The wristwatch thing is supposed to be for hygiene reasons. There's nothing to stop you having a watch (nurses fob pinned to your top, clip watch on your jacket), just not a wristwatch.
Apart from the socks, that's basically exactly the same dress code I have as a medical student.
But the National Trust don't own Stonehenge - it's owned by the state, run by English Heritage.
I now have this image of polite people from the National Trust in green waxed jackets breaking into other people's monuments to take street view pictures.
Same thing in the Fairy Glen, on the Black Isle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwibetsy/353341868/ (not my photo btw, but I have been there).
Everyone knows they're in there for the fairies, either to generally get fairy favours, or so the fairies keep the water in the stream clean. Bugger all to do with 'financial hopes' or anything like that!
Please see this thread on badscience: http://www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10844&hilit=haggis
for why this woman is wrong, has done research that an undergraduate would be ashamed of, is not a historian, and just generally should have not opened her stupid mouth!
Beavers being fish probably contributed to their extinction in the UK (fur being the major factor).
And you missed a good bit about their sex organs; in Medieval Europe it was believed that male beavers would bite off their own testicles and throw them at pursuing hunters to get them to leave him alone!
Nice illumination of this: http://bestiary.ca/chimaera/103
Belfast Zoo has free-roaming prairie dogs, with burrows all around the place - I have been told that they were originally escapees many years ago, but have been left to live in peace outside the cages!
There's actually a lot of debate about that helmet. If you can go and look at it in the museum, it's very obvious that the horns are an afterthought - they interfere with a channel for other decoration. The mask also looks of different workmanship than the rest of the helmet. A lot of people think that it's unlikely that such a cobbled together piece would have been presented to a king (even if it was a joke). It's one of the more mysterious things in the Armouries.
Apart from the socks, that's basically exactly the same dress code I have as a medical student.
I now have this image of polite people from the National Trust in green waxed jackets breaking into other people's monuments to take street view pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwibetsy/353341868/
(not my photo btw, but I have been there).
Everyone knows they're in there for the fairies, either to generally get fairy favours, or so the fairies keep the water in the stream clean. Bugger all to do with 'financial hopes' or anything like that!
Whenever I despair about the state of the railways in the UK I look at the USA and go "yeah, it could actually be worse...".
http://www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10844&hilit=haggis
for why this woman is wrong, has done research that an undergraduate would be ashamed of, is not a historian, and just generally should have not opened her stupid mouth!
And you missed a good bit about their sex organs; in Medieval Europe it was believed that male beavers would bite off their own testicles and throw them at pursuing hunters to get them to leave him alone!
Nice illumination of this: http://bestiary.ca/chimaera/103