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The Melsonby Hoard

The law requires that the police should be called. There is a public official who needs to be informed by the police. The coroner wl have to be informed if there is a body

frankbeswick, on 03/27/2025

French Christmas Traditions

The last subheading, The window candle, advises us that "In Louisiana there are huge bonfires along the Mississippi River levee, lighting the way for Papa Noel. I can see how the candle has been transformed into bonfires." Do the bonfires ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/27/2025

The Melsonby Hoard

The ending sentences to the first paragraph under the first subheading, The Yorkshire iron age, advises us that "Then in 2021 a detectorist got permission from the landowner [necessary, by law] and began to search. The detectorist had never ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/27/2025

Rock-Haunting Ringtail Possum (Petropseudes dahli) of Groote Eylandt and Northern Australia

Rock-haunting ringtail possums assure fellow inhabitants of the Land Down Under of ample if not adequate accruals annually of blossoms (Darwin’s stringybark [Eucalyptus tetrodonta] and woollybutt [E. miniata]) and leaves (prune [Sersalisia ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/25/2025

A Strong Woman's Story

Think of the term Punjab, Punjab means f8ve r8vers. Pun is 5 in Indian tongues,n but pum or pump signifies 5 in Celt8c

frankbeswick, on 03/24/2025

Film Review of The Little Princess: Shirley Temple in Drama With Cesar Romero and Arthur Treacher

The second paragraph considers actor Richard Greene's acclaimed acting in the series The adventures of Robin Hood. Isn't it interesting to imagine Shirley Temple in that series in some important role such as Maid Marian?

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/24/2025

Film Review of Little Miss Broadway: Shirley Temple Shines in 1938 Musical With George Murphy

A prequel, a remake, a sequel cause me to consider temporal settings. Does it delight audiences nowadays for a Little Miss Broadway recycled into prequel and sequel and remade as an 87-years-later re-release to deal with the pre-war doings?

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/24/2025

Socotran Fig Tree (Dorstenia gigas): Extraordinary Forms of a Near Threatened Bottle Tree

The queen of Sheba came from an area configured within what categorizes as Yemen land nowadays. Yemen is a hop, a jump and a skip -- ;-D -- in the Sinai peninsula up from the island Socotra. So that biogeography makes me mull whether the afore ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/24/2025

Are Border Collies Really the Smartest Dog Breed?

Icelandic sheepdogs particularly interest me. Some sources list border collies and Icelandic sheepdogs as among the intelligentest of animal sentients. Might you have come across Icelandic sheepdogs when you mustered everything together for ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/24/2025

A Strong Woman's Story

The first sentence to the first subheading, Early Life, alerts us to Pumpsaint. Online sources cluster around the place name as originating in washing, possibly concerning gold mining or around the Welsh phrasing for "five saints.' Is either ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/24/2025

A Strong Woman's Story

The British army would have provided their f00d.

frankbeswick, on 03/22/2025

Gifts for Vegetarians and Vegans for All Occasions

This wizzley goes well with your tagine-pot and vegan-handbag wizzlies. Vegan and vegetarian gifts for the Christmas season inspire identical gifts for such other celebrations as anniversaries, birthdays, Easter, Epiphany, Saint Patrick's Day ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2025

Buy Vegan Handbags: Eco Friendly and Sustainable Products

This vegan handbag wizzley goes with so many other of your wizzlies. Such an attractive, durable, sustainable, unassuming handbag holds beanie caps and matching mittens and scarves and extra "ugly" sweaters just in case of weather changes in ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2025

Are Border Collies Really the Smartest Dog Breed?

Authoress Sy Montgomery has a book about What the chicken knows. That brief book is elucidating and entertaining. The afore-mentioned authoress keeps chicken sentients on her property in New Hampshire. Her husband and she also keep among their ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2025

A Strong Woman's Story

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question. Some Unitedstatesian companies allow all employees, regardless of high or low job title, to breakfast, coffee, meal, snack free in their delicious-drink, ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2025