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Grapefruit Ethnobotany: Generous Versatility of Citus x paradisi as Food Sources and So Much More
Grapefruit band released two albums: Around Grapefruit and Deep Water.
Cherry Red Records Ltd. released Around Grapefruit Monday, Jan. 1, 1968 (https://music.apple.com/us/album/around-grapefruit/1728061288).
The album featured 12 songs, with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon, on Baroque Musician Agostino Steffani: Music Mystery Review
A third candidate for Donna Leon's "other" crime-solver comes to mind.
What about Saleka Night Shyamalan?
The afore-mentioned actress manifests crime-detecting, crime-preventing, crime-solving smarts in Trap!
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Death of Nabiré: Only Four Known Living Northern White Rhinoceroses
There are only Fatu and Najin as extant northern white rhinoceroses.
Isn't it sad that Nola (Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1974-Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015) and Sudan (1973-Monday, Mar 19, 2018) itinerated from this life into the next, from this world into the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek: Twenty-First Century Acts
Perri Thaler, in 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/proposed-spacecraft-could-carry-up-to-2-400-people-on-a-one-way-trip-to-the-nearest-star-system-alpha ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi
Amanda Almira Newton's grandfather was Isaac Newton (March 31, 1800-June 21, 1867) (Find A Grave Memoria ID 46583472, originally created by Meges, maintained by Diane DeMore, added Jan. 11, 2010; URL @ ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Could the Newman conversion have created a rift between him, his family and his Anglican friends?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/12/2025
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
It might have done, but I have no evidence that other family members converted
frankbeswick, on 08/12/2025
Dreamtime Perenties: Australia's Enormous Varanus Giganteus on the Prowl
For those asking about Ngintaka perentie in Tjukurpa the Dreaming as depicted in Aboriginal art:
The Linton & Kay Galleries' location in Subiaco, an inner-western suburb of Western Australia's capital, Perth, displayed a series of acrylic on ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
For those asking about the chestnut tree sketched by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longellow (Feb. 27, 1807–March 24, 1882) and displayed as last image in this post:
The poem's chestnut tree towered over the smithy, also known as forge, that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Doctor of the Church: John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman was a cradle Anglican.
Might the Newman conversion have made other family members Catholic as well?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Owston's Banded Palm Civets (Chrotogale owstoni): Ringtails of China, Laos, and Vietnam
Online sources consider as Owston's banded palm civet predators large raptors, leopards, pythons and tigers. They count anti-predator smells as challenging the afore-considered predators.
Is there research as to which predator is most immune to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Ngwayir (Pseudocheirus peregrinus occidentalis): Ringtail Possum of West Australia
The conclusion addresses among environmental, life-cycle stresses on ngwayir populations "Competitive bushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)."
Isn't it interesting to imagine imaged information about when, where, why ngwayirs and bushtail ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Film Review of The Little Princess: Shirley Temple in Drama With Cesar Romero and Arthur Treacher
The enjoyable, esteemed The little princess encourages a prequel, a remake, a sequel, perhaps a series.
Now who figures as a grown-up Little Miss Marker today?
My dancing, singing candidates include the equally excellent Marisa Abela, Eiza ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Film Review of Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple in 1934 Drama as Marker for a Bet in Horse Racing
A sequel to Little Miss Marker could count on such success through a candidate additional to Marisa Abela or Eiza González!
What about Saleka Night Shyamalan?
The afore-enumerated trio epitomizes equally excellent dancing, moving, singing, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025
Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand
Another follow-up book could consider conveying how space configures from our Moon.
Could it not challenge Moon crowds less to consider configurations such as constellations without Blue-Marble pollution and space debris?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/11/2025