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Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change? | |
Jenny Replies: 735 Views: 335317 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:20 am Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change? |
I was reading a book the other day, by Messod & Roger Sabbah. The first chapter begins, "Since Egyptian writers did not have vowels there are alternative spellings for many of the names of Ph ... | |
Topic: The Baphomet and Its Origins | |
Jenny Replies: 66 Views: 57187 |
Forum: History Posted: 6:40 pm Subject: The Baphomet and Its Origins |
Oakey, are you sure that "Baphomet" is not "Mahommet"? Whoever mentioned the stone from heaven, might you be talking about the "Black Stone" which resides at the temple ... | |
Topic: Origins of....Species | |
Jenny Replies: 250 Views: 191666 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 1:40 pm Subject: Origins of....Species |
I never thought of viral transfer before but I did have in mind actual transferring of human genome through the bone marrow, e.g. Eve out of Adam's rib. Where on earth did that idea really stem from?? ... | |
Topic: The Salmon of Wisdom | |
Jenny Replies: 16 Views: 22780 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 8:18 pm Subject: The Salmon of Wisdom |
Bronwyn, Your post about the pigs. I've long wondered whether the "sudden" emergence of domesticated animals might have had something to do with human DNA being introduced into feral animal ... | |
Topic: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? | |
Jenny Replies: 186 Views: 133957 |
Forum: British History Posted: 1:17 pm Subject: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? |
I stumbled across this statement (Funk & Wagnall) on a mission for something else.
Ancient Greeks applied the name Scythians to a number of nomadic tribes. The name was used either for the Scy ... |
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Topic: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? | |
Jenny Replies: 186 Views: 133957 |
Forum: British History Posted: 12:45 pm Subject: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? |
Are you sure, Ishmael? Don't we have a bunch of folk who came from the area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea who then split in half, each taking their sheep and their tartan weaving techniqu ... | |
Topic: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? | |
Jenny Replies: 186 Views: 133957 |
Forum: British History Posted: 3:20 pm Subject: Scotching the Scotch : from the east or from the west? |
But I'd also like to think of "Scot" as "Skt". First word that comes to mind is skirt. "To border or fringe a particular area" (Old Norse: Skyrt.)
"Scathe" (Ol ... |
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Topic: A Sample Treasure Hunt Level : Level One | |
Jenny Replies: 81 Views: 80373 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 5:02 pm Subject: A Sample Treasure Hunt Level : Level One |
Actually it's damned difficult domesticating horses. If riding them weren't a big enough challenge, you've got to stable them, rear them, breed them, feed them, doctor them, train them, cull them, dis ... | |
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition | |
Jenny Replies: 2712 Views: 678413 |
Forum: British History Posted: 12:08 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition |
Sorry, Hats! This from the Catholic Encyclopedia
Also known as "the Grammarian", the author of the homilies in Anglo-Saxon, a translator of Holy Scripture, and a writer upon many miscella ... |
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