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The Potato Growers' Curse
Traditional methods have much to commend them.
frankbeswick, on 02/10/2024
Cinderella: we can all relate with her, can't we?
I think we can find them in all cultures. In Scandinavia there are a lot of stories about boys related to the heath and ashes.
Tolovaj, on 02/09/2024
Rapunzel: the legend, the fairy tale, the truth
I don't think any of them was a real person. In my opinion both are built as fusion of many characteristics from many sources.
Tolovaj, on 02/09/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
Yes, they are of different origins but through times their cultures blended because the perception of each new generation changed a bit.
Tolovaj, on 02/09/2024
The Flora of the Shore
Thank you!
Is rock samphire-collecting perhaps even more dangerous these days what with cliff erosion?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
Walking the Long Mynd
Thank you!
Welsh culture has such a literary and musical heritage. It makes me think that it might be possible to be 100 percent bilingual in English and in Welsh in Wales.
Would there be Welsh who are bilingual but who in their private lives ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
How to create a control society
Thank you!
The UBC researchers also find that tree-canopy projections through 2050 may focus more and more on private initiative -- because of densification requiring more business, public, road, sidewalk and structure space -- to achieve ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
Why Catholics honour Mary
The introductory paragraph associates respectful, reverential appreciation of Our Lady Mary with Anglican, Catholic, Old Catholic, Orthodox Christians and with Muslims.
Might it also be possible to include Buddihism and Hinduism?
Our Lady Mary ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
Woodsman: a review
Thank you for your comment March 8, 2023, in answer to my previous, same-day question.
It's interesting that you mention grape juice combined and fermented with birch-tree sap.
Is birch wine something readily purchasable anywhere in the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
Wulfstan of Worcester: a great Anglo-Saxon
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Early life, associates the subsequent St. Wulfstan with the Benedictine order.
Does that mean that there may be such a thing as a St. Wulfstan honorary garden?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
Best alternatives to Blogger (Blogspot)
Thank you for linking the Substack Blogger alternative subheading to thefairytales.
My favorite illustrations well may be the blue-preponderant Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) image. Might there be any publishing information? Was that for a book ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
Cybersquatting
The third and the fourth paragraphs under the first subheading, Cyber squatting, indicate that "The idea is to resell the right for the use of name to somebody else with huge profit. While initial price is about ten dollars, it can raise up to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
The Potato Growers' Curse
Thank you!
Phytophthora root rot eliminated lowland chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). President Thomas Jefferson grieved their loss even as President Theodore Roosevelt mourned his blighted highland chestnut trees a century later.
President ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/09/2024
Was Tolkien Racist?
Thanks for that knowledge.
frankbeswick, on 02/09/2024
Walking the Long Mynd
I think that Welsh is not spoken in Shropshire or in any part of East Wales as a first language.
frankbeswick, on 02/09/2024