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Reformation Divided: a review
I think that reputational damage done to the papacy due to the Avignon papacy could have had a long term weakening effect, but this cannot be proved. The distinct national churches in parts of Europe are more likely to have emerged to satisfy ...
frankbeswick, on 09/15/2023
10 Similarities of Myth of Persephone with a Fairy Tale Red Riding Hood
The first typical element, An absent father, mentions that "Considering the supernatural powers of Demeter, who is one of the most important goddesses in Greek Pantheon, we can easily assign some superpowers to Red Cap's mother as well."
What ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/15/2023
Marianne Stokes
The sixth fact, from Naturalism to symbolism, intrigues what with your wizzley on symbols in Snow White.
The image immediately below the aforementioned subheading manifests blue, gold, red and white, colors mentioned in your wizzley.
Might ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/15/2023
Reformation Divided: a review
Sources here sometimes maximize, sometimes minimize the aftereffects of Avignon, Pisa and Rome claims to having true popes.
How might -- or might not -- those claims centuries later have affected the British Isles so far away -- and yet ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/15/2023
Starting a new garden
I have no knowledge of cilantro. Sorry.
frankbeswick, on 09/15/2023
Benedict XVI
No. There is no hereditary successor to the pope, so there cannot be an automatic succession. The mediaeval church strove hard to oppose attempts at automatic, hereditary succession.
frankbeswick, on 09/15/2023
Starting a new garden
The Hallmark film Groundswell came out in DVD this year. It's about a somewhat lesser known cultural input in the Hawaiian islands by Puerto Rican immigration since 1900.
One character, as a chef, mentions culantro, quite popular throughout ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/14/2023
Benedict XVI
Thank you!
Might that be the same reason for the papal coronation?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/14/2023
Make a statement with black zirconia engagement rings
The second subheading, Black CZ Engagement Ring - Princess Cut, indicates in the first two sentences of its last paragraph that "As you can see, princess cut is more square formed. There is not so much waste when the stone is cut and polished, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/14/2023
Redheads and pain tolerance – scientific facts and myths
The first, the third and the fourth facts, Myths and facts, Pinching and cutting and Toothache, indicate something interesting about redheads.
The three facts mean that redheads may bleed more, that they may not notice as quickly nicks and that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/14/2023
Marianne Stokes
The fifth fact, Travels, identifies Marianne Stokes as predominantly a portrait painter and her husband Adrian as a landscape artist during their European tours.
Were Marianne Stokes' portraits of known persons or were they perhaps composites ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/14/2023
Benedict XVI
UK law states that the moment that a sovereign dies their successor becomes monarch. So the instant that Elizabeth died Charles became king. The coronation does not make the successor a monarch, but is a way of signalling to the world that there ...
frankbeswick, on 09/13/2023
Benedict XVI
Intervals between papal election and coronation bring to mind the lags between one monarch dying and another being crowned, such as the timespan between Queen Elizabeth II's passing and King Charles III being so crowned.
So it's a somewhat ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/13/2023
Is Genuine Moissanite Natural or Synthetic Gemstone?
The first paragraph in your last subheading, Conclusion, Credits, and Copyright, concludes most intriguingly, particularly as I found your zirconia article first.
You describe cubic zirconia as "nice, yet sometimes relatively unattractive ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/13/2023
Cybersquatting
The next-to-last paragraph about common lawsuits intrigues me.
What is the court through which one would plan such a lawsuit? Would the case be carried out totally in a physical location or would there be all or some virtual sequences?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/13/2023