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[bill cobbett]

(This succulent pork may be a bit risky. As I understand it some establishments are in the habit of adding a powder (I do not know what it is called) that tenderises the pork in unnatural ways, the equivalent of mutton passing off as lamb)

It also worries me that Art Historians ( no matter how well-meaning they may be and even those from respected families) are digging up the Occupied North without being over-seen by the Antiquities Department and without this body's permission.

[Oracle]

(This succulent pork may be a bit risky. As I understand it some establishments are in the habit of adding a powder (I do not know what it is called) that tenderises the pork in unnatural ways, the equivalent of mutton passing off as lamb)

It also worries me that Art Historians ( no matter how well-meaning they may be and even those from respected families) are digging up the Occupied North without being over-seen by the Antiquities Department and without this body's permission.

Very worrying indeed bill c.

Methinks they will unearth thousand year old "Ottoman relics" or describe everything as Roman or transport it all for "safe-keeping" to Turkey ...

[denizaksulu]

(This succulent pork may be a bit risky. As I understand it some establishments are in the habit of adding a powder (I do not know what it is called) that tenderises the pork in unnatural ways, the equivalent of mutton passing off as lamb)

It also worries me that Art Historians ( no matter how well-meaning they may be and even those from respected families) are digging up the Occupied North without being over-seen by the Antiquities Department and without this body's permission.

A disappointing reply. She is more GC friendly than I am.

Her capacity as an official photographer of the relics in situ is for pure scientific knowledge. She also has done sketches of the sites.

Currently she has an exhibition at the Ledra Palace with her GC colleagues with whom she works.

You have joined the 'Turks can do nothing right club'. Congratulations.

With that mentality, what chance has peace got. Zilch.

[Paphitis]

(This succulent pork may be a bit risky. As I understand it some establishments are in the habit of adding a powder (I do not know what it is called) that tenderises the pork in unnatural ways, the equivalent of mutton passing off as lamb)

It also worries me that Art Historians ( no matter how well-meaning they may be and even those from respected families) are digging up the Occupied North without being over-seen by the Antiquities Department and without this body's permission.

Very worrying indeed bill c.

Methinks they will unearth thousand year old "Ottoman relics" or describe everything as Roman or transport it all for "safe-keeping" to Turkey ...

Or remove evidence of mass graves!

[Oracle]

(This succulent pork may be a bit risky. As I understand it some establishments are in the habit of adding a powder (I do not know what it is called) that tenderises the pork in unnatural ways, the equivalent of mutton passing off as lamb)

It also worries me that Art Historians ( no matter how well-meaning they may be and even those from respected families) are digging up the Occupied North without being over-seen by the Antiquities Department and without this body's permission.

Very worrying indeed bill c.

Methinks they will unearth thousand year old "Ottoman relics" or describe everything as Roman or transport it all for "safe-keeping" to Turkey ...

Or remove evidence of mass graves!

That too ...

[Talisker]

Kinda interesting to seriously consider how animals, both wild and domesticated, initially reached a relatively isolated (at least in ancient times) island such as Cyprus. Pigs might fly, but they can't swim!

Game management in early prehistoric Cyprus
Recent archaeological discoveries have shown that it was over 10,000 years ago that people of the Pre-pottery Neolithic B culture of mainland southwestern Asia colonized the island of Cyprus. In order to sustain their agro-pastoral way of life they imported a range of exotic plants and animals. Amongst the animals, sheep, goat, pig and cattle were arguably domestic, whilst the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) would most likely have been released to be exploited as a free-living game animal. Whilst it constituted only a minor resource in mainland subsistence economies during the Holocene, the fallow deer rapidly rose to a conspicuous level of importance in early prehistoric (Neolithic and Chalcolithic) Cyprus, declining only during the Bronze Age, after about 4,000 years ago. That deer hunting persisted as an economic activity of the first importance throughout at least six millennia suggests that prehistoric communities on the island of Cyprus must successfully have pursued a system of game management which focused not only on productivity but also upon sustainability.
Croft PW (2002). ZEITSCHRIFT FUR JAGDWISSENSCHAFT 48: 172-179.

[Oracle]

Actually ... the fact they ate pigs proves they weren't Muslim!