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Max Keiser's Bitcoin Delusion

I have always enjoyed the rants of Max Keiser, he is quite entertaining. In fact, he makes his money by entertaining the masses, especially those prone to living in alternative "fiat-free" realities such as the cryptocurrency universe with the hope of subverting the power of "the Man" or the manipulative central banking [...] Read more →

Secretariat Wins the Triple Crown

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Mark Zuckerberg; Tulip Pusher

The Tulip Folly, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1882. A nobleman guards an exceptional bloom as soldiers trample flowerbeds in a vain attempt to stabilise the tulip market by limiting the supply.

Mark Zuckerberg has become the poster boy of modern Tulip mania. It is not clear as to whether or not he is [...] Read more →

Celsius Network Implosion: The Rest of the Story

4 November 2021; Alex Mashinsky, Celcius, on Centre Stage during day three of Web Summit 2021 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Web Summit via Sportsfile

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Proof of Stake Equals Proof of Ponzi

Ponzi schemes and MLM schemes are by design corrupt. They are designed to confuse and or hoodwink the investor or participant into believing he is buying into a surefire road to riches.

When a computer programmer designs and programs a computer program, or in the case of the crypto-world, a [...] Read more →

Bitcoin Suicide: 18,000 Jumpers

That Crypto-Punk you bullied way back in high school Became your Central Banker making you the fool

Now he's shutting down his servers and clearing out the bank While you sit there in your basement watching Alt-coins tank

Back last October when he sold you a pack of lies He [...] Read more →

Uncle Sam Provides I-Bond Relief for U.S Savers; Why Are the Banks Not Joining in the Glory?

Are you dissatisfied with the Savings Account and CD Interest Rates your bank currently has on offer?

If so, go to https://www.treasurydirect.gov and open an account. The U.S. Government's iBonds are currently earning 9.62% interest through October of this year.

Individuals may purchase $10,000 worth of iBonds per [...] Read more →

Inflation Economics: Some Useful Historical Data For The American Consumer

The rude awakening over the past year of increasingly high food and gas prices has been quite the shock for the American consumer. The U.S. Federal Government and Federal Reserve Bank's sluggish reaction to growing consumer price inflation certainly have not helped. If history is to be our guide, there is more [...] Read more →

MicroStrategy: Bitcoin Delusion Continues Making Utter Fools Out of the Tulip Buying Public

Listening to MicroStrategy CEO Saylor's naive proclamations about Bitcoin on MSBC this morning remind me of why stupid people go broke faster.

MicroStrategy—a money losing business software developer that trades under Ticker MSTR—is currently trading for an inflated price of around $168 per share. This share price could soon collapse. [...] Read more →

Exploring the Language of Propaganda: What You Need to Know

Propaganda is generally what is being passed off for news these days.

It comes from all perspectives; progressive, conservative, and marginal extremes.

Understanding the language of propaganda is necessary to enable one to quickly filter out articles written with persuasive goals as their ultimate objective. Any article that [...] Read more →

President Joe Biden's Delusional Letter to Oil Company Executives

"Energy prices are set by global commodity prices …" Federal Reserve Chairman Powell June 15th, 2022

What follows is President Joe Biden's delusional letter to oil company executives. I have added commentary to address the delusion. My comments are highlighted in yellow and parenthesis.

Dear (executive)

The Woken Collapse of Netflix; A Warning to Hulu, BBC BritBox, and Others; Go Woke, Go Broke!

Netflix is collapsing; the stock price is broken, investors are suing, employees are being laid off and subscribers are fleeing.

Oddly, Netflix and Wall Street seem to be scratching their heads, unwilling to face an uncomfortable reality.

The fact is, moviegoers world-wide are simply fed up with the [...] Read more →

FTC Rules Guiding the Jewelry, Precious Metals, and Pewter Industries

The Hope Diamond

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION16 CFR Part 23Guides for the Jewelry, PreciousMetals, and Pewter Industries

The US Government has laws guiding the business practices of the Jewelry and Precious Metals Industries. If you are unclear as a seller as to your obligations under the law as related to any [...] Read more →

How to Spot Fake Gemstone Sellers on eBay and Other Gem Selling Auction Sites

EBay is rife with fake gemstone sellers. But they are not alone. Other gemstone auction sites such as Gem Rock Auctions, and others host shifty peddlers, often unbeknownst to a few oblivious site owners. Although some sites claim to police the legitimacy of their sales, buying gemstones online will always carry risk. [...] Read more →

Millions of Used Rolex Watches Go Unsold on the Internet. Watch Company Safes are Stacked to the Gills.

Rolex watch anyone?

Seems everybody owns one these days from the local banker, barber, car barker and even the occasional newspaper delivery boy. Heck, we would assert that the newspaper delivery boy is indeed much more rare than that Rolex Submariner on his wrist.

There are several million [...] Read more →

The Mass Production of Rolex Watches: Think that Rolex on your wrist is rare? Think again.

It might surprise the watch buying public to learn that Rolex watches are mass produced.

In fact, millions of Rolex watches have been manufactured since 1929 when Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis established the Wisdorf and Davis company in London, England in 1905. The name Rolex was registered in 1908 [...] Read more →

Richard Mille Watch Prices: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

A Satire of Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger (ca. 1640) depicts speculators as brainless monkeys in contemporary upper-class dress. In a commentary on the economic folly, one monkey urinates on the previously valuable plants, others appear in debtor's court and one is carried to the grave.

For the uninitiated, Richard [...] Read more →

Art Fraud on eBay: Selling Fake Art Has Never Been Easier. Max Ernst Anyone?

Max Ernst – Photo from the Dutch National Archives

Art fraud on eBay is rampant. Whether intentional or unintentional on the seller's part, fake art remains fake art.

Lately, a seller going by the moniker gallery83fineart has an amazing collection of Max Ernst prints or photographs that are apparently signed [...] Read more →

Selling Fake Diamonds to Millenials and Generation Z: The Sucker Generations

A rose-cut synthetic diamond created by Apollo Diamond using a patented chemical vapour deposition process.

The much overused word, sustainability, has been seared into the hearts and minds of Millennials and Generation Z. Using that word, the two groups have been duped into believing some amazing myths. Among those are that [...] Read more →

The Metaverse; Welcome to the World of Virtual Delusion and Modern Tulips

Panama City, Photo by JSClark.net

There once was a man who sold the Brooklyn Bridge(three times), Madison Square Garden, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant's Tomb, and the Statue of Liberty to unsuspecting immigrants landing in New York City seeking out the American Dream. The salesman's name was George C. Parker. [...] Read more →

How to Buy an Item on eBay, Use it for 25 Days, and Get 100% of Your Money Back; The Shocking Truth eBay Doesn't Want You to Know

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The History of Gothic Art

Stefan Lochner – The Last Judgement – circa 1436

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History and Facts on American Newspaper Production from the Colonial Times Through the 1890s.

New York Times Press Run circa 1942 – Library of Congress Photograph

NEWSPAPER.-Printed sheets published at stated intervals, chiefly for the purpose of conveying intelligence on current events.

The Romans wrote out an account of the most memorable occurrences of the day, which were sent to public officials. They were [...] Read more →

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages

CHAPTER I

PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Prisons as places of detention are very ancient institutions. As soon as men had learned the way to build, in stone, as in Egypt, or with bricks, as in Mesopotamia, when kings had many-towered fortresses, and the great barons castles [...] Read more →

Son House – Death Letter Blues

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The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar

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Two Great Ideas for Product Photography

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Country House Essays Book Now in Print

Country House Essays, the book is now in print. This is an eclectic collection of both original, and historical essays, poems, books, and articles created for our loyal reader hear at CountryHouseEssays.com. It is jam packed with reprints of articles from this website. The cost is $49.95 for this massive [...] Read more →

Clarivoyance by C.W. Leadbeater

Theosophical Society, Adyar, Madras, India, 1890

CLAIRVOYANCE

by C. W. Leadbeater

Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Pub. House

[1899]

CHAPTER IX

METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT

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Westminster Confession of Faith – 1646

CHAPTER I. Of the Holy Scripture.

Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence, do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary [...] Read more →

The Geologists and The Mother-lode

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The Relation of Chemistry to the progress of Wine Making, Brewing, and Distilling

Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff, not long after he joined the division in 1883. Wiley's scientific expertise and political skills were a key to passage of the 1906 Food and Drugs Act and the creation of the FDA.

A Note on Ill-Breeding from a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem

"Saint John's Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem," black and white photograph by the British photographer Henry Dixon, 1880. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway [...] Read more →

Growing Muscadine Grapes in Tennessee

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee has a long heralded tradition of assisting farmers and growers through it's Agricultural Extension Service. The following bulletin entitled Grape Growing in Tennessee discusses the Muscadine variety of grapes among others. Muscadine grapes are often found growing wild in Tennessee. On my grandfather's West Tennessee [...] Read more →

Homemade Wine Recipes from the 16th and 17th Centuries

The Lost Art of Wine Making at Home

Some Recipes Popular a Century Ago Revived to Show How Our Forefathers Brewed Their Own Beers, Made Their Own Ciders, Distilled Their Own Liquors.

The manufacture of homemade liquors is all but a lost art. A century ago every farm [...] Read more →

Platform of the American Institute of Banking in 1919

Resolution adapted at the New Orleans Convention of the American Institute of Banking, October 9, 1919:

"Ours is an educational association organized for the benefit of the banking fraternity of the country and within our membership may be found on an equal basis both employees and employers; and in full appreciation [...] Read more →

Parting Words to Kate from The Sloop of War, Jamestown

Sloop of War Jamestown – Photo from book The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, Series 1, Vol. 3.

Several years ago, I purchased a small memory book entitled Album of Love from the mid 1800s.

Much like scrap books of today, these books were used to keep [...] Read more →

Electroplating 101

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New Orleans Street Bands

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ZZ Top at Gruene Hall

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Historic authenticity of the Spanish SAN FELIPE of 1690

Model of San Felipe

Reprinted from FineModelShips.com with the kind permission of Dr. Michael Czytko

The SAN FELIPE is one of the most favoured ships among the ship model builders. The model is elegant, very beautifully designed, and makes a decorative piece of art to be displayed at home or in [...] Read more →

The Late Rev. H.M. Scarth

H. M. Scarth, Rector of Wrington

By the death of Mr. Scarth on the 5th of April, at Tangier, where he had gone for his health's sake, the familiar form of an old and much valued Member of the Institute has passed away. Harry Mengden Scarth was bron at Staindrop in Durham, [...] Read more →

Temples, Walls, And Some of the Roman Antiquities of Bath

A Lecture Delivered at the Guildhall, March 2, 1853 by Rev. H.M. Scarth, M.A., Rector of Bathwick.

To understand the ancient history of the country in which we live, to know something of the arts and manners of the people who have preceded us, to ascertain what we owe to [...] Read more →

Gallop of the Common Horse by Eadweard Muybridge 1887

Eadweard Muybridge was a fascinating character. Click here to learn how Eadweard committed "Justifiable Homicide" after shooting his wife's lover in 1874.

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Classic Restoration of a Spring Tied Upholstered Chair

This video by AT Restoration is the best hands on video I have run across on the basics of classic upholstery. Watch a master at work. Simply amazing.

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Making a High-end Turntable

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A History of the Use of Arsenicals in Man

The arsenicals (compounds which contain the heavy metal element arsenic, As) have a long history of use in man – with both benevolent and malevolent intent. The name 'arsenic' is derived from the Greek word 'arsenikon' which means 'potent'". As early as 2000 BC, arsenic trioxide, obtained from smelting copper, was used [...] Read more →

Books Condemned to be Burnt

BOOKS CONDEMNED TO BE BURNT.

JAMES ANSON FARRER,

LONDON

ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW

1892

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WHEN did books first come to be burnt in England by the common hangman, and what was [...] Read more →

U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act – Full Text

UNITED STATES PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION ACT

TITLE I – PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION OFFICE Chapter Section 1. Organization and Publications . 1 2. Legal Provisions as to the Plant Variety Protection Office . 21 3. Plant Variety Protection Fees . 31

CHAPTER 1.-ORGANIZATION AND PUBLICATIONS Section 1. Establishment.2 There is [...] Read more →

Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book

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American Farming Circa 1954

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Fell and Moor Terrier Club circa later 1990s

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The Master of Hounds

Photo Caption: The Marquis of Zetland, KC, PC – otherwise known as Lawrence Dundas Son of: John Charles Dundas and: Margaret Matilda Talbot born: Friday 16 August 1844 died: Monday 11 March 1929 at Aske Hall Occupation: M.P. for Richmond Viceroy of Ireland Vice Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire Lord – in – Waiting [...] Read more →

The Beaufort Hunt – 1914

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Limerick Harrier's Meet at Bulgaden 2018

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Fox Hunting Season Opens 1935 – Heythrop Country at Lower Swell, near Stow-in-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

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Fox Hunting – A Great British Tradition

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Land of Hope and Glory: British Country Life – Fox Hunting

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Feeding the Hounds at Chateau Cheverny

Photo by Greg O'Beirne

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Flawed Law – The Hunting Act

Click here to read the full text of the Hunting Act – 2004

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The London Poacher

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Cocillana Syrup Compound

Guarea guidonia

Recipe

5 Per Cent Alcohol 8-24 Grain – Heroin Hydrochloride 120 Minims – Tincture Euphorbia Pilulifera 120 Minims – Syrup Wild Lettuce 40 Minims – Tincture Cocillana 24 Minims – Syrup Squill Compound 8 Gram – Ca(s)ecarin (P, D, & Co.) 8-100 Grain Menthol

Dose – One-half to one fluidrams (2 to [...] Read more →

The Shirk – An Old but Familiar Phenomena

STORE MANAGEMENT—THE SHIRK.

THE shirk is a well-known specimen of the genus homo. His habitat is offices, stores, business establishments of all kinds. His habits are familiar to us, but a few words on the subject will not be amiss. The shirk usually displays activity when the boss is around, [...] Read more →

Waterloo

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Professional Cleaning an Antique Rug

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Mudlark Regulations in the U.K.

Mudlarks of Victorian London in the River Thames, from "The Headington Magazine" 1871

Mudlarking along the Thames River foreshore is controlled by the Port of London Authority.

According to the Port of London website, two type of permits are issued for those wishing to conduct metal detecting, digging, or searching [...] Read more →

Historical Uses of Arsenic

The Intaglio Processes for Audubon's Birds of America

Notes on the intaglio processes of the most expensive book on birds available for sale in the world today.

The Audubon prints in "The Birds of America" were all made from copper plates utilizing four of the so called "intaglio" processes, engraving, etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Intaglio processes [...] Read more →

Prairie Steel and Golden Lace

Western prairie quiet broken by forged steel Sage Grouse dance, feathers of resplendent golden lace oblivious to Manifest Destiny's race Juniper trees observe from high peaks Wisps of threadbare clouds converging on progress

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Hereford Cathedral Choir Easter Sunday 2017

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Bleak City

Exhaust blackened dirty snow Bleak City cold winter sting Cars in ditches Tire chains and rock salt Doughnut shop at four am Factory whistle blows at five Hot coffee on the dashboard Eyes on the road Front wheel drive Cadillac I'll make it on time

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Harry Houdini Investigates the Spirit World

The magician delighted in exposing spiritualists as con men and frauds.

By EDMUND WILSON June 24, 1925

Houdini is a short strong stocky man with small feet and a very large head. Seen from the stage, his figure, with its short legs and its pugilist's proportions, is less impressive than at close [...] Read more →

Muscadine Jelly

Muscadine Jelly 6 cups muscadine grape juice 6 cups sugar 1 box Kraft Sure Gel or Ball Fruit Jell

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On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases by Nathaniel Bagwell Ward

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward

What follows is a chapter from Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward's 1852 treatise on terrarium gardening.

ON THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF PLANTS.

To enter into any lengthened detail on the all-important subject of the Natural Conditions of Plants would occupy far too much space; yet to pass it by [...] Read more →

A General Process for Making Wine

A General Process for Making Wine.

Gathering the Fruit Picking the Fruit Bruising the Fruit Vatting the Fruit Vinous Fermentation Drawing the Must Pressing the Must Casking the Must Spirituous Fermentation Racking the Wine Bottling and Corking the Wine Drinking the Wine

GATHERING THE FRUIT.

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Proper Book Handling and Cleaning

The following is taken verbatim from a document that appeared several years ago in the Maine State Archives. It seems to have been removed from their website. I happened to have made a physical copy of it at the time I was looking into the preservation of leather book bindings back in 2006.

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History of Britain: Rise and Fall of the Druids

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Curing Diabetes With an Old Malaria Formula

For years in the West African nation of Ghana medicine men have used a root and leaves from a plant called nibima(Cryptolepis sanguinolenta) to kill the Plasmodium parasite transmitted through a female mosquito's bite that is the root cause of malaria. A thousand miles away in India, a similar(same) plant [...] Read more →

The Metaverse; Welcome to the World of Virtual Delusion and Modern Tulips

Panama City, Photo by JSClark.net

A Conversation between H.F. Leonard and K. Higashi

H.F. Leonard was an instructor in wrestling at the New York Athletic Club. Katsukum Higashi was an instructor in Jujitsu.

"I say with emphasis and without qualification that I have been unable to find anything in jujitsu which is not known to Western wrestling. So far as I can see, [...] Read more →

Ought King Leopold to be Hanged?

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For the somewhat startling suggestion in the heading of this interview, the missionary interviewed is in no way responsible. The credit of it, or, if you like, the discredit, belongs entirely to the editor of the Review, who, without dogmatism, wishes to pose the question as [...] Read more →

The Famous Kilkenny Hunt – 1930

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Furniture Polishing Cream

Furniture Polishing Cream.

Animal oil soap…………………….1 onuce Solution of potassium hydroxide…. .5 ounces Beeswax……………………………1 pound Oil of turpentine…………………..3 pints Water, enough to make……………..5 pints

Dissolve the soap in the lye with the aid of heat; add this solution all at once to the warm solution of the wax in the oil. Beat [...] Read more →

Shooting in Wet Weather

Reprint from The Sportsman's Cabinet and Town and Country Magazine, Vol I. Dec. 1832, Pg. 94-95

To the Editor of the Cabinet.

SIR,

Possessing that anxious feeling so common among shooters on the near approach of the 12th of August, I honestly confess I was not able to [...] Read more →

Mocking Bird Food

Mocking Bird Food.

Hemp seed……….2 pounds Rape seed………. .1 pound Crackers………….1 pound Rice…………….1/4 pound Corn meal………1/4 pound Lard oil…………1/4 pound

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The American Museum in Britain – From Florida to Bath

Hernando de Soto (c1496-1542) Spanish explorer and his men torturing natives of Florida in his determination to find gold. Hand-coloured engraving. John Judkyn Memorial Collection, Freshford Manor, Bath

The print above depicts Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his band of conquistadors torturing Florida natives in order to extract information on where [...] Read more →

A Method for Hand Painting Old Ceramic Floor Tiles – A New Orleans Themed Half Bath under Staircase

Ripping up and replacing a tiled floor is a daunting and expensive task, especially should one live in a fully furnished house full of antique furniture. An alternative is to hand paint the tiles which can save thousands of dollars in furniture removal, storage expenses and labor costs. Let's not [...] Read more →

Proper Wines to Serve with Food

Foie gras with Sauternes

As an Appetizer

Pale dry Sherry, with or without bitters, chilled or not. Plain or mixed Vermouth, with or without bitters. A dry cocktail.

With Oysters, Clams or Caviar

A dry flinty wine such as Chablis, Moselle, Champagne. Home Top of Pg. Archives [...] Read more →

Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book

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A Jar of Baseball Dreams

Every home should have one to be opened in spring A jar that sits on the table full of baseball dreams

Inside will be found there pennants and things The smell of fresh cut grass and pinstriped rings A pair of old tickets to the game never played, Do you remember how cold it [...] Read more →

The English Tradition of Woodworking

THE sense of a consecutive tradition has so completely faded out of English art that it has become difficult to realise the meaning of tradition, or the possibility of its ever again reviving; and this state of things is not improved by the fact that it is due to uncertainty of purpose, [...] Read more →

Clairvoyance – Methods of Development

CLAIRVOYANCE

by C. W. Leadbeater

Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Pub. House

[1899]

CHAPTER IX – METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT

When a men becomes convinced of the reality of the valuable power of clairvoyance, his first question usually is, "How can I develop [...] Read more →

Country House Essays Book Now in Print

Millions of Used Rolex Watches Go Unsold on the Internet. Watch Company Safes are Stacked to the Gills.

Rolex watch anyone?

There are several million [...] Read more →

Max Keiser's Bitcoin Delusion

Antibiotic Properties of Jungle Soil

If ever it could be said that there is such a thing as miracle healing soil, Ivan Sanderson said it best in his 1965 book entitled Ivan Sanderson's Book of Great Jungles.

Sanderson grew up with a natural inclination towards adventure and learning. He hailed from Scotland [...] Read more →

Country House Christmas Pudding

Ingredients

1 cup Christian Bros Brandy ½ cup Myer's Dark Rum ½ cup Jim Beam Whiskey 1 cup currants 1 cup sultana raisins 1 cup pitted prunes finely chopped 1 med. apple peeled and grated ½ cup chopped dried apricots ½ cup candied orange peel finely chopped 1 ¼ [...] Read more →

Of the Room and Furniture

THE transient tenure that most of us have in our dwellings, and the absorbing nature of the struggle that most of us have to make to win the necessary provisions of life, prevent our encouraging the manufacture of well-wrought furniture.

We mean to outgrow our houses—our lease expires after [...] Read more →

Flotsam and Jetsam

Pirate plunder, sailboat trash, cruise ship waste oil cargo leaks, party boat beer cans, trawler diesel hurricane timber, tsunami tin, maelstrom hulls 1452, 1633, 1785, 1823, 1900, 1956, 1989, 2005 skulls, bones, kneecaps, shoulder blade, hip bones doubloons, pieces of eight, gold, pearls, emeralds daggers, dirks, walking planks, broadswords, canon balls sloshing, swooshing, swaying, [...] Read more →

Why Beauty Matters – Sir Roger Scruton

Sadly, Sir Roger Scruton passed away a few days ago—January 12th, 2020. Heaven has gained a great philosopher.

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On the Origin of Species – Natural Selection by Charles Darwin

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNÆAN, ETC., SOCIETIES ; AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE [...] Read more →

Electroplating 101

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Simon Mann – The Mercenary

Video courtesy of LondonReal Youtube Channel.

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Valentine Poetry from the Cotswold Explorer

St. Valentine kneeling in supplication – 1677 by David Teniers III

There is nothing more delightful than a great poetry reading to warm ones heart on a cold winter night fireside. Today is one of the coldest Valentine's days on record, thus, nothing could be better than listening to [...] Read more →

A Day of Foxhunting in Maryland

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Napoleon's Pharmacists

NAPOLEON'S PHARMACISTS.

Of the making of books about Napoleon there is no end, and the centenary of his death (May 5) is not likely to pass without adding to the number, but a volume on Napoleon"s pharmacists still awaits treatment by the student in this field of historical research. There [...] Read more →

Dr. Fred Kummerow – Cholesterol Myths Debunked

Dr. Kummerow passed away at the ripe old age of 102 in 2017.

Click here to visit Dr. Mercola's website.

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Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott

Kenilworth Abbey Fields – Photo by David Hunt

Click here to read Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott

Click here to view Kenilworth Glossary

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The King James Bible – 1611

1612 First Quarto of the King James Bible

Click here to buy a copy of the 1611 King James Bible

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The Geologists and The Mother-lode

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A Creative Approach to Saving Ye Olde Cassette Tapes

Quite possibly, the most agonizing decision being made by Baby Boomers across the nation these days is what to do with all that vintage Hi-fi equipment and boxes full of classic rock and roll cassettes and 8-Tracks.

I faced this dilemma head-on this past summer as I definitely wanted in [...] Read more →

Selling Fake Diamonds to Millenials and Generation Z: The Sucker Generations

A rose-cut synthetic diamond created by Apollo Diamond using a patented chemical vapour deposition process.

The Preparation of Marketable Vinegar

Formerly vinegar was prepared on the farm to a greater extent than now. The introduction of laws for the control of the sale of vinegar, altho intended to help the honest manufacturer, has discouraged the preparation of vinegar for sale in a small way, not because it is difficult to meet the requirements [...] Read more →

Modern Slow Cookers, A Critical Design Flaw

Modern slow cookers come in all sizes and colors with various bells and whistles, including timers and shut off mechanisms. They also come with a serious design flaw, that being the lack of a proper domed lid.

The first photo below depicts a popular model Crock-Pot® sold far and wide [...] Read more →

AB Bookman's 1948 Guide to Describing Conditions

AB Bookman's 1948 Guide to Describing Conditions:

As New is self-explanatory. It means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. This is the equivalent of Mint condition in numismatics. Fine (F or FN) is As New but allowing for the normal effects of [...] Read more →

A Couple of Classic Tennessee Squirrel Recipes

FRIED SQUIRREL & BISCUIT GRAVY

3-4 Young Squirrels, dressed and cleaned 1 tsp. Morton Salt or to taste 1 tsp. McCormick Black Pepper or to taste 1 Cup Martha White All Purpose Flour 1 Cup Hog Lard – Preferably fresh from hog killing, or barbecue table

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Bulgarian Fox Hunting

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Scotland: Rome's Final Frontier

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Old Time Recipes for Homemade Wines, Cordials, and Liqueurs

INTRODUCTION

The idea of compiling this little volume occurred to me while on a visit to some friends at their summer home in a quaint New England village. The little town had once been a thriving seaport, but now consisted of hardly more than a dozen old-fashioned Colonial houses facing [...] Read more →