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Topic: Questions Of The Day | |
Hatty Replies: 4538 Views: 800952 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 9:05 am Subject: Questions Of The Day |
And the speaker is just as crap at his job. There is a long debate about one of the longest-serving ladies of the house. She's sitting there, aching to be called, and he ignores her. She's a woman, an ... | |
Topic: Historiography | |
Hatty Replies: 24 Views: 15548 |
Forum: History Posted: 6:55 pm Subject: Historiography |
Roy Vickery, a former botanist at the Natural History Museum (1965 to 2007) and vice-president of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (2011-4), posted on Facebook about snowdrops
The gene ... |
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Topic: The Canons of Culture | |
Hatty Replies: 103 Views: 129664 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:14 pm Subject: The Canons of Culture |
The only Denver song I know is 'Annie's Song' so presumably that was his UK hit. | |
Topic: All Things Roman | |
Hatty Replies: 416 Views: 208758 |
Forum: History Posted: 5:42 pm Subject: All Things Roman |
Archaeologists are reportedly somewhat wary about relying on the accuracy of OSL for dating
OSL ages are calculated from many separate measurements, each of which has a random error and a possible ... |
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Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC | |
Hatty Replies: 126 Views: 85714 |
Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 4:49 pm Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC |
Hacking into Horizon seems a more plausible explanation for the missing sums than the usual 'bugs in the system' version.
A journalist called Nick Wallis has been blogging on the subject of where ... |
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Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition | |
Hatty Replies: 2714 Views: 706679 |
Forum: British History Posted: 9:14 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition |
who wrote the music for The Duenna?
It may be that with musical works, as with manuscripts, you would need the original score, preferably autographed, to determine who wrote it and when. Some of th ... |
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Topic: Crying Wolf | |
Hatty Replies: 837 Views: 370528 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 2:03 pm Subject: Crying Wolf |
Animal species going extinct isn't news but now scientists are talking about a 'rare example' of iterative extinction, concerning a flightless bird species that has apparently existed and gone extinct ... | |
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier | |
Hatty Replies: 1575 Views: 318878 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:56 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier |
I doubt the political parties in the UK are thinking much about losing the Jewish vote.
The Conservative party is bankrolled by Jewish money. The party's treasurer is Howard Leigh, a post he's held s ... |
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Topic: AE on Telly News | |
Hatty Replies: 2209 Views: 553734 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:52 pm Subject: AE on Telly News |
It sounds like 'Miss Buncle' was cast in the same mould as our landlady, an unworldly and thoroughly kind lady. We had to move after Adam was born because the sound of a baby crying brought unwelcome ... | |
Topic: AE on Telly News | |
Hatty Replies: 2209 Views: 553734 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:38 pm Subject: AE on Telly News |
Roy seems to have been a popular name for a particular generation but went out of fashion for some reason. My younger son was named for Roy Marsden who'd been on TV as the likeable if somewhat mournfu ... | |
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
Hatty Replies: 2678 Views: 645598 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:16 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
I’ve called you in today, gentleman change gentleman to gentlemen
Would it be overegging it to propose "laying siege, blockading food, water, fuel and medical supplies, to supplement co ... |
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Topic: All Things Roman | |
Hatty Replies: 416 Views: 208758 |
Forum: History Posted: 5:17 pm Subject: All Things Roman |
It's a similar pattern for droving roads with stopovers, mostly named hillforts, castles, camps and so on, a day's journey apart. But I take your point, Roman soldiers presumably could cover longer di ... | |
Topic: All Things Roman | |
Hatty Replies: 416 Views: 208758 |
Forum: History Posted: 2:50 pm Subject: All Things Roman |
Wouldn't droving roads/trackways be usable for foot soldiers? It's not uncommon to see a trackway marked as 'herepath' on OS maps because it's assumed they were military routes, named for the Anglo-Sa ... | |
Topic: War on Terrorism | |
Hatty Replies: 1618 Views: 382168 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 9:38 am Subject: War on Terrorism |
Agreed though you'd have a hard time dislodging the settlers. | |
Topic: COIN | |
Hatty Replies: 771 Views: 328244 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:55 pm Subject: COIN |
Over 45,000 ancient British coins in total, for all tribes recorded on the Oxford Celtic coin index.
https://oldcurrencyexchange.com/2015/03/31/the-mystical-coins-of-the-celtic-tribes-of-britain ... |
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