named because the blade has been inscribed with the name Beagnoth. Wiki says it is

the only kno ...

Fascism is perhaps a case in point, typically applied to people with whom you disagree even good-humouredly. Only last week I got accused of spouting 'Trumpian tripe' by someone in the Medieval Englan ...

Overheard.

I know the details of this exquisitely because I've talked to all the parties in detail. Within a couple of weeks there was a document exchanged that President Putin had approved that La ...

Author	Message
Topic: The Purpose of AE
Hatty Replies: 40 Views: 1919	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 4:09 pm Subject: The Purpose of AE
Hatty Replies: 40 Views: 1919	According to Dark Age historians, Pope Gregory was 'the Apostle of the English' on account of having converted them to Christianity, though his cult seems to have been the brainchild of Lanfranc, cred ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 2162 Views: 847665	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:25 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 2162 Views: 847665	At its Annual Reps Meeting last week, the BMA voted to sever ties with the Israeli Medical Association until it confirms medical neutrality and condemns attacks on healthcare workers in Gaza, and are ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Hatty Replies: 4558 Views: 9833604	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:21 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Hatty Replies: 4558 Views: 9833604	Phil Foden's 'demise' may be more to do with Pep Guardiola's management style. Pep doesn't vary the set-up even when Manchester City are losing as happened in the FA cup final against Crystal Palace, ...
Topic: Foreigners
Hatty Replies: 32 Views: 100920	Forum: British History Posted: 7:23 am Subject: Foreigners
Hatty Replies: 32 Views: 100920	I gave up early doors, at the stage where we were informed Sicilians stopped speaking Sicilian and went over to Greek as the lingua franca of the Mediterranean, presumably because there are no written ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Hatty Replies: 441 Views: 386852	Forum: History Posted: 10:14 am Subject: All Things Roman
Hatty Replies: 441 Views: 386852	The oldest manuscript in this class is MS Paris lat. 3864, written at Corbie in the last quarter of the ninth century. The editio princeps was published by Giovanni Andrea Bussi at Rome in 1469. ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Hatty Replies: 1972 Views: 728368	Forum: Politics Posted: 3:42 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Hatty Replies: 1972 Views: 728368	In Wiley's mind the megaliths provided markers for the best long distance and short distance trading routes. It's your book so I will concede if I had this totally wrong. Maybe I read it as I wanted ...
Topic: The Plough
Hatty Replies: 104 Views: 243510	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 3:38 pm Subject: The Plough
Hatty Replies: 104 Views: 243510	Alternative name for the kraken is "the horv", said to be cognate with "harrow" (to plow). Per Wiki (and a philologist named Finnur Johnson), the kraken and the horv are called ...
Topic: Where are all the Neanderthals?
Hatty Replies: 446 Views: 357482	Forum: Pre-History Posted: 3:59 pm Subject: Where are all the Neanderthals?
Hatty Replies: 446 Views: 357482	How did we get from "The Isis" to "Thames"? I think the link might have been 'Tamesis' (or Thamesis). The problem is that the earliest reference to Tamesis is said to have been ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 2162 Views: 847665	Forum: Politics Posted: 5:23 pm Subject: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 2162 Views: 847665	Israel proceeded to break every undertaking it had made and when Hamas nevertheless expressed itself ready to move on to Stage Two, the Israelis and Trump castigated Hamas for breaking the terms of th ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 2646 Views: 1426525	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:19 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 2646 Views: 1426525	Channel 4 News has another first-rate reporter, Harry Fawcett. He seems to be independent but used to be with Al-Jazeera, a recommendation itself in view of A-J's generally sound reporting but also a ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 2646 Views: 1426525	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:08 am Subject: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 2646 Views: 1426525	Orwell died on Jura in 1950 He should have gone to the Jura (Switzerland).
Topic: The Canons of Culture
Hatty Replies: 174 Views: 294610	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:59 am Subject: The Canons of Culture
Hatty Replies: 174 Views: 294610	Last September I heard about a book 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama' by an American journalist called Nathan Thrall and ambled down to the local library to borrow their copy, unaware it had been awa ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2762 Views: 1175709	Forum: British History Posted: 2:40 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2762 Views: 1175709	Someone in the Medieval England group on Facebook wrote a long piece about the Seax of Beagnoth, so named because the blade has been inscribed with the name Beagnoth. Wiki says it is the only kno ...
Topic: Planets-as-suns, and more
Hatty Replies: 134 Views: 194793	Forum: Astrophysics Posted: 1:45 pm Subject: Planets-as-suns, and more
Hatty Replies: 134 Views: 194793	Fascism is perhaps a case in point, typically applied to people with whom you disagree even good-humouredly. Only last week I got accused of spouting 'Trumpian tripe' by someone in the Medieval Englan ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Hatty Replies: 1972 Views: 728368	Forum: Politics Posted: 9:38 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Hatty Replies: 1972 Views: 728368	Overheard. I know the details of this exquisitely because I've talked to all the parties in detail. Within a couple of weeks there was a document exchanged that President Putin had approved that La ...