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10 Famous Mermaids
Of course, birds and fish live in different world which are so close to use, yet unreachable without some kind of technology.
Tolovaj, on 07/07/2024
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Not really. But too speedy a descent .can lead to accidents I can recall having to control teenage hikers when they were sliding on loose rock towards a cliff
frankbeswick, on 07/06/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Ancient Amazon-basin traditions considered merpeople as watermen whose feminine counterparts came about through captured human females. Such human women configured into mermaids constituted water healers even as mermen conducted themselves ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/06/2024
A Walk Around Mont Blanc
Going too fast downward or upward in underwater situations can be disabling or even fatal.
Can such a situation happen with changing altitude quickly downward or upward?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/06/2024
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I know of no exercises for this purpose.
frankbeswick, on 07/06/2024
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We have insufficient experience at higher altitude for me to answer this question.
frankbeswick, on 07/06/2024
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The computer crashed before I could continue to another component of my question.
Do you and your wife and your children deal easier, less uncomfortably, more effectively with altitude changes from lower to higher or from higher to lower?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/06/2024
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The second paragraph to the first subheading, A difficult start, alerts us to altitude changes and to their concomitant consequences of shortness of breath among humans.
Are there breathing exercises for going into, during, coming out of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/06/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Your comment that "fish and birds represent other worlds to humans in both cases, so fish and birds who live in those worlds were considered sacred or at least ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/06/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
It's very interesting to note how important was birds, not just fish in her life. Very similar to Atargatis. I guess fish and birds represent other worlds to humans in both cases, so fish and birds who live in those worlds were considered sacred ...
Tolovaj, on 07/02/2024
Review of McCain Craft Beer Battered Potatoes
My favorite beers are Sam Adams and the Wisconsin beers.
Do you have a battered potato recipe?
I find it difficult to believe that Sam Adams- or Wisconsin beer-battered potatoes would be anything but A+ delicious for you and your wife ;-D!
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/02/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Ancient Hawaiians featured as the sister of their volcano goddess Pele Nāmaka, fish-tailed mermaid who found as a husband the mortal 'Aikāne.
Ancient Hawaiian culture figures a gecko-like lizard as predecessor to those human women who, as sea ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/02/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Every culture has its own view on mermaids. That's part of their charm, I guess. Thanks for sharing this tidbit about Basque mermaids.
Tolovaj, on 07/01/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Basque culture has mermaid traditions of itsaslamiak, those who habitate shores, and lamiak, those who habitat water bodies.
The former have duck-like feet even as the latter have fish tails.
There's no such thing as a bad mermaid. It's ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/01/2024
Gardening when you are getting older
They we're,,used, to weigh down the inward facing rim
frankbeswick, on 06/30/2024