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QUESTION Does the identify Gateshead confer with a selected gate?
Gateshead was initially famous by the Venerable Bede, an Eighth-century monk and scholar, as Ad Caprae Caput, which means ‘on the goat’s head’ in Latin.
In the early Middle Ages, the realm was generally known as Gatesheued, or goat’s head, a headland frequented by wild goats.
There is a second concept that the city had been on the head of an essential highway or ‘gate’ from the south that was positioned on the level the place the highway reached the River Tyne.
The city’s coat of arms featured a goat’s head. In 1974 the outdated Gateshead council was included into a brand new metropolitan borough, with a brand new image made up of a portcullis and helmet.
There was as soon as a Goat Inn close to the river, so for many Gateshead folks, the goat concept is the one which stands the check of time.
It’s good to assume, although, that the city could possibly be thought to be the gateway from the south to the good metropolis of Newcastle — each previously and current.
Paul Fenning, Gateshead.
In the early Middle Ages, the realm was generally known as Gatesheued, or goat’s head, a headland frequented by wild goats. Pictured, a normal view of the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle in north east of England
QUESTION North American Inuit peoples as soon as ate pemmican as a survival meals. How was this made?
The phrase pemmican is derived from the Cree phrase pimikan, which means rendered grease. The Cree are a North American indigenous individuals.
They reside primarily in Canada, the place they kind one of many nation’s largest First Nations.
Its preparation concerned drying and pulverising lean meat, sometimes buffalo, however caribou, elk or deer have been additionally used.
This was then combined with melted fats and typically dried berries. It was cooled, lower into desserts and sewn into conceal baggage.
Pemmican was a high-protein, high-energy meals that could possibly be saved for as much as half a 12 months and shipped with ease to hunters.
It was famously unpalatable to Western explorers. Sir William Francis Butler, an Irish Nineteenth-century British Army officer, author, and adventurer, recounted his adventures in Canada in The Great Lone Land (1872).
He totally disliked pemmican however understood its usefulness. He gave the next recipe: ‘It will be made out of the flesh of any animal, however it’s practically altogether composed of buffalo meat; the meat is first lower into slices, then dried both by fireplace or within the solar, after which pounded or overwhelmed out right into a thick flaky substance; on this state, it’s put into a big bag made out of the conceal of the animal, the dry pulp being soldered down into a tough stable mass by melted fats being poured over it.’
Jacob Allen, Ross-on-Wye, Hereford.
Pemmican, which is made out of beef meat, liver, salt, hemp seeds and spices, was invented by Native Americans as a long-lasting, transportable supply of protein (inventory photograph)
QUESTION What are one of the best examples of ‘again slang’ utilized by Victorian criminals?
Further to the sooner reply, I used to work at a moist fish store in Dalston, London, that was owned by the brother of Alfred Hitchcock.
Fish that wasn’t as contemporary because it could possibly be was referred to by us as ‘DLO’ slightly than outdated.
Roy Smith, Romsey, Hants.