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A Line of Scandalous Women
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You mention, in answer to my previous question, that "The genealogies are not considered reliable" because of a possible levirate marriage.
Might it be known when and with whom such a marriage occurred?
How would a levirate ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
A Visit to Lisbon
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Dual citizenship is considered advantageous and desirable by such Unitedstatesians as those speaking Brazilian and continental Portuguese and those speaking Iberian and Latin-American Spanish.
Is that how dual nationality might be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
A Walk With my Father:
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English Wikipedia contains an article covering British overseas territories. Its entry on South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands includes brief reference to the Argentine occupation during the 1982 Falklands War.
Argentine ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
You can use a hands free phone whenever you like so kong as you are not looking at it. So for example you can say "Hey Siri, ring this number" No need to look and you can just answer the phone when it connects through". There are really hefty ...
Jo_Murphy, on 03/22/2024
A Woman Alone: Decades Living in a Ruined Village
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Online sources define a shingle beach as a pebble beach. Particularly the Big island (Hawaii county and island in Hawaii state) has pebble beaches.
Is a shingle beach common or rare on your eastern-pond side?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Eat Like a Fish: a Review
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English Wiktionary defines pilch as fur- or skin-lined, trimmed case or gown (from Middle English pilche as fur coat or overgarment, from Late Latin pellicia as fur coat from Latin pellis as animal-skin, felt, hide, pelt).
It ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
That first, in-text image communicates a modern art style.
My cursor indicated the artistic attribution as Jessie M. King.
Is that correct?
(I was expecting Tolovaj as the innovative creator of such a modern-looking image!)
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Pathways to God
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Irish druids seem nature-friendly to me as a woody plant-loving arborist ;-D.
Would it have mattered to a dying Irish druid which reincarnation, animal or human sentient?
(Would an Irish druid ever have reincarnated as a plant ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
The Garden Awakening
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English Wikipedia correlates the place name Limerick with a west-Ireland city and with a west-Ireland county.
Did your father's maternal line live in Limerick city or Limerick county or both?
Does Veronica favor Limerick city or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
Thank you for the end-of-wizzley three links!
But the Vintage Books link gives me the immediate and the try-again messages that "The connection has timed out. The server at vintagebooks.canalblog.com is taking too long to respond" and "Problem ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
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The Bicycle riding and mobile phones subheading, as next-to-last bicycle road rule and safety component, advises that "To keep yourself and other road users safe your full attention is needed when riding. Holding a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Walking on the Lleyn
It's interesting that Traeth Lafan is Anglicized as Lafan Sands.
English Wiktionary links Welsh traeth ("beach") to Breton traezh ("sand"), Cornish treth ("beach, sand, seashore") and Irish trácht ("beach, strand").
Might Traeth Lafan not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
Yep. "When you ride a bicycle or an electric powered wheeled recreational device or a personal mobility device like a rideable, you must wear an Australian Standard (AS) approved bicycle helmet. You must securely fit and fasten it. An approved ...
Jo_Murphy, on 03/22/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
That's so protective against immediate or painful death and against incapacitating injury that Australia requires helmets.
Such is not the case in some Unitedstatesian states. For example, Illinois, Iowa, and New Hampshire lack such ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
When Christmas was cancelled
So fruit and meat mince pie is a vanished tradition commercially!
Is it that mixed-mince pie looks, smells, tastes, textures less appetizingly than mince pie with just fruit or with just meat?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024