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Dreamtime Perenties: Australia's Enormous Varanus Giganteus on the Prowl
Two themes favored in Jorna Newberry's artistry concerned Ngintaka Tjukurpa (Perentie Lizard Dreaming) and Walpa Tjukurpa (Wind Dreaming), according to the Kate Owen (KO) Gallery website (https://www.kateowengallery.com/artists/Jor635/Jorna ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
Conversions always have the potential to create tensions
frankbeswick, on 08/12/2025
UGLI Fruit (Citrus reticulata x Citrus paradisi): Beauty Is Not Just Skin Deep
For those wondering about the possibility of UGLI marmalade:
Yes! UGLI marmalade is easy to make, pretty to see and delicious to eat.
Our family recipe makes a small batch, with one UGLI. The ingredients are simple: UGLI fruit, UGLI zest and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Grapefruit Ethnobotany: Generous Versatility of Citus x paradisi as Food Sources and So Much More
Grapefruit band released two albums: Around Grapefruit and Deep Water.
Cherry Red Records Ltd. released Around Grapefruit Monday, Jan. 1, 1968 (https://music.apple.com/us/album/around-grapefruit/1728061288).
The album featured 12 songs, with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon, on Baroque Musician Agostino Steffani: Music Mystery Review
A third candidate for Donna Leon's "other" crime-solver comes to mind.
What about Saleka Night Shyamalan?
The afore-mentioned actress manifests crime-detecting, crime-preventing, crime-solving smarts in Trap!
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Death of Nabiré: Only Four Known Living Northern White Rhinoceroses
There are only Fatu and Najin as extant northern white rhinoceroses.
Isn't it sad that Nola (Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1974-Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015) and Sudan (1973-Monday, Mar 19, 2018) itinerated from this life into the next, from this world into the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek: Twenty-First Century Acts
Perri Thaler, in 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/proposed-spacecraft-could-carry-up-to-2-400-people-on-a-one-way-trip-to-the-nearest-star-system-alpha ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi
Amanda Almira Newton's grandfather was Isaac Newton (March 31, 1800-June 21, 1867) (Find A Grave Memoria ID 46583472, originally created by Meges, maintained by Diane DeMore, added Jan. 11, 2010; URL @ ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Could the Newman conversion have created a rift between him, his family and his Anglican friends?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
It might have done, but I have no evidence that other family members converted
frankbeswick, on 08/12/2025
Dreamtime Perenties: Australia's Enormous Varanus Giganteus on the Prowl
For those asking about Ngintaka perentie in Tjukurpa the Dreaming as depicted in Aboriginal art:
The Linton & Kay Galleries' location in Subiaco, an inner-western suburb of Western Australia's capital, Perth, displayed a series of acrylic on ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
For those asking about the chestnut tree sketched by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longellow (Feb. 27, 1807–March 24, 1882) and displayed as last image in this post:
The poem's chestnut tree towered over the smithy, also known as forge, that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman was a cradle Anglican.
Might the Newman conversion have made other family members Catholic as well?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Owston's Banded Palm Civets (Chrotogale owstoni): Ringtails of China, Laos, and Vietnam
Online sources consider as Owston's banded palm civet predators large raptors, leopards, pythons and tigers. They count anti-predator smells as challenging the afore-considered predators.
Is there research as to which predator is most immune to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Ngwayir (Pseudocheirus peregrinus occidentalis): Ringtail Possum of West Australia
The conclusion addresses among environmental, life-cycle stresses on ngwayir populations "Competitive bushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)."
Isn't it interesting to imagine imaged information about when, where, why ngwayirs and bushtail ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025