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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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10:49 / 14.09.09

You should post in the Switchboard.

Closed for Business Time

16:13 / 14.09.09

Ahahahahhaha.........hhhhhaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr. That's just, so, like, funny, dv.

16:36 / 14.09.09

You're welcome.

jentacular dreams

17:08 / 14.09.09

Or in terms of off-'lith, there's always Grant's fledgling board, Arboretum.

Either way I'd be interested in reading the thread!

18:57 / 14.09.09

I really should get a masked domain for that....

20:27 / 14.09.09

Thankyou for the response.

I like the look of the Arboretum forum, I may post there in future.

21:12 / 15.09.09

I responded to the switchboard thread.

23:41 / 15.09.09

I read your comment. I don't really know what to do about it though. I don't want to narrow it to the extent that everybody is just going to respond to some opinion of mine.

I'm not sure how to fix it.

Whisky Priestess

15:29 / 03.11.09

OK, so I've read as many books about and of the Victorian era (special period: 1879-1888) as I can feasibly bear, and I'm still no closer to answering various niggling questions for a project I'm working on, such as:

- Were Catholics admitted to Cambridge University in the 1870s/80s?

- What was the most likely war for a scarlet woman to run off and be a nurse in in 1883/4/5, and where was it?

- What postgraduate degrees in the field of history, Classics or theology did Oxford Uni offer in 1887, and what exactly were they called?

You get the idea. And because there's about 30 other random questions of that nature, what I'm looking for is not a book but a resource, ideally called something like Your1800sQuestionsAnswered.net or VictorianFAQs.com, made up and posted to by the sort of people who are obsessive about this period and thus would be the first to criticise if I got any of the above wrong, and also LOVE helping out an ignorant innocent.

Any ideas?

03:02 / 04.11.09

OnWar says Egypt for your question, although I remember this period as right after one of the Opium Wars and right before the Boxer Rebellion.

Lots of action in Russia before and after the years you mention, too.

Not sure about Victoriana resources....

19:02 / 04.11.09

Catholics at Cambridge would be unlikely in the 1870s and 1880s, but not for the reasons you might think. Cambridge was theoretically open to Catholics after 1871, but the Church officially forbade its members from attending until the establishment of the Catholic chaplaincy there in 1895.

So during the period you're talking about, there were plenty of wealthy Catholic parents who wanted to send their young'uns to Cambridge, but few who were willing to defy the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith to do it.

Whisky Priestess

12:34 / 05.11.09

Interesting! Thanks both ... might take the Catholic bit out then - it seems to cause more problems than it solves.

Whisky Priestess

11:02 / 21.11.09

So, if I wanted to take a shitload of hard returns out of a long Word document, to replace them with ... well, nothing, and Find & Replace won't work, is there any way I can do it without literally taking every one out by hand?

22:52 / 21.11.09

Find and replace won't work? As in, searching for "^p"? Erm, is it long enough to be worth learning some beginner's VBA?

11:26 / 23.11.09

WP - Victorian resource:

http://www.victorianweb.org

19:12 / 23.11.09

Wait - you can find & replace hard returns? For real??

I've always wanted to know how to do that.

Whisky Priestess

14:28 / 24.11.09

Pingle - thanks, I'll try that.

Jub - you beauty!

15:30 / 27.11.09

I want to know who this woman is that's running off to nurse in the Mahdist war/siege of Khartoum...

Whisky Priestess

23:40 / 01.12.09

She's a mysterious temptress with a shady past, of course! I'll tell you more as & when I get opinions on whether or not she's still "woefully underdeveloped"

21:50 / 26.02.10

Umm...

...does anyone know if I have to present my complete medical records to apply for an American Visa? Fiancee Visa, looking toward permanent residence and maybe naturalisation.

22:57 / 26.02.10

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but This page gives some general requirements, and tells you (or, I suppose, your fiancé) to download a form from this page. I would tend to think that medical records wouldn't be included, because in general here one's medical records are considered sacrosanct.

06:24 / 27.02.10

Ugh. I just found out the fiancee visa will have become obselete by the time I come to apply, also, the American Govt. could not give a flying fuck about things that are sacrosanct in British, International, or even it's own law much of the time. This is what worries me.

Immigration lawyer ? Anyone? The internet is only proving ambigious. >.<

17:49 / 01.03.10

Thanks for the links tsuga, this is the best webpage I've found available as sit details the process step by step and has many useful links.

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/K1_London_Applications#Medical_Examination

On the grounds that I have self harmed in the past I am permanently inadmissable. I'm heartbroken.

What do I do? I really don't want to tell my other half, this is so awful ...

jentacular dreams

10:16 / 03.03.10

That is truly rubbish! I presume the self-harm is on your records? I know it's difficult but suggest you talk about it with your fiancee asap, as the longer you leave it the harder it will become.

11:30 / 12.03.10

Unless someone wants to flesh this thread out - and I don't - I'm going to move for a deletion.

22:50 / 21.03.10

It's possible to get a waiver ...maybe. I told him the next morning after finding out. ^ _ ^

16:19 / 11.04.10

Can anyone remember a ms-paint chart that someone posted in reference to the uncanny valley? I'm pretty sure it featured breem and michael jackson. I've been looking for months, and can't even find the place where the dead image link would have gone, so I'm hoping against hope that someone saved it and would repost.

19:48 / 12.04.10

What else goes well with a baked ham besides baked beans, potato salad, mac & cheese, buttermilk biscuits?

23:04 / 12.04.10

What else goes well with a baked ham besides baked beans, potato salad, mac & cheese, buttermilk biscuits?

Maple syrup, scalloped potatoes, brussel sprouts cooked in butter & bacon bits, asparagus, mashed carrots & turnips, tourtiere...

01:35 / 13.04.10

Oh, those are some good ideas. Thank you!

23:16 / 19.04.10

How are the skies over London these days?

23:39 / 28.04.10

half blue, half starry

also, why is there boboss spam everywhere?

07:34 / 29.04.10

Oh, some troll renamed themselves Bobosss (note three s's) and tried to wind us up. There's no-one here, so no-one really cared. For the same reason, even the return of Knodge failed to get a rise.

Whisky Priestess

18:59 / 03.05.10

The skies in London are half sunny, half rainy. Great bikini/trenchcoat weather.

17:44 / 04.07.10

does anyone have a jstor password I can have and responsibly use

I really dislike the library

ta

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