apart from being able to ride in a popemobile- what are the formal criteria / person specifications to become the Pope?
other than being a senior clergyman
I recently visited Lulworth Castle (Dorset), destroyed by fire in 1929. I am wondering what caused the fire. It does not say on the website. An explanatory panel in the castle said...
Most of the time you see the word "re" it's at the beginning of a memo, where an e-mail would have its subject line. Though you often hear people spell it out as if it were an abbreviation like...
A certain gentlemen has recently been released after serving less than half his sentence for sex crimes. he maintains his innocence / justification / sickening claptrap. Convicted murders...
Why is it that President Blair seems to think that the British Govt. have a moral obligation to support Dharfur. Did we assist in making it what it is like today. Or is he just saying this like a...
You know people say they'll go through something with a "fine-toothed comb", meaning to examine it thoroughly. I presume this is the correct phrase? So many people, even on TV, say...
What is the meaning of "Don't get me started" in the following sentences? The agent held up a passport picture of Robert Langdon. "Was this man in your bank tonight?"Vernet shrugged. "No clue. I'm a...
I am reading "Three men in a boat" by J.K. Jerome, first published 1889. In Ch. 6 a group of people are lost in the Maze at Hampton Court. One of them has a map and tries to lead...
The germans had egima in world war 2 can anyone tell me what the allies had for a code and if so was it broken by the germans and whhat was the outcome if so +can anyone point me towards the...
I have just received a copy of a funeral service (hymns, prayers etc) that has a special page devoted to a poem written and signed underneath the poem by the Deceased's Daughter. I have no wish to...
I've heard the people in Sri Lanka are convinced another Tsunami will happen on the 26th this month, as apparently the expect there to be another exactly 3 months after the first one. Has anyone else...
i would like to know how people know the world is going to end and how is it going to end. some people say 2006 and some say 2012 is this scaremongering?
If Charles and Camilla get married, when he becomes King, she will (have the right to) be called Queen, then how come Prince Phillip isn't called King??
