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Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 20:41

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. Perhaps we should have 'Elizabeth' the monkey woman on our fifty pence pieces, as all mankind is supposedly descended from her.:D

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 20:26

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. I was actually watching a repeat of Michael Wood's programme about India the other night. The geneticists on there said that ancient man left Africa 70,000 years ago, made their way around the...

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:58

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. Here you go.:) Fifty pence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Pence)

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:56

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. I'm from Welsh/French Celtic stock myself, so I'm not really interested in the Brigants, or Johnnie-come-latelys, as I prefer to call them.:D

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:50

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. Was that Lulu, ancient Queen of the Gorbals?:D

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:43

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. According to this she was from the wrong side of the Pennines, in which case you can genuflect infront of her alone. I'll stick with the Essex girl.:D United Kingdom Heads of State with...

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:32

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. Are they getting it wrong? I was always taught that Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, was the inspiration for the image of Britannia.

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:29

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. I bet our 'Britanny' would win that French Marianne in a fight any day.:D

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:26

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. Every country has a 'dodgy' past. For instance there was a well established slave trade in the Middle East and Africa, before a white foot was ever planted there. We should be proud of our...

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:16

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. As a republican I'd rather have a fearsome Essex girl on my coins, than the German hausfrau who is on the other side.:D

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:14

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. There's a history of Britannia's image on coins on this site. Britannia on British Coins (http://www.24carat.co.uk/britanniaframe.html)

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:03

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. The Daily Mail has a petition, and is running a campaign to keep Britannia on our coinage. Sign our petition to stop Brown's plan to remove Britannia from our 50p coin | the Daily Mail...

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:00

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. ...though I agree, I think she should still be on our coins.

Forum: General Chat 01-02-2008, 18:00

Replies: 35 Britannia Sacked. Views: 909 Posted By garinda Re: Britannia Sacked. I lost interest in Britannia when big chinned Aussie opera diva, Joan Sutherland, dressed up as her for the Proms.

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