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I’d love to attend the conference and take in the healing wonders of your great city. Unfortunately not this time though but keep bringing more and I’ll get there. I see in my crystal ball a time where the name Dr Tess Lawrie prominently appears on the list of Bath’s citizens known for her service to the betterment of humanity.

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About Jane Austen. She found Bath a horror - not because of the baths, but because of the dreadful demands of taking part in the superficial social life. Far from being a writer-in-residence, she wrote nothing while in Bath. I have read that, when it was announced, I believe by her father, that the family was moving to Bath, she fainted. The best thing about Bath, for Jane Austen, was leaving it. As soon as she left, she was prolific for the last years of her life.

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Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 Elsa. You wrote ¨She found Bath a horror - not because of the baths, but because of the dreadful demands of taking part in the superficial social life.¨ ?? I find your comment very negative.

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It's the truth, Mario. She hated being in Bath. I've read all her great novels. I've read what is known of her life. Do you want me to lie? Why would you want that?

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Before Bath : Early manuscripts (1796–1798)

After finishing Lady Susan, Austen began her first full-length novel Elinor and Marianne. Her sister remembered that it was read to the family "before 1796" and was told through a series of letters. Without surviving original manuscripts, there is no way to know how much of the original draft survived in the novel published anonymously in 1811 as Sense and Sensibility.[68]

Austen began a second novel, First Impressions (later published as Pride and Prejudice), in 1796. She completed the initial draft in August 1797, aged 21; as with all of her novels, Austen read the work aloud to her family as she was working on it and it became an "established favourite". At this time, her father made the first attempt to publish one of her novels. In November 1797, George Austen wrote to Thomas Cadell, an established publisher in London, to ask if he would consider publishing First Impressions. Cadell returned Mr. Austen's letter, marking it "Declined by Return of Post". Austen may not have known of her father's efforts. Following the completion of First Impressions, Austen returned to Elinor and Marianne and from November 1797 until mid-1798, revised it heavily; she eliminated the epistolary format in favour of third-person narration and produced something close to Sense and Sensibility. In 1797, Austen met her cousin (and future sister-in-law), Eliza de Feuillide, a French aristocrat whose first husband the Comte de Feuillide had been guillotined, causing her to flee to Britain, where she married Henry Austen. The description of the execution of the Comte de Feuillide related by his widow left Austen with an intense horror of the French Revolution that lasted for the rest of her life.

During the middle of 1798, after finishing revisions of Elinor and Marianne, Austen began writing a third novel with the working title Susan—later Northanger Abbey—a satire on the popular Gothic novel. Austen completed her work about a year later. In early 1803, Henry Austen offered Susan to Benjamin Crosby, a London publisher, who paid £10 for the copyright. Crosby promised early publication and went so far as to advertise the book publicly as being "in the press", but did nothing more.[74] The manuscript remained in Crosby's hands, unpublished, until Austen repurchased the copyright from him in 1816.¨

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My God Elsa, I thought puting the date of her birth could open your mind. That was 400 years ago!! It never crossed your mind that the Bath of today could be different? Tess is trying to encourage people to go her event in the Bath now, in 2024 and not in 1795.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen

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It's only 225 years ago. By the way, Jane Austen did not say Bath was ugly to look at - she hated the superficiality of the required socializing. My comment came from Tess calling Jane Austen a writer-in-residence in Bath - utterly not the case. I did not realize you would take it as discouragement from going to Bath - a very pretty town.

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Dr Laurie, thank you for all you have stood up for. Thank you for all you are doing. I see you as one of very few trusted leaders in the world today. I see your integrity, your values and your love for humanity. I see your passion for the truth. I see your persistent ability to call out those who would put money and fame and reputation, before the lives of many. You have my respect. This is a very worrying time when consequences are being felt amongst people everywhere and medical professionals and virologists are positing theories, scientific theories that firmly state that worse is coming. Consequences, consequences, consequences. We look for leaders now, not among the politicians, heads of churches, but to people like your good self who have unselfishly stood up to be counted. Our families, our friends, our communities all across the world need leadership that they can trust and believe in. We, the people, have been assaulted, by a Trojan Horse. And now it seems we need an Ark to save us from the consequences. But where is Noah, to lead us out of danger? The people need to know what no one in authority wishes them to know or do not have the courage to tell them. And that will take a group of respected and respectful Doctors and Scientists to speak as one, to be heard, far and wide. Only in this way can we give human beings a chance to take action that will save their lives and those of their families and communities, everywhere. I cannot think of a better person to bring such a group together and lead it. I hope you will think seriously about this.

My warmest regards

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Oh my that Uranus description completely describes why they called a certain body part “the anus”. I’ve been woken up from a deep sleep to urgently … well you know…answer the call of Uranus apparently. It’s certainly a very primal reaction and named appropriately. 😂😂😂

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What is Weinstein a "doctor" of? I don't trust him.

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To all the Freedom Fighters who will have the chance to be in Bath for the event, try to visit Solsbury Hill. It is near by. The ¨City Light¨ mentioned in Peter Gabriel' song ¨Solsbury Hill¨ is Bath City.

I have been there before long time ago.

PETER GABRIEL - SOLSBURY HILL - ¨Climbing up on Solsbury Hill, I could see the city light.¨

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel - (Genesis) - w/lyrics

https://youtu.be/rpNGp-B5mNg

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Magnesium (as found in Epsom Salts) is just after Vitamin-D3 as an essential nutrient, it is also commonly deficient in the western diet and needed to support the function of Vitamin-D3 to protect and eliminate over 90 diseases.

https://vitamindwiki.com/Ways+to+improve+health

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Bath is also the town where the RepRap OpenSource 3D Printer movement was started by Adrian Bowyer. This has enabled private individuals to have tools for creation that are affordable and more importantly are not trapped into a corporate ecosystem if desired. This was a result of the RepRap goal of being able to REPLICATE its own components to make more and multiply exponentially.

https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_and_Open_Source

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I am very interested in knowing your own and the organization's stand re Gaza and Israel?

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Dear troll, please offer your own position with reasons before trying to stir up the conflicted positions of total strangers. Putting your name to your trolling campaign is also a sign of having some skin in the game you are hoping others will fight.

Just because some topic is divisive does not make it the most important topic, most people have no power to change what the global powers are doing in the Middle East and wanting to gauge how much they believe of the mainstream media as to what the causes and effects of war are is mostly wasted. There are many conflicts, even outright wars in the world but most of them get no mention because people cannot be divided over the causes. The popular ones, Israelis, Russians, immigrants, the unborn, self defence, natural food, self determination, and basically 90% of what is seen on the mainstream media are just random topic that are blown out of proportion with extreme positions published continuously to make people hate their neighbours. You are helping, have you tried to figure out why you want to cause harm to the people on the planet in exchange for an ego boost or money?

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My Uranus isn’t a plan…oh never mind. I thought you meant something else.

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Dear sad troll, put some skin in the game, use a real name.

You really want to try and stick to the topic at least a little when you spam your over priced products, you are correct in your post though that the marketing tactics are going to be bad.

Please do everyone a favour and go and sell this to the globalists so they can feel like the end of the world is not coming.

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