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Socotra Cucumber Tree (Dendrosicyos socotrana): Isolated Isle's Weird Fantastic Vulnerable Tree

Socotran islanders have other natiive plant equivalents for plants such as the vulnerable cucumber tree. Isn't it imaginative, informative, inspiring and instructive to involve all these alternatives and substitutes in a library or museum or ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/16/2025

A Garden Made Simple

Flower, herb and vegetable rolls sound attractive, practical and time-saving. Would they work no matter what cleared soil beneath those rolls welcomes them or would they want a general pH match?

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/16/2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

It had been gene4ally accepted but not defined for many years. Then it became time to clarify the issue

frankbeswick, on 08/16/2025

Norah's Cafe in Taubman Museum of Art: A Great Cup of Coffee Over Art in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia

The Taubman Museum accommodates an appealing gift shop. In particular, their pillows, posters, prints and t-shirts appeal to me. It might be marvelous for gift-shop decision-makers to muster their colorful city-of-stars artwork on the afore ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2025

Book Review: Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson

Two favorite image-abounding space books are Hubble's Universe and The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas. Isn't it interesting to image the same spaces as they iterate from someone on Earth, Mars and Moon?

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2025

Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman

The second paragraph to the last subheading, Later years, advises us that "There was some potential tension, as Newman took part in the First Vatican Council, which decla4er the pope infallible on matters of faith and morals. The cardinals at ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2025

Dreamtime Perenties: Australia's Enormous Varanus Giganteus on the Prowl

Two themes favored in Jorna Newberry's artistry concerned Ngintaka Tjukurpa (Perentie Lizard Dreaming) and Walpa Tjukurpa (Wind Dreaming), according to the Kate Owen (KO) Gallery website (https://www.kateowengallery.com/artists/Jor635/Jorna ...