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 ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO (TOKYO) NUMBER SEVENTY-FOUR |
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| SILK-GOODS LANE, ODENMA-CHO (Odenma-cho gofukudana) |
| Edo (now Tokyo) was a city built of wood in which fires were frequent and rebuilding was constant. Carpenters were thus among the proudest and most powerful artisans of the city--as we sense from this boisterous procession called "sending off the master carpenter," which followed the ridgepole-raising ceremony for a new building.
To the left is the great dry goods house of Daimaru, in the prosperous district of Odenma-cho, suggesting the interlocked fortunes of Edo merchants and Edo builders. |
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 |  Cuboro encourages the joy of combining and experimenting and meets various requirements depending on the age and the gift of the players. It is a stimulating construction toy for play and fun together, as training with geometrical planning, and as a medium to create functional sculptures. Cuboro encourages imagination (three-dimensional thinking) and creativity. Assembling requires care and patience. Playing and planning in a group can be very interesting. |
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| Once assembled, building blocks tend to be pretty static affairs, which is understandable given that a principal goal in their composition is to not fall down.
Once again the Swiss are on top of this game with their Cuboro wood blocks, launched in 1997. But the concept must have been around earlier, because in 2007 an American named Andrew Comfort designed a modular suite called Q-BA-MAZE made from plastic, apparently inspired by playing a marble maze game with his grandfather as a boy. |
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| Cuboro Marbles Cuboro marbles are a bit larger than "normal" marbles. |
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| Godey's Fashions for May 1870 | |
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| The next big U.S. exposition was the Pan-American Expo of 1901.
This time there were only six stamps, with a total face value of 30¢, and they were the first bi-color commemoratives. Note that they've added the text "Commemorative Series 1901" at the top of each stamp, emphasizing that these are Commemoratives! Only the invert errors were deemed important enough to reproduce when their centenary rolled around | |
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| NATCHEZ: THE ROBERT E. LEE ARRIVING -- 1882 John Stobart, Artist |
| Well situated on high ground on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River midst productive cotton country, the town of Natchez thrived on its inherent strategic economic importance in the 19th Century.
At the river landing known as "Natchez-Under-the-Hill", plantation owners despatched their cotton on steamboats to New Orleans, or sometimes upriver to St. Louis, Missouri, or Cincinnati, Ohio, where the cotton would be sold and transported to Northern spinning mills. Before the Civil War, Natchez wealth rivalled any city in the United States due to the large number of plantation owners who held farmland across the river in Louisiana, while locating their mansions on higher ground in Mississippi. Natchez remained largely undisturbed during the Civil War, although Union troops under General Ulysses S. Grant occupied the city in 1863. Numerous residents, however, participated in the war and many families lost their antebellum fortunes. The Natchez economy recovered after the Civil War as much of the commercial traffic on the Mississippi River resumed. The cotton trade, the development of local industries like logging, and an influx of manufactured goods from Northern markets like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, ensured a lively riverfront. |
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This black bean sauce enriched with minced pork and beaten eggs was created to be served with lobster.
Can you name this sauce ??? PASS YOUR MOUSE OVER THE QUESTION MARKS FOR THE ANSWER! |
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| SUSPENSE Charles Burton Barber (English Animalist Painter) |
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 | The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a retrograde amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. It is the first of the original "Bourne Trilogy" by Ludlum, and in further posthumous novels by Eric Van Lustbader, featuring Jason Bourne.
The Bourne Identity was named the second best spy novel of all-time, behind John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by Peter Cannon in "Publishers Weekly". The novel was adapted into a 1988 television movie starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith, and a 2002 movie starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente and Chris Cooper. |
| Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 23 thriller novels. The number of his books in print is estimated between 290–500 million copies. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.
Ludlum was born in New York City. He was educated at The Rectory School then Cheshire Academy and Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. While at Wesleyan, Ludlum joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. After becoming an author later in life, Ludlum would set his mystery novel Matlock Paper at the fictitious Carlyle University in Connecticut, a thinly-disguised Wesleyan. |  |
| Prior to becoming an author, he had been a United States Marine, theatrical actor and producer. His theatrical experience may have contributed to his understanding of the energy, escapism and action that the public wanted in a novel. He once remarked: "I equate suspense and good theater in a very similar way. I think it's all suspense and what-happens-next. From that point of view, yes, I guess, I am theatrical."
Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful (The Bourne Ultimatum won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material. During the 1970s, Ludlum lived in Leonia, New Jersey, where he spent hours each day writing in his home. Ludlum died on March 12, 2001, at his home in Naples, Florida, while recovering from injuries suffered in a fire. |
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| TEA TOWER |
| Semi-firm cheeses have a texture which feels firmer than the semi-soft category and contains even less humidity. In semi-firm cheeses, the curd had been cut with a smaller grain, which in turn releases more whey. The majority of semi-firm cheeses are salted in brine during production. As these cheeses age, they become firmer. |
 | Comte = Comté = Gruyère du Comté = Comte Gruyere (Pronunciation: kohm-TAY) This excellent French cow's milk cheese dates from the time of Charlemagne. It has a mildly sweet, nutty flavor, much like Gruyère. It's a very good melting cheese. Substitutes: Gruyère, Fontina, Beaufort, or Emmentaler |
 | Danbo (Pronunciation: DAN-boh) Substitutes: Samsoe or Cheddar |
 | Derby cheese = Derbyshire cheese (Includes Derby Sage cheese (pictured), which is flavored with sage.) Substitutes: Cheddar or Vermont Sage (for Derby Sage) |
 | Edam (Pronunciation: EE-dum) This has a red wax coating. Substitutes: Gouda (similar, but with a higher milkfat content), Fontina, or Leyden |
 | Emmental = Emmentaler = Emmenthaler = Emmenthal = Bavarian Swiss cheese (Pronunciation: EM-uhn-tall) This Swiss cheese is riddled with holes and has a mild, nutty flavor. It's an excellent melting cheese and a key ingredient in many fondues. Substitutes: Jarlsberg (similar), Beaufort, Gruyère, Swiss, or Raclette |
 | Fontina (Pronunciation: fon-TEE-nuh) This well-regarded cheese is mild but interesting, and it's a good melter. Substitutes: Gruyère, Emmental, Beaufort, Edam, Gouda, Bel Paese, Appenzell, Provolone, or Rablochon |
 | Gamonedo = queso gamonedo = gamoneú (Pronunciation: gah-moh-NAY-doh) This expensive Spanish cheese is made from the milk of cows, sheep, and goats. It's smoked, giving it a very complex flavor. Substitute is Cabrales (very similar) |
 | Gjetost (Pronunciation: YET-ohst) This tastes a bit like caramelized American cheese. Substitute is Mysost (very similar). |
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| CORYELL COUNTY, TEXAS |
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 | COLORADO The flag of the state of Colorado consists of three horizontal stripes of equal width; the top and bottom stripes are blue, and the middle stripe white. On top of these stripes sits a circular red "C" filled with a golden disk. The blue is meant to represent the skies, the gold stands for the sunshine enjoyed by the state, the white represents the snowcapped mountains and the red represents the red colored earth (from Spanish "Colorado" meaning "red"). The flag was designed by Andrew Carlisle Johnson in 1911 and adopted by the Colorado General Assembly on June 5 of the same year. However, the legislature did not specify the size of the "C" or the exact shade of blue or red. Thus, some flags were in slightly different colors and had the "C" wholly within the center stripe. On February 28, 1929, the General Assembly added to the description of the flag that the blue and red would be the same color as the flag of the United States. On March 31, 1964, the legislature further dictated the diameter of the gold disc to be equal to the center stripe. |
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| Pencil sketching is an interesting and powerful element of design. To put it correctly, pencil sketching can be termed as "the mother of graphic arts."
The general perception about drawing pencil sketches is that it is either a part of initial training given to Fine Arts students or it's a good hobby for anyone who can draw well. What most of us don't know is that making pencil sketches is almost an inevitable part of design and a unique branch of art in itself. |
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