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World Music

Nov 10, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by Marionville

On Remembrance Sunday the saddest Scottish song ever written, originally as a bagpipe lament after the Scots’ defeat by England in 1513 at Flodden Field . Jean Elliot added words, written in the Scots dialect…The Floo’ers O’ the Forest (are ...

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World Music

Oct 24, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by rogerbenham

Bothy Band 1976 Green Groves of Erin, Flowers of Red Hill Bothy Band 1976 Michael O'Gorman's, Freis Britches, All Ways to Galway, Fair Haired Mary

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Just for Laughs

Oct 18, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Killtheskyfairy

Shared from Facebook, feel free to correct if wrong… In the past, people used urine to tan animal skins. Families would collect urine in a pot and sell it to tanneries. If someone was extremely poor, they were referred to as "piss poor." Even ...

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Traditional and Folkmusic

Sep 28, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by rogerbenham

Peter, Paul and Mary - Puff, the Magic Dragon (25th Anniversary Concert) Peter, Paul and Mary - Where Have All the Flowers Gone (25th Anniversary Concert)

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Herbalists Corner

Sep 21, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by vocaloldfart

Wild garlic – five reasons to forage for this superfood plus best recipes Wild garlic, also known as ramsons or ramps, grows free in abundance on many lands open to foraging. In North America, it’s widespread across the eastern U.S. and ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 20, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by pedigojr

Zeugma: A zeugma is a figure of speech in which one "governing" word or phrase modifies two distinct parts of a sentence. Often, the governing word will mean something different when applied to each part, as in the sentence, "He took his coat and his...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 16, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by pedigojr

Consanguinity: noun, the fact of being descended from the same ancestor: "the marriage was annulled on grounds of consanguinity." From, of course, my favorite author Alexander McCall Smith in his novel “Pianos and Flowers” a collection of short ...

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