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Apr
6

1600 years ago the apocalypse struck Britain

Jonathan on April 6th, 2010

You live in a city, in your life you have always had plumbing, under floor heating and your days are spent at the shops buying the newest shiniest toy.   The world is your oyster, you travel the boundaries looking for interesting sites and you enjoy food and clothing from around the world.  Weapons are banned [...]

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Aug
8

Considering Grad School

Jonathan on August 8th, 2009

This is a repost from my religious history blog: Banner Sword and Shield One year ago next week I was scheduled to start my first year of my Masters degree at the University of Montana (at Missoula). Any long time reader of this site will know that the developments that stopped me from doing that [...]

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Jul
30

Book learning

Jonathan on July 30th, 2009

Something has crossed my mind recently, this will not be a ground breaker as such but yet it made me curious enough to do some research. In old English book is canonbóc. Looking at the word it is easy to see where book, our version, came from. It is even more evident when you look [...]

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