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Death of Nabiré: Only Four Known Living Northern White Rhinoceroses
There are only Fatu and Najin as extant northern white rhinoceroses.
Isn't it sad that Nola (Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1974-Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015) and Sudan (1973-Monday, Mar 19, 2018) itinerated from this life into the next, from this world into the ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek: Twenty-First Century Acts
Perri Thaler, in 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/proposed-spacecraft-could-carry-up-to-2-400-people-on-a-one-way-trip-to-the-nearest-star-system-alpha ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi
Amanda Almira Newton's grandfather was Isaac Newton (March 31, 1800-June 21, 1867) (Find A Grave Memoria ID 46583472, originally created by Meges, maintained by Diane DeMore, added Jan. 11, 2010; URL @ ...
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Could the Newman conversion have created a rift between him, his family and his Anglican friends?
DerdriuMarriner, 16 days ago
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
It might have done, but I have no evidence that other family members converted
frankbeswick, 16 days ago
Dreamtime Perenties: Australia's Enormous Varanus Giganteus on the Prowl
For those asking about Ngintaka perentie in Tjukurpa the Dreaming as depicted in Aboriginal art:
The Linton & Kay Galleries' location in Subiaco, an inner-western suburb of Western Australia's capital, Perth, displayed a series of acrylic on ...
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
For those asking about the chestnut tree sketched by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longellow (Feb. 27, 1807–March 24, 1882) and displayed as last image in this post:
The poem's chestnut tree towered over the smithy, also known as forge, that ...
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman was a cradle Anglican.
Might the Newman conversion have made other family members Catholic as well?
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
Owston's Banded Palm Civets (Chrotogale owstoni): Ringtails of China, Laos, and Vietnam
Online sources consider as Owston's banded palm civet predators large raptors, leopards, pythons and tigers. They count anti-predator smells as challenging the afore-considered predators.
Is there research as to which predator is most immune to ...
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
Ngwayir (Pseudocheirus peregrinus occidentalis): Ringtail Possum of West Australia
The conclusion addresses among environmental, life-cycle stresses on ngwayir populations "Competitive bushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)."
Isn't it interesting to imagine imaged information about when, where, why ngwayirs and bushtail ...
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
Film Review of The Little Princess: Shirley Temple in Drama With Cesar Romero and Arthur Treacher
The enjoyable, esteemed The little princess encourages a prequel, a remake, a sequel, perhaps a series.
Now who figures as a grown-up Little Miss Marker today?
My dancing, singing candidates include the equally excellent Marisa Abela, Eiza ...
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
Film Review of Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple in 1934 Drama as Marker for a Bet in Horse Racing
A sequel to Little Miss Marker could count on such success through a candidate additional to Marisa Abela or Eiza González!
What about Saleka Night Shyamalan?
The afore-enumerated trio epitomizes equally excellent dancing, moving, singing, ...
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand
Another follow-up book could consider conveying how space configures from our Moon.
Could it not challenge Moon crowds less to consider configurations such as constellations without Blue-Marble pollution and space debris?
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand
Werner von Braun not only advanced space science but also space-science fiction.
Might not a filmed First men on the moon make for happy passengers on Earth-Moon, Moon-Earth flights
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago
American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
American chestnuts angle into delicious alcoholic drinks.
Has anyone had chestnut liqueur or such cocktails as chestnut old fashioned?
DerdriuMarriner, 17 days ago