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The Coming of the Cows: a Tirolean Tradition
It depends on the breed and the season. Scottish highland cattle are bred for cold conditions, so they stay outdoors; But many other cows go into barns in that season
frankbeswick, 2 days ago
House Histories by Sally Light: Guide to Tracing Your Home Genealogy
Icelandic artist Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval had a son, Sveinn Kjarval, who honed a pioneer role as interior designer.
The above information impels me to imagine as important as house histories their furnishing/furniture histories.
Mightn't ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Grapefruit Ethnobotany: Generous Versatility of Citus x paradisi as Food Sources and So Much More
The grapefruit-scent disperser above featured among product lines figures as a fresh aroma for back porches, balconies, garage and window sills.
Who ever thought of such a tempting transmission of fresh air as grapefruit with coriander and ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Masked Ringtail Possums (Pseudochirulus larvatus) in Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
The text under the fourth image, about the Owen Stanley Range, advises us of such habitat associates as:
Eastern parotias (Parotia helenae) and streaked bowerbirds (Amblyornis subalaris);
Long-footed water rats (Leptomys elegans);
Queen ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Jodrell Bank, Cheshire
Tickets are first come first served. People all over Britain apply for these but we have never been successful for TV stargazing shows yet. We live in hope.
Veronica, 2 days ago
Jodrell Bank, Cheshire
Tickets are first come first served. People all over Britain apply for these but we have never been successful for TV stargazing shows yet. We live in hope.
Veronica, 2 days ago
Jodrell Bank, Cheshire
Your comment from 04/09/2016 advised us that "Our national TV company BBC, does "Stargazing" programmes from there. I always apply for tickets but have never been successful; I'd be delighted if I was part of the ticket allocation. It would make ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
The Coming of the Cows: a Tirolean Tradition
Thank you for your comments below in answer to previous observations and questions.
A question nonrelated because not about the Tirolean tradition, but related because about cows, deals with the 24-7 life of UK cattle.
Do UK cows dwell outside ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos: Artistic Son of El Greco and Jeronima de las Cuevas in Toledo, Spain
Bob Dylan considers in It'sAlright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) how little sacredness -- that one culls without conducting concentrated contemplations too far or too long -- clusters.
May I rephrase that truth by mentioning how easily -- without ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Film Review of The Little Princess: Shirley Temple in Drama With Cesar Romero and Arthur Treacher
The film The little princess comes from the literary creation of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Sat., Nov. 24, 1849-Weds., Oct. 29, 1924).
The afore-referenced film released posthumously to the Burnett lifespan.
Would any immediate-family members or ...
DerdriuMarriner, 7 days ago
American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
President Theodore Roosevelt advised conversing softly even as one carried -- just in case... -- a big stick.
The afore-designated president described the American chestnut as his favorite tree.
So might some American-chestnut wood have made ...
DerdriuMarriner, 7 days ago
Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand
Twentieth- and 21st-century space stays cause me to compare space-ship and space-station suits.
My wizzley about the Petranek book on surviving Mars considers four-passenger, 250-day Earth-Mars-Earth flights.
What might the carry-on luggage -- ...
DerdriuMarriner, 7 days ago
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek: Twenty-First Century Acts
The third section, Mars-related travel offers agricultural, manufacturing, mining, scientific money-making, considers "four-passenger, 250-day flights to and from Mars."
What if Mars-interested itinerants involve more than four family, friend, ...
DerdriuMarriner, 7 days ago
Monkey Parchment Coffee: Formosan Rock Macaques (Macaca cyclopis) and Specialty Brews From Taiwan
The text describes faunal and floral diets of Formosan rock macaques.
Educational-display models emphasize biogeographical elucidations of such lifestyles as those of Formosan rock macaques.
Mightn't it be marvelously munch-alicious to match ...
DerdriuMarriner, 12 days ago
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek: Twenty-First Century Acts
The 'Imiloa sky watch series of the 'Imiloa Astronomy Center at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii County, island, state describes as the three brightest Earth-perspective solar-system skies our Sun, our Moon, our Venus.
Might there be some ...
DerdriuMarriner, 12 days ago