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Subject: [OM] Re: A little cottage, was Re: Re: Photo
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:18:00 -0700
> From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>>> I like the fenlands, myself. Lived in Soham, between Ely and
>>> Cambridge, for a while. The cathedral at Ely is magnificent,
>
> I too, have seen the cathedral in Ely.  What an incredible structure.
>  I just can't figure out why it needs to be surrounded by barbed wire
> fencing.

When they built it, Ely was an island in the surrounding swampy  
fenland. ("Ely" comes from "Eel Island.") They actually quarried the  
sandstone somewhere near Norwich, then floated the huge blocks on  
broad, flat boats built specially for the purpose.

I guess the barb wire is to keep someone from doing the same thing in  
reverse... :-)

BTW: This part of East Anglia is in a real hurt in most global  
warming scenarios.


:::: On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament],  
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will  
the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the  
kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. --  
Charles Babbage
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AT12>



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