Fairy tales were a favorite topic of G.K. Chesterton. He loved them dearly and firmly believed in their import in the moral formation of children. He wrote in his essay, “The Red Angel”: Fairy tales ...

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Maria Crescentia Höß, a Franciscan of Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, in the Diocese of Augsburg. Anna Höß was born in 1682 to Matthias Höß and Lucia Hoermann, poor ...

The need for new bioinsecticidal compounds motivates the study of natural products. Therefore, we studied the activity of Crescentia alata Kuth (Lamiales: Bignoniaceae) against Spodoptera frugiperda ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The “Tale of the Pious Man and His Chaste Wife“ is both ancient and widespread in international tradition. So far, the oldest version of the ...

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