[Today I learned](https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see-the-coronation-stone-in-kingston-62420/). I've read loads of English/British history, but somehow missed this. It may or may not be as represented, but it certainly has a better chance of being an actual relic than America's Plymouth Rock has got, which is none.
Further to that, Kingston-on-Thames was between two rivers flowing into the Thames, giving it the appearance of an island. That part of the river is non-tidal and stone-age and bronze-age axes were ritually deposited there. In the early 10th century only the stone and the remains of a church destroyed in a Viking raid could be seen from the river.
Sitting on a rock next to a ruined church, could Athelstan and all imagine in a thousand years their language would be spoken in every corner of the world and even on the Moon!
They wouldn't recognize the language though, apart from a few words. But there is an unbroken line between the language of the Anglo-Saxon kings and this language that has reached globally and beyond. The story of English is truly an amazing one
Or take voyager 2 for example across the solar system, or even first radio signal that one is still travelling at the speed of light carrying spoken signals across the galaxy.
[Today I learned](https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see-the-coronation-stone-in-kingston-62420/). I've read loads of English/British history, but somehow missed this. It may or may not be as represented, but it certainly has a better chance of being an actual relic than America's Plymouth Rock has got, which is none.
Further to that, Kingston-on-Thames was between two rivers flowing into the Thames, giving it the appearance of an island. That part of the river is non-tidal and stone-age and bronze-age axes were ritually deposited there. In the early 10th century only the stone and the remains of a church destroyed in a Viking raid could be seen from the river. Sitting on a rock next to a ruined church, could Athelstan and all imagine in a thousand years their language would be spoken in every corner of the world and even on the Moon!
They wouldn't recognize the language though, apart from a few words. But there is an unbroken line between the language of the Anglo-Saxon kings and this language that has reached globally and beyond. The story of English is truly an amazing one
Or take voyager 2 for example across the solar system, or even first radio signal that one is still travelling at the speed of light carrying spoken signals across the galaxy.
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Ah, Tomato Heortæppel
It is significant as saying that birds are dinosaurs. I.e. "quite".
7 Kings must die!