The following questions led from Google to this humble blog:

1. What is a semicolon?

2. When was the semicolon invented?

3. Is Christopher Paolini a Christian?

4. How long does it take schooling-wise to become a pediatrician?

5. Campaign slogans rhyming with Vicky?

6. What makes a book a classic?

7. Who is Possum in To Kill a Mockingbird?

8. Ways to take care of water moccasins?

I thought the least I could do was to attempt some answers:
1. According to World Book Encyclopedia (1963 edition), a semicolon is “a dot above a comma. It is used in a compound sentence between two principal clauses which are not joined by a conjunction or between principal clauses with commas evan if a conjunction is used. The semicolon is also used instead of a comma after items in a series when these items are long or complicated.”

2. According to the same encyclopedia article on punctuation, the ancient Greeks often used a semicolon where nowadays we use a question mark, at the end of a question. Aldus Manutius, an Italian printer and publisher of books in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, is thought to be the first typographer to use the semicolon as we use it today. By the late sixteenth century, semicolons were being used commonly in English books. Ben Johnson and Shakespeare used the semicolon frequently.

3. I don’t know the state of his soul, nor his relationship with Christ, nor whether he claims to be a disciple of Christ. His books don’t embody a Christian worldview as far as I can tell and in fact, the elves, who are supposed to be the wisest characters in the world of Eragon, preach a philosophy of atheism. See this review of Eragon and this one of the sequel, Eldest.

4. A very long time.

5. It’s not tricky; Vote for Vicky!

6. I wrote some thoughts on the question of classic literature here. Feel free to give your opinion on this question in the comments.

7. I don’t think there is any such character, but some of the country people in the novel may eat possum.

8. There’s only ONE way to take care of a water moccasin. You do it with the nearest available blunt instrument—a shovel perhaps? If the snake in question is in the water, you swim in the opposite direction as quickly as possible, and don’t swim in that particular area anymore.