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Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

If you want Newman's Letters, they can be found on the Internet by typing Cardinal Newman letters into your browser

frankbeswick, Aug 19, 2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

There is probably a collection of letters, but I have not seen it, but for his writings I would select Apologia pro Vta Sua

frankbeswick, Aug 19, 2025

Grapefruit Ethnobotany: Generous Versatility of Citus x paradisi as Food Sources and So Much More

RCA Victor released Deep Water in November 1969 (https://music.apple.com/us/album/deep-water/1487881295) (https://www.discogs.com/release/2831293-Grapefruit-Deep-Water).

Deep Water featured 10 songs, with play time totalling 29 minutes 37 seconds.

The tracks comprised:
Deep Water (2:16)
Can't Find Me (2:08)
Thunder & Lightning (3:08)
Lady Godiva (3:18)
The Right Direction (2:55)
L.A. & Back Again (1:54)
Come Down to the Station (3:05)
A Dizzy Day (2:49)
Blues in Your Head (4:49)
Time to Leave (3:17)

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 18, 2025

Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi

Amanda Almira Newton made four illustrations of Marsh Seedless grapefruits in 1912, according to USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection website (https://pomological.art/).

The illustration that appears as the third to last illustration (between Dedication and Acknowledgment) in this post has dates of May 16, 1912, and May 25, 1912, and is numbered as 56454 in the collection. The model for the illustration was borne on "Tree 111" at the Dixon Ranch in Riverside CA.

Two of Newton's other Marsh Seedless grapefruit illustrations dated 1912 also source from the Dixon Ranch. Illustration 56421 derives from "Tree 101." The illustration has dates of May 13, 1912, and May 18, 1912.

The other Dixon Ranch-originating illustration (56449) was associated with "Tree 106." The illustration has dates of May 16, 1912, and June 20, 1912.

Newton's fourth 1912-produced Marsh Seedless grapefruit illustration (99993) depicts a grapefruit from Arizona, with a date of April 25, 1921.

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 18, 2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

Is there such a thing as a published collected letters by John Henry Newman and is there such a thing as one book by him that is the most important, the most influential of his writings?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 18, 2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

Catholic doctrine is that the church is infallible through the presence of Christ in it. But the infalllibility only covers faith and morals. Infallible statements have to be made by the pope speaking for the whole church.

frankbeswick, Aug 17, 2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

The second paragraph to the last subheading, Later years, advises us that "There was some potential tension, as Newman took part in the First Vatican Council, which decla4er the pope infallible on matters of faith and morals."

Does everything papal deal with "faith and morals"?
Or might something matter papally even as it might not mean "faith and morals"?
Might the pope therefore not merit infallibility in such matters?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 16, 2025

Ngwayir (Pseudocheirus peregrinus occidentalis): Ringtail Possum of West Australia

The second paragraph in the information module between the fourth and the fifth in-text images about tuart and peppermint trees advises us that "Females and males begin their jointly-shared parental responsibilities of the next 2 – 5 years by building 5+ grass-, leaf- and twig-fortified nests in:
Balga grasstree (Xanthorrhoea preissii) canopies;
Tuart tree (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) canopies, forks and hollows."

Who gets to gather when and why in the nest quintet?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 16, 2025

Socotra Cucumber Tree (Dendrosicyos socotrana): Isolated Isle's Weird Fantastic Vulnerable Tree

Socotran islanders have other natiive plant equivalents for plants such as the vulnerable cucumber tree.

Isn't it imaginative, informative, inspiring and instructive to involve all these alternatives and substitutes in a library or museum or school display?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 16, 2025

A Garden Made Simple

Flower, herb and vegetable rolls sound attractive, practical and time-saving.

Would they work no matter what cleared soil beneath those rolls welcomes them or would they want a general pH match?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 16, 2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

It had been gene4ally accepted but not defined for many years. Then it became time to clarify the issue

frankbeswick, Aug 16, 2025

Norah's Cafe in Taubman Museum of Art: A Great Cup of Coffee Over Art in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia

The Taubman Museum accommodates an appealing gift shop.

In particular, their pillows, posters, prints and t-shirts appeal to me.

It might be marvelous for gift-shop decision-makers to muster their colorful city-of-stars artwork on the afore-mentioned product lines as Norah's-Cafe coffee/tea mugs, mightn't it?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 15, 2025

Book Review: Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson

Two favorite image-abounding space books are Hubble's Universe and The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas.

Isn't it interesting to image the same spaces as they iterate from someone on Earth, Mars and Moon?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 15, 2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

The second paragraph to the last subheading, Later years, advises us that "There was some potential tension, as Newman took part in the First Vatican Council, which decla4er the pope infallible on matters of faith and morals. The cardinals at the council were divided between those who enthusiastically accepted infallbility and those who deemed that the time was not right for the declaration. Newman was in the camp of those who deemed the time not to be ripe."

Why was the papal-infallibility timing not welcomed as "right"?

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 15, 2025

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-Newberry.htm).

Jorna displayed a vibrant palette in her Walpa Tjukurpa artworks, as noted in "Wind Dreaming Walpa Tjukurpa" on Japingka Aboriginal Art gallery's website (https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/articles/wind-dreaming-walpa-tjukurpa/).

Jorna combined vivid colors with circles and lines as conveyors of wind movements in her Walpa Tjukurpa artworks. Walpa Tjukurpa ceremonializes encouragement of blowing winds in Jorna’s mother’s country at Utantja. The large extent of sacred ceremonial land locates in Pitjantjatjara country near the three intersecting state boundaries of Western Australia (WA), Northern Territory (NT) and South Australia (SA).

DerdriuMarriner, Aug 12, 2025