This past Monday was Memorial Day—a federal holiday in the United States designed for remembering and honoring those who have died in the service of our country.
Memorial Day weekend was always an important time of remembrance for my father, who served in the U.S. Navy. During World War II he led a group of twelve Landing Craft Infantry ships (LCI) in an assault on the Marshall Islands. The LCI’s job was to protect the Marines and the Frogmen (now Seals) during major battles. Tragically, 70 percent of my father’s men were killed or wounded during the assault.
My father retired as a Navy Admiral. He and my mother are buried side by side in Washington, D.C. at Arlington Cemetery—a beautiful place of rest that honors our heroes and their families.
Last year my wife, Margie, and I went on a three-day tour of Normandy, France, with the folks from The National World War II Museum. Normandy is the site of a battle that was the turning point in Europe during World War II. What an emotional experience it was to visit the American Cemetery and Memorial, where more than 10,000 U.S. servicemen who perished in the battle are buried or memorialized. I wish every American could visit Normandy to witness the truth of the phrase “Freedom is not free.”
I hope you can schedule some quiet time this week to reflect on those who gave everything for our freedom. Teach your children and grandchildren the meaning of Memorial Day—and move forward with kindness as you interact with others.
God bless America!


Written by Admin in Technology Trends
Aug 23 rd, 2011
It was Alexander Graham Bell who received the first patent in the United States for developing a telephone. Before that, the only form of nearly immediate communication was the telegraph. If you wanted to send a message you had to write it down, take it to the local telegraph office and have the telegraph operator tap it in. On the other end another telegraph operator transcribed the message and a courier often delivered it. Not a very fast process but it worked.
Soon after the telephone was developed the existing telegraph lines began to be used for telephone service. Telephone service didn’t begin without problems however, it was found by using the telegraph lines that cross talk readily occurred. People having a conversation regularly could hear other people’s conversations. This problem was tackled however when it was discovered the simple act of twisting the pair of phone wires around themselves diminished the problem. Hence, today we have twisted pair in use in virtually every home.
A classic phone is a home telephone styled from a decade gone by. There was nothing too fancy about home phones around the 50’s through the 70’s. The home phone began as the phone you had to crank, ask the switch board operator to connect your call, and you’d share the line with neighbors. The Classic Phone is available today in 3 primary styles, The Classic payphone, The Classic wall phone, and the Classic kettle desk phone.
Around in the 40’s and 50’s, the Classic Kettle Desk Phone, seen in a lot of old movies, was a staple on the desks of many business people. It had a rich smooth lined look and feel and is a great appointment to any working desk. It was one of the first styles where the ear and mouth piece were in one unit.
Before cell phones came along if you needed to make a telephone call when you were out running errands or in-between business meetings you had to use the pay telephone. Pay telephones were everywhere. Often times the phone was built into a telephone booth or it was regularly attached to the wall in a shop of businesses. Classic pay phones were great when you needed to make a phone call but frustrating is someone was hogging up the line or you ran out of change.
Usually found hanging on the wall close to the kitchen in the 70’s and early 80’s this style phone became the staple in countless homes. It first started out with the rotary dial and then advanced to the push button number pad. And, the cords grew longer so when you needed some privacy you could slip around a corner in the home to get away from anyone who wanted overhear what you had to say.
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The Curtiss N-9 was a seaplane variant of the Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" military trainer used during the First World War. As a seaplane, the N-9 was equipped with a single central pontoon mounted under the fuselage. A small float was fitted under each wingtip. With the additional weight of the pontoon, a number of structural and aerodynamic changes were required, the design of which made use of wind tunnel data developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, meaning the N-9 was the first US Naval aircraft to incorporate wind tunnel data directly into its design. The wingspan was stretched an additional 10 ft ( m), the fuselage was lengthened, the tail surfaces were enlarged, and stabilizing fins were added to the top of the top wing. The N-9 was initially powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Curtiss OXX-6 engine.
Curtiss was awarded an initial contract for 30 aircraft in August, 1916, and an additional 14 were ordered by the US Army, which maintained a small seaplane operation. It became quickly apparent that the aircraft was underpowered, so Curtiss replaces the engine with a 150 hp (112 kW) Hispano-Suiza, manufactured in the US under license by Wright-Martin's Simplex division (later Wright Aeronautical). The aircraft was redesignated N-9H.
A total of 560 N-9s were built during the war, most of which were "H" models. Only 100 were actually built by Curtiss. Most were built under license by the Burgess Company of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Fifty others were assembled after the war by the Navy at the Pensacola Naval Air Station from spare components and engines.
Over 2,500 US Navy pilots received their seaplane training in the N-9s. Besides this primary role, though, the aircraft was also used to help develop ship-borne aircraft operations during the war, especially the development of ship-mounted launch catapults. In 1917, several N-9s were provided to the Sperry Gyroscope Company for conversion to the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane configuration, flight testing the new autopilot components intended to be used in pilotless "aerial torpedoes".
The N-9s were retired by the Navy in 1927, as more modern trainers became available. Only one example of the type has survived, and is now a part of the National Air and Space Museum collection. Originally on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, it was transferred back to the Navy pending transport to NASM. It was fully restored in 1966 by the Naval Air Engineering Laboratory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Sopwith Baby was a British single-seat seaplane used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915. The Baby was a development of the two-seat Sopwith Schneider. Although the Schneider had won the Schneider trophy in 1914, the RNAS did not place a formal order until January 1915. The production version of the Baby differed little from the Schneider Trophy winner.
The Baby was also built by Blackburn Aircraft, Fairey, and Parnall in the United Kingdom. In Italy licensed manufacture was undertaken by SA Aeronautica Gio Ansaldo of Turin.
Altogether, about 700 Babys were built.
The Baby was used as a shipborne scout and bomber aircraft operating from larger ships such as seaplane carriers and cruisers, and smaller vessels such as naval trawlers and minelayers. It was even considered for operation from submarines. The main role of the Baby was to intercept German Zeppelin raids as far from Britain as possible.
Babys saw service with Canada, the US, France, Chile, Greece and Norway. In Norway Babys were built occasionally as replacements, with a few seeing service until 1930. Two of the 10 Sopwith Baby floatplanes that were acquired by the Norwegian Navy were brought to Svalbard in midsummer 1928 to participate in the search for the disappeared Norwegian Polar explorer Roald Amundsen, but were not used as intended.
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 was a German biplane fighter floatplane of World War I. It was a development of Ernst Heinkel's previous KDW, adding a rear cockpit for an observer/gunner, and had an unusual inverted tailplane (which instead of standing up from the fuselage, hung below it) in order to give an uninterrupted field of fire.
The W.12's (under the Naval designation C3MG) served on the Western Front, based at the Naval air bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge. The aircraft had some success, and one shot down the British airship C.27.
In April 1918, a W.12 made an emergency landing in the neutral territory of the Netherlands, where it was interned and flight tested by the Dutch. In 1919 the government of the Netherlands bought a licence to build the aircraft. Thirty-five W.12's were subsequently manufactured by the Van Berkel company of Rotterdam as the W-A, serving with the Dutch Naval Air Service until 1933.
The F2A was a British-American hybrid design and highly effective as a patrol craft. Its career closely paralleled the Short Sunderland of a later date and firmly established the reputation of flying boats as weapons.
Commander John C. Porte of the Royal Navy was a longtime advocate of flying boats for naval service. In 1914 he ventured to the United States at the behest of aircraft builder Glenn Curtiss to work on American designs. Following the onset of World War I he returned home, firmly convinced that England could benefit by such craft. However, as commander of the Felixstowe station, he found Curtiss H.4s operating there unsatisfactory and set about modifying them. His subsequent F1 was found to be a better performer, so in 1917 he scaled up the new hull and fit it to the wings of a very large Curtiss H-12 Large America. The resulting hybrid was a superb aircraft for the time. It easily operated off the rough water conditions inherent in Northern Europe and, despite its bulk, was relatively maneuverable once airborne. This new craft was christened the Felixstowe F2A, and it arrived in the spring of 1917 just as Germany’s infamous U-boat campaign was peaking.
The Felixstowe flying boat acquired a well-earned reputation as the best flying-boat design of the war. Heavily armed with bombs and machine guns, it destroyed submarines and Zeppelins on several occasions. Moreover, it could readily defend itself against the numerous German floatplane fighters encountered over the North Sea. This fact was underscored on June 4, 1918, when four F2As beat off an attack by 14 Hansa-Brandenburg W.29s, shooting down six with no loss to themselves. In an attempt to improve the Felixstowe’s performance, a new version, the F3, was developed. It featured longer wings and twice the bomb load but handled poorly and was never popular. The excellent F2As, meanwhile, remained on active duty for a decade following the war.


The story of Memorial really takes its humble roots from late-90’s where we first started skateboarding in a spot called Memorial, originally a world war 1 Cenotaph located in the heart of Singapore. This would be the centre piece of where most skateboarders on the island of different races & nationalities would first encounter the local skateboarding community
The 90s for us was an adventure of finding new fresh spots, getting chased by the police as well the general public having a great dislike for the skaters, skateboarding in the streets. Not that we cared much. However, Things have much changed on the island for the better & we reflect on those magnificent years we had at the Memorial spot. A good number of the memorial crew have moved on with life where there are still others who continued to skateboard & are still involved with the scene.
Memorial, City Hall, Singapore. Photo courtesy of David Houghton.


Here at Additional Lengths, we’re interested in all things hair. From what our favourite celebrity is doing with their tresses this week, to the latest social media craze (unicorn hair, anyone?), we love being in the know. If, like us, you’re curious about the story behind hair extensions, then take a look at our brief history of hair extensions to learn more about the origins of our favourite beauty accessory. You may be surprised by the longevity of this popular hair trend!
Style like an Egyptian
Surprisingly, the first documented origin of hair weaves can be dated back to Ancient Egypt. Appearance was very important during this time period and the process of beautification was highly thought of, with a lot of time and money spent on creating the perfect look. Ancient Egyptians observed a hierarchy of status through their appearance, with hair weaves and wigs often being worn by those higher up in society, for example, by Pharaohs, political figures and wealthy families. Not only were wigs worn by women, but also by men and children! Hair pieces at this stage in history were created using human hair and dyed sheep’s wool, and were often attached by sewing into knots of the person’s real hair.
The infamous ruler of Ancient Egypt, the alluring Cleopatra was also a fan of utilising hair braids and wigs to add to her undeniable beauty. She favoured the conventional black dyed hair extensions, preferring a fringe and tightly curled mid-lengths, and would add decadent gold beads to the ends for a touch of glamour. Egyptian wigs were the height of fashion back in B.C times.
Big wig of the century
French King Louis XIV was quite the trend-setter during his reign in the 18th century. When the king became rather thin on top, his tireless team of servants hired a staggering amount of wig-makers to save his majestic appearance by creating a series of large and lengthy wigs. Often seen in royal paintings, men wore big wigs to undoubtedly hide the balding and greying that comes with age, in an attempt to keep their youth. The wig pieces that men wore also acted as a status enhancement. Ever heard of the phrase ‘big wig’? There you go!
Character of King Louis XIV in BBC’s ‘Versailles’ displaying a luxurious wig
Hair during the 18th and 19th centuries were often collected from the poor, with women from the working classes growing their hair in order to sell it. Real hair wigs fetched a huge amount in those times – up to a weeks wages!
A symbol synonymous with 60’s style is the beehive, which was achieved with fake hair often attached to a hair band. At this time, long hair extensions were not too commonly used as they were deemed rather expensive. Girl bands such as The Ronettes rocked the beehive look perfectly, with soft bangs and high hair teamed with shift dresses becoming their signature look. At Additional Lengths we stock a range of instant beehive hair pieces that can be worn to achieve this same 60’s inspired look!
Girl power of the 1990’s
Hair extensions rose in popularity and became used by the masses during the decade of the 1990’s. New and less expensive techniques were developed ensuring widespread popularity, with the clip-in hair extensions becoming commonly used due to their cost and availability. It was also around this time that coloured hair pieces were popular, with pastel blue and baby pink streaks featuring in many young girl’s hair dreams.
Again, during this time celebrities were influencing our hairstyles. Supermodels such as Tyra Banks were seen wearing hair extensions on the international fashion catwalks during the 1990’s, and in early 2000 legendary singer Britney Spears sported some impressive extensions for her ‘Oops!… I Did It Again’ music video.
Noughties to now
With celebs such as the Kardashian sisters rocking different hair looks at every event, we as the general public are also using hair extensions to change up our style. Plus, the development of the quality of hair extensions, including the creation of beautiful Remy hair extensions, means that we’re able to use extensions not only for length, but for volume and to add subtle tones of colour.
It’s interesting to see how the creation of hair extensions has revolutionised the possibilities in hairstyling, and the rich history of hair extensions just proves how long lasting and much loved the process of adding length and volume to natural hair has been over the years. We don’t think that the obsession with hair extensions will slow down anytime soon! If you’re feeling inspired by our look back the origins of extensions, browse our wonderful ranges of synthetic and human hair extensions here at Additional Lengths for high quality products you can rely on.


When I ordered this book online, I thought it was a biography of Parry Thomas written by Jack Sheenhan. I was excited to read it because Parry Thomas seemed like an interesting character, who was a Mormon banker in Las Vegas during the post war boom. Instead, Quiet Kingmaker of Las Vegas, isn’t a biography, it’s an edited volume of interviews from Parry Thomas and other important people in his life. At first glance I was disappointed, but after reading it, I found the story flowed well. Jack Sheehan does a good job of piecing together the story of Parry Thomas in a way that is easy to read and follow. It’s cool that Las Vegas historians have these transcripts.
I enjoyed reading about all the double dealing Parry Thomas did during his career. In post war Las Vegas, mainstream financial firms would generally not deal with casinos (because they didn’t consider gambling ethical and because they didn’t want to be tainted by former criminals) and so it was difficult for the casino resorts in Las Vegas to raise capital. The result was the Las Vegas resort casinos had to rely on groups like the Teamsters pension fund, mobsters, and bankers such as Parry Thomas to get financing. This situation created an opportunity for Parry Thomas through his Bank of Las Vegas (later called Valley Bank) to build a higher yielding loan portfolio. Being a source of capital also gave Parry Thomas lots of local political capital.
During Parry Thomas’ time, he worked as the middle man between investors who were willing to lend to casinos and the casino resorts of Las Vegas. Thomas would arrange loans to casinos and then syndicate those loans to insurance companies from other states such as Utah and Texas. Other times, Thomas would arrange deals for and recapitalize casinos; he would act as the broker that brought together the various interests. There are examples in the book of Parry Thomas earning commissions on transactions he brokered even though he was employed at the bank. Parry Thomas worked on the ethical boundaries of his time in order to be successful. Today, it is widely considered unethical for a bank employee to have outside business dealings. But Parry Thomas had a personal business and real estate portfolio outside of his position at the bank. This often put him in conflict of interest situations. When readers consider his dealings with the Howard Hughes group as they purchased land and casinos in Las Vegas, we can imagine Howard Hughes must have paid more for what he got.
Quiet Kingmaker of Las Vegas is important for historians because it outlines in fairly good detail the events of the famous land deal between Caesars Palace and Steve Wynn which helped to launch Steve Wynn’s career. There was a narrow strip of land on the corner of Flamingo Road facing Las Vegas Boulevard that was 160 feet wide and 1,500 feet deep. The land was wedged on the corner right next door to Caesar’s Palace. At the time it was owned by Jake Gottlieb, who was running a company called Western Transportation which was in turn controlled by Continental Connector, which was controlled by Parry Thomas. Readers should recognize the dangerous web of control and ownership that was taking place as Parry Thomas was involved in outside business activities in addition to working for Valley Bank. Parry Thomas was also on the board of Caesar’s Palace at this time.
Jake Gottlieb had run up some gambling losses and was being forced to sell the land to settle his debts, so Parry Thomas arranged to have the land sold to Howard Hughes for $500,000. Caesars Palace must have figured they could wait out an owner and try for a better price rather than paying up. I guess they didn’t want to be held hostage by the location since Caesars was the only logical buyer who could get full use of the property. Because of the size of the property and because power lines came right over top, it was a difficult parcel to develop.
Howard Hughes was running a complicated business empire and he often couldn’t tell his right hand what his left hand was doing, and so Parry Thomas took advantage of this. He arranged to have the property sold to Howard Hughes, this would bail out Jake Gottlieb, and then he gained information about another piece of land Hughes was leasing across town near the Landmark hotel/casino. The former owner had defaulted on this leased land which was now owned by the Bank of Las Vegas (Valley Bank) and so Parry Thomas could put pressure on Howard Hughes from a different direction. It was then suggested that Howard Hughes sell the Flamingo corner lot to Steve Wynn in exchange for the purchase of the lot near the landmark. For Hughes it would seem like a wash trade.
The Flamingo lot being sold to Steve Wynn was a key piece of the puzzle that would force Caesars to purchase the property. In the past, Caesars could afford to wait out the owner of the Flamingo lot for a long time since this lot was otherwise vacant and made little revenue. But the magic of Steve Wynn is he drew up plans for a casino on the corner and then subtly threatened to develop his plans. For Caesars, this would mean a small casino would be located on a key corner of their property and siphon-off customers. This made the property valuable from a cash-flow perspective, but also as a direct competitive threat to Caesars. So at this point Caesars purchased the property from Steve Wynn for a large profit to Wynn which he could then parlay into other projects.


If you want a fairly authentic Medieval reception at your wedding event feast, birthday celebration party, or another party, you need to be familiar with a couple of standards to adhere to. There was never a middle ages reception that included corn, potatoes, pumpkin pie, or tomatoes. These four foods were introduced from the New World after the end of the Renaissance.
The cook for a Medieval reception additionally would not have the nutritional expertise that we have, however, would go by the dietary knowledge of that era, particularly making sure to include the 4 senses of humor. There would be foods that were chilly as well as completely dry to represent melancholy. Hot and completely dry foods would certainly stand for choler. Phlegm included chilly, moist foods, while blood was the trademark of warm damp foods.
The standard Medieval banquet would begin with cheese, after that light meat that was taken into consideration very easy to absorb, lettuce, wet fruits such as peaches, as well as soups and broths. The cheese was taken into consideration essential throughout as doctors believed that it helped food digestion. Seasonings were also utilized to assist food digestion. It has often been suggested that spices were used, specifically on meats, (remember this was before refrigeration) to disguise the reality that if they weren’t offered quickly after eliminating, they started to become rancid.
Later in the Middle ages, banquets would certainly come from other, more difficult to-absorb dishes such as pork or beef. There would be a number of subtleties, primarily constructed of sugar, but typically made from bread and/or cakes served throughout the dish. It would likewise take several hours with enjoyment such as juggling, instrumental songs, and vocal singing intermixed in between the training courses.
The ordinary individual eating a Middle ages reception would certainly have his/her very own knife and also spoon that he/she would certainly generate in order to consume. No person expected the host to provide eating tools. The Medieval banquet was generally hefty on the meats, often having fish, venison, boar’s head, mutton, chicken, pigeon, and beef in the very same meal. Veggies were infrequent, particularly during the wintertime. If you want to find great information, visit FindTheNeedle for further info.
When my child obtained wed, she welcomed a Middle ages theme for her wedding complete with a Middle ages banquet. Compared with a Middle ages banquet as placed on in the center Ages, hers was greatly lowered, although still abundant. Rather than an ‘authentic’ Middle ages banquet, you might just want a somewhat modified one, like my child had, one that has what we currently understand is a nutritionally far better well balanced meal. My daughter’s Medieval banquet started with fruit as well as cheeses as appetizers. The salad was served with vinegar and oil clothing. Little nuances in the form of bread formed like birds came out, then cheese soup.
Trenchers were positioned on the tables following. Trenchers are half- loaves of bread on which the remainder of the Medieval banquet was put prior to eating it. Carrot tarts were tasty (they tasted like pumpkin pie) as were the mushroom pasties. Grated cheese was offered to spray right into the pasties to include in the taste. Every pair of people obtained a whole roast hen. It was common during the Middle Ages to offer a program between 2 people that would certainly be indicated to be shared between them. There were mashed turnips, noodles with a beef sauce, and also warm peas. The nuance at the end was the wedding celebration cake formed like a medieval castle total with assaulting and also safeguarding pressures.
The guests at my little girl’s wedding event banquet were much better acted than wedding celebration visitors were throughout the Middle Ages. Nobody grabbed food from another person’s plate. Battles over visualized insults did not appear, and also bones were not tossed under the table when the person eating was completed with them. If people between Ages were expected to eat whatever at a Medieval banquet, I have no suggestion where they put it all! By the end of this Middle ages banquet, the mom of the new bride (me) was so packed, she could not eat any one of the last subtlety, and also I LOVE chocolate cake!


Really?! Seems to me the only one cluless is you! Maybe you shulod research the Federal Reserve fka the central bank! It is an illegal, private bank controlled by the Bristish Rothchild's! They were behind funding both sides of the Civil War. The central bank aka the Federal Reserve was behind the death of JFK and Lincoln for returning this country to the gold and silver standard. Yes, a Republican and Democratic President killed! Nuts follow other politicians as well as evidenced by your mean spirited words! Maybe, instead of looking at the nuts and judging a candidate based on things they can not control you shulod loook at Dr Paul's own words and record. Seems to me he is an honorable man who did his time in the airforce and helped people as a Dr. Honor .Something you know nothing of.


Today the world's largest centre for multilateral diplomacy and a hotbed of luxury shopping, Geneva was a postcard-perfect city known for enlightened tolerance long before Henry Dunant founded the International Red Cross here (1864), the League of Nations moved in (1919), the World Health Organization (WHO) set up shop after World War II, or the World Wide Web was invented here at CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research.
Once a place of refuge for the religious reformers Jean Calvin and John Knox, it has sheltered Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, offered safe haven to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, and expelled its native son Jean-Jacques Rousseau for being liberal way before his time.
Today a whopping 40% of the city's 189,000 inhabitants are not Swiss, but the more than 150 countries that maintain permanent missions to the United Nations Office in Geneva represent merely the most recent group of foreigners to descend on the city. Four hundred years ago it was wave after wave of Protestant refugees: the English fled Bloody Mary, Protestant Italians the wrath of the pope, Spaniards the Inquisition, French Huguenots the oppressive French monarchy—and Geneva flourished, under the iron yoke of its 16th-century reformer, as a multilingual stronghold of Protestant (specifically Calvinist) reform.
The city's history as a crossroads stretches back farther still. The Genevois controlled the only bridge over the Rhône north of Lyon when Julius Caesar breezed through in 58 BC; the early Burgundians and bishop-princes who succeeded the Romans were careful to maintain this control. The strategically placed (and wealthy) city-state fell to the French in 1798, then made overtures to Bern as Napoléon's star waned. Geneva finally joined the Swiss Confederation as a canton in 1815. But don't get too carried away with Swiss stereotypes here—they are as foreign to the Genevois as risotto or gnocchi might be to a resident of Bern.
Geneva's museums have drawn particular benefit from the city's unique perspective on history and cultural exchange: you can visit a military exhibit up the hill from the Red Cross's examination of the horrors of war; weigh the extremes of ancient and contemporary ceramics; browse archaeological finds from Egypt and the Far East; compare pre-Christian primitive art with its modern incarnation; relive the Reformation; or explore the fruits of human thought and creativity as expressed on paper, in science, and inside the case of a tiny pocket watch. The Palais des Nations forms the ultimate living (and working) museum of 20th-century history.
The early December celebration of the Escalade, a 17th century military victory that marked a turning point in Geneva's history, offers a unique peek at the city's core character; the early-August Fête de Genève showcases a different, more easily accessible modern identity and culminates in a fireworks extravaganza set to music that perfectly exploits the beauty of Geneva's physical setting. Mary Shelley conceived of Frankenstein's monster during a dark and stormy night in Geneva, letting him escape over the cliff face of the Salève, to the southeast of the city. But on a beautiful summer night with an ice cream in hand, the Alps glowing pink in the sunset and the harbour lights ablaze, it's hard to imagine anything but bliss.


D'Orlan is a premier line of fashion jewellery that was manufactured in Toronto Canada for 50 years. D'Orlan is designed using the finest hand set Austrian crystal stones and triple plated in 22kt. gold. The silver look of D'Orlan items comes from rhodium-plating, a process that matches the look of silver with a lighter, more lustrous, more durable, non-tarnishing finish. D'Orlan is recognized for its quality and is designed to last for generations. All D'Orlan items are carded, priced, poly bagged, and stamped for your convenience.
A History of D’Orlan
The company was founded in 1957 by Mr. Maurice J. Bradden. Mr Bradden was a tool and dye maker by profession. He originally managed a jewellery factory in Belleville, Ontario for Avon jewellery.
In the mid 1950’s Mr. Bradden met a very well known jewellery designer in New York, his name was Marcel Boucher. Mr. Bradden became Mr.Boucher’s protégé and moved to Toronto in 1957 to open his own jewellery factory. Over the years the company grew from a staff of half a dozen people to a company that employed over 200 people.
The D’Orlan line was distributed in 30 countries throughout the world. D’Orlan was also the worldwide manufacturer for “Lancel” and “Nina Ricci” fashion jewellery.
As a manufacturer D’Orlan tailored the Nina Ricci collection to a more sophisticated clientele, while D’Orlan was more whimsical, designed for a younger consumer. D’Orlan designed every item in house and became renowned for its high standards. Mr. Bradden was a firm believer in making the best product possible.
Only the finest Austrian crystal stones are used in the product. The D’Orlan line is unique insofar as most manufacturing companies buy components from other companies and simply put them together, while D’Orlan manufactured everything in house with the exception of Japanese glass polished pearls and Austrian crystal stones.
As the exclusive Canadian distributor for many years Creed Canada purchased all remaining D'Orlan products when the manufacturers closed their doors in March of 2006.


The History - In the early 1900’s when the mines were flourishing, each miner marked his entrance to the mine by placing a numbered tag over a hook. By doing this everyone knew which miners where down in the mine. When all the tags were off the hook at the end of the day, all the miners were up and safely out of the mine. Each tag represents a piece of American history.
One of a Kind Upcycled Industrial Tag Necklace
Tag pendant is 1 1/2"
22" chain with lobster claw closure
This piece is very rustic and left in all her glory. The back has been sealed
Tag reads: HVAC 051
Small, clear gem attached
As always, our items are either Vintage or made to appear so. Distressing, tattering and imperfections are part of the territory and lend to our vibe of a time worn look. If you have OCD, this may not be for you - wink
Shown layered with our coin necklace and other accessories to show styling ideas. Additional items sold separately


NEWS: Premiere of the documentary “Rostros de las ciudades en Europa. Historias de migración pasadas y presentes” (Spain)
The collaboration between the various organizations involved along with SOS RACISMO in the F2F project, led to the production of a documentary : “The Faces of Our European Cities – Stories of migration past and present”.
A documentary that includes the stories of immigrants of today and yesterday; a look at their past, at their dreams, at their fears and at the future that they are planning in Europe.
You are all warmly invited to the Spanish premiere at 18:30 on the 19th of June 2014 in Guardetxea, San Sebastian.
Following the screening there will be a roundtable discussion with the Spanish protagonists of the documentary Tarana Karim and Gerardo Carrere to whom you can ask questions and seek clarification!


KTM was established in 1934 as a repair workshop in Mattighofen, Austria. The first KTM motorcycle emerged in 1951, although it would take until 1970 for a KTM engined motorcycle to be produced in the Mattighofen factory.
Although the KTM name is most often associated with hardcore motocross and enduro motorcycles, the first KTMs were road machines and KTM today produces a range of very fine street bikes, such as the 690 SMC, the 690 Duke, the 990 Super Duke, SMR and SMT as well as the RC8 Superbike.
KTM’s core operations continue to be based at Mattighofen.
In recent years, the Indian company Bajaj has held a significant minority shareholding in the company and manufactures the small capacity Duke 125cc and 200cc models in its Maharashtra, India plants.
For 2014, KTM is introducing the new Super Duke
You can read about the history of KTM here


Vimy Ridge Day
The Battle of Vimy Ridge
The Battle of Vimy Ridge began on Easter Monday, April 9, 1917. Regiments from coast to coast saw action together in a distinctly Canadian triumph, helping create a new and stronger sense of Canadian identity in our country. Canada’s military achievements during the war raised our international stature and helped earn us a separate signature on the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War. The PHN remembers our brave soldiers and their families who took part in this battle so that Canada could remain a free nation. For those interested in learning more about The Battle of Vimy Ridge, please see the link below and short video.


Mims Family History-
21st Century Updated
Mims Family History – 21st Century Updated is a 124-pages magazine that tells stories of the author’s ancestors including the historical times which they lived, beginning with slavery. Various photos, including some that are rare, gives additional impact to the special stories and biographies of the author’s ancestors from the 19th and 20th centuries. The magazine also includes family tree charts; death certificates; a late relative’s hand-written notes on 19th century family members; and listings of over 80 births, marriages, and death dates of ancestors. Readers will find this magazine interesting and captivating.


Our mission is to preserve and present to the general public the unique and interesting history of the railways of Croatia, from the days of Yugoslavia to the present day Republic of Croatia.
This project, based in Istria, will provide a major visitor attraction and an asset to the local community, thus helping to develop both tourism and economic growth. It will consist of a museum and an operating standard gauge heritage railway line called the "Istrian Railway".
We plan to acquire and restore to full working condition a fleet of historical steam and diesel locomotives, as well as passenger coaches, for use on the heritage line.
If you would like to know more about exciting and ambitious project, then please contact us at:
You can also check out our Facebook page for further information and videos related to the project @ Croatian Railway Preservation Society.
We look forward to hearing from you.
This website is now dual language, presenting content in both Croatian and English.
To change from Croatian to English, and vice versa, simply click on the appropriate flag at the top right hand corner of the page, whereupon the user will be taken to the relevant home page.


Rome, the "eternal city" and the capital city of Italy is a place that holds history and beauty. We have come up with a wonderful two-tone colored slides that we think best describes the city, Rome. Tan colored soles paired with a creamy white colored straps.
Available in Sizes 35-41
Made in Italy


Learn more about one of Teesside’s Premier Shopping Desintations – In The Heart of the Tees Valley
From Portrack Bed Shops to DIY, Furniture, Stockton Carpets and More!
Come along to Portrack Lane today and find a whole host of national and independent retailers. Portrack is a popular shopping quarter located in Stockton-on-Tees, North East England.
Home to independent retailers such Pets Mania, Portrack Lane Bed Centre, Michael O’Connor Furniture, Franks Factory Flooring and many more. The lane is also home to national retailers such Dreams Beds, ASDA Portrack, B&Q Stockton, Harvey’s Furniture, Wickes, Oak Land Furniture and more! It really is the perfect location for the modern day British consumer.
Portrack Lane Retail Park has fantastic transport links to the wider Teesside region, it’s easily accessible from the A19 flyover (Junction A1046) which connects the area to the North and the South. This means it has the major urban regions of Billingham, Hartlepool, Durham, Sunderland and Newcastle to the north. With Thirsk, York and Leeds to the south.
The shops are well supported locally with fantastic transport links from Stockton Town Centre, Middlesbrough Bus station across the Newport Bridge and to nearby towns such as Darlington, Billingham, Redcar, Norton and Thornaby.
If you’re in the market for a new piece of furniture or home improvements such as DIY, then Portrack Lane will certainly have something for you. There are lots of Bed shops and DIY centric stores. Featuring sofa’s, carpets, beds, curtains and more. This makes the area a fantastic modern retail environment, which can be enjoyed by the whole family.
After you’ve finished shopping there’s even several places to eat such as McDonalds and Subway. For the kids you will find exciting leisure activities such as Bandland, Clip n Climb, Fun Shack, Pet Mania Stockton and Jump 360.
Even though the area is a modern built up retail location it wasn’t always this way. Originally there was a cricket ground located on the site, the first match to be played there was in 1839. This featured an All England team against Stockton. From there the ground grew in importance and it staged two other first glass matches. The first one was in 1858 when a team made up of players from Durham and Yorkshire played against Nottingham. The final first class test match was in 1861 when Stockton with the help of Yorkshire played Cambridgeshire. Unfortunately there are no remains of the cricket ground located in the immediate area.
Since the turn of the century the region featured heavily for the industrial facilities located by the banks of the river tees. This included heavy industralised warehousing and a ready-made population living nearby. After World War 2, the area came more to prominence as a shopping district. This was helped with the mass consumption of the motorcar and the decline in the industry around the river tees.
With lots of large warehousing being empty, the area became a mecca for consumers and started featuring both independent and national retailers. The most famous is arguably Dickens that was a popular DIY superstore during the 70s, 80s and 90s. The company became so well known they even sponsored Middlesbrough Football Club.
As the years have gone by, the area has continued to expand and develop into the thriving location it is today.


In India, we love to talk about history but do very little to preserve it. History is typically associated with kings and queens or pilgrimage points and less with family or organizational memory, which dies out quickly over generations. Archives help to preserve history by storing information in a variety of formats for posterity and are “to society, what memory is to human beings.” A publicly accessible archive also allows people to research the past on a vast range of issues. The TATA archives and Godrej archives, two prominent corporate archives in India, not only preserve history but actively present it internally and externally to develop a shared understanding of the legacy of the past. This is of interest to not only business historians but to a wide range of people including even ecologists who want to see how specific landscapes looked like in the early 20th century and which happen to be preserved in their archival photograph collections.
As an institution founded in 1961, IIMA has a rich history with organizational memory passed on across generations through corridor chats – Ravi Matthai did this, V. L. Mote said that - and so on. It has also periodically brought out edited volumes on institution building based on faculty recollections. But the lack of a formal archive presented a barrier for understanding the institute’s evolution as T.T. Ram Mohan and Prafull Anubhai realised during the course of their research while writing books on IIMA. In fact, over 20,000 pages of documents on IIMA in the 1960s are neatly preserved at the Harvard Business School (HBS) Archives in Boston and Ford Foundation Archives in New York, because these two organizations which then partnered with IIMA, have had a strong archiving culture. In contrast, IIMA has virtually nothing on that period on its own history, though the archives initiative is now unearthing new material every day, one dusty cupboard at a time.
Buoyed by an innocent suggestion on a Faculty Notice Board email thread, a four-member IIMA Archives Committee was formed on November 17, 2017, with Dean Alumni & External Relations and Librarian as the ex-officio members, and an external member with archival expertise for initial support. Two project staff were hired: Kanchan Jansari who had recently retired from Administration after nearly four decades of service and Dipika Makwana, trained in library science. The ground floor of the restored Dorm-15 was allocated as the site for archival activities.
Over the past two years, the archives team has clocked up thousands of hours and miles of work across India and the US to search for rare documents, old photographs and unheard voices. Kanchan and Dipika have located, digitized and catalogued thousands of documents pertaining to the institute’s history spread over several departments and godowns on campus. Indira Gandhi’s signature on IIMA’s visitor book, Prakash Tandon’s handwritten letters, reference letter for Jagdish Bhagwati, all from the 1960s, are some examples of the kind of documents that would delight the archives team. Separately, stock-taking took place at the HBS and Ford Foundation Archives in the US, archival material was collected from alumni and former staff and faculty, and interviews were conducted in India and the US.
As part of the IIMA Archives oral history project, 21 hour-long video-based interviews have been conducted till date, covering former faculty, staff, students and others associated with IIMA’s formative years. Interviews include that of 95-year old Keshub Mahindra, the longest serving Chairperson of IIMA, award-winning architect B V Doshi who brought Louis Kahn to IIMA, Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys and former research staff and Chairperson at IIMA and Dilnavaz Variava, one of two graduating women students of the first PGP batch (1964-66). The transcripts of these interviews make for fascinating reading and will be invaluable for people who wish to understand the history of IIMA, Ahmedabad, education, business, gender, labour, and many other themes including stray dogs on the campus!
A lot of the material collected up to now is now accessible via the IIMA Archives website (archives.iima.ac.in), designed by Bhavesh Patel and others at the Vikram Sarabhai Library. Through the website, one can see convocation speeches and batch photographs and videos. The ‘faculty’ page gives information on the 300+ faculty who have served IIMA in the past. The ‘timeline’ page shows the evolution of the institute in its various dimensions. The ‘photographs’ page showcases campus life since the 1960s. The ‘oral history’ page showcases video snippets from the oral history project.
Through the website, one can access annual reports, alumni magazines, working papers and the archives catalogue and access policy. The website is a treasure trove for anyone interested in IIMA’s past and we are delighted by the response from the IIMA community and people outside. To get a sense of its reach, alumni across batches, children of former faculty who grew up on campus and long-lost connections including a forest officer who planted neem trees on the campus in the 1970s, have commended the value of the archival initiative as it has revived campus memories for them in distant parts of the world.
Archival requests have also started coming in. An ongoing Baroda-based research project on Vikram Sarabhai will now cite Sarabhai’s signed letters stored at the IIMA Archives. A doctoral student in Belgium has spent weeks at IIMA Archives researching nation-building in India in the 1960s. Douglas Haynes, a distinguished historian of western India has spent several weeks at Dorm-15 for his upcoming project on the birth of managerial capitalism in India. Requests by email have also started coming in from around the world. The spirit of the archives is to be as ‘researcher-friendly’ as possible.
In addition to IIMA’s history, the archives also seeks to become a repository of information related to the business history of India. The archival collection already includes several business directories from the early 20th century and student project-based oral histories of local businesses in Ahmedabad. Archival material from family businesses and business houses can be stored at IIMA Archives. This is similar to HBS Archives in Boston which hosts the archival collection of firms such as Polaroid and Lehman Brothers. Therefore, IIMA Archives, along with CEPT Archives on architectural history and NID Archives on design history could soon become must-visit places for historians and other researchers working with historical perspectives in their fields when they visit Ahmedabad.
Currently, an external design team is in the process of designing the ground floor of Dorm-15 that will include an exhibit space for visitors, researcher’s corner, staff office and storage room. Once this is completed, the visibility of IIMA Archives will increase and also open up a new space on campus for visitors and researchers. Other initiatives in the pipeline include revamping the Subway Exhibit space (connecting the old campus with the new) and placing history snippets around the campus with mobile-based talk points for visitors since IIMA gets more than 10,000 visitors every year just to see the campus. The archives project will then also require a full-time professional archivist to anchor the archives initiative.
On a personal note, it has been wonderful to work with Kanchan and Dipika, Deepak Bhat and the Communications Team for the oral history videos, the library team for the website, and my colleagues on the Archives Committee, Rakesh Basant, Anil Kumar and Vijaya Sherry Chand. A rewarding experience for me took place after the launch event of the IIMA Archives website on August 31, 2019. A staff member of the Audio-Visual team came over to convey that the archives work had touched a chord within him as he saw the photograph of his father, a former IIMA employee, on the Louis Kahn Plaza stage as part of the Dwijendra Tripathi photographs collection of the early 1990s. There is clearly some value in preserving history.


To celebrate this day, The Rising Youth (TRY) brought a few beneficiaries of the residential program to attend the flag raising ceremony in Rizal park.
TRY is led and managed by the youth themselves. They elected officers who gathered for general assembly twice a month last year. Their mission is to become responsible young adults that give back by sharing their talents and skills for a better future.
Together with the staff of the Magellan Learning Center (MLC) and the Independent living program (ILP), the youth wanted to commemorate the history of the Philippines and educate younger children. This is also to ignite nationalism to the young ones. The main celebration of the Independence Day happened at Rizal Park, where Vice President Leni Robredo graced the flag raising ceremony at the Rizal Monument and laid a wreath at the tomb of national hero Jose Rizal.
This year is the country’s 121st celebration of independence from Spain. While José Rizal’s death in December 1896 initiated a movement of nationalism and political consciousness, the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain was proclaimed on June 12, 1898 in Kawit, Cavite.
Since then, the government commemorates this day with celebrations and national events.


The Tour guide Muhammad Swefy
Tour guide and Library Assistant
Muhammad Swefy (Abridged Biography)
Born in 1982, in Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Historic District, Islamic Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Has lead hundreds of people on tours around the local areas in Al Darb Al Ahmar and Al Gamaleyya historical districts.
Guided foreigners to Naguib Mahfouz trilogy neigbourhoods.
Has lead tours to the pyramids of Giza and sphinx, Saqqara, the Egyptian museum, the Coptic Cairo… etc,
Guided hundreds of people around almost every corner of Islamic Cairo, especially the hidden, unknown and neglected treasures inside the medieval alleyways.
Worked as techical support adviser at Vodafone UK Tech. 1
Worked as a tour guide at the Guest-Relations Dept. of Al-Azhar park.
Worked as an Assistant at Standard Engineering company in Cairo, in which he attended several tenders /bids concerning engineering equipments and spare parts.
Worked in telecommunication arena for Axmonia website.
Participated in the translation of medieval manuscripts at the Egyptian National Archives bldg.
Worked as a Circulation Assistant at the American university in Cairo’s Main library.
Served as an interpreter for famous international writers and journalists together with magazine contributors around the world during the time of the Egyptian revolution 2011-2012. Such as, National geographic Washington, the Swedish Radio, Il Fatto Quotidiano; among others.
Worked as Library Assistant at the Tahrir Library (The American University in Cairo).
Drove several golf car tours and lead several walking tours around Al-Azhar Park and its surroundings, as well as Al-Muizz Li-Deen Allah Street.
Taught English as a Second Language.
Taught Arabic as a foreign Language.


Revolution – a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system – conjures up images of a banana republic where the “strongman” overthrows the existing government at the end of a gun and institutes totalitarian control over the hapless nation. Revolution in the United States brings to our remembrance our own “Revolutionary War” where we did, indeed forcibly overthrow the British government and instituted ultimately our constitutional republic that served our nation very well for nearly two centuries, with a hiccup or two along the way.
So, why do we need a revolution now? Are we at the critical crossroad that a forcible overthrow of our government is required? Aren’t we still the United States of America, still a constitutional republic? Well, are we? Is our government as currently constituted the government our founders envisioned and put in place? Is our social order of the kind that served our nation very well for most of its history? If your answer is NO to both of those questions, then what options do we have to return to what we once were? We have only two choices, we can either change through the ballot box or through a forced change by unconventional political means.
There is a battle that has raged for some time in our nation, a battle that traditional Americans at first scoffed at, then gradually began to understand as all that made this nation great has been witnessed to have been stripped away, one plank at a time.
Pat Buchanan warned of the war that has been thrust upon us by those who want to transform America during his 1992 Republican National Convention speech when he said,
“Friends, this election is about more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe and what we stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the Cold War itself. For this is war is for the soul of America.”
As you may recall if you’re old enough, Mr. Buchanan was roundly scoffed at by democrats, their media and the republican establishment types. They viewed as foolishness, Mr. Buchanan’s assertion that a “war” of this sort raged within our borders. Now, nearly a quarter century later, recreational drug use is legal in two states, sodomy has been legalized and of course recently the “right” to marry has been granted to homosexuals by Supreme Court diktat, while Christianity, the founding ethos of our nation is increasingly being criminalized.
This and subsequent writings really aren’t intended to address silly liberal arguments intended to appeal to their cult followers. This site is not a racist sight. Great Americans of all races and persuasions do participate in what I call traditional America and are as offended as I am at what our nation is quickly becoming. Yes, many of our founding fathers were slave owners. Slavery was a very common practice in all corners of the world. The serious minded knows that it was almost exclusively British and American Christians that led the battle against the scourge of slavery which finally ended it in the civilized west.
Yes, we concede that our United States Constitution allowed for slavery and yes, African slaves were only counted as 3/5ths of a person which liberals would deceptively claim meant that they were something less than human. However, the serious and truthful mind knows that fraction was intended to limit the total population of the slave holding states and thus reduce their number of congressmen. It was intended NOT to allow more political power to reside in the slave states unfairly, simply off the backs of their slaves. Yes, we concede that the democrat party was the party of slavery and the lighter but still ugly subjugation of the African population following the Civil War for nearly a century until various infringements on their rights as citizens were finally abolished a half century ago.
The United States is not heaven, it has always been populated by fallible men, but men like the world has never known before in such a concentration in one place. Men that had a vision to create something very unique, something very powerful as it unleased the unlimited potential of humanity in an environment of freedom and peace under the morally straight structure of Christianity. For all of its real and imagined flaws, nothing has ever existed in the annals of history like the United States of America. Liberals destroy it at their peril and the peril of the whole world itself.
It was Robert H. Jackson who said,
“whenever we reproach our own imperfections, as we ought often to do, we must not forget that our shortcomings are visible only when measured against our ideals, never when put beside the practical living conditions of the rest of the world. We have by Constitution, by legislation, and by judicial decision translated the Declaration out of the language of abstract philosophy into the idiom of everyday living. We have validated democratic principles by our success.”
Is there a need at this moment in time to radically alter the present course of our nation? Those who have their eyes open, I believe, will say yes. Following chapters will present the case that drastic measures are now needed before the grand experiment known as the United States of America comes to an end. The clock is striking midnight and the bell has pealed out 11 tolls of the 12 already.


Did Toronto miss out???
The man who started it all... Frederick Law Olmsted was the founder of the Landscape Architecture profession.
His creativity combined with his design principles had bridged the gap between the engineered environment of a city-scape and Nature itself. He designed as if Nature was there first and the man-made landscape came after.
The photo on the left is a look at Olmsted's Summit Chalet in Mount Royal (Built in 1931... 28 years after his passing.)
Olmsted's most famous work can be seen in New York City's Central Park , which is a green oasis built amongst the structured city. He has done many other projects scattered around the U.S. and a few projects here in Canada: Most popular; Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Now this may come as a shock to some Torontonians...
Olmsted at one time was being asked to come to our grand old city and work his magic!!! Where you ask??? The Toronto Islands! Yes, since way back in the late 1800's, there existed the debate about what to do with the stretch of sandy deposits on our waterfront.
The Island system was formed from the Scarborough bluffs eroding away for many years and depositing it's sand into Lake Ontario. The Lake currents along with easterly moving storms carried the sand westward (pre-Tommy Thompson Park construction) where it met the Don River Wetlands (The wetlands no longer exist today due to city development). The sand deposited to form the Island's present day location.
In the late 1800's, the Toronto city council was divided on bringing Olmsted here to beautify our Lakeshore. The end decision was that Toronto did not need to bring in an "American Planner" to make a Canadian park! Instead they decided to leave it up to the city planners of the time! Yet another good decision made by our local government....if you live in Toronto, you would see on occasion, the Island still gets heavily debated over what to do with some of it's areas.
Had Olmsted been hired for his services as a Landscape Architect by the city all those years ago, the Toronto Island would have been forever treated as an historic treasure and would have added even more value to the waterfront.


The list of famous figures who have donned a Panama hat is a lengthy one, with Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and even Napoleon III having worn Panamas. Movie stars, too, are often seen wearing a Panama hat, with the likes of Paul Newman and Charlton Heston having sported this elegant headwear on screen.
So just what is the story behind this icon, and, more importantly, where can you find the most authentic and best quality Panama?
You would be forgiven for thinking that the Panama hat originated in, well, Panama, but in fact the renowned garment hails from the Andean country of Ecuador. At the height of hat production in the mid 1800’s, the name was coined as a clever marketing ploy; in order to increase the popularity of the hat it was named after Panama, which at that time (and indeed to this day) was a busy trading post for those crossing the Panama isthmus between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific ocean – hugely important for bolstering trade with big cities on the east coast of the USA.
It is believed that variations of the Panama have been worn for as much as 4,000 years. It can sometimes takes craftsmen months to make the hat, which is produced by skillfully weaving together a strong type of palm straw that is native to Ecuador. The quality is sometimes so excellent that it can appear that the hats are made of fine linen.
The Panama was in popular use by the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (which encompassed modern day Ecuador). The conquistadors liked the look of the hat and its popularity soon took off. They noticed a resemblance between the hat and a Spanish hat called the toque and began to call the hats Toquillas, and the straw from which the hats were weaved they named paja toquilla.
Today there are many styles of Panama hat, which vary in colour, shape and style. The most traditional and common type is light beige with a thick black band above a broad rim, though there are also versions that are darker shades of brown and with thinner rims.
When in Ecuador you will never be short of chances to buy yourself a Panama hat. A good place to buy a Panama is on La Ronda street in the capital city Quito where many hat makers ply their trade. A great number of hats are also produced in the southern city of Cuenca.
The most authentic and best quality hats, however, can be found in the town of Montecristi, where there is a strong tradition of Panama production. You can find Panama hats in the market here for as little as five dollars. Montecristi lies about 5 miles south of the coastal town of Manta and can be reached on the bus between Manta and the port of Guayaquil.
Generally speaking, if you buy a Panama hat from any vendor, make sure that it was crafted in Montecristi and you can be more confident that it will be of the best quality.


Melissa Cemetery – Melissa Texas – Collin County
Melissa Cemetery is both a recognized State of Texas Historical Cemetery and a recognized Historic Texas Cemetery which contains approximately 1244 marked graves and an unknown number of unmarked and lost graves. To date, there are 105 veterans buried in Melissa Cemetery documenting The Mexican American War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Iraq War. There are also stones recognizing 16 Masonic Members, 3 Eastern Star Members and 11 Woodsmen of the World.
The oldest graves in the cemetery are those of William M. Sherley (1856) and Lewis Sherley (1867) who may have been originally buried in a family cemetery on the nearby farm of Lewis Sherley,(which later became the St. Paul Cemetery) and relocated west of Shirley creek to this site when the Melissa Cemetery was formerly established in 1889.
Many of Melissa’s first residents came from the Highland Community approximately 2 miles north of the present-day Melissa which virtually vanished around 1872 with the coming of the Houston and Texas Central (H&TC) railroad through Collin County. Some of the cemeteries that served Melissa prior to the 1889 formation of Melissa Cemetery were Highland, Orenduff, Stony Point, Throckmorton, St. Paul, and numerous small family cemeteries.
The Melissa Cemetery is an active cemetery and is cared for by the Melissa Cemetery Association. Family histories, historical documentation or copies of family deeds may be sent to the Melissa Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 222, Melissa, TX 75454.NamesLinks


General Wilmer F. Lucas
In 1964 General Wilmer F. Lucas joined the BCS Board of Directors, bringing his expertise to BCS after a career of distinguished service. In 1929 he became the first African American Certified Public Accountant in New York, helping to open up the profession to other African Americans. Later, in the midst of his impressive career as a CPA, General Lucas served with distinction in World War II, earning the Legion of Merit. BCS was proud to benefit from the service of General Lucas for 16 years.


So here's a thought where did the idea to squeeze ourselves into uncomfortable denim wear come from???
Casting an eye back over the past century it is apparent the post war bohemian art culture, where ‘modern’ was the order of the times is the best place to start. Rising up in the Mid 50’s icons such as Audrey Hepburn began wearing skin tight clothing. Adapted from dance clothing such as leotards and leggings, skinny trousers and denim could display the lean body, a nod to the artistic minimalism of the time and (for women at least) a direct rebellion to the confines of oppressive gender attitudes of fashion past.
The drug addled and emaciated ‘celebrities’ made famous by Warhol in the 60’s, continued this trend. Skinny trousers are the uniform of the hard-edged and underfed factory regulars. Edie Sedgwick’s regularly in nothing but black tights, and Twiggy, supermodel of the time when not wearing a super mini would sport such styling. But this was also the time for the less ‘arty’ male to take on skinny leg wear. This time in the form of skin tight Suits championed by the English Mods.
The trends continued through into the 70’s remaining a staple look of punk culture although the mainstream had become accustomed to flares. It was in the early 80’s however that came The Spandex Revolution and a rebirth of the leg-hugging look. It wasn’t only the punks now that were showing off the curves of their pins but the seemingly aerobics influenced MTV generation where Madonna and Olivia Newton John were the queens of the scene. Motley Crue and other ‘hair bands’ choose Lycra spandex infused denim as a wardrobe mainstay, another challenge to what was acceptable for male identity.
Finally the mainstream had taken heed. Donna Karan dresses the new generation of toned, take-charge female business executives; the shoulder pads, bold black jackets, ostentatious gold jewelry, and leg-hugging black pants with high waists. Followed was a decade of closets filled with stretch stirrups and jodhpurs, strong shapes and block colours.
The 90’s lost the look rebelling against the 80s trends and opting for the neutral tone mish mash of styles gone by that was the 90’s. It wasn’t until the early to mid 2000s that skin tight made a comeback. Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga exiles the now fashion faux pas that was the bootleg cut with a collection reminiscent of scuba gear. But filtering down off the runway, cutting edge male and female musos sport the figure hugging attire, a new generation, paying homage to their bohemian forefathers who brought forward music & art and clearly the foundations of modern style. Band boys are wearing them, Supermodels are wearing them, Skinny is clearly here to stay.


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The Inca civilization was located in the region where he is currently Peru and nearby regions. It was a pre-Columbian civilization was at a very advanced when the Spanish arrived. Archaeologists working on excavations in land Inca mummies found 6 dogs and four funeral bundles with mummified children belonging to the Inca period.
After studied, said the dogs were mummified 500 years, and were in excellent condition, still had hair and all teeth were wrapped in cloth. Although studies have not been able to determine the race to which they belonged, but all had the same feature. For his strong teeth are thought to be domestic dogs, but are hunted.
What if you have been told is that the Incas had pets which felt like family, because if the mummified was because they were loved, and if they were with the children, are especially valuable, though still not known it is.
The discovery was made in access to the pyramid 7 Pachacamac Sanctuary south of Lima. X-rays are waiting to see if they were used for hunting, and know more about them. Are expected to know more about the ancient Peruvian dog also wants to know if it relates to the Chiribaya dog.
Since 1990 it has found about 80 graves with mummified dogs, with humans, Chiribaya to 1,200 km. southeastern Peru. The only dog Peruvian Cultural Heritage is recognized as the hairless dog, which according to studies lived in Peru from 300 BC


All of us are built upon the bones of the dead. The experiences of loss are part of what make us who we are. We talk about survivors, but if the tragedy is large enough, painful enough, traumatic enough, then the person who walks into the room isn’t the same person who walks out of it. In a way, none of us are survivors, because the person we were dies on that floor, on that road, in that moment, with the people we lose. We walk away, we’re still alive, but everything we thought we were is brought into question if the loss is big enough.
The Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington DC.
Memorial day was originally Decoration Day, to remember the Fallen from the Civil War. It was a war like no other that America has fought in because of how much it divided our country. Brother fought brother, father fought son, families literally met each other across the battlefield lines time and time again. We lost 620,000 people, which is still the largest loss of American life in a single armed conflict, before or since. We needed a way to mourn all our dead, those that fought on “our” side, and those we loved that fought on the “other” side. So Decoration Day was born, and then there was World War I, where Europe lost, from best estimates, 15% of it’s men between the ages of 18-30. An entire generation of men and countless civilians were lost across the face of Europe. Americans came to fight, to bleed, and some to die, but we did not lose the number that some of our European allies and enemies lost, because it wasn’t our fight at first, and it was never fought on our home soil like our Civil War. It was supposed to be the war that ended all wars because it was fought at such a terrible cost; but we all know that it wasn’t the last war.
World War II came and this one didn’t kill as many soldiers but it still made us pay in a loss of life that no one expected. The soldiers that helped free the concentration camp victims would tell stories of horrors beyond imagining. One of the reasons it hurt the consciousness of Europe, and us, is that we considered the Germans civilized. Germany wasn’t the idea of a barbaric nation, which was still something that people believed sincerely then, that the poor, uncivilized savages could be forgiven atrocities because they didn’t know any better; “we,” meaning the civilized world, hadn’t taught them our ways yet. The Germans had given the world Wagner, Brahms, Beethoven, and Handel, Goethe, Rilke, Heine, and Schiller, the Dusseldorf school of painting, Cornith, Caspar David Friedrich, Franz Marc, and Albrecht Durer – they were “us.” For the soldiers who freed the camps of WWII in Europe, and those who would come later to help gather evidence of the crimes committed, the thought that seemed to bother them the most was that the people who did this evil, and it is evil by any definition I am aware of, were fellow Europeans, and for Americans there was still this ideal that the Europeans were more cultured than we were. But what was behind the barbed wire, written in meticulous detail, was barbarism on a grand scale. Let me add that America interred Japanese Americans in our own camps. We didn’t do the experiments and atrocities that the Nazis did, but it is still a black mark on our country. There were Japanese Americans that fought on our side in the war while the rest of their families were prisoners. So much horror, so much gone wrong; for some reason I thought this was when Memorial Day became an official three day holiday, but I was wrong.
It was 1971 when then President Richard Nixon made Memorial Day a national three day weekend. It wasn’t WWII with it’s more clear cut rights and wrongs, but the Vietnam War that gave us the holiday as we know it. I was totally puzzled for a few minutes as I reviewed the history, and then I realized that if ever America had needed a holiday to remind us that our soldiers had given their lives first in the Revolutionary War that made us a country, through two World Wars, the Korean Conflict/War, and others, it was then, during the most unpopular war that we had ever fought. 1971 and the Vietnam War was part of what would forever change our country and how we viewed a lot of things. It was the end of an almost childlike faith that America had, that we were the good guys. We would come out of this time in our history far less sure of many things and out of that confusion came Memorial Day.
I wish that I could stop this blog here in the ’70’s, but the losses have continued. We have sent hundreds of thousands of our men and women to foreign lands for one conflict or another since then, including the on-going conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world. This is the weekend to remember those who never came home.
Veterans Day on November 11 is the anniversary of the Armistice of WWI. It’s the day we thank the men and women who have served our country. Hug a vet, shake their hands, say thank you for your service, on Veterans Day. It’s a day to let them know we appreciate them. Memorial Day is for remembering the Fallen, those that gave their all to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, because that’s what their oath is to; not the President, not any of the politicians, but to the document that formed our country. They fight and die for our freedoms, not just freedom, but specific freedoms guaranteed us in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Soldiers can have as many issues with our politicians as the rest of us, they didn’t give their oath of fidelity to the politicians in Washington but to the very concepts that forged our nation. They gave their word they would defend their country from all enemies both foreign and domestic, and for some men and women their word is still their bond, honor is still a real concept and not just a pretty word in a speech. Truth, honor, respect, these words should still mean something to all of us.
While you’re grilling that steak, or watching your kids play in the pool, remember that this weekend is to honor and remember those that couldn’t come home. The men that aren’t there to grill for their family. The children that are motherless because their mother gave her life for her country. Those that couldn’t come home to their wives, their husbands, their loved ones. You can disagree with the politics that sent them to war, and trust me a lot of military men and women do, but they do their duty because they took an oath to do just that.
This weekend is for the Fallen, regardless of politics. It is to honor those who truly gave their all in service. If that’s not worth a moment of silence and prayer, I don’t know what is.


Duparquet Copper Cookware
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Originally established in 1852, Duparquet, Huot, & Monuese, Co. was the predominant US manufacturer of commercial ranges and copper cookware through 1936 when it succumbed to the Great Depression. Many of the original copper pieces have survived the years and are highly prized by collectors and gourmet cooks today.
Duparquet was reborn when Jim Hamann discovered his calling for the art of copper, a pivotal moment at age 36 in the rolling hills of Burgundy. Hamann now makes Duparquet copper with pride, in honor of its history, bringing back a time when things were built to last. Hand-crafted in Rhode Island with the finest materials available, these new Duparquet pieces are designed to last more than a lifetime - they will surely last for generations!


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Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK)
GWK, stand for Garuda Wisnu Kencana, which located in Bukit Jimbaran, is a giant wisnu statue on garuda birds. The statue Designed and built by Nyoman Nuarta. Total building will be standing 150 meters tall with its wings span 64 meters across.Tourist Places » Monument
Taman Ujung Soekasada
Taman ujung or Ujung Water Palace, or Taman Soekasada Ujung, was built in 1919 by the King of Karangasem, I Gusti Bagus Jelantik. The taman ujung palace was majestically built to welcome and to serve important guests and Kings from neighboring countries.Tourist Places » Monument


Park Farm is a collection of Grade II Listed Victorian agricultural buildings arranged as a model farm. The existing buildings included a cider bar, dairy, granary and a turkey shed.
Our client had bought the complex with a view to residential conversion and appointed us following a negative response from the local planning and conservation officers to his original proposals.
Working closely with the client's planning consultant and the local conservation officer we developed a fresh scheme for the conversion of the buildings into eight residential units. Our proposals were granted planning and listed building consent at first submission.
This was a challenging project; all conversion works had to be undertaken without the creation of additional openings in primary elevations and sensitive conservation repairs and reinstatement works were required, both in order to protect and preserve the buildings and to obtain the necessary consents. These requirements had to be balanced with the client's requirement to maximise the development potential for the site.


The New Revolution - Classic
The Revolution was the world’s first 360-degree looping coaster.
Opening on May 8, 1976, it was originally named the Great American Revolution in honor of the country’s bicentennial celebration. This white steel track coaster is built into the park's lush hillsides and features a fast and furious series of steep, daring dips and dives inspired by those experienced on old-fashioned wooden coasters. Revolution reaches speeds of 55mph over the 3,457 feet of track. One of the most famous and iconic looping roller coasters in the world – and the very first roller coaster to ever feature a full vertical loop, Revolution has remained everybody’s favorite classic ride for a reason.
In 2016 to commemorate the 40th anniversary, The New Revolution was reopened with newly designed trains, special ride effects, and a new look. The beloved steel roller coaster that has thrilled over 45 million guests in its 40-year reign at the park, has been repainted a brilliant white and blue color, while the newly designed trains have been fitted with lap and calf bars, and features Americana red, white and blue colors with a silver eagle hood adornment. For coaster fans, the elimination of shoulder harnesses provide a smoother, sleeker ride experience with more airtime.
Over the years, Revolution has had many cameo appearances in popular television shows and movies, most famously in the 1983 classic National Lampoon’s Vacation.
Lonely, frustrated, and bitter — for reasons nobody can explain — the demons are on a mission to bring others into the fountain pit of misery they call home.
These demons claim to have been disrupted by the construction of the Valencia Falls at the turn of the century roller coaster in 1976. From the back seat, they reach out. The vehicle twists and careens on the track, tossing riders at every turn.
What drives these lost and crazed spirits? Perhaps, the thrill of new residents makes their horrible world more bearable. Maybe, we’ll never know…
Minimum height for this ride is 48″.
The New Revolution Plaza


Northeast Insurance - Metro West has been providing complete insurance services since 1989. They represent 25 insurance carriers, guaranteeing the most appropriate & cost effective policies. 6 local Massachusetts offices to conveniently serve your insurance needs.
Grammy Winning Charles Neville (of the legendary Neville Brothers) and Grammy Nominated, gold record earning Youssoupha Sidibe and The Mystic Rhythms. Their performance encompasses the diaspora of West African music and culture. Bringing together the sounds of blues, jazz, Caribbean music, and African music with a strong reggae sound.
When: Jan 25, 2014 7 PM to Jan 25, 2014 9 PMin Wellfleet, Massachusetts Cost: 28.00 General Admission 30.39
Last spring Cape Cod music history was made as long-time, premier Cape jazz musicians Bruce Abbott and Bruce McKelevey played together for the first time. The duo delievered the sell-out crowd an unforgettable performance. On January 11th, Bruce and Berke will play together once more for another epic show of top notch jazz...prepare for a night of music that just might blow your mind!
When: Jan 11, 2014 7 PM to Jan 11, 2014 9 PMin Wellfleet, Massachusetts Cost: 12.00 General Admission 13.59
SYNOPSIS: "Portrait of Wally”, Egon Schiele’s tender picture of his mistress, Walburga (“Wally”) Neuzil, is the pride of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. But for 13 years the painting was locked up in New York, caught in a legal battle between the Austrian museum and the Jewish family from whom the Nazis seized the painting in 1939.
PORTRAIT OF WALLY traces the history of this iconic image – from Schiele’s gesture of affection toward his young lover, to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi, a Jewish art dealer fleeing Vienna for her life, to the post-war confusion and subterfuge that evoke THE THIRD MAN, to the surprise resurfacing of “Wally” on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1997.
The “Wally” case brought the story of Nazi art loot into the open, eventually forcing museums in Europe and the U.S. to search their own collections for suspect objects. Many museums ended up returning art to Jewish families who had abandoned hope until “Wally” showed that institutions could be held accountable for holding property stolen during the Holocaust. The case was resolved in dramatic fashion in the summer of 2010, but only after the history of Schiele’s extraordinary painting was unearthed to revisit the crimes of the Holocaust and to witness the reluctance of major institutions in Europe and New York to send the “last prisoners of war” back to their families.
PORTRAIT OF WALLY the documentary takes you on that journey. The 13-year war over “Wally” was more than a dispute over property stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. It was a battle over history and memory. This time, the truth won
When: Dec 12, 2013 7 PM to Dec 12, 2013 9 PMin Wellfleet, Massachusetts Cost: 10.00 General Admission 11.49
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Karoo Primary School is located in Rowville, one of Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs. The school opened in 1992 to accommodate the children of young families who moved to the new area. The Rowville area was zoned until 2011, being bordered by Kelletts Rd, Napoleon Rd and Taylors Lane. The school enrolment peaked at 721 in 2007.
The founding Principal was Mr Len McCarrick. The Assistant Principal was Mr Rob Nelson. The school was established with 10 permanent classrooms, a gym, music and art specialist rooms.
Following Mr McCarrick’s retirement in 1996 there were several short term Principals including Mr Stan Szuty and Mrs Cynthia Merrill until the appointment of Mr Graeme Caudry in 1997. Mr Caudry’s tenure lasted until 2001 when he departed for Croydon Hills PS and Mr Jim Harry was then appointed until 2011. Mrs Irene Harding served as Principal until 2019 and is now working at Region. As Mrs Harding was seconded to work at the Regional office from 2017-2019, Mrs Vines was in the role of Acting Principal with Ms Fiona Marker in the role of Acting Assistant Principal. Mrs Leanne Vines has recently been appointed as Principal. Assistant Principals over the duration have included Mr Jim Harry, Mrs Sue Boyd, Mr David Mann, Mrs Jo Wall, Mrs Sue Graham and Mrs Leanne Vines.
In 1999, School Council went ahead with the purchase of a Mod 5 building to be built by Chisholm Institute of Technology. This building was to house a Computer Lab, a Multipurpose Room, Reading Recovery Room and Meeting Room. In more recent years it provides a base for the Out of School Hours Care Program.
An extensive middle school playground was also installed.
Extensions to the Prep playground were undertaken and a shade cloth sail installed over the sandpit.
In 2000 enrolments at that point were 607.
In 2002 the 3rd basketball court was established. Several more Mod 5s were placed on the site to cater for growth. Anti graffiti paint was placed on all the portables. As part of the 10th birthday celebrations student pavers were placed near the hardcourt.
In 2004 shade sails were erected over the Middle School and Prep playgrounds in the school colours of yellow and green.
The school purchased the Community Centre. This was the culmination of considerable planning and effort. It created vital spare space, which could be used for a multitude of purposes including Reading Mastery and offices for Special Services.
Work was continued at the western end of the school where “Mt Karoo” began to take place. A range of gum trees were planted, along with ground cover plants, and a gravel track was created across the top of it.
2007 saw the construction of the 6 room building known as the Middle Years Complex. We also installed the artificial turf between the two original building wings and created the dry river creek bed.
In 2008 the administration building was upgraded to what it is today.
In 2009 we installed the artificial turf and athletics track, using Federal government funds and then in 2010, under the Building the Education revolution, the 4 classroom building was created.


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In 2016, RocaConcepts organised the successful exhibition ‘The Bath History – A Historical Retrospective’ in Hong Kong, so as to celebrate the beautiful bathroom antique pieces in the history – from the 18th century to nowadays.
Among them, the most precious royal exhibit was the dolphin-shaped toilet possessed by the Empress Sissi of Austria, by the end of the 19th century. Known as the ‘master of toilet’, the ‘Dolphin-Shaped Toilet’ is a ceramic toilet with a siphon in the shape of a dolphin – the trademark of Empress Sissi. It demonstrated that bathroom products could be personalised and decorative, besides being practical for personal hygiene.
The exhibition also displayed several exceptional Roca’s products, including the revolutionary toilet designs of the modern time.‘W+W’ is an environment-friendly combination of the washbasin and the water closet. Its clever design allows the water used in the basin to be stored, disinfected, and later reused for the toilet. The awards-wining ‘W+W’ shows how the design of today can gracefully integrate style, practicality, and sustainability.
On the other hand, ‘Alba Integrated Intelligent Toilet’ illustrates the future of toilet design. It comprises of all the functions you can dream of and provides you with a fully automatic experience. With elegant design by Pau Raviras & Carlos Torrente, ‘Alba’ represents the toilet of tomorrow sunrise with multiple functionalities.
Founded in 1917, Roca has been determined to bring the innovative and extraordinary bathroom experience to people. Started from Barcelona, Spain, the company has witnessed the inspired changes of the modern bathroom in the last century and been devoted to exploring its infinite possibilities in innovation, sustainability, technology, and design.


The Golden Jubilee Monument by Swarnjit Savi at the PAU, Ludhiana One of the earliest defining human traits is bipedalism- the ability to walk on two legs. Man in his early stages of evolution gathered fruits for food and hunted for food, leading the life of a vagabond. Numerous years of wandering brought him to a halt on the shores of the Nile and the Indus – the places that curbed his nomad- instincts and provided him reasons enough to lead a life of settlement. This new found stability made him need and make tools - tools that got made from mud, rock, wood and bones. During this period of evolution he passed through quiet emotions of fear, joy, sorrow and his expression found manifestation in symbols which years later evolved into the form of language. In his early days of settlement he domesticated sheep, goats, cows, elephants etc and started farming, thus becoming a farmer. Instead of gathering and hunting, he sowed wheat and millet. The evolutionary process later saw him lighting fire and cooking food. The core of this sculpture is Plough - the most vital human tool- the symbol of that early evolutionary stage to which can be attributed the genesis of modern day agriculture. The second important feature of the sculpture is language- in a book form- indicative of man’s evolutionary journey from symbols to words. The form of sculpture is progressive in nature as it proceeds upwards form the plough and the wheel/ gear like structure on to the ladder of the DNA technology resulting into the shape of a wheat stalk. Engraved on the sculpture is many a tale of the journey of human evolution in the form of symbols, languages, images, coins and various forms of tools. This symbolic creation in stainless steel by artist Swarnjit Savi, in the golden jubilee year of Punjab Agriculture University, is a tribute to the immense service rendered by this premier agriculture institution in adding new dimensions to agricultural advancement.


Rievaulx Abbey by MIke Cassidy
Sunday 26th August 2022
A Guided History Walk, around the old streets of Kirkbymoorside, meet 2.02pm at the Market Place Bus Stop (by The Lemon Tree). The walk will be led by Louise Mudd, of Kirkbymoorside History Group. She has a very wide knowledge of local history, and some amusing stories too. The walk will end at about 3.30pm, near The Kings Head Hotel, where there will be an opportunity to buy any of a selection of well researched booklets about Kirkbymoorside History......and you might want to buy a drink too!
The walk is a free event, but you can make a donation to Moorsbus or to Kirkbymoorside History Group if you wish to.
More to appear here in the future.
Image: Rievaulx Abbey by Mike Cassidy
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Missouri Lead Mining History by ... Further exploration led to the opening of the 4560 milelong ore trend. The last mine in the Old Lead Belt ceased operation ...
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of cavern development in an oxidized lead ore deposit and may have been one of Julien Dubuque's "Mines of Spain." Photo by Jim Dockal, University of North Carolina
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Hammond’s Candies is the largest all handmade candy manufacturer in the United States. For nearly a century, Hammond’s candy makers have relied on the recipes and techniques handed down from Carl T. Hammond, Sr. the master craftsman who started the company in 1920.
Hammond’s has grown and changed over the years, but the candy is still handmade, hand-pulled, and hand-shaped. Famous for bright, shiny, flavorful hard candies like lollipops, candy canes, pillows, and straws, Hammond’s also makes a variety of marshmallows, caramels, and chocolates. New recipes and great new products like the American Candy Company line of old fashioned candies, and backpacker’s weatherproof chocolates, are made with the same careful craftsmanship of Carl Hammond.
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The Jews are the most tenacious people in history. Hebron is there to prove it. It ties 20 miles south of Jerusalem, 3,000 feet up in the Judaean hills. There, in the Cave of Machpelah, are the Tombs of the Patriarchs. According to ancient tradition, one sepulcher, itself of great antiquity, contains the mortal remains of Abraham, founder of the Jewish religion and ancestor of the Jewish race. Paired with his tomb is that of his wife Sarah. Within the building are the twin tombs of his son Isaac and his wife Rebecca. Across the inner courtyard is another pair of tombs, of Abraham's grandson Jacob and his wife Leah. Just outside the building is the tomb of their son Joseph. This is where the 4,000-year history of the Jews, in so far as it can be anchored in time and place, began.


ISBN: 0-521-53178-0This is an absorbing account of the continuing battle to control hospital infections, from the earliest days of hospital care when bad air or miasma was thought to be the cause, to the present day and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant ?superbugs? such as MRSA and necrotizing fasciitis. It succeeds on many levels: as a fascinating social history of hospital care from mediaeval times, when patients endured verminous conditions, to the present day; as a survey of the rise, fall and emergence of new nosocomial infections; and as a chronological account of the emergence of medical microbiology and infection control. The pivotal roles of key personalities such as Joseph Lister, Florence Nightingale, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch are highlighted, and the history of this subject illuminates not only why hospitals and infections have had such an intimate and long relationship but one that seems destined to continue well into the future.
INDICE: Foreword by Bill Newsom; Preface; 1. Theories of infection: magic to miasmas; 2. Middle Ages to seventeenth century: hospitals and infection; 3. The eighteenth century: hospitals and infection; 4. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: typhus in military and civilian hospitals; 5. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: lying-in hospitals and puerperal infection; 6. The nineteenth century before Lister: military hospitals and wound infection, civilian hospitals and ?hospitalism?; 7. Theories of infection: miasmas to microbes; 8. Antisepsis to asepsis; 9. The twentieth century: hospital design and miscellaneous infections; 10. The twentieth century: emergence of antimicrobial chemotherapy and the demise of the haemolytic streptococcus; 11. Sterilization, the development of sterile services and disinfections; 12. The mid-twentieth century: the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; 13. The mid-twentieth century: gram-negative infections; 14. The control of staphylococcal and gram-negative infections; 15. Surveillance of infections and organisation of infection control; 16. New and re-emerging infections; 17. The past, present and future; Index.Ayliffe, Graham A.J.


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