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Rutland - Market Overton - Ancient Village Stocks!

Rutland: Ancient Village Stocks & Whipping Post on Market Overton Green! (25.10.2025)

In the old days, the local Courts would often sentence local people to a set-time in the Stocks. With their hands and feet firmly manacled into the device – the interested village population could take it in-turns to throw rotten fruit and vegetables – together with animal waste and other such horrible substances, at the condemned. This was at a time when long sentences of imprisonment were not yet used as a punishment. This treatment was designed to be so humiliating that a villager would not dare commit a similar crimnal act in the future – or at least that was the intention.

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Preserving Rare Lao Elephants!

Laos: 50 Elephant Festival to be Held in Xayaboury! (30.1.2025)

The festival aims to preserve Laos’ dwindling elephant population, which is at risk of extinction, while inspiring support for their conservation and ensuring their cultural significance endures, Lao national TV reported on Thursday.

Each year, the festival attracts large crowds to Xayaboury, where visitors can witness the majestic elephants, trained and led by their mahouts.

This year, 50 elephants will participate in the festival, reflecting the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

The festival will kick off with a mini-marathon and elephant rides, followed by cultural performances. A street market will offer a variety of products from Laos and beyond.

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South Devon Railway: Buckfastleigh Station & Steam Train! (1.8.2024)

A Summer Fayre is currently being held within the grounds of Buckfast Abbey – administered by the Church. The priests of the Catholic Church have worked-out a way to introduce a pay-wall which benefits their greed whilst seemingly acting in accordance with the wishes of the monks. Yes – the Catholic Church only cares for greed, political dominance and temporal power. and this is why the Catholic Church has started charging for parking, an initiative enforced by specially hired night-club Bouncers who stand menacingly at the gates – demanding to “see” the tickets – proving the £6 parking fee had been paid! This dichotomy exemplifies the difference which exists between the Christian Church and Christian monastic establishment. The priests want money (as do the lay-people who set-up their stalls) – the monks (who could not be seen anywhere) – want inner tranquillity and outer peace!

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China: Nation Steps Up Fight to Safeguard Cultural Relics! (7.8.2022)

The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) is presented by the bias West as one giant wave of manic (physical) destruction throughout the entirety of China! This fits in well with the racialisation of the Chinese people – who are presented in Western media ‘as not quite human at all’! The ‘Cultural Revolution’ attacked one very important element of world imperialist domination – and that was the attitude of ‘bourgeois’ White dominance that lived on in China through elements of its institutions corrupted by the rhetoric of the right-wing ‘Nationalist’ government (defeated elements of which had invaded and took refuge on the island of Taiwan), and the survival of feudalistic and imperialistic tendencies! Yes, in some areas ‘old’ physical objects were attacked by over zealous youths (who mistook material objects for the ethereal ideas that produced them or that had become associated with them), but this was not everywhere, and neither was this behaviour continuous! The ‘Cultural Revolution’ possessed many progressive and positive elements that benefitted the people of China! Today, the ‘Cultural Revolution’ continuous with the preservation of of ancient artefacts as the racist bourgeois (and ‘imperialistic’) attitudes have been thoroughly defeated! There is nothing to fear from the material past and everything to learn!

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Abbey Mills: Merton Priory Chapter House – 900 Year Old Wooden Arch! Part 1 (7.8.2022)

A friend of mine forwarded me a local newspaper article that explained that this artefact had been kept (in storage) for over 30 years at the Wandle Industrial Museum, before an expert realised what it was! Chapter House is a building in a car-park opposite a very large supermarket – but the entire grounds of an Augustine monastery lie under this car-park with only part of it currently being visible to the general public! This project requires a major input of money and expertise so that the entire complex can be excavated and enjoyed by the general public! I suspect the car-park needs to be removed and rebuilt at a higher level – so that the monastic ruins can be exposed and preserved in a safe and protected underground environment that the general public can visit. At the moment, adults and children can visit for ‘free’ with the exhibition being open only on Sundays between 11 am – 4 pm! The people that administer this project are friendly, knowledgeable and are willing to engage absolutely EVERYONE who finds their way into the Chapter House!

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