stancarey , 2 months ago to random On the ridge from Benlettery to Bengower in Connemara. A good Sunday hike, and we dodged the showers until the home stretch The anglicized names obscure the natural Irish ones: Binn Leitrí is "peak of the wet hillsides"; Binn Gabhar is "goats' peak" #hiking #Connemara #mountains #outdoors #Galway #Ireland #landscape #Irish #placenames #photography
On the ridge from Benlettery to Bengower in Connemara. A good Sunday hike, and we dodged the showers until the home stretch
The anglicized names obscure the natural Irish ones: Binn Leitrí is "peak of the wet hillsides"; Binn Gabhar is "goats' peak"
#hiking #Connemara #mountains #outdoors #Galway #Ireland #landscape #Irish #placenames #photography
info , 6 months ago to histodons group When you could hang for wearing a fake beard A spate of killings in the 1100s in Venice by assassins wearing false full beards, led a ban under capital punishment for wearing fake full beards. #Curiosities #Legends #Placenames #Venezia #Venice https://historywalksvenice.com/article/when-you-could-hang-for-wearing-a-fake-beard-assassins/
When you could hang for wearing a fake beard
A spate of killings in the 1100s in Venice by assassins wearing false full beards, led a ban under capital punishment for wearing fake full beards.
#Curiosities #Legends #Placenames #Venezia #Venice
https://historywalksvenice.com/article/when-you-could-hang-for-wearing-a-fake-beard-assassins/