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Socotra Frankincense Tree (Boswellia socotrana): Island of the Phoenix and Its Vulnerable Incense
Not only the Three Magi but also the Queen of Sheba brought frankincense, gold, myrrh gifts, respectively to the Jesus Christ child and to King Solomon.
Might it not be possible to mull the Sheba gold and spices as fine insular manifestations ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/07/2025
Socotran Fig Tree (Dorstenia gigas): Extraordinary Forms of a Near Threatened Bottle Tree
There must be farmer and villager traditional cookbooks and recipe boxes.
Wouldn't it be wonderfully wondrous to wend one's way through how farmers and villagers from time immemorial work Socotran figs into their daily and festival-day diets?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/30/2025
Socotra Cucumber Tree (Dendrosicyos socotrana): Isolated Isle's Weird Fantastic Vulnerable Tree
The main birds around Socotra cucumber trees appear in related images as cinnamon-breasted buntings, Egyptian vultures and white vultures.
Do cinnamon-breasted buntings of all ages or only of physically and sexually mature ages do their nests ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/30/2025
Mitsubishi i-MiEV: An Electric Car for Environmental and Public Health
The last paragraph to the introduction advises us that "Sections on power stations describe the environmental and public health impacts of coal, gas, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, oil, sun or wind-generated electricity for the Mitsubishi i ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/30/2025
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, on 04/27/2025
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, on 04/26/2025
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, on 04/25/2025
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, on 04/25/2025
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, on 04/25/2025
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, on 04/25/2025
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, on 04/22/2025
The Cloud
No,! domestic, pet dogs who harass farm animals can legally be shot dead by the farmers.
Veronica, on 04/22/2025
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, on 04/22/2025
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, on 04/22/2025
Could Equine Assisted Therapy Benefit Those With Personality Disorders
Equine-assisted therapy continues to catch my attention.
Is there a preferred equine age range for integrating horses into such therapy programs for people with personality disorders?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/22/2025