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Music Book Review: Handel's Bestiary by Donna Leon, With CD of 12 Arias, as Baroque Era Title #1
Any display of Handelian life and works benefits from his bestiary as artistic mosaics, paintings or sculptures and as props such as ceramic or glass or plastic figurines, lego, plush animals or tinker-toy.
The 12 "beasts" and their symbolism ...
DerdriuMarriner, 21 hours ago
Kopi Luwak: Costliest and Cruelest But Also Most Cherished and Conservational Coffee in the World
It affords an accurate acquaintance to access this wizzley and the page bottom-, page side-available link to Asian common palm civets.
This wizzley allows us coffee-product appreciation even as the civet wizzley approaches the product ...
DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago
Book Review: Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson
The Hubble-telescope namesake, Edwin Powell Hubble (Nov. 20, 1889-Sep. 26, 1953), amazes with all his accomplishments -- abridged in my introduction -- even as he particularly astounds about our universe's expansion rate.
Can there already be, ...
DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon, on Baroque Musician Agostino Steffani: Music Mystery Review
Reading the book and writing the article began my periodic brooding about why the University of Manchester as the fellowship and professorship source that brings Caterina Pellegrini to England.
Unitedstatesians probably consider first Cambridge ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Socotra Frankincense Tree (Boswellia socotrana): Island of the Phoenix and Its Vulnerable Incense
Not only the Three Magi but also the Queen of Sheba brought frankincense, gold, myrrh gifts, respectively to the Jesus Christ child and to King Solomon.
Might it not be possible to mull the Sheba gold and spices as fine insular manifestations ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Socotran Fig Tree (Dorstenia gigas): Extraordinary Forms of a Near Threatened Bottle Tree
There must be farmer and villager traditional cookbooks and recipe boxes.
Wouldn't it be wonderfully wondrous to wend one's way through how farmers and villagers from time immemorial work Socotran figs into their daily and festival-day diets?
DerdriuMarriner, 9 days ago
Socotra Cucumber Tree (Dendrosicyos socotrana): Isolated Isle's Weird Fantastic Vulnerable Tree
The main birds around Socotra cucumber trees appear in related images as cinnamon-breasted buntings, Egyptian vultures and white vultures.
Do cinnamon-breasted buntings of all ages or only of physically and sexually mature ages do their nests ...
DerdriuMarriner, 9 days ago
Mitsubishi i-MiEV: An Electric Car for Environmental and Public Health
The last paragraph to the introduction advises us that "Sections on power stations describe the environmental and public health impacts of coal, gas, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, oil, sun or wind-generated electricity for the Mitsubishi i ...
DerdriuMarriner, 9 days ago
Hope: a review
There is no rule concerning the precise kind of wood to be used. I suggest that oak would be used for a papal c9ffin, as it is strong and durable.
frankbeswick, 12 days ago
Hope: a review
Online sources identify papal coffins as traditionally one within another within another. So it's a three-coffin resting-place whose materials traditionally involve cypress, lead and oak.
The sources online also mention Pope Francis as ...
DerdriuMarriner, 13 days ago
Music Book Review: Handel's Bestiary by Donna Leon, With CD of 12 Arias, as Baroque Era Title #1
The first subheading, Bestiaries become best-sellers regardless of place or time, considers as recent the 20th-century bestiary by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges.
Is there any beloved or best bestiary from the 21st century?
DerdriuMarriner, 14 days ago
Film Review of Little Miss Broadway: Shirley Temple Shines in 1938 Musical With George Murphy
My tendency in a remade Little Miss Broadway becomes more and more toward updated dances and songs.
Can't the original dancing and singing be conserved in a granddaughter character copying her grandmother Betsy Brown's dances and songs, along ...
DerdriuMarriner, 14 days ago
Film Review of Fort Apache: Shirley Temple in 1948 Western With Henry Fonda and John Wayne
Filming sites affect the impact and the quality that prequels, remakes and sequels as well as series attempt to approximate.
California's Simi Valley and Utah's Monument Valley communicate cultural achievements and apartness, natural beauty and ...
DerdriuMarriner, 14 days ago
The magic of Christmas and the transition phase we all have to go through
Your first paragraph to your first subheading, The magic of Christmas, advises us of arranging Christmas trees and their ornaments and props.
The second paragraph alerts us to Blu-ray, DVD and television technology assuring us of such ...
DerdriuMarriner, 14 days ago
Walking on the Orme
Yes. You can wander round the summit of the Orme as you see fit. There are two tourist routes down, and other routes if you care to look for them
frankbeswick, 17 days ago