Celtic Woman - Amazing Grace
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Celtic Woman peforms Amazing Grace A heavenly hymn. Powerful and stirring. Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) That sav'd a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears reliev'd; How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believ'd! Thro' many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. The Lord has promis'd good to me, His word my hope secures; He will my... |
Ancient glyphs and a Celtic connection theory
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| A local man is out to change history. Or, more specifically, suggest that there might be some changes required in Canada's history books, and give us more reason to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Robert Burcher, a photographer and enquiring mind living in Slabtown, has recently finished the manuscript for a book that represents 16 years of research, a basement full of resources and several trips around Ontario and Ireland. His research was born in the Peterborough Petroglyphs. A vast expanse of rock carvings surrounded by conflicting interpretations and curious spectators. Burcher was most intrigued by what looked like the image... |
On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| On the Presence of Non-Chinese at Anyang by Kim Hayes It has now become clear that finds of chariot remains, metal knives and axes of northern provenance, and bronze mirrors of western provenance in the tombs of Anyang indicate that the Shang had at least indirect contact with people who were familiar with these things. Who were these people? Where did they live? When did they arrive? Following the discovery of the Tarim Mummies, we now know that the population of the earliest attested cultures of what is present-day Xinjiang were of northwestern or western derivation. According to the craniometric... |
Some Beautiful Celtic Woman Christmas Music for the Holiday
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| For those of you who haven't heard of these women, you've been missing out! And for those of you who have, you know how beautiful their music is. Enjoy. O, Holy NightWhite ChristmasSilent NightThe Bleak Midwinter/First Noel Just a sample. Check them out on YouTube and elsewhere. |
Woman arrested for smoking pot during traffic stop (all kinds of stupid)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Muncie - Police say a Muncie woman was arrested after asking a state trooper whether she could smoke - and then trying to light up a marijuana joint. Thirty-two-year-old Honesty Knight was a passenger in a vehicle that Trooper Eric Perkins pulled over for a traffic violation early Friday. While the trooper was talking to the driver, Knight obtained the trooper's permission to smoke. Police say Perkins then asked to see the cigarette, which contained marijuana, not tobacco. Knight faces a preliminary charge of possession of paraphernalia. She was released from jail on bond, but couldn't be located for comment... |
Dulaman
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| My buddy Meav singing Dulaman..... Dulaman |
Ancient Celtic coin cache found in Netherlands
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| A hobbyist with a metal detector struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht. "It's exciting, like a little boy's dream," Paul Curfs, 47, said Thursday after the spectacular find was made public. Archaeologists say the trove of 39 gold and 70 silver coins was minted in the middle of the first century B.C. as the future Roman ruler Julius Caesar led a campaign against Celtic tribes in the area. Curfs said he was walking with his detector this spring and was about... |
Our Celtic Roots Lie In Spain And Portugal
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Our Celtic roots lie in Spain and Portugal May 5 2008 by Darren Devine, Western Mail THE Welsh have more in common with sun-kissed glamour pusses like actress Penelope Cruz and footballer Christiano Ronaldo than pale- faced Germans like Helmet Kohl, according to an academic. Professor John Koch suggests the Welsh can trace their ancestry back to Portugal and Spain, debunking the century-old received wisdom that our forebears came from Iron Age Germany and Austria. His radical work on Celtic origins flatly contradicts the writing of Sir John Rhys, who in the late 19th century established the idea that we... |
What In The World Is A Gungywamp?
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| What In The World Is A Gungywamp? By MARLENE CLARK February 6, 2008 Gungywamp is a 100-acre area in Groton that archaeologists consider a treasure. Its exact origins remain a mystery, but its unusual stonework and artifacts span centuries, if not eons. Among Gungywamp's features are stone chambers that researchers believe were Colonial-era root cellars or animal birthing shelters erected by English-Scottish immigrants. Of these, two are intact. One contains a solar calendar: during the spring and autumn equinox, the sun shines through an opening in the west wall and lights the opposite wall, which reflects some light into a... |
Astronaut takes dragon into space
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| A Canadian astronaut will be paying tribute to his Welsh heritage once more on his second mission into space. Dafydd Rhys Williams, whose father was from the valleys town of Bargoed, has already spoken Welsh in space and taken Gareth Edwards' rugby cap into orbit. Weeks away from his second trip on the space shuttle, Dr Williams told BBC Wales that a Welsh dragon would be watching over his mission notebook. The 14-day tour will see Dr Williams make three space walks. The former emergency room physician will be helping to build an extension on the international space station on... |
'An Ancient Muse', by Loreena McKennitt (finally, she has a new CD!, with VIDEO link)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| <p>After a long hiatus because of a boating accident in which her fiance drowned, Loreena McKinnett is finally back with a just released CD, 'An Ancient Muse'.</p> <p>You can see streaming video footage of “Caravanserai” (from 'An Ancient Muse') performed live at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain (September 2006). It’s an exciting taste of the PBS Great Performances live concert TV special to come in March 2007, 'Nights from the Alhambra'.</p> |
Britain 'had apartheid society'
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| An apartheid society existed in early Anglo-Saxon Britain, research suggests. Scientists believe a small population of migrants from Germany, Holland and Denmark established a segregated society when they arrived in England. The researchers think the incomers changed the local gene pool by using their economic advantage to out-breed the native population. The team tells a Royal Society journal that this may explain the abundance of Germanic genes in England today. [Modern-day England has] a population of largely Germanic genetic origin, speaking a principally German language Dr Mark Thomas, UCL There are a very high number of Germanic male-line ancestors... |
Galicians (Vanity)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| In the land of Spain in the Iberian Peninsula, there are groups of people who speak a language similar to Portguese called the Galicians. Galicians live in northwestern part of Spain, known as the "land of the 1000 rivers". It is one of Spain's official language besides Spanish and are refered as Gallegos. Galcians have migrated to other parts of Spain and Latin America. Galicians have their own autonomous region in Spain, like the Basque people. Galicians originally were Celtic people who migrated from the Pyrenees Mountain. The tribe called Galleci was established in northwestern part of Spain. Then around... |
Boadicea May Have Had Her Chips On Site Of McDonald's
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Boadicea may have had her chips on site of McDonald's By Nick Britten (Filed: 25/05/2006) Archaeologists believe they may have found the final battle site for the warrior queen Boadicea - on the site of a McDonald's restaurant. Having spent her life in fierce resistance to one empire - the Romans - her last stand is thought to have been overshadowed by another one, this time corporate. Having found ancient artefacts where new houses and flats are due to be built, experts have now asked the local authority to allow a full excavation of the area. Little is known about... |
Family farm still working after two centuries
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| If you're Irish, you're familiar with the following words: shamrocks, claddagh and trinity designs, merino wool, Dresden and Belleek porcelain, Celtic music and crosses, bogwood, the Book of Cels, connemara marble, new grange spirals, “Erin Go Braugh” (Ireland forever) and “Cead Mile Failte” (one hundred thousand welcomes). As it is March and we Irish from the town of Victory are a proud lot, we would like to honor and remember one Irish family - the Martin/Wood/Houghtaling family. John Martin (future Revolutionary War veteran) left county Sligo, in the northern part Ireland in the 1700s and sailed to America to New... |
Archaeologists Find Hoard Of Celtic Coins
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Archaeologists Find Hoard of Celtic Coins Fri Jun 3,10:43 AM ET AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Archaeologists have uncovered 17 ancient Celtic coins in a field in the south of the Netherlands, the first hoard of such coins found in the country. Amsterdam's Free University excavated the site in April and will display the coins, which are made of silver and mixed with copper and gold, in the Limburgs Museum in the city of Venlo on Saturday. They are estimated to date from 20-50 B.C., shortly after Julius Caesar began the Roman conquest of the region. Leaders of local Germanic tribes "probably... |
DNA Shows Celtic Hero Somerled's Viking Roots
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| DNA shows Celtic hero Somerled's Viking roots IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT A HISTORIC Celtic hero credited with driving the Vikings out of western Scotland was actually descended from a Norseman, according to research by a leading DNA expert. According to traditional genealogies, Somerled, who is said to have died in 1164 after ousting the Vikings from Argyll, Kintyre and the Western Isles, was descended from an ancient royal line going back to when the Scots were living in Ireland. But Bryan Sykes, an Oxford University professor of human genetics who set up a company called Oxford Ancestors to research people’s... |
Fans at soccer game in Scotland jeer pope
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Fans at a Scottish Cup soccer game jeered during a minute's silence for Pope John Paul II on Sunday, forcing the tribute to be cut short. The booing by Hearts fans came before the semifinal against Celtic, which has mostly Catholic fans. Referee Stuart Dougal ended the memorial less than halfway through because of the noise. The game was televised in Britain and overseas.Hearts chief executive Phil Anderton criticized the fans' conduct and apologized to Celtic and the Scottish Football Association."It is disturbing that some Hearts fans failed to see the significance of this occasion," he... |
For Celtic Music Fans - PBS Concert: "Celtic Woman" this weekend [Vanity]
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| This was probably the best concert aired on PBS I've ever seen. From the link at the top (sorry, it is a "donation page" but I couldn't find a better one): Celtic Woman The program brings to the screen five exceptional new Irish stars in a spectacular performance recorded live at Dublin's prestigious Helix Centre. Performing some of the most beautiful and best-loved songs in the musical repertoire, the four singers -- 15-year-old Chloë Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha and Orlagh Fallon -- and violinist Máiréad Nesbitt bring the Dublin audience to their feet over and over again. Normally,... |
Irish, Scots And Welsh Not Celtic - Scientist
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Irish, Scots and Welsh not Celts - scientists September 09 2004 at 08:15PM Dublin - Celtic nations like Ireland and Scotland have more in common with the Portuguese and Spanish than with "Celts" - the name commonly used for a group of people from ancient Alpine Europe, scientists say. "There is a received wisdom that the origin of the people of these islands lie in invasions or migrations... but the affinities don't point eastwards to a shared origin," said Daniel Bradley, co-author of a genetic study into Celtic origins. Early historians believed the Celts - thought to have come from... |
The Romans in Ireland
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Juvenal's claim was dismissed as poetic exaggeration until archaeological discoveries suggested that the Romans may, after all, have extended their power across the Irish Sea. In 1927 a unique group of burials was unearthed on Lambay, a small island off the coast of County Dublin... Irish archaeologist Barry Raftery plausibly suggests that the burials may represent Britons fleeing reprisals after the Romans crushed a revolt by the Brigantes in the year 74... At Drumanagh in County Dublin, trial explorations have revealed traces of a Roman coastal fort on a promontory jutting into the Irish Sea. The 40-acre site is defended... |
Outrage Over Destruction Of Celtic Fort
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Outrage over destruction of Celtic fort online.ie 2004-06-21 17:40:04+01 Heritage experts today condemned the destruction of part of a 3,000-year-old Celtic fort in Co Kerry. The 700 metres of earthen works that surrounded the ancient Dun Mor Fort on the Dingle Peninsula were levelled at the weekend by an excavating machine. An entrance and a standing stone with an ogham (Celtic writing) inscription were also removed. Heritage Ireland spokeswoman Isobel Smyth said it was a dreadful act. "This is a very important site and we want to see an investigation carried out," she said. The 80 acre Dun More fort... |
In Memoriam Johnny Cunningham
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| Johnny Cunningham passed away on the evening of December 15th 2003. He died at home from a heart attack. He was embraced in Trisha's arms. To send condolences and commemorate his life, click here and send a note to be posted on this page. |
Halloween: Its Origins and Celebration
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| HALLOWEEN: ITS ORIGINS AND CELEBRATION The celebration of Halloween has dual origins. The first is in a pre-Christian Celtic feast associated with the Celtic New Year. The second is in the Christian celebration of All Saints Day (Nov. 1st) and All Souls Day (Nov. 2). In the British Isles November 1st is called All Hallows, thus the evening before is All Hallows Eve. The Celtic FeastThe ancient Celtic peoples who inhabited England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany (NW France) celebrated their New Year's Day on what would be November 1st on our calendar. Prior to their conversion to Catholicism these... |
Festival celebrates poppy centennial
Thursday 24th of May 2012 05:30:28 AM
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| LANCASTER - The California Poppy is said to have inspired the nickname "La Tierra del Fuego," or "Land of Fire," by early visitors to the state inspired, perchance, by blazing hills of orange and yellow. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the poppy's designation as the state flower and favorable weather this winter and spring has brought forth bountiful blooms in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, a marked improvement over last year's paucity of poppies. To honor the poppy's centennial and the city of Lancaster, which hosts an annual springtime poppy festival, 36th District Assemblywoman Sharon Runner presented... |
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