The Grand Shaft at Dover
From the Napoleonic era.
On a separate topic, notice the combination of original(?) photos and text 'shared' with another page in "the grand shaft - amazing military engineering."
Top 10 Most-Viewed Posts
-
(from INKCINCT Cartoons, used w/o permission) I very seldom copy an entire post in this blog, but trying to describe this cartoon would have...
-
" Coconut crab " AbsoluteAstronomy.com " The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world an...
-
Ploak.com Article Directory " Your one-stop source for free articles. Do you need contents to add to your web site? Or articles for use...
-
" How to Think Like an Interior Designer " Jaime Derringer, via Shelpterpop (July 29, 2010) " It takes a unique mind to perfe...
-
Before anything else, repeating from an earlier post: Google has launched a 'people finder' for Japan, in Japanese, English, Korea...
-
Update (October 11, 2010) Another article about Reaction Engines Ltd.'s Skylon: " Airplanes in Space? " Irene Klotz, Space ...
-
" Stan Lee Unveils 3 New Superheroes at Comic-Con " Underwire, Wired (July 22, 2010) " A time traveler, an unwitting heir to ...
-
" Hellgrammite (Dobsonfly Larvae) (Corydalus cornutus) " Texas Parks and Wildlife " Other Names " Eastern Dobsonfly ...
-
" 'Lost City' of Tanis Found, but Often Forgotten " Brian Handwerk, Mysteries of the Ancient World, National Geographic (...
-
Whether you call it trafficking in persons, human trafficking, or slavery, buying and selling people isn't nice. And, in quite a few cou...
4 comments:
'shared'? what exactly are you implying?
Deputydog,
Two posts share a fairly substantial sections of text:
"Later, after the fear of invasion had subsided the three staircases, which had been designed initially to allow the maximum number of troops to descend or ascend as quickly as possible, became segregated. Notices which changed slightly over the years were erected at the top of each staircase stating who was entitled to use which set of stairs. The best remembered of them all is as follows:-
1. Officers and their ladies
2. Sergeants and their wives
3. Soldiers and their women"
The odds of two people independently coming up with identical verbiage of this length are so low, that there's a near-certainty that one or both passages are copies. (Each may have copied from a third party.)
The identical passages are in "Dover - Lock and Key of the Kingdom" and "White Cliffs Country - Heritage -The Grand Shaft."
Your post seems to be unique.
And, has an impressive set of photos: thanks!
apologies.
i got the wrong end of the stick and thought you were taking a pop at the text on my page.
glad you like the pics.
Deputydog,
No problem. Your comment gave me an opportunity to revisit - and clarify - this post.
Post a Comment