Catholic Religious Orders October 27th, 2023  Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the mendicant Order of Friars Minor, as painted by El Greco. Catholic religious order
Catholic religious orders are one of two types of religious institutes (‘Religious Institutes’, cf. canons 573–746), the major form of consecrated life in the Roman Catholic Church. They are organizations of laity and/or clergy who take solemn vows (in contrast to the simple vows taken by the members of religious congregations) and who live a common life following a religious rule or constitution under the leadership of a religious superior. According to the Annuario Pontificio, there are four branches of religious orders:
* Monastic orders: orders founded by monks or nuns who live and work in a monastery and recite the divine office.
* Mendicant orders: orders founded by friars or nuns who live from alms, recite the divine office, and have active participation in apostolic endeavors.
* Canons Regulars: orders founded by canons and canonesses regular who recite the divine office and generally are in charge of a parish.
* Clerks Regulars: orders founded by priests who are also religious men with vows and have a very active apostolic live.
Their intention is to imitate Jesus more closely, mainly, but not exclusively, by observing evangelical chastity, poverty, and obedience, which are the three evangelical counsels of perfection (cf. canons 599–601). They bind themselves to this form of living by taking public vows in accordance with the norms of church law. They may additionally profess to obey certain guidelines for living, since each order has its peculiar charism. Religious vows are to be distinguished from Holy Orders, the sacrament which bishops, priests, and deacons receive. Hence, members of religious orders are not part of the hierarchy, unless they are also ordained priests or deacons (sometimes referred to as “priest-monks” or “hieromonks” – a term more commonly found among the Orthodox than among Roman Catholics).
Religious orders only differ from religious congregations in the nature of their vows (solemn vs. simple), since today much of their way of live and apostolates don’t differ much. Even though the names are used interchangeably, technically, they are not the same.
Religious rules
Religious orders generally follow one of the four great religious rules: Rule of St Basil, Rule of St. Benedict, Rule of St. Augustine, and the Rule of St. Francis.
For example, a large number of the religious orders in the Catholic Church ( Benedictines, Trappists, Cistercians, etc.) observe the Rule of St Benedict, a collection of precepts for what is called contemplative religious life; others follow the Rule of St Augustine that stress self-denial, moderation, and care for those in need, whereas the Rule of St Basil, one of the earliest rules for Christian religious living, tends to be followed by monastic communities of the Orthodox Church. In addition, the individual Orders have their own regulations for the practical living out of their chosen Rule so as to be able to serve their own Order’s charism more fully.
Authority structure
A Religious Order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order’s dependent communities. An exception is the Order of St Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of “independent houses”, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the Constitutions governing the order’s global “independent houses” were approved by the pope. Likewise, according to rank and authority, the abbot primate’s “position with regard to the other abbots [throughout the world] is to be understood rather from the analogy of a primate in a hierarchy than from that of the general of an order like the Dominicans and Jesuits.”
History
Roots in Egypt and Syriac- and Greek-speaking East
From the earliest times there were probably individual hermits who lived a life in isolation in imitation of Jesus’ 40 days in the desert. They have left no confirmed archaeological traces and only hints in the written record. Communities of virgins who had consecrated themselves to Christ are found at least as far back as the 2nd century. There were also individual ascetics, known as the “devout”, who usually lived not in the deserts but on the edge of inhabited places, still remaining in the world but practicing asceticism and striving for union with God, although extreme ascetism such as encratism was regarded as suspect by the Church.
Paul of Thebes (fl. 3rd cent.), commemorated in the writings of St Jerome, is regarded as the first Christian hermit in Egypt, his withdrawal into the desert apparently having been prompted by the persecution of the Christians at the time. Saint Anthony was the first to leave the world specifically to live in the desert as a monk; St Athanasius speaks of him as an anchorite. In upper Egypt, sometime around 323 AD, Saint Pachomius decided to organize his disciples into a form of community in which they lived in individual huts or rooms (cellula in Latin), but worked, ate, and worshipped in shared space. Guidelines for daily life were drawn up (a monastic ‘rule’); and several monasteries were founded, nine for men and two for women. This method of monastic organization is called cenobitic or “community-based”. Towards the end of his life St Pachomius was therefore not only the abbot of a monastery but also the head of an entire order of monasteries.
The Greeks (e.g. St Basil the Great of Cappadocian Caesarea) and the Syriac-speaking east have their own monastic traditions (e.g. St Ephrem of Nisibis and Edessa).
Gaul
The earliest forms of monasticism in Western Europe involved figures such as Martin of Tours, who after serving in the Roman legions converted to Christianity and established a hermitage near Milan. He then moved on to Poitiers where he gathered a community around his hermitage. In 372 he was called to become Bishop of Tours, where he established a monastery at Marmoutiers on the opposite bank of the Loire River. His monastery was laid out as a colony of hermits rather than as a single integrated community.
John Cassian began his monastic career at a monastery in Palestine and Egypt around 385 to study monastic practice there. In Egypt he had been attracted to the isolated life of hermits, which he considered the highest form of monasticism, yet the monasteries he founded were all organized monastic communities. About 410 he established two monasteries near Marseilles, one for men, one for women. In time these attracted a total of 5,000 monks and nuns. Most significant for the future development of monasticism were Cassian’s Institutes, which provided a guide for monastic life and his Conferences, a collection of spiritual reflections.
Honoratus of Marseilles was a wealthy Gallo-Roman aristocrat, who after a pilgrimage to Egypt, founded the Monastery of Lerins, on an island lying off the modern city of Cannes. Lerins became, in time, a center of monastic culture and learning, and many later monks and bishops would pass through Lerins in the early stages of their career.
Italy
The anonymous Rule of the Master (Regula magistri), was written somewhere south of Rome around 500. The rule adds administrative elements not found in earlier rules, defining the activities of the monastery, its officers, and their responsibilities in great detail.
Benedict of Nursia was the most influential early Western monk. He was educated in Rome but soon sought the life of a hermit in a cave at Subiaco, outside the city. He then attracted followers with whom he founded the monastery of Monte Cassino around 520, between Rome and Naples. His Rule is shorter than the Master’s, and somewhat less legalistic. By the 9th century, largely under the inspiration of the Emperor Charlemagne, Benedict’s Rule became the basic guide for Western monasticism.
Ireland
The earliest Monastic settlements in Ireland emerged at the end of the 5th century. The first identifiable founder of a monastery was Saint Brigit, a saint who ranked with Saint Patrick as a major figure of the Irish church. The monastery at Kildare was a double monastery, with both men and women ruled by the Abbess, a pattern found in many other monastic foundations.
Commonly Irish monasteries were established by grants of land to an abbot or abbess, who came from a local noble family. The monastery became the spiritual focus of the tribe or kin group. Irish monastic rules specify a stern life of prayer and discipline in which prayer, poverty, and obedience are the central themes. However Irish monks read Latin texts, both spiritual and secular, with an enthusiasm that their contemporaries on the continent lacked. By the end of the 7th century, Irish monastic schools were attracting students from England and from Europe.
Irish monasticism spread widely, first to Scotland and Northern England, then to Gaul and Italy. Columba and his followers established monasteries at Bangor, on the northeastern coast of Ireland, at Iona in Scotland, and at Lindisfarne, in Northumbria. Columbanus, an abbot from a Leinster noble family, traveled to Gaul in the late 6th century with twelve companions. Columbanus and his followers spread the Irish model of monastic institutions established by noble families to the continent. A whole series of new rural monastic foundations on great rural estates under Irish influence sprang up, starting with Columbanus’s foundations of Fontaines and Luxeuil, sponsored by the Frankish King Childebert II. After Childebert’s death Columbanus traveled east to Metz, where Theudebert II allowed him to establish a new monastery among the semi-pagan Alemanni in what is now Switzerland. One of Columbanus’s followers founded the monastery of St. Gall on the shores of Lake Constance, while Columbanus continued onward across the Alps to the kingdom of the Lombards in Italy. There King Agilulf and his wife Theodolinda granted Columbanus land in the mountains between Genoa and Milan, where he established the monastery of Bobbio.
List of Catholic religious orders
As per the Annuario Pontificio, these are the existing approved and recognized Catholic religious orders:
| Mendicant orders |
| Official Name |
Acronym |
Nickname |
| Ordo Augustiniensium Discalceatorum |
O.A.D. |
Discalced Augustinians |
| Ordo Minimorum |
O.M. |
Minims |
| Ordo Augustinianorum Recollectorum |
O.A.R. |
Augustinians Recollects |
| Ordo Fratrum Discalceatorum B. Mariae V. de Monte Carmelo |
O.C.D. |
Discalced Carmelites |
| Ordo Servorum Mariae |
O.S.M. |
Servites |
| Ordo Fratrum Minorum |
O.F.M. |
Franciscans |
| Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum |
O.F.M. Cap. |
Capuchin Franciscans |
| Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium |
O.F.M. Conv. |
Conventual Franciscans |
| Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum |
O.P. |
Dominicans |
| Ordo B. Mariae Virginis de Mercede |
O. de M. |
Mercedarians |
| Ordo Fratrum Beatissimae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo |
O. Carm. |
Carmelites |
| Ordo Fratrum Sancti Augustini |
O.S.A. |
Augustinians |
| Ordo Ssmae Trinitatis |
O.SS.T. |
Trinitarians |
| Tertius Ordo Regularis S. Francisci |
T.O.R. |
Brothers of Penance |
| Monastic Orders |
| Official Name |
Acronym |
Nickname |
| Ordo Cartusiensis |
Cart. |
Carthusians |
| Ordo Sancti Hieronymi |
O.S.H. |
Hieronymites |
| Ordo Cisterciensis |
O. Cist. |
Cistercians |
| Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae |
O.C.S.O. |
Trappist |
| Ordo Libanensis Maronitarum |
O.L.M. |
Baladites |
| Ordo S. Benedicti |
O.S.B. |
Benedictines |
| Ordo Basilianus S. Iosaphat |
O.S.B.M. |
Basilians |
| Ordo Basilianus S. Iohannis Baptistae, Soaritarum Melkitarum |
B.C. |
|
| Ordo Fratrum S. Pauli Primi Eremitae |
O.S.P.P.E. |
Pauline Fathers |
| Ordo Basilianus Ssmi Salvatoris Melkitarum |
B.S. |
|
| Ordo Maronita Beatae Mariae Virginis |
O.M.M. |
|
| Cleric Regulars |
| Official Name |
Acronym |
Nickname |
| Congregatio Clericorum Regularium S. Pauli |
B. |
Barnabites |
| Ordo Clericorum Regularium vulgo Theatinorum |
C.R. |
Theatines |
| Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha |
C.R.S. |
|
| Ordo Clericorum Regularium Matris Dei |
O. M. D. |
|
| Ordo Clericorum Regularium Pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum |
Sch. P. |
Piarists |
| Ordo Clericorum Regularium Ministrantium Infirmis |
M.I. |
Camilians |
| Societas Jesu |
S.J. |
Jesuits |
| Canon Regulars |
| Official Name |
Acronym |
Nickname |
| Congregatio Ssmi Salvatoris Lateranensis |
C.R.L. |
|
| Sacer et Apostolicus Ordo Canonicorum Regularium S. Augustini |
C.R.S.A. |
Canon Regulars |
| Ordo Fratrum Domus Hospitalis Sanctae Mariae Teutonicorum in Jerusalem |
O.T. |
|
| Candidus et Canonicus Ordo Praemonstratensis |
O. Praem. |
Norbertines or Premonstratensians |
| Ordo Canonicorum Regularium Sancae Crucis |
O.R.C. |
|
| Congregatio Helvetica o Sancto Mauritio Agaunensis |
C.R.A |
|
| Canonici Regulares Ordinis S. Crucis |
O.S.C. |
Holy Cross |
Congregation (Catholic)
In reference to Catholic religious orders, the term congregation has two usages.
Primarily, a congregation is one of the Catholic religious institutes in which simple vows, not solemn vows, are taken. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, public vows are divided into simple vows and solemn vows. Professed members of monastic and certain other orders (e.g., the Jesuits) take solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience (the vows of religion) in which all claims to inheritances are renounced. Countries which recognized canon law as having legal force for the society would automatically enforce this religious practice. Members of religious congregations take simple versions of them, which allow for inheritance.
This innovation was introduced after the experience in the Catholic Church of the upheavals brought about the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic invasions of other Catholic countries. Thousands of monks and nuns were left to live in poverty, having forsaken any means of income to which they might have been entitled through inheritances. This was coupled with the rise of the new groups of religious men and women, whose way of life was oriented not to the ancient monastic way of life, but rather more to social service in response to the widespread poverty of the age, and to evangelization, both in Europe and overseas.
The other major use of this term is to denote the various grouping of Benedictine monasteries into independent associations, presided over by the abbot of a particular community. Thus one speaks of, e.g., the Cassinese or Camaldolese congregations. These different congregations vary in regard to the authority of the presiding abbot. Thus, in some congregations, the role of the presiding abbot is directly exercised upon the individual member of the congregation, while in others, it is more of a role of guidance to the monastic community.
List of congregations
The 2000 Annuario Pontificio lists about 1 million persons in religious institutes worldwide. This included 139,397 religious priests (and excluded 265,781 diocesan priests), 55,057 religious brothers, and 801,185 religious sisters.
The following list refers to some of the major religious congregations of the Catholic Church; it should be understood that communities using the same name may exist in also in the Anglican tradition, as well as there can be more than one Catholic congregation with the same name. Each is accompanied by its official name in English as well as the acronym (or “post-nominal initials”) commonly used to identify its members. In many cases name variations and/or alternative names are also in use. In parentheses is the year it was established.
Some organizations in the following list are not Religious Institutes because they are Associations of the Faithful and have not yet received a decree of erection to become an Institute of Consecrated Life. For this reason, this list does not verify the canonical status of an organization:
| Name |
Initials |
Founder |
Date(s) of founding |
| Adorers of the Blood of Christ |
A.S.C. |
Maria De Mattias |
1834 |
| Adrian Dominican Sisters |
|
|
1923 (1233) |
| Albertines |
|
|
1888 |
| Alexians |
C.F.A. |
|
1469 |
| Angelic Sisters of St. Paul |
A.S.S.P. |
Anthony Maria Zaccaria |
1535 |
| Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus |
A.S.C.J. |
|
1894 |
| Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate |
A.S.M.I. |
|
1949 |
| Assumptionists |
A.A. |
|
1845 |
| Little Sisters of the Assumption |
L.S.A. |
Etienne Pernet |
1865 |
| Religious of the Assumption |
|
|
1839 |
| Society of the Atonement (Atonement Friars, Graymoor Friars/Sisters) |
S.A. |
|
1909 |
| Augustinian Sisters, Servants of Jesus and Mary |
A.S.J.M. |
|
1827 |
| Society of Saint Augustine (Augustinians of Kansas) |
S.S.A. |
|
1981 |
| Benedictine Oblates of St Scholastica |
O.S.B. |
|
1984 |
| Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration |
|
|
1874 |
| Bernardine Cistercians of Esquermes |
|
Hippolyte Lecouvreur |
1827 |
| Bernardines (also call Cistercians) |
|
|
1098 |
| Bon Secours Sisters |
C.B.S. |
|
1824 |
| Brigidine Sisters |
|
|
1807 |
| Brotherhood of Hope |
B.H. |
|
1980 |
| Brothers of Charity |
F.C. |
|
1807 |
| Brothers of Christian Instruction of St Gabriel |
F.S.G. |
|
1711 |
| Brothers of Mercy of Our Lady of Perpetual Help |
F.M.M. |
|
1839 |
| Brothers of the Christian Schools (Lasallian Brothers or Christian Brothers) |
F.S.C. |
John Baptist de La Salle |
1680 |
| Brothers of the Poor of St. Francis |
C.F.P. |
Johannes Hoever |
1861 |
| Brothers of the Sacred Heart |
S.C. |
|
1821 |
| Brothers of Christian Instruction (De la Mennais Brothers, FIC Brothers) |
F.I.C. |
Gabriel Deshayes
Jean-Marie de Lamennais |
1819 |
| Camaldolese Hermits of the Congregation of Monte Corona |
Er.Cam. |
Paul Giustiniani |
1525 |
| Canons Regular of Saint John Cantius |
S.J.C. |
|
2006 |
| Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception |
|
|
1871 |
| Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem |
C.R.N.J. |
|
2002 |
| Canossians (Canossian Daughters and Sons of Charity) |
F.D.D.C. |
|
1808 |
Carmelites of Saint Elijah
Carmelitae Sancti Eliae |
C.S.E. |
|
1986 |
| Carmelites of Mary Immaculate |
C.M.I. |
|
1831 |
| Carmelite Daughters of the Divine Heart of Jesus |
D.C.J. |
|
1891 |
| Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm |
|
|
1929 |
| Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles |
|
|
1904 |
| Claretians (Claretian Missionaries) |
C.M.F. |
|
1849 |
| Claretian Sisters |
|
|
1876 |
| Comboni Missionaries |
|
|
1867 |
| Community of Betania |
|
|
|
| Companions of the Cross |
C.C. |
|
1988 |
| Company of Mary Our Lady |
O.D.N. |
|
1607 |
Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutists)
Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae |
C.I.C.M. |
|
1862 |
| Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament |
S.S.S. |
|
1659 |
| Congregation of Christian Brothers (Christian Brothers of Ireland) |
C.F.C. |
|
1802 |
Congregation of the Disciples of the Lord
Congregatio Discipulorum Domini |
C.D.D. |
|
1931 |
| Congregation of Divine Providence |
C.D.P. |
|
1827 |
| Congregation of Holy Cross |
C.S.C. |
|
1837 |
| Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries |
M.L. |
|
1865 |
| Congregation of the Mission |
C.M. |
|
1624 |
| Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix |
C.M.C. |
|
1909 |
| Congregation of Notre Dame |
C.N.D. |
|
1653 |
| Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions |
|
|
1861 |
| Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth |
C.S.N. |
|
1948 |
| Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection |
|
|
1891 |
| Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary |
SS.CC. |
|
1800 |
| Congregation of St. Basil |
C.S.B. |
|
1822 |
| Congregation of St. Joseph |
C.S.J. |
|
1873 |
| Congregation of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux |
C.S.T. |
|
1931 / 1945 |
| Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy (Divine Mercy Sisters) |
O.L.M. |
|
1862 |
| Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul |
D.C. |
|
1633 |
| Daughters of Divine Charity |
F.D.C. |
|
1868 |
| Daughters of Divine Love |
|
|
1969 |
| Daughters of the Holy Spirit |
D.H.S. |
|
1706 |
| Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception |
|
|
1904 |
| Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion |
D.O.L.C. |
|
1892 |
| Daughters of St. Francis of Assisi |
|
|
1894 |
| Daughters of St. Paul |
F.S.P. |
|
1915 |
| Daughters of Wisdom |
|
|
1707 |
| Dehonians (Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) |
S.C.J. |
|
1878 |
| Divine Word Missionaries |
S.V.D. |
|
1875 |
| Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate |
O.P. Miss. |
|
2004 |
| Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary |
|
|
1880 |
| Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin |
|
|
1856 |
| Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne |
|
|
1900 |
| Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Conception |
O.P. |
|
1861 |
| Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia |
O.P. |
|
1860 |
Christian Doctrine Fathers (Doctrinaries)
Congregatio Patrum Doctrinae Christianae |
D.C. |
|
1592 |
| Eudists (Congregation of Jesus and Mary) |
C.I.M. |
|
1643 |
Fathers of Mercy
Congregatio Presbyterorum a Misericordia |
C.P.M. |
|
1808 |
| Felician Sisters (Congregation of the Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice) |
C.S.S.F. |
|
1855 |
| Franciscan Apostolic Sisters |
F.A.S. |
|
1954 |
| Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn |
O.S.F. |
|
1858 |
| Franciscan Brothers of the Eucharist |
F.B.E. |
|
2004 |
| Franciscan Brothers of Peace |
F.B.P. |
|
1982 |
| Franciscan Clarist Congregation |
|
|
|
| Franciscan Friars of the Renewal |
C.F.R. |
|
1987 |
| Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate |
F.I. |
Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli
Fr. Gabriel Maria Pellettieri |
1970 |
| Franciscan Handmaids of Mary |
|
|
1915 |
| Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception |
F.H.I.C. |
|
1876 |
| Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary |
F.M. |
|
1942 |
| Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood |
F.M.D.M. |
|
1887 |
| Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word |
M.F.V.A. |
|
1987 |
| Franciscan Missionaries of Mary |
F.M.M. |
|
1877 |
| Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary |
|
|
1859 |
| Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Infant Jesus |
|
|
1879 |
| Franciscan Servants of Jesus |
|
|
1997 |
| Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity |
O.S.F. |
|
1869 |
| Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist |
F.S.E. |
|
1973 |
| Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary |
|
Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski |
1857 |
| Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception |
F.S.I.C. |
Refugio Morales |
1874 |
| Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate |
|
|
1893 |
| Franciscan Sisters of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother |
T.O.R. |
|
1988 |
| Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration |
O.S.F. |
|
1849 |
| Fransalians (Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales) |
M.S.F.S. |
|
1838 |
| Friars of St. Francis |
F.S.F. |
|
1993 |
| Good Shepherd Sisters |
R.G.S. |
|
1641 |
| Grey Nuns |
G.N.S.H. |
|
1738 |
| Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity |
A.A.S.C. |
|
1950 |
| Handmaids of the Precious Blood |
H.P.B. |
|
1947 |
| Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus |
A.A.S.C. |
|
1877 |
| Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mary and Joseph |
|
|
1978 |
| Hermits of Saint Bruno |
H.S.B. |
|
2001 |
| Holy Cross Fathers (Congregation of Holy Cross) |
C.S.C. |
|
1837 |
| Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (Pink Sisters) |
S.Sp.S.A.P. |
Arnold Janssen |
1896 |
| Hospital Sisters of the Mercy of Jesus |
|
|
1200s |
| Infant Jesus Sisters |
I.J. |
Nicolas Barre |
1666 |
| Institut du Clerge Patriarcal de Bzommar |
I.C.P.B. |
|
1749 |
| Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest |
I.C.R.S.S. |
|
1990 |
| Institute of the Incarnate Word |
I.V.E. |
|
1984 |
| Josephite Fathers (St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart) |
S.S.J. |
|
1893 |
| Legion of Christ |
L.C. |
|
1941 |
| Little Brothers of the Gospel |
|
|
1956 |
| Little Brothers of Jesus |
|
|
1933 |
| Little Brothers of St Francis |
L.B.S.F. |
|
1970 |
| Little Sisters of the Assumption |
|
|
1865 |
| Little Sisters of the Gospel |
|
|
1963 |
| Little Sisters of Jesus |
|
|
1933 |
| Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary |
|
|
1974 |
| Little Sisters of the Poor |
L.S.P. |
|
1800s |
| Lovers of the Holy Cross |
|
|
1670 |
| Loreto Sisters (Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary) |
I.B.V.M. |
|
1609 |
| Marian Fathers |
M.I.C. |
|
1673 |
| Marian Sisters (Marian Sisters of the Diocese of Lincoln) |
M.S. |
|
1952 |
| Marianists (Society of Mary) |
S.M. |
|
1817 |
| Marianist Sisters (Daughters of Mary Immaculate) |
F.M.I. |
|
1816 |
| Marianites of Holy Cross |
M.S.C. |
|
1841 |
| Marist Brothers |
F.M.S. |
|
1817 |
| Marists (Society of Mary) |
S.M. |
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1816 |
| Maryknoll (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America) |
M.M. |
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1911 |
| Miles Christi |
M.C. |
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1984 |
| Mission Helpers of The Sacred Heart |
M.H.S.H. |
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1890 |
| Missionaries of Charity |
M.C. |
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1950 |
| Missionaries of La Salette |
M.S. |
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1852 |
| Missionaries of Mary |
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2007 |
| Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo) |
C.S. |
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1887 |
| Missionaries of the Gospel of Life |
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2005 |
| Missionaries of the Poor |
M.O.P. |
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1981 |
| Missionaries of the Precious Blood (Precious Blood Fathers) |
C.PP.S. |
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1815 |
| Missionaries of the Sacred Heart |
M.S.C. |
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1854 |
| Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary |
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1836 |
| Missionary Congregation for the Blessed Sacrament |
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1933 |
| Missionary Society of St. Columban (Columbans) |
S.S.C. |
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1916 |
| Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem |
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1975 |
| Montfort Missionaries (Company of Mary) |
S.M.M. |
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1705 |
| Oblate Apostles of the Two Hearts |
O.A.T.H. |
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1995 |
| Oblate Sisters of Providence |
O.S.P. |
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1829 |
| Oblates of Mary Immaculate |
O.M.I. |
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1816 |
| Oblates of St. Joseph |
O.S.J. |
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1878 |
| Oblates of the Virgin Mary |
O.M.V. |
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1827 |
| Oratorians (Oratory of St. Philip Neri) |
C.O. or Cong. Orat. |
Philip Neri |
1500s |
| Pallottines (Society of the Catholic Apostolate) |
S.A.C. |
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1835 |
| Paris Foreign Missions Society |
M.E.P. |
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1658 |
| Passionists (Congregation of the Passion) |
C.P. |
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1720 |
| Passionist Sisters |
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1850s |
| Patrician Brothers |
F.S.P. |
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1808 |
| Paulist Fathers (Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle) |
C.S.P. |
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1858 |
| Pious Disciples of the Divine Master |
P.D.D.M. |
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1924 |
| Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face |
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1950 |
| Poor Clares Ordo Sanctae Clarae |
O.S.C. |
Clare of Assisi |
1212 |
| Poor Clares of Santa Barbara |
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| Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration |
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1854 |
Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon
Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici |
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1129–1312 |
| Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
P.B.V.M. |
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1775 |
| Presentation Brothers |
F.P.M. |
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1802 |
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri |
F.S.S.P. |
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1988 |
| Putri Karmel |
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1982 |
| Racine Dominican Sisters |
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1862 |
| Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer) |
C.Ss.R. |
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1732 |
| Les Religieuses de Notre-Dame-du-Sacre-Coeur |
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1924 |
| Religious of the Assumption |
R.A. |
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1839 |
| Religious of Christian Education |
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1817 |
| Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary |
R.S.H.M. |
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1849 |
| Religious of the Virgin Mary |
R.V.M. |
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1684 |
| Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan |
R.S.M. |
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1973 |
| Religious Sisters of Charity |
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1815 |
| Resurrectionists |
C.R. |
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1836 |
| Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus |
R.C.J. |
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1897 |
| Rosminians (Institute of Charity) |
I.C. |
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1828 |
| Salesians of St. John Bosco |
S.D.B. |
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1857 |
| Salesian Sisters (Daughters of Mary Help of Christians) |
F.M.A. |
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1872 |
| Salvatorians (Society of the Divine Savior) |
S.D.S. |
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1881 |
| School Sisters of Christ the King |
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1976 |
| School Sisters of Notre Dame |
S.S.N.D. |
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1833 |
| School Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis |
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1873 |
| Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters |
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1847 |
| Sister Adorers of the Precious Blood |
R.P.G. |
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1861 |
| Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest |
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2004 |
| Sisters of Adoration, Slaves of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity |
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1850 |
| Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel |
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1870 |
| Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament |
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1891 |
| Sisters of the Cenacle |
R.C. |
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1826 |
| Sisters of Charity |
S.C. |
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1633 |
| Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomaea Capitanio & Vincenza Gerosa |
S.C.C.G. |
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1832 |
| Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati |
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1829 |
| Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth |
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1858 |
| Sisters of Charity of New York |
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1846 |
| Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
B.V.M. |
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1831 |
| Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception |
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1854 |
| Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word |
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1866 |
| Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary |
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1803 |
| Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy |
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1829 |
| Sisters of Charity of Providence |
S.P. |
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1844 |
| Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth |
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1859 |
| Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition |
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1947 |
| Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul |
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1849 |
| Vincentian Sisters of Charity |
V.S.C. |
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1902 |
| Sisters of the Destitute |
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1927 |
| Sisters of the Divine Compassion |
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1886 |
| Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill |
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1870 |
| Sisters of the Holy Cross |
C.S.C. |
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1837 |
| Sisters of the Holy Family |
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1837 |
| Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth |
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1875 |
| Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary |
S.N.J.M. |
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1844 |
| Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Castres |
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Emilie de Villeneuve |
1800s |
| Sisters of Jesus, Our Hope |
S.J.H. |
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| Sisters of Life |
S.V. |
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1991 |
| Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist |
O.P. |
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1997 |
| Sisters of Mercy |
R.S.M. |
|
1831 |
| Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur |
S.N.D. or S.N.D. de N. |
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1803 |
| Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy |
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1862 |
| Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods |
S.P. |
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1840 |
| Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul |
S.P. |
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1861 |
| Sisters of La Retraite |
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Catherine de Francheville |
1674 |
| Sisters of Saint Agnes |
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1858 |
| Sisters of Saint Dorothy (Dorotheans) |
S.S.D. |
Paula Frassinetti |
1834 |
| Sisters of Saint Elizabeth |
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1842 |
| Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi |
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1849 |
| Sisters of St Francis of the Martyr St George |
F.S.G.M. |
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1869 |
| Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity |
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1835 |
| Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota |
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1877 |
| Sisters of St Joseph (Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille) |
C.S.J. |
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1650 |
| Sisters of Saint Joseph of Bourg |
S.S.J. |
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1650 |
| Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery |
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1812 |
| Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace |
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1884 |
| Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart |
S.S.J. |
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1866 |
| Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis |
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1901 |
| Sisters of Saint Martha |
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1900 |
| Sisters of St Rita |
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1911 |
| Sisters of St Therese of the Child Jesus (St Therese Sisters) |
S.S.Th. |
Maria Crocifissa Curcio |
1900s |
| Sisters of Social Service |
S.S.S. |
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1926 |
| Sisters of the Visitation |
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|
1610 |
| Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary – |
I.H.M. |
|
1845 |
| Sisters, Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara |
S.S.V.M. |
|
1988 |
| Sisters, Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus |
S.S.C.J. |
|
1894 |
Society of African Missions
Societas Missionum ad Afros |
S.M.A. |
|
1850 |
| Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls |
|
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1856 |
| Society of the Holy Child Jesus |
S.H.C.J. |
|
1846 |
| Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity |
S.O.L.T. |
|
1958 |
| Society of St. Edmund |
S.S.E. |
|
1843 |
| Society of Saint Paul |
S.S.P. |
|
1914 |
| Society of the Sacred Heart |
R.S.C.J. |
|
1800 |
| Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Order of Malta) |
S.M.O.M. |
|
1099 |
Spiritans (Congregation of the Holy Ghost)
Congregatio Sancti Spiritus |
C.S.Sp. |
Claude Poullart des Places |
1703 |
| Stigmatines (Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata) |
C.S.S. |
|
1816 |
| Sulpician Fathers (Society of Saint Sulpice) |
S.S. or P.S.S. |
|
1642 |
| Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis, Cameroon |
|
|
1700 |
| Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity |
M.V.D.F. |
|
1963 |
| Viatorians (Clerics of Saint Viator) |
C.S.V. |
|
1831 |
| Heralds of the Gospel |
|
John Scognamiglio Cla Dias |
1970 |
| Virgo Flos Carmeli (Regina Virginum) |
E.P. |
|
2001 |
| Vincentian Congregation |
V.C. |
|
1904 |
| Vocationists (The Society of Divine Vocations) |
S.D.V. |
|
1927 |
| White Fathers |
M.Afr. |
|
1868 |
| Xaverian Brothers |
C.F.X. |
|
1839 |
| Xaverian Missionaries (Missionary Society of St. Francis Xavier) |
S.X. |
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1895 |
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Wine Making Grapes are the world’s leading fruit crop and the eighth most important food crop in the world, exceeded only by the principal cereals and starchytubers. Though substantial quantities are used for fresh fruit, raisins, juice and preserves, most of the world’s annual production of about 60 million [...] Read more →
The following research discussion is from a study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Health entitled: Boschniakia rossica prevents the carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity in rat. It may be of interest to heavy drinkers. Home Top of [...] Read more →
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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 →
Reprint from The Pitfalls of Speculation by Thomas Gibson 1906 Ed. THE PUBLIC ATTITUDE TOWARD SPECULATION THE public attitude toward speculation is generally hostile. Even those who venture frequently are prone to speak discouragingly of speculative possibilities, and to point warningly to the fact that an [...] Read more →
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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 →
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 entitled Acta Durna, and read substantially like the local column of a [...] Read more →
To Clean Watch Chains. Gold or silver watch chains can be cleaned with a very excellent result, no matter whether they may be matt or polished, by laying them for a few seconds in pure aqua ammonia; they are then rinsed in alcohol, and finally. shaken in clean sawdust, free from sand. [...] Read more →
Edwin Austin Abbey. King Lear, Act I, Scene I (Cordelia’s Farewell) The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dates: 1897-1898 Dimensions: Height: 137.8 cm (54.25 in.), Width: 323.2 cm (127.24 in.) Medium: Painting – oil on canvas Home Top of Pg. Read more →
First Pineapple Grown in England Click here to read an excellent article on the history of pineapple growing in the UK. Should one be interested in serious mass scale production, click here for scientific resources. Growing pineapples in the UK. The video below demonstrates how to grow pineapples in Florida. [...] Read more →
An angler with a costly pole Surmounted with a silver reel, Carven in quaint poetic scroll- Jointed and tipped with finest steel— With yellow flies, Whose scarlet eyes And jasper wings are fair to see, Hies to the stream Whose bubbles beam Down murmuring eddies wild and free. And casts the line with sportsman’s [...] Read more →
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; [...] Read more →
Take to every quart of water one pound of Malaga raisins, rub and cut the raisins small, and put them to the water, and let them stand ten days, stirring once or twice a day. You may boil the water an hour before you put it to the raisins, and let it [...] Read more →
ON 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 [...] Read more →
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 depict a popular model Crock-Pot® sold far and wide [...] Read more →
The element copper effectively kills viruses and bacteria. Therefore it would reason and I will assert and not only assert but lay claim to the patents for copper mesh stints to be inserted in the arteries of patients presenting with severe cases of Covid-19 with a slow release dosage of [...] Read more →
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Reprint from The Royal Collection Trust website: Kneller was born in Lubeck, studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam and by 1676 was working in England as a fashionable portrait painter. He painted seven British monarchs (Charles II, James II, William III, Mary II, Anne, George I and George II), though his [...] Read more →
Hebborn Piranesi Before meeting with an untimely death at the hand of an unknown assassin in Rome on January 11th, 1996, master forger Eric Hebborn put down on paper a wealth of knowledge about the art of forgery. In a book published posthumously in 1997, titled The Art Forger’s Handbook, Hebborn suggests [...] Read more →
Mudlarks of London 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 activities. Standard – allows digging to a depth of 7.5 [...] Read more →
What is follows is an historical article that appeared in The Hartford Courant in 1916 about the arsenic murders carried out by Mrs. Archer-Gilligan. This story is the basis for the 1944 Hollywood film “Arsenic and Old Lace” starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane and directed by Frank Capra. The [...] Read more →
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 [...] Read more →
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U.S. SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS STAFF REPORT ON DIVIDEND TAX ABUSE: HOW OFFSHORE ENTITIES DODGE TAXES ON U.S. STOCK DIVIDENDS September 11, 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Each year, the United States loses an estimated [...] Read more →
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“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 →
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THE SNIPE, from the Shooter’s Guide by B. Thomas – 1811 AFTER having given a particular description of the woodcock, it will only. be necessary to observe, that the plumage and shape of the snipe is much the same ; and indeed its habits and manners sets bear a great [...] Read more →
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Foie gras with Sauternes, Photo by Laurent Espitallier 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 [...] Read more →
To Choose Poultry. When fresh, the eyes should be clear and not sunken, the feet limp and pliable, stiff dry feet being a sure indication that the bird has not been recently killed; the flesh should be firm and thick and if the bird is plucked there should be no [...] Read more →
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Baking is a very similar process to roasting: the two often do duty for one another. As in all other methods of cookery, the surrounding air may be several degrees hotter than boiling water, but the food is no appreciably hotter until it has lost water by evaporation, after which it may [...] Read more →
A Real Soda Jerk FORMULAS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Pineapple Frappe. Water, 1 gallon; sugar 2 pounds of water. 61/2 pints, and simple syrup. 2 1/2 pints; 2 pints of pineapple stock or 1 pint of pineapple stock and 1 pint of grated pineapple juice of 6 lemons. Mix, [...] Read more →
A la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres – by Chagall – 1911 Marc Chagall is one of the most forged artists on the planet. Mark Rothko fakes also abound. According to available news reports, the art market is littered with forgeries of their work. Some are even thought to be [...] Read more →
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 →
Any prudent investor would jump at the chance to receive a guaranteed 6% dividend for life. So how does one get in on this action? The fact of the matter is…YOU can’t…That is unless you are a shareholder of one of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks and the banks under [...] Read more →
Silverfish damage to book – photo by Micha L. Rieser The beauty of hunting silverfish is that they are not the most clever of creatures in the insect kingdom. Simply take a small clean glass jar and wrap it in masking tape. The masking tape gives the silverfish something to [...] Read more →
The following highly collectible Franklin Library Signed Editions were published between 1977 and 1982. They are all fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contain gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers. Signatures are protected by unattached tissue inserts. The values listed are average prices that were sought by [...] Read more →
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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 →
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PAINTER-WORK, in the building trade. When work is painted one or both of two distinct ends is achieved, namely the preservation and the coloration of the material painted. The compounds used for painting—taking the word as meaning a thin protective or decorative coat—are very numerous, including oil-paint of many kinds, distemper, whitewash, [...] Read more →
Chen Lin, Water fowl, in Cahill, James. Ge jiang shan se (Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, Taiwan edition). Taipei: Shitou chubanshe fen youxian gongsi, 1994. pl. 4:13, p. 180. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. scroll, light colors on paper, 35.7 x 47.5 cm Read more →
Felix Weihs de Weldon, age 96, died broke in the year 2003 after successive bankruptcies and accumulating $4 million dollars worth of debt. Most of the debt was related to the high cost of love for a wife living with Alzheimer’s. Health care costs to maintain his first wife, Margot, ran $500 per [...] Read more →
This massive volume gives one a real visual sense of what it was like running a highly efficient colonial operation in the early 20rh Century. It will also go a long way to help anyone wishing to understand modern political intrigue in the Middle-East. Click here to read A Survey of Palestine [...] Read more →
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 →
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Book Conservators, Mitchell Building, State Library of New South Wales, 29.10.1943, Pix Magazine 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 [...] Read more →
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Oct. 22, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 324 An Alaskan Moose Head. Tacoma, Washington; Oct. 1.—Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue of March 6, 1897, you showed cut of a pair of moose horns belonging to me that spread 73 1/2 in.— at that time [...] Read more →
“The Leda, in the Colonna palace, by Correggio, is dead-coloured white and black, with ultramarine in the shadow ; and over that is scumbled, thinly and smooth, a warmer tint,—I believe caput mortuum. The lights are mellow ; the shadows blueish, but mellow. The picture is painted on panel, in [...] Read more →
The Ardabil Carpet – Made in the town of Ardabil in north-west Iran, the burial place of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, who died in 1334. The Shaykh was a Sufi leader, ancestor of Shah Ismail, founder of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722). While the exact origins of the carpet are unclear, it’s believed to have [...] Read more →
KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS On the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. Numerous chiefs, more or less powerful, held local sway, as far as each could enforce his dominion, and occasionally those [...] Read more →
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July 9, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg. 25 Some Notes on American Ship-Worms. [Read before the American Fishes Congress at Tampa.] While we wish to preserve and protect most of the products of our waters, these creatures we would gladly obliterate from the realm of living things. For [...] Read more →
King Leopold Butcher of the Congo 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 →
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 Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Sucker The components of any given market place include both physical structures set up to accommodate trading, and participants to include buyers, sellers, brokers, agents, barkers, pushers, auctioneers, agencies, and propaganda outlets, and banking or transaction exchange facilities. Markets are generally set up by sellers as it is in their [...] Read more →
The Effect of Magnetic Fields on Wound Healing Experimental Study and Review of the Literature Steven L. Henry, MD, Matthew J. Concannon, MD, and Gloria J. Yee, MD Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Missouri Hospital & Clinics, Columbia, MO Published July 25, 2008 Objective: Magnets [...] Read more →
Fed Chariman William McChesney Martin – 1952-1970 [Editor note: This response in my mind is quite hilarious…and to the point…who the heck would want to give up 6% interest year after year after year after year? ] You HAVE ASKED that I appear before you today in connection with your consideration [...] Read more →
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 →
Oh Glorious England, verdant fields and wandering canals… In this wonderful series of videos, the CountryHouseGent takes the viewer along as he chugs up and down the many canals crisscrossing England in his classic Narrowboat. There is nothing like a free man charting his own destiny. Read more →
WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, MAGIC AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON MILITARY AND PARAMILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE CONGO This report has been prepared in response to a query posed by ODCS/OPS, Department of the Army, regarding the purported use of witchcraft, sorcery, and magic by insurgent elements in the Republic [...] Read more →
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It is a pity that the traditions and literature in praise of fly fishing have unconsciously hampered instead of expanded this graceful, effective sport. Many a sportsman has been anxious to share its joys, but appalled by the rapture of expression in describing its countless thrills and niceties he has been literally [...] Read more →
Royal Exchange and The Bank of England From How to Make Money; and How to Keep it, Or, Capital and Labor based on the works of Thomas A. Davies Revised & Rewritten with Additions by Henry A. Ford A.M. – 1884 CHAPTER XXVI BANKING AND INSURANCE. I [...] Read more →
EBAY’S FRAUD PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE EBay has had a problem with fraudulent sellers since its inception back in 1995. Some aspects of the platform have improved with algorithms and automation, but others such as customer service and fraud have gotten worse. Small sellers have definitely been hurt by eBay’s [...] Read more →
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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 cup [...] Read more →
Add the following ingredients to a four or six quart crock pot, salt & pepper to taste keeping in mind that salt pork is just that, cover with water and cook on high till it boils, then cut back to low for four or five hours. A slow cooker works well, I [...] Read more →
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 without special notice, [...] Read more →
The Hunt Saboteur is a national disgrace barking out loud, black mask on her face get those dogs off, get them off she did yell until a swift kick from me mare her voice it did quell and sent the Hunt Saboteur scurrying up vale to the full cry of hounds drowning out her [...] Read more →
Mudlarks of London 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 activities. Standard – allows digging to a depth of 7.5 [...] Read more →
From Allen’s Indian Mail, December 3rd, 1851 BOMBAY. MUSULMAN FANATICISM. On the evening of November 15th, the little village of Mahim was the scene of a murder, perhaps the most determined which has ever stained the annals of Bombay. Three men were massacred in cold blood, in a house used [...] Read more →
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From A History of Fowling, Being an Account of the Many Curios Devices by Which Wild Birds are, or Have Been, Captured in Different Parts of the World by Rev. H.A. MacPherson, M.A. THE RAVEN (Corvus corax) is generally accredited with a large endowment of mother wit. Its warning [...] Read more →
Felix Weihs de Weldon, age 96, died broke in the year 2003 after successive bankruptcies and accumulating $4 million dollars worth of debt. Most of the debt was related to the high cost of love for a wife living with Alzheimer’s. Health care costs to maintain his first wife, Margot, ran $500 per [...] Read more →
Blackbeard’s Jolly Roger If you’re looking for that most refreshing of summertime beverages for sipping out on the back patio or perhaps as a last drink before walking the plank, let me recommend my Blunderbuss Mai Tai. I picked up the basics to this recipe over thirty years ago when holed up [...] Read more →
THE FIRST step in producing a satisfactory crop of tobacco is to use good seed that is true to type. The grower often can save his own seed to advantage, if he wants to. Before topping is done, he should go over the tobacco field carefully to pick [...] Read more →
Gate of Honour, Caius Court, Gonville & Caius Gonville & Caius College, known as Caius and pronounced keys was founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, the Rector of Terrington St Clement in Norfolk. The first name was thus Goville Hall and it was dedicated to the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [...] Read more →
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 [...] Read more →
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Any prudent investor would jump at the chance to receive a guaranteed 6% dividend for life. So how does one get in on this action? The fact of the matter is…YOU can’t…That is unless you are a shareholder of one of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks and the banks under [...] Read more →
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Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, circa 1805 by Paul Sandby, watercolour on paper The Dulwich Picture Gallery was England’s first purpose-built art gallery and considered by some to be England’s first national gallery. Founded by the bequest of Sir Peter Francis Bourgois, dandy, the gallery was built to display his vast [...] Read more →
WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, MAGIC AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON MILITARY AND PARAMILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE CONGO This report has been prepared in response to a query posed by ODCS/OPS, Department of the Army, regarding the purported use of witchcraft, sorcery, and magic by insurgent elements in the Republic [...] Read more →
Cabildo circa 1936 The Cabildo houses a rare copy of Audubon’s Bird’s of America, a book now valued at $10 million+. Should one desire to visit the Cabildo, click here to gain free entry with a lowcost New Orleans Pass. Home Top of [...] Read more →
“The Leda, in the Colonna palace, by Correggio, is dead-coloured white and black, with ultramarine in the shadow ; and over that is scumbled, thinly and smooth, a warmer tint,—I believe caput mortuum. The lights are mellow ; the shadows blueish, but mellow. The picture is painted on panel, in [...] Read more →
Book Conservators, Mitchell Building, State Library of New South Wales, 29.10.1943, Pix Magazine 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 [...] Read more →
A la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres – by Chagall – 1911 Marc Chagall is one of the most forged artists on the planet. Mark Rothko fakes also abound. According to available news reports, the art market is littered with forgeries of their work. Some are even thought to be [...] Read more →
From The How and When, An Authoritative reference reference guide to the origin, use and classification of the world’s choicest vintages and spirits by Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco. The Marco name is of a Chicago family that were involved in all aspects of the liquor business and ran Marco’s Bar [...] Read more →
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How happy is he born and taught. That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance [...] Read more →
King Arthur, Legends, Myths & Maidens is a massive book of Arthurian legends. This limited edition paperback was just released on Barnes and Noble at a price of $139.00. Although is may seem a bit on the high side, it may prove to be well worth its price as there are only [...] Read more →
Dec. 10, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 477-479 Zulu. The little ship shown in the accompanying plans needs no description, as she speaks for herself, a handsome and shipshape craft that a man may own for years without any fear that she will go to pieces [...] Read more →
EIGHTEEN GALLONS is here give as a STANDARD for all the following Recipes, it being the most convenient size cask to Families. See A General Process for Making Wine If, however, only half the quantity of Wine is to be made, it is but to divide the portions of [...] Read more →
Mortlake Tapestries at Chatsworth House Click here to learn more about the Mortlake Tapestries of Chatsworth The Mortlake Tapestries were founded by Sir Francis Crane. From the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 13 Crane, Francis by William Prideaux Courtney CRANE, Sir FRANCIS (d. [...] Read more →
Over the years I have observed a decline in manners amongst young men as a general principle and though there is not one particular thing that may be asserted as the causal reason for this, one might speculate… Self-awareness and being aware of one’s surroundings in social [...] Read more →
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Baking is a very similar process to roasting: the two often do duty for one another. As in all other methods of cookery, the surrounding air may be several degrees hotter than boiling water, but the food is no appreciably hotter until it has lost water by evaporation, after which it may [...] Read more →
Dutch artist Herman de Vries – Photo taken by son Vince The two videos below of Herman de Vries at work at the Venice Bienalle 2015 are quite inspiring. So inspiring in fact that I moved into a cave for two weeks and wrote Shakespearean tragedy with charcoal. Filled with great joy [...] Read more →
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 [...] Read more →
Hudson Bay: Trappers, 1892. N’Talking Musquash.’ Fur Trappers Of The Hudson’S Bay Company Talking By A Fire. Engraving After A Drawing By Frederic Remington, 1892. Indian Modes of Hunting. IV.—Musquash. In Canada and the United States, the killing of the little animal known under the several names of [...] Read more →
Chen Lin, Water fowl, in Cahill, James. Ge jiang shan se (Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, Taiwan edition). Taipei: Shitou chubanshe fen youxian gongsi, 1994. pl. 4:13, p. 180. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. scroll, light colors on paper, 35.7 x 47.5 cm Read more →
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In July of 1968, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), published NASA Technical Report TR R-277 titled Chronological Catalog of Recorded Lunar Events. The catalog begins with the first entry dated November 26th, 1540 at ∼05h 00m: Feature: Region of Calippus2 Description: Starlike appearance on dark side Observer: Observers at Worms Reference: [...] Read more →
Today I shall share a bit of market wisdom that will be hard to swallow for some Rolex owners, especially if they bought their Submariner at the top of the magical Covid Watch Bubble that has now collapsed. History often repeats itself, even in the stock market, but when [...] Read more →
Gilbert Stewart – Sir Joshua Reynolds SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS‘ WORKING COLOURS, WITH THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE ARRANGED ON HIS PALLETTE. “For painting the flesh, black, blue black, white, lake, carmine, orpiment, yellow ochre, ultramarine, and varnish. “To lay the [...] Read more →
THE HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA Translated into English by PANCHAM SINH Panini Office, Allahabad [1914] INTRODUCTION. There exists at present a good deal of misconception with regard to the practices of the Haṭha Yoga. People easily believe in the stories told by those who themselves [...] Read more →
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King Leopold Butcher of the Congo 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 →
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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; [...] Read more →
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Hebborn Piranesi Before meeting with an untimely death at the hand of an unknown assassin in Rome on January 11th, 1996, master forger Eric Hebborn put down on paper a wealth of knowledge about the art of forgery. In a book published posthumously in 1997, titled The Art Forger’s Handbook, Hebborn suggests [...] Read more →
Oh Glorious England, verdant fields and wandering canals… In this wonderful series of videos, the CountryHouseGent takes the viewer along as he chugs up and down the many canals crisscrossing England in his classic Narrowboat. There is nothing like a free man charting his own destiny. Read more →
IT requires a far search to gather up examples of furniture really representative in this kind, and thus to gain a point of view for a prospect into the more ideal where furniture no longer is bought to look expensively useless in a boudoir, but serves everyday and commonplace need, such as [...] Read more →
by Alan Greenspan, 1967 An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense-perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire — that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument [...] Read more →
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Reprint from the Royal Collection Trust Website The meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I, known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold, took place between 7 to 24 June 1520 in a valley subsequently called the Val d’Or, near Guisnes to the south of Calais. The [...] Read more →
San Felipe Model 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 the [...] Read more →
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 →
The following recipes form the most popular items in a nine-course dinner program: BIRD’S NEST SOUP Soak one pound bird’s nest in cold water overnight. Drain the cold water and cook in boiling water. Drain again. Do this twice. Clean the bird’s nest. Be sure [...] Read more →
Tom Oates, aka Nabokov at en.wikipedia No two commercial tuna salads are prepared by exactly the same formula, but they do not show the wide variety characteristic of herring salad. The recipe given here is typical. It is offered, however, only as a guide. The same recipe with minor variations to suit [...] Read more →
Hunters at Work This is a recipe I created from scratch by trial and error. (Note: This recipe contains no eggs, refined white flour or white sugar.) 2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour – As unprocessed as you can find it 3 Cups of Raw Oatmeal 1 Cup of [...] Read more →
The downloadable audio clip is of FDR’s Second Fireside Chat recorded on May 7th, 1933. FDR 2nd Fireside Chat - May 7, 1933 - 18.5MB The transcript that follows is my corrected version of the transcript that is found The American Presidency Project website that was created [...] Read more →
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Home Top of [...] Read more →
It was a strange assignment. I picked up the telegram from desk and read it a third time. NEW YORK, N.Y., MAY 9, 1949 HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING FLYING SAUCER MYSTERY. FIRST TIP HINTED GIGANTIC HOAX TO COVER UP OFFICIAL SECRET. BELIEVE IT MAY HAVE BEEN PLANTED TO HIDE [...] Read more →
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Take to every quart of water one pound of Malaga raisins, rub and cut the raisins small, and put them to the water, and let them stand ten days, stirring once or twice a day. You may boil the water an hour before you put it to the raisins, and let it [...] Read more →
Buying a book for a serious collector with refined tastes can be a daunting task. However, there is one company that publishes some of the finest reproduction books in the world, books that most collectors wouldn’t mind having in their collection no matter their general preference or specialty. Read more →
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Silverfish damage to book – photo by Micha L. Rieser The beauty of hunting silverfish is that they are not the most clever of creatures in the insect kingdom. Simply take a small clean glass jar and wrap it in masking tape. The masking tape gives the silverfish something to [...] Read more →
William Wyggeston’s chantry house, built around 1511, in Leicester: The building housed two priests, who served at a chantry chapel in the nearby St Mary de Castro church. It was sold as a private dwelling after the dissolution of the chantries. A Privately Built Chapel Chantry, chapel, generally within [...] Read more →
Roger Scruton by Peter Helm This is one of those videos that the so-called intellectual left would rather not be seen by the general public as it makes a laughing stock of the idiots running the artworld, a multi-billion dollar business. https://archive.org/details/why-beauty-matters-roger-scruton or Click here to watch [...] Read more →
Dec. 24, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 513-514 The Standard Navy Boats. Above we find, The accompanying illustrations show further details of the standard navy boats, the lines of which appeared last week. In all of these boats, as stated previously, the quality of speed has been given [...] Read more →
Click here to access the Internet Archive of old Popular Mechanics Magazines – 1902-2016 Click here to view old Popular Mechanics Magazine Covers Home Top of Pg. Read more →
The low level of work stoppages of recent years also attests to concern about job security. Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan The Federal Reserve’s semiannual monetary policy report Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate February 26, 1997 Iappreciate the opportunity to appear before this Committee [...] Read more →
*note – Billesdon and Billesden have both been used to name the hunt. BILLESDEN COPLOW POEM [From “Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq”] The run celebrated in the following verses took place on the 24th of February, 1800, when Mr. Meynell hunted Leicestershire, and has since been [...] Read more →
St.Helen’s on the Thames, photo by Momit From a Dictionary of the Thames from Oxford to the Nore. 1880 by Charles Dickens Abingdon, Berkshire, on the right bank, from London 103 3/4miles, from Oxford 7 3/4 miles. A station on the Great Western Railway, from Paddington 60 miles. The time occupied [...] Read more →
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From Fores’s Sporting Notes and Sketches, A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Sport with Thirty Two Full Page Illustrations Volume 10 1893, London; Mssrs. Fores Piccadilly W. 1893, All Rights Reserved. GLIMPSES OF THE CHASE, Ireland a Hundred Years Ago. By ‘Triviator.’ FOX-HUNTING has, like Racing, [...] Read more →
Jul. 23, 1898 Forest and Stream, Pg. 65 Horn Measurements. Editor Forest and Stream: “Record head.” How shamefully this term is being abused, especially in the past three years; or since the giant moose from Alaska made his appearance in public and placed all former records (so far as [...] Read more →
New York Stock Exchange Floor September 26,1963 The Specialist as a member of a stock exchange has two functions.’ He must execute orders which other members of an exchange may leave with him when the current market price is away from the price of the orders. By executing these orders on behalf [...] Read more →
Citrus Fruit Culture THE PRINCIPAL fruit and nut trees grown commercially in the United States (except figs, tung, and filberts) are grown as varieties or clonal lines propagated on rootstocks. Almost all the rootstocks are grown from seed. The resulting seedlings then are either budded or grafted with propagating wood [...] Read more →
Man looks at severed hand and foot….for refusing to climb a tree to cut rubber for King Leopold Click here to read The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle Victim of King Leopold of Belgium Click on the link below for faster download. The [...] Read more →
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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 →
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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 entitled Acta Durna, and read substantially like the local column of a [...] Read more →
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 →
The Ardabil Carpet – Made in the town of Ardabil in north-west Iran, the burial place of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, who died in 1334. The Shaykh was a Sufi leader, ancestor of Shah Ismail, founder of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722). While the exact origins of the carpet are unclear, it’s believed to have [...] Read more →
by John Partridge,drawing,1825 From the work of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake entitled Materials for a history of oil painting, (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846), we learn the following: The effect of oil at certain temperatures, in penetrating “the minute pores of the amber” (as Hoffman elsewhere writes), is still more [...] Read more →
Mortlake Tapestries at Chatsworth House Click here to read copy of Daemonologie Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Edwin Austin Abbey. King Lear, Act I, Scene I (Cordelia’s Farewell) The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dates: 1897-1898 Dimensions: Height: 137.8 cm (54.25 in.), Width: 323.2 cm (127.24 in.) Medium: Painting – oil on canvas Home Top of Pg. Read more →
THE ABC OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM WH Y THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM WAS CALLED INTO BEING, THE MAIN FEATURES OF ITS ORGANIZATION , AND HOW IT WORKS B Y EDWIN WALTER KEMMERER, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND MEMBER OF [...] Read more →
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From Conquest of the Tropics by Frederick Upham Adams Chapter VI – Birth of the United Fruit Company Only those who have lived in the tropic and are familiar with the hazards which confront the cultivation and marketing of its fruits can readily understand [...] Read more →
Click here to access the world’s most powerful Import/Export Research Database on the Planet. With this search engine one is able to access U.S. Customs and other government data showing suppliers for any type of company in the United States. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
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 →
The following research discussion is from a study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Health entitled: Boschniakia rossica prevents the carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity in rat. It may be of interest to heavy drinkers. Home Top of [...] Read more →
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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 →
TROF. C. F. HOLDFER AND HIS 183LBS. TUNA, WITH BOATMAN JIM GARDNER. July 2, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg. 11 The Tuna Record. Avalon. Santa Catalina Island. Southern California, June 16.—Editor Forest and Stream: Several years ago the writer in articles on the “Game Fishes of the Pacific Slope,” in [...] Read more →
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INROMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENT OR RADIO BROADCASTS COUNTRY: Non-Orbit SUBJECT: Military – Air – Scientific – Aeronautics HOW PUBLISHED: Newspapers WHERE PUBLISHED: As indicated DATE PUBLISHED: 12 Dec 1953 – 12 Jan 1954 LANGUAGE: Various SOURCE: As indicated REPORT NO. 00-W-30357 DATE OF INFORMATION: 1953-1954 DATE DIST. 27 [...] Read more →
This massive volume gives one a real visual sense of what it was like running a highly efficient colonial operation in the early 20rh Century. It will also go a long way to help anyone wishing to understand modern political intrigue in the Middle-East. Click here to read A Survey of Palestine [...] Read more →
Wine Making Grapes are the world’s leading fruit crop and the eighth most important food crop in the world, exceeded only by the principal cereals and starchytubers. Though substantial quantities are used for fresh fruit, raisins, juice and preserves, most of the world’s annual production of about 60 million [...] Read more →
” Here’s many a year to you ! Sportsmen who’ve ridden life straight. Here’s all good cheer to you ! Luck to you early and late. Here’s to the best of you ! You with the blood and the nerve. Here’s to the rest of you ! What of a weak moment’s swerve ? [...] Read more →
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 [...] Read more →
A Real Soda Jerk FORMULAS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Pineapple Frappe. Water, 1 gallon; sugar 2 pounds of water. 61/2 pints, and simple syrup. 2 1/2 pints; 2 pints of pineapple stock or 1 pint of pineapple stock and 1 pint of grated pineapple juice of 6 lemons. Mix, [...] Read more →
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DECORATED or “sumptuous” furniture is not merely furniture that is expensive to buy, but that which has been elaborated with much thought, knowledge, and skill. Such furniture cannot be cheap, certainly, but the real cost of it is sometimes borne by the artist who produces rather than by the man who may [...] Read more →
“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 →
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What is follows is an historical article that appeared in The Hartford Courant in 1916 about the arsenic murders carried out by Mrs. Archer-Gilligan. This story is the basis for the 1944 Hollywood film “Arsenic and Old Lace” starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane and directed by Frank Capra. The [...] Read more →
Reprint from the Sportsman Cabinet and Town & Country Magazine, Vol.1, Number 1, November 1832. MR. Editor, Will you allow me to inquire, through the medium of your pages, the correct meaning of the term thorough-bred fox-hound? I am very well aware, that the expression is in common [...] Read more →
Banana Propagation Reprinted from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA.org) The traditional means of obtaining banana planting material (“seed”) is to acquire suckers from one’s own banana garden, from a neighbor, or from a more distant source. This method served to spread common varieties around the world and to multiply them [...] Read more →
Note on Watercolour: F.A. Molony (fl. 1930-1938) was a Major in the Royal Engineers. The National Army Museum hold his work. His work was also shown at an exhibition of officers work at the R.B.A. Galleries (Army Officers’ Art Society) Description from Youtube: June 2015 will see [...] Read more →
Carya Nuts This Handbook is Published by SLMA or the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturer’s Association Click here to read the handbook or click on the link below for a faster download. Hardwood Handbook Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Vishnu as the Cosmic Man (Vishvarupa) Opaque watercolour on paper – Jaipur, Rajasthan c. 1800-50 CLAIRVOYANCE AND OCCULT POWERS By Swami Panchadasi Copyright, 1916 By Advanced Thought Pub. Co. Chicago, Il INTRODUCTION. In preparing this series of lessons for students of [...] Read more →
Wojna Kalmarska – 1611 The Kalmar War From The Historian’s History of the World (In 25 Volumes) by Henry Smith William L.L.D. – Vol. XVI.(Scandinavia) Pg. 308-310 The northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, as already noticed, had been peopled from the remotest times by nomadic tribes called Finns or Cwenas by [...] Read more →
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 →
Here, where these low lush meadows lie, We wandered in the summer weather, When earth and air and arching sky, Blazed grandly, goldenly together. And oft, in that same summertime, We sought and roamed these self-same meadows, When evening brought the curfew chime, And peopled field and fold with shadows. I mind me [...] Read more →
July 9, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg. 25 Some Notes on American Ship-Worms. [Read before the American Fishes Congress at Tampa.] While we wish to preserve and protect most of the products of our waters, these creatures we would gladly obliterate from the realm of living things. For [...] Read more →
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The Racing Knockabout Gosling. Gosling was the winning yacht of 1897 in one of the best racing classes now existing in this country, the Roston knockabout class. The origin of this class dates back about six years, when Carl, a small keel cutter, was built for C. H. [...] Read more →
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Reprint from The Royal Collection Trust website: Kneller was born in Lubeck, studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam and by 1676 was working in England as a fashionable portrait painter. He painted seven British monarchs (Charles II, James II, William III, Mary II, Anne, George I and George II), though his [...] Read more →
From Dr. Marvel’s 1929 book entitled Hoodoo for the Common Man, we find his infamous Hoochie Coochie Hex. What follows is a verbatim transcription of the text: The Hoochie Coochie Hex should not be used in conjunction with any other Hexes. This can lead to [...] Read more →
Artisans world-wide spend a fortune on commercial brand oil-based gold leaf sizing. The most popular brands include Luco, Dux, and L.A. Gold Leaf. Pricing for quart size containers range from $35 to $55 depending upon retailer pricing. Fast drying sizing sets up in 2-4 hours depending upon environmental conditions, humidity [...] Read more →
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Vintage woodcut illustration of a Eel This dish is a favorite in Northern Europe, from the British Isles to Sweden. Clean and skin the eels and cut them into pieces about 3/4-inch thick. Wash and drain the pieces, then dredge in fine salt and allow to stand from 30 [...] Read more →
KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS On the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. Numerous chiefs, more or less powerful, held local sway, as far as each could enforce his dominion, and occasionally those [...] Read more →
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? 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. Tools: Round needles: https://amzn.to/2S9IhrP Double pointed hand needle: https://amzn.to/3bDmWPp Hand tools: https://amzn.to/2Rytirc Staple gun (for beginner): https://amzn.to/2JZs3x1 Compressor [...] Read more →
Crewe Hall Dining Room 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 [...] Read more →
Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the mendicant Order of Friars Minor, as painted by El Greco. Catholic religious order Catholic religious orders are one of two types of religious institutes (‘Religious Institutes’, cf. canons 573–746), the major form of consecrated life in the Roman Catholic Church. They are organizations of laity [...] Read more →
Jul. 30, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 87 Indian Mode of Hunting. I.—Beaver. Wa-sa-Kejic came over to the post early one October, and said his boy had cut his foot, and that he had no one to steer his canoe on a proposed beaver hunt. Now [...] Read more →
Jujitsu training 1920 in Japanese agricultural school. CHAPTER V THE VALUE OF EVEN TEMPER IN ATHLETICS—SOME OF THE FEATS THAT REQUIRE GOOD NATURE In the writer’s opinion it becomes necessary to make at this point some suggestions relative to a very important part of the training in jiu-jitsu. [...] Read more →
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Bess of Harwick Four times the nuptial bed she warm’d, And every time so well perform’d, That when death spoil’d each husband’s billing, He left the widow every shilling. Fond was the dame, but not dejected; Five stately mansions she erected With more than royal pomp, to vary The prison of her captive When [...] Read more →
Cleaner for Gilt Frames. Calcium hypochlorite…………..7 oz. Sodium bicarbonate……………7 oz. Sodium chloride………………. 2 oz. Distilled water…………………12 oz. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
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Over the years I have observed a decline in manners amongst young men as a general principle and though there is not one particular thing that may be asserted as the causal reason for this, one might speculate… Self-awareness and being aware of one’s surroundings in social interactions [...] Read more →
The following cure was found written on a front flyleaf in an 1811 3rd Ed. copy of The Sportsman’s Guide or Sportsman’s Companion: Containing Every Possible Instruction for the Juvenille Shooter, Together with Information Necessary for the Experienced Sportsman by B. Thomas. Transcript: Vaccinate your dogs when young [...] Read more →
Kenilworth Abbey Fields – Photo by David Hunt Click here to read Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott Click here to view Kenilworth Notes Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Royal Exchange and The Bank of England From How to Make Money; and How to Keep it, Or, Capital and Labor based on the works of Thomas A. Davies Revised & Rewritten with Additions by Henry A. Ford A.M. – 1884 CHAPTER XXVI BANKING AND INSURANCE. I [...] Read more →
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Foie gras with Sauternes, Photo by Laurent Espitallier 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 [...] Read more →
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