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The Kanata Pony: The Breed That Disappeared
Ruth Bessant in her Kanata becomes registered breed article March 2, 1983, for 100 Mile House Free Press – available through Ancestry’s Newspapers.com site -- advises us that “The name Kanata comes from the Iroquois-Huron word for village which ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The fourth symbol, Beanstalk, brings up in its last paragraph social climbing.
The terms social climber and social climbing in the United States can be considered insulting even as they defer to a comprehensible human impulse to furnish ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The image leftward of your title and the 10 in-text images intrigue me.
(Perhaps my favorite is the fifth in-text image because it is inspired by my favoritest artist Vincent van Gogh's sunflower series, correct?)
But is the imagery by AI ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The third symbol, beans, gets me thinking about what gets drunk and eaten in fairy tales.
Is a vegetable such as beans liked for germinable seeds (lodging successively edible, prolific generations) and hardy performances and tasty cold and hot ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
There are several versions where Jack's father was a wealthy man who was killed and robbed by the giant. These versions try to justify Jack's stealing and have many logical faults. They are hardly of any artistic value. Robert Anning Bell ...
Tolovaj, on 03/10/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
Of course not. We see later how quick they spend gold when they get it.
Tolovaj, on 03/10/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
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Jack and his mother live in a dwelling and manage with dairy products such as milk and perhaps cheese.
Might there be any oral or written ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2024
The end of the Gap Sycamore
That is fantastic!
Jo_Murphy, on 03/09/2024
A Dog Buyer's Guide to Acronyms From AKC to UD
The very first sentence to the first subheading, Registry names and their acronyms, advises us that "In North America, most breeds are registered by the AKC (American Kennel Club), CKC (Canadian Kennel Club) or UKC (United Kennel Club)."
Would ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2024
The Story of Wensleydale
No. The origins are cloaked in mystery. But the monastery of Jervaux was early second millennium, so any cheese making before that date wasnot monastic, so any cheese making before then would have been female, as the Saxon women were responsible ...
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2024
The Shrine that Survived the Reformation
I am not sure, it was a very small well, probably not an important one.
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2024
The Summer Isles: a book review
No. He thought only in terms of sailors.
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2024
The Story of Wensleydale
The first paragraph in your introduction advises us that "We know that Wensleydale is a historic cheese, made for many centuries by the loving hands of craftswomen, for cheese was traditionally made by women. It was also made by monks of Jervaux ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2024
The Shrine that Survived the Reformation
Thank you!
English Wiktionary lists St. Non's Chapel as having a holy well.
Might that be the holy well that you visited in Pembrokeshire, Wales?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
Thank you for the information about how the market trip really goes for Jack.
The first image distracted me with how well-behaved, well-dressed both Jack and the purchaser look.
The story wouldn't have gone the way that it went without that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2024