Earth-impacting shrapnel from those primordial upheavals may have helped seed our planet with the precursors for life, delivering water and organic compounds from the dark, icy depths of the outer solar system.
There are dogs, bandits, romances, political revolutions, philosophical debates.
—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
16 June 2026
Now, British history goes back a long time, and there have been revolutions and wars, but since the coming of parliamentary government to Britain, Britain has not seen anything like this.
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