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A Line of Scandalous Women
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Levirate marriage concerns a brother marrying his dead brother's wife.
Is there an ancient term for a sister marrying her dead sister's husband?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
A Day at the Poynton Show
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The first spring-blooming woody plants are white-blossomed: black cherry, Callery pear and serviceberry.
The first spring-blooming flowering plants are yellow-blossomed: jonquils and rockets.
The first spring-singing birds thus far ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
Pathways to God
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Buddhist reincarnation allows for recasting as animal or human sentients. For example, Gautama Buddha appeared in previous lives in animal- and human-sentient forms.
Non-Tibetan Buddhism approves animal-sentient reincarnations even ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
Walking on the Lleyn
No. Llyn is Welsh for lake and is found in place names in Wales and in parts of Western England, e.g. Lindow, about 12 miles from my home, which was originally Llyn Dhu, the Dark Lake. Lleyn derives its name from Legin, pronounced Lein, which is ...
frankbeswick, on 03/23/2024
When Christmas was cancelled
Mince pies have been very strongly associated with Christmas, and while they are eaten in Winter, the link between them and Christmas is very strong.
frankbeswick, on 03/23/2024
Walking on the Lleyn
The first paragraph in the second subheading, Places of Interest, alerts us to the pronunciation of lleyn as "clean."
English Wiktionary offers only the Welsh word llyn ("lake") from the Middle Welsh word llynn ("upland lake").
Would that be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
When Christmas was cancelled
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Mince pies can be associated with Unitedstatesian Thanksgiving or Christmas fare here.
Might that be their popular times among eastern-side pondites?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
The hoodie, third-last image is simple-comfortably, simple-elegantly attractive.
Might it be a lightweight, pullover or zippered hoodie?
It would be quite striking with leggings or miniskirt in that color or in the gray pattern of the last ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
It's my understanding that great-house staff such as the cook, the governess and the housekeeper might have been higher socio-economically than such staff as house maids and kitchen helpers.
Might Mary McNab perhaps have been able, allowed, as ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
The beginning sentences to your introduction advises us that "Jessie M. King was born in 1875 and received a strict religious education. Her artistic aspirations were strongly discouraged by her parents. Especially her mother Mary Ann destroyed ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
The bottom-most image is an attractive top.
Might the sleeves be three-quarter- or wrist-length but rollable to above-elbow because of a button tab?
How would it fit into the hoodie, sweatshirt, t-shirt, top clothes categorization?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
The long-skirted, three-quarter-sleeved dress under the fifth subheading Artistic Influence and Facing Aging Squarely A Head on Look at Capturing Life's Process is attractive, comfortable-looking, with possible formal and informal ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
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That's interesting about the state Victoria.
Might that state be where the wealthiest Australians live?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
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The black-and-white childhood gospel images are quite compelling. It's understandable why their book merited a gold medal.
My favoritest images nevertheless remain the first and the second in-text illustrations. You mention in a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
That's so disappointing about your Canalblog posts.
Might the difficult-access situation mean that you'd have no way of copying, modifying or removing your creations?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/23/2024