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  • in reply to: St. George’s day. #252070
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    Sigh! You got me. I’m 18th century.

    in reply to: St. George’s day. #252068
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    Just pointing out religious inconsistencies.
    George of Cappadocia is known as an historical figure. After all, we are talking about the late 4th century, not a biblical legend.

    But i should have put this in Off Topic. Sorry.

    in reply to: St. George’s day. #252066
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    No, but that was how things kicked off in Ukraine in 2014, wasn’t it? So maybe that’s the next flashpoint.

    I was just reading about George and saw he was a follower of Arius. So by Church law he’s a heretic, so can’t be a saint. The same with Constantine. Yet they are venerated as saints. That’s like the Vatican canonising Billy Graham.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #252060
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    ” We are bringing Ukraine closer to and then into Nato,” Mr Blinken said in his speech.”
    BBC News.

    in reply to: “Decolonising” Hadrian’s Wall? #252059
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    If we are to find the historical groups of the British Isles confusing, woe betide us when attempting to unravel the jigsaw that is ancient Greece and its innumerable city states and groups! Good grief!

    in reply to: “Decolonising” Hadrian’s Wall? #252057
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    Lowland Scots are not Scots. The Scots were the Gaels from Ireland who migrated to the Pictish Highlands and Isles in the 5th century, settled and mixed with the Picts, whom they absorbed.

    In the 18th century Lowland and English redcoats would taunt Highland prisoners by yelling at them in broad “Scots'” dialect, which the Highlanders couldn’t understand a word of, being Gaelic speakers.

    But of course, all such divisions are linguistic and cultural, since all humans are humans, cousins to chimpanzees. Nationalism is ridiculous.

    in reply to: “Decolonising” Hadrian’s Wall? #252055
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    How to become a Scotsman.

    in reply to: “Decolonising” Hadrian’s Wall? #252054
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    Albion was the Britons’ (the Welsh) name for the whole island.

    Bede the Saxon is really still the finest source for information on the British Isles.

    in reply to: “Decolonising” Hadrian’s Wall? #252053
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    The trouble is, if you did tell them they’re not Scots, you’d get a Glasgow kiss!

    in reply to: “Decolonising” Hadrian’s Wall? #252051
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    Scottish nationalism has no bearing on the Wall.
    Not only were there no Scots in Caledonia until the 5th century,
    but the “Scots” of today are of Anglo-Saxon and Norman ancestry.

    in reply to: “Decolonising” Hadrian’s Wall? #252050
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    The whole thing was a statement of might and of terror.
    A recent documentary i recall spoke of the Roman terror raids on Pictish tribes, slaughtering large numbers of people. The Antonine Wall was an earthwork which was booby trapped with lethal stakes for impaling unwary people, even after the Romans had left it so.
    The Wall itself was used to police a large area and it ruthlessly curtailed movement which had been free and peaceful too, and not just warlike. The northern tribes might have hoped it might “keep the Romans out” instead of themselves, but no such luck. The Romans raided numerous times, sowing havoc and fear.

    in reply to: New Music Thread #252042
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    Mozart.

    in reply to: Religion. #252030
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    What a nutter!

    in reply to: Waiting on the vote results #252019
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    ” Schadenfreude is a hollow type of happiness.”

    Ambrose Bierce defines happiness as the feeling that comes over us upon witnessing another’s misfortune.

    in reply to: Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitic #251999
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    Chris Hedges.

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