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Topic: Matters Arising | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 4:50 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Presumably, all literate deaf people - i.e. all deaf people in the West - which means it happens all the time. | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 4:16 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Taking up a point made by Ishmael, has anyone thought about the unusual story we are fed about the development of printing?
First the Chinese invent it, even though it is singularly ill-suited to t ... |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 4:08 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Bernie, if - as I think was suggested at one point - (written) Latin developed as a trading language, it would have given a distinct advantage to those who knew it (as it, "You were meant to deli ... | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 1:11 am Subject: Matters Arising |
Bernie, you much practise "careful ignoral" with some Applied Epistemologists. I value your contributions. | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 1:09 am Subject: Matters Arising |
So, Don, you're suggesting that Derby was a English Midlands version of Mostar. I wonder if they blew up the bridge over the Derwent at any point? | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 5:22 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Frank,
Have you thought about the case of Derby? We are told that it is a Viking name (meaning "deer village"). We are also told that it was originally an Anglo-Saxon town called Northworth ... |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 5:05 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Shit you people are creative! Awesome. | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 11:53 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Does that mean that A-E accepts Grimm's Law? | |
Topic: Matters Arising | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 4:06 am Subject: Matters Arising |
You seem to be asking Mick primarily but to give you a few things to chew on while he gets his act together.
If writing is a revolutionary new thing that gives you special power as a dominant elite ... |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 6:43 am Subject: Matters Arising |
A momentary distraction from suns and bulls...
I thought you lot might enjoy this quote from "The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue" by Ben MacIntyre (The Times's residen ... |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 6:45 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Maybe RAF is Really Ra-F (fekkin sun-god, innit?). | |
Topic: Matters Arising | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 5:49 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
...or perhaps you see the "British" flag and the Union flag as essentially the same thing... | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 5:45 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Hang on, people. Are you for real? There are dozens of paintings and references to the flag combining first the flag of St. andrew and St. George and then finally the horizontal (Northern) Irish one. ... | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 7:48 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
I'm not advancing any argument but it seems like crass stupidlty to paint what are essentially colourful targets on the body and wings of planes - how they won the Battle of Britain I don't know. | |
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Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 7:45 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
If anyone's interested:
- the castle represents "Castille" (Catalonia and Murcia also mean "castle land") the chains represent Navarre (can't remember why - chains of mountai ... |
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