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Somerset Military Museum - Regiments covered include the Somerset Light Infantry, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, West Somerset Yeomanry, North Somerset Yeomanry, Somerset Militia, Rifle Volunteers and Territorials and The Light Infantry
The Camelot Parishes - The life and history of the parishes and churches of Blackford, Compton Pauncefoot, Holton, Maperton, North Cadbury, North Cheriton, South Cadbury and Yarlington.
Somerset and the Domesday Book - The genealogical firm Hall of Names International lists the main landholders in Somerset in 1086 and the names of their manors from the Domesday Book, identified with modern place-names.
History of Somerset - Britannia provides a narrative history of the county by Brenda Ralph Lewis and David Nash Ford, biographies, including those of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, guides to notable places and legends.
The Winsham I Remember by WH Paull - A personal reflection on the history of Winsham village with references to family names, places and events.
Somerset Timeline - A project to present the county's historical, archaeological and architectural treasures on a single accessible website. Currently has the History of Glastonbury and the Monmouth Rebellion.
Historic Postcards, Engravings and Views of Somerset - A collection of around 1200 items from Somerset Archive and Record Service.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous History When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde History I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire History Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy History You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley History Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker History If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth History "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock History Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth History Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop History Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous History I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling History As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner History Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle History "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais History With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle History Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln History All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein History "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) History Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill History No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) History "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History
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