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Valentine's Symbols

Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my previous observations and questions. The last in-text image both impresses and intrigues me. What is a flower countdown from 14 to 1? Is it implying that white roses invoke 14th, least ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/28/2025

10 Versions of Sleeping Beauty: What Changed through Centuries?

Flax, of course, is associated with spinning. Spinning is a magical skill. One of these days (months) I will probably make an article about spinning in fairy tales, but I am sure you can think of several important stories with spining in a ...

Tolovaj, on 01/27/2025

Valentine's Symbols

Color orange is very likely the most energetic of all. It symbolized excitement and an orange rose can mean 'I propose'!

Tolovaj, on 01/27/2025

Pakasuchus kapilimai: Tanzania's Extinct Warm-Blooded Cat Crocodile

Cat crocodiles develop delightfully into lego and plush toys, don't they? Such educationally entertaining, entertainingly educational fun to figure cat crocodile allies, habitats, predators and prey! Such a toy environment might match nicely ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

Genealogical Hobbies: Sample Searches of Joseph Lockard Martin Jr

Joseph Lockard Martin Jr. achieves name recognition for me because of his acting in Invaders from Mars and the original The day the Earth stood still. The latter film impelled a remake even as neither film invoked any prequel, sequel or ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

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

Fort Apache lends itself well to a remake with a prequel and a sequel and to a series. The above-mentioned film merges fictional and historical personages into actual and fictitious events. It offers many opportunities for seeing what strength ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

Book Review: Growing Healthy Houseplants, by Ellen Zachos, in Storey Basics Self-Reliance Series

Among my many favorite suggestions from this helpful book are the self-watering product lines. Houseplanted philodendrons, in line with author Ellen Zachos' observation, prettify and proliferate prettily in self-watering pots. And what would ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

Hope: a review

It was Camilo de Torres' ideas that made his impact continue. As for his death in battle, the last rites are a right, but you can go to heaven if you are repentant. Last rites or not

frankbeswick, on 01/27/2025

Hope: a review

Thank you for your comment immediately below, in answer to my previous observation and question. One of my graduate-school advisors completed his doctoral dissertation, on the Church in Colombia, at Columbia University. The Colombian Church has ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

Pies for Christmas and Thanksgiving Family Dinners

Saint Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day and Saint Patrick's Day are around the corner. La nina ("the girl child") causes winter 2024-2025 to come cold, icy and sleety and snowy, long for Unitedstatesians outside southeastern United States and ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

The Prenuptial Agreement Debate

So much in engagement and marriage answers to planning for some and spontaneity for others. Is there any information anywhere as to what time invokes the best initiation of a prenuptial agreement? (Surely not after the first huge argument ;-D!)

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

10 Versions of Sleeping Beauty: What Changed through Centuries?

Subheadings 2, 3 and 7 allude to flax. Flax associates positively with me because of its environmentalism and its product lines. Why is flax the culprit prop?

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

Valentine's Symbols

The first subheading, Colors, advises us of orange as a Valentine color. The last subheading, Roses (and other flowers), considers orange roses as symbolizing fascination. Orange roses do not appear that frequently among Unitedstatesians. Is ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 01/27/2025

Valentine's Symbols

All kinds of chocolate are suitable for St. Valentine's Day. If you ask me, every day is a perfect opportunity for chocolate.

Tolovaj, on 01/25/2025

Valentine's Symbols

Gray became fashionable in latest years independetly of St. Valentine. Our McDonalds persists with red and yellow (gold). We don't have Taco Bell.

Tolovaj, on 01/25/2025