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  • As seen at most good political blogs today; Tamsin Dunwoody thrice refusing to say whether Gordon Brown was an asset or a liability and repeating the rather strange mantra that The Prime Minster is our Prime Minister.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • As seen at most good political blogs today; Tamsin Dunwoody thrice refusing to say whether Gordon Brown was an asset or a liability and repeating the rather strange mantra that The Prime Minster is our Prime Minister.

    "The Prime Minister is our Prime Minister" Not a sheep 2008

  • How on earth could anyone say York Minster is better than Sacre Coeur?? clare |

    pasteis de nata 2007

  • While York Minster is indeed beautiful, I think the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC can give it a run for its money … … ….

    pasteis de nata 2007

  • Dad currently lives in Minster, Ohio and is enjoying being with a good part of the family that has settled in the area, finding the time to garden, write a book (set to be published soon), and travel a bit.

    Gruters, Guy D. 1977

  • The Minster is very Large and fine of Stone, Carv'd all the outside, 3 high towers above the Leads; I was in one of them, the highest, and it was 262 steps and those very Steep Steps, there is a Gallery round the middle of the Church about halfe way that goes off these steps of the tower, where you may go round and Looke down into the body of ye Church and yt was so great a distance that the men and Ladyes that were Walking below look'd like Pigmyes a very little to us above.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • Petite’s mum says, “Well it’s very nice but it’s not a patch on York Minster, is it?”

    pasteis de nata 2007

  • “Well, it’s very nice,” she says, “but it’s not a patch on York Minster, is it?”

    snap 2007

  • “Well, it’s very nice,” she says, “but it’s not a patch on York Minster, is it?”

    pasteis de nata 2007

  • Cathedral though often called a Minster was a Cathedral from the first, and was never attached to a monastery.] [Footnote 3: Gunton, p. 4.] [Footnote 4: "Ingulf and the Historia Croylandensis."

    The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting

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