Diane smiled tautly. “You’re suggesting we have to save the world so science can proceed?”
“Yes, if you want to put it that way. If you’re lacking a better reason to do it.”--Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain
@IncredPapist_ There’s a very strong liturgical history argument that coronation is a form of Holy Orders, as early rites borrowed liberally from the ordering of bishops.
@CanonRobinWard@aisiantonas@ClarkeMicah There would have been several veterans studying at Cambridge after their military service, though, including while hostilities were ongoing. In 1820, you could talk to a man at Magdalene who had been wounded at Trafalgar at 16.
@ladygreenkirtle@achillghost I believe this is post-Christian Norse literature, too, as the Orkney Saga records that the boss of these Vikings was a Crusader.
Delighted to preach for the mother of Oak Apple Day celebrations at All Saints Northampton. After the service, the mayor places a wreathe of oak leaves on the statue of Charles II. It’s been going on for centuries and one of England’s glorious eccentricities!
@Dr_W_E_Bulmer@tc1415 If you include the East of England with the Southeast and London, you get around a third of the population of England and a little over half the GDP. Little less than half total UK GDP.
My historical conspiracy theory is that once the Captain of the Mayflower realised they had been driven off course, he aimed to land in Massachusetts to get help from Sir Ferdinando Gorges’s agent, Tesquantum. One wonders if William Bradford ever figured this out.
Hi, @Se_Railway , I signaled the 9:13 rail replacement bus at the Mottingham station stop next to the Tarn Bird sanctuary. Bus driver somehow missed me and my three children.