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London Sunday Lecture Society[edit]

I am writing an article about a lady named Bessie Anstice Baker. She wrote an important book about her conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. In it she mentions the “Sunday Lecture Society”. A Google search finds quite a few lectures published by this society. It does seem a rather important and influential society of the mid 1800s. Try as I might though, I can find little about it. Does anyone have any pointers? - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 06:44, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This Society was formed in 1869 by William Henry Domville, a London solicitor in London. Its objective was to present lectures on the arts, history, literature and science on Sunday, a day when wholesome recreation was scarce... the Society's usual venue, St. George's Hall, Langham Place. [1] Alansplodge (talk) 10:04, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Sunday Lecture Society was organized in November 1869 by William Henry Domville , proponent of 'a new Westminster Confession of Faith for the laity of the 19th century'. Among the Society's vice presidents were [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode, John Tyndall, and Charles Darwin. Huxley also presided over the organisational meeting, although he declined to serve as president in 1884 while holding the same office in the Royal Society. [2] Alansplodge (talk) 10:22, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

According to this, the gist of the "new Westminster Confession" pamphlet was that Anglican liturgy should focus less on Old Testament texts such as the Ten Commandments, which were seen as increasingly irrelevant, the discredited idea of a six-day creation is cited. Alansplodge (talk) 10:29, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alansplodge thank you so much! I have created a stub article now. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 18:58, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Last independent Etruscan cities[edit]

What were the last independent Etruscan cities free from Roman rule/last independent Etruscan rulers? Etruscan civilization mentions 27BC as the end but doesn’t actually state what happened that year except saying vaguely they were absorbed by Rome. 27BC is also the end of the Republic.

If the map File:Roman conquest of Italy.PNG (based on Constable's Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome and The Penguin Atlas of Ancient Rome) is accurate, the entire Etruscan territory had been conquered by Rome by the start of the First Punic war, in 264 BCE. However, that does not sit well with the (unsourced) statement in our article on Perusia that the city assisted Rome in the Second Punic War, which suggests that it was then not under Roman jurisdiction. (By the time of the Perusine War, 41–40 BCE, it was.) A city not very far from Perusia but farther away from Rome, Arretium, was already conquered in 311 BCE. --Lambiam 11:56, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

car in video[edit]

I saw this Supernanny video [3]. In it, Jo Frost is helping a woman who lost her husband to cancer. From forty-two to fifty-one seconds, I noticed a car in the distance. What kind of car is it, and who is the manufacturer? Anyone know?2603:7000:8106:C149:CC8B:13B3:2B83:7C03 (talk) 23:09, 4 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Could it be a Subaru Impreza?2600:1702:690:F7A0:797F:4672:6656:7BF0 (talk) 01:58, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's probably it. Thank you.2603:7000:8106:C149:3DD7:D4C2:D96A:96D1 (talk) 06:10, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]