1 This can cause an enlarged left ventricle due to weakening of the heart muscle. 2  Rare diseases that can affect your heart, such as amyloidosis. 3  Amyloidosis is a condition in which abnormal proteins circulate in the blood and may be deposited in the heart, interfering with your heart's function and causing it to enlarge. If the valves are damaged by conditions such as rheumatic fever, a heart defect, infections (infectious endocarditis), connective tissue disorders, certain medications or radiation treatments for cancer, your heart may enlarge. 2  Disease of the heart muscle (cardiomyopathy).
Mother Goose (Barbara Lowin) in Barney's Rhyme Time Rhythm and A Little Mother Goose. Mother Goose is an imaginary author of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. She is also friends with Barney and visits him and his friends every once and a while.
Today the book is better known as Mother Goose Tales. Seven of its eight tales have become classics for children. I'm sure that you know some of these: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Sleeping Beauty), Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, The Master Cat: or Puss in Boots, Diamonds and Toads, and Cinderella. Perrault, however, did not write any of these stories. They were all re-workings of stories passed from one generation to the next. These stories were actually very cruel and downright nasty in their original form. Perrault simply cleaned them up and let everyone live happily ever after.