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Project Aquarius

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The Anti-Gravity Bible

Anti-gravity is much closer than one might think. I know a man that has been levitating for years, but that is a story for another day. Meanwhile one might enjoy reading The Anti-Gravity Bible, a research reference guide that might help those interested in the science to gain a broader understanding of […]

Wood Finishing – Blistering, Peeling, and Cracking of House Paints from Moisture

RESEARCH NOTE FPL-0125 MAY 1970 WOOD FINISHING: Blistering, Peeling, and Cracking of House Paints from Moisture Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture

When too much water gets into paint or into wood beneath the paint, the paint may blister or peel. Understanding the causes of these failures […]

Artistic Endeavour in the Absence of Country Gentlemen

When one thinks of the English countryside or rural France replete with rambling country house estates and fairly tale chateaus sitting alongside grand chapels and country church spires, one might imagine a realm of manners, neighborly love, and country gentlemen. However, history informs us that this is not always the […]

50 Watt 4 Stage Hi-Fidelity Power Amplifier Circuit and Parts List [The Basic Schematic of Most Low Cost Tube Guitar Amps Made Today]

5R4 GYB Tube

Click here to view of the schematic for an RCA designed 50 Watt 4 Stage HiFi Power AB Amplifier

Click here to view a complete copy of the RCA Receiving Tube RC-30 Manual – 1975

Click here to learn more about the 5R4 GYB Tube at The Valve Museum

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Mein’s Circulating Library

1765 Meins Circulating Library

Lending Library

A CATALOGUE OF MEIN’s CIRCULATING LIBRARY; CONSISTING Of above Twelve Hundred VOLUMES, in most Branches of polite Literature, Arts and Sciences; VIZ.

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The Whiting Society of Ringing

Inside the belfry of SS Medard and Gildard’s parish church, Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England

Culture runs deep in England. I am reminded of this when I run across esoteric orgainsations and societies that unless one is well informed the existence of which would remain unknown to the general public.

How does a society […]

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas – from Ghost Stories of M.R. James

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Verum usque in præsentem diem multa garriunt inter se Canonici de abscondito quodam istius Abbatis Thomæ thesauro, quem sæpe, quanquam adhuc incassum, quæsiverunt Steinfeldenses. Ipsum enim Thomam adhuc florida in ætate existentem ingentem auri massam circa monasterium defodisse perhibent; de quo multoties interrogatus ubi esset, cum risu respondere solitus erat: “Job, […]

The Age of Chivalry

CHAPTER 1 – Introduction

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 […]

The History of Witchcraft in England – The Beginnings

The Beginnings of English Witchcraft

It has been said by a thoughtful writer that the subject of witchcraft has hardly received that place which it deserves in the history of opinions. There has been, of course, a reason for this neglect—the fact that the belief in witchcraft is no longer […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

When a men becomes convinced of the reality of the […]

Shipping Fish Three Thousand Miles to Market

 

SHIPPING FISH THREE THOUSAND MILES TO MARKET. By E. D. CLARK, Bureau of Chemistry. 1915

MILLIONS of pounds of halibut and salmon are shipped each year across the United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. Few of the persons who help to consume this vast supply realize […]

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 […]

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.