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Book Review: The Moor
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The first paragraph to the third subheading, Scientific background, alerts us to the bog collapse that "could have killed all the Bronte sisters, who were out ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
Glencoe: the glen of treachery
Thank you for your comment below on Nov. 13, 2020, in answer to my previous-day observation and question.
Online sources associate sphagnum moss with cultivating healthy, successful orchids and succulents.
Might there be wild plants that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The Light in the West:Celtic Christianity
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Celtic cross, advises us that "we see the elaborate knotwork designs seen in Celtic artefacts across Europe all being replicated on the stonework of the cross."
Could it also be considered that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The mystery of Flannan Isle
Thank you for your comment below on Oct. 31, 2022, in answer to my previous, sme-day observation and question.
Online sources describe seal meat as cholesterol-low and protein-high. Did Flannan Isle hunters hunt island seals for meat or for ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
Me too, I agree with Veronica in her comment below about your wizzleying Loch Ness.
Your comment Apr 6, 2021, alerts us that "Rowing is one of my favourite sports. I have, though, never rowed competitively, though I have rowed for fun on lakes ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The Philosopher and the Gospels: a review
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Benedictine and Cistercian orders impress me with their gardens and their strucutures.
What might their members note about Hell in a five ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The Role of the papacy
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Some online sources equate Latin with all spoken and written languages among current Vatican and Vatican City residents. Other sources link Latin only ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The Spectres in the Tower
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BBC online describes a polar-bear skull in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as found in 1927 in the Bone Caves at Inchnadamph. The article, Polar ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The Three Peaks Route
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English Wikipedia gives a death date of November 1977 for Bill Tilman. Is it not known exactly when he left Rio de Janeiro or when he listed his arrival date in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
Who Was Otto Kubel?
The second subheading, Oil paintings, ends with equating Otto Kubel with such lesser-known works as oil-painted landscapes and portraits.
Your sample in-text images feature him as finessing naturalistic, realistic colors, details and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
Lincolnshire : Grimsby Minster; St James
The Remembrance Walls appeal to me as such an enduring way of appreciating what brave casualties have done for their generation's and succeeding generations' survivors.
Whose initiative inspires such walls? Church, church and community, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
19th Century Gothic and Sensation Literature
This wizzley advises us of The grey woman by Elizabeth Gaskell even as another wizzley advises us of her Manchester-address house.
This first-mentioned, same wizzley also considers the following authors and their books:
Mary Shelley - ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/05/2024
The Three Peaks Route
The Antarctic waters are very deep, stormy often packedvwith floating ice. They are hard to explore.
frankbeswick, on 06/05/2024
The Spectres in the Tower
We did have the Brown bear, while the grizzly and the polar bear were unknown. Bears were hunted to extinction in the early Middle Ages.
frankbeswick, on 06/05/2024
Blick Mead: Stonehenge's sacred spring
Treason or a high level of serious crime. But treason is the main one.
frankbeswick, on 06/05/2024