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Why no female monarchs early on?

Does anyone know why there were no female rulers of England before Elizabeth 1, who was the daugheter of Henry 8th? Did he change this law himself then?

123everton

Human rights act

I think it's time we sounded the death knell for the human rights act. A convicted murderer serving a "life sentance" Catherine Keaveny has won an appeal over a delay in her parole hearing! She is now...

Bewlay Bros

Todays News.

From the BBC site today ONLY: I think they are really racist. Non-whites represent about 7 percent of England's population, yet most of the reports have coloured folk as baddies. Why are the BBC so...

jojojojoanne

Any more information on 'consciousness?

This q interesting: taken from wiki: epiphenomenalism, Recent research on the Event Related Potential shows that concious experience does not occur until the late phase of the potential (p3 or later)...

volcom

Omnipotence and Omniscient Paradox

If God is all powerful and all knowing, is her therfore able to create something that is too heavy for him to lift? Because this paradox theoretically allows him to only be able to do one and not the...

Le Chat

Germans and the English language

My husband has just returned from a business trip to Germany. The company that he saw over there, was a very large organisation, with perhaps 50 staff. From the lowest grade of worker to the highest...

luna-tic

Does God Need Evil To Survive?

With the biblical God stating we are all sinners before we come out the womb; Hypothetically would total eradication of badness throughout the world remove the need for a God, to a certain extent ?

sambro

Ian Smith r.i.p.

Can anyone explain to me, why they think Zimbabwes black population,are better off under that yorkshireman thats running the country now?

leg_end758

Whats happening in brighton for god sake ??

Now i know its the norm for folk to rant about xmas and the changes that pc councils make. But ive just heard about a school in brighton ,sorry missed the name of it. Anyway this may be old news to...

Theland

Is This Spooky Or What?

How does this work? It's certainly spooky! http://www.milaadesign.com/wizardy.html

AB Asks

Why are cults so commonplace in American religion?

A US polygamist sect leader has been jailed for at least five years for forcing a 14 year old to marry her cousin. The case involved a breakaway group from the mormon church that still believes in...

banjosister

have you seen this???????

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566 .stm

Oneeyedvic

Further to the missing child benefit data loss....

.....do you still think ID cards are a good idea. 25 Million individual's records and 7 1/4 Million families records all lost (maybe stolen). Data contained information such as names, dates of births...

wizard66

If jesus...

were to incarnate today in the U.K. (or the USA for our American friends) How would he live? Would he have a car? (as opposed to a donkey) and what kind of car would it be? Would his dwelling place be...

carolegif

This country is being run by Muppets!!

Earlier today we had fishermen having to dump cod into the sea because we are not allowed to land them - stocks have to be preserved!! Later today, once again our Chancellor is having to "apologise"...

China Doll

Child Ownership

Afternoon, While on another thread discussing whether IVF should be available free on the NHS or not I remembered a conversation I had with a friend when we were discussing something similar. The...

monty2311

kinetic energy

hi, does anyone know how many joules of kinetic energy the average person uses in a day?

Gromit

It's PC gone mad.

"Police chiefs will spend ?15,000 creating "ethnically diverse" mascots after an officer criticised a model for being too male and white. The uniformed mascot, known as PCSO Steve, was created by the...

AB Asks

Woman banned from New Zealand because she is too fat

A British woman and her husband were excited to be starting a new life together in New Zealand. She however, has been forced to remain at home because she has been told she is too fat and is a...

tali1

human calculators

How good as mathematicians are human calculators? are they accepted in the maths community or are they considered one trick freaks? Where do they fit in the scale of mathematicians at lower end or top...

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