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Beswick Easter Food
Thank you to Frank for his insights about not buttering hot-cross buns and to Veronica for her comment in answer to my previous observation and question.
The west-pond side associates traditional hot-cross buns with grape-produced currants, ...
DerdriuMarriner, 11 days ago
10 Colors Named After Artists
The 7th entry, Titian red, advises us that "Tiziano Vecellio (1506-1576) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was known for warm, earthy reddish, brownish, and orange tones, which, in large amounts, defined Renaissance painting."
What decided ...
DerdriuMarriner, 11 days ago
Monkey Parchment Coffee: Biodynamic Methods and Cosmic Cycles on Indian Organic Farms With Civets
For those debating why the word parchment in the product name monkey parchment coffee, that moniker describes what the the Rhesus monkeys devour: the outer layers of the coffee beans!
Does the above-designated outer, protective layer digest ...
DerdriuMarriner, 11 days ago
Jamaican Fruit Bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) and Coffea Diversa Garden Varietals in Costa Rica
For those interested in the 5th in-text image caption that "Cecropia obtusifolia with fruit, known as snake fingers: popular food for Jamaican Fruit Bats, which join other snake finger-lovers in seed dispersal by not injesting the fruits' ...
DerdriuMarriner, 11 days ago
Jacu Bird Coffee From Brazil: Biodynamic Agriculture, Cosmic Cycles, and Organic Farming
For those considering such edible products as the jams, liqueurs and wines in the 8th in-text image caption, online articles contain one with a May 15, 2025 date through the journal Talanta, Volume 287.
The afore-described journal domiciles the ...
DerdriuMarriner, 11 days ago
Giant Pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and Green Organic Panda Dung Tea of Sichuan Province in China
For those mulling the other 4 hours in the statement -- between the fourth and the fifth in-text images -- that "Feeding and sleeping claim 10+ hours each from every 24-hour period":
Online sources through AI mentions explorations and social ...
DerdriuMarriner, 11 days ago
Beswick Easter Food
Glad to see you back writing. Hot cross buns! I like them best without butter
frankbeswick, 14 days ago
England's Own Anthem
Thanks Derdriu. I know that I will benefit from prayers, as what I have cannot be cured by any known medication. Parkinson's disease, the vascular variety caused by ministrokes. The disease can be held back by medication, but not cured.. Keep up ...
frankbeswick, 14 days ago
Beswick Easter Food
There is a huge variety of Hot Cross Buns now in the UK. Chocolate chip. Apple and cinnamon, cranberry and orange . We like traditional ones best.
Veronica, 16 days ago
10 Colors Named After Artists
The last entry, about Veronese green, intrigues me even as it informs us that "Veronese Green is a bluish-green shade associated with the 16th-century Venetian painter Paolo Veronese (1528-1588). It's based on copper pigment, which was quite ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Masked Ringtail Possums (Pseudochirulus larvatus) in Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
The last second, Conclusion: Masked presences, advises us that comprehending and protecting masked ringtail possums "owe success to protected areas which ironically protect traditional masked ringtail predators: arrow-, bow-, club-, fire-, and ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Jamaican Fruit Bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) and Coffea Diversa Garden Varietals in Costa Rica
Display and model stations at business, library, museum, school entrances and in business, library, museum, school corners always appeal to me as crowd-pleasing infosites.
Isn't it interesting to imagine such a display or model set-up with what ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Death of Nabiré: Only Four Known Living Northern White Rhinoceroses
In his last book, Stephen Hawking addressed animal wellbeing as something always admissible to the human conscience and consciousness.
The afore-considered author and scientist likewise allowed being righteous as an attribute to be accented ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Film Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespearean Play Filmed by Director Kenneth Branagh
Three actresses regularly come to mind from among the young generation.
All three have had challenging, informative, timeless, timely roles.
One such candidate is M. Night Shyamalan's daughter Saleka.
Wouldn't she work wonderfully, wondrously ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Book Review: Pearls of the Southern Skies by Dieter Willasch and Auke Slotegraaf
The total eclipse of our Moon March 2-3 caused me to consider the International Space Station and the space flights connecting our Blue Marble with our Moon and with the Red Planet.
What would it be like to watch such an eclipse from the closer ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago