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Goldilocks and Three Bears
The fourth subheading, The bears, concerns the character and the plot evolution from all-male bears with nameless home-invaders and without monikers or names to bears of different sizes and finally of different genders.
That subheading's last ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2024
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Thank you!
Online sources give as east-ponder common names for Quercus petraea Cornish oak, durmast oak, Irish oak and sessile oak.
They include no common name as Welsh oak even as they indicate Quercus petraea's "unofficial emblem" status in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2024
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Both kinds of name have a role,the Latin for scientific discourse and the local name which has historical roots in the vernacular
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Feminine imagery for God in the Bible
I do not know of any.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Goldilocks and Three Bears
The character regression in the second subheading, Goldilocks, from Goldilocks to Silver Locks to fox is intriguing.
Online sources list foxes as possible but not probable prey for predatory bears, who love the fox-preying coyote instead. They ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2024
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The third paragraph to the second subheading, Eighteen Miles to Go, considers that "The walk was a gentle ascent along the river side, passing through the Gwydyr [Gwydir] forest which is a designated park on the lands of the old Gwydyr estate. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2024
Feminine imagery for God in the Bible
Thank you!
The Sistine chapel ceiling is what I look to when I mull humans nudging artistically the divine.
Is there any other painting, is there any sculpture in such Church settings as the
Sistine chapel that offers us God?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2024
Gun Laws in The United Kingdom
A shot gun can be used for hunting vermin. You have to prove to the police that you are a fit and proper person to own a gun. If you have a shotgun licence you can apply for a rifle licence, but this does not extend to automatic weapons. An air ...
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Growing on the Edge
They rented the land, but plots were often rearranged to compensate for loss through coastal erosion.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Feminine imagery for God in the Bible
Michelangelo probably got permission, but he also probably took liberties when he could get away with it.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Between Christian and Pagan: a review
There was a growing cultural split between the Latin using west and the Greek using east.This split is still with us.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Anglesey: Wales' largest island
Mona was sacred, but Holy Island was the Holy of Holies.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Brexit: a political catastrophe
Protectionism, which is when governments give priority in the market to their own country's produce.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Allotments: the people's gardens
Farmers. Quite a strong vested interest with ties to the Conservatives, the disreputable mob who currently misrule our country.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Three Years On: how retirement is now
In Britain you are not allowed to sell allotment produce for profit, but only for charitable purposes.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024