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The Welsh Marches

Street, as you know, is a loan word from Latin, strada being modified into the word street. Most of the significant Roman roads are called street, though some such as the Foss Way,are not. Some are still in the original form, with the ancient ...

frankbeswick, on 06/15/2023

Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way

I will pray for your father.

frankbeswick, on 06/15/2023

The Harpole Burial

The site is not easy to excavate, so there could be other burials. Some women went into contents and became nuns on their husband's deaths. Most did not. Abbesses sometimes wore jewellery.

frankbeswick, on 06/15/2023

Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way

Thanks I follow this guidance already.

frankbeswick, on 06/15/2023

The Welsh Marches

There was a ford on the river called Trafford. We called the borough Trafford to distinguish it from the ancient town of Stretford, which is included in Trafford as a subtown.it used to have its own municipal adsministration, but was ...

frankbeswick, on 06/15/2023

Snow White and Rose Red: Analysis

Well - I do agree with you that the pace was not quite alright, character development was missing and the story did not have this secret element - unpredictability. I also disliked that a good bear kills the dwarf. The dwarf was obviously an ...

WriterArtist, on 06/14/2023

Oscar Wilde's Women

Nine of the 10 women listed appear to have been helpful to Oscar Wilde personally and professionally. It appears that his half-sisters and his sister perhaps served as literary Muses in which their tragedies perhaps helped fuel Oscar Wilde's ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

The Pied Piper of Hamelin - The Background of the Story

The Pied Piper of Hamelin always scared, unsettled and worried me. Would there be a family story or a memorial somewhere to tell us the names of those children who slipped between history's fingers?

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

Hansel and Gretel: Hard Facts Behind the Fairy Tale

Your first fact, There's a whole family of stories similar to Hansel and Gretel!, accesses one reassuring and two unsettling versions. The version with the responsible sister seems the least unsettling and the most reassuring. Which one would ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

The Goose Girl by Brothers Grimm

The first amusing point about the ineffectiveness of magical charms and powers really amuses me. Was the point perhaps to advise the princess never to rely completely or predominantly upon other than herself? Why else would magic not work?!

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

The Puss in the Boots

Your first fact about the animal helper in fairy tales intrigues me. It's surprising the variety of animals even as only mammals number among them. Which one of these variations would be the oldest? What would be the oldest date, and where ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

Walter Crane: His Art and Life through Illustrations

Your first image for your first fact constitutes quite an impressive image. All the woodland greenery makes me think in a way that the Lady of Shalott was fulfilling her natural destiny in some way (not a way that I'd want at such a young age ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

The Great Wave of Kanagawa from Japanese Artist Hokusai

Tolovaj, I've always found Arthur Rackham's illustrations to have a clarity of color and composition that is so unique that his illustrations are immediately recognizable to me as his. Your notation of his interest in Japanese woodblock prints ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

What Keyword Research Tool To Use?

Your first tool, The Best Keyword Tool Is Not Even Designed For Keyword Research!, can be a vicious circle. Google Keyword Planner helps us the most. But at the same time, it intends to plan ad campaigns. Also at the same time, many know not at ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023

Interesting, unknown and fun facts about The Little Mermaid

Your first fact about the motivation of The Little Mermaid answers a question that I've had about fables, fairy tales, legends and myths about human and non-human involvements. Previously, I've looked at those interactions for what the human ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023