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Electric Car Ownership, Air Pollution, Environmental and Public Health
The article Worth the watt: a brief history of the electric car, 1830 to present, by Kevin A. Wilson for the Car and driver site Mar 31, 2023, acts most accessibly, most informatively, most practically in addressing the near-200-year-old ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/31/2024
Common Ringtail Possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) of Australia's Eastern Coasts and Islands
Ringtail possums draw me back again and again to the above images and information.
What is not to learn from, and like about, such a beautiful, environmental, intelligent sentient who makes native, natural vegetation feel -- ;-D -- so wanted at ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/31/2024
The Andy Griffith Show Episode Review: “Opie’s Ill-Gotten Gain”
The final grade, at B instead of A, and the plot summary combine to convince me to check around for this season-4 episode.
It intrigues me that Opie is not a better student. Is it something that is unique to him or is there something from one ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/31/2024
The Beautiful Lady at the Haunted Gardens of the El Greco House and Museum in Toledo Spain
The comment two boxes down, on Oct. 31, 2014, by Mira, that "He was certainly one of a kind in his day, and inspired so many modern painters. I love it when some of the "distinctive," as you say, artists of the past enter the canon. I have a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/31/2024
Pakasuchus kapilimai: Tanzania's Extinct Warm-Blooded Cat Crocodile
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Cat crocodiles with armor-less bodies and armor-full tails intrigue me.
Their tails and their whiskers let feline sentients ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/30/2024
The Road to the Wedding Cake
Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my previous observations and questions.
All the cakes, all the cupcakes, all the icings appeal to me and are so photogenic that I feel like my grasp and my reach figure equally in really smelling, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/30/2024
Film Review of Kiss and Tell: Shirley Temple in 1945 War Time Comedy About a Sixteen Year Old
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Nostalgic but ever-laudatory appreciation of the Mills, O'Brien, Taylor and Temple quartet headed me toward other child actors and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/30/2024
Wendiceratops pinhorniensis: Wendy's Horned Dinosaur of Alberta, Canada
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Plaza Huincul is an elucidating place where the museum includes interesting information about the desert area's world-largest fossils of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/30/2024
Movie Review: Nightlight (2015)
The plot summary invites initiating one's own Nightlight-watching session!
It's interesting that the title, like the happenings, indicate a flashlight presence.
In particular, I like your last paragraph that "Also, I do have to admit, the idea ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/29/2024
The Road to the Wedding Cake
The Christmas cake has just come out of the oven ! nom nom
Veronica, on 10/29/2024
The Road to the Wedding Cake
Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Lucky husband, lucky you!
That's so sweet of your "stick thin" husband to leave your cake- and cupcake- and icing-corners waste-free!
I might have known ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/29/2024
The Road to the Wedding Cake
Derdriu, the cup cakes are iced differently as were practising all the skills together on 12 cakes.
Indeed, the most expensive wedding cake ever when all is added up .
Veronica, on 10/28/2024
The Road to the Wedding Cake
My stick thin husband ate all the practice cakes, icing etc
Veronica, on 10/28/2024
The Road to the Wedding Cake
Thank you for your comment below, on Jun 30, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
The third paragraph to your introduction advises us that "I have done my own baking for years; everything from loaves to cakes to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/28/2024
The Monks Return to Whalley
It variesbwithbthe individual and thevinstitution.
frankbeswick, on 10/27/2024