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Did St Paul invent Christianity?
Online sources associate the first name Lazarus with the Hebrew personal name אֶלְעָזָ for "God has helped."
Is there any Christian tradition about how Lazarus led his life after his raising by Jesus Christ?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
A New Piece of Land
Online and paper sources consider chicken manure among natural soil-maintaining, soil-rejuvenating, soil-strengthening resources.
Please do not consider the following question facetious. Does turkey manure get identified too as soil-friendly ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
Part 2 follow up to Jane Austen's house Chawton
The writing table continues to catch my attention.
Is the table top of beige- and brown-patterned marble? What is the wood base and support to that table-top surface?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
Albert Dock, Liverpool
That padlock tradition covered by the fourth subheading, The Waterfront, prompts some pondering.
Would there be a tradition of wending one's way back to the waterfront fence to walk away with one's padlock were the secret load lightened?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
Elizabeth Gaskell's House, Manchester
Albanian writer Ismail Kadare describes a main character in The concert as growing a lemon tree in her apartment.
So, influenced by Kadare writings as a narration of Albanian history from ancient Egyptian cultural nudges to nowadays, I notice ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
P's next adventure - Rome, The Eternal City
Thank you for your comment below on Oct. 26, 2018, in answer to my previous-day observation and question.
Ancient Egyptians adored feline sentients as wise and wonderful. Did the ancient Romans -- and do the modern Romans -- display the same ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
10 Messages of Red Riding Hood
Thank you for the three links at the very end of this wizzley.
The Frances Brundage version intrigues me with her not invoking the overlapping forest itineraries of Red Riding Hood and the wolf and with his being killed without ingesting, if ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
Dating pictures through fashion part 2 . 1910 - 1940s
Online sources also designate clown performances as another example of women donning trousers when non-circus society demanded long dresses and long skirts of their dames.
Some female clowns perhaps jumped astride, not aside, onto their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/29/2024
10 Messages of Red Riding Hood
Thank you for the linked images and information at the very end of this wizzley.
The Denslow link calls the fairy tale Red Riding-Hood. Is it less or more common to link the two nouns with that hyphen in English?
Denslow seems unique to me in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2024
Charles Perrault: Biography - Just the Facts
The third subheading, Influential, advises us that "It was his idea to design the Labyrinth of Versailles (planned by Andre Le Notre) in a way it would serve as the learning tool for the eldest son of Louis XIV who actually learned reading from ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2024
Essex Days ; Tollesbury Trail, Essex
Me too, I agree with you about the pretty pink of Rolls cottage.
Is that the aforementioned residence's original color?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2024
Elizabeth Gaskell's House, Manchester
Online sources describe Victorian money and power holders as domiciling indoor plants in greenhouses, hothouses and Wardian-case terrariums.
Might the Gaskell house have had all, any or some of the above-mentioned indoor plant-friendly ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2024
Charles Perrault: Biography - Just the Facts
Thank you for your comment below on Jan 6, 2024, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Online sources give an image of a building with a central, three-floor section flanked on each side by a two-floor wing. They identify ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2024
10 Messages of Red Riding Hood
Perhaps another message to Red Riding Hood borrows from -- are you noting that they have the same birth month and day? -- Dylan Thomas (Oct 27, 1914-Nov 9, 1953) and Theodore Roosevelt (Oct 27, 1858-Jan 6, 1919).
"Do not go gentle into that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2024
10 Messages of Red Riding Hood
Thank you for the three links at the very end of your wizzley.
The Frank Adams images and information intrigue me.
That information invokes the rescuer as woodcutter instead of hunter. Is one of those occupations or past-times traditionally ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/28/2024