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I'm definitely in the post before I finish camp - it's getting feedback and knowing that people want to know how it turns out that keeps me motivated.

12 Anti-Masonic; Bull Moose; Free Soil; Know Nothing; Nullifier?
I'm pretty sure they're American political parties. At least, I've heard of the Know Nothing party.

1 Whose likeness was found on 6 December 1912 in Tell el-Amarna, Egypt?
Tutankhamen?

4 Which fruit is affected by noble rot?
Grapes

6 What is the lowest staff rank in the British army?
Lieutenant Colonel?

My next chapter is up: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /139332013

Ra whanau ki a koe!
Happy birthday, Merry!!

14 Cardross, 1329; Spain (postmortem); Melrose Abbey (currently)? Resting places of Robert the Bruce's heart. He died at Cardross, asking that his heart be taken on the pilgrimage to the Holy Land that he had failed to do in life. Then Sir James Douglas, who was wearing the heart as a pendant, only ...

15 Triad; Jura mountains; chalk?
Gave their names to geological periods: the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous.

I love it!

Here's my new chapter (in which there is dancing): https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /138877606

merry wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:23 am 15 Coffee plant; Dead Sea scrolls; Herrerasaurus dinosaur?[/b]

In honour of last week's quiz, herewith a Herrerasaurus fossil. (Went on a school trip today to see some Patagonian Dinosaur fossils.)

12 Katharine Hepburn; June Allyson; Winona Ryder; Saoirse Ronan?
They all played Jo March in adaptations of Little Women.

13 Blocky; dome; dry-dock; pinnacle; tabular; wedge?
Is this going to be something like golf clubs or some kind of hardware?

Caesia390 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:15 am Hello everyone!

Just thought I'd pop in and, well, say hello....

Hi Caesia, welcome to the forum!

My next chapter is up. (Giving a bit of airing time to my original characters.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /138447097

12 Marmaduke was a big dog in a newspaper cartoon. Marmaduke is a Great Dane, I remember. I think Astro is the dog from The Jetsons? 15 Coffee plant; Dead Sea scrolls; Herrerasaurus dinosaur? I'm going to go with: discovered by shepherds/goatherds. (But I had to do some reading on Wikipedia.)

2 Which horror stories were first told at the Villa Diodati? One of them is Frankenstein which was Mary Shelley's contribution but I don't know the other one. The other one was The Vampyre by Dr John Polidori. 1 What did DB Cooper do in 1971, the only such unsolved crime in the US? He hijacked a pl...

Here's my latest one of Break (quite short): https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /138000244

14 Big Brother; Deal or No Deal; Splash!; The Traitors; The Voice?
Reality show formats that originated in the Netherlands?

Here's my latest chapter of Break: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /137567701
It's so exciting seeing all the new stories coming out!

So it's Tuesday now, but I finally found the picture I wanted to share yesterday. I don't know why but I'm drawn to this image over and over. I used this as the base to make a wallpaper aaaaages ago. (Which is why it took so long to dig it up. I had to find my external hard drive and sift through a...

10 British Library (two); Lincoln Castle; Salisbury Cathedral?
Possess one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta.