FAQ's

WOW...that many times Paul eh? I better stop or I will be getting RSI lol

I was always told at school to stop talking and pay attention and that I resented correction thats probably why i've posted so much in here, I talk too much lol 

Hi Lyn & Sue:  That's OK if you can't answer.  I was always a little geeky when it comes to geography.  That's why my hubby and I make such a good team.  I read the maps and then tell him where to go and we never get lost.  (I called him "Richard" (Bucket) the whole time we were over there. lol).  If it was the other way around, we'd be in trouble.

Wow, Paul, where do I start here?  First are you an American who moved to England or a Brit who lived in the US for a while? 

From your comments I think it reiterates what I think we've all known all along.  We get spoon fed the stuff they want us to know, and God forbid anyone else gets the credit for the good and glorious stuff, like the US constitution being based on the Magna Carta, taking it to a new level.  (I got to see one of the originals of the Magna Carta in Salisbury Cathedral). That's some very interesting Ben Franklin trivia you posted - thanks!  I think I heard from some documentary that old Ben was quite the ladies' man.

As for the map references, I had to break out my atlas for the ones you mentioned.  The road map I have is for N. England and goes from the Scottish border to about as far south as Liverpool/Manchester/Sheffield.  So it's very detailed, which is maybe why it has the village of Brind.  There are a lot of English town names that made it over here, maybe with the term New added in front.  Unfortunately New York isn't anything like old York.  I know there's a Falmouth in Massachusetts, probably named after the one in Cornwall.

On the currency, are you referring to the eye over the pyramid?  Yes, I recently saw a documentary about the founding fathers, most of whom were freemasons, but a lot of the symbolism, which even supposedly dates back to the Knights Templar, is just a matter of speculation.  Or at least that's what they want us to know. 

Ruth---I was born in Lancashire, but spent many, many happy years living in Colorado Springs and actually got a very good education there in the '60s, and many teachers taught their subjects interestingly enough for me to want to find out more. I emailled the current Principal about a year ago to thank the school for what they'd done all those years ago.

It was in my final year in Canada, boredom set in, and started to show in my grades. My Dad was in the Canadian Forces.

Ref another posting about Festus---met him once in Las Vegas while we were on vacation, but he looked a lot more like Ken Curtis, born in Colorado.  Lovely chatting with you as well; you'd be surprised at the memories you've brought back.

Intelligent? Lyn certainly is despite the lenghts she sometimes goes to, to try and hide it! Andy is very insightful with his observations he writes about, and Ron?  He's in a class of his own--and makes sure I double check my postings for punctuation, learnt the American way. As for myself, graduated in the class of 68 1/2. Unfortunately, nobody else was in it when I did. I've since tried to compensate for it one way or another, successfully or not. 

Hi Ruth

You mentioned the Magna Carta in your post yesterday but did you know that at Runnymede (about six miles from Windsor) there is an acre of land belonging to the USA? 

"A Memorial Stone is set is an acre of green land given to the United States by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965 to commemorate the life of John F Kennedy..

"To get to the monument you have to climb a stone path of fifty steps, one for each year of his life."

Unfortunately I've searched through PoE and can't find any photos!  Maybe I'll look out my old photos and scan them in.