On cream color goods the mark was a square with the initials of the company's name. For semi-opaque chine the eagle mark was used. A limited quantity of ware was made for their New York agents, Messrs. Land & Schafer, on which a circular mark with the firm's ...
More subtly, there is no English equivalent for the German wordSehnsucht, which denotes dissatisfaction with reality and yearning for a richer, ‘realer’ ideal. But despite lacking the word, the American poet Walt Whitman (d. 1892) was able, very successfully, to conjure both the...
The focus of every industrial revolution in history was never the development of technologies itself. Rather, it was about enhancing the quality of human life through enhanced productivity, which was made possible by inventions and innovative technologies. Then, what are the aims of the 4th ...
Climbing onto her back was not easy, and was not easy staying up there either. Mae Kham Mum liked dipping in and out of the water, and all that movement eventually threw my accompanying mahout off her back. But for me, I felt an extensive connection connecting with such a mild giant. ...
One such plant that we initially squabbled about years ago was roses. When The Tyrant informed me that we would be putting in roses that year, I initially protested. Why should we waste garden space on perennial plants that: a) don’t produce food, and b) are typically very disease-pron...
Following the dedication of the St. George Temple on January 1, 1877, the long-anticipated ordinances were reintroduced, including sealings of children to parents and priesthood adoptions. However, it was the introduction of endowments for the dead that ushered in a new era and the rise of te...
If you have any memory of long-ago news reports about this story from 1986, you know this was no chemical attack perpetrated by terrorists, no murderous act carried out by soldiers in service to some despot. No. This happened because Earth burped, and a cloud containing 100,000-300,000 ...
Long ago we stated the reason for labor organizations. We said that they were organized out of the necessities of the situation; that a single employee was helpless in dealing with an employer; that he was dependent ordinarily on his daily wage for the maintenance of himself and family; that...
So in terms of the bigger platforms – Truth Social has a long way to go. But Truth Social’s download rank in the Apple App Store currently sits in the 14th spot in the U.S. charts based on its download history. The platform was also the number #1 most downloaded free media app in...
was 20 years ago.” (This is not 100 percent accurate, but it’s not, like, zero percent accurate.) “I think that’s sort of the definition of a classic. It was a lot of fun to shoot. Not only because of all the girls in bikinis—honestly it was just a really fun, fun vi...