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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 ...