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You are probably right on this surmise.

We cannot say with certainty what gets into the Vatican library. Reports from bishops might make it there.

There is none, but trees forvshade would have been present. Plus fruit treesi

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That's interesting about the Epicureans.

Is there any extant indications or surviving information as to what plants that garden included?

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That's interesting about Jesus Christ in Middle-East "dream time" ;-D.

Might the fact that such dreams muster no air-wave attention or doctrinal assimilations mean that their written accounts never make it to the Vatican Library?

(Would all parts of the Vatican Library be available for visitor-access or would some be staff-restricted?)

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That's a bit disappointing to latch onto something that looks like a lone-tree candidate and to learn that it only lives elsewhere in the Hebrides.

But I like your rowan tree bird-dispersed (all the way from where?) best anyway.

(Might absent middens nudge archaeologists towards no ancient settlements on Thunder-God island?)

Possibly. The hazel husks were discovered in the archaeological excavation of middens in the inner Hebrides. Taransay is Outer Hebrides and no Midden has been found

Jesus has sometimes appeared in dreams, as I have heard is happening in the Middle East. The Catholic Church takes great care to study these cases, but bit does not promote them over the airwaves and doesnnotbtreat them as doctrine.

That is an idea that as far as I know no one has thought of. The Epicureans met in a pleasant garden in Athens. I cannot think of any others.

If I remember corectly he was very disappointed by their ignorance. After all, they included his fairy tale into their first edition and his first succes in the field of literature for kids was titled German Fairy Tales (not Danish). On the other hand, Charles Dickens knew him very well but this is a completely different story. Let's focus on Carl Offterdinger:)

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It's quite humorous and quite intriguing to imagine how little Hans Christian Andersen perhaps liked not being known by two such makers and shakers as the Brothers Grimm in his fairy-tale corner of the literary world!

Well, brothers lived and worked together for the most of their lives. I am not sure if they ever encountered Carl Offterdinger. But I know they had no idea who was H. C. Andersen, when they were introduced to each other.

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Some Unitedstatesians have meditation gardens, particularly with Buddhism- or Christianity-associated plants, and spiritual, spirituality gardens, such as Marian gardens.

But is there such a thing as a philosophy garden?

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The Second Coming for me associates with the comforting promise by Jesus Christ, in Matthew 28:20, that "I will be with you always, even until the end of the world."

His appearances between Resurrection and Ascension must have been comforting.

Were there ever appearances that the Church legitimates, on line, parallel with the Marian appearances such as my favoritest Knock appearance?

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The second paragraph to the first subheading, Historical background, considers that "There is one tree on the island, though there seems to have been trees on several Hebridean isles in the Mesolithic period, when soil samples reveal hazel trees on some isles. However, soil erosion due to Atlantic weather may have made growing conditions less friendly over the millennia, so inferences on this matter are tentative."

Might there have been hazel trees on Thunder-God island?