1 posted on
04/14/2008 11:08:44 AM PDT by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
2 posted on
04/14/2008 11:09:57 AM PDT by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
3 posted on
04/14/2008 11:13:56 AM PDT by
WayneS
("Take your stinking paws off of me you damn dirty ape!")
To: blam
4 posted on
04/14/2008 11:14:48 AM PDT by
BGHater
(It's easy to be brave from a distance.)
To: blam
The national anthem of the Isle Of Man is
Ellan Vannin and the Bee Gees can be seen singing it
here. The Bee Gees were born on the Isle Of Man.
6 posted on
04/14/2008 11:21:53 AM PDT by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
“The explorer Pytheas”
He invented the Pyth helmet.
To: blam
Even bigger news: God himself visited Israel in the flesh in the year zero BC. (give or take a year or so)
To: blam
At various points along his route Pytheas would take sun measurements at the summer and winter solstice to establish his geographical position, in addition to reckoning the distances travelled each day by boat. Really? Since when did the solstice lasted several weeks or months.
15 posted on
04/14/2008 1:10:18 PM PDT by
mtbopfuyn
(The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
18 posted on
04/14/2008 10:48:49 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
“During his voyage, Pytheas – who coined the name ‘British Isles’ as a geographical description of Britain and Ireland “
Though they don’t tell us about the Pritani tribe and thus the origin of the name?
Lots of half-infos here, I wonder if the writer decided it was to much info for his space limit or he didn’t know himself.
To: blam
which almost certainly, from recent reassessment of the evidence, included a landing in the Isle of Man.' No Man is an Island.
21 posted on
04/15/2008 4:52:01 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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