Now I am all for using one’s imagination, without people using their creative abilities to imagine scenarios separate to the ones they were experiencing we would never have had Harry Potter (cheers J.K.Rowling. Good work there mate), but I find it hard to understand exactly what benefit ...
Fantasy novel of a woman kidnapped to elfland to nurse a newborn elf prince. Never heard of it, but Bob said it was a good novel. In the Encyclopedia of fantasy, John Clute calls her work “atmospheric and densely conceived.” Lee, Tanith. Sometimes, After Sunset. Nelson Doubleday/...
Born on March 4, 1907, in California, one year after her parents emigrated to the U.S., Branyas spent the first few years of her life in San Francisco, according to Guinness. Eight years later, the family decided to return to Spain, where they settled in Catalonia. She married Joan...
Parathyroid glands are located near the thyroids and Osteoporosis so effects estrogen that it slows bone resorption which is the process where the bones resorb or use other mechanics to partially fuse fluids and chemicals, emerging from hormones, such as estrogen. She had been a heavy smoker (I...
An investigator measured the mineral content of bones by photon absorptiometry. A total of 6 measurements (3 on dominant side and 3 on non-domi In a study of a newborn infant classification based upon gestational a...
I often give thanks for having been born, raised, and educated in the US of A. Unfortunately, it seems as if more and more people don’t quite have the same feeling I do — but we can only hope I’m wrong. I need to end on a positive note. I hope everyone in the reading ...
The author, born and raised in Australia and now dividing her time between Toronto and Paris, France, fondly recalls the meals of odd bits her mother used to cook and thanks her grandmother for inspiring the book. It is her most ambitious cookbook, with sumptuous photography and passionate ...
MADRID (Aug 21): The world’s oldest person, Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars, died Tuesday at the age of 117, her family said. Guinness World Records had officially acknowledged Branyas’s status as the world’s oldest ...
When the legend of Arthur was born, Britain was in a state of collapse. The Roman Empire had made its first incursion into the British Isles in 55 B.C., eventually conquering much of the territory up to present-day Scotland. Its conquest and long rule was often violent, but the Romans...
and I am always anxious that I have not thought of you carefully enough. You were fortunate to marry me, but are unfortunate to have been born in today's China. I am fortunate to have you but so unfortunate to have been born in today's China. In the end, I cannot tend only to ...