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If you were to hollow out the inside pages as a block, you could make each book into a repository for secret stashes of valuables, family heirlooms, illicit supplies of booze etc. etc. (I guess this only works for hardbacks, though ... ) Failing that, you could always tear out the individual pages and persuade the children to make papier mache trays ...by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Never mind, Merc! As long as you enjoyed the day ... And I'm sure it gave you a chance to plan for the REALLY BIG celebrations in two years' time ...by Hermione - Coffee Shop
I remember once seeing an ancient film about leaflets containing some kind of anti-British propaganda that were dropped by enemy aircraft onto the British mainland during WWII ... the film suggested, very decorously, that the leaflets be turned into what was euphemistically described as "shaving-paper" ...by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Kai Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Habbo do everything they can to > prevent this from happening andwill do all they > can to make sure everything is returned to your > daughter Well, why didn't Habbo reply to Laura's emails? And why didn't they reply to the disgruntled users on the review site?by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Dave L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What date? It was Bronze Age - 3rd millennium-ish. > > As for Thom's son, if he has evidence, fine, but > his dad certainly didn't. Well, as far as I can judge, Archibald Thom seems to have applied the same sort of techniques to Scandinavia as his father did to Britain and France. So, ifby Hermione - Coffee Shop
Dave L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I take it that's Americas? Er ... not sure what you mean! (Mohenjo Daro is situated in the Indus Valley ... ) > Interesting to note again a system that is not > base ten, which puts to rest the old ethnocentric > idea that base 10 is natural. > > I have that book, I'll have a lby Hermione - Coffee Shop
Thanks, Dave L ... but all I did was to use a search-engine! I haven't done the scholarly thing, and read McDonald's book ... However, I do have some notes on Refrew, C., & Bahn, P. (1991), "Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice", Thames & Hudson: 352; where they discuss weights and measures in Mohenjo Daro, including some cubes of coloured stone, which wereby Hermione - Coffee Shop
No, Ritva ... your English was excellent! "Me neither" was fine! (Either: or; and neither: nor).by Hermione - Paper Lens
Sorry - it's not online, AFAIK! All I did was Google "McDonald" and "units of measure". That brought up the book he'd written, which had an introduction by Renfrew. Your extract looked a bit like other stuff Renfrew's written, so I just took a pot-shot. (John's quotes are much harder ... I've never been able to get one of those).by Hermione - Coffee Shop
laura Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > actually hermione...i was reffering to what john > was saying about you all being a bunch of > neithers...i found that very funny.... Oh, right ... > > you seem to have got the wrong end of the > stick... Sorry! and i dont have access to that > site...sorry > No, this is the proby Hermione - Paper Lens
laura Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i cant believe that you lot can make a thread out > of nothing!!!!!! Well, that's perhaps a little unfair, Laura ... the original article (if you do have access to it) is intelligent and worth reading: it discusses the rise of pseudoscience in recent years, and the claims by some that various pseudoscientificby Hermione - Paper Lens
John Wall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whaddya calla gathering o' neithers ? A nathering ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
Apologies to all ... I've edited my original post accordingly.by Hermione - Paper Lens
Oh, dear! I don't know why that should be ... I haven't got a subscription, but I seemed to access it OK. If you were to go here , there's a link to the article over to the right and down the page a bit.by Hermione - Paper Lens
An article by Johann Hari in this morning's "Independent" (which, however, requires a subscription): Hermioneby Hermione - Paper Lens
Damian Walter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As far as complete translations are concerned, it > seems Geldner's four-volume German translation > from the 1950s (published by Harvard University > Press) is considered to be among the best > currently available. Yes, that's what I understood, too ... except that, on re-reading Jby Hermione - Ancient History
Hi Joanne, Well, yes, I suppose that the official position could be read that way - although it looked to me more like an attempt to reconcile the essentially irreconcilable: I wonder how many committees had to convene, how many drafts they had to prepare, and how many arguments there were over the precise phrasing of each sentence, before this particular version was finally agreed.by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm looking for a good (actually the best) > translation of the Rg Veda into English. Does > anyone know which is/ are the best, Try this one: K.F. Geldner, Der Rig-Veda (4 vols), Cambridge,Mass., 1951.by Hermione - Ancient History
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't know if there is any official position or > not. I imagine there is, but I have no idea what > it is. Well, I certainly didn't find the Vatican website very helpful on that point. I just felt that particular article was a > little suspect because of the errors. Admittedly, thinby Hermione - Coffee Shop
Hi teacup, > I'll take that as a compliment. Thank > you, Hermione. I was trying to think of a way that (the names) Roxanne and Hermione might be related ... you mentioned Alexander, who married Roxane, who was the daughter of Oxyartes; fter Alexander's death, poor Roxane and her son were killed by someone called Cassander. Hermione was the daughter of Helen of Troy, andby Hermione - Coffee Shop
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Considering that the author of the article > repeatedly gets the name of one pope wrong > throughout the piece, I'm not sure I trust his > attention to other details -- like the facts... I tried searching for "Creationism" using the Vatican's search engine , but without success.by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Hi kenuchelover, > supermarkets don't depress me as much as the > average boutique.... or for that matter, the > clothes section of the average department store. If you read any 19th century novels, it seems that the less well-off people had one outfit that they wore on weekdays, and another they wore on Sundays - their Sunday best; and those two outfits were expected to lasby Hermione - Laboratory
Hi Laura, This seems to be the official standpoint of the Catholic Church:by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Hi Firestone, You still haven't explained in what sort of document, and in what sort of context, the text appears.by Hermione - Humanities
Just when you thought the relentlessness and stridency of advertising couldn't get any worse ... Hermioneby Hermione - Laboratory