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Blarney Castle and Gardens, County Cork

Blarney castle looks like a well secured fortress. The gardens are lovely and the greenery is amazing. Kissing a stone which is already been kissed many times is not for me. I wonder if there were cases of improved eloquences.

WriterArtist, on 06/11/2023

Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards

Frances Brundage looks like a very talented artist. It is understandable that the tragedy of losing a child resulted in her focusing on the career she was good at. The children she has drawn on the postcards are cute and angel like. They must be ...

WriterArtist, on 06/11/2023

Renowned Historical Doting Father Figures

Veronica - I can clearly see that Saint Joseph was not only a good father but also a good husband. It goes without saying - for a father to be loveable, he needs to be a good husband too.

WriterArtist, on 06/11/2023

Renowned Historical Doting Father Figures

Tolovaj - I agree there are not many good father figures to pick from the history. They are few, but they are there nevertheless.

WriterArtist, on 06/11/2023

Renowned Historical Doting Father Figures

DerdriuMarriner - It is interesting to note that St.Joseph is your favourite. All saints have to be good father, they are father figure to the whole world. I haven't seen the movie "The Accountant" with Ben Affleck, but I will if I find it on ...

WriterArtist, on 06/11/2023

Best Sources of Free Pictures (Photos, Clip Art, and Other Royalty Free Images)

It's possible for people to change the use from unrestricted to restricted. It may be rather unpredictable to predict that change. For example, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service images made and shared by USFWS employees sometimes show up ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/10/2023

10 Lessons from The Little Red Hen

The 8th lesson on forms in literature intrigues me. What is an example of how the little red hen could have been transformed or transformed herself? Would listing the transformational options and consequences make an effective, interesting ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/10/2023

Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards

The last sentence in the third paragraph to the first subheading, Daughter, identifies Frances' first sale as of a sketch for a poem by Louisa May Alcott. Is the name of that poem indicated anywhere? (Online searches offered nothing about that ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/10/2023

Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards

The third paragraph under your first fact, Daughter, informs us of Helen Colburn, perhaps Frances' stepsister as daughter of Frances' father with someone other than Sarah Ursula Despeaux. How is it that we know of Helen's existence: through her ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/09/2023

Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards

Online sources identify the Church of the Redeemer as one designed by Frances Brundage's father. They otherwise mention nothing of his church murals. Was Rembrandt Lockwood so eclipsed by his daughter's early and enduring success that we're ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/08/2023

Political Correctness

There are more of us around than many people think.

nickupton, on 06/08/2023

Traces of the Past. Oft overlooked signs of farming in the Landscape

Wood bank is the only term that I know to describe what is a minor landscape feature.Sorry. I do not think that there is another term.

frankbeswick, on 06/08/2023

Traces of the Past. Oft overlooked signs of farming in the Landscape

The first paragraph to your fourth subheading, Wood Banks, describes "A large square of land surrounded by an earthen bank about three feet high" as a woodbank. That does not seem to me the term that west-ponders use even as I find its meaning, ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2023

Blarney Castle and Gardens, County Cork

My opinion is that a castle of this strategic position would not be attacked often. I have no idea how often they were staffed.

Veronica, on 06/07/2023

Birding in South Korea in Winter Highlights

The mixed-flock photos and the multi-flock video communicate a courteous cooperation in many flocks overlapping in and sharing air space. Is there any information as to how the different flocks arrive at such aesthetic orderliness?

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/07/2023