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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:07 amFOR generations experts have argued over exactly who was responsible for creating Stonehenge.
Now scientists in London believe they have found the answer… and it’s all down to a bunch of farmers originally from Turkey.
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:19 amAll nations need heroes. What we know of St George makes him a fine one - though very little of his story can be a certainty. But from fairly contemporary references, it looks as though he was born a Christian in Cappadocia, now in eastern Turkey and may have been of some "Darian" - Persian - blood too.
His mother came from what was then the larger area of Palestine (Israel and the Occupied Territories today). The Roman Empire had at the time spread all over this region. George joined the Roman army, becoming a fairly high-ranking officer. But he fell foul of the Emperor Diocletian, who, fearing a plot against his pagan second-in-command, embarked on a systematic terror against all Christian believers. George refused to bow to Diocletian and abandon his religion. Anticipating trouble, he gave his property to the poor and freed his slaves. He was imprisoned, tortured, and finally beheaded at Nicomedia, on April 23, 303AD.
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:43 pmPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:51 pmPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:51 pmPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:59 pmHitRed wrote:It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in 500 years.
Oregon *ring* *ring*
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:28 pmHitRed wrote:It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in France for 500 years.
Oregon *ring* *ring*
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:50 pmmookiemcgee wrote:HitRed wrote:It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in France for 500 years.
Oregon *ring* *ring*
do you have a link, this interests me... France has plenty of forests, and some very fine quality tight grain white oak is exported to the USA for winemaking.
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:37 pmmookiemcgee wrote:HitRed wrote:It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in France for 500 years.
Oregon *ring* *ring*
do you have a link, this interests me... France has plenty of forests, and some very fine quality tight grain white oak is exported to the USA for winemaking.
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:43 pmPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:55 pmPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:10 pmPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:13 ammrswdk wrote:England actually has quite a proud history of being Turkish. England's patron saint, who is celebrated with a public holiday every year and whose banner is on both the English and British flag, was also a Turk:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ewasbornin
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 6:05 amThe ram wrote:mrswdk wrote:England actually has quite a proud history of being Turkish. England's patron saint, who is celebrated with a public holiday every year and whose banner is on both the English and British flag, was also a Turk:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ewasbornin
St George's day is the 23rd of April. It's never been a public holiday and has never really been celebrated.
The ram wrote:The flag means more than the legend of St George slaying a dragon. Remember that red cross was flown during the crusades, so whoever George was, he certainly wasn't a Turk of modern day Turkey.
Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; d. 23 April 303[4]) was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.
George was an historical figure. According to an account by Metaphrastes, he was born in Cappadocia (in modern Turkey) to a noble Christian family; his mother was Palestinian.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:47 pmPosted: Sun May 05, 2019 9:54 ammrswdk wrote:The ram wrote:mrswdk wrote:England actually has quite a proud history of being Turkish. England's patron saint, who is celebrated with a public holiday every year and whose banner is on both the English and British flag, was also a Turk:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ewasbornin
St George's day is the 23rd of April. It's never been a public holiday and has never really been celebrated.
St George's Day 2019 Events In London
https://londonist.com/london/things-to- ... -in-london
This sort of Morris-dancing-knights-in-shining-armour-wave-your-English-flag freakery goes on up and down the country on St George's Day.The ram wrote:The flag means more than the legend of St George slaying a dragon. Remember that red cross was flown during the crusades, so whoever George was, he certainly wasn't a Turk of modern day Turkey.Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; d. 23 April 303[4]) was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.
George was an historical figure. According to an account by Metaphrastes, he was born in Cappadocia (in modern Turkey) to a noble Christian family; his mother was Palestinian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George