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Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards
Your ninth image confirmed for me what I considered as seeing in each of the other images, apart The Children's Shakespeare and The Old Man of the Sea.
Does it not seem to you that blue and red dominate? There's always some white space ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
There is a Google alternative? Really?
Your first alternative, Enhance the power of Google with parameters!, alerts us that "Majority of users of search engines never use anything else than the simple blank rectangle. Often an additional word offers much better and less exploited ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
The Frog Prince (aka Frog King)
Wow! Your first fact, Censored, is quite an eye-opener for me.
The Frog Prince numbers among the fairy tales that I know the least about.
Would there be any indication anywhere, what with the bestial and sexual actualities and implications in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
The Many Tones and Undertones of Color Pink
Your first fact, What colors make pink?... and what to wear with it?, caused me to consider your comment elsewhere about Valentino Garavani discounting black and red colors.
And yet red and white make pink, which shows up in Garavani ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
Sleeping Beauty: Facts
Kenneth Branagh came up with a simultaneously authentic and authoritative and imaginative Sleeping Beauty. Have you seen it?
That version really makes me wonder what is the earliest date of a Sleeping Beauty story and what biogeography that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
Who needs a guest post anyway?
Your first thought on getting fresh content caused me to consider implied versus literal meanings of internet terms.
You mention that "If you ever heard anything useful about authority on the web (and the web is all about the authority, content ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
How to write online: my tips on writing for the web
Your first fact, Choose your theme, brings up an interesting question.
Does one write about what one knows about and that matters to others or does one write about what one is learning as they go on about and that matters to them?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
Black hat SEO tricks and how to apply them in ethical way
Keyword stuffing always appears at the top of any list about dark-side SEO.
And yet isn't it assumed, chattered, rumored, suggested throughout the internet world that those keywords must be backed up by three to four actual occurrences through ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
About roses, their colors, symbolism and secret meanings
It's so heartwarming that your image is of the eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, as one of the first lepidopterans to appear and confirm spring and as Virginia Commonwealth insect.
I like buying roses to support the cut-flower industry ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
1001 Arabian Nights: The Stories Behind the Story
Aladdin and Sinbad exemplifying the thousand and one Arabian nights perhaps favors those stories as children-appropriate.
A wife telling stories to keep her husband from killing her after their first wedding night perhaps figures those stories ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
Aesop: unclear biography, no written fables, with timeless morals
Your first fact about Who Was Aesop? intrigues me.
Why is it that we know more about how and what he thought through his fables than who he was and why he thought the way that he did?
I'm not being facetious when I say that it makes me think ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
Little Red Riding Hood
Your characters fact has an interesting image.
What version is that image associated with? It looks quite French to me, and even more elegant than rustic in the wide skirt so popular in revolutionary France and in the War Between the United ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
Links: you need quality and quantity and you need them now
The fifth paragraph to your fourth fact, Quality link You need quantity and quality!, considers age of links, pages and sites.
Computer science-related articles in a way don't matter if they're 6 months old or older. It's the constant ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
What is a Fable?
Your summary statement alerts us to the fact that "Fables are part of our culture for many centuries and it seems all this time they served the same purpose - to teach a moral."
Do we know what the oldest fable is and where it is from?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023
Was Tirumala Tirupati Balaji Temple a Buddhist Shrine?
WriterArtist,
My sister Stessily asked me to thank you for writing this article. As I mentioned in my comment on your article "Is Buddhism Older Than Hinduism?", she studied with Awadh Kishore "A.K." Narain, an Indian archaeologist, historian ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2023