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

February 25th, 2026

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

December 15th, 2022

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]

February 24th, 2026

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

Click […]

Mein’s Circulating Library

February 23rd, 2026

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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Shipping Fish Three Thousand Miles to Market

February 24th, 2026

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 […]

Growing Muscadine Grapes in Tennessee

September 8th, 2021

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

Parting Words to Kate from The Sloop of War, Jamestown

August 24th, 2021

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

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

Much like scrap books of today, these books were used to […]

On Exquisite Statuary for the Fine Country Home: “I Can Get’em at the British Museum”

February 23rd, 2026

From the classic British Movie, The Shooting Party, a 1985 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges based on Isabel Colegate’s 9th novel of the same name published in 1980 we find a scene set in the billiards parlor whereupon the host of the weekend shooting party Sir Randolph Nettleby walks in […]

Historic authenticity of the Spanish SAN FELIPE of 1690

June 4th, 2021

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 office.

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Chantry Chapels

February 24th, 2026

Wyggeston’s Chantry House in Leicester: grade II* listed and part of the Newarke Houses Museum. Built by William Wyggeston as a chantry house.

Privately built chapel

Secondly, a chantry chapel is a building on private land or a dedicated area or altar within a parish church or cathedral, set aside or […]

Gallop of the Common Horse by Eadweard Muybridge 1887

May 19th, 2021

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

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U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act – Full Text

May 10th, 2021

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Headquarters (the Árpád Bogsch Building also known as the Main Building) in Geneva, Switzerland

UNITED STATES PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION ACT

TITLE I – PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION OFFICE Chapter Section 1. Organization and […]

The Kalmar War

May 8th, 2021

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 the Norwegians and Lapps […]

The Queen’s Printer

February 24th, 2026

The holder of the letters patent has the nearly exclusive right of printing, publishing and importing the King James Bible and Book of Common Prayer within the United Kingdom’s jurisdiction. There are three exceptions which apply to this right. One is that the office of Queen’s Printer only extends to England, Wales […]

Fly Casting Instructions

July 31st, 2020

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 […]

Period Furniture Identification

September 1st, 2019

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History of Regulation of Stock Exchange Specialists

February 24th, 2026

HISTORY OF REGULATION

Early Specialist Rules

The basic regulatory issues involving the specialist were delineated in the House Report accompanying the progenitor of the 1934 Act:

The importance of the actual workings of the exchanges themselves… should not be exaggerated. The stronger and more subtle economic forces affecting […]