It’s not quite the 12 days of Christmas, but our list of a dozen moments in motorsport history were nonetheless important in their own way.
They cover innovation, opportunity, tragedy, determination and, as you might expect, good old-fashioned politics…
A new type of race
The 1906 French Grand Prix developed out of the annual Gordon Bennett races that had taken place since 1900.
The idea behind those had been to pitch countries against each other, with each one entering up to three cars.
The French argued against those entry limits, and after winning the Cup in 1905, it was down to them to host the following year’s race. Instead, they abandoned the Gordon Bennett rules – leading to Great Britain’s withdrawal – and staged a new race on a 64-mile circuit around Le Mans.
Described by The Autocar correspondent WF Bradley as ‘the first Grand Prix’, it took place over two days and a total of 12 laps. Ferenc Szisz won for Renault (pictured above, leading Elliot Shepard in a Hotchkiss HH), 32 minutes clear of Felice Nazzaro’s Fiat.
The Automobile Club de France repeated the event in 1907, and Grand Prix racing was under way. ‘There was no prize money,’ wrote Bradley, ‘… but the prestige was immense.’
The end of WW2
This landmark moment in world history also had a lasting effect on British motorsport.
Until the war, racing had largely been the preserve of wealthy amateurs. Following it, however, there was a whole new generation of engineers who turned their attention from military matters to the question of making cars go faster round a circuit.
Equally important was the change to those circuits. Brooklands and Donington Park were out of commission, but dotted around the country were myriad recently abandoned airfields that fitted the bill very nicely indeed.
Goodwood and Silverstone remain the most celebrated, but among countless others there was also Castle Combe, Snetterton and, later, Thruxton.
There was a boom in affordable motorsport in the immediate post-war years, and through its ranks came most of the people who laid the foundation for the UK’s still-thriving motorsport industry.
Back to front
A Cooper had won a championship Grand Prix before 1959, but Stirling Moss’s victory in Argentina the previous year had largely been seen as a triumph of tactics and Moss’s genius.
The following year, however, the Surbiton-based team took Jack Brabham to the title – and everyone else conceded, some more readily than others, that the engine belonged behind the driver.
Cooper started out making rear-engined cars for the post-war 500cc formula, and carried that layout into both sports-car racing and Formula Two.
In 1957, it stepped up to Formula One, and initially its cars were viewed as curiosities rather than game-changers.
But by the closing round of the 1959 season, Brabham had won twice, and claimed his first championship by pushing his car over the line at Sebring to finish fourth, while Cooper took the constructors’ crown.
Lotus takes on Indianapolis
Cooper nudged open the door to Indianapolis when it entered a low-slung variant of its rear-engined Grand Prix car for the 1961 500, but it was Colin Chapman who truly led the British Invasion of the fabled Brickyard.
Dan Gurney was instrumental in the project, for which Ford built a 4.2-litre Fairlane-based V8.
‘Handsome Dan’ and Jim Clark had a Lotus 29 apiece, and the latter almost scored a sensational debut victory. Officials refused to black-flag Parnelli Jones’ leading car, and Clark had to settle for second.
The legendary Scot handled the disappointment with typical grace, and found the perfect answer two years later by taking victory in the new 38.
By then, the front-engined Roadsters had been swept aside and Indy had changed forever.
Enzo rejects Ford
On the face of it, Ferrari was in the middle of a golden period during the early 1960s.
The team had adapted well to the 1.5-litre Formula One regulations, it was putting together six consecutive Le Mans victories, and it was dominating GT racing.
Yet Enzo was nonetheless contemplating selling. Ford was at the door with $18 million, and in spring 1963 it looked as if the deal was nearly done.
But when Enzo discovered that the freedom he’d been offered in terms of running his race team wasn’t as complete as he’d understood it to be, he walked away. Literally, in fact, leaving 14 Detroit representatives sitting around a table.
They got both mad and even, turning their attention to the GT40 project with the firm ambition of ending Ferrari’s domination at Le Mans.
In 1966, they did just that with their infamous attempt to stage a dead heat. “It was like trying to mix popcorn and pasta,” Ford’s Walter Hayes later said of the aborted takeover. “I don’t think it was a very nourishing recipe.”
Cosworth introduces the DFV
In 1965, Colin Chapman approached Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin to ask if they’d be interested in building a 3-litre Grand Prix engine for Lotus.
Cosworth had made its name with Ford-based engines, so it was only fitting that Chapman then persuaded the Blue Oval to bankroll the new unit, which Duckworth estimated would cost £100,000 to design and develop.
It was possibly the best £100,000 that Ford ever spent. The DFV made its debut at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix and Jim Clark swept to victory.
Such was the new engine’s advantage that Walter Hayes suggested to Chapman that they’d have to offer it to other teams. Much to Jim Clark’s dismay, Chapman agreed.
Between 1967 and ’83, it claimed 155 Grand Prix wins. In 1975, a DFV-powered car even won the Le Mans 24 Hours, and derivations of it dominated Indycar racing. It stands alone as the greatest racing engine of all time.
The arrival of downforce
There was a time when motorsport aerodynamics basically involved reducing drag – streamlining, in other words. People had played around with wings, but they were generally crude devices.
Then, in 1966 and ’67, Jim Hall introduced a moveable high-mounted wing on his Chaparral 2D and 2E sports-racers.
In 1968, Formula One teams began to follow suit. At Monaco, Graham Hill’s Lotus 49B had front aerofoils and a wedge-shaped rear body section, and by the following race at Spa, Ferrari and Brabham had added elegant wings to their cars.
With seemingly little appreciation of the forces involved, teams were soon building tall wings in order to take advantage of cleaner airflow, but they were eventually banned after a series of accidents in which the fragile supports had failed.
Teams adapted, though, and in time a skilled aerodynamicist was the most important weapon in their armoury. Downforce was here to stay.
The FISA/FOCA truce
Soon after Bernie Ecclestone took over Brabham in the early 1970s, he started applying his formidable business brain to the remuneration that was on offer to Grand Prix teams.
In short, he felt it wasn’t sufficient, which led to the formation of the Formula One Constructors Association.
FOCA bought together the likes of Tyrrell, Lotus, McLaren and Williams, with Ecclestone doing deals with race organisers on their behalf.
As his power grew, it brought him into bitter conflict with Jean-Marie Balestre, recently installed as head of FISA – the sport’s governing body.
In the end, a compromise was reached. In effect, FISA would make the rules, Bernie would do the deals. The commercial impact of that fundamentally changed Formula One.
Ecclestone certainly brought untold riches to a relatively small number of people within the paddock. How much he did for the average enthusiast is more open to debate.
When Bernie met Sid
Say what you will about Ecclestone’s impact on the commercial side of Formula One, there can be no arguing with another of his decisions – bringing Professor Sid Watkins on board to revamp the sport’s medical arrangements.
Jackie Stewart had courageously campaigned for greater safety, but Watkins – a respected neurosurgeon – was able to make an even bigger contribution.
Key to his success, at a time when race organisers could be positively hostile to his efforts, was the unwavering and unquestioning support of Ecclestone.
Over the years, Watkins ensured that each venue had a proper medical centre, rapid-response cars, fully trained medical staff and everything that was needed to give drivers the best possible chance of surviving an accident.
Anyone who’s seen footage of lamentable rescue efforts in the pre-Watkins days will agree that he arrived not a moment too soon.
Vorschprung durch technik
Jörg Bensinger joined Audi in 1968 convinced about the benefits of four-wheel drive in a performance car, but not for a while was he given the chance to prove his point.
When Audi became involved in the development of the Volkswagen Iltis, however, Bensinger took an Audi 80, fitted it with the military vehicle’s drivetrain, and dropped in a five-cylinder turbocharged engine from the 200.
Despite the project’s obvious potential, VW’s hierarchy took a lot of convincing to give it the green light.
Audi was not recognised as a performance brand at that time, so a competition programme was devised in order to publicise the new model, and its arrival on the world stage heralded a revolution in rallying.
As Michele Mouton put it, “As soon as I drove the quattro, I could tell it was the future.”
Gachot gets sent to prison
Bertrand Gachot had been enjoying an impressive 1991 season, scoring points in Formula One for the new Jordan team and winning Le Mans for Mazda.
Months earlier, though, he’d got into an altercation with a London taxi driver and sprayed CS gas into his face. Shortly before the Belgian Grand Prix, Gachot was sentenced to six months in prison.
Eddie Jordan was in sudden need of a second driver for Spa, which is when Mercedes came along with a chunk of cash and one of its young sports-car aces – Michael Schumacher.
Despite never having driven around the Ardennes circuit – something of which Jordan was blissfully unaware – Schumacher qualified seventh, four places and seven-tenths ahead of team-mate Andrea de Cesaris.
His race lasted only a few hundred metres before the clutch failed, but it was clear that a special talent had arrived.
Tragedy at Imola
Not for 12 years had a driver been killed during a Grand Prix weekend, but at Imola in 1994, first Roland Ratzenberger then Ayrton Senna died. It was a watershed moment for Formula One.
In the past, such accidents had been viewed as desperately sad, but also with an understanding that they were possible whenever you race cars.
Not any more, it seemed, the huge growth in media coverage meaning that a global audience watched the sport’s biggest star die on live television.
There was an enormous backlash in the wider press, and FIA boss Max Mosley moved quickly in an attempt to slow the cars down and make circuits safer.
Some of the changes were undeniably knee-jerk – temporary chicanes were the order of the day – but understandable given the prevailing atmosphere.
Even if motorsport will never be entirely free from risk, events at Imola led to a renewed focus on safety.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Eastern Market a Sad day indeed!
Besides loving DC well before our daughters took up residence there, on our visits I became an Eastern Market-aholich. YUP and with our soon to visit time I said gleefully, “Don’t forget a visit to Eastern Market! “ Now this news~ A sad, sad day Historic Capitol Hill Marketplace Burns By Howard Schneider, Debbi Wilgoren, and Allison Klein Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, April 30, 2007; 8:24 AM Fire coursed through the shops of the historic Eastern Market on Capitol Hill early Monday morning, gutting the southern half of the 134-year-old landmark.


|Title||2 Broad Street|
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No building history on file. Occupants of the site (in different buildings) include J.S. Pinkussohn cigar Store, 1901-1910; Demos Brothers Restaurant, 1920-1950; and Marcus Rexall Drug Store, 1960s. The popular drug store burned down,* and in the 1990s, South Carolina National Bank (16 Broad Street) gradually expanded its facilities to occupy the whole north side of the block of Broad Street from East Bay to State Streets. SCNB then merged with Wachovia, which still occupies the building. (Source: The Old Codgers' Address Book, 1900-1999)
No building history on file. Needs further research.
File contains excerpts from Resources & Attractions of Charleston (1898), one featuring the Chamber of Commerce and the featuring J.M. Phillips Cigar and Tobacco Co. (each illustrated with the image in this record); occupancy history (1990-1999) from Old Codgers' Charleston Address Book.
*After the drug store building burned down in the 1960s, there was controversy about the size of what to build in its place. A temporary garden was developed. (Per P.C. Coker, Oct. 2013.) See photos of the garden, 2013.017.2.
Image #2 from Guide to Charleston Illustrated, 1875.
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Demolished buildings, lost buildings
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Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life
“For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass.”
The experience of seeing a fish swimming in a glass tank is one we take for granted now but in Victorian England this was a remarkable sight. People had simply not been able to see fish as they now could with the invention of the aquarium and everything that went with it.
Goldfish in the Parlour looks at the boom in the building of public aquariums, as well as the craze for home aquariums and visiting the seaside, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Furthermore, this book considers how people see and meet animals and, importantly, in what institutions and in what contexts these encounters happen.
John Simons uncovers the sweeping consequences of the Victorian obsession with marine animals by looking at naturalist Frank Buckland’s Museum of Economic Fish Culture and the role of fish in the Victorian economy, the development of angling as a sport divided along class lines, the seeding of Empire with British fish and comparisons with aquarium building in Europe, USA and Australia.
Goldfish in the Parlour interrogates the craze that took over Victorian England when aquariums “introduced” fish to parks, zoos and parlours.
Simons vividly captures the thrill and the cost of squeezing the ocean into a glass tank
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GRAND RAPIDS -- Calvin College students and professors have created a digital library so the original writings of John Calvin, Martin Luther their contemporaries are only a few computer clicks away.
The works are held in special collections in European libraries. Calvin Theological Seminary graduate student Todd Rester spent the past two years as part of team working on making the materials available, launching the Post-Reformation Digital Library.
The library is a bibliography , a "finding list" of links to resources from research libraries, scholarly initiatives and other sources from all over the Web. The list is organized alphabetically, and the links names of Reformation authors to digital versions of their works.
The project is sponsored by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies and Calvin's Hekman Library.
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|Born: May 5, 1917|
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|Died: May 30, 2015 (aged 98)|
|September 12, 1941, for the Chicago Cubs|
|Last MLB appearance|
|August 22, 1947, for the Chicago Cubs|
|Runs batted in||152|
|Career highlights and awards|
Merullo played shortstop for the Chicago Cubs for seven years in the major leagues in the 1940s. He appeared in three games during the 1945 World Series against two-time MVP Hal Newhouser, pitchers Virgil Trucks, Tommy Bridges, and slugger Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers, who defeated the Cubs in seven games in the Series, the last one the Cubs played in until 2016. With the death of Andy Pafko on October 8, 2013, Merullo was the last surviving member of the 1945 team, as well as being the oldest living former member of the Cubs. Merullo's major league career began in 1941, and in 1942-45 he won the shortstop job, with Stan Hack playing third base and Merullo's roommate, Phil Cavarretta, at first. In 1946, Billy Jurges, Bobby Sturgeon and Merullo shared the shortstop position until Merullo regained the position in 1947. During this period, Merullo was known to have the quickest throwing arm in baseball. Merullo's time with the Cubs caused him, in later years, to be a frequent subject of Chicago columnist Mike Royko's annual Cub Quiz. In September, 1942, he made baseball history by committing four errors in a single inning.
After retiring from professional baseball, Merullo was chief scout for the Cubs from 1950–72, signing, among others, relief pitcher Moe Drabowsky. He left the Cubs in 1973 to join the then-fledgling Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau, where he served until his retirement at the age of 85 in 2003.
Merullo had four sons, the eldest is nicknamed "Boots" because Merullo famously made four errors in a single inning having been informed by the club's owner, Philip Wrigley, that his wife had just delivered. The following day the Chicago newspapers suggested his newborn baby should be called "Boots" in honor of the occasion.
Boots went on to play in the Pittsburgh Pirates' minor league system for three seasons and Merullo's grandson Matt had a six-year career playing for major league teams, mainly the Chicago White Sox. Matt Merullo was a scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks and is now manager of the Aberdeen IronBirds.
On May 30, 2015 in the early morning, Merullo had died, due to complications following a stroke a few weeks prior, aged 98, as announced by the Chicago Cubs. The team did not reveal details pertaining to his death.
Amongst many accolades, Merullo was named to the Hall of Fame of the Cape Cod Baseball League, having led the Barnstable Townies to the old Cape League title in 1935. He was awarded Scout of the Year in 1990, and the prestigious Judge Emil Fuchs Award for long and meritorious service to baseball in 2006.
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- Krider, Dave (April 30, 2010). "Another Merullo could be on path to Major Leagues". MaxPreps. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
- Ashway, Denton (May 27, 2014). "Merullo the last link to Cubs World Series days". Gainesville Times. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
- "Leonard Merullo Minor League Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com.
- "Oldest living Cubs player Lennie Merullo dies at 98". ESPN.com. Associated Press. May 30, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- "Oldest Living Ex-Cubs Player Lennie Merullo Dies At 98". npr.org. Associated Press.


The Drakh emissary was an envoy of the Drakh Entire who was part of the fleet that attacked the Norsai and the pak'ma'ra along the border of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. He spoke for the Drakh to alien races, and met with Ambassador Delenn through an intermediary, Forell. After discovering who Delenn was, his shuttle departed and the fighters prepared to fire on the White Stars that accompanied her. Delenn simultaneously realized that these Drakh were the "dark servants" of the Shadows they had been warned of and ordered the ships to prepare to leave. The Drakh opened fire, destroying White Star 16, before the ships escaped into hyperspace. Rather than retreat, Delenn pulled a surprise attack on the Drakh by jumping back out of hyperspace, quickly destroying the mothership and all aboard, avenging all the League worlds and ships they had attacked.


Archive for August, 2011
Friday, August 26th, 2011
The Make A Wish Foundation helped four year old Lance Akehurst make his wish to travel and visit family and friends in a campervan come true. Luckily for the National Army Museum, Lance, his sister Amy, and their Mum and Dad, decided they would love to stop and visit us along the way.
Knowing of their imminent arrival, the Education Team prepared a couple of rank identifying badges, and some exciting activities and goodies for the family. Lance and Amy particularly loved dressing up in Army DPM’s (uniform) in the Kids HQ, and having a ride on the M548 tracked carge carrier.
“Make -A-Wish grants the wishes of children (3-17 years) with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Granting a wish creates a piece of pure magic which can provide an escape for children and their families facing the most challenging times”. (Make A Wish Foundation)
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
The story of New Zealand’s wartime rugby playing hereos is the focus of an exciting new exhibition, “Khaki & Black – New Zealand’s Rugby Supremacy in Times of War” which was opened on Saturday.
Who better to open such an exhibition than two of the four remaining members of the famous 1945-46 “Kiwis” Army Rugby Team, rugby great Stan Young and All Black legend Bob Scott.
Bob Scott, arguably one of New Zealand’s best fullbacks to have worn the All Black jersey true to history took off his shoes and socks and together with Stan Young, a forward they both kicked a goal to open the exhibition.
At the end of the war in 1945, a rugby team was selected from the battlefields of North Africa and Europe following a series of trials. The team played with determination and pride in the ‘silver fern’ on their jerseys and soon became known as “The Kiwis”. Freyberg fostered the idea of playing a brand of attacking rugby that thrilled the crowds and raised morale in war-torn Europe, and thus the Kiwis created a renewed interest in the great game of rugby.
It was both an honour and a pleasure to meet these 2 gentlemen who were very entertaining, providing staff at the Museum with not only some great stories of the rugby and war years but also plenty of laughs. Special thanks to Stan, Bob and Bob’s son Bruce.


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1756: Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson from 1801 to 1805, is born in Newark, N.J. Burr would also become known for the 1804 duel in which he mortally wounded former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
The Union gets its first victory of the Civil War, Ronald Reagan is born, The Righteous Brothers hit No. 1, and astronaut Alan Shepard works on his lunar golf game, all on this day.
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The 4th Earl of Aberdeen was born in Edinburgh. He was a prominent diplomat, serving as foreign secretary under the Duke of Wellington in 1828 and 1841. He became prime minister in a government comprised of Peelites and Liberals. He supported Catholic emancipation and was a follower of Peel in conversion to free trade. Aberdeen resigned as prime minister due to losses suffered in the Crimean War (1853-56) and what was termed military mismanagement.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and the combined forces of England, France, Turkey and Sardinia. It was the battles of the River Alma, Balaclava; which was where the Charge of the Light Brigade took place, and Inkerman in 1854 that led to seige that lasted a year, ending in September, 1855. It was the siege that led to Aberdeen's resignation.
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Gathering on the eve of Remembrance Sunday, a simple display of red poppies set against the chancel arch at St Mary’s Church, Hunton provided a poignant reminder. Founded in Saxon times, St Mary’s has evolved and changed and now has Victorian furniture, fine windows and many historic monuments. The most prestigious is a hanging stone monument set high above the pulpit, partly set into the chancel arch. It is in memory of Sir Thomas Fane, who died in 1692, a benefactor of St Mary’s as were his parents before him, his chiselled bewigged countenance looking benevolently down upon us.
The organ, although quite small, encapsulates all that is laudable about Father Henry Willis organs. This mechanical actioned instrument of two manuals and pedals, set in a Chancel chamber, is of the highest quality with spotted metal diapason front pipes and an original specification of: Great Organ, 8 8 8 8 4 4 2; Swell Organ, 8 8 4 8; and Pedal Organ 16, with usual couplers. The pedalboard is straight and flat with a “trigger” Swell pedal to the right. The voicing is distinctively Father Willis with the gentle Swell Organ “tulip-stoppered” Lieblich Gedact 8ft complemented by a Gemshorn 4ft, Open Diapason 8ft and a telling Cornopean 8ft. The Great Organ’s Open Diapason 8ft sings throughout its range, as does the Flute Harmonique 4ft, which can be partnered by a charming open Claribel Flute 8ft with its traditional Stopped Diapason 8ft bass.
Father Willis, St. Mary's Hunton
St. Mary’s organist, Philip Moore, kindly described the finer points of the organ before demonstrating with: John Stanley’s Voluntary in E minor; Voluntary by John Worgan 1724-1790; a Song Prelude by Alan Bush, Low lands, my low lands; and finishing with a rousing Fanfare by Guy Eldridge. The organ aroused much interest and a number of members were able to try it for themselves before we moved on to Teston.
Passing the “Tickled Trout” public house at West Farleigh, we crossed Teston’s ancient stone bridge, picturesquely caught in the setting sun’s dying rays, as we made our way up into the village. Teston’s Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul was rebuilt in 1710, with transepts added in 1846, and still retains a Georgian feel in spite of its Victorian pews and furniture. The organ, also Victorian, was built in 1870 by Eustace Ingram. Standing in the south transept this two-manual and pedal tracker organ sounded much as it looked, warm and mellow, reflecting its specification of mainly 8ft stops: Swell Organ, 16 8 8 4 8; Great Organ, 8 8 8 8 8 4 4; Pedal Organ, 16, with usual couplers.
Andrew Cesana bravely volunteered at short notice to demonstrate the organ for us with two pieces: Paques Fleuries by Alphonse Mailly 1853-1918 and March in F by L J A Lefébure-Wély 1817-1869.
Following tea we were to learn more of Teston’s history with a talk by Dawn Page, St Peter and St Paul’s Lay Reader. She spoke of the life of James Ramsay who had been the Vicar at Teston and a tireless campaigner for the abolition of slavery. He was born at Fraserburgh, Scotland in 1733 and apprenticed to a local surgeon; subsequently, he was educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, obtaining his MA in 1753. Entering the Navy in 1757 he served in the West Indies where his ship intercepted the Swift, a slave ship, where he found over 100 slaves chained together below decks in appalling conditions. The scenes of utter degradation and filth were to stay with him shaping his future as a clergyman and campaigner. He took holy orders in 1761 deciding to work amongst the slaves on the Caribbean Island of St Christopher, now St Kitts. Some years later, returning to England, he became Vicar of Teston and during his campaigning met with William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce, playing a significant part in the campaign for the abolition of slavery. Sadly, dying in 1789 at the age of fifty-six, he was not to live to see his work come to fruition, with the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807. Fittingly, he is buried at Teston Church.
We were most grateful to Dawn Page for such a fascinating talk so carefully researched and sympathetically delivered. Especially, Dawn had illuminated and embellished our scant knowledge of this intriguing connection with our Kent churches and their pivotal role in history.
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In New York, a small army of policemen, laid off and angry, have been blocking the Brooklyn Bridge, and garbage workers are letting the refuse pile up in the streets. In Boston, some young people on Mission Hill are illegally occupying an abandoned house to protest the demolition of a neighborhood. And elderly people, on the edge of survival, are fighting Boston Edison’s attempt to raise the price of electricity.
So it looks like a good Fourth of July, with the spirit of rebellion proper to the Declaration of Independence.Read More...
Published in The Progressive • June 1, 2000
A high school student recently confronted me: “I read in your book A People’s History of the United States about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the richest country in the world, the senseless wars. How can I keep from being thoroughly alienated and depressed?”
It’s a question I’ve heard many times before. Another question often put to me by students is: Don’t we need our national idols? You are taking down all our national heroes- the Founding Fathers, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy.
Granted, it is good to have historical figures we can admire and emulate. But why hold up as models the fifty-five rich white men who drafted the Constitution as a way of establishing a government that would protect the interests of their class-slaveholders, merchants, bondholders, land speculators?Read More...
Published by ZCommunications • May 7, 2000
Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: “I read in your book, A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the richest country in the world, the senseless wars. How can I keep from being thoroughly alienated and depressed?”
That same question has been put to me many times, in different forms, one of them being: “How come you are not depressed?”
Who says I’m not? At least briefly.Read More...


Exactly 60 years ago, in July 1957, brought the Fiat with great hype of the legendary "Nuova 500" on the market. After an initially difficult Start, the "Cinquecento would go" to the Italian Volkswagen and cult-mobile. Until 1975, 3.8 million copies were good. Reason enough to put the anniversary in full-on Retro. So there is not only a nostalgic-inspired special model of the current 500, but also a stamp.
Was presented to the stamp of the Italian Post office in the Turin Fiat plant in Mirafiori, where the classic 500 ran from 1957 from the Band. The 95-cents-value of the sign is limited to a Million copies and projected the Silhouette of the old 500 on the body of the current 500. It is striking how small the vintage car works in comparison to the modern model. In Figures 2,97 meters expressed: against 3,57 meters in length and 1.32 meters versus 1,49 meters in height.
On a blue Background is also a ribbon in the colors of the Italian flag, which is the date "1957-2017". The entire look of the brand is to remind you of those posters, which 60 years ago for the Fiat 500 was advertised. Speaking of advertising: In a nicely-made Video Fiat with Oscar-winner Adrien Brody hits the bridge from the 1950s to the present. By the way, Fans of car-stamps need not be sad, if you make it to Italy: Deutsche Post also provides a variety of vintage cars, including the VW Golf I, the Porsche 911, the Opel Manta or Ford Capri.(rh)


Wednesday 17 November 1937
It was Wednesday, under the sign of Scorpio. The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic).
A Damsel in Distress, directed by George Stevens, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1937
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Virginia mayor resigns from Jamestown commission over Trump
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia mayor is resigning in protest from a historic Jamestown committee because of the group’s reported plans to host President Donald Trump at the 400th anniversary celebration of the first representative legislative assembly in America.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney sent a resignation letter Monday saying Trump “denigrates our democracy” and has no place at the event.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Friday that Trump will attend the July 30 event, but the White House hasn’t confirmed it to The Associated Press.
Democratic lawmakers have said they will boycott the event.
The event will commemorate the 1619 founding of the House of Burgesses. It is part of a weeklong observance of the state’s colonial past, which also will mark the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans’ arrival in Virginia.


This books covers the Clinch Valley District mile by mile. The book is developed around the 1916 Resurvey, the 1916 N&W Industrial Guide, and 1917 ICC Valuation of the Clinch Valley main line and each of its major branch lines � Big Creek, Town Hill Creek, Coal Creek, Honaker, Russell Creek, Little Tom, Marion, and Big Toms Creek. The 1916 Resurvey included details on 43 different Clinch Valley spurs and branches. The purchase and operation of both the Lewis Creek and Dumps Creek Branches are also included. Details on the construction of the District Line are taken from the original 1886-1892 construction ledgers.
The approximate 200 pages of �Clinch Valley: Norfolk & Western District Line� uses over 80 photographs, 175 drawings and 40 maps to illustrate and guide the reader through the history of the railroad. Many of the drawings are taken from the 1916 Resurvey Field Notebooks and the 1917 ICC Valuation notebooks.


Today in World War II History—June 30, 1940 & 1945
80 Years Ago—June 30, 1940: Germans occupy Guernsey in the British Channel Islands.
Evacuation of European women and children from Hong Kong begins.
Havana Conference declares the transfer of territory in Americas from one country to another (ie: French territory to Germany) will not be tolerated.
US establishes Fish and Wildlife Services.
75 Years Ago—June 30, 1945: In the Philippines, Luzon is declared secure, although pockets of resistance remain until the end of the war.
Organized Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao in the Philippines.


Money makes the world go round but it is also making you walk barefoot spellbound among beautiful displays in a museum loaded with yes, lots of money. There are coins seemingly made of gold that glint and currency notes so large that you wonder how big the wallets were in the past. This is Haji Abdulla Memorial Heritage Museum housed in Corporation Banks’s Heritage Museum and Financial Research Centre near the famous Krishna Temple in old Udupi.
Museums have been a mixed bag in my travels ranging from some of the disappointing government run archaeology museums to the scintillating ones in Kurukshetra and Shillong. Few minutes ago, the guard at the gate had politely asked me to come in but not before taking my shoes off. The curiosity was certainly piqued by several notches.
Udupi has been serving surprises all right. While it is common knowledge that Udupi lends its name to the neighbourhood restaurants serving cheap and hygienic South Indian food, what is not widely known is that Manipal, the El Dorado for students across the country, is a next door neighbour to Udupi. And the big surprise is that apparently Udupi is the banking cradle of the country. Corporation Bank, Karnataka Bank, Syndicate Bank, Vijaya Banak and Canara Bank - where you still remember the manager in New Delhi’s Chanakya Puri branch counting the coins you had saved to open your first bank account - were all founded in Udupi.
This museum with an old world charm is actually beautiful and lovingly put together. Under the wooden beam ceiling, exhibits glint in soft light. The neat exhibits of coins are a numismatist’s delight and for anyone who has ever carried currency notes or coins in their pockets and purses. All the exhibits are painstakingly researched and their explanations displayed. I am joined by the earnest curator Mr. M. K. Krishnayya whose passion for the museum and its contents is seen to be believed. In addition to being a numismatics expert, he is also a thematic philatelist. The curator’s rich stories of money come pouring out like the rains all morning here today in Udupi. The history and story of money is indeed interesting.
The Coin Museum has a heart warming story just like the several philanthropic stories heard across the country. The halls housing the museum were once the home of Corporation Bank’s founder Haji Abdulla Saheb Bahadur. He established Corporation Bank in 1906 to fulfil the long felt needs of banking for the people, to free them from exploitation by the money lenders and to inculcate the habit of saving. It is said that Saheb Bahadur would donate his wealth – a little every day – to the poor. And when there was nothing left to give, he chose to take his own life. The founder’s lofty ideals and ethos seem to echo as we walk barefoot in the halls. Yes, the practise of walking barefoot is prevalent since the times when everyone took off their shoes while walking through the lane in front of Haji Saheb’s house.
We are on the money trail. The coins date from 400 BC and run through times and dynasties of Mauryas, Shakas, Kushans, Satavahanas, Guptas to assorted Sultanates, Mughals, Marathas and the British. Mahajanpads of early historic times like Gandhara, Kuntala and Kuru issued their own punch-marked coins called Puranas. The coins of different shapes and sizes are made of gold, silver and copper. Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth made her appearance on coins as early as 2nd century BC. You can see coins with symbols, motifs, scripts, legends and images of rulers and deities. The prized possession of the museum is one-rupee silver coin weighing 11 gms called Rupaya which was introduced in 1540 by Sher Shah Suri who besides building the Grand Trunk Road also ran Humayun out of the country.
|Photo Courtesy Nita Bhosale|
As money evolved from barter system to where currency was introduced as metal pieces, the evolution of terminology of money from the Mughal times to independence is pretty interesting. Three Phooti Cowries made a Cowrie – yes, there actually was money that was called phooti cowrie made of sea-shells and is believed to be the longest and most widely used currency in history; ten Cowries made a Damri; two Damris made a Dhela; two Dhelas made a Paisa; 64 Paisa made 16 Anna and 16 Annas made 1 Rupya! You can certainly recall proverbs where these names for money have been used or in the movies where the father threatens the heir with not deserving a single cowrie, dhela, paisa or rupya as inheritance; the nomenclature changed over the years!
The museum has currency notes too some in the denominations of Rs 5000 and Rs 10000. One exhibit has profiles of all Governors of Reserve Bank of India. The curator is a distinguished stamp collector too and some exhibits display his love for philately. One of his favourite themes is stamps with flags. There is an exhibit that shows how our Tricolour evolved over the years. The museum is indeed multi-dimensional unlike a two-sided coin.
Launched in 2011, the museum is the fruit of labour of two employees. Most of these over 1500 coins belong to Mr. Radhakrishna Kumble, who has collected these coins over a period of 25 years through his own salary while the stamps belong to Mr. Krishnayya. The Udupi Coin Museum has put love of museums back in my life. The museum is a glowing example in today’s cynical world where two selfless individuals carry forward the legend of their bank’s founder. This is all about passion which thankfully no amount of money can buy.
The Museum Curator Mr. M. K. Krishnayya’s contact number is 9945271614
A version of the story appeared in the Spectrum supplement of Deccan Herald on 15th Nov 2016
Decoding the Past Through Coins
Decoding the Past Through Coins


Prof. Alan Stewart
(Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters)
Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley
Moore Institute Seminar Room (Hardiman Research Building G010)
5pm Tuesday 15 September
In 1972, the Folger Shakespeare Library acquired a diary written between 1581 and 1598 by Richard Stonley, an Exchequer official, who on 12 June 1593 bought ‘the Venus and Adhonay per Shakespere’, the first known purchase of a work by Shakespeare. That entry aside, the diaries have received little critical attention. Disappointingly mute on topical detail, they feature instead daily transcriptions from the Bible, records of Stonley’s financial outgoings, and the thinnest of narratives about his daily activities. This paper asks what Stonley was doing in this diary, one of the earliest English diaries to survive – and how his entries relate to his controversial Exchequer career.
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The Plastic Arts and Sculpture Collection of the Wien Museum comprises around 2,700 objects. Portrait busts, full-length portrait depictions and monument models make up more than half of the inventory, meaning that there is a close thematic link to the biographical collections of the museum.
Among the oldest art objects in the Wien Museum are the numerous original statues from St. Stephen’s Cathedral dating from the 14th century, which originate from gifts made by the Prince Archbishop’s Ordinariate. The outstanding pieces here are above all the figures of princes from the West Façade (c. 1360) and the Epiphany group from St. Stephen’s North Tower (c. 1380/90).
The core items of the Plastics Arts and Sculpture Collection date from the so-called Ringstrasse Epoch. None of the great cultural and representative buildings on the Viennese Ringstrasse lack an extensive array of sculptures – the same holds true for the new City Hall, which was intended as a status symbol of the municipal construction policy. Important sculptors such as Johannes Benk, Josef Gasser, Karl Kundmann and Viktor Tilgner were commissioned to carry out architectural sculptures. The models for their sculptures can be found in the Wien Museum Collection.
Of the 19th century sculptors, Kaspar Zumbusch, Karl Kundmann, and Viktor Tilgner are notably represented in the collection. Tilgner especially was a highly-regarded portraitist who captured numerous artists, politicians and scientists of his day. With over one hundred portrait busts and monument models the Wien Museum owns a representative and significant Tilgner collection. In the area of 20th century Viennese sculpture, the works of Anton Hanak and his most famous apprentice Fritz Wotruba stand out. The Wien Museum possesses two figural works by this pioneer of modern sculpture in Austria and also a portrait bust of Robert Musil.
Notions of sculpture in contemporary art are broadened by a complex of works by Hans Schabus acquired by the museum in 2004. Titled “A Further Attempt at a Room for ‘Western’”, this complex alludes to the sailing boat “forlorn” and the film “Western” among other references.
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The back of the mill reads “Red River Milling Company”
I really like the way this high-ceilinged room is decaying. Well, decayed. It’s demolished now.
Partier graffiti dates to when the caves were last open to the public; probably in the 1990s. This tunnel used to horseshoe between the brewery’s ice chute (left) and basement door (right, backfilled). Note the utility tunnel in the upper-right corner as well as the lighting brackets on the ceiling.
Looking at the ghost sign from a rust-locked cement conveyor that linked the silos with a packing warehouse.
The front of the mill reads “Montana Flour Mills Company”
Shadows of the trees from the materials yard.
Don Crist ’83. Brick Graffiti Series.
“The fresh snow mixed indistinguishably from the ashes of the half-demolished power plant.”
The building collapsed except for the back room. The slats of the roof cast lines of light across the floor.


Marie Antoinette owned this little heart-shaped 5,34 carat blue diamond set in a golden ring. When Marie Antoinette knew that she would not be able to protect the precious jewels from the robbing, revolutionary mobs she quickly gave it to her friend, Princess Lobomiska of Poland. The diamond ring is has never left Europe but is not on display because it now belongs to a private collector.
The ring was a part of Marie Antoinette's personal jewellery collection and as such she probably brought it with her from Vienna. Because it was her's alone, it was not counted among the crown jewels of France.


Land surveyors have been around for millennia and numerous histories have been written about them. Here are a few bits of that history.
- Land surveying is the second oldest profession in the Old Testament.
- Going back to at least 3,000 BCE, land records were required to be kept and ‘rope stretchers’ and mathematicians were the ones to do it. Evidence of the early surveys includes a stone survey map depicting fields and containing a written description of the land.
- Initially all measurement was done using straight lines and right angle. These techniques were especially prevalent in the Nile Valley of Egypt, because much of the land was flooded every year, creating a need to re-locate boundary lines. The Greeks used land surveyors extensively in their roads and aqueduct projects.
- For centuries, some communities practiced ‘beating the bounds’ where the community would gather to walk and mark the boundaries of property, so that all could witness and agree upon their location, preventing disputes. Since memory can be a tricky thing, the community would literally beat their children, usually with enough force to cause pain but not to injure. The pain would help to set the location into that child’s memory, long after they might otherwise forget.
- To land surveyors, Mount Rushmore is known as the “three surveyors and the other guy”, because George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson were all land surveyors, but Teddy Roosevelt was not.


PMG-certified Treasury Note from the War of 1812 Offered in Heritage Sale
Posted on 3/17/2023
An excessively rare and important Treasury Note from the War of 1812 that has been certified by Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®) is being offered in an auction. The $100 Act of March 4th, 1814 Treasury Note will be available in Heritage Auctions’ CSNS Currency Signature Auction, with bidding expected to open by mid-April 2023.
The $100 Act of March 4th, 1814 Treasury Note graded PMG 45 Choice Extremely Fine and pedigreed to the Mike Coltrane Collection is the higher-graded of the two examples in the PMG Population Report. According to Heritage, the $100 note is the only denomination known from the Act of March 4th. This example is also one of only three complete double-signature remainders from the time period.
|$100 Act of March 4th, 1814 Treasury Note graded PMG 45 Choice Extremely Fine and pedigreed to the Mike Coltrane CollectionClick images to enlarge.|
The US Treasury authorized five acts during the War of 1812 from 1812 to 1815. Each of these acts authorized the use of Treasury Notes to fund the war and, later, to raise revenue and re-establish the US economy. This $100 Treasury Note was a product of the Act of March 4th, 1814 meant to independently raise revenue and substitute for unsubscribed loans. According to the act, the US government would pay back the note with 5.4% interest per year (or about 1.5 cents per day on a $100 note).
This elusive rarity comes from the Mike Coltrane Collection, an incredible collection of some of the earliest known US federal notes. The Coltrane Collection includes 40 War of 1812 Treasury Notes, including 15 Proofs. The collection also boasts other great rarities in American numismatics, including a group of Demand Notes from the 1860s and a selection of National Gold Bank Notes. To explore a gallery of these notes from the Mike Coltrane Collection, click here.
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I have not had a Daily News newspaper in years but yesterday there were a couple of copies left and the main page headline caught my eye so I bought one. I think many of our Durbanites living overseas who visit this site may be shocked by the three stories I found on just two pages. I post the articles in their entirety for your information. All I can say is Dear old Durban.
Wow, a real nostalgic trip. Yeah, knew all those pubs as I’m sure did most of our generation.
The upper pub at the Los Angeles hotel was called the Robert E Lee. It was named by the owner of the hotel, Peter Paget, after his adopted son named Robert, and, of course, the US Confederate General. I was told that directly by the man himself at his house at 347 Innes Road just before he and his wife Daphne were to open the newly refurbished pub. (I had been going out with his daughter Anne for a couple of years)
The pub had a huge mural of a Mississippi steamboat wheeler on one of the walls.
Peter and Daphne Paget were some of the nicest people I had ever met and they would have made great in-laws. Peter would go every weekday to the Los Angeles hotel at 9.30am to check on how well his hotel had done the day and night before. He would return for lunch at 12.30pm. I always admired his 3-hour workday. Even though reasonably wealthy, they were totally unpretentious and I appreciated this even more. They seemed to have a wonderful balance in life of true values.
Incidentally, Peter Paget’s father was a mining engineer whose company was involved in the gold mines and got the contract to build the cable way in Cape Town. He was the first person to go up the cableway in an iron bathtub that had to be used to test out the cableway as no cable cars had yet been built.
Sadly Peter Paget died on 8th of March 1988 aged 65, Daphne Paget on 23 April 2010 aged 83 and Robert Paget on 3rd March 2011 aged 56.
The last I heard, Anne Paget was thinking of selling her property on Innes Road and emigrating to New Zealand to be with her daughter and family. Sadly the emigration option sensibly chosen by many white South Africans in the new and miserably failing South Africa.
The second in the series of unanswered emails discovered recently was from Rod Southey who sent in a submission about his father Robert ‘Bob’ Oscar Southey’s (1914-1994) service with the South African Airforce in WWII. Of particular interest to FAD is that he was the pilot who flew two of the first Harvard Trainers from Durban’s Stamfordhill Airport, where they had been assembled, to Swartkops Air Force Base. Rod wrote:
On the 30th April 1940, he flew the second Harvard trainer from Durban’s Stamford Hill Aerodrome (where it had been assembled) to Swartkops. His logbook records a time of 2hrs 20min at a mean height of 9000′. He also flew the third Harvard from Durban to CFS Swartkops on the 7th May 1940.
These two events were to reach a climax many years later, in 1990, when he was honoured at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Harvard at CFS Dunnottar. Imagine his delight, when he was fetched by a Harvard from Middelburg Tvl.(where he was staying with his son Rodney) to be flown to Dunnottar and being allowed to handle the controls again. This at the age of 76!
Things have been known to happen slowly around here but I surpassed myself with the recent rediscovery of an email folder dating back to the time while I was moving to Brisbane and settling down. The folder is marked ‘Hold’ and contains 80 messages from the readers that I intended to get to ASAP. I didn’t mean it to take six or seven years but that’s how the cookie crumbled and I apologise to all concerned.
The first message on the list came from Mario Pascoal and included what looked like scans of some colour slides. The quality wasn’t great but I picked out these two showing the front of Louis Botha Airport and a view of Tollgate Being Built.
Friend of Facts About Durban William Paterson is keen to know what nursing or maternity home a Durban woman would have gone to to give birth in 1919/20. I do know that St Augustine’s and Addington were in existence by then but can’t confirm they would have been the maternity facilities of choice. Please leave a comment below if you know anything.
Reader Hennie Heymans is asking for information and pictures on the Borough/City Police. He wrote:
I am Hennie Heymans, born and bred in Durban – joined the SA Police (1964) graduated at UND (1969) and for my sins was transferred to Pretoria – saw the whole country and great parts of the world BUT never came back to Durban – the nearest was about 18 months in PMB.
I am the editor of the Nongqai an on-line police & national security magazine and “History Without Malice.” I am very interested in the history of Durban and also more specifically in the Durban Borough Police and the Durban City Police. I am also very interested in the African Police who served in Durban – the so-called “Black Jacks” of the Durban Corporation.
I am looking for photos of all the old Borough Police stations – some are mentioned in Rev Jewell’s book (a history of the force) but I find no photos. The Water Police was founded by the Durban Borough Police and in 1894 the Natal Police took over and in the 1920 the Borough Police again took over for a while.
Anyway when I have completed my research I would like to share it with you and your readers. If you have any information I would greatly appreciate it. If any readers have anecdotal history they are welcome to share with me.
Leave a comment if you know anything or email to the address on the Contact Page.
I recently discovered a Google tool called Data Studio which lets you display all sorts of live data including website statistics. The first thought through my head was that you visitors to the site might like to see just how many others are doing the same thing. The default view is the number of sessions (visits), unique page views, visitors’ geographical location and device used in the past quarter but you can select any date range you like going back to November 2015.
One of my real likes is coming across small booklets especially concerning Durban history, written up by someone who has taken the time to do some research and investigating into the subject matter. Some years ago now, in my study of my wife’s Mack family history, I was given a copy of a booklet written up by Rev. P.E Goldie which gives the history of the Parish of Isipingo 1856-1956.
The Macks, amongst other families who settled in Isipingo were the pioneers of the Natal sugar industry. In actual fact Robert Henry Mack, known as Harry Mack, grandson of Robert Gazley Mack, the original pioneer, was the last of the Mack family to grow sugar on the Isipingo Flats. At the age of 95 he was still travelling from the Bluff to Isipingo to supervise the planting, growing and harvesting of the annual crop. He died aged 99 in 1968. Today the Mack family is remembered in Isipingo with the road named Mack Road which bordered the Mack farm.
Isipingo is tied up with Dick King who lived and died there and where he is buried today. He was gifted Isipingo in appreciation of his historic ride to Grahamstown in 1842 to inform the Cape authorities of the dire straits the Port Natal settlement was in, due to the siege by the Boers. Robert Gazley Mack, a Byrne Settler was originally allocated a plot of land in the Byrne Valley (Richmond District), did not see his future lying there, abandoned his plot and retired to Port Natal. Here he bought land off Dick King and became a sugar pioneer.
The booklet written by Rev. Goldie, and he is hereby acknowledged, covers the early history of the Anglican Church in what was known as the Parish of Isipingo which eventually spread in later years to include Amanzimtoti, Umbogintwini, Warner Beach and surrounds. I doubt whether many of these booklets survive so I decided to put it up on the Facts about Durban site and with the help of Allan Jackson here it is. It is long but rather than reduce its contents, I left it whole. Also below is the programme of events to mark the Centenary.
Former Natal Newspapers colleague Greg Arde has been in touch to say that he is working with the local ward councillor to preserve the Burman Bush conservation area. He’s looking for information about Bill Buchanan who apparently gifted the land to the city and also donated the land for the council flats and the Bill Buchanan aged care facility in the same area. Please drop me a line at the address on the contact page or leave a comment below.
Tom Chalmers was an early contributor to this site and we were saddened to hear of his passing on August 25, 2018. Here at FAD we’d like to offer our condolences to all his friends and family and remember him by highlighting the story he shared with us about his involvement in the failed last official flight of a Sunderland flying boat from Durban harbour.


1951 Mercury Sport Coupe (Mythic)
This is the definitive lead sled. It was a favorite of car customizer George Barris, and has been featured in rebel Without a cause, American Graffiti (driven by the Pharoahs), and Greased Lightning. The body style was one of the first new styles developed that was a revamped pre-war design. This historically significant car and its Ford cousin brought integral fenders to the market, and set sales records.


December 1850,    Jan-June 1851,    Jan-May 1856,    Apr-June 1886,    May-June 1900.
A Sequestration is a Scottish legal term for personal bankruptcy where you are formally declared Bankrupt by the Court.
See further details at National Archives of Scotland (sequestrations).
The date at the start of each paragraph is the date of the newspaper publication. Actual announcements could have been made up to one week earlier. Details have been transcribed from scanned newspaper images. All care was taken to ensure accuracy, but sometimes it was difficult to read images. Some duplications may occur as details have been transcribed from a number of different newspapers. The details below are not comprehensive.
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27th December 1850 / The Company carrying on business as bleachers at Lonsdale, near Paisley, and also in Glasgow, under the firm of William Hamilton and Co. and also Alexander Learmonth Cameron and Co. and of Alexander Learmonth Cameron, residing at Lonsdale aforesaid, the sole individual partner of the said company, carrying on business under the said firms of William Hamilton and Co. and Alexander Learmonth Cameron and Co. as sole partner and as an individual.
31st December 1850 / Robert Dougall, grocer, wine and spirit merchant, and fruiterer, Glasgow. Daniel McIntyre, shipowner, residing ar Cordan, near Lamlash, island of Arran. John Donaldson, boot-tree and last maker or manufacturer, merchant and dealer in timber and lasts, Flesh Market Close, Edinburgh. Ross and McPhail, merchants and general dealers, Broadford, Isle of Skye, as a company, and George Ross McPhail, merchant and general dealer there, the only surviving individual partner of said company, as a partner thereof and as an individual.
3rd January 1851 / Thomas Brown, iron merchant, wharfinger, coal dealer and dealer in railway and other shares, sometime of Cushenden, county of Antrim, Ireland, thereafter of Wilson Street, Glasgow, afterwards of Chelsea, county of Middlesex, England, and presently residing at Granton, near Edinburgh, county of Edinburgh. / John Strathern, commission agent, Glasgow. / Archibald Brothers, manufacturers, Kellarsbrae, near Alloa, as a company, and John Archibald, William Archibald, and Andrew Archibald, all manufacturers there, the individual partners of that company, as partners thereof and as individuals.
7th January 1851 / William Cleland and Co. ironfounders, engineers, millwrights, and machine makers in Glasgow, as a company, and William Cleland, ironfounder, engineer, millwright and machine maker there, an individual partner of that company, as a partner therof and as an individual. / Henry Gore Booth, merchant and shipowner, residing at Artaman, parish of Row and county of Dumbarton. / Thomas Weatherston Tait, farmer, grazier and cattle dealer, formerly residing at Whitelaw, now at Broadhaugh, near Chirnside, both in the county of Berwick. / William Little, cattle dealer, grain dealer, and farmer, residing in High Borgue, parish of Borgue and Stewartry of Kircudbright. / Archibald Menalee, hotelkeeper in Aberfeldy, county of Perth. / Kenneth McKenzie, or Rentonhall, and yile manufacturer there. / Alexander Law, farmer, dairyman, and cattle dealer, at Burnibroom, county of Lanark.
11th March 1851 / Robert Clarkson, china and glass merchant, Leith. / Taylor and Co. shawl manufacturers, Cambusbarren, near Stirling, as a company, and John Taylor and William Taylor, both shawl manufacturers there, the individual partners of that company, as partners and as individuals. / Samuel Smith, bricklayer, residing at crosshill, Renfrewshire.
28th March 1851 / John Dixon and Co. ironfounders, Abercorn, Paisley ans a company, and John Dixon, ironfounder there, the individual partner of said company, as a partner and individual. / Neil Stewart and Co. wine and spirit merchants, Perth, as a company, and Neil Stuart and John Miller Mitchell, rewsiding in perth, the individual partners of the conpany, as partners thereof, and as individuals. / Alfred Maclure, music seller, Glasgow.
4th April 1851 / Andrew baxter, some time farmer and corn and cattle dealer, Rosskeen, near Invergordon, afterwoards residing at Lower Kincraig, near Invergordon, and carrying on only the business of corn and cattle dealer. / Robert Cuthbertson, some time manufacturer, Dunfermline, and now residing there, as an individual, and as a partner of the firm of Robertson and Cuthbertson, manufacturers in Dunfermline. / William Frame, general grocer, Glasgow. / Late John McLennan Esq. some time of and latterly residing at Lyndale, Island of Skye. / Malcolm Smith, some time ship agent, Glasgow, and now residing there.
15th April 1851 / Rev. Alexander Campbell, minister of the United parishes of Saddell and Skipness, in the county of Argyll, and grazier and cattle dealer there. / A Young and Co. engineers, Springfield Works, Glasgow, and Adam Uoung, James Scouller and James Watson, residing at Springfield Place, Hutchesontown, Glasgow, the individual partners of that company, as partners thereof, and as individuals. / J. Flockhart and Son, currier and merchants, Kinross, as a company and Jean Flockhart and Robert Flockhart, curriers and merchants there, the individual partners thereof, as partners, and as individuals. / james Wilson, coal merchant, Leith, and residing in Grove Place, Edinburgh. / Napier and Crichton, engineers, and iron boat and shipbuilders, Glasgow and William Napier, sen, and Alexander Crighton, both engineers, and iron boat and ship buiders there, as partners of that company, and as individuals.
16th April 1851 / Henry Mayne McWilliam, sometime writer, and rope and twine manufacturer, Glasgow, now residing there.
18th April 1851 / John Marshall, baker, Saltmarket-street, Glasgow
23rd April 1851 / John Marshall, Glasgow, baker, Apr 21 and May 16 at the Waterloo Tavern, Glasgow.
24th May 1851 / William Wanless, Edinburgh, grocer, May 26 and June 19 at Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh.
26th April 1851 / James and George Barrowman, coal and ironstone contractors, Airdrie and Whyfflat, as a company, and James Barrowman, contractor, residing in Whyfflat, and George Barrowman, contractor, residing in Airdrie, the individual partners of that company, as partners therof, and as individuals. / Wilson and Martin, merchants, tailors, and clothiers, 7 St.Andrew Square, Edinburgh, and George Wilson, James Martin, and John Wilson, the individual partners of said company, as such, and as individuals. / Johnston Thomson, spirit dealer, Glasgow
9th May 1851 / Samuel Thom, provision merchant, 154 and 265, Cowgate, Edinburgh / Andrew Shaw, flesher and provision merchant, Glasgow and now or lately residing at 60 Dale Street, Tradeston there. / Late Robert Watson, merchant, Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire, and lately residing in Cumbernauld aforesaid. / Thomas Baird, carter, Bedley, county of Lanark.
13th May 1851 / Robert Leys, cartwright and merchant, George Street, Aberdeen. / William Thomson, grocer and dealer in grocery and other goods, in the village and parish of Athelstaneford and county of Haddington. / Oliver Brothers, seedsmen, Falkirk and Thomas Oliver and Alexander Oliver, both seedsmen there, the individual partners of that company. / Robert Dickson, carrier, provision and grain dealer, and grocer, Crawfordjohn, county of Lanark.
17th May 1851 / Robert Dickson, Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire, grain dealer, May 24 and June 14 at the Meal Market Inn, Lanark / Robert Leys, Aberdeen, cartwright, May 20 and June 10 at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen / Thomas Oliver and Alexander Oliver, Falkirk, seedsmen, May 23 and June 13 at the Red Lion Inn, Falkirk / William Thomson, Athelstaneford, Haddingtonshire, grocer, May 19 and June 10, at the George Hotel, Haddington.
21st May 1851 / Gilbert Currie, Glasgow, merchant, May 25 and June 16, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow / William Hume, Glasgow, tea merchant, May 23 and June 25 at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow / John Mackay, Glasgow, shoemaker, May 27 and June 20 at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.
28th May 1851 / Alexander Campbell, Beauley, Inverness-shire, grocer, June 2 and 30 at the Union Hotel, Inverness / John Gow, Edinburgh, grain merchant, June 5 and July 4 at Graham's Crown and Anchor Tavern, Edinburgh / John Hill, Glasgow, metal broker, June 2 and 23 at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow / William Leitch, Crieff, writer, June 2 and 24, at the Drummond Arms Inn, Crieff / William Lutted, Glasgow, musical instrument maker, June 2 and 18, at the Star Hotel, Glasgow / William Smith, Edinburgh, tailor, May 30 and June 20 at the Ship Hotel, Edinburgh.
31st May 1851 / Janet Gilchrist, Edinburgh, cabinet maker, June 5 and 26 at Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh.
4th June 1851 / Patric Park, sculpter and artificer, York Place, Edinburgh.
11th June 1851 / Donald Stewart, silk mercer, clothier, and linendraper, Inverness. / Late james Glass, baker and spirit dealer, lately residing in Newburgh, Fife. / Late Andrew Galloway, merchant, Glasgow, lately residing at Sandyhills, near Glasgow, and lately carrying on business in Glasgow under the firms od A and W Galloway, and Galloway and McMillan.
14th June 1851 / John and Thomas Maclean, cabinet makers, Dundee, as a company, and John Donald Maclean, cabinet maker there, and Thos. Maclean cabinet maker and upholsterer there, the individual partners of that compaany, as partners thereof, and as individuals. / Thomas Binny, farmer, grazier, and cattle dealer at Burnside of Carse, Forfarshire. / Late John Stephen, architect, Glasgow. / John Lawson, merchant and manufacturer, Dundee. / Robert Crane, grocer and victualler, Whifflat, parish of Old monkland, and county of Lanark.
2nd Janaury 1856 / Robert Copland and Frederick Wilhelm Backmann, Dundee, ship broker, Jan 14, at the Dundee Arms Inn, Dundee / Peter Sto??, Glasgow, ironmonger, Jan 9 at the Globe Hotel Glasgow / Maxwell Miller, Glasgow, coppersmith, Jan 14 at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.
4th Janaury 1856 / Copland and Brickmann, ship brokers and general commission merchants in Dundee, and Robert Copland, ship broker and general commission merchant, residing at Newport, Fifeshire, and Frederick Wilheim Brickmann, ship broker and general commission merchant, residing in Dundee, the individual partners of that company, and as individuals. / John Currie and Co. grain merchants and millers in Glasgow and John Currie, grain merchant and miller there, the sole partner of that company, as sole partner thereof, and as an individual.
7th January 1856 / John Andrew Smith, baker, High Street, Edinburgh. / Charles Otto, hotel keeper and horse dealer, Glasgow.
14th January 1856 / Thomas Young, baker and victualier, Anderston, Glasgow. / William Angus, formerly residing in Lerwick, therafter at Inveresk, near Edinburgh, now deceased.
18th January 1856 / James Hackett, provision dealer, residing in East Adam Street, Edinburgh. / Mrs Mary Kay, milliner, dressmaker and lace merchant, George Street, Edinburgh.
30th January 1856 / Niel Stewart, perth, wine merchant, Feb 6 at the Royal George Hotel, Glasgow / John Innas, Glasgow, sewed muslin manufacturer, Feb 11, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow / Henry Fergus, Kirkcaldy, brewer, Feb 6 at the National Hotel, Kirkcaldy.
2nd February 1856 / Hugh Mactavish, Glasgow, wine merchant, Feb 15, at the Gobe Hotel, Glasgow / William waddell, Cumbernauld, merchant, Feb 13, at the Elephant Inn, Dumbarton / James Ross, Tain, druggist, Feb 11, at Mr Houston Mackay's Inn, Tain / Adam Watt, Glasgow, ironfounder, Feb 16 at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow / William Tait, Dundee, baker, feb 12, at the British Hotel, Dundee.
4th February 1856 / Hugh Mactavish, wine and spirit merchant, Glasgow. / Hugh Wallace, lacefall and sewed muslin manufacturing and agent, John Street, Glasgow.
9th February 1856 / Thomas Watson, Glasgow, wright, Feb 21, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow / Jacob Christiansen, Leith, ship broker, Feb 19, at Dowells and Lyon's Rooms, Edinburgh / William Baird, Glasgow, corn merchant, Feb 19, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow
13th February 1856 / Charles Duff Campbell and James henderson, Edinburgh, glassiers, feb 22, at Dowells and Lyon's Rooms, Edinburgh / William Wylie and Robert Wylie, Glasgow, block builders, Feb 21, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow.
18th February 1856 / Thomas Robertson, baker, Main Street, Gorbals, Glasgow. / William Horn, flesher, Glasgow. / William Kennedy, grocer, India Place, Edinburgh. / Andrew Watt, farmer and baker, Nungate, Haddington. / William Rodger, sometime writer, therafter tea merchant, Glasgow, lately residing at Shawland, near Glasgow, now deceased.
25th February 1856 / John Mcleod, bookseller, stationer and auctioneer, Glasgow. / Duncan G F Macdonald, civil engineer and contractor, farmer, dealer in corn and cattle, and dealer in shares, sometime residing at Dingwall, afterwards st Sydenham in England, and now residing at 46 West Register Street, Edinburgh. / Richard Campbell and Co. bleachers, at Bowfield, Renfrewshire, and Richard Campbell, bleacher there, the sole partner of said company, as partner and as an individual. / The late John Macfarlane Smith, merchant and shipowner, in Glasgow, lately carrying on business there under the firm of J M Smith and Co. merchants and shipowners, in Glasgow, and sole partner of the said firm, both as sole partner thereof and as an individual.
29th February 1856 / Glass and Duncan, booksellers and publishers, Argyll Street and Wueen Street, Glasgow, and Charles Glass and George Duncan, the individual partners of the said company, as partners thereof, and as individuals. / Peter Findlay, merchant and commission agent in Glasgow and residing in Glasgow. / John McArthur, provision merchant, Howard Street, Glasgow. / James Sclauders, wright and packing box maker and builder, in Glasgow / James Rowand, surgeon, lately in Glasgow, now deceased, as an individual, and as one of the partners of Fraser, Rowand and Company, quarriers and stone merchants in Glasgow, as one of the lessees of of the Orchard Quarry, Glasgow.
3rd March 1856 / Wilkie Brothers, accountants, sharebrokers, insurance brokers and dealers in shares in Glasgow, and James Wilkie and George Binnie Wilkie, the individual partners of that company. / James Murray, manufacturers, No 51 Wilson Street Glasgow. / Joseph Spence, lately residing in Broad Street Edinburgh, now deceased. / Robert Paton, cabinetmaker and upholsterer, Union Street, Glasgow. / George Banks, boot and shoemaker, Union Place, Edinburgh. / Alexander Nicol, merchant and fish dealer in Findhorn, in the county of Elgin. / Robert Paterson, grocer, Brewsterford, near Calder in the parish of Bothwell, in the county of Lanark.
10th March 1856 / Thomas Dunlop, saddler, Musselburgh. / John Richie, sometime lodging and boarding-house keeper, and publisher in Glasgow, thereafter in Helensburgh, thereafter at Brookpark, near Denny, and presently prisoner in the prison of Edinburgh. / James Gemmel, sometime writer and shipowner in Saltcoats, thereafter manufacturer at Kilmarnock, and lately writer in Glasgow, now deceased. / Simeon Lord and Co. carrying on business in Glasgow, London, and Rochdale, as merchants and dealers in woolen cloths, as a company, and Simeon Lord and Joseph Broadbent, the individual partners of that company, as partners thereof, and as individuals. / Lindsay Webster, silk mercer, Dundee.
18th March 1856 / Angus McPhail, Glasgow, cotton spinner, March 29, at Carrick's Royal Hotel, Glasgow. / George Macfarlane jun, Glasgow, commission agent, March 26, at Carrick's Royal Hotel, Glasgow. / Hugh Divine and Archibald Morton, Glasgow, potters, March 27, at the Glebe Hotel, Glasgow. / John Watson, Edinburgh, butcher, March 27, at Dowells and Lyons' Rooms, Edinburgh. / Robert Macintyre and George Mackay, Glasgow, wholesale stationers, March 25, at Carrick's Royal Hotel, Glasgow. / Angus Sutherland, Dunbrae, caithness-shire, farmer, March 26, at the Caledonian Hotel, Wick.
18th March 1856 / William Smith, Edinburgh, builder, March 24, at Stevenson's Rooms, Edinburgh. / Hector Aitchison, Lauder, merchant, March 24, at the Black Bull Inn, Lauder. / William Orr and John Keir Orr, Crofthead, Renfrewshire, cotton spinners, March 20, at the Rose and Thistle Hotel, Paisley. / James Baddin, Glasgow, writer, March 24, at the Wueen's Hotel, Glasgow.
24th March 1856 / John Muir, commission merchant in Glasgow, and sometime carrying on business in Liverpool, under the firm of James Muir, jun and Co. metal brokers and commission agents there, of which firm the said John Muir was sole partner. / Charles Goodfellow, grocer and spirit merchant, Dunfermline. / J Wilson and Co. merchants and ship brokers in Leith, as a company, and Joseph Manning Wilson, residing at Ramsay Place, Bonnington Road, Leith, sole individual partner of said company, as such partner, and as an individual.
28th March 1856 / Robert Latta, commission merchant and iron merchant in Glasgow, and Ballycastle, country Antrim, presently residing in Glasgow, as an individual, and as sole partner of Robert Latta and Co. commission merchants in Glasgow, and as a partner of Latta and Co. merchants, Glasgow and Ballycastle, county Antrim, Ireland, and of the North of Ireland Iron and Mining Company, Ballycastle, county Anrtim, Ireland. / John Croll, blacksmith in Glasgow. / William Rosenthal, bookseller, stationer and general merchant, Glasgow. / James Henry Archer, insurance broker and dealer in shares, residing in No. 47, North Hanover Street, Edinburgh.
11th April 1856 / T and M Dunn, general grocers in Glasgow, as a company and Thomas Dunn, general grocer there, the only individual partner thereof, as partner thereof, and as an individual. / Roderick Robert Mathieson, painter in Stirling. / John Campbell, general merchant and innkeeper, Kingussie.
14th April 1856 / John Morrison, builder and contractor, Dunblane. / James Watt, outfitter and merchant in Glasgow. / James Tullie, builder, No 71 Rose Street, Hutchesontown of Glasgow.
8th May 1856 / Mrs L? Allan or Brown, poulteror, Glasgow.
16th April 1886 / J Currie, Glasgow, glass merchant, April 21 at the Faculty Hall, St George's Place, Glasgow / J Barclay, A Barclay jun, W Barclay JW Barclay and R Barclay, Kilmarnock, engineers, April 23 at the George Hotel Kilmarnock / Mrs Ellen Clara price or Todd, Edinburgh, coffee planter, widor, April 26 at Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh.
27th April 1886 / J C Macdonald, comedian, MaY 6, at the Faculty Hall, st george's Place, Glasgow / O Mackenzie, Aberdeen, baker, May 4 at the Palace Hotel, Union Street, Aberdeen / R A(?) Speedie and Sons, Sinclairtown, Kirkcaldy / C Davies, Edinburgh, grocer, May 5 at Dowell's Rooms, George Street, Edinburgh / J Anderson and Co. Rathven, Banff, fish curers, May 7 at the Commercial Hotel, Buckie.
15th May 1886 / R McNealy or Meneely, blacksmith, Strathbungo. / ? T Hohnston, boot top manufacturer, Glasgow. / J Thorn(?), builder, Addington. / J Anderson, builder, Leith. / ? Campbell, grocer, New City Road, Glasgow.
18th May 1886 / A Dick, Glasgow, potato merchant / E Graham, deceased, Corrie, farmer / T W Marshall, Cuthill, Sutherlandshire, farmer / P W McDonna, Stirling, bootmaker / J Stewart, Coupar Angus, grocer.
22nd May 1886 / W Ellis, hotel keeper, Burghead / M Barnett, jeweller, Edinburgh / T Mackenzie, merchant, Beauly, Inverness.
26th May 1886 / T W H Todd and Co. merchants, Leith / R Thallon, clerk, Pilrig, Edinburgh / A Chalmers, keeper of asylum, Fisher Row, Musselburgh / D McLennan, farmer, Tarmdale, Ross-shire.
29th May 1886 / B H Remmers and Co, engineers, Glasgow / T Robertson, grocer, Sandyhills, Shettleston and Addington / G D H Poole, export and provisoon merchant, Glasgow / A Allison, hay dealer, Dunlop.
2nd June 1886 / J Kerr, potato merchant, Glasgow / H Duncan, wood merchant, Glasgow / J Tennant, merchant, Aberlour, Banffshire / A T Groat, merchant, Is;and of Walls, Orkney / M G Wilson, late of Glasgow, now of Edinburgh, no trade given. / J Stewart, Glasgow, as the Echo Aerated Water Company. / T Cure(?) and Co., grocers, Airdrie.
5th June 1886 / D Currie, lithographer, west Campbell Street, Glasgow. / G Macfarlane, as the Springbank Chemical Company, Kirkintilloch. / Worth and Strachan, contractors, East Wemyss, Fifeshire. / W A Wilson, merchant, Leith. / G Braid, builder, Parkside Terrace, Edinburgh. / G Rough, farmer, Rescoble, Forfar. / D Fraser, tobacconist, Inverness. / J Gracie, merchant, Macmerry, Haddington.
9th June 1886 / R McGinnies(?), grocer. Partick, Glasgow. / J Donaldson, draper, Bathgate. / G Howard, wine merchant, Glasgow. / R Soutar, deceased, Oban.
12th June 1886 / I Robertson, grocer, Tollcross, Lanarkshire. / J Strachan, innkeeper, Stranraer.
16th June 1886 / J Bone, shipbroker, Greenock.
19th June 1886 / J Murphy, egg merchant, St Mary Street, Edinburgh / J Hutchison, importer of foreign merchandise, Glasgow.
23rd June 1886 / J Donald, farmer, Edinburgh / J R Douglas, merchant, ???, Invernessshire / R Philp, deceased, hotel-keeper, Bridge of Allan / K and C Millar, cabinet merchant, Dundee / J D Balfour, merchant, Fountain Bridge Street Edinburgh / N Graham, Edinburgh / D Mclaren, carver, Eglington Street, Glasgow / E Reid, ironmonger, Union Street, Dundee.
25th May 1900 / William Sandilands, Duntocher, miller.
8th June 1900 / Aird and Company, Glasgow, grocers / John Sheilds, Glasgow, spirit merchant / Margaret McCartney or Anderson, Partick / James McMurtrie, Ayr, solicitor.


I was lucky to attend a presentation about Antietam by Edwin Bearss. His PowerPoint presentation was one slide. He spent an hour going through the events leading up to the battle and then described the battle in such detail in a way no one else can do. Just amazing. The guy is still going strong and will be reading names (along with many others) of those killed during the battle at the Antietam ceremony next month. He was gracious enough to stand for a photograph.
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VANDERWERF, Sally F. 1937-2004
VANDERWERF, FREEDMAN, KELLEHER
Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 9/14/2016 at 08:38:43
Sally F. Vanderwerf, 66, of Temple, TX, formerly of Grundy Center, died July 28 at a hospital in Temple. Local funeral services were August 3 at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Grundy Center. Burial followed at Rose Hill Cemetery in Grundy Center. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Medical Benevolence Foundation, 3100 S. Gessner, #210, Houston, TX 77063.
She was born September 4, 1937, to Saul and Paula Kelleher Freedman. She married Rev. Calvin W. Vanderwerf on September 3, 1960. She practiced her nursing career throughout her married life, including eight years as a psychiatric nurse in Iowa.
Survivors include her husband; one daughter; one son; her mother; a twin sister; two brothers; and four grandchildren.
--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 5 August 2004, pg 3
Grundy Obituaries maintained by Tammy D. Mount.
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The Master of Arts in Military History is offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is the only specialist degree program in military history offered by an Australian university.
History teachers and postgraduate scholars who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the major themes and issues in the field of military history will find this program valuable. It draws upon the widely-acknowledged and single greatest concentration of academic historians in the field within Australia.
The Military History program covers a range of national military experiences as well as thematic courses taught by a group of leading military historians with significant national and international reputations in the field.
Only available by distance and 'online', with capacity both for self-paced learning and some deeper, research-based work (subject to application and approval) for those interested, the program is a bridge between a generalist bachelors degree and more specialised, focused work at the graduate level. A range of traditional and alternate entry pathways are available.
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Craig's research focuses on Australian military history. More particularly and more recently, he has concentrated on operational analysis and uncovering the battlefield 'truth', too often obscured by the distorting effect of Anzac mythology. His recent 'Bardia' research project, for example, was a critical evaluation of the battle with two objectives. It investigated the first serious Australian land battle of WWII, seen then and now as a test of the Anzac legacy. Despite its importance, at present the historiography of the battle is scant with few published accounts focusing specifically on this key action. The project's second and more important objective, however, was the issue of why the Australians were so successful beyond time-honoured Anzac mythology or ethnic slurs against the Italian enemy. This project aimed to do what no equivalent had done - provide a balanced, analytical account of success and failure from Australian, British and Italian perspectives. It investigated the real factors behind victory and defeat beyond too often uncritical accounts of the 'innate' qualities of the Australian infantryman. The wider aim of the project was therefore to challenge the pervasive and warping effect of the Anzac legend.
Beyond these particular projects Craig has a wider interest in issues surrounding Australian and international military history. His focus tends to be towards the operational or 'battlefield' end of the spectrum, but he is also interested in political/strategic issues connected to conflict.
Craig is the author of six books and monographs, including the recently published and critically acclaimed Zombie Myths of Australian Military History. He is also a member of Editorial Board for International Refereed Journal, War & Society.
A graduate of UNSW, ANU and the University of Canberra, John's doctoral thesis was a study of Senator George Pearce, Australia's longest-serving defence minister.
John's book, The Australian frontier wars, 1788?1838 (2002) received a Special Mention in the 2002 Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards, was short-listed for the UK Royal United Service's Institute's Westminster Medal for Military Literature in 2003, and was highly commended in the Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancock Prize Award for the best book published in Australia in any field of history by a first-time author in 2004. It has been reprinted twice.
In 2003-04 John taught Australian history at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. In 2004 he returned to Australia to take up the position of senior historian at the Australian War Memorial and began work on writing the third volume of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. In 2007 he commenced his current appointment at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
John has published widely in the fields of Australian peacekeeping operations, Australian military history, British Empire and Commonwealth military history, and frontier warfare. He has made many media appearances on Australian, British, and international radio and television networks, ranging from Indigenous service in the Australian military to the Bougainville peace process.
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Students undertaking the Master of Arts in Military History are required to take 8 courses (48UoC) in any combination.


Brough Superior, the Rolls Royce of motorcycle world never fails to attract interest. European auctioner H&H set a new record for sale of a 1929 Brough Superior SS100 at The Haynes International Motor Museum. The bike became the world’s most expensive motorcycle with its price tag of $455,400. The machine was one of the fastest in its time, it was guaranteed to be able to reach the magic 100mph mark. The SS100 features an overhead valve 1000cc V-twin engine which delivers 45hp.
1929 saw 29 SS100s produced in Pendine and Grand Alpine form with the option of the B and D sprung frame and the three speed “super heavyweight” gearbox, although a few are believed to have been built with the standard unit. 1929 also saw the introduction of the new dual headlight, as fitted to the machine offered, although not all the 1929 SS100s were so equipped. The beautiful example offered was purchased by the vendor as a complete, original machine in need of a complete restoration. It was restored between 2000 and 2001 and has subsequently been used extensively travelling to Scotland, Spain, France, Austria and Italy. The vendor describes the machine as being in excellent condition in all respects. It is offered with a Swansea V5C and a dating certificate.


François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (fʁɑ̃swa dɔminik tusɛ̃ luvɛʁtyʁ, ˌluːvərˈtjʊər) also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda; 20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803) was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought against the French, then for them, and then finally against France again for the cause of Haitian independence. As a revolutionary leader, Louverture displayed military and political acumen that helped transform the fledgling slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement. Louverture is now known as the "Father of Haiti".
Louverture was born enslaved on the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now known as Haiti. He was a devout Catholic who became a freeman before the revolution and, once freed, identified as a Frenchman for the greater part of his life. During his time as a freeman he attempted to climb the highly stratified social ladder on the island, combatting racism whilst gaining and losin


Found this obit for Sarah. No burial location found. Have not found anything on Joshua or James & Cynthia Curtis.
From the Dec. 24, 1885 Robertson Co., KY Tribune Democrat
At the residence of her son, Charles Carpenter, near Kentontown, Oct. 28, 1885, Mrs. Sarah Carpenter, of dropsy, in the 59th year of her age. She was the mother of four sons and two daughters.


The history of Outremer in the 13th century was materially altered by the establishment of a stable Latin Kingdom on the island of Cyprus. Today I look at how the Lusignan dynasty became established. Unfortunately, the sources for the founding of the Kingdom of Cyprus are not only scanty but dubious, leading me to develop two theses that challenge existing historiography. The first of these is presented below.
And Guy had only two years because he died in 1194, either in April/May or toward the end of the year depending on which source one consults. That is too little time even for a more competent leader to be the architect of Cyprus’ success. That honor belongs, I believe, to his older brother, the ever competent Aimery de Lusignan, who was lord of Cyprus not just two years but eleven.
In short, in my opinion, it is far more likely that Aimery, not Guy, brought settlers in―after first pacifying the native population and institutionalizing tolerance for the Orthodox church that mirrored the customs of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. It is this thesis that forms the basis of: The Last Crusader Kingdom: Founding of a Dynasty in 12th Century Cyprus.


Located headwaters of Newton' Fork amidst many dry placer gold gulches and narrow rich quartz veins the King Solomon with 300 foot shaft dominated. In 1879 Pennington County's 4th largest town it boasted 3 saloons, post office and store, blacksmith shop and stage barn on Cheyenne-Custer-Deadwood line. Thomas Kitrell was storekeep and first postmaster, Nettie Shedd the last. Nellie Thomas and Annie Tallent were the schoolmams. Early miners of 1875 were Ray Smith, Wm. Driver, Simon Shawl, McVey, Larry Dwyer wife and 2 sons, Sewright, Joe Palmer, Judge Cook. The gold boom busted in 1885 and many a miner settled on nearby ranches. This was the setting of the Ole Bull - Simon Shawl story of 1896.
County road 7 mi. northwest of Hill City, road leads to Mystic. South Dakota
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In this episode, Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon and panelists Kristine Haglund, Jared Anderson, and Zina Petersen explore all these questions plus lead a fascinating tour into other parts of the Christmas story. Why are only five women mentioned in the Gospels’ presentations of Jesus’s lineage—and why are the ones listed all women with “questionable” sexual pasts? What are the Twelve Days of Christmas? What is the “Immaculate Conception” and how does it affect theology about Mary and ideas about the Eucharist and other religious devotions? How has pagan history and ideas folded into the history of “Christmas” (not Jesus’s birth but the celebration of it)? The panel discusses solstices and equinoxes, meshings of calendaring systems, the link between carnivals and holy days, shepherds’ presents to the Christ child, and even a longstanding tradition of “ghost story” tie-ins with Christmas that Charles Dickens resurrected. Why was there a period of time in which Christmas was illegal? And much more!
Perhaps most important, however, is the discussion of how and why the panelists and many other Christians throughout history, knowing all that they know about what likely is and is not factual about traditional accounts, still celebrate Christmas, joyfully sing carols alongside those for whom the stories are less complicated, and experience this season as spiritually enriching.


Frances Rigg was a local business identity in Kew, at one stage managing the local branch of the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank at 175 High Street from c. 1920 until the 1940s. After Francis Rigg’s death, the collection of buttons and medallions was inherited by his son, Ken Rigg (1922-2014). The collection was subsequently donated to the Kew Historical Society in 2015 by Francis' grandson, Adrian Rigg, at the time of the Gallipoli & Beyond Commemoration in 2015. The collection covers a period of almost 40 years. The majority of the buttons are patriotic buttons, issued and sold during and immediately after the First World World War (1914-1918) to raise funds for national and overseas causes. The collection also includes a number of locally significant sporting event buttons and sporting club medallions, issued in the 1920s and 1930s.
Patriotic and other pressed tin buttons and badges were produced in large numbers in the first decades of the twentieth century. By nature, insubstantial and ephemeral, they have not always survived. The collections of badges, buttons and medallions in the Kew Historical Society collection is homogenous and yet diverse, ranging from buttons sold to raise funds for the war efforts in 1914-18 and 1939-45, to those used at festivals and sporting events. Because of the manufacturing process, many surviving buttons and badges have been affected by inadequate storage, suffering from oxidisation and physical damage. These survivors are now historically and socially significant artefacts, revealing much about the attitudes and values of the period in which they were produced. Their widespread distribution means that they are frequently significant at a local, state, national and international level.
Fundraising badge sold by the Commonwealth Button Fund to raise funds for the victims of the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire during the war.
Inscriptions & markings
"Servia Syria Armenia"