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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 ...

Hamas is not popular with Arab states but according to the Jewish Chronicle and the former Secretary of State, Blinken, Hamas recruitment in Gaza has risen. Their increased numbers are surely the resu ...

A church can claim to be a likely spot to come across a centuries-old tomb though how the tomb of a famous king evaded public notice takes some explaining, hence perhaps the 'cellar'.

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Topic: The Importance of Sport
Hatty Replies: 4548 Views: 8672120	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:21 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Hatty Replies: 4548 Views: 8672120	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: 97985	Forum: British History Posted: 7:23 am Subject: Foreigners
Hatty Replies: 32 Views: 97985	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: 376101	Forum: History Posted: 10:14 am Subject: All Things Roman
Hatty Replies: 441 Views: 376101	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: 1971 Views: 704419	Forum: Politics Posted: 3:42 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Hatty Replies: 1971 Views: 704419	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: 238179	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 3:38 pm Subject: The Plough
Hatty Replies: 104 Views: 238179	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: 346559	Forum: Pre-History Posted: 3:59 pm Subject: Where are all the Neanderthals?
Hatty Replies: 446 Views: 346559	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: 2097 Views: 816763	Forum: Politics Posted: 5:23 pm Subject: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 2097 Views: 816763	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: 2627 Views: 1382085	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:19 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 2627 Views: 1382085	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: 2627 Views: 1382085	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:08 am Subject: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 2627 Views: 1382085	Orwell died on Jura in 1950 He should have gone to the Jura (Switzerland).
Topic: The Canons of Culture
Hatty Replies: 174 Views: 287106	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:59 am Subject: The Canons of Culture
Hatty Replies: 174 Views: 287106	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: 2755 Views: 1143960	Forum: British History Posted: 2:40 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2755 Views: 1143960	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: 176009	Forum: Astrophysics Posted: 1:45 pm Subject: Planets-as-suns, and more
Hatty Replies: 134 Views: 176009	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: 1971 Views: 704419	Forum: Politics Posted: 9:38 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Hatty Replies: 1971 Views: 704419	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 ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 2097 Views: 816763	Forum: Politics Posted: 9:46 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 2097 Views: 816763	Hamas is not popular with Arab states but according to the Jewish Chronicle and the former Secretary of State, Blinken, Hamas recruitment in Gaza has risen. Their increased numbers are surely the resu ...
Topic: COIN
Hatty Replies: 850 Views: 506649	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:44 pm Subject: COIN
Hatty Replies: 850 Views: 506649	A church can claim to be a likely spot to come across a centuries-old tomb though how the tomb of a famous king evaded public notice takes some explaining, hence perhaps the 'cellar'.