Stonehenge was 'built by Turks'

[mrswdk]

FOR generations experts have argued over exactly who was responsible for creating Stonehenge.

Now scientists in London believe they have found the answer… and it’s all down to a bunch of farmers originally from Turkey.

https://www.metro.news/stonehenge-was-p ... y/1522017/

[mrswdk]

England actually has quite a proud history of being Turkish. England's patron saint, who is celebrated with a public holiday every year and whose banner is on both the English and British flag, was also a Turk:

All nations need heroes. What we know of St George makes him a fine one - though very little of his story can be a certainty. But from fairly contemporary references, it looks as though he was born a Christian in Cappadocia, now in eastern Turkey and may have been of some "Darian" - Persian - blood too.

His mother came from what was then the larger area of Palestine (Israel and the Occupied Territories today). The Roman Empire had at the time spread all over this region. George joined the Roman army, becoming a fairly high-ranking officer. But he fell foul of the Emperor Diocletian, who, fearing a plot against his pagan second-in-command, embarked on a systematic terror against all Christian believers. George refused to bow to Diocletian and abandon his religion. Anticipating trouble, he gave his property to the poor and freed his slaves. He was imprisoned, tortured, and finally beheaded at Nicomedia, on April 23, 303AD.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ewasbornin

[saxitoxin]

If Stonehenge were in France it would have burned down months ago.

[saxitoxin]

[HitRed]

It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in France for 500 years.

Oregon *ring* *ring*

[saxitoxin]

It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in 500 years.

Oregon *ring* *ring*

No American trees to France until Macron withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement.

If he's unwilling to do that he can always grow his own trees and the rebuilding can start in 2419. Or use corrugated plastic. They can fund it by selling sponsorships; PaddyPower and Hyundai could each get their logo on one of the spires at a certain investment level.

[mookiemcgee]

It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in France for 500 years.

Oregon *ring* *ring*

do you have a link, this interests me... France has plenty of forests, and some very fine quality tight grain white oak is exported to the USA for winemaking.

[Dukasaur]

It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in France for 500 years.

Oregon *ring* *ring*

do you have a link, this interests me... France has plenty of forests, and some very fine quality tight grain white oak is exported to the USA for winemaking.

It may have fine quality trees, but none of them are large enough. All of Europe's great forests were cut down over the centuries.

Sorry, don't have a link. I heard it in an interview on the BBC.

[HitRed]

It turns out TREES are going to be the biggest issue in rebuilding. France needs 1,600 in a size that hasn't existed in France for 500 years.

Oregon *ring* *ring*

do you have a link, this interests me... France has plenty of forests, and some very fine quality tight grain white oak is exported to the USA for winemaking.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new ... l-14383757

[mookiemcgee]

Thanks, yes I dug up a few more as well... one from canada said they had the trees big enough and would be happy to supply them but they couldn't do the same type of wood.

[riskllama]

yeah, i believe the beams in question were made of oak. and i'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find oak trees anywhere today that would be big enough. maybe they should look at repurposing some old ship masts or something...*shrugs*.

[DoomYoshi]

just use some French maids to cut down my morning wood. If I have 2 naps a day we'll have it finished in no time.

[The ram]

England actually has quite a proud history of being Turkish. England's patron saint, who is celebrated with a public holiday every year and whose banner is on both the English and British flag, was also a Turk:


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ewasbornin

St George's day is the 23rd of April. It's never been a public holiday and has never really been celebrated. The flag means more than the legend of St George slaying a dragon. Remember that red cross was flown during the crusades, so whoever George was, he certainly wasn't a Turk of modern day Turkey.

[mrswdk]

England actually has quite a proud history of being Turkish. England's patron saint, who is celebrated with a public holiday every year and whose banner is on both the English and British flag, was also a Turk:


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ewasbornin

St George's day is the 23rd of April. It's never been a public holiday and has never really been celebrated.

St George's Day 2019 Events In London

https://londonist.com/london/things-to- ... -in-london

This sort of Morris-dancing-knights-in-shining-armour-wave-your-English-flag freakery goes on up and down the country on St George's Day.

The flag means more than the legend of St George slaying a dragon. Remember that red cross was flown during the crusades, so whoever George was, he certainly wasn't a Turk of modern day Turkey.

Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; d. 23 April 303[4]) was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

George was an historical figure. According to an account by Metaphrastes, he was born in Cappadocia (in modern Turkey) to a noble Christian family; his mother was Palestinian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George

[Symmetry]

Eh, not really, sorry.

[The ram]

England actually has quite a proud history of being Turkish. England's patron saint, who is celebrated with a public holiday every year and whose banner is on both the English and British flag, was also a Turk:


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ewasbornin

St George's day is the 23rd of April. It's never been a public holiday and has never really been celebrated.

St George's Day 2019 Events In London

https://londonist.com/london/things-to- ... -in-london

This sort of Morris-dancing-knights-in-shining-armour-wave-your-English-flag freakery goes on up and down the country on St George's Day.

The flag means more than the legend of St George slaying a dragon. Remember that red cross was flown during the crusades, so whoever George was, he certainly wasn't a Turk of modern day Turkey.

Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; d. 23 April 303[4]) was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

George was an historical figure. According to an account by Metaphrastes, he was born in Cappadocia (in modern Turkey) to a noble Christian family; his mother was Palestinian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George

You know nothing about England or being English. How long have you been staying in this country now? You either don't know a single English person or you are a hermit.