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The Celtic Kingdom of Elmet - An on-line history and introduction to the history of an ancient kingdom - rather larger than present day Barwick-in-Elmet.
The Ancient Celtic-British Kingdom of Elmete - A history, with maps, of the kingdom of the Brigantes (400 to 600AD) and their relations with the Romans.
Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society - A wealth of historical information on-line about this ancient community, now a small village east of Leeds. Information about the society and its publications, local traditions and names, a 'Can you help?' section, and a gallery of sounds and pictures.
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It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Barwick-in-Elmet "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Barwick-in-Elmet The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Barwick-in-Elmet You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Barwick-in-Elmet I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Barwick-in-Elmet Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Barwick-in-Elmet I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Barwick-in-Elmet What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Barwick-in-Elmet Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Barwick-in-Elmet For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Barwick-in-Elmet If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Barwick-in-Elmet You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus My other wife is beautiful. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Barwick-in-Elmet Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Barwick-in-Elmet He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Barwick-in-Elmet Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Barwick-in-Elmet Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Barwick-in-Elmet To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Barwick-in-Elmet Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Barwick-in-Elmet
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