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Anger spread by Facebook
Anger is being spread by Facebook Creating Angry People. Farcebook on the Internet allows people to express their hatred towards everyone and everything and get away with it because it is still perceived as 'the virtual' world, which means it isn't 'real'....
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The Crack Willow
The Crack Willow The Crack Willow is one of the most common willows in Britain. It is frequently called 'Withy' by country people, but that name is also commonly applied to the Osier. Though the Crack Willow prefers damp situations, you may also find...
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Camouflage
Coats and Camouflage We wear jerseys and thick coats in cold weather, and light clothes in the Summer. For the same reason bears, arctic foxes and arctic hares, and musk oxen, which all live in a cold climate, grow thick woolly coats, and animals which...
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The white Willow
The White Willow. The White Willow is common along tiver banks in Britain. It is an erect, comparatively large tree, growing sixty to eighty feet high. The leaves are two to four inches long, very slightly toothed, and are narrow and pointed at the tips....
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The Devil in German
Thanks to AHA3006 AHA3006 has been providing some great examples of the Devil in German ---- The Devil for sure is used in many Germanproverbs, here is a list: http://www.redensarten.net/teufel/ Some alternative words for the Devil: "der Leibhaftige",...
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The cricket and the ant
The cricket and the ant A cricket chirped day and night, as long as it was summer, while her neighbor, the ant was looking of food for the winter."I sing to cheer you up during work" said the cricket. "Come, listen to my song."The ant shook her head and...
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The Library of Congress
Nice thing about every book published in the USA before 1923, they're explicitly public domain. Many are available as free (downloadable) ebooks online, which is a good way to quickly build your own preservation library. Here's a link to the Library of...
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Found in an Attic
Found in an Attic A Chinese vase discovered in a battered shoebox stuffed in an attic in France it has been identified as an exquisite porcelain vessel made for the 18th century Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong. (£438,000/US$590,000). It was found by chance...
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The Happy Virus
It's the one person who just makes you smile no matter what. He smiles and jokes a lot. We all love him. Happiness is similar to a small virus that floats all about us. When we’re around positive, grateful, enthusiastic people, we sense their special...
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The Poverty LIne
Nobody wants to be considered to be below the poverty line. Unfortunately, for fourteen percent of the people in the USA, that is their reality. Fourteen percent of the people currently living in the United States’ basic needs for food, clothing, and...
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SIX OUT OF TEN
SIX OUT OF TEN people are concerned that they are glued to devices. Summer time. This is a time of holiday. Reflection, peace and calm. A week or two away from the bustle of work. Time at the beach or a trail in the forest. Yet so many are still tied...
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A wall in Bethlehem, Art and History
Bethlehem A hotel in Bethlehem. Not a Waldorf Hotel, but a Walled Off Hotel. A wonderful Hotel filled with Art and History. A museum within to explain the divided wall. Wonderful, showing Trump - how walls stilmulate. Banksy has not only left his paintings...
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St. Sharbel Makhluf
St. Sharbel Makhluf Although this saint never traveled far from the Lebanese village of Beka-Kafra where he was born, his influence has spread widely. Joseph Zaroun Makluf was raised by an uncle because his father, a mule driver, died when Joseph was...
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St. James the Apostle
St. James the Apostle This James is the brother of John the Evangelist. The two were called by Jesus as they worked with their father in a fishing boat on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus had already called another pair of brothers from a similar occupation:...
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St. Joachim
Saint Joachim and Anne In the Scriptures, Matthew and Luke furnish a legal family history of Jesus, tracing ancestry to show that Jesus is the culmination of great promises. Not only is his mother’s family neglected, we also know nothing factual about...
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Starlings
Starlings in the Summer A couple of starlings with their maturing brood are perched on the roof ridge. The young birds,fully-fledged, keep their brown plumage until the autumn, when they gradually become spotted like their parents. Starlings are sociable...
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Antonio Lucci
Antonio Lucci Antonio studied with and was a friend of Saint Francesco Antonio Fasani, who after Antonio Lucci’s death, testified at the diocesan hearings regarding the holiness of Lucci. Born in Agnone in southern Italy, a city famous for manufacturing...
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Curfew in the middle ages
Curfew in the middle ages In the middle ages towns, the mayor and the alderman were supposed to keep order, and they paid the common sergeant and the watchman to do the work for them. After curfew (which means 'cover fire' and was a law made by the Normans...
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hedgehogs in the summer
Hedgehogs in the Summer Hedgehogs, slugs and moths are all night-feeding creatures. A car has been stopped and the headlights illuminate the side of the road, showing the woodland margin and penetrating into the depths of the woods beyond. The hedgehog...
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Nature in a summer's evening
Nature in a summer's evening. Beyond the hedgehog the pink betony raises its tall aquare stems on which, here and there, cuckoo-spit insects have made their coverings of foam. These creatures suck the sap of plants, some of which they spit out and so...
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St Martha
St Martha Martha, Mary, and their brother Lazarus were evidently close friends of Jesus. He came to their home simply as a welcomed guest, rather than as one celebrating the conversion of a sinner like Zacchaeus or one unceremoniously received by a suspicious...
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Edward I
Edward I Edward I was a strong King. Edward I conquered Wales. The Welsh had never obeyed the Normans. Edward I built the fine Harlech castle in Wales. Edward I tried to conquer Scotland. Edward I did conquer Scotland but he did try very hard/ Edward...
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The Water-vole in the canal
Summer down by the canal A water-vole is sqatting in shallow water by the canal-side, and is nibbling one of the many different kind of leaves on which it feeds. The vole is a delicate feeder, and always keeps very clean even thoug it lives in a hole...
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A delicate, bell-shaped nest
This is July, a newly-hatched brood of young wasps goes out from the small nest their mother made, to gather wood-shavings to enlarge their home. Several kinds of wasps make their nests of wood-paper. The common wasp nests as a rule, in a bank where roots...
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A look-out perch on a Summer's day
A look-out perch on a Summer's day. A spotted fly-catcher has just left its look-out perch on a post and is hawking flies. Why, you may ask, is it called a spotted flycatcher when it has no spots? It is the young birds, in their first year's plumage,...