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The Haunted Winchester Mystery House Gardens: The Cryptic Legacy of Sarah Pardee Winchester

For those asking about why Chief Little Fawn abides near the Winchester house, two accounts are available.

One account considers Chief Little Fawn as concerned with the house counted among properties carrying the Winchester (repeating-rifle) name.

The afore-designated individual decries the deaths delivered by Winchester riflemen against his tribe and other tribes.

Another account gives Chief Little Fawn a guardian role even as he gets his bow-and-arrow ready against any ghosts.

Which might you prefer?

DerdriuMarriner, May 21, 2026

Masked Ringtail Possums (Pseudochirulus larvatus) in Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea are earthquake-prone.

The USGS (United States Geological Survey) site bears the article "Can animals predict an earthquake?"

The afore-considered article characterizes impending earthquakes as coursing an earlier, littler P and a later, larger S wave even as both waves concern animal senses and the second wave concerns human senses.

Might it matter to masked ringtail possums to make the P-wave warning information available to a human with whom they maintain positive interactions?

DerdriuMarriner, May 21, 2026

House Histories by Sally Light: Guide to Tracing Your Home Genealogy

For those asking about how to advance house history-writing, what about the following innovation?

A real-estate, realty company could count among its staff a home genealogist who compiles something comparable to the Light compilation!

DerdriuMarriner, May 21, 2026

Chelonoidis donfaustoi: Eastern Santa Cruz Giant Galápagos Tortoise

The recentest earthquake on the Galapagos Islands happened Wed., Jan. 28, 2026.

The USGS (United States Geological Survey) site has the article Can animals predict an earthquake?

The afore-indicated article identifies the earlier, littler P and the later, larger S waves of an impending earthquake.

Animal senses log both waves even as human senses log only the S wave.

Might tortoise equivalents of the National-Park resident in the third image above have made "¡Se viene un terremoto! Earthquake coming!" movements to National-Park employees such as the staff person in that same image?

DerdriuMarriner, May 21, 2026

Cascadia’s Fault by Jerry Thompson: America’s Earthquake and Tsunami

The computer again crashed afore I constructed another component of my two comments below.

The below-cited USGS article contains a concise bibliography.

The first source inspired the afore-indicated article:

Kirschvink, Joseph L. (2000). Earthquake Prediction by Animals: Evolution and Sensory Perception, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, pp. 312-323.

Might it matter to mull earthquake-predictive behavior in the animal world?

Yes!

So why not try the free online options at the following urls:

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/bssa/issue/90/2
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/90/2/312/120521/Earthquake-Prediction-by-Animals-Evolution-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/90/2/312/120521/Earthquake-Prediction-by-Animals-Evolution-and?redirectedFrom=PDF

DerdriuMarriner, May 21, 2026

Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand

For those asking about our Moon actualizing Lahaina Noon, online sources assert such an event as impossible.

The sun overhead with a consequently zero shadow counts on no lunar surface.

Our Moon does not domicile any Earth-like tropics even as its equators and its poles respectively defer to 0° and ±90° latitudes and its orbital tilt relative to its orbital plane never does reach Earth tropics-equivalent latitudes..

Our lunar satellite additionally figures no atmosphere even as its extreme-swinging temperatures never favor zero-shadow situations, even with our Sun directly overhead.

Blue-marble axial tilt and tropical latitudes possibilitate Lahaina Noon even as axial-geometry incompatibility, no atmosphere, small size prevent it on our Moon.

Would Blue-Marble Earthlings on our Moon in the distant or near future wend their way back to our Earth for a Lahaina Noon-viewing weekend?

DerdriuMarriner, May 21, 2026

Book Review: Pearls of the Southern Skies by Dieter Willasch and Auke Slotegraaf

For those asking about Lahaina noon locations, here are some areas according to online sources:

Hawaii
Key West and Miami, Florida
Puerto Rico
The U.S. Virgin Islands.

DerdriuMarriner, May 21, 2026

White Nosed Coati (Nasua narica): New World Ringtail With Noxious Scent Glands for Defensive Volleys

The computer crashed afore I conveyed another component to my comment below.

The USGS (United States Geological Survey) site domiciles the article "Can animals predict an earthquake?" at the following url:
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/can-animals-predict-earthquakes

The second paragraph equates the earlier, smaller P wave from an earthquake source and the later, larger S wave respectively with animal and human senses.

The fifth paragraph figures that animal senses have "early-warning" behaviors against their predators.

Might that not manifest in white coati and their predators and prey?

DerdriuMarriner, May 20, 2026

The Symbolism of the Woods in Fairy Tales

The International Society of Arboriculture celebrates its 30th year of ISA certified-arborist credentialing by considering 30 credential holders.

One such Certified Arborist is the professional indicated in the third paragraph below:

"To celebrate over 30 years of ISA credentialing, we are featuring 30 credential holders in our iterations of MyCertification. We hope you enjoy these peer profiles, and if you would like a chance to be featured, share your ISA digital certificate and badge on LinkedIn, Facebook and/or create a profile on the new Find an Arborist directory. Each month we look for credential holders who have shared and received the most views.
"Matija Krišelj
"An ISA Certified Arborist®, Matija Krišelj is an arborist in Slovenia who specializes in tree health assessments, pruning, risk evaluation, and consulting, helping clients make informed decisions about the care of their urban and rural landscapes. Drawn to arboriculture by a desire to work outdoors and solve meaningful technical challenges, he found that tree care offered the ideal balance of science, practical skill, and hands-on problem-solving. His early appreciation for nature developed into a deeper curiosity about tree biology and structure, ultimately guiding him toward professional arboriculture and a commitment to continued learning."

The afore-mentioned matter perhaps matches most relevantly your incomparable, magnificent, marvelous "Symbolism of woods in fairy tales"!

DerdriuMarriner, May 20, 2026

Cascadia’s Fault by Jerry Thompson: America’s Earthquake and Tsunami

The computer crashed afore I conveyed another component of my comment below.

The USGS (United States Geological Survey) has an informative article that has the title "Can animals predict an earthquake?"

The afore-indicated information is iterated to us all through the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program through its section identified as Animals & Earthquake Prediction..

How might the afore-mentioned article be accessed?

Try the url
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/animals-earthquake-prediction

DerdriuMarriner, May 20, 2026

Cascadia’s Fault by Jerry Thompson: America’s Earthquake and Tsunami

Author Gabby Dawnay and illustrator Margaux Samson Abadie collaborated on Wild languages of Mother Nature for Wide Eyed Editions Tuesday, May 7, 2024.
Their 48 natural-world communicators included such sentients as animal and plant species.
Might the natural world mention to one another quite accurately such natural phenomena as Cascadia's Fault?

DerdriuMarriner, May 19, 2026

Bride & Prejudice: Jane Austen’s Pride in Amritsar, London, Los Angeles

All the actors, all the actresses acted impressively even as one always asks about remakes, sequels, series.

The afore-considered performers count high on any of the above-considered audio-visuals even as three actresses could convey the same craftsmanship in any remake, sequel, series to Bride and Prejudice, to Pride and Prejudice, to any audio-visualization of Austen works.

Who is that trio?

It includes Marisa Abela, Eiza Gonzalez and Saleka Shyamalan!

DerdriuMarriner, May 19, 2026

Cassie Liversidge’s Homegrown Tea Planting, Harvesting, Blending Guide

Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) ciounts among home-grown teas even as it can be cultivated year-round most famously in Brazil (and Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay).

It grows in such Unitedstatesian grounds as those of the Virginia Commonwealth even as there an alternate indoors/outdoors itinerary guards its growth.

Isn't it impressive to itinerate a plant such as yerba mate outdoors with one and one's family and friends in clement weather and indoors with one and one's family in inclement weather?

DerdriuMarriner, May 18, 2026

How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek: Twenty-First Century Acts

The Hawaiian archipelago aced its first of two biannual Lahaina noons May 26, 2026 even as it awes the Hawaiian islands again July 16, 2026.

So I ask, "What about Mars?"

Google AI considers from Wikipedia that "zero shadow" of the sun passing perfectly overhead and prompting no shadows cast from vertical objects can come about on Mars!

It decides from Wikipedia that exact ray-ground perpendicularity demands a planetary tilt such that the sun directs itself above the planetary equator. That enables the Lahaina-noon elucidation to someone between the latitudes equating to the planetary axial tilt.

It figures from Reddit Lahaina noon close to the Martian equator of many landing rovers and of such geological features as the Valles Marineris canyon system

Is the event still intended as Lahaina noon or is there a nomenclatural iteration for the red planet?

DerdriuMarriner, May 18, 2026

Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos: Artistic Son of El Greco and Jeronima de las Cuevas in Toledo, Spain

For those asking about El Greco arranging architecture-, painting-, sculpture-workshop training, The art world accoladed the afore-accounted artist posthumously for his paintings.

And yet El Greco completed architectural and sculptural creeations.

For example, the afore-designated artist developed sculptural models for professional sculptors even as such dazzlers dealt with the Santo Domingo el Antiguo's altarpiece Virtues and the wooden-figured Prophet.

His wooden The Risen Christ embellished the Tavera Hospital even as the Toledo Cathedral evidenced his wooden Imposition of the Chasuble on St Ildefonso and the two polychrome-wood figures Epimetheus and Pandora.

Mightn't it be miraculously marvelous for his other sculptures to manifest for the 21st-century modern mind?

DerdriuMarriner, May 18, 2026

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