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95The Landscape Zodiac of Britain part 1 Whitstable
A curious feature in the landscape, The Street Of Stones at Whitstable, is discovered to be part of a previously unknown Ley-Line Alignment. Local Myths and Old Wives Tales feature it as a central plank in their telling - now reevaluated in the light of this unique theory.
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89English Swear Words
The English language uses amusing, unusual, even unique methods for swearing. Every language has it’s expletives but English is bloody strange.That last one for instance, peculiar to England though sometimes used in the British Dominions of...
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89TAX! Ten Weird Taxes You Probably Aren't Paying
A lot of people around the world aren't happy about the taxes they are paying. This article looks on the bright side! Here are ten very odd, weird taxes you almost certainly aren't paying....
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87Anglo-Saxon History
The Anglo Saxon period is the oldest known period of time that had a complex culture with stable government, art, and a fairly large amount of literature. Many people believe that the culture then was extremely unsophisticated, but it was actually...
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84The Mysterious Death of Harold Godwinson at Hastings
It is commonly believed that Harold Godwinson, last Saxon King of England, died at the battle of Hastings with an arrow in his eye. What is less well known is that this version of his death was questioned at the time; many believed that King Harold...
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83A Wiccan point of view on Spring and vocabulary
credit: Elizabeth Paxson This article is intended for those that think all pagan referenced vocabulary should be eradicated from our daily language. It was inspired by a well known blog editor, which I appreciate, although obviously do not agree...
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82"Bringing in the May" - the history and culture of the traditional English May Day
May Day celebrations in England have a rich and diverse history. Strands of the festivals come from different pagan, polytheistic, and Christian traditions, all of which became mixed together over the years. ...
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81The Staffordshire Hoard and Anglo-Saxon England
The 'Staffordshire Hoard' is a collection of hundreds of beautiful Anglo-Saxon gold items ~ often decorated with garnets. There are religious artefacts and items of jewelry. For some reason they were hidden ~ buried in a Staffordshire field ~ and there they lay, undiscovered, for hundreds of years, until a man with a metal detector unearthed them in the year 2009. Staffordshire is in the English Midlands, and belonged, once, to the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Tamworth in staffordshire was a
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81Homeschool Curriculum Review: the Robinson Curriculum
The program utilizes the Saxon Math Series textbooks for the mathematics subject through Calculus. Two and a half years ago we made the leap. It didn't arrive without a good deal of consternation. Our oldest two children were in the local public...
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