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Make Your Printable Advent Calendar
The first paragraph under your second step, Getting the material, explains that "For practical reasons, we decided to use illustrations by Carl Offterdinger, Fedor Flinzer, and Emil Dolleschall who all excelled at the beginning of the 20th ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/27/2023
As Winter Comes
One of my maternal lines goes back to Wales.
Have you not said that you and Maureen have a daughter, a son-in-law and grandchildren in Wales?
If you were in Wales, what would you plant in a flower garden? What would you have in terms of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/27/2023
Christmas Activities for Kids
The first paragraph in your introduction mentions a Christmas-themed movie marathon.
What might appear on a suggestion list of such Christmas-themed films?
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/27/2023
Interesting, unknown and fun facts about The Little Mermaid
The image with the fifth fact, about real people and real places for Little mermaid characters and settings begs the question of source models for the mermaid and the witch.
It looks like the illustrator was Bertal (Charles Constant Albert ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
Oscar Wilde's Women
The fourth muse, Charlotte Montefiore, perhaps had reason not to pursue any romantic suggestions of Oscar Wilde.
Online sources imply the serious intellectual accomplishments and inclinations of Montefiore family members. The Montefiore family ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna
Of course. Historical records omit much, material that recorders think unimportant and material they may not want to preserve. Recordsvare sometimes accidentally destroyed.
frankbeswick, on 11/25/2023
As Winter Comes
Flower planting is possible and encouraged. But I dò not know which they would plant.
frankbeswick, on 11/25/2023
Best Free Blog Sites - Top 10 Blog Websites
The third paragraph under the third site, Joomla, advises that "What you'll instantly notice is Joomla's lack of SEO efficiency. URLs of the posts are numbered by default. If you don't want these numbers, which are lowering your chances in the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
How to Submit Your Website to Google and Other Search Engines
The fourth possibility, Pinging it, alerts us to pinging services.
Why is it that the past decade has been less, not more promotional and supportive of pinging-service sites?
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
Undine from Fairy Tale to Star Trek
Your fifth fact, about The eternal and universal appeal of the theme, gives the Undine publication as the year before Household Tales by the Grimm Brothers.
Might the respective authors and publishers have known about each other's story ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
10 Symbols in Goose Girl
Your information for the fifth symbol, Hair, intrigues me.
There's the example of the long-haired Samson. That's Biblical. But how is a long-haired man viewed in fairy tales?
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
Hop o' My Thumb: 10 facts to know
The third fact about Hop o' my thumb as a Frenchified Hansel and Gretel causes considerable mulling and pondering about origins!
Does the Frenchified Hop o' my thumb draw upon older, oral-tradition French sources? If so, what impeded their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
Christmas Activities for Kids
The last sentence in the second paragraph to your introduction alerts us to applicable diversity with its suggestion that "Even when Christmas is over because most of the activities could be easily transformed for other occasions, like other ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna
No historical account of someone or some place somewhere in the British Isles goes against my image of British Isles-ers as the world's best family historians and genealogists (even as the New York Public Library and the New England Genealogical ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023
As Winter Comes
Five comment boxes down you explain, in answer to my previous, sixth-box -- ;-D -- question that your daughter-in-law has peas and salad greens in her and your son's allotment.
Is it possible for them to plant flowers? What Angola-, British ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/25/2023