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The post World War 2 kitchen
Your comment four boxes down, on Dec. 13, 2016, intrigues me.
Might Cheddar cheese in its sharp and extra sharp manifestations make its presence known even when cooked?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
Underland: a Review
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Your comment three boxes down associates long-term storage of "very radioactive" material with burial and short-term waste with short-term surface storage.
Do ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
The Gathering Tide: a review
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Me too, I'm not comfortable with stereotypes even as I laugh from time to time over one from my stay in Brazil.
A bus ride from Rio de Janeiro all the way to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
19th Century Gothic and Sensation Literature
The third subheading, Gothic literature authors and books, contains the following examples:
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Matthew Lewis- The Monk
James Hogg - Confessions of a justified sinner
Ann Radcliff - The Mysteries of Udolpho
Emily ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
The Christian View of Political Leadership
Thank you for your comment -- "Possibly Alfred the Great" -- three boxes below on Apr 6, 2023, in answer to my previous-day question about the "accuratest realization or closest approximation of a 'Biblically based leadership' at any place, any ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
As Winter Comes
Your comment below on Nov. 28, 2023, in answer to my previous, same-day question advises that "My children are not great tea drinkers, they prefer coffee, but I am a devotee of tea."
A recent continuing education unit dealt with Kew Gardens. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/16/2024
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
My ablutions are almost entirely showers, so I don't need help at the moment. But we upgraded the bathroom so that the bath has access through a small doorl. Thus when I shower (in our combined bath and shower) i access through the bath door.? ...
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
The Gathering Tide: a review
I do not place great value on stereotypes. I recall catching a coach in Manchester to go on holiday to South West England. I was the only Englishman aboard, the rest were Scots, and what a friendly and lively crew they were. It was the jolliest ...
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
The Remote Islands of Britain
No, the only festival that I know is Up Hellly Ah, the mid winter fire festival. St Patrick's day is not celebrated.
On another point there is good soil in parts of Orkney.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Underland: a Review
Long term is what timescale is needed to store very radioactive material.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Understanding the British Political System
The dissolutionnaffects mainly the House of Commons, but during a dissolution the Lords does not sit.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Why do Christians Believe that Jesus was Divine
No traditions on these questions have been preserved.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Yes to deaconesses
Certainly. She was known in the Christian community as the Lady Mary. I think that her role in the Christian community would have been aiding devotikn to Jesus.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
The Road to Roaringwater
It is a Catholic church dedicated to St Patrick
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024
Walled Gardens
Yes it is an interesting question. We in the UK do not pay as much attention to the Tradescants'work in Virginia as we should.
frankbeswick, on 05/16/2024