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| "The wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Just nineteen years short of Methuselah. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long."
. . . . Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
 ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO (TOKYO) NUMBER SEVENTY-EIGHT |
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| Teppozu and Tsukiji Honganji Temple (Teppozu Tsukiji Monzeki) |
| We have moved about half a mile south from the site of the previous print, passing along the Teppozu shore. The land projecting from the right is Akashi-cho, and another canal can be seen behind it, passing under a bridge, just out of sight, known as Samusabashi.
Today the canal, like so many in the city, has been filled in, but the bridge name remains at the intersection. Jutting into the water from the shore are stone jetties, built to protect this exposed area from storms. The intent netters and anglers on the jetty and in the boats show that this was a good fishing spot. The huge temple in the distance is Nishi Hongangi, the Edo branch of a temple of the same name in Kyoto, the headquarters of one of two rival sects within Jodo Shinshu. |
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| "Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."
. . . . George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950) |
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| Panama Pacific Exposition Issue - 1913--The Panama Pacific Exposition was held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914. In addition, the Expo was San Francisco's advertisement to the world that it had recovered from the 1906 earthquake. For these reasons the set below was issued two years before the expo opened, in January, 1913, and remained on sale through the end of the expo. It was reprinted several times, and issued with two different perforations, so there are at least two versions of each stamp. | |||
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| Omaha, Westward Travels on the Missouri -- 1856 |
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"I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steamboating was new to me. A broad expanse of the river was turned to blood; in the middle distance the red hue brightened into gold, through which a solitary log came floating, black and conspicuous; in one place a long, slanting mark lay sparkling upon the water; in another the surface was broken by boiling, tumbling rings, that were as many-tinted as an opal; where the ruddy flush was faintest, was a smooth spot that was covered with graceful circles and radiating lines, ever so delicately traced; the shore on our left was densely wooded, and the somber shadow that fell from this forest was broken in one place by a long, ruffled trail that shone like silver; and high above the forest wall a clean-stemmed dead tree waved a single leafy bough that glowed like a flame in the unobstructed splendor that was flowing from the sun. There were graceful curves, reflected images, woody heights, soft distances; and over the whole scene, far and near, the dissolving lights drifted steadily, enriching it, every passing moment, with new marvels of coloring."
Chapter 9, Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain |
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 | “Deliverance” is the kind of novel few serious writers attempt any longer. It tells the story of four mild, middle-class men from suburban Atlanta who embark on a canoe trip, snaking down a remote Georgia river that will soon disappear beneath a dam. In the woods they find boiling rapids and two sinister mountain men.
Before the novel is over, the carnage is nearly complete: three men have been crudely buried, one has been raped, and the survivors have had the bark peeled from their modern sensibilities. The novel’s homosexual rape scene, and its musky sexuality throughout, are too much for many. “Deliverance” has its detractors among Southerners, too, for its portrait of mountain people as toothless sociopaths. When he was governor of Georgia, the future United States senator Zell Miller placed it on his list of most hated books. |
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| MADISON RIVER, MONTANA |
| The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana form the Missouri River. |
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| The Madison rises in Park County in northwestern Wyoming at the confluence of the Firehole and Gibbon rivers, a location known as Madison Junction in Yellowstone National Park. It flows west then north through the mountains of southwestern Montana to join the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers at Three Forks.
The Missouri River Headwaters State Park is located on the Madison at Three Forks. In its upper reaches in Gallatin County, Montana, the Hebgen Dam forms Hebgen Lake. In its middle reaches in Madison County, Montana, the Madison Dam forms Ennis Lake and provides hydroelectric power. In 1959, the Hebgen Lake earthquake formed Quake Lake just downstream from Hebgen Dam. Downstream from Ennis, the Madison flows through Bear Trap Canyon, known for its class IV-V whitewater. The Bear Trap Canyon section is part of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness area. |
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| The river was named in July 1805 by Meriwether Lewis at Three Forks. The central fork of the three, it was named for U.S. Secretary of State James Madison, who would succeed Thomas Jefferson as President in 1809. The western fork, the largest, was named for President Jefferson and the east fork for Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin. |
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| Directly below Quake Lake a three-mile-long whitewater section resulted from the 1959 earthquake. It is characterized by a steep gradient of river including large boulders with Class III and Class IV whitewater. |
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| Below the whitewater section the river turns into a swift flowing but gentle river for 53 miles (85 km) to Ennis lake. This section has often been called the Fifty Mile Riffle and provides the best fly fishing on the river. |
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This food was created by Ruth Graves Wakefield in the 1930s, near Whitman, Massachusetts. Ruth and her husband owned a small inn and she came up with the recipe by accident when she had to substitute ingredients in a recipe.
Can you name this food?
PASS YOUR MOUSE OVER THE QUESTION MARKS FOR THE ANSWER! |
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| GEORGIA The Georgia flag has three red and white stripes and the state coat of arms on a blue field in the upper left corner. Thirteen stars surrounding the seal denotes Georgia's position as one of the original thirteen colonies. On the seal three pillars supporting an arch represent the three branches of government; legislative, judicial and executive. A man with sword drawn is defending the Constitution, whose principles are wisdom, justice and moderation. Flag adopted May 8, 2003. | |
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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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