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@chess wrote:
It is a car Sweet which should lets yas know at least what era the film was set in. A good film that didnt meet some folks expections.
Think war and boats
i got it !!! its pearl harbour !!
oo0000( please god let me be right)000ooo :P
@james Belfast wrote:
I’m trying to work out what they are lying in? Is it baths or something????
looks like a car to me :?
@cymorill wrote:
what you are paying for is an up to 8 meg service, this means the speed you get can be anything up to 8 meg, but it isnt guarenteed that will be your actual speed.
i understand that, but still its unfair to pay extra for a service that you’re not getting isn’t it ? and if my pc can take a higher upload/ download speed surely that means its my service providers problem ?
ps; how do u pronounce ur name, and where did you get it from please ??!! its sounds gaelic is all and i wondered if it meant anything !
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Origin of Red Hair in the Scottish Highlandssource : lost
”The term Scottish Highlands refers to the the northern third of Scotland along with islands to the north. This region has the highest proportion of red hair in the world, around 11% by some accounts. Generally, red hair is most common in northwestern Europe, and especially in the British Isles. It is common in Denmark, Norway, northwestern Germany, and the Netherlands, but not in Sweden. There are claims that it is common in Finland and among Finnic peoples living near the Urals. In ancient times, a tribe called the Budinoi, in Russia were said to be redheads. Some geneticists claim that the red hair gene is 200,000 years old and comes from Neanderthals.
There are three different claims about the origins of red hair in the Scottish Highlands. One claim is that it was common among the Picts and has always been there.
Another claim is that it was brought by the Kelts. Yet another claim is that it was brought by the Vikings.At one time the area was settled by people with Mediterranean skulls. Then came tall brachycephalic Beaker Folk. Hallstatt Nordics from central Europe invaded the British Isles, but didn’t penetrate to northern Scotland, which remained Pictish. Celts often had red hair. However, Vikings and Germanics were often described as red-haired too. The Rus in Russia were described as redheads. They came from Sweden, where red hair is uncommon today.
Red hair is very common in the Orkney Islands, an area heavily settled by Vikings and which was even part of the Kingdom of Norway for centuries.
Recent genetic and racial studies claim to prove that red hair in the Scottish Highlands is of Viking origin.
Scottish Highlanders were described by Günther as being “relatively purely Nordic.” They are more dolichocephalic that many parts of Scandinavia. They are taller than almost any part of Scandinavia. However, they have fewer blonds and more redheads. Their cranial form is more Nordic than most Keltic skulls from Europe.
The evidence is mixed, but it seems that the red hair probably comes mostly from the Vikings. ”
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GERMANICS INVADE BRITAIN – ANGLES AND SAXONS
Within fifty years Germanic tribes did indeed invade the island – the Angles and Saxons, from whom the modern term Anglo-Saxon originated. These original Angles and Saxons were predominantly Nordic tribesmen who came from the Germanic reservoir in northern Germania, Denmark and southern Scandinavia which had been established at the time of the first Indo-European invasions into Europe.
The Angles and the Saxons quickly dominated the Britons by force – although some British tribes, notably the Bretons, fled across the channel to France, where their name still exists as a geographical term (Brittany) and people from this region are still called Bretons.
In this fashion the Western Roman Empire was steadily broken up piecemeal by the Germanic/Gothic/Indo-European tribes.
Boudicca (AD 62)
Portrait of Boudicca © What do we really know of this great British Queen of ancient Britain? She was married to Prasutagus, and with him she ruled over the Iceni – the tribe occupying East Anglia – but under Roman authority. Like many other rulers in Britain at this time, Boudicca witnessed the suffering caused to her people by the heavy taxes, conscription and other indignities generated by the Roman Emperor Nero. The final outrage came when her husband Prasutagus died, and the Romans plundered her chief tribesmen and brutally annexed her dominions. This was too much for the Queen and she determined to take on Nero and his Legions. In this she was not alone, for tradition tells that all of south east Britain came to her side, ready to die for the Queen who was fierce enough to take on the Roman Empire. It’s noteworthy that tribes which remained loyal to the Romans, (like the Catuvellauni) were not spared Boudicca’s wrath.
Boudicca’s opportunity came when the Roman Governor General Seutonius Paulinus and his troops were stationed in Anglesey and North Wales. By the time Paulinus got back, the Roman municipalities of St Albans and Colchester had been burned to the ground by the Britons. Boudicca’s warriors were more than a little intimidating. They virtually routed the Ninth Legion that had been marching from Lincoln to help Paulinus, and without additional support from Rome there was little he could do against the determination of these people. Eventually they marched on London and it was here at last that Paulinus faced Boudicca and her army of Britons in the field. We don’t know where, (possibly the Midlands) but we do know that a desperate battle was fought, and although the Romans were the victors, they regained the province at great price.
Many thousands of Britons fell in battle and those who lived were hunted down by Roman soldiers. But it would seem that Boudicca’s actions had shocked the Roman world into adopting policies that were a little kinder. Some historians believe that the relative lack of Romano-British remains in Norfolk is testimony to the severity with which the Roman Empire crushed Boudicca and the Iceni peoples.
Finally, faced with defeat, the proud warrior Queen took her own life, by drinking from a poisoned chalice. This much is well known; the challenge is to separate fact from the many legends. For instance, is she really buried under Platform 10 at London’s King’s Cross Station? We’ll probably never know, because for centuries people have been claiming their own local sites as her final resting place
is she or isn’t she a red head ???
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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.‘The Celtic Peoples of Europe (1200 BC +)’
The earliest archaeological evidence associated with the Celts places them in what is now France and western Germany in the late Bronze Age around 1200 BC. The Celts, around 500 BC, are first recorded as controlling central Europe, beyond Spain near the source of the Danube. They were also referred to as Hyperboreans. They were said to have been a just, war-like power, but also drunken and combative. There are no surviving chronicles of their own, no architectural remains, and just a few examples of coins, weapons and jewellery.
The idea of the Celts as a tall, fair haired race is unlikely. To the Greeks and Romans, who were responsible for much of the historical record of the time, there were many types of ‘Fair’ and for the Celts this probably referred to ‘red, brown or golden hair’. Also there are accounts of the Celts bleaching their hair with lime.The Celts took control of areas peacefully if possible, by force if not, and introduced and mixed their beliefs, language and arts with that of the local inhabitants. The true Celts probably formed a ruling or noble class. Along with the Greeks, their allies, their sphere of influence was huge.
In 500 BC they took Spain from the Carthaginians. At the peak of their civilisation, around 400 BC, under a king named Livy Ambicatus, they controlled most of Europe including Britain and Ireland. They allied with Rome and took northern Italy from the Etruscans but, when the Romans betrayed them, immediately marched for Rome and, on July 30 390 BC, defeated the Roman Army. They held Rome for almost a year until the Romans paid compensation. A peace treaty between the Celts and Romans followed which lasted for nearly a century.
Around 300 BC, German tribes within the Celtic empire revolted. The Celtic tribes split and fought amongst themselves, with the German tribes and with Rome. Minor squabbles became major disputes and when the dust settled the only areas still under Celtic control were Gaul, Ireland and Britain.
With the Roman invasion of Gaul and Britain in the early Christian era, the remaining Celts were either absorbed into the new culture or pushed to the margins of the Roman territory. Their cultural influence remains strongest in these marginal lands.
mmmm how annoying more evidence to dispute the ignorance
now if i can just get some on the red hair i’ll be happy :wink:
@Ow£n Ka$h wrote:
@dolflip25 wrote:
Updated to b4 lambrini’s last answer.
3 5 9 4 8 6 :P :lol:
What did I win? :-s
:P :P :P Owen !!!
@rubyred wrote:
awww sorry darlin :)
mines a voddy n coke, by way of an apology u understand pml hope ur well xxx
