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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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 […]

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 […]

Growing Muscadine Grapes in Tennessee

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

Parting Words to Kate from The Sloop of War, Jamestown

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

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

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

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

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

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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U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act – Full Text

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

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

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

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

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History of Regulation of Stock Exchange Specialists

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 […]

Harry Houdini Investigates the Spirit World

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

By EDMUND WILSON June 24, 1925

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

Chronological Catalog of Recorded Lunar Events

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: […]

An Accurate Translation of FDR’s Second Fireside Chat

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The downloadable audio clip is of FDR’s Second Fireside Chat recorded on May 7th, 1933.

The transcript that follows is my corrected version of the transcript that is found The American Presidency Project website that was created by Gerhard Peters and Professor John […]

No matter how many men you kill, you can’t kill your successor.

— Seneca