Earth and Space News: April 2021

Friday, April 30, 2021

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi and Andher Age Maudgalaputra Tishya Relics

Summary: Buddhist monuments at Sanchi and Andher in central Madhya Pradesh state, central India, age Maudgalaputra Tishya relics to the third century BCE.

Buddhist monuments at Sanchi and Andher in the central Raisen District of central Madhya Pradesh state in central India age Maudgalaputra Tishya relics to 2,200-plus years ago, to the third century BCE.

The Mauryan (from Sanskrit मोर, “peacock [clan emblem]”) imperial city Pataliputra (from Sanskrit पाटलि, “trumpet-flower tree [Bignonia suaveolens]” and पुत्र , “child, son”) birthed Maudgalaputra Tishya. The city currently called Patna in Bihar (from Sanskrit विहार, “[monastery] walking [hall]”) state, eastern India, claimed among celebrated citizens Emperor Ashoka (from Sanskrit अशोक, “unsorrowful”). Ashoka (304 BCE?-232 BCE?) and Maudgalaputra Tishya (from Sanskrit मुद्गल, “Mudgala[‘s]”; पुत्र, “son”; and तिष्य, “auspicious”) dedicated themselves to defending Buddhist (from Sanskrit बुद्ध, “awakened”) doctrines.

The Buddhist monk Maudgalaputra Tishya (327 BCE-247 BCE) emerged as Third Buddhist Council head in the 17th year of Emperor Ashoka’s 36-year-long reign (268 BCE?-232 BCE?).

Detail shows Andher No. II Tope; Brev.-Major Alexander Cunningham, The Bhilsa Topes (1854), Plate XXIX: No visible notice of copyright per uploader judec on April 17, 2008, via Internet Archive

London-born Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (Jan. 23, 1814-Nov. 28, 1893) found asthi avashesh (from Sanskrit अस्थि, “bone” and अवशेष, “remainder”) during archaeological excavations in 1851.

The second stupa (from Sanskrit स्तूप, “heap”) of four relic-holders on Sanchi (from Sanskrit शान्ति, “calmness”) Hill garnered human bone gathered from Maudgalaputra Tishya’s cremation ashes. The second stupa of three heap-, mound-, pile-like relic-holders on Andher cliff 10.56 miles (17 kilometers) to the southeast of Sanchi Hill harbored more holy residue. Information inscribed on the bottom inside the fourth steatite box inside Buddhist monuments at Sanchi identified “Sapurisasa Mogaliputasa. ‘(Relics) of the emancipated Maudgalaputra.’” (1854; page 289).

Maudgalaputra Tishya relics, inscribed as “Sapurisasa Mogaliputasa Gotiputa Atevásino. ‘(Relics) of the emancipated Mogaliputra, the pupil of Gotiputra.’” (page 347), journeyed to Buddhist monuments at Andher.

Andher Stupa No. 2, reliquary and inscriptions; Brev.-Major Alexander Cunningham, The Bhilsa Topes (1854), Plate XXIX: No visible notice of copyright per uploader judec on April 17, 2008, via Internet Archive

The Sanchi stupa kept “four small caskets or boxes of mottled steatite” (page 287) inside an 11-inch- (27.94-centimeter-) long by 9.5-inch- (24.13-centimeter-) broad and high relic-box.

The first, third and fourth caskets inside the white sandstone relic-box each lodged three sets of bone relics even as the second casket logged only one. All four caskets within the stone-bottomed, stone-sided, stone-topped chamber with 18.5-foot (5.64-meter) south-north, 20.5-foot (6.25-meter) east-west lengths maintained “small portions of burnt human bone” (page 287). The Cunningham notes navigated construction dates no earlier than 220 BCE, no later than 200 BCE for the Sanchi stupa whose niches netted Maudgalaputra Tishya relics.

Buddhist monuments at Andher, unlike Buddhist monuments at Sanchi, offered Maudgalaputra Tishya relics occupancy within a “large steatite vase with the neck partly broken” (page 346).

Detail shows some of relics found in Sanchi Stupa No. 2; Brev.-Major Alexander Cunningham, The Bhilsa Topes (1854), Plate XX: No visible notice of copyright per uploader judec on April 17, 2008, via Internet Archive Internet Archive

The 1.5-foot- (0.46-meter-) broad, 1-foot- (0.31-meter-) deep Andher chamber possessed a 9.5-inch (24.13-centimeter) diameter, 7.5-inch- (19.05-centimeter-) high red earthenware box alongside a narrow-necked, lidless, spoutless vase.

Chamber-filled “leaves and rubbish” (page 346) quartered neither neck nor spout to the vase “made of two pieces, which were fastened together with lac” (page 347). A 5.5-inch- (13.97-centimeter-) high steatite casket with 3.25-inch (8.26-centimeter) bottom and 2.5-inch (6.35-centimeter) top diameters inside the earthenware relic-box alongside the relic-vase revealed Kákanava Prabhasana relics. That the latter descendant of one of Gautama Buddha’s first 80 disciples supplied Sanchi Stupa 2 relics suggested Cunningham dating the Andher stupa to 200 BCE.

Perhaps transient traipses turned into yearly treks to Buddhist monuments at Sanchi and Andher, thanks to treasured Maudgalaputra Tishya relics, from the third century BCE onward.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

King Asoka at the Third Council, convened ca. 247 BCE in Pataliputra, Bihar state, eastern India, as depicted in mural at Nava Jetavana Temple, Jetavana Park, Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh; March 13, 2013, image: Photo Dharma from Penang, Malaysia (Anandajoti), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nava_Jetavana_Temple_-_Shravasti_-_014_King_Asoka_at_the_Third_Council_(9241725897).jpg

Detail shows Andher No. II Tope; Brev.-Major Alexander Cunningham, The Bhilsa Topes (1854), Plate XXIX: no visible notice of copyright per uploader judec on April 17, 2008, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/bhilsatopesorbud00cunn/page/n467/mode/1up?view=theater

Andher Stupa No. 2, reliquary and inscriptions; Brev.-Major Alexander Cunningham, The Bhilsa Topes (1854), Plate XXIX: no visible notice of copyright per uploader judec on April 17, 2008, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/bhilsatopesorbud00cunn/page/n467/mode/1up?view=theater

Detail shows some of relics found in Sanchi Stupa No. 2; Brev.-Major Alexander Cunningham, The Bhilsa Topes (1854), Plate XX: no visible notice of copyright per uploader judec on April 17, 2008, via Internet Archive Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/bhilsatopesorbud00cunn/page/n450/mode/1up?view=theater

Sanchi Stupa No. 2; Sanchi, Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh, central India; Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, 06:40: Kevin Standage (kevinstandage1@googlemail.com) INDIAN TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanchi_Stupa_number_2_KSP_3589.jpg

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Anders Celsius Established Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741

Summary: Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius established Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741 as Uppsala University's first "real" astronomical observatory.

Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, known as Celsius Observatory, established by Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius in 1741; "Astronomiska observatoriet, Uppsala," illustration by Swedish engraver Fredrik Akrel (May 27, 1748-Nov. 6, 1804). In: J.B. Busser, Utkast till beskrifning om Upsala (1769): Public Domain Mark, via Alvin Consortium (University of Gothenburg, Lunds Universitet, Uppsala Universitet)

Eighteenth-century Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius established Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741 as the first "real" astronomical observatory at Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet), according to Uppsala University's Department of Physics and Astronomy webpage, "History of Astronomy in Uppsala."

Anders Celsius (Nov. 27, 1701-April 25, 1744) was born into the astronomical family of Nils Celsius (April 15, 1658-March 21, 1724) and Gunilla Maria Spole (Nov. 3, 1672-1756). His father was an astronomy professor at Uppsala University. Anders' paternal grandfather, Magnus Celsius (Jan. 16, 162-May 5, 1679), was a professor of astronomy and mathematics at the university. Anders' maternal grandfather, Anders Spole (June 13, 1630-Aug. 1, 1699), also had been an astronomy professor at Uppsala University.

Home rooftop observatories characterized the homes of the Celsius and Spole families. The home rooftop observatory of Uppsala University astronomer and mathematician Bengt Hedraeus (1608-Jan. 4, 1659) inspired Magnus Celsius to create a home rooftop observatory, according to historical geophysics author Martin Ekman in his 2016 publication, The Man Behind "Degrees Celsius": A Pioneer in Investigating the Earth and Its Changes (2016; page 18). The rooftop observatory tower installed in 1680 by Anders Spole was destroyed by the great fire that raged through Uppsala on May 16, 1702.

Anders Celsius observed the family interest in astronomy and mathematics as well as his family's association with Uppsala University. In 1722 he began an assistantship with astronomy professor Eric Burman (Sept. 23, 1692-Nov. 3, 1729). In 1728 he was appointed deputy professor of mathematics as a temporary replacement for Swedish mathematician Samuel Klingenstierna (Aug. 18, 1698-Oct. 26, 1765), who had embarked on an international study tour of advanced mathematics in England, France and Germany. Professor Burman's premature death at age 37 occasioned Celsius's appointment as deputy professor of astronomy in autumn 1729. Half a year later, he edged out four other candidates to become Eric Burman's successor as professor of astronomy. He gave his first lecture as an astronomy professor at Uppsala University on June 2, 1730. His lecture was titled "Astronomiae usus in vita civili" (The Use of Astronomy in Civil Life) (Ekman, pages 34-36, 39, 41).

From summer 1732 to summer 1737, Celsius was occupied with an international study tour. Visiting major observatories, including Germany's Berlin Observatory, France's Paris Observatory and England's Greenwich Observatory, and purchasing high-quality astronomical equipment numbered among his activities.

In summer 1737, he returned to Uppsala. In autumn 1737, he sited a small astronomical observatory in his mother's garden. In a letter to a former university librarian, he described his observatory as including a London-bought tube with a micrometer constructed by English clockmaker and astronomical instrument maker George Graham (July 7, 1673-Nov. 16, 1751) and a Paris-bought 3-foot quadrant. He noted that his sophisticated equipment and instruments allowed him to equal Paris in the quality of his observations, even though his garden observatory was "a small wooden hut" and the Paris Observatory rated as one of Europe's splendidest palaces (Ekman, page 71).

In 1738 Celsius convinced the university to purchase a stone building at Svartbäcksgatan 7, in Uppsala's northern center, for remodeling as an observatory with living quarters. The building comprised three floors: a ground floor and two upper floors.

Baron Carl Hårleman (Aug. 27, 1700-Feb. 9, 1753) drew the plans for the university's first official observatory. (Seven years later, in 1748, construction began on the Hårleman-designed Stockholm Observatory, which was completed in 1753.) Construction on the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory (Astronomiska observatoriet, Uppsala) began in summer 1739. Two years later, in summer 1741, the yellow-colored building was completed. A celestial globe ornamented the top of the rooftop observatory's tower.

The Swedish architect's original drawings show Celsius's living quarters on the uppermost floor, beneath the rooftop observatory. This uppermost floor included a central lecture hall, bounded by a library on one side and by Celsius's bedroom and storage rooms on the other side (Ekman, pages 73-75).

Use of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, also known as the Celsius Observatory (Celsiusobservatoriet), continued until Uppsala University opened a new observatory in 1853. In 1857, Celsius Observatory's tower was dismantled. The yellow, observatory-less building, known as Celsiushuset ("Celsius's house"), still stands and angles medievally, amidst Sankt Per Gallerian (St. Peter Shopping Center), on Celsiustorget ("Celsius Square").

The takeaways for Anders Celsius's establishing Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741 are that the Swedish astronomer convinced Uppsala University to purchase a stone building for remodeling into an official observatory and residence; that the observatory-residence was designed by Baron Carl Hårleman, who subsequently designed the Stockholm Observatory, built between 1748 and 1753; that Uppsala Astronomical Observatory was Uppsala University's first official observatory, also known as Celsius Observatory; and that the building, which lost its rooftop observatory in 1857, is known as Celsiushuset ("Celsius's House") and still stands in north central Uppsala.

Rolf Guldsmed ("Goldsmith") has occupied the ground floor of historic Celsiushuset since 1991; Celsiushuset (Celsius's house), Svartbäcksgatan 7, Celsiustorget (Celsius Square), north central Uppsala, Sweden; Saturday, March 17, 2007, 15:01: Goombah, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Granville Grains Corn Toasties Appall Cora in Stalking the Puzzle Lady

Summary: Granville Grains Corn Toasties, as free tour bowlfuls, appall Cora in Stalking the Puzzle Lady, 7th mystery in the Puzzle Lady series by Parnell Hall.

Number puzzle lady Cora Felton abhors the breakfast cereal that she acts like she adores for audiences attending reality-ad sites in Danbury and along coastal Connecticut. She alleviates hunger pangs for what absents itself from her bowls by appreciating pan-seared swordfish with niece Sherry Carter and, perhaps because of April advertisements about National Shrimp Scampi Day April 29, shrimp scampi with ancient admirer Freddy Fosterfield. The latter avoids garlic ingredients in what Cora asks for during their dinner at an Italian restaurant in Weston, Connecticut: Jon Sullivan, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Granville Grains Corn Toasties, as free tour bowlfuls, appall Cora in Stalking the Puzzle Lady, 7th mystery in the 20-book Puzzle Lady series authored by Parnell Hall (Oct. 31, 1934-Dec. 15, 2020).

Number puzzle lady Cora Felton balks at breakfasts other than of buttered muffins, eggs and ham at home or of muffins and scones at Cushman’s bakery. She consumes the breakfast cereals of her puzzle sponsor, Granville Grains, one time, perhaps twice, each year for the television commercials which the latter sponsorship commands. Dismal downturns described by Charles Coleson at Truestar Investments demand that, for new, improved Granville Grains Corn Toasties, Cora drive around Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Alcoholic drinks such as Tanqueray martini with twist enter and, unlike enjoying chain-smoking cigarettes with segments director Daphne Decker, exit her envisaging what exorcises execrable eats.

Toy poodle Buddy Felton favors Milk-Bone biscuits over Granville Grains cereals even as he frequently feeds upon festively filling, non-fattening food from Carter/Felton family and friends.

The tour going into the Stamford Food 4 Less garners gathering cardboard boxes of Frosted Flakes, for grouping away from boxes guarding new, improved Corn Toasties. Larry as cameraman, Pepe as propman, Quentin Burns as tour director and Wayne as electrician have coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts there with boom- and sound-men. Daphne ignores Krispy Kreme, adjacent to Food 4 Less, for the Stamford Starbucks, whose daily issues of the New York Times and hot coffee impress her.

Bakerhaven Police Chief Dale Harper journeys to the first stop, Danbury Stop & Shop, for new, improved Granville Grains Corn Toasties in Stalking the Puzzle Lady.

Dale keeps away from other tour cities, perhaps because coffee other than Bakerhaven Cushman-brewed kindles the same over-sugaring reactions as sludgy coffee from the department urn.

Cora, who likes eggplant, garlic, onion, pepper and pepperoni daily specials in the Bakerhaven pizza parlor, lists no pizza locations in Danbury, Mystic and Stamford malls. Attorney Becky Baldwin meets Bakerhaven Gazette reporter Aaron Grant at Wicker Basket, two blocks from Bakerhaven pizza parlor, for iced tea with cheeseburger and tossed salad. Neither one nibbles their food or nurses their tea because they notice a blue Chevy Impala with either Felton acquaintances Dennis Pride or Freddy Fosterfield inside.

Overfeeding on Granville Grains Corn Toasties obliges Cora and niece Sherry Carter to order Mystic dockside restaurant’s pan-seared swordfish and lobster in Stalking the Puzzle Lady.

Aaron and Becky park at the dockside restaurant before peregrinating with Cora and Sherry to motel rooms that Aaron pair with Sherry and Becky with Cora.

Florence Evans, as touring makeup lady, quests 20-ounce (591.47-milliliter) Diet Coke, for $1.50, from the soda machine that the budget motel quarters on the ground level. Cora relishes steak dinners even as she reunites with Freddy at an Italian seafood restaurant in Weston, Connecticut, for respective shrimp scampi and cocktail sauce-dipping prawn. Cora and Freddy share an appreciation for muffins, shipped from Silver Moon Bakery at New York’s Broadway and 105th Street, sold at Mary Cushman’s Bake Shop.

Granville Grains Corn Toasties threaten Cora less than publicist Jennifer Blaylock traipsing, black Russian-tipsy, from dinner with television newsman Rick Reed in Stalking the Puzzle Lady.

Aaron Grant, as Sherry Carter's boyfriend, and Sherry Carter, as number puzzle lady Cora Felton's housemate and niece, acquaint Cora's toy poodle Buddy with canine and human foods. Buddy adapts to eating only the former while Cora advances along coastal Connecticut as actress advocating new, improved Granville Grains Corn Toasties. He appreciates the Milk-Bone dog biscuits with which Aaron, Cora and Sherry attempt to assuage his loneliness during the away-time of reality ads' grandmother-like talisman; 1959 ad for dog food: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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Image credits:

Hall, Parnell. 2019. Lights! Camera! Puzzles! New York NY; London UK: Pegasus Crime.

Hall, Parnell. 2018. The Purloined Puzzle. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2017. A Puzzle To Be Named Later. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2016. Presumed Puzzled. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2015. Puzzled Indemnity. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2014. NYPD Puzzle. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2013. Arsenic and Old Puzzles. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2012. $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2011. The Kenken Killings. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2010. The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2009. Dead Man's Puzzle. New York NY: Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book for Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2008. The Sudoku Puzzle Murders. New York NY: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Minotaur, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Hall, Parnell. 2006. You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2005. Stalking the Puzzle Lady. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2004. And a Puzzle to Die On. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2003. With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2002. A Puzzle in a Pear Tree. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2001. Puzzled to Death. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 2000. Last Puzzle & Testament. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Hall, Parnell. 1999. A Clue for the Puzzle Lady. New York NY: Bantam Books, division of Random House, Inc.

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 April 2021. "Coastal Connecticut Attracts Reality Ads in Stalking the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/coastal-connecticut-attracts-reality.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 April 2021. "And a Puzzle to Die On Augments Bakerhaven Acquaintances by One." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/and-puzzle-to-die-on-augments.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 April 2021. "A Birthday Bash And a Puzzle to Die On Await Cora and an Outsider." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-birthday-bash-and-puzzle-to-die-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 30 March 2021. "Bakerhaven Maps Aim a Victim at a Birthday Bash And a Puzzle to Die On." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/bakerhaven-maps-aim-victim-at-birthday.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 23 March 2021. "Four Cryptograms Assure Two Deaths in With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/four-cryptograms-assure-two-deaths-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 16 March 2021. "Honeyed Lemoned Teas Are For Fiancees in With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/honeyed-lemoned-teas-are-for-fiancees.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 March 2021. "Manhattan and San Diego Account For Why With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/manhattan-and-san-diego-account-for-why.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 March 2021. "Christmas Carolers Are Three Voices Short in A Puzzle in a Pear Tree." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/03/christmas-carolers-are-three-voices.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 23 February 2021. "A Puzzle in a Pear Tree Alters a Christmas Pageant and a Live Nativity." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-puzzle-in-pear-tree-alters-christmas.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 16 February 2021. "Tristate Access Adds a Broadway Director to A Puzzle in a Pear Tree." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/tristate-access-adds-broadway-director.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 February 2021. "Attorney Becky Baldwin Maybe Aces New York Lawyers in Puzzled to Death." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/attorney-becky-baldwin-maybe-aces-new.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 February 2021. "Perhaps Fun Night Attendees Ate All Free Desserts in Puzzled to Death." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/perhaps-fun-night-attendees-ate-all.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 26 January 2021. "New Yorkers Adapt to Less Light and More Parking in Puzzled to Death." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-yorkers-adapt-to-less-light-and.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 19 January 2021. "Fifteen Million Dollars Avenge Old Wrongs in Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/fifteen-million-dollars-avenge-old.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 January 2021. "Chicken Soup Awes All But Appears Nowhere in Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/chicken-soup-awes-all-but-appears.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 January 2021. "Interstate Highways Add More Hurley Heirs to Last Puzzle and Testament." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2021/01/interstate-highways-add-more-hurley.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 December 2020. "Bakerhaven Acquaintances Afford A Clue for the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/bakerhaven-acquaintances-afford-clue.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 December 2020. "Bakerhaven Alcohol Acts as A Clue for the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/bakerhaven-alcohol-acts-as-clue-for.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 December 2020. "An Actual Bakerhaven Map Never Appears as A Clue for the Puzzle Lady." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-actual-bakerhaven-map-never-appears.html

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