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Adrian Bott
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Can't really take the 'kids did perfectly well without computers' lines seriously b/c I lived through the introduction of computers in both education & entertainment, and we fell like rabid
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'Lord' and 'lady' derive from 'loaf-hoard' and 'loaf-dig'. So the terms we would later associate with nobility actually referred to whether you were the one who guarded the bread, or
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leavers complaining that the Brexit talks were 'boring', as if two day lorry queues are going to provide the stimulating spectacle they crave don't worry, the scriptwriters will spice things
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I did some research into 'the veil between the worlds' a while back. Not a single example of a pre-Victorian use. The concept of 'thin places' (where the 'veil between
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Witches' potions were believed to contain all sorts of disgusting ingredients. A recent trend has attempted to reinterpret these as 'secret names for herbs', an assertion for which there is
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PE teachers can wreck your health. Dr Anne Elliott found that bad experiences in school PE actively deterred people from taking exercise in later life & led to a state
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While much western esotericism stubbornly insists that the sun is male, some British folksong tradition casts her as female: see The Watersons' Country Life, 'I like to rise when the
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