Posted in History, Life, tagged beaker folk, Brigantes, Britain, Cúchulain, Celtic, England, Gawain, King Arthur, Nennius, Portus Setantiorum, Roman Britain, Sétanta, Seteia, West Lancashire on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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“…The Setantii were the ancient British inhabitants of the north west littoral of what is now modern-day Lancashire. Mentioned by Ptolemy in his second century geography of Britain (the earliest written record of their existence), they are thought to have been a sept or clan of the Brigantes tribe which dominated northern England [...]
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T’other night settled down to watch something I’d recorded; Guitar Legends on Jools… and spied some bloke called Seasick Steve whom I’d never heard of; ex-hobo, professional walker, train rider and player of a guitar which only had 3 strings; percussion provided by his foot and a box. And it was mesmerisingly fabulous. [...]
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Lost in the void, without form or purpose, listless, apathetic, tiresome and grumpy; Fate conspired to kick me in the nadgers last night; a night of opportunity smiting Golbins with my Rune Priest was snatched from me, most cruelly . And what happened to prevent this exploration of Waaarrghgh? Well my computer went click, off; [...]
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So two unrelated incidents here: Firstly we went to look at the new Liverpool One Shopping Emporium last night, and very nice it was too, had a lovely meal in a Tapas Bar all of which is side tracking us from the main event, which was to purchase an Anniversary card [...]
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If one was designing an underground garage to accept delivery vehicles and their deliveries, you’d think that measuring the length and breadth of said vehicles, allowing for their doors to be open and the manoeuvre of deliveries to the storage facilities, would probably be top of the list of things that [...]
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Take a system, let’s call it System A.
Split this System A up into its components as defined by their function. System A now functions by these components cooperating, communicating and supporting each other. It also makes the components and thus the system as a whole, easier to administer.
Now if we establish what System [...]
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ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French ypocrisie, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek hupokrisis ‘acting of a theatrical part,’ from hupokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend,’ from hupo ‘under’ + krinein ‘decide, judge.’
None of this is true:
So a place I know make a big song and dance about their anti-bullying policy. And [...]
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