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signal honor to be beheaded by Mary.They didn't call her Bloody Mary for nothing!
But if you want it to be your history and tradition, you have to choose ancestors who stayed where they were while it was happening
The thing about immigration to the new world is how fast your ancestry spreads over cultures. I am English, Irish, Welsh, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian. etc etc. I would love to meet all my ancestors
They didn't call her Bloody Mary for nothing!
Sorry. Too early in the day for me, thanks. 
I have to go to a wake and I'll probably wish I had a few afterwards.
I am English, Irish, Welsh, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian. etc etc. I would love to meet all my ancestors.
Nice stock. Ah...No French?
I think ancient humans traveled much more than modern man gives them credit.
And a good thing too, or we'd all still be living in the Olduvai Gorge (and it would be awfully crowded by now!)
I can trace my patrilineal family (Cole) back about a thousand years here (thank God for the Domesday Book and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles!) to Cornish Kola, though many Coles emigrated to the US and elsewhere over the years. I'm mostly Saxon and Norman on my mother's side.
But that's not a patch on one man in Somerset who lives half a mile from Cheddar Gorge, who was recently DNA-matched to a 9,000 year old skeleton found in one of the caves.http://pw2.netcom.com/~duchess/old_stuff/stone.html
I'll apologise to Klato now if one of my ancestors (the sherrif of Enniskillen, who founded Coleraine,) had any part in the hounding his ancestor for back taxes
9,000 year old skeleton found in one of the caves I saw something on tv about that. (I still watch it too much ) That must be a great feeling to know you belong to a place, and your people have been there for so many thousands of years. What a shame so much history of the "common folk" is lost to time. I would love to know the life stories of all the people that never made the history books. It's a wonderful thing that some of it can be brought to life by DNA!
I'll apologise to Klato now if one of my ancestors (the sherrif of Enniskillen, who founded Coleraine,) had any part in the hounding his ancestor for back taxes.
That's not all you'll have to atone for. Tomorrow, I have to die as a loyalist. We are doing our annual re-enactment of a part of the Battle of Kettle Creek. I get to die again! For King and Country!
I think civilization would have to be credited to the Middle East, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and Africa.
Indeed, it depends how we define civilization. Writing would be the Middle East, Agriculture would be Indo-European, and technology (stone) would be Africa, predating even the evolution of the genus Homo.
I am always profoundly aware, when I look at all the technology of today - computers, space shuttles, the Microsoft Office paperclip, whatever, that it was all made by ancient Man banging flints together. They made the tools that made the tools that made the tools... that made them all.
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Back on the Lisa Gerrard thing (and let me preface this by saying that personally I quite like her stuff) my father is a newspaper photographer and had to go out to snap her when she was being interviewed one time. He told me that at the part where she got on to talking about her singing language and how she was attempting to go beyond the meaning of words to the emotional core underneath she sounded like a bit of an arrogant twat (actually he didn't put it like that, I had to clean it up a little). He said he had to fight the urge to say "in other words, you're crap and you can't write real lyrics".
I had other things I wanted to comment on after reading the last 100+ posts in this thread, but I think I lost it and now I have to go change into a costume for a party.
No wait I remember one question I wanted to ask. Since I changed computers I realised I don't get chat pop ups from bots or humans any more. I also don't get the little message saying that IE just blocked a pop up. Anyone know where I go digging to address this?
I had other things I wanted to comment on after reading the last 100+ posts in this thread, but I think I lost it and now I have to go change into a costume for a party.
No wait I remember one question I wanted to ask. Since I changed computers I realised I don't get chat pop ups from bots or humans any more. I also don't get the little message saying that IE just blocked a pop up. Anyone know where I go digging to address this?
Go to TOOLS...pop up blocker....turn of pop up blocker. the tools is on the right hand side just above the my bots if you are here.
Corwin:
If you chhanged to firefox, go to:
tools/options/content
and un-check "block pop-up windows".
If you chhanged to firefox, go to:
tools/options/content
and un-check "block pop-up windows".
I have to go to a wake and I'll probably wish I had a few afterwards.
Yes, The Irish part is Corbett. Comes from a Norman word meaning a little crow. So you have Norse going to France going to Ireland. So I guess people got around a lot before the new world too.
Wow! The Norse did get around more than I thought. I think I saw something about the Norse migrations on the History Channel, but it was only on their trips to Iceland and Newfoundland. Do you think the Norse people started civilization?
No, as proud as I may be of my Norse side of the family, I think civilization would have to be credited to the Middle East, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and Africa. Then there is a lot to be said for the Asians too.
I think ancient humans traveled much more than modern man gives them credit. I find common cultural practices spread among diverse cultures very interesting. The use of red ocre and hand mirrors in burials from many cultures around the arctic circle is interesting.
I don't think man's basic nature has changed much, I think he has always been curious, and interested in trade, adventure, and the hope of riches to be found over the next hill.
I also found it interesting that when they did a genetic sampling there was a Italian woman and an Inuit man that shared a great number of common markers..Now either that branch of science is somehow flawed, or there is an interesting story in history we will never know.
I think ancient humans traveled much more than modern man gives them credit. I find common cultural practices spread among diverse cultures very interesting. The use of red ocre and hand mirrors in burials from many cultures around the arctic circle is interesting.
I don't think man's basic nature has changed much, I think he has always been curious, and interested in trade, adventure, and the hope of riches to be found over the next hill.
I also found it interesting that when they did a genetic sampling there was a Italian woman and an Inuit man that shared a great number of common markers..Now either that branch of science is somehow flawed, or there is an interesting story in history we will never know.
And a good thing too, or we'd all still be living in the Olduvai Gorge (and it would be awfully crowded by now!)
I can trace my patrilineal family (Cole) back about a thousand years here (thank God for the Domesday Book and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles!) to Cornish Kola, though many Coles emigrated to the US and elsewhere over the years. I'm mostly Saxon and Norman on my mother's side.
But that's not a patch on one man in Somerset who lives half a mile from Cheddar Gorge, who was recently DNA-matched to a 9,000 year old skeleton found in one of the caves.
I'll apologise to Klato now if one of my ancestors (the sherrif of Enniskillen, who founded Coleraine,) had any part in the hounding his ancestor for back taxes
) That must be a great feeling to know you belong to a place, and your people have been there for so many thousands of years. What a shame so much history of the "common folk" is lost to time. I would love to know the life stories of all the people that never made the history books. It's a wonderful thing that some of it can be brought to life by DNA! Tomorrow, I have to die as a loyalist. We are doing our annual re-enactment of a part of the Battle of Kettle Creek. I get to die again! For King and Country! Indeed, it depends how we define civilization. Writing would be the Middle East, Agriculture would be Indo-European, and technology (stone) would be Africa, predating even the evolution of the genus Homo.
I am always profoundly aware, when I look at all the technology of today - computers, space shuttles, the Microsoft Office paperclip, whatever, that it was all made by ancient Man banging flints together. They made the tools that made the tools that made the tools... that made them all.
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