https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel   (change language on the page that opens)                                                            ********* The  Tower of Babel  ( Syriac :  ܡܓܕܠܐ ܕܒܒܠ ‎,  Maḡdlā d-Bāḇēl ;  Hebrew :  מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל ‎ ‎‎,  Migdal Bāḇēl ) is a Near Eastern  etiological   myth  that is recorded in the  Jewish   Tanakh 's first book ( Genesis ); it is meant to explain  the origin  of different languages. [1] [2] [3] [4]  According to the story, a united  humanity  of the generations following the  Great Flood , speaking a single language and migrating eastward, came to the land of  Shinar  ( Hebrew :  שנער ‎‎). There they agreed to build a city and a tower "tall enough to reach  heaven "; seeing this, God, confounded their speech so that they could no longer understand each other and scattered them around the world. Now then - my Mother was not a really intelligent person, but she knew her Bible, and said that anyone she couldn't under

     Rather like this!  This is an article dedicated to some of the characters I have met in my life. The first was in Bolton, Lancashire, his name was 'Barnes' forename 'Frank' (I'm pretty sure). This man was an inventor! Despite being mocked often by other members of the Church of which my father was the Minister and of which he was a 'member of the Board', he spent every second of his time 'inventing' things! He took, for example, the basis of a 3 wheeled motor bike, spent time building a 'bodywork' around it - IN PLYWOOD! - The seating was made up of little 'angler's chairs' (foldable type - something like this)   They were NOT anchored, so at every sway of the 'vehicule' the passenger went with it - in all directions! Nowadays of course totally illegal, but then (in the 1950's) - allowed! He used it day for day, go to work, come back, on holidays he used it to go from Bolton (NW England) to Cornwall (S

Play whilst reading...... https://youtu.be/BPTOY8FrvNw Now and then it's interesting. You get an idea to try and contact people you were and maybe still are, friends with, but have lost all contact. How.....? Well, this is where, for me the Internet and Google search is so useful. Old e-mail adresses are sometimes updatable, or you can contact a distant relation of the person you are looking for. Even things like Facebook are usable - through a search, and although that 'old friend' will have changed in appearance, sometimes enormously, if you have a little imagination you can still see your 'old contact' somewhere in there! From a certain age, when you have had no contact for many years, it can be very difficult, and sometimes very sad - you must accept that the old friend - is no more. That's what is called 'life'. All I hope is that my voice from the past and occasional contacts give as much pleasure as I get from receiving theirs. In the s