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You are not correct, but perhaps Sir Walter Raleigh is closer than you thought! You're certainly in the correct historical period.

You may want to consider bells and chains as separate items.
 
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krus_aragon said:
You may want to consider bells and chains as separate items.
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Anything to do with Mary Tudor? I'd long thought that the "cockleshells and silver bells" in the rhyme, referred to odd-but-harmless Catholic gear; but the learned scholars seem to opine that instruments of torture, are what's meant...
 
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Okay, so working on your clues so far, we have an airport in a cold place (Yakutsk) paired with a hot one (Kuwait), and then we're given another (Bar Yehuda) that is next to the dead sea. On that basis, I suppose we're looking for an airport that's high up, probably in a mountain range. Perhaps in Chile or thereabouts?
 
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I think I know which one it is. The one in the Himalayas where the runway is on a pretty steep slope and has what is almost like a ski jump at the end. Lots of Twin Otters flying out of it when I saw it on a dangerous airports documentary. Not got a clue what it is called alas.
 
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fowler9 said:
I think I know which one it is. The one in the Himalayas where the runway is on a pretty steep slope and has what is almost like a ski jump at the end. Lots of Twin Otters flying out of it when I saw it on a dangerous airports documentary. Not got a clue what it is called alas.
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Are you thinking of Lukla/Tenzing-Hillary airport in Nepal?

It's not the answer I was looking for though.
 
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Knew playing with FSX would pay off at some point

Another aviation question - in which settlement can I find my FOOT?
 
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10 days and no response, so I assume it is now an open floor. [I will happily withdraw the following if the original question-setter objects].

Traditionally, an Anglican Cathedral is the seat[kathedra] of a diocesan bishop. But there is one such bishop, technically without a kathedra as such to his name, but with three co-equal cathedrals in his area of jurisdiction.
Who is he, what is his title and where are the co-equal cathedrals?
 
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Is this something to do with the Royal Army Chaplain's Department?

There is a Bishop to the Forces, who is a suffragan of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and bears the full title of "The Archbishop of Canterbury's Episcopal Representative to the Armed Forces". He is not a military chaplain, and the current holder of the office is Nigel Stock, Bishop at Lambeth.

I think that that may answer parts one and two, but what's the answer to part three? Is it York, Lambeth and somewhere else?
 
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EbbwJunction1 said:
Is this something to do with the Royal Army Chaplain's Department?

There is a Bishop to the Forces, who is a suffragan of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and bears the full title of "The Archbishop of Canterbury's Episcopal Representative to the Armed Forces". He is not a military chaplain, and the current holder of the office is Nigel Stock, Bishop at Lambeth.

I think that that may answer parts one and two, but what's the answer to part three? Is it York, Lambeth and somewhere else?
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A good try, but, as you say, the Bishop to the Forces is a suffragan and not a diocesan. Sorry, again :)
 
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Leeds.

Cathedrals in Bradford Wakefield and Ripon but not Leeds.

Leeds has a cathedral, but it’s not Anglican.
 
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Marton said:
Leeds.

Cathedrals in Bradford Wakefield and Ripon but not Leeds.

Leeds has a cathedral, but it’s not Anglican.
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Quite right.
The dioceses of Ripon, Wakefield and Bradford were amalgamated to become the Diocese of West Yorkshire and The Dales.
The Rt Revd Nick Baines became its first bishop, and is styled "Bishop of Leeds"
The Anglican Church has no Leeds Cathedral [as yet] - rather Leeds Minster [originally Leeds Parish Church].
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Keeping to the ecclesiastical.

What links the Old Foundation Anglican Cathedrals which were cathedrals before the reformation and why is Carlisle unique?
 
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