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Hope: a review

There is no rule concerning the precise kind of wood to be used. I suggest that oak would be used for a papal c9ffin, as it is strong and durable.

frankbeswick, 2 days ago

Hope: a review

Online sources identify papal coffins as traditionally one within another within another. So it's a three-coffin resting-place whose materials traditionally involve cypress, lead and oak. The sources online also mention Pope Francis as ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

Music Book Review: Handel's Bestiary by Donna Leon, With CD of 12 Arias, as Baroque Era Title #1

The first subheading, Bestiaries become best-sellers regardless of place or time, considers as recent the 20th-century bestiary by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Is there any beloved or best bestiary from the 21st century?

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

Film Review of Little Miss Broadway: Shirley Temple Shines in 1938 Musical With George Murphy

My tendency in a remade Little Miss Broadway becomes more and more toward updated dances and songs. Can't the original dancing and singing be conserved in a granddaughter character copying her grandmother Betsy Brown's dances and songs, along ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

Film Review of Fort Apache: Shirley Temple in 1948 Western With Henry Fonda and John Wayne

Filming sites affect the impact and the quality that prequels, remakes and sequels as well as series attempt to approximate. California's Simi Valley and Utah's Monument Valley communicate cultural achievements and apartness, natural beauty and ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

The magic of Christmas and the transition phase we all have to go through

Your first paragraph to your first subheading, The magic of Christmas, advises us of arranging Christmas trees and their ornaments and props. The second paragraph alerts us to Blu-ray, DVD and television technology assuring us of such ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

Walking on the Orme

Yes. You can wander round the summit of the Orme as you see fit. There are two tourist routes down, and other routes if you care to look for them

frankbeswick, 6 days ago

The Cloud

No,! domestic, pet dogs who harass farm animals can legally be shot dead by the farmers.

Veronica, 6 days ago

Walking on the Orme

The concluding paragraph celebrates your climbing the Orme since age 8 and your wife and you combing it quite a few times even as you commence the first subheading, August on the Orme, with the consideration that "Maureen and I had taken our ...

DerdriuMarriner, 6 days ago

Silver Bullion Coins Are Also Collectible

The third paragraph to the second subheading, The Royal Canadian Mint Silver Bullion, counted a Wildlife series among its bullion coins. Is that afore-indicated series involving animal-wildlife species, plant-wildlife species or animal- and ...

DerdriuMarriner, 6 days ago

The Cloud

Thank you for your comment below, Apr 17, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question. Your answer that "IN GB, dogs are seen to be a huge disturbance as, by nature, they harrass the sheep" and that "Any farmer in the UK ...

DerdriuMarriner, 6 days ago

Film Review of Little Miss Broadway: Shirley Temple Shines in 1938 Musical With George Murphy

The computer crashed afore I communicated another component of my comment below. A prequel, a remake, a sequel might manifest modern-setting dances even as the marvelous dancing from the 1938 film might be maintained. How? The Shirley-Temple ...

DerdriuMarriner, 9 days ago

Ringtails, State Mammal of Arizona

Elsewhere, I consider museum, school, world gardens of wild animal and plant sentients. A designated ringtail garden of such a type delights me in the ringtail-host plants and in the ringtail-predator and prey animals. For example, a ringtail ...

DerdriuMarriner, 10 days ago

The Melsonby Hoard

We have never had such a ride.

frankbeswick, 12 days ago

Film Review of Little Miss Broadway: Shirley Temple Shines in 1938 Musical With George Murphy

A prequel, a remake, a sequel might matter as characters and story from another time -- the temporal setting of the original -- or as this time. Might a modern setting matter more than 87 years ago if for nothing else because of modern dance ...

DerdriuMarriner, 12 days ago