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Himalayan Rock Salt Candle Holders and Lamps: Amber Glow of Eco-Friendly, Tradition-Rich Lighting

Himalayan rock salt encourages happy lifestyles, healthy environments, happy and healthy people.

Mightn't a party day or a personal day matter magnificently, marvelously when it musters not only heated pools and hot tubs with cleansing bath crystals and lighting crystals but also sculptured lamps, statues and vases?

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 24, 2026

Himalayan Rock Salt Candle Holders and Lamps: Amber Glow of Eco-Friendly, Tradition-Rich Lighting

Himalayan rock salt encourages happy lifestyles, healthy environments.

Mightn't a party day or a personal day matter magnificently, marvelously when it musters heated pools and hot tubs with cleansing bath crystals and lighting crystals?

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 24, 2026

Religious Gardens

Religious gardens appeal to me as reassuring residences arranged for emotional, mental, psychological, religious, spiritual assurances and awakenings.

Does each order's religious gardens display definite, distinct plants that always dwell there or does each order sometimes decide to domicile alternatives determined by the order-authority decision-maker for community-edible decorations?

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 24, 2026

The Shetland Isles

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

Are the modern crofters who abide on modern-croft lands descendants of those whom the highland clearances and dispossessions aggrieved?

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 24, 2026

The Shetland Isles

Modern crofts are often set up on lands that were once large estates, and the modern Scots government is committed to restoring the land to the people, so it has the ambition to break up the majority of large estates. Before the eighteenth century Clanlands were held by the chief as payment for military service, and a clansman who was on military service had his lands protected If he died on service his family was protected. But then the 1745 rebellion led to lands of rebel chiefs being confiscated and when they were returned the lands were given to the chiefs as personal possessions, and the remaining clan chiefs often sold them to businessmen in the other parts of Britain. This created dispossession, which occurred with great cruelty. There was forcible emigration in some cases. Many North Americans and Canadians are descended from dispossessed Scots

frankbeswick, Jul 24, 2026

Asian Common Palm Civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus): Non-Ringtails of South and Southeast Asia

The standard-taxonomic citation for the below-indicated source is as follows:

Taylor, E. B. (1891). Description of a new species of Paradoxurus (P. nictitans) from Orissa. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 6(2), 149-150.

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

Asian Common Palm Civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus): Non-Ringtails of South and Southeast Asia

Edward Burnett Taylor [Tue., Oct. 2, 1832-Tue., Jan. 2, 1917]) had his description of the Asian-common palm-civet genus-specied-subspecied Paradoxurus hermaphroditus nictitans published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society in 1891.

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

Monkey Parchment Coffee: Formosan Rock Macaques (Macaca cyclopis) and Specialty Brews From Taiwan

Wouldn't it be wonderfully, wondrously wonderful to watch Formosan rock macaques wending their way through such below-written vocal communications as community-welcoming kyaw-kyaws and predator-warning screams?

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

Monkey Parchment Coffee: Formosan Rock Macaques (Macaca cyclopis) and Specialty Brews From Taiwan

The next-last section, afore the monkey-parchment coffee article conclusion, mentions that, concerning age-gender activities:

"Two-year-old males establish bordering, independent territories while same-aged females occupy birth communities of 10 – 45 members."

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

Monkey Parchment Coffee: Formosan Rock Macaques (Macaca cyclopis) and Specialty Brews From Taiwan

The next-last section, afore the monkey-parchment coffee article conclusion, mentions that:

"Faunal and floral food sources enable blue-bellied, brownish grey-furred, flat-muzzled, pink-faced, round-headed Taiwanese rock macaques to mature to:
Head-and-body lengths of 14.17 – 21.26 inches (36 – 54 centimeters);
Tail lengths of 14.17 – 17.72 inches (36 – 45 centimeters);
Weights of 8.82 – 19.84 pounds (4 – 9 kilograms)."

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

Monkey Parchment Coffee: Formosan Rock Macaques (Macaca cyclopis) and Specialty Brews From Taiwan

The next-last section, before the monkey-parchment coffee article conclusion, mentions that:

"Formosan bio-geographies allow Taiwan’s female rock monkeys to:
Gestate 165 days after the mating months of October to January;
Give live deliveries of one 14.11-ounce (400-gram) newborn April to June;
Impart life-sustaining skills to torso-holding offspring for 2 – 3 months;
Nurse offspring the first 12 months;
Scream warnings of predatory mammal, raptorian, reptilian invasions;
Vocalize community-affirming kyaw-kyaws."

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

Monkey Parchment Coffee: Formosan Rock Macaques (Macaca cyclopis) and Specialty Brews From Taiwan

Author Gabby Dawnay and illustrator Margaux Samson Abadie collaborated on Wild languages of Mother Nature for Wide Eyed Editions Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

Not one of their 48 natural-world communicators included the Formosan rock macaque!

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

The Shetland Isles

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

Your comment in the third comment box below advises that "The insitution of crofting arose in response to the infamous Highland Clearances, where big landowners drove many northern Scots to be driven from their homes and emigrate."

Are the crofts available through the Crofting Commission from the big-landowner lands acquired through the Highland Clearances or from donations or through legacies of landowners who attempt to arighten the Highland Clearances?

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 23, 2026

The Shetland Isles

Most crofts have a house on site, but this is not an iron rule. There are rules about building new build houses on crofts. I do not know what these rules are

frankbeswick, Jul 23, 2026

Asian Common Palm Civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus): Non-Ringtails of South and Southeast Asia

The initials P. S. in the name P. S. Schreber stand for Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (Sat., Jan. 17, 1739-Mon., Dec. 10, 1810).

The German naturalist perhaps oftenest was styled as J.C.D. von Schreber

DerdriuMarriner, Jul 22, 2026

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