From my set entitled “Monarda”

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In my collection entitled “The Garden”

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Monarda (bee balm, horsemint, oswego tea, or bergamot) is a genus consisting of roughly 16 species of erect, herbaceous annual or perennial plants in the Lamiaceae, indigenous to North America. Ranging in height from 1 to 3 feet (0.2 to 0.9 m), the plants have an equal spread, with slender and long-tapering (lanceolate) leaves; the leaves are opposite on stem, smooth to nearly hairy, lightly serrated margins, and range from 3 to 6 inches (7 to 14 cm) long. In all species, the leaves, when crushed, exude a spicy, highly fragrant oil. Of the species listed, M. didyma (Oswego Tea) contains the highest concentration of this oil.[1]

 

The genus was named for Nicolás Monardes who wrote a book in 1574 describing plants found in the New World.

 

Several Bee Balm species (Monarda fistulosa and Monarda didyma) have a long history of use as a medicinal plants by many Native Americans including the Blackfeet, Menominee, Objibwe, Winnebago and others. The Blackfeet Indians recognized the strong antiseptic action of these plants, and used poultices of the plant for skin infections and minor wounds. A tea made from the plant was also used to treat mouth and throat infections caused by dental caries and gingivitis. Bee Balm is the natural source of the antiseptic Thymol, the primary active ingredient in modern commercial mouthwash formulas. The Winnebago used a tea made from bee Balm as a general stimulant. Bee Balm was also used as a carminative herb by Native Americans to treat excessive flatulence. [2][3]

 

Although somewhat bitter due to the thymol content in the plants leaves and buds, the plant has a very similar flavor to oregano, to which it is closely related. Bee Balm was traditionally used by Native Americans as a seasoning for wild game, particularly birds. The plants are widespread across North America and can be found in moist meadows, hillsides, and forest clearings up to 5,000 feet in elevation. [2]

 

Monarda species include annual and perennial upright growing herbaceous plants with lanceolate to ovate shaped leaves. The flowers are tubular with bilateral symmetry and bilabiate; with upper lips narrow and the lower ones broader and spreading or deflexed. The flowers are single or in some cultivated forms double, generally hermaphroditic with 2 stamens. Plant bloom in mid to late-summer and the flowers are produced in dense profusion at the ends of the stem and/or in the stem axils, the flowers typically are in crowded into head-like clusters with leafy bracts. Flower colors vary, with wild forms of the plant having crimson-red to red, pink and light purple. M. didyma has bright, carmine red blossoms; M. fistulosa -- the "true" wild bergamot -- has smokey pink flowers. M. citriodora and M. pectinata have light lavender to lilac-colored blooms and have slightly decreased flower quantities. Both species are commonly referred to as "Lemon Mint." There are over 50 commercial cultivars and hybrids, ranging in color from candy-apple red to pure white to deep blue, but these plants tend to be smaller than wild species, and often developed to combat climatic or pest conditions. "M.didyma" species can grow up to 6 feet tall. Seed collected from hybrids — as with most hybridized plants — does not produce identical plants to the parent.

 

The Monarda plants prefer full sun and moist yet well-drained soil. Plants established in partial shade or filtered sun have higher incidences of rapid horizontal spread and flower less. An aggressive plant in the South-eastern United States, Bergamots can grow in a wide variety of soil conditions. Powdery mildew, rust, and (rarely) tobacco mosaic viruses disrupt established plants on occasion, but the plants are in general highly resistant to most wilts and viruses and are not easily damaged. Used most frequently in areas in need of naturalization, Monarda is often used in beds and borders to encourage and increase the appearance of hummingbirds, pollinating insects, and because of oils present in its roots is sometimes used to companion plant around small vegetable crops susceptible to subterranean pests. While seed should be stratified briefly before starting, seed may be cast directly or started in coldframes or greenhouses at soil temperatures approaching 70° Fahrenheit. Generally, propagation occurs by hardwood and softwood cuttings, root cuttings, layering, and division; the latter, quite frequently, is the most popular method out of necessity: the plant should be divided every 3 to 5 years to reduce spread, keep the central core of the plant healthy, preclude root rot, and improve air circulation about the foliage.

 

Bee balm is considered a good plant to grow with tomatoes, ostensibly improving both health and flavor. It also is a good companion plant in general, attracting pollinators and some predatory/parasitic insects that hunt garden pests.

 

Monarda species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including case-bearers of the genus Coleophora including C. heinrichella (feeds exclusively on M. fistulosa), C. monardae (feeds exclusively on Monarda spp) and C. monardella (feeds exclusively on M. fistulosa).

 

The Bergamot of the Monarda species should not be confused with the popular flavoring used in Earl Grey tea. Dried leaves may be used for teas or aromatherapies, but the odor is subtly different from Citrus bergamia, the Earl Grey flavoring. For medicinal usage, Monarda has been known to treat headaches and fevers by infusing crushed leaves in boiling water.

 

Ironically Mike is wearing his "Beans, the musical fruit" shirt, how appropriate for this occasion haha.

Trish and Rob's place sometime in 2007...

  

A small spacecraft lands at an international intergalactic gas-station between The Stars Beta-max 5 and polyphone b… the ship is marked as a federation fighter, but it is only a Disguise as our heroine Irena jumps out also still in federation markings…

 

-Hello tank me full up! oh Sir Tock Tick don’t look that scared, I have gone through therapy now, I am cured from my grinding obsession… and anyhow I only want gas and I have kredits to pay with this time…

 

-Oh Miss Piddydote… that is actually not the matter, I know this is an international station, And I heard gossip that you are wanted by the federation, just rumors I hope… even though we are in international space, federation customers are plenty and provide for 78% of our revenue… I don’t want them to boycott me!!!

 

-Hey old friend and former bedfellow don’t listen to all the gossip!!! I am the federation's bijou without me and Gray the Hungry enemies of the feds would swallow the federation like a space-angler in one mouthful, the Blacktron and the Cadets would make a full scale invasion… so tank me up now and I will tip you with enough Kredits to by a glossy copy of Playmate intergalactica!!! …tell me the latest gossip that is not about me…

 

The clock-faced gas-droid made a optic morse-code to his gasolina-drones and they started to refuel the ship…

 

-Oh, the latest gossip, yes there haven’t been all that much, well the freebooters are back in space again after living on the capital planet for ages… oh yes the lisping walnut is doing a new show at the party planet, they say that it is the first show he did after straining his left flatulence hole.,.

 

-yes I heard, but is that not old gossip? So have you heard anything about the time Lords?

 

-Keep it down, the have optics and audios everywhere, many who have spoken about them have vanished as untraceable and mysterious as a xenomorph far it a drifting hulk… now you are full, I would suggest that you leave now, I am doing you a risky favor letting you tank here…

 

Irena pated and tipped the bot as promised and carried on with her mission.

 

When she left! First the bot called up Playmate intergalactica and ordered a new copy, then made a second call to the federation…

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Marziya Shakir is my 23 old month grand daughter who loves eating raw sprouts as much as she loves eating chocolates..I have copied the article below to show you the magical power of sprouts from Isabel Shipards book..

 

Benefits of Sprouts

 

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This information on herbs is provided free from Isabel Shipard's book "How can I grow and use Sprouts as living food?"

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My interest in sprouts began over 20 years ago, when I read a riddle that fascinated me. It caught my attention and started my interest in wanting to learn all I could about sprouts. The riddle went &

What will:

 

* grow in any climate at any time of the year

* require neither soil or sunshine, but is still rich in vitamins and minerals

* has not been subject to chemical sprays while growing

* is extremely economical and in preparation has no waste

* rivals meat in nutritive value

* can be grown indoors within a minimum amount of space

* multiplies 400% or more in 5 days

* matures in 3-5 days ... ?

 

The answer ... sprouts!

 

About the same time, I attended a demonstration on growing sprouts, with such a variety of seeds and tasty ways of enjoying them. I discovered that beneficial changes in nutrients take place, when seeds are sprouted:

 

* the starch converts to simple sugars

* the protein provides amino acids

* the fats break down into essential fatty acids

* and minerals chelate or merge with protein in a waythat increases their function.

 

All these actions increase the nutrient value, and enhance digestion and assimilation. Due to these dynamic influences, sprouts are considered predigested food.1

 

As I became more aware of the value of live food, I started to see that little things, like sprouts, can have a big impact on health, as they provide a high degree of vitality and rejuvenation to the body. After I completed writing the book, "How can I use herbs in my daily life?" in 2003, people were interested in knowing more about wheat grass and sprouts, which I had mentioned in the book. I showed them how I grew seeds, particularly fenugreek, which is my favourite sprout. Everyone was keen to know more about how to make sprouts and to learn of the various benefits. So, from that interest, this book on sprouts has come to be.

Sprouts have so many valuable

attributes:

 

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Living sprouts are quality food of high biophotons (bio meaning 'life'; photon meaning 'electromagnetic'), which provide a high bio-energetic value, to energise our body and help the entire organism function, and prevent and repair defects.2 The bio-energetic value of sprouts and live foods has similarities to that of living Bio-genic Nutrition, a concept and way of life originating with Professor Edmond Bordeaux Szekely in California, USA in the 1920's. He classified sprouted seeds and baby greens as the most beneficial foods, calling them life-generating Bio-genic Foods, and recommended that they comprise 25% of our daily food. His four classifications make it easy to understand the true value of life-giving sprouts.

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Bio-genic living foods offer the strongest support for the regeneration of cells (25% of daily food);

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Bio-active foods are life sustaining organic fruit and vegetables (50% of daily food);

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Bio-static foods include cooked foods (85% of the nutrient value may be lost in cooking), which slows down the life process and accelerates ageing (no more than 25% of daily food, but these are certainly not the best for the body);

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Bio-acidic foods are regarded as 'life-destroying' and includes sugar, white flour, and all processed foods.

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Sprouts are a powerful source of antioxidants in the form of vitamins, minerals and enzymes, which assist in protecting the body from free radical damage. Free radicals are created in our body by some foods, some cooking oils, preservatives, artificial colours, flavours, additives, and other substances in our environment. Free radicals are highly unstable oxygen molecules that can travel freely throughout the human body in search of an electron 'partner' and steal electrons from healthy cells. In doing so, they have the ability to create a dangerous chain reaction, breaking down vital, biological structures; and they have the ability to alter the structure of the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid). These are the vital blueprints and the DNA's messenger, required for the reproduction of cells. This change in the DNA structure is known as per oxidation. Once per oxidation has taken place within the cell, it will only reproduce the altered version.

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Raw foods contain oxygen, and sprouts have an abundance of this element. Oxygen is important for healthy cells, to allow cells to live and breathe. Dr Otto Warburg, twice Nobel Prize winner, 1931 and 1944, found the growth of cancer cells were initiated by a relative lack of oxygen, and that viruses, bacteria and cancer cells could not live in an alkaline and oxygen-rich environment. When we cook food, the oxygen is destroyed. For this reason, eating raw sprouts, regularly, is valuable to health.

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Sprouts are alkaline and have an alkalising affect in the body. If we desire health, the body needs to be alkaline. The immune system is made strong by high alkaline and alkalising foods (see p 19).

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Sprouts provide us with whole foods, full of living enzymes, a vital life-force (see p 20). Sprouts can be growing on your kitchen bench one minute, and transferred to the meal table the next, ready for eating...there is nothing else as fresh as this! We have to realise that fruit and vegetables, which look so colourful and beautifully displayed on supermarket shelves, may have been picked for a week or more and the vital life-force can be very depleted. This life-force energy is believed to correlate with the level of power of the enzymes in living food, and which researchers believe is seen with Kirlian photography as brilliant spikes of light, radiating harmoniously around living produce or plants. However, once the produce is picked and it is no longer growing, the luminescent light diminishes and then gradually disappears, altogether. The nutrients also diminish when food is picked. So, something we grow, pick, and serve fresh from our garden, or sprouts, growing in the kitchen, will definitely serve us with more nutrients, than food that has had a shelf life.

 

What we grow in our garden and in our kitchen can be with organic seeds and fertiliser. Therefore, our food will not have been subject to synthetic fertilisers, pesticides, growth hormones or other chemicals. These chemicals can have a detrimental impact and an accumulative effect, on the environment and our health. We cannot see the toxins, but they are around us and part of our lives & so subtle. Numerous scientific researchers believe they are the cause of an increase in the incidence of asthma, infertility, allergies, neurological damage, immune and endocrine disruptions, and many types of cancer.

 

A. mixed pea and bean sprout salad with epazote sprigs, a good combination with beans for flavour and flatulence (p 58) B. psyllium sprout smoothies flavoured with pineapple, coconut and banana.

 

Organic food generally has a higher vitamin C content, flavonoids, better protein quality and higher mineral and enzyme content, than conventionally grown produce.4 It is interesting too, and has been observed with Kirlian photography, that organic produce glows with a stronger, more dynamic, luminous light than non-organic produce. If we want to 'outsmart' cancer and other diseases that have accelerated in our modern way of life, we must reduce our exposure to chemicals, wherever we can, by looking for organic or biodynamic produce, or by growing our own & so sprouts in the kitchen are an easy way to start.

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*

 

Sprouts are a good source of essential fatty acids (EFA). The average diet is generally deficient in EFA. These fatty acids are essential to life, perform many vital body functions and play a major role in immune defences (see p 11 and p 105).

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Sprouts are one of the highest food sources of fibre, essential for good health (see p 12). High fibre foods make us chew more slowly and make us feel more satisfied.

*

 

The chlorophyll content of sprouts and seedling microgreens, can perform the remarkable action of converting light energy into chemical energy, a process called photosynthesis. The green chlorophyll pigment of plants closely resembles haemoglobin, the pigment that gives human blood its colour and oxygen-carrying capacity. The difference between the two pigments is that chlorophyll has a core of magnesium and haemoglobin a core of iron.

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Chlorophyll-rich foods are our most powerful blood cleansers and blood builders. Sprouts grown to the chlorophyll-rich two-leaf stage have been shown to be effective in overcoming protein-deficiency anaemia. Some women have found that including chlorophyll-rich foods in their daily diet has given relief from hot flushes of menopause, and also supported hormonal function.

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Sprouts have a generous supply of vitamins . In fact the vitamin content of some seeds can increase from 100% to 2000% in several days of sprouting. Even soaking seeds, overnight, produces massive amounts of vitamin B complex and also of vitamin C.

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The formula for multi-vitamin B and C is hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, together with the life-force and elements in the seeds, this creates a complex carbohydrate, and nutrients are formed. These are the magical substances that provide the miracle of life and increased nutrients in sprouts.

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Sprouts have an excellent array of minerals that the body requires. During sprouting, the minerals are enriched and develop in a chelated form (which are more easily utilised by the body).

*

 

Sprouts can be grown all year round to give a constant supply of food, in the very freshest form possible.

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Eating fresh sprouts provides essential nutrients in an easily assimilable form. Living enzymes, in sprouts, go to work to predigest the protein into their constituent amino acids: this makes them easily digested and absorbed by the body. We can digest sprouts in less than half the time of cooked foods. Cooked foods are acid forming. Continually consuming cooked food can be constipating, as the cellulose necessary for peristalsis has been broken down and softened in cooking.

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Sprouts provide the best nutritional value for money. They are the most economical food we can eat, at just a few cents a serve. We all like good value bargains, and when we find one, we usually like to share the information by passing the details on to family and friends, so they may get the benefits as well. For a few dollars we can purchase seeds that, when sprouted, will increase in volume 8-10 times, and provide many meals. The sprouted seeds also increase in nutrient value in just a few days of growing. Anyone, even on a tight budget, can afford seeds to sprout and get the best of food value.

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Seeds for sprouting store well and can be quickly utilised as food for emergency relief, during times of calamity or scarcity & but make use of them during times of plenty, too, as sprouts provide essential nutrients in the freshest way possible.

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Sprouts provide a good source of protein (for importance of protein see page 7). Many people use sprouts as an alternative to meat protein as ...

o sprouts take less time to digest than meat;

o sprouts are living food; meat is lifeless;

o sprouts are alkaline; meat is acidic;

o sprouts can cut the cost of living; meat is a highly priced item;

o sprouts have no additives; meat may have hormones and chemicals from farming practices;

o sprouts have zero cholesterol, compared to many meats;

o sprouts are a source of oxygen; all cooked foods lack oxygen (meat does however, build red blood cells, which carry 02 molecules);

o people eat sprouts for the health benefits; heavy meat-eaters have higher incidence of colon cancer.

 

Vegetarians, or people who are not heavy meat consumers, have less degenerative diseases. Some researchers say the human body is able to absorb haem iron at a rate 5-10 times higher than it absorbs non-haem iron, which would indicate that iron is better utilised from meat sources, than from sprout and other plant sources. Scientists have established that ascorbic acid can assist in the absorption of non-haem iron. As sprouts are a very good source of vitamin C, this should mean the iron is relatively well utilised.

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Sprouts are low in kilojoules (calories), so are good nutrient-dense food for weight watchers.

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Sprouts have a low glycaemic index (GI), which makes sprouts valuable for health (see p 22).

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Sprouts are preventive medicine . We can know, when we eat sprouts daily, that we are providing building materials for the growth and repair of the body. Our health is very much related to our diet: our choice of foods, determines the quality of our physical wellbeing. Over 2000 years ago, Hippocrates said, "Let food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food". Sprouts literally are super foods to build health and act as a prophylactic from illness. Hippocrates also said, "Each one of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way, and upon these changes his whole life depends, whether he be in health, in sickness or convalescence. To be sure, there can be little knowledge more necessary". And to think: Hippocrates said this, long before fertilisers and chemicals were manufactured, before grains were refined and nutrients removed, and before fast foods were ever conceived!

 

This cool decoration just has to be witnessed on video.

Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant of the aster family, native to temperate Europe and Asia. It has been introduced to other parts of the world, including North America, and in some areas has become invasive. It is also known as common tansy,[2] bitter buttons, cow bitter, or golden buttons. The Latin word vulgare means "common".[3]

Description

(Tanacetum vulgare) which is not blue.

Tansy is a flowering herbaceous plant with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers. It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50–150 cm (20–59 in) tall, and branching near the top. The leaves are alternate, 10–15 cm (3.9–5.9 in) long and are pinnately lobed, divided almost to the center into about seven pairs of segments, or lobes, which are again divided into smaller lobes having saw-toothed edges, giving the leaf a somewhat fern-like appearance. The roundish, flat-topped, button-like, yellow flower heads are produced in terminal clusters from mid-to-late summer. The scent is similar to that of camphor with hints of rosemary. The leaves and flowers are toxic if consumed in large quantities; the volatile oil contains toxic compounds including thujone, which can cause convulsions and liver and brain damage. Some insects, notably the tansy beetle Chrysolina graminis, have resistance to the toxins and subsist almost exclusively on the plant.

 

History and distribution

Tansy is native to Eurasia; it is found in almost all parts of mainland Europe, as well as Britain and Ireland. It is absent from Siberia and some of the Mediterranean islands.[4] The ancient Greeks may have been the first to cultivate it as a medicinal herb.[5] In the sixteenth century it was considered to be "necessary for a garden" in Britain.[6]

 

History of uses

Tansy has a long history of use. It was first recorded as being cultivated by the ancient Greeks for medicinal purposes. In the 8th century AD it was grown in the herb gardens of Charlemagne and by Benedictine monks of the Swiss monastery of Saint Gall. Tansy was used to treat intestinal worms, rheumatism, digestive problems, fevers, sores, and to bring out measles.[5][7][8][9][10]

 

During the Middle Ages and later, high doses were used to induce abortions.[8][11][12] Contradictorily, tansy was also used to help women conceive and to prevent miscarriages.[7][8][13] In the 15th century, Christians began serving tansy with Lenten meals to commemorate the bitter herbs eaten by the Israelites.[10][13] Tansy was thought to have the added Lenten benefits of controlling flatulence brought on by days of eating fish and pulses[7][8] and of preventing the intestinal worms believed to be caused by eating fish during Lent.[14]

 

Tansy was used as a face wash and was reported to lighten and purify the skin.[7][8] In the 19th century, Irish folklore suggested that bathing in a solution of tansy and salts would cure joint pain.[15]

 

Insect repellent

Tansy has also been cultivated and used for its insect repellent and in the worm warding[clarify] type of embalming.[5][8][9] It was packed into coffins, wrapped in funeral winding sheets, and tansy wreaths were sometimes placed on the dead.[5][8][9][13] Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard University, was buried wearing a tansy wreath in a coffin packed with tansy; when "God’s Acre" was moved in 1846 the tansy had maintained its shape and fragrance, helping to identify the president's remains.[5][8][13] By the 19th century, tansy was used so much at New England funerals that people began to disdain it for its morbid association with death.[8][10]

 

During the American colonial period, meat was frequently rubbed with or packed in tansy leaves to repel insects and delay spoilage.[5][8][13] Tansy was frequently worn at that time in shoes to prevent malaria and other fevers;[8][13] it has been shown, however, that some mosquito species, including Culex pipiens, take nectar from tansy flowers.[16]

 

Tansy can be used as in companion planting and for biological pest control. It is planted alongside potatoes to repel the Colorado potato beetle, with one study finding tansy reduced the beetle population by 60 to 100 percent.[8][17][18]

 

In England tansy is placed on window sills to repel flies; sprigs are placed in bed linen to drive away pests, and it has been used as an ant repellent.[19]

 

In the 1940s, distilled tansy oil mixed with fleabane, pennyroyal and diluted alcohol was a well-known mosquito repellent; collectors were paid five cents a pound for tansy in full bloom.[8][20] Research has found that tansy extracts do indeed repel mosquitoes, but not as effectively as products containing DEET.[8][21] In 2008, researchers in Sweden investigated the use of tansy to repel ticks, showing a 64–72 percent repellency for each oil constituent.[22]

 

Toxicity

 

Tansy flower: detail

Many tansy species contain a volatile oil which can cause contact dermatitis in sensitive individuals. If taken internally, toxic metabolites are produced as the oil is broken down in the liver and digestive tract. It is highly toxic to internal parasites, and for centuries tansy tea has been prescribed by herbalists to expel worms. Tansy is an effective insecticide and is highly toxic to arthropods.[23] Because it contains thujone, the U.S. FDA limits the use of tansy to alcoholic beverages, and the final product must be thujone-free.[24] Tanacetum annuum is often confused with common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) but the former produces an essential oil that is completely different chemically as it contains no thujone and high amounts of chamazulene making the oil dark blue in color, giving rise to its common name of Blue Tansy Oil.[25][26] Despite claims by some unethical resellers of essential oils who adulterate the very expensive Blue Tansy (Tanacetum annuum) oil with the much cheaper oil from Tanacetum vulgare, the oil from Tanacetum vulgare is never blue in color as it contains no chamazulene.[27][28] For this reason a high thujone oil from Tanacetum vulgare should never be referred to as "Blue Tansy" oil and any such blue oil containing significant thujone is an adulterated product.

 

The active components of the volatile oil include 1,8-cineole, trans-thujone, camphor and myrtenol, with the quantities and proportions of each varying seasonally and from plant to plant.[8][21][29][30][31]

 

1,8-Cineole is a toxin believed to defend the plant leaves against attacks by herbivores.[29][30]

 

Culinary uses

 

Tansy foil

Tansy was formerly used as a flavouring for puddings and omelettes, but is now almost unknown, except in Cork, where it is used in a sauce to accompany drisheens. The herbalist John Gerard (c. 1545–1612) noted that tansy was well known as “pleasant in taste”, and he recommends tansy sweetmeats as “an especial thing against the gout, if every day for a certain space a reasonable quantitie thereof be eaten fasting.” In Yorkshire, tansy and caraway seeds were traditionally used in biscuits served at funerals.[14]

 

During the Restoration, a "tansy" was a sweet omelette flavoured with tansy juice. In the BBC documentary "The Supersizers go ... Restoration", Allegra McEvedy described the flavour as "fruity, sharpness to it and then there's a sort of explosion of cool heat a bit like peppermint."[32] However, the programme's presenter Sue Perkins experienced tansy toxicity.

 

According to liquor historian A. J. Baime, in the 19th century Tennessee whiskey magnate Jack Daniel enjoyed drinking his own whiskey with sugar and crushed tansy leaf.

 

It can also be used as a substitute for sage.[33]

 

Ethnomedical use

For many years, tansy has been used as a medicinal herb despite its toxicity. 19th-century Irish folklore suggests bathing in a solution of tansy and salt as a cure for joint pain.[15] A bitter tea made with tansy flowers has been used for centuries as an anthelmintic to treat parasitic worm infestations, and tansy cakes were traditionally eaten during Lent because it was believed that eating fish during Lent caused intestinal worms.[14] Various Tanacetum species are used ethnomedically to treat migraine, neuralgia and rheumatism and as anthelmintics. Traditionally, tansy was often used for its emmenagogue effects to bring on menstruation or end an unwanted pregnancy, and pregnant women are advised to not use this herb.[34] Research published in 2011 identified 3,5-dicaffeoylquinic acid (3,5-DCQA) and axillarin in tansy as antiviral compounds that are active against herpes simplex virus.[35][medical citation needed]

 

Among Native Americans

The Cherokee use an infusion of the plant for backache, use the plant as a tonic, and wear it around the waist and in shoes to prevent miscarriages.[36] The Cheyenne use an infusion of the pulverized leaves and blossoms for dizziness and weakness.[37]

 

Other uses

 

Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)

Some traditional dyers use tansy to produce a golden-yellow color.[38] The yellow flowers are dried for use in floral arrangements.

 

Tansy is also used as a companion plant, especially with cucurbits like cucumbers and squash, or with roses or various berries. It is thought to repel ants, cucumber beetles, Japanese beetles, squash bugs, and some kinds of flying insects, among others.

 

Dried tansy is used by some beekeepers as fuel in a bee smoker.

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A little potty humor :)

My dog, Moxie is the funniest little beast. She'll be laying on the couch beside me, sleeping, when suddenly but stealthily, she'll get up and slink off to the floor all the while looking back at me with this expression on her face (as if she's saying "what in the world?!") just at the same time I smell what she's leaving for...and it wasn't me, honest! She'll return later, after she's done it again while laying on the other couch, and so on...lol!

 

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Angelica is a plant. The root, seed, and fruit are used to make medicine.

 

Angelica is used for heartburn, intestinal gas (flatulence), loss of appetite (anorexia), arthritis, circulation problems, "runny nose" (respiratory catarrh), nervousness, plague, and trouble sleeping (insomnia).

 

Some women use angelica to start their menstrual periods. Sometimes this is done to cause an abortion.

 

Angelica is also used to increase urine production, improve sex drive, stimulate the production and secretion of phlegm, and kill germs.

 

Some people apply angelica directly to the skin for nerve pain (neuralgia), joint pain (rheumatism), and skin disorders.

 

In combination with other herbs, angelica is also used for treating premature ejaculation.

 

Benefits of Angelica Extract

Curing

Curing heart-throb,megrim and injuries from falls and also enriching the blood

 

Providing

Providing energy,vitality,and resistance to disease.

 

Treating

Treating anemia, low im-munity, and problems of peripheral blood flow.

 

Regulating female hormones

In the treatment of most menstrual and menopausal problems and in pregnancy and delivery.

 

A blood tonic

Promoting its production and circulation.

 

Preventing spasms

Relaxing vessels, and reducing blood clotting in peripheral vessels.

 

Functions of Angelica Extract

Enrich the blood

Invigorate the circulation of blood.

Fight against oxidation

Scavenge free radicals.

Reduce the excitability of myocardium

Treat the auricular fibrillation.

Lower blood pressure and blood fat

Protect the pathological changes of main artery

Treat atherosclerosis.

   

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Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant of the aster family, native to temperate Europe and Asia. It has been introduced to other parts of the world including North America, and in some areas has become invasive. It is also known as common tansy,[1] bitter buttons, cow bitter, or golden buttons.

 

Blue tansy (Tanacetum annuum) essential oil in a clear glass vial, not to be confused with the oil from common Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) which is not blue.

Tansy is a flowering herbaceous plant with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers. It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50–150 cm (20–59 in) tall, and branching near the top. The leaves are alternate, 10–15 cm (3.9–5.9 in) long and are pinnately lobed, divided almost to the center into about seven pairs of segments, or lobes, which are again divided into smaller lobes having saw-toothed edges, giving the leaf a somewhat fernlike appearance. The roundish, flat-topped, button-like, yellow flower heads are produced in terminal clusters from mid-to-late summer. The scent is similar to that of camphor with hints of rosemary. The leaves and flowers are toxic if consumed in large quantities; the volatile oil contains toxic compounds including thujone, which can cause convulsions and liver and brain damage. Some insects, notably the tansy beetle Chrysolina graminis, have resistance to the toxins and subsist almost exclusively on the plant.

 

History and distribution[edit]

Tansy is native to Eurasia; it is found in almost all parts of mainland Europe, as well as Britain and Ireland. It is absent from Siberia and some of the Mediterranean islands.[2] The ancient Greeks may have been the first to cultivate it as a medicinal herb.[3] In the sixteenth century it was considered to be "necessary for a garden" in Britain.[4]

 

History of uses

Tansy has a long history of use. It was first recorded as being cultivated by the ancient Greeks for medicinal purposes. In the 8th century AD it was grown in the herb gardens of Charlemagne and by Benedictine monks of the Swiss monastery of Saint Gall. Tansy was used to treat intestinal worms, rheumatism, digestive problems, fevers, sores, and to “bring out” measles.

 

During the Middle Ages and later, high doses were used to induce abortions.[6][9][10] Contradictorily, tansy was also used to help women conceive and to prevent miscarriages.[5][6][11] In the 15th century, Christians began serving tansy with Lenten meals to commemorate the bitter herbs eaten by the Israelites.[8][11] Tansy was thought to have the added Lenten benefits of controlling flatulence brought on by days of eating fish and pulses[5][6] and of preventing the intestinal worms believed to be caused by eating fish during Lent

 

Tansy was used as a face wash and was reported to lighten and purify the skin.[5][6] In the 19th century, Irish folklore suggested that bathing in a solution of tansy and salts would cure joint pain.[13] Although most of its medicinal uses have been discredited, tansy is still a component of some medicines and is listed by the United States Pharmacopeia as a treatment for fevers, feverish colds, and jaundice.

 

Insect repellent

Tansy has also been cultivated and used for its insect repellent and in the worm warding type of embalming.[3][6][7] It was packed into coffins, wrapped in funeral winding sheets, and tansy wreaths were sometimes placed on the dead.[3][6][7][11] Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard University, was buried wearing a tansy wreath in a coffin packed with tansy; when “God’s Acre” was moved in 1846 the tansy had maintained its shape and fragrance, helping to identify the president’s remains.[3][6][11] By the 19th century, tansy was used so much at New England funerals that people began to disdain it for its morbid association with death.]

 

During the American colonial period, meat was frequently rubbed with or packed in tansy leaves to repel insects and delay spoilage.[3][6][11] Tansy was frequently worn at that time in shoes to prevent malaria and other fevers;[6][11] it has been shown, however, that some mosquito species including Culex pipiens take nectar from tansy flowers

 

Tansy can be used as in companion planting and for biological pest control. It is planted alongside potatoes to repel the Colorado potato beetle, with one study finding tansy reduced the beetle population by 60 to 100%

 

In England tansy is placed on window sills to repel flies; sprigs are placed in bed linen to drive away pests, and it has been used as an ant repellent.

 

In the 1940s, distilled tansy oil mixed with fleabane, pennyroyal and diluted alcohol was a well known mosquito repellent; collectors were paid five cents a pound for tansy in full bloom.[6][18] Research has found that tansy extracts do indeed repel mosquitoes, but not as effectively as products containing DEET.[6][19] In 2008, researchers in Sweden investigated the use of tansy to repel ticks, showing a 64–72% repellency for each oil constituent.

Toxicity

Tansy flower: detail.

Many tansy species contain a volatile oil which can cause contact dermatitis in sensitive individuals. If taken internally, toxic metabolites are produced as the oil is broken down in the liver and digestive tract. It is highly toxic to internal parasites, and for centuries tansy tea has been prescribed by herbalists to expel worms. Tansy is an effective insecticide and is highly toxic to arthropods.[21] Because it contains thujone, the U.S. FDA limits the use of tansy to alcoholic beverages, and the final product must be thujone-free.[22] Tanacetum annuum is often confused with common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) but the former produces an essential oil that is completely different chemically as it contains no thujone and high amounts of chamazulene making the oil dark blue in color, giving rise to it common name of Blue Tansy Oil.[23][24] Despite claims by some unethical resellers of essential oils who adulterate the very expensive Blue Tansy (Tanacetum annuum) oil with the much cheaper oil from Tanacetum vulgare, it should be noted that the oil from Tanacetum vulgare is never blue in color as it contains no chamazulene.[25][26] For this reason a high thujone oil from Tanacetum vulgare should never be referred to as "Blue Tansy" oil and any such blue oil containing significant thujone is an adulterated product.

 

The active components of the volatile oil include 1,8-cineole, trans-thujone, camphor and myrtenol, with the quantities and proportions of each varying seasonally and from plant to plant.

 

1,8-Cineole is a toxin believed to defend the plant leaves against attacks by herbivores.

Culinary uses

Tansy foil

Tansy was formerly used as a flavoring for puddings and omelets, but is now almost unknown. The herbalist John Gerard (c. 1545–1612) noted that tansy was well known as “pleasant in taste”, and he recommends tansy sweetmeats as “an especial thing against the gout, if every day for a certain space a reasonable quantitie thereof be eaten fasting.” In Yorkshire, tansy and caraway seeds were traditionally used in biscuits served at funerals.

 

During the Restoration, a "tansy" was a sweet omelette flavoured with tansy juice. In the BBC documentary "The Supersizers go ... Restoration", Allegra McEvedy described the flavour as "fruity, sharpness to it and then there's a sort of explosion of cool heat a bit like peppermint." However, the programme's presenter Sue Perkins experienced tansy toxicity.

According to liquor historian A. J. Baime, in the 19th century Tennessee whiskey magnate Jack Daniel enjoyed drinking his own whiskey with sugar and crushed tansy leaf.

Ethnomedical use

For many years, tansy has been used as a medicinal herb despite its toxicity. 19th-century Irish folklore suggests bathing in a solution of tansy and salt as a cure for joint pain.[13] A bitter tea made with tansy flowers has been used for centuries as an anthelmintic to treat parasitic worm infestations, and tansy cakes were traditionally eaten during Lent because it was believed that eating fish during Lent caused intestinal worms.[12] Various Tanacetum species are used ethnomedically to treat migraine, neuralgia and rheumatism and as anthelmintics. Traditionally, tansy was often used for its emmenagogue effects to bring on menstruation or end an unwanted pregnancy, and pregnant women are advised to not use this herb.[31] Research published in 2011 identified 3,5-dicaffeoylquinic acid (3,5-DCQA) and axillarin in tansy as antiviral compounds that are active against herpes simplex virus.

Among Native Americans

The Cherokee use an infusion of the plant for backache, use the plant as a tonic, and wear it around the waist and in shoes to prevent miscarriages.[33] The Cheyenne use an infusion of the pulverized leaves and blossoms for dizziness and weakness

Other uses

Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)

Some traditional dyers use tansy to produce a golden-yellow color.] The yellow flowers are dried for use in floral arrangements.

Tansy is also used as a companion plant, especially with cucurbits like cucumbers and squash, or with roses or various berries. It is thought to repel ants, cucumber beetles, Japanese beetles, squash bugs, and some kinds of flying insects, among others.

Dried tansy is used by some bee-keepers as fuel in a bee smoker.

Cirsium arvense, Canada (Canadian) Thistle

 

Cirsium arvense is a species of Cirsium, native throughout Europe and northern Asia, and widely introduced accidentally as a contaminant in cereal crop seeds around the world.

 

The standard English name in its native area is "Creeping Thistle." A can go by any number of other names in other areas including: Canada Thistle, Canadian Thistle, California Thistle, Corn Thistle, Cursed Thistle, Field Thistle, Green Thistle, Hard Thistle, Perennial Thistle, Prickly Thistle, Small-flowered Thistle, Way Thistle, and--my favorite--Lettuce From Hell Thistle. Canada or Canadian Thistle are in wide use in the U.S., despite it not being of Canadian origin.

 

The species is widely considered an"injurious weed" even in its native United Kingdom. It is labeled a serious invasive species or noxious weed in most regions where it has been introduced including, but not limited to, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United States.

 

Despite its repugnant reputation, this and other "cursed thistles" are harvested for the interest and beauty they adds to fall and winter floral arrangements. Oh, and the roots are edible, though, it's said, "with a propensity to induce flatulence." The leaves and stalks are edible too, but must first be tediously despined. It seems to me that asparagus would be a far more worthwhile choice.

My sweet sister-in-law sent me some starter Sun Choke tubers to plant. Other spring chores took priority, so I tucked these away in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks, and finally got them planted yesterday.

 

Helianthus tuberosus L., Jerusalem artichoke, Sunchoke

 

These look like small, knobby potatoes, but they have a crisp texture and an interesting earthy flavor. You can eat them raw, stir-fry them, or bake them like potatoes. It's best not to peel them, but you'll want to scrub off the dirt. If you slice them, dunk them immediately in acidulated water to keep them from discoloring.

 

The Jerusalem Artichoke is a little-known, North American tuber that may be an overlooked health food. Jerusalem artichokes have historically been used as a dietary supplement for people suffering from diabetes and other pancreatic complaints to reduce blood sugar levels and minimize the need for insulin.

 

Sunchokes store their carbohydrates in a form of inulin, a starch that is not utilized by the body for energy, unlike sugar. Jerusalem artichoke can also help with weight control, not through better metabolism of fats but through better management of sugars. The inulin is an oligosaccharide. Oligosaccharides are dietary fibres and have sweetening properties, but despite their sweetness they don't need the pancreas to produce insulin to deal with them, so they don't have an adverse effect on blood sugar levels like most sugars do. They are recommended as a potato substitute for diabetics, since they are filling but not absorbed by the body. Jerusalem artichoke flour is also recommended for those who are allergic to wheat and other grains.

 

Due to inulin's status as a dietary fibre, it shares the actions of other fibrous substances that swell in the colon to move everything in the right direction. This means that more waste products leave the body and there is less unnecessary weight hanging around in the gut – another bonus for those wanting to lose weight. High in iron, potassium and thiamine, low-fat Jerusalem Artichokes also feed the healthy bacteria (lactobacilli) in the intestinal tract. However, the tubers can cause flatulence in some people and first tastings should be in small amounts. For those sensitive to gas-producing foods, pre-cooking before baking or a good boiling is recommended, and eating them raw should be avoided.

 

Inulin is also found in elecampane (Inula helenium), dandelion (Taraxacum spp.), burdock (Arctium spp.), among others. The name inulin comes from Inula, elecampane, as this particular sugar was first isolated in the root of that plant. No wonder, as a good elecampane root contains about 40 % inulin, in autumn, when it's at its sweetest.

 

I look forward to harvesting these semi-wild tubers. The plant is grown commericially in Minnesota, so I expect these will do very well. Thank you so much, Sis!

This gassy disaster slaughtered thousands with his shredding solo’s and reeking flatulence. He ate only vegatarians.

 

The world just got a little less cool.

 

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Botanical Name: Andrographis Paniculata

 

Common Name: Creat, Kariyat, Indian Echinacea.

 

Part Used: Whole Plant, Leaves

 

Habitat: Cultivated throughout India.

 

Uses: Andrographis has been found to be an effective anti-biotic, anti-viral, anti-parasitic and immune system stimulant. It is used in viral hepatitis, children's bowel complaints, gastric acidity, liver congestion, flatulence. It is being increasingly used as treatment for colds. Reasonably good evidence tells us that it can reduce the severity of cold symptoms. It may also help prevent colds. Preliminary evidence suggests that it stimulate immunity, potentially making it useful for general immune support. Interestingly, the ingredient of Andrographis used for standardization purposes, andrographolide, does not appear to affect the immune system as much as the whole plant extract. Preliminary studies in animals also suggest that andrographis may offer benefits for preventing heart disease. In addition, highly preliminary studies suggest that andrographis may help protect the liver from toxic injury, perhaps more successfully than the more famous liver-protective herb milk thistle. Decoction of the plant is blood purifier and is used for cure of torbid liver. Tincture of roots is tonic, stimulant and aperient.

 

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Abbey Cemetery, Bath.

General George Dick.

General Dick was the third burial to take place in the new Abbey Cemetery.

 

He was a wealthy man, owning large parts of Clifton, Bristol. He lived with his two daughters in Bath. When he died, his son, also called George, had been living for several years in Calcutta with a wife and eight children. George sailed home and was shocked to discover that a new will had been made just before the General's death which entirely cut him out, and favoured only those living with the General. Angry and suspicious, George demanded the exhumation of the body, a post-mortem and a public coroner's inquest. A huge scandal broke out, fuelled by the letters which George and his sisters wrote to the press, accusing and counter-accusing each other. It became a news sensation. George accused his sisters of poisoning their father, bribing a doctor to issue a death certificate citing apoplexy as cause of death (and thereby avoiding an inquest), forging the new will, and intercepting and destroying his letters home from India to his father. The sisters counter accused George of having abandoned his father and now trying to extort money from them by ruining their repuations in public.

 

So at 3pm on 13 August 1845 there assembled in this corner of the cemetery, George, the Bath and Bristol coroners, various solicitors and doctors and a twelve man jury, plus the General's butler who had the unpleasant duty of identifying the body. The tomb was removed, the lead coffin raised and the General's body carried to the cemetery chapel where the post-mortem was crried out. Everyone expressed surprise at how little decomposed the body was after 17 months.

 

The following Saturday, Bath Guildhall was packed with spectators for the inquest, the Duke of Hamilton presiding. The evidence went on all day and centred on the post-mortem's finding of inflammation in the General's digestive tract. Could it have been caused by poison? Great debate as to the various symptoms of arsenic, prussic acid and strychnine. Who was with the General when he drank his last cup of chocolate? Why did his daughter give him peppermint water (a flatulence remedy) when she knew he hated it? Joseph Cuff the butler caused great drama by fainting in the witness box when asked an awkward question.

 

Then, to everyone's disappointment, the jury returned an ambiguous verdict : "died from inflammation of the stomach and bowels, but how such inflammation was produced there is no evidence to show".

 

Anticlimax. The press lost interest. George returned to Calcutta, and the General was once more laid to rest here.

Lamington National Park

 

The Bassian Thrush is often difficult to see, as it is an unobtrusive species that forages among dense vegetation. When disturbed, it sometimes crouches on the ground and freezes, relying on its plumage to conceal its presence. The bassian thrush directs a stream of flatulence toward the site of a worm find. The gas apparently disturbs the worm and provokes movement. The otherwise ordinary-looking thrush is then able to effectively locate the worm and grab it for a quick meal.

 

In grateful memory of the men of STRATFORD UPON AVON who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1919. Be worthy of their sacrifice.

 

"Reasons for Designation

Stratford-upon-Avon’s First World War Memorial is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

 

* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First World War; * Architectural interest: as an example of the Cross of Sacrifice design by Sir Reginald Blomfield being used for a town war memorial; * Degree of survival: apart from the removal of the bronze longsword, the memorial is intact; * Group value: it has been relocated to the Garden of Remembrance where it has group value with the Second World War Memorial.

 

History

The great age of memorial building was in the aftermath of the First World War with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. The war memorial in Stratford-upon-Avon was originally located on Bridge Street and was unveiled on 14 February 1922. By 1932 the memorial had been relocated to Bancroft Gardens next to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and was finally moved to the Garden of Remembrance, which opened in 1954, and is co-located with the Second World War Memorial.

 

The war memorial takes the form of the Cross of Sacrifice, a design by the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield. Blomfield was one of the senior architects commissioned by the Imperial War Graves Commission (renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in 1960) and in 1918 he created the Cross of Sacrifice, which takes the form of an elongated Latin cross, whose shaft and cross arm are octagonal in shape, and is usually mounted on an octagonal base. A bronze longsword is fixed to the front, and often the back, of the cross. The Cross of Sacrifice was erected in war cemeteries that had more than 40 graves, and its design was intended to represent both the Christian faith of the majority of the men being commemorated and the military character of the cemetery. Its design was widely praised and has consequently been imitated in numerous war memorials, such as at Stratford-upon-Avon.

 

Details

War memorial, unveiled in 1922.

 

MATERIALS: constructed of limestone.

 

DESCRIPTION: relocated in the Garden of Remembrance, the war memorial takes the form of a Cross of Sacrifice; the bronze longsword to its front face has been removed. The octagonal cross is mounted on a three-stage octagonal pedestal, itself set on a three-step octagonal base. To the front of the top stage of the pedestal is a bronze plaque with the inscription:

 

IN / GRATEFUL / MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF / STRATFORD / UPON AVON / WHO LAID / DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 1919 / BE WORTHY / OF THEIR SACRIFICE

 

The bronze plaques to the remaining seven sides of the pedestal list the names of the 235 men who died in the conflict. There is an additional bronze plaque to the second stage of the pedestal which is titled FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1920 and gives the names of 12 men and the date of their death." Historic England Listing.

 

Sources

Websites

Stratford's War Memorial, accessed 5 September 2016 from findingshakespeare.co.uk/stratfords-war-memorial

War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/85900

War Memorials Register, accessed 5 September 2016 from www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38570

  

"ALLCOCK, Alfred George. Lance Corporal 11067, 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers died 4/11/1914 aged 19 He was the son of Mrs Emily Green of 50, Great William Street, Stratford on Avon and the brother of Frederick Charles who also fell. He is at rest in Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France

 

ALLCOCK, Frederick Charles. Corporal 1306, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment died 18/5/1915 aged 22. He was the son of Mrs Emily Green of 50, Great William Street, Stratford on Avon and the brother of Alfred George who also fell. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire

 

AMPHLETT, Frederick. Rifleman 43737, 1st Royal Irish Rifles (Memorial in Stratford Cemetery has London Regiment) died 31/07/1917 aged 39. He was the son of Mrs and Mrs Amphlett of 54, Henley Street, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium

 

ARCHER, Thomas Reginald. Private, 74548 Royal Army Medical Corps. Some notes from what remains of his army record. He enlisted on the 26th November 1915 aged 21 years and 69 days. He lived with his parents, Albert and Helen at 21, Arden Street, Stratford on Avon, and he was a painter by occupation. On the 1st November 1915 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at Bulford. He was posted overseas on the 7th August 1916 and returned to England on the 11th March 1917. He was admitted into the 1st Southern General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps, Kings Heath Section, Birmingham on the 10th December 1917 ahed discharged from hospital on the 18th December 1917. Suffering from Tubercle of the Lung. He was medical discharged from the army after a Medical Board on the 7th January 1918. No longer physically fit for war service Para 392(XVI) K.R. It complaint started in September 1917 in Egypt. Left lower lobe dull, night cough troublesome, and early case of T,B. He died about December 1918 in the registration district of Stratford on Avon aged 23.

 

ARTHUR, Edward Private 1219, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 9/10/1917 aged 42. He was the son of Charles and Emma of 23, Bull Street, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

 

BAILEY, Arthur William. Gunner 614360, Royal Horse Artillery, 15th Warwickshire Brigade died of wounds on the 02/08/1917 aged 24. He was the son of Arthur William and Elizabeth Rebecca Bailey, of 3, Albert Terrace, Great William St., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

BAKER, Edward. Private PO/1627(S) 1st Royal Marine Light Infantry. Enlisted on the 31/08/1916 died 25/08/1918 aged 36. He was the son of George and Ann of Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France

 

BAKER, Thomas. Lance Corporal 10522, 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps died 09/05/1915. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.

 

BAKER, William Richard. Private 16907, 2nd Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry died 23/04/1915 aged 20. He was the son of Richard and Mary of Lower Clopton, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

BALL George. Private 474205, 46th Canadian Infantry died 21st February 1917 aged 36. He was the son of Frederick and Sarah Anne of Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

 

BARBER, Gordon Henderson, (M.C.) 2nd Lieutenant 8th Worcestershire Regiment died 20/10/1918 aged 19. He was the son of Alexander and Rebecca Barber, of 8, Evesham Place, Stratford-on-Avon. Student of Birmingham University. He is at rest in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen.

 

BARNACLE, Albert Ralph. Private 25060, 2nd South Wales Borderers died 06/04/1916. He is at rest in Mesnil Rodge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart, Somme, France.

 

BARRETT, Adrian Hamilton Silverton, (Memorial has Adrian S H) 2nd Lieutenant, 14th Royal Welsh Fusiliers killed in action 17/07/1916. He enlisted on the 14th January 1915 as Private with the Black Watch, 8th Royal Highlanders. He was commissioned in the field as 2nd Lieutenant and posted to 1st North Wales, Royal Welsh Fusiliers attached to the 14th Battalion. He was killed in action while under attack from heavy rifle and machine gun fire. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

 

BARTLETT Frederick. Private 1816, 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action 27/07/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

BARTLETT Harold. Private 10947, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action 15/07/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

BATCHELOR Percival Horace. 2nd Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached to the 2/6th North Staffordshire Regiment died of wounds on the 10/04/1918. He is at rest in Bergen Communal Cemetery, Mons, Belgium.

 

BATCHELOR Richard. Private 761, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 06/06/1915 aged 27. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Batchelor of 11, Shottery Road, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

BATES, Ernest Charles Private 3576, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 25/09/1915. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France. (Rem Gdn Mem)

 

BAYLISS, Harry. Private 3578, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 11/05/1915. He was born in Sparkbrook Birmingham and enlisted at Birmingham. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

BEARLEY Albert James. Gunner 4079, 152nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery killed in action on the 12/09/1917 aged 21. He was the son of Alfred James and Louisa Bearley, of Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Artillery Wood Cemetery, Belgium.

 

BEARLEY, George. Private 265959, 1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 25/07/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

BECKETT, Harry. Private 3456, 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 19/07/1916 aged 28. He was the son of Sarah Beckett, of Sheep Street, Stratford-on-Avon and he was the husband of Kate Eleanor Beckett, of 15, Meer Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

BECKETT, Leonard. Private R/343, 12th King’s Royal Rifle Corps died 06/05/1918. He is at rest in Bergen Communal Cemetery, Mons, Belgium. Some notes from what remains of his army record. He enlisted on the 31st August 1914 and transferred to the army reserve. He was aged 21 and 9 months he lived with his parents, George and Melinda at 51 Bull Street, Stratford on Avon, he was employed as a labourer. He was mobilized on the 1st September 1914 and posted as Private 343, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. No date was found as to when he left England for France. On the 21st March 1918 while fighting in the 12th Battalion he was reported missing, taken prisoner of war camp not stated. On the 6th May 1918 he died of wounds in a War Hospital (looks like ?? Training College) while a prisoner of war.

 

BEESLEY, Albert William. Private 266208, 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 19/07/1916 aged 19. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Beesley, of 36, Guild Street, Stratford-on-Avon. His brother Henry Edward also fell. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

BEESLEY, Henry Edward Private S/2087, 12th Rifle Brigade, King’s Royal Rifle Corps died 23/05/1916 aged 20. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Ann of 36, Guild Street, Stratford on Avon. His brother Albert William also fell. He is at rest in Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Belgium

 

BENNETT, Henry William. Private 58004, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died 27/09/1918 aged 20. He was the son of Elizabeth Bennett of 1, The Barracks, Shottery, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.

 

BERRY, Charles Ernest (CWGC have E C) Private 15585, 1/5th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 04/10/1917 aged 19. He was the son of Charles and Annie of 6, Barracks, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

BERRY, Edward Bayes. Lance 2030, 15th Sergeant Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 03/09/1916 aged 32. He was the son of Thomas and Mary of 1, New Street, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

BERRY, Harold (k/a Harry). Trooper 2685, Warwickshire Imperial Yeomanry died 1st May 1915 aged 19 at Cirencester Park Camp. He was the son James and Elizabeth Berry, Swans Nest Cottage, Stratford-on-Avon and the brother of James who also fell. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

BERRY, James. Corporal 48656, 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, killed in action and interred at Military Cemetery, Bailleul, France He died on the 8th September 1918 aged 27. He was the third son of James and Elizabeth of Swan's Nest Cottage, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, and the brother of Harold who also fell.. He is commemorated on a memorial over a family plot in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire and he is also commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. His brother, Harold, also died in the Great War.

 

BERRY, John Albert. Sergeant 1464, Leicestershire Yeomanry died 13/05/1915 aged 32. He was the son of Thomas and Eliza of 36, Henley Street, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

BIRCH, Donald Sydney. Private 2931, 1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 18/02/1916 aged 22. He was the son of Joseph and Mary Birch, of 27, Guild Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France.

 

BLACKFORD, William. Private 242759, 2/6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 02/11/1917. He is at rest in Sunken Road Cemetery, Fampoux, France.

 

BLOOMER, Arnold Grayson. Lieutenant, 3rd, attached to the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment died 03/08/1917 aged 31. He was the son of George Frost Bloomer and Eliza Jane Bloomer, of Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

BOX, Frank. Private 20166, 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment , Killed in action on the 26th October 1917 aged 19. He was the youngest son of William and Clara of 9, Mansell Street, Stratford-on-Avon, and brother of Walter who also fell in action. He is commemorated on his parents memorial at Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire and also on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

BOX, Walter. Corporal 371940, Post Office Rifles, London Regiment died of wounds 8th April 1918 aged 25 at No 10, General Hospital, Rouen.He was the son of William, postman, and Clara of 9, Mansell Street, Stratford-on-Avon, and brother of Frank who also fell in action. He is commemorated on his parents memorial at Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire. He is at rest in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

 

BOYNE, Frederick William. Private 43686, 2/8th Worcestershire Regiment, died 24/10/1918 aged 18. He was the son of George William and Mary Elizabeth Boyne, of 8, Greenhill St., Stratford-on-Avon.. He is at rest in Canonne Farm British Cemetery, Sommaing, France

 

BRADSHAW, Albert Edward. Private 20499, 2nd Coldstream Guards died 30/08/1918 aged 23. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Bradshaw, of 2, Mason Corner, Rother Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in St.Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

 

BRIDGES, Arthur. Private 18236, 1/6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 04/10/1917 aged 19. He was the son of William Henry and Mary Elizabeth Bridges, of 5, Ryland St., Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

BRIDGES, Fred. Private 9634, 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 12/05/1916 aged 35. He was the husband of E M Bridges of Church Row, Shottery, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

 

BRIDGES, George Henry. Private 21848, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 27th September 1917 aged 39 at King George Hospital, London. He was the son of Henry and Sarah Bridges and he was the husband of Annie Bridges, of 8, New Row, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

BROOKES, Harold. Private 10846, 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry killed in action on the 25/09/1915. He was born and lived in Stratford on Avon. His wife Annie E, nee Peacock was granted a war gratuity on the 18th December 1916 revised on the 14th November 1919. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. (CWGC have Brooks which is correct)

 

BROOKES, Thomas. Private8515, 2nd South Lancashire Regiment died 24/10/1914. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.

 

BROWN, Herbert Cavis. Trooper 1341, 2nd King Edwards Horse died 25th May 1915 aged 31. He was the son of William and Mary of Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.

 

BROWN, Jack. Private 267626, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 25/04/1917. He was the son of John of Houndshill Cottages, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France

 

BRYAN, Cecil Clive (D.S.O.) Major, 490th Field Coy, Royal Engineers killed during an enemy aerial bombardment of Dominion Camp near Ypres on the 11/08/1917. He lived at at Holmwood College, Hastings Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. London Gazette dated 1st December 1908. Royal Engineers. 2nd Home Counties Field Company, Home Counties Divisional Engineers; Lieutenant Cecil Clive Bryan, Cadet Corps, University and St.Leonard's Collegiate Schools, Hastings, to be Second Lieutenant Dated 18th June, 1908. He is at rest in Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

BURKE, Thomas Campbell. Captain, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment) died 19/12/1914 aged 37. He was the son of Joseph F. and Kate M. Burke and he was the husband of Ada Mary Burke. He is commemorated on the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial, France.

 

BURROWS, David. Private 8838, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 17/07/1916. He was the son of Charles and Aminda who were granted a war gratuity on the 18th August 1917, revised on the 9th October 1919. He is at rest in Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-La-Boisselle, Somme, France.

 

BURTON, Alfred Ernest. Private 10516, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 13/10/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

BUTCHER, Frederick. Major, A Battery, 92nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery died 22/05/1918 aged 35. He was the son of Mr. John Butcher, and of Mrs. Butcher, of 1, Gresham Rd., Cambridge and he was the husband of Nora Ester Dene Eccles (formerly Butcher), of London. He is at rest in Sucrerie Cemetery, Ablain-St. Nazaire, France.

 

BYRD, Frank. Private 17416, 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 30/07/1916 aged 37. He was the son of William and Helen of Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

CARTER, Aubrey John (D S O, Mentioned in Despatches) Major, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment died 04/11/1914 aged 42. He was the son of T. A. Carter, of Shottery Hall, Stratford-on-Avon and he was the husband of Edith Mary Carter. Served in the South African Campaign. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

CHANDLER, Ernest. Private 81693, 87th Company Machine Gun Corps died 14/05/1917 aged 29. He was the husband of Jessica Chandler, of 14, Holtom Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France

 

CHIVERS, Fred. (M.M.) Lance Corporal 203817, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 19/09/1918 aged 37. He was the husband of Ada Beatrice of 2, The Gardens, Scholars Lane, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France.

 

CLARKEN, George. Major, Royal Field Artillery died 03/01/1919. He was the husband Annie of 1, Windsor Street, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

 

CLIMER, Heber. Private 16989, 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 27/06/1917. He was born at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire and he was the son of Edward. His brother, Edward served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was wounded but survived the war. He is at rest in Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-En-Gohelle, France.

 

COLEMAN, Reginald. Private, 1st Somerset Light Infantry killed in action near Etaing, France on the 2nd September 1918 aged 19. He was the youngest son of James and Esther of 8, Sheep Street, Stratford-on-Avon, and brother of William Harold who also fell in action. He is commemorated on his parents memorial at Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire, and also on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France.

 

COLEMAN, William Harold. Lance Corporal 10515, (CWGC have Private) 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action at Builecourt, France on the 4th May 1917 aged 29. He was the son of James and Esther of 8, Sheep Street, Stratford-on-Avon, and brother of Reginald who also fell in action. He is commemorated on his parents memorial at Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire, and also on the Arras Memorial, France

 

COLLETT, Albert Henry. Private 265814, 1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 25/07/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

COLLETT, Charles Edgar. Private 203086, 2/6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 16/07/1918 a Prisoner of War He was the son of Mary Ann who was granted a War Gratuity on the 1st April 1919 revised on the 13th December 1919 . He is at rest in Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany

 

COLLINS, Cecil. Private 2789, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 26/04/1915 aged 22. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Collins, of 2, Clapton Rd., Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

COLLINS, Harry Ernest. Private 10083, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 21/11/1916 aged 28. He was the son of Mrs. Harriett Collins, of 19, Ely Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in No1, Serre Road Cemetery, France

 

CONWAY, Frederick. Colour Sergeant (CWGC have Sgt) 86105, 6th Canadian Field Artillery died 10/03/1916 aged 37. He was the son of William G and Charlotte Conway and he was the husband of Lucy Mabel Mullins (formerly Conway), of 8, Mulberry St., Stratford-on-Avon. Born at Stratford-on-Avon. Served in the Soudan and South African Campaigns. His brother, John Henry also fell in action. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

CONWAY, John Henry. (Memorial has John) Private 4069, 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action at Gallipoli on the 10/08/1915 aged 39. He was the son of William G and Charlotte Conway, of Stratford-on-Avon and he was husband of Elizabeth Conway, of 2, Day's Court, Bull St., Stratford-on-Avon. She was granted a war gratuity on the 18th April 1917, revised on the 13th October 1919. His brother Frederick also fell in action. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli).

 

COURT, Arthur Leonard. Private 242717, 1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 04/10/1917 aged 22. He was the son of Mr. O. G. and Mrs. M. A. Court, of 22, Church St., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium

 

COWLEY, Horace William. Corporal 311208, 2/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry died 29th October 1918 aged 29. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire

 

COX, Sydney (Sidney) Douglas. Private 230, 6th Australian Infantry died 08/05/1915 aged 25. He was the son of Harry and Elizabeth Cox, of 20, Manners Road, Ilkestone, Derbyshire, England. Native of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey including Gallipoli.

 

CROWE, Edward. Lance Corporal (CWGC have Sergeant) 13398, 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 19/04/1916. He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

 

CUSACK, Edward Caleb. Corporal 4438, 1stl Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 31/01/1916. He was the son of Caleb Edward and Sarah Cusack, of Bridge Street, Kineton, Warwickshire. He is at rest in Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France.

 

DAVIES, Thomas Edward. Private 50265, 15th Worcestershire Regiment, formerly served as private 1791, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He on the 17th August 1918 at " St Rd Hospital Bootle"!! (Military Hospital), Bootle. Military records on Ancestry have reference to or some have his name as Edward T. Davies and (Davis) Medal card has Edward Thomas, and shows that he served in France from the 4th January 1915 He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

DAVIS, Thomas Henry. Private 3231, 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 19/07/1916. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France also listed with the CWGC is the following.

 

DAY, Albert Edwin. Private 5147, 8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died of wounds on the 24/08/1916. He is at rest in Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France. Or Alfred Ernest, Private 5892

 

DRINKWATER, Frederick James. Private 265990, 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 19/07/1916. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

DYER, Albert George. Private 35897, 9th Worcestershire Regiment died 4th December 1920 aged 23. He was the son of George Herbert and Amy Dyer, of 54, Birmingham Rd., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

EASON, Fred. Sergeant 11945, 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry died 13/11/1916 aged 20. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Eason, of The Cottage, Maidenhead Rd., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Munich Trench British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France.

 

EDGE, Percival Vener. Private 57476, 199th Company, Machine Gun Corps died 11/10/1917 aged 28. He was the son of John and Mary Ann Edge, of 20, Mansell Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

EDMUNDS, Harry James. Lance Sergeant (Memorial has Sgt) 193293, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 2nd Central Ontario Regiment, died with the rank of Lance Sergeant on the 26/10/1917 aged 32. He was born on the 6th May 1884 to George and Charlotte A Edmunds, of Stratford-on-Avon, England. In 1911 his parents were living at 37 Clopton Road, Stratford on Avon. He was the husband of Edith Burton (formerly Edmunds), of Markdale, Ontario. She previously lived at 144 Fairlawn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. Prior to enlistment he was a bricklayer. He enlisted on the 16th august 1915 at Toronto aged 31. He had served as Private with the Warwickshire Regiment (militia) He is commemorated on the Menin gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

EDWARDS, Sidney Arthur. Private 152337, 17th Machine Gun Corps, formerly served at Private 3458, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died of wounds at 74th General Hospital, France on the 09/01/1919 aged 26. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards, of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. His sister, Agnes M was granted a war gratuity on the 19th August 1919. He is at rest in Tourgeville Military Cemetery, Calvados, France.

 

EVETTS, George Frederick. Private 6819, 1st Lincolnshire Regiment died of wounds on the 16/06/1916 aged 28. He was the son of Frederick who was a widower in 1891. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

FAULKNER, Walter Frederick. Private 2701, 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 10/08/1915 aged 25. He was the son of Benjamin F. and Fanny F. Faulkner, of 21, Greenhill Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey, including Gallipoli.

 

FIELD, Dennis. Corporal 25140, 8th East Surrey Regiment, formerly served as Corporal 3459, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, killed in action 31/03/1918 aged 22. He was the son of Edward and Emma Field, of 57, Shakespeare Street, Stratford-on-Avon He is at rest in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

FINCHER Frank Walter. Lance Corporal 203600, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 10/10/1917 aged 33. He was born at Aldershot, Hampshire to John and Catherine Fincher, of Ely Street, Stratford-on-Avon, and he was the husband of Georgina Ada, of Albany Road, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in the Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

FLETCHER, Albert. Private 1498, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 09/10/1917. He was born at Yardley Birmingham. His mother, Mary G was granted a war gratuity on the 27th May 1918 revised on the 12th June 1918, revised again on the 16th February 1920. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

FLETCHER, Archibald (Archibald and Albert may be one of the same). The CWGC only have one Archibald Fletcher listed and he is Archibald Mc Allister Fletcher, of the 3rd South African Infantry. His parents lived in 74, Bird St., Mayfair, Johannesburg. He died on the 18/07/1916 aged 23.

 

FLOWER, Oswald Swift. Lieutenant Colonel, 13th Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was mortally wounded in action along while under attack from heavy rifle and machine gun fire. He died of his wounds on the 12/07/1916 aged 45. He was the son of Edgar and Isabella Flower, of Middlehill Park, Broadway, Worcestershire. His brother A.D. Flower lived at The Hill, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Morlancourt British Cemetery, No.1., Somme, France.

 

FUTRILL, Charles. Private 5270, 1st Coldstream Guards, died 14/09/1914 aged 29. He was the son of George and Fanny Futrill and he was the husband of Betsy Sarah A. nee Southam, of 14, Pridmore Road., Coventry. In 1911 he was living with his wife at 11 Narrow Lane, Coventry and he worked as a gas stoker. He is at rest in Vailly British Cemetery, France (UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919, have the following.) Private, No 5270, 3rd Colstream Guards, He was the son of George and Fanny, of The Stalls, Salter Lane, Redditch, Worcestershire, Ostler He was born at Bewdley, Worcestershire on the 25th December 1884. He was educated at Boarding School, Stratford on Avon. He was employed at the Coventry Gas Works, enlisted on the 8th December 1903, served in Egypt from 29th September 1906 to 21st October 1907. He went to France on the12th August 1914 and was killed in Action at Soupir on the 14th September 1914. He was married at St Peter’s Church, Coventry on the 9th June 1908 to Sarah Ann and lived at 14, Pridmore Road, Foleshill Coventry. She was the daughter of William Southam of Helmdon Green, Northamptonshire.

 

GARDNER, William. Private 1769, B Company, 1/4th Northumberland Fusiliers died 24/05/1915 aged 20. He was the son of John and Jane Anne Gardner, of 6, Augusta Terrace, Dinnington Colliery, Dudley, Northumberland. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

GARNER Walter Kenneth. Private G/39748, 8th Royal West Surrey Regiment died 21/03/1918. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

 

GAZEY, William Alfred. Private 52499, 4th Royal Fusiliers died 09/04/1917 aged 22. He was the son of Alfred John and Elizabeth Gazey, of 5, Narrow Lane, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines, France

 

GIBBS, Francis Edgar. (M.M.) Signaller 2302, 23rd Middlesex Regiment died 25/06/1917 aged 20. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Gibbs, of 17, Bordon Place, Strafford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Bus House Cemetery, Belgium.

 

GIBSON, John. 2nd Lieutenant (Memorial has Devonshire Regiment) Royal Flying Corps, formerly 2/7th Devonshire Regiment, killed in action 19/06/1916 aged 28. He was the son of George Frederick Gibson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He is at rest in Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France

 

GILBERT, Thomas. Gunner (CWGC have Bombardier) 53110, 132nd Battery, 1st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery died 09/05/1915. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

GILLETT, Ernest. Rifleman 374695, 2/8th London Regiment, Post Office Rifles died 30/10/1917 aged 34. He was the husband of Ada of 40, Shotery Road, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

GILLETT, Leonard. Private 41191, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died 27/07/1917 aged 32. He was the son of William and Mary Ann Gillett; husband of Florence May Gillett, of Watts Road, Studley, Warwickshire. He is at rest in China Wall Perth Cemetery, Belgium.

 

GOODE, Walter Bernard. (Memorial has Bernard W) Private 94053, 1st King’s Liverpool Regiment killed in action on the 25/08/1919 aged 19. He was the son of Thomas and Emma Goode, of 19A, Windsor Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France (This memorial has Bernard W)

 

GOODMAN, Anthony Thomas. Gunner, 614488, 15th Warwickshire Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery killed in action on the 30/08/1917. He is at Rest in Duhallow A.D.S. (Advance Dressing Station) Cemetery, Belgium.

 

GREEN, Harry. Private 12258, 8th Kings Royal Rifle Corps died 24/08/1916 aged 20. He was the son of Mr. R. and Mrs. P. Green, of Cross O'The Hill, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

GREEN, Henry. Unable to find the correct record listed with the CWGC for this person. He may be Harry!!

 

GUEST, Charles Ernest. Private 282035 Labour Corps, formerly served as Private 32016 Royal Berkshire Regiment died 24th May 1918 aged 42. He was born in February 1877 to Albert and Mary of Dudley, Staffs and he was the husband of Rose Ellen, of 67, Birmingham Road, Stratford-on-Avon. In 1911 he named himself as Charles Ernest and he was living with his wife and children at 43, Shakespeare Street, Stratford on Avon. He was working as a labourer in a brickyard.

 

Some notes from what remains of his army record.

 

He joined up at Stratford on Avon on the 31st March 1915 aged 38 years and 26 days. He was married with children and he lived at 67 Birmingham Road, Stratford on Avon, and he gave he occupation as a labourer. He was posted to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as private 11420. He was stationed on the 10th April 1915 at Windmill Hill Training Camp. Sailsbury Plain which was a tented camp (under canvas) After he completed his training he was posted with his battalion to France on the 31st July 1915. While in France he was transferred as private 32016, to the Royal Berkshire Regiment on the 2nd September 1917. In 1915 in France he reported sick suffering from Rheumatic Fever. He was treated in a Causality Clearing Station, for about a fortnight, from there to a medical facility (not record as to what type) in Boulgone for another fortnight and then he was invalided to England in December 1915 where he was admitted to Wimborne Hospital for two months and then he was transferred to (looks like Heath Hospital) for about another fortnight after which he was discharged fit to return to duty in France. On the 15th June 1916 he once again reported sick suffering from appeared to be appendicitis and he was treated at 49, Field Ambulance, same day transferred to 20th Causality Clearing Station and then onto 12th General Hospital, Rouen. Still on the same day, 26th, he was invalided to England on Hospital Ship, Asturias. There is no record as to the name of the hospital he was admitted and what he was doing until he was admitted again into Parkhurst Military Hospital on the 28th May 1917 suffering from Dyspepsia, (indigestion) and on the 31st May he was discharged from the hospital fit for duty. On the 30th June 1917 he was transferred to 629th, Home Service Employment Company, Labour Corps. On the 2nd Janua1918 into the 5th Southern General Hospital suffering from Valvular Disease of the Heart. Major, J Phillips, R.A.M.C. reported that this man has palpitation, dyspepsia in gastric and precordial pain. Had Rheumatic Fever in France in Nov 1915. A loud mitral murmurs present. He also has dyspepsia in the form of gastric pain, heart burn and flatulence. He was medically discharged to pension on the 4th March 1918 as being physically unfit for war service , para 392(XVI) King's Regulation. He died on the 24th May 1918 of Valvular Disease of the Heart. He leaves a widow and four sons. He was married as Charles Ernest on the 27th October 1900 to Rose Ellen nee Holtom at the Parish Church, Stratford on Avon. Their first born was a daughter, Kathleen Mary born 22nd April 1901 who appears to have died before the 1911 census. The other children are as follows. Charles Alfred born 30th December 1903, Ernest John, born 22nd December 1905 and Harold , born 16th July 1908 all at Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

GULLIVER, Albert. Private 9916, 10th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 25/11/1916 aged 23. He was the son of Henry and Betsy Gulliver, of Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon. Native of Cubbington, Leamington. He ts at rest in Etretat Churchyard France.

 

GULLIVER, Arthur Edward. Lance Corporal 10060, 2nd Worcestershire Regiment died 31/10/1914 aged 26. He was the son of Henry and Betsy Gulliver, of Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. His brother Albert. Private 9916, 10th Royal Warwickshire Regiment fell in the war and he is commemorated on the War Memorial.

 

HALL, Henry. Lance Corporal (CWGC have Private) 1590, 2md Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 31/10/1914 aged 26. He was the son of Thomas and Mary of 5, Shottery Road, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

HANCOX, Alfred Ernest (Memorial has Albert E) Private 28981, 1/5th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action 25/08/1917. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

HANCOX, Joseph William, Private 18092, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment died 27/07/1916. He was born in Birmingham and lived in Stratford of Avon. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. It may not be him, but mistakes do happen, any additional information would be appreciated to identify the correct soldier.

 

HANDS, William Henry. Private 84202 Labour Corps, formerly served as private 7533 Norfolk Regiment died 8th June 1918 aged 33. He was the son of Stephen and Helen of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He is at rest in Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

HANDY, Harry. Driver T4/065312 Horse Transport, Royal Army Service Corps died 18th February 1919 aged 32. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire. The following were granted war gratuity on the 11th December 1919. Thomas, Frederick S, sister Mary J Smith, brother in law, Thomas E George and on the 31st March 1920 his brother John.

 

Some notes from what remains of his army record. He enlisted on the 24th February 1915 at the Guildhall Recruiting Office, 42 High Street, Worcester. He was aged 29 and lived at 17, Alderminster, East Worcestershire. He was by employment an engine driver. On the 1st March 1915 he was posted to Aldershot as Private T4/065312 Army Service Corps, 237 Company. From that the last date March 1915 until he was admitted to hospital there are no record as to what he did or where he went. On the 13th February 1919 he was admitted into Prees Heath Military Hospital, Whitchurch, Salop aged 32, he was suffering from influenza and bronchopneumonia. On the 18th February at 2-48pm he died of his illness. His sister Mrs Ellen Smith of 2, Park Road, Stratford on Avon who was his next of kin claimed his body for burial. He had a brother, John who was serving with the 3rd Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery as gunner 1467482, formerly 36910.

 

HANDY, Percy Gerald, Private 201804, 1/5th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action 25/08/1917. He was born at Alderminster, Worcestershire and lived in Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

HARBORNE, Herbert John. Private 19988, 10th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 20/09/1917 aged 40. He was the husband of R. J. Harborne, of 2, Brewery Cottages, Birmingham Rd., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium.

 

HARRIS, Arthur. Private 4768, 1/5th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 18/08/1916 aged 30. He was the son of Charles and Sarah Harris, of 8, Arden St., Stratford-on-Avon; husband of Hannah Jane Harris, of 16, Sunningdale, Alma Road, Clifton, Bristol. He is at rest in Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille, Somme, France.

 

HARRIS, Ernest Private 265880, 2/7thRoyal Warwickshire Regiment died 21/03/1918. He was the husband of J. Harris, of 9, Mulberry Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon, France.

 

HARRIS, Frank. Driver (CWGC has Gunner) 108859, 192nd Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery died 18/10/1918. He is at rest in Doiran Military Cemetery, Greece.

 

HATTON, George William. (Memorial has Charles W) Private 69591, New Zealand Medical Corps. Attached to King George V Hospital, Rotorua, New Zealand. He enlisted on the 19th September 1917 and he gave his occupation as a Butler, He was born in 1888 to Henry and Mary who lived Appleby Magna, Warwickshire, he was also native of Appleby Magna. On the 26th March 1918 he was on a Court Martial for disobeying a lawful command given by a superior officer. He reported for duty in civilian clothes and he was asked several time to change into uniform for duty. He told the officer that he was not going to any more work for the army, he was duly arrested. He pleaded not guilty but he was found guilty and was given ninety days detention. There is no other record to show what he did after that. It appears that he did not serve of die overseas. Any additional information about this person would be very much appreciated.

 

HAYNES, John Henry. Private 18208, 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment attached to 15th Trench Mortar Battery, killed in action on the 02/07/1917 aged 25. He was the husband of Dorothy nee Skinner now remarried to Phipps, of 23, Ely Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Roclincourt Military Cemetery, France.

 

He enlisted into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps aged 18 years and 10 months on the 19th May 1907. He lived with his parents Thomas and Martha at, 31 Great William Street, Stratford on Avon and he was employed as a agricultural labourer. He was stationed on enlistment at Colchester, posted to Egypt on the 16th December 1907, then Gosport, England on the 12th February 1909 and Aldershot on the 29th September 1911. He was in the Military Hospital, Cairo from the 13th March 1908 to 9th May 1908 suffering from impetigo. He was married on the 14th December 1912 at Stratford on Avon parish church to Minnie Ada Worrall. They had one son Richard Henry Benson born 16th October 1913 at Stratford on Avon. On the 1st June 1912 he was promoted to Corporal then to Lance Sergeant on the 7th August 1914. He was reported missing in action. Taken a prisoner of war on the 3rd November 1914 while serving with the 14th Battalion

 

HERITAGE, George Hubert. Private 16711, 11th Cheshire Regiment died 03/07/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

HEWINS, Thomas Harold. Lance Corporal 31706, 2nd Wiltshire Regiment, killed in action 03/12/1917 aged 36. He was born in Stratford on Avon and enlisted at Winchester, Hampshire. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Hewins, of Stratford-on-Avon and he was the husband of Emily Hewins, of Jessie Villa, Gordon Avenue, Highcliffe Park, Winchester. He is at rest in Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium.

 

HINE, Albert William Thomas. Private 260111, No.1 Company, 13th Cheshire Regiment died 10/08/1917 aged 23. He was the son of William and Mary Anna Hine, of 51, Shottery Road, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

His brother Bertie was killed in action on the 1st July 1916 as Sergeant 288, 16th County of London, Queens Westminster Rifles, London Regiment. He is at rest in Gommecourt British Cemetery No2, Hebuterne, France

 

His father William was granted a war gratuity on the 1st December 1915 revised on the 31st July 1919. He was the son of William and Alice Butcher, of 44, Tweedy Rd., Bromley, Kent. Student of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. Born at Twickenham, Middsex. He is at rest in Vermelles British Cemetery, France. Please note, there is only one H Butcher who died serving with the RAMC listed with the CWGC.

 

HITCHMAN, Francis Percival. Lance Corporal 16/1812, 15th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 06/10/1917 aged 22. He was the son of Thomas H. and Ada M. Hitchman, of Bridge Cottage, Warwick Road., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Godewaersvele British Cemetery, France.

 

HODGKINS, Frederick (Memorial has Frederick) It may be the following. Frederick William. Private 15640, 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died at No 2, Rawalpindi British General Hospital, Amara on the 29/06/1916. He was born and enlisted in Stratford on Avon, and he is at rest in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

 

HODGKINS, Ralph Wakefield. Private 126685, 21st Stationary Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps died 23/11/1918. He was the son of Susannah who was granted a war gratuity on the 29th April 1919. He is at rest in Sofia War Cemetery, Bulgaria.

 

HORNSEY, Thomas. Sapper 112720, 179th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers died 31/12/1915. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

HOWE, Cecil John. Rifleman 723454, d Company, 1/24th London Regiment died 21/03/1918 aged 30. He was the son of John and Louisa Howe, Master and Matron of Cuckfield Workhouse and he was the husband of Minnie Howe, of 10, Seafield Road, Hove, Sussex. He is at rest in Metz-En-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension, France.

 

HOWKINS, Sidney Arthur. (Memorial has Arthur S) Bombardier (CWGC have Driver) 614097, 2/1st Warwickshire Battery, Royal Horse Artillery died 29/09/1917. He was the son of Henry Edward and Esther Howkins. His elder brother William Henry also died in service. He is at rest in Bard Cottage Cemetery, Belgium.

 

HOWKINS, William Henry. Private 12733, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 15/07/1916. He was the son of Henry Edward and Esther Howkins. His brother Sidney Arthur also died in service. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

 

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HUDSON, John William Willoughby. Lieutenant, A Coy, 1/5th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 30/11/1915 aged 20. He was the son of Percy William and Kate Hudson, of "Meerend," 60, Salisbury Road, Moseley, Birmingham. Gazetted 19th Oct., 1914. Born at Edgbaston, Birmingham. He is at rest in Foncquenvillers Military Cemetery, France

 

HUNT, Edward William. Private New Zealand Forces. There are army records held in the Archives of New Zealand which can be accessed through the internet. One is for Edward and the other is for William Edward. Neither have any connection with “Stratford on Avon, or England. On the CWGC no records could be found

 

HYATT, Victor William. Private 6784, 18th Royal Fusiliers, killed in France on the 5th November 1915 aged 18, and he was the son of William and Louisa Ellen. He is commemorated on his parents memorial in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire and he is at rest in Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Festubert, France.

 

JACKSON, Arthur. Private 26243, 5th Wiltshire Regiment, formerly served as Private 135252, Royal Field Artillery killed in action 29/03/1917 at Mesopotamia. He was born, lived and enlisted at Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

 

JACKSON, Aubrey John. Lance Corporal 310495, Warwickshire Yeomanry died 19/04/1917 aged 21. He was the son of John Henry and Fanny, of 7, Kew Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

 

JAMES, Harold Saunders. Private 5471, 8th South African Infantry died 19/07/1917 aged 28. He was the son of John and Elizabeth James. In 1911 he was living with his mother and brother Hugh at 1 Arthur Road, Stratford on Avon. He was employed as a bank clerk. He is at rest in Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania.

 

JENNINGS, Henry Arthur Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was killed in action on the 30/04/1916 He enlisted at Private 978, C Coy, 3rd Birmingham Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, Special Officers Reserve attached to the 6th Reserve Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. He lived with his parents at Tiddington Road, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St-Eloi, France.

 

JENNINGS, Herbert Howard. (Memorial has Howard H) Private, London Scottish (CWGC have Lance Corporal) S/41626, 1st Cameron Highlanders), formerly 517435, London Scottish and 28820, Lovat Scouts, killed in action on the 19/09/1918. He was the son of Mr. L. Jennings, of Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Bellicourt British Cemetery, France

 

JOHNSON, George. Sergeant 5048, 2nd Coldstream Guards died 05/11/1914. He is at rest in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium.

 

KEELEY, James. Private, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. There is no record listed with the CWGC for a soldier with this name having died whilst serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. This and all the other names have been taken from two war memorials. One in the Chapel of Rest in Stratford Cemetery and the other from the Remembrance Garden also in Stratford. The one in the cemetery shows J Keeley, Pte R. Welsh Fusiliers and the other one shows James Keeley. A medal card was found for a James Keeley, Private 6516, Army Cyclist Corps and Private 46477 Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was demobilised to Class Z on the 11th April 1919. On his army record it shows that he enlisted on the 1st September 1914 aged 29 and he lived at 10 Peale Street, Bolton, Lancashire. He transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on the 23rd May 1916. While searching the army records on Ancestry two record were found, one for Peter and the other for Samuel both from Shottery, Stratford on Avon. On Samuel’s record it shows the names of his next of kin, one being his father, James, and one James his older brother who was serving with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The address given was 8, The Barracks, Shottery, Stratford on Avon. No record was found for James. No record for him as well with the CWGC.

 

KEMP, George. Private 15281, 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 03/09/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

KEMP, Richard Charles. (Memorial has Charles) Sergeant (CWGC have Lance Sergeant) 7960, 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps died 17/08/1917. He is at rest in Berlin South Western Cemetery, Brandenburg, Germany, formerly West Berlin. Some notes from what remains of his army record.

 

KINMAN, William Norman, (M.M.) Sergeant,614376, Warwickshire Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. He was discharged from the army 22nd February 1918 and died on the 5th November 1918 from the effects from a gas shell poisoning. A war gratuity was granted to his father William on the 6th April 1920. He was married in 1916 at Newport Pagnell to Kathleen Adams and they lived as a family at 22, Rathmine Terrace, Clopton Road, Stratford on Avon. They had one child, Kathleen Adams born 28th April 1916 at Stratford on Avon. Some notes for what remains of his army record. He enlisted on the 6th August 1914, two days after the start of the war. He was 22 years and 4 months, occupation a Clerk, and he lived with his parents William Moore Kinman and Mary at 22, High Street, Stratford on Avon. He was posted on the 6th August 1914 to the Warwickshire, Royal Horse Artillery. After he completed his training he embarked to France on the 30th October 1914. He was promoted to Acting Bombardier on the 18th December 1915, Bombardier on the 15th June 1916, Corporal on the 9th April 1917 and Sergeant on the 25th April 1917. He was awarded the Military Medal on the 6th July 1917 and the Bar to the Military Medal on the 16th October 1917. While at the front he was wounded by a gas shell attack on the 30th November 1917 after medical treatment in the field he was transferred to England on the 7th December 1917 possibly to a hospital. He was issued with Silver War Badge on the 2nd February 1918 and medically discharged to pension on the 19th December 1918.

 

KITCHEN, Thomas William. Private 26306, 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry died of wounds on the 01/04/1918. He was born in Quinton, Gloucestershire and enlisted at Stratford on Avon. He was born in 1889 to Thomas and Mary the husband of Helen of 41 Shakespeare Street, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

 

KNIGHT, George. Private 15641, 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 17/10/1916 aged 36 at Mesopotamia. He was the son of Samuel and Sarah Knight, of 18, Meer Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Hadra War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt.

 

LAMBERT John Dunlop. Corporal, (CWGC have Private) 437748, 14th Canadian Infantry 07/09/1916 aged 28. He was born on the 20th August 1888 to William George and Emma. He had previously served prior to enlistment on the 3rd September 1915 for 3 years with 8th Troop, D Squadron, Warwickshire Imperial Yeomanry. He is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France

 

LANE, Arthur Vincent. Private 9546, 3rd Hampshire Regiment died 1st March 1919 aged 23. He was the son of Daniel William Mark Lane, of Portsmouth and he was the husband of Harriet Lane, of 51, Birmingham Road, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

 

LIDZY Robert. Lance Corporal 2287, 1/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry died 21/08/1915 aged 30. He was the son of John and Kate Lidzy, of Stratford-on-Avon and he was the husband of Constance Eleanor Lidzy, of 3, Percy Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey, including Gallipoli.

 

LINES Frederick Henry. Private 12532, 2nd Scots Guards died 16/09/1916 aged 40. He was the son of George and Hannah Elizabeth of Stratford-on-Avon, and the late George Lines; husband of Amelia Lines, of 2, Park Road, Stratford-on-Avon. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

LINES, John. Private 16579, 4th Worcestershire Regiment died 06/08/1915. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli).

 

LLOYD, Frederick Charles. (Please note there are several Frederick C listed with the CWGC. I have picked this one of its connection with Stratford on Avon) Acting Sergeant 4065, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action on the 25/09/1915. He was born at Llandewe, Randor and enlisted at Stratford on Avon. He was the son of Mrs Alice Graggs and brother to Norah H E and Winifred E He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

MARCHANT, Harry There are several listed with the CWGC. None with a connection with Warwickshire, Stratford on Avon or surrounds.

 

MATTHEWS, Frederick William. Private 300117, 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 21/08/1917 aged 23. He was the son of William and Jane of 28, Shipston Road, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Gommecourt British Cemetery, No.2, Hebuterne, France

 

MAYNARD, Alfred. Private 266093, 1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 08/10/1917 aged 21. He was the brother of Hubert of 18, Mansell Street, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

MAYNARD, William. Private 11421, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 16/11/1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

MEGAINEY, Walter. Lance Corporal M2/167096, Army Service Corps attached to 8th Siege Park died 27/11/1917. He was the husband of Winifred of Chapel Street, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. He is at rest in Oxford Road, Cemetery, Belgium.

 

MORGAN, Leopold Cecil. (Memorial has Cecil) Rifleman 22634, 43rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade died 07/06/1917 aged 33. He was the son of John and Mary Ann Morgan, of 11, High St., Stratford-on-Avon, England, and he was the husband of Mona Marion Morgan, care of Mrs Robinson of Kennedy Street, Wellington.. He was by occupation an architect He is commemorated on the New Zealand Memorial, Messines Ridge, Belgium

 

MOUND, John Thomas. Lance Corporal 62256, 15th Signal Coy, Royal Engineers died 04/10/1915 aged 37. He was the son of Thomas and Annie Mound, of Fairfield Street, Manchester, and he was the husband of Elizabeth, nee Launchbury who he married in 1901, of 13, Arden Terrace, Birmingham Road, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Lillers Communal Cemetery, France.

 

MUCKLOW, Charles William. Private 17942, 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 30/07/1916 aged 22. He was the son of Joseph and Sarah Ann of 12, Rother Street, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

MULLIS, Reginald Albert Butler, Lance Corporal 52390, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died of wounds on the 25/08/1918 aged 19. He was the son of Esther E Mullis of 18, Evesham Place, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt, France.

 

NEWMAN, James Albert. Lance Corporal (CWGC have Private) 24638, 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 27/09/1918. He is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France

 

NICHOLLS, Harry Edward Earls. (Memorial has Hubert E) Private (CWGC have Lance Corporal) 20219, 2nd Royal Berkshire Regiment died 18/03/1917 aged 24. He was the son of Mrs A J Nicholls of 67, Addison Road, reading, Berkshire. He is at rest in Bray Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

NICHOLLS, Percy Douglas, killed in France 23rd October 1917 aged 19. He was Private 28859, 6th Somerset Light Infantry and he was the youngest son of George and Mary Ann of 57, West Street, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on their memorial at Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire, and is at rest in Lijssent Hoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

NOAKES, Robert Foster. Sergeant 2943, 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 19/07/1916 aged 40. He was the son of William and Kate. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

NORBURY, Francis Campbell. (Memorial has Campbell) Captain, 6th, attached to the 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps died 10/01/1915 aged 32. He was the son of Mrs. E. T. Norbury, of The Lench House, Stratford-on-Avon, and the late Mr. T. W. Norbury. Educated at Oundle and St. John's College, Cambridge. House-master at Oundle at outbreak of war. He is at rest in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’Avoue, France.

 

PADDOCK, Frederick Thomas. Private 21745, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died 05/06/1918. He is at rest in Rethel French National Cemetery, Ardennes, France

 

PARK, Archibald Kenneth. Captain, 1/10th Gurkha Rifles died 09/05/1915 aged 29. He was born on the 27th January 1886 to A. E. and Edwina Mary nee Grundy and he was the husband of Effie F. S. Park, of Alveston Manor, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.

 

PARKER, Raymond George. Lance Corporal 800, 2ndl Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 25/09/1915 aged 24. He was the son of William and Jane of Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

PARSONS, Thomas. Lance Corporal 9159, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 25/04/1915 aged 31. He was the son of Isaac and Rosa Parsons, of King's Sutton and he was the husband of Emily Parsons, of 12, Birmingham Road, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

 

PAXTON, William. Sapper 69902, 154th Field Coy, Royal Engineers killed in action on the 01/07/1916 aged 35. He was the son of William and Ellen Paxton, of Preston-on-Stour, Stratford-on-Avon; husband of Lily Paxton, of 18, Percy Street., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Bienvillers Military Cemetery, France. Some notes from what remains of his army record. He enlisted on the 15th March 1915 at Chatham and was posted to the Royal Engineers. He was aged 33 and 250 days and he lived with his wife and children at 2, Arthur Road, Stratford on Avon. He was employed by G Whateley and Sons, Builders and Contractors, Rother Street, Stratford on Avon as a carpenter. He was married on the 22nd November 1913 to spinster Lily Ashby at the parish church of Stratford on Avon. They had two children, William Hewry born 15th May 1914 and Ethel May born on the 9th September 1915. He was posted on the 30th March 1915 to the 82nd Field Company and then on the 20th April 1915 he was posted to the 154th Field Company. While at Tidworth he was Commanding Officers Orders for causing a disturbance after lights out in the camp on the 3rd July 1915. He was confined to camp for five days. On the 31st July 1915 he was posted to the (BEF) British Expeditionary Force, France and on the 1st July 1916 he was killed in action. The last address given by his was for 18, Percy Street, Stratford on Avon.

 

PAYNE, Alfred George, Private 2651, 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died of wounds on the 06/04/1916. He was the son of Robert James and Sarah Ann of 12 Russell Court, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

 

PELLING, William Arthur. Drummer 28463, 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 10/11/1917. He is at rest in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.

 

PEPLOW, John. Private 19218, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 17/02/1917 aged 29. He was the son of Albert Peplow, of 6, Bevel Rd. Sidemore, Bromsgrove, Birmingham and he was the husband of Mrs. J. Peplow, of 1, Seldown Lane, Poole, Dorset. He is at rest in Chocques Military Cemetery, France

 

PITTAWAY, Thomas. Corporal G/18706, 23rd Royal Fusiliers died 24/03/1918 aged 23. He was the son of Mrs. Fanny Pittaway, of 1, Holtom Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-Le-Grand, Somme, France.

 

POOLE, Edwin John Goodwin. Private 14512, 5th Dorsetshire Regiment died 26/09/1916. He was the son of Edwin and Isabella of 36 Waterside, Stratford on Avon. He was employed in 1911 as a labourer. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

PRIEST, William Archibald, Driver 614431, Royal Horse Artillery, 15th Warwickshire Brigade killed in action on the 21/04/1917. He was the brother of Mrs C Neale of 14A, Windsor Street, Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Bearains Road Cemetery, Beaurains, France.

 

QUINEY, Harold Charles. (Memorial has Harold) Private 10756, 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Born in 1893 and died of wounds on the 21/07/1916 aged 23. He is at rest in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe, Somme, France

 

REASON, Harry. Gunner 110032, 294th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery died 24/09/1917 aged 35. He was the husband of Florence of 63 High Street, King’s Heath, Birmingham. He is at rest in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

RIDGEWELL, Christopher John (CWGC have J C) Private 204261, 7th Somerset Light Infantry, formerly Private 15/1530 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died of wounds on the 01/12/1917 aged 29. He was the son of H. and A. Ridgewell, of 42, Parkinson Avenue, Scunthorpe, Lincs and he was the husband of Norah Ridgewell, of 32, Waterside, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Etaples Military Cemetery, France

 

ROBINSON, William. There are many William Robinson’s listed with the CWGC this one has a connection to Stratford on Avon, it could be him. William Charles James Edwin. Corporal 8018, 2nd Hampshire Regiment. He was born and enlisted at Aldershot, Hampshire. He was killed in action on the 09/08/1916 aged 27. He was the husband of Emily V. Simpson (formerly Robinson), of 3, Welcombe Cottage, Mayfield Avenue, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Belgium.

 

ROSE, John William. Lance Corporal 35125, 11th Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, Sherwood Foresters killed in action 17/10/1917 aged 29. He was the son of Mrs. Mary Rose, of West St., Stratford-on-Avon, and the late Edwin Rose. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

RUSSELL, Frederick George. Private 10082, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 10/05/1917. He was the son of Mrs. S. Russell, of 13, Mansell St., Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Level Crossing Cemetery, Fampoux, France

 

RUSSELL, George Henry. Lance Corporal 310280, 1st Warwickshire Yeomanry died 02/04/1917. He was the son of William Henry and Alice Elizabeth of Stratford on Avon. He is at rest in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

 

RYMAN, Frederick. Private 3785, 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 06/02/1917 aged 29. He was the son of Joseph and Jane Ryman, of 36, Clapton Road, Stratford-on-Avon and he was the husband of Mary Ryman, of 23, Meer Street, Stratford-on-Avon. He is at rest in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.

 

SALMON, George. Private PLY2104(S), 2nd Royal Marine Light Infantry died 26/10/1917. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

SAVAGE, John Harold, Sergeant South Wales Borderers He was born on the 4th October 1887 and died of his wounds at Bourn Brook Military Hospital on the 07/10/1914. He was the son of Mrs Davis of 24, Henley Street, Stratford on Avon and he was the husband of Grace Maud of Waterloo Road, Kings Heath.

 

SCOTT-SMITH, Eric Henry. 2nd Lieutenant, 14th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers died of dysentery at Mudros Bay Island, Lemnos 20/10/1915 aged 20. He was the son of Hon. Mr. Justice H. Scott-Smith, of Lahore, Punjab, India. Born at Sialkot, Punjab. Educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He is at rest in Portianos Military Cemetery, Greece.

 

SEENEY, Hugh. Private PO/14615, Royal Marine Light Infantry on H.M.S. Good Hope died 01/11/1914. He was the son of John and Marcella of Warwick Road, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.

 

SETCHELL William Henry. Lance Corporal 9198, 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 30/5/1918 aged 24. He was the son of Thomas William and Martha Setchell, of 54, West Street, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He is at rest in Gonnehem British Cemetery, France

 

SHARLOTTE, Thomas Charles. Private 266353 2/7th Royal Berkshire Regiment reported missing in France 19th July 1916 aged 19. He was the son of George and Sarah Ann. In 1911 he was living with his parents at 4, Chapel Lane, Stratford on Avon. He is commemorated on his parents memorial in Stratford on Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire and also on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

SHEASBY, George Randolph. (D.C.M.) Private (CWGC have Lance Corporal) 11851, 1st Royal W

another one of my experiments with flavours, black sesame muffins topped with candied winter melon or white chocolate buttons. lol, now i know why practically no one sells these . . . grey coloured foods just don’t look very appealing! m likes them so i’ll be making a 2nd batch soon :).

  

“Taking black sesame seeds can heal all the chronic illness after 100 days, improve skin tone on body and face after 1 year, reverse gray hair after 2 years, and regrow teeth after 3 years.” says the Compendium of Materia Medica, the largest and most comprehensive medical writings in the history of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This herb is also known as Semen Sesami Nigrum and Hei Zhi Ma and related experiments show that the content of vitamin E contained in this herb is the highest in all foods of plant origin. It is well known that vitamin E can promote cell division and delay cell senescence. Long-term use can counteract or neutralize the accumulation of cell senescence substance of “radicals” and then delay aging and extend life expectancy. Of course, its health benefits are far more than just providing vitamin E. So, what is black sesame good for? Are black sesame seeds better than white ones? How to eat it to maximize its health benefits? All the questions related will be answered in this article soon.

 

What are black sesame seeds?

Actually it refers to dry mature seeds of Sesamum indicum L., a plant under the genus Sesamum of the family Pedaliaceae. It plants are usually harvested during autumn when the fruits at the peak of their ripeness. And next dry them in the sun, knock out of the seeds, remove impurities, and then dry in the sun once again.

 

It is flat oval, about 3mm long and 2mm wide. Surface is black and smooth or with netted wrinkles. Tip has brown punctate hilum. Seed coat is thin. Cotyledons are two, white, and rich in oil. It has slight odor, sweet taste, and oil aroma.

 

Main chemical constituents are up to 55% fatty oil, sesamin, sesamolin, sesamol, vitamin E, phytosterols, lecithin, pedaliin, protein, oligosaccharides, planteose, sesamose, and mall amounts of phosphorus, potassium and cytochrome C, folic acid, nicotinic acid, sucrose, pentosan and large amounts of calcium content. In addition, fatty oil mainly contains approximately 48% oleic acid, approximately 37% linoleic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, arachidonic acid, and glycerolipid of lignoceric acid.

 

Black sesame seeds benefits

As mentioned above, there are two types of sesame seeds – black and white sesame seeds. Both of them contain almost the same composition. So, what is the difference between them? By comparison, white sesame seed is better for edible purpose but the black version is preferable if used for medicinal purpose. To be specific, as the tonic black one is good at nourishing the liver and kidney and improving hair growth and hair color while white one is expert in relaxing bowel, nourishing yin and moisturizing to the skin. Besides, black sesame has high nutritional value. It also contains extremely valuable sesamin and melanin. As a result, it is widely used in treating hair loss and grey hair, inhibiting the growth of skin cancer cells from UV rays, lowering blood pressure, helping weight loss, improving fertility, and so on. And its pharmacological actions can reflect these effects well.

  

Modern pharmacology of black sesame seed

1. It has anti-aging effect, which can postpone the aging phenomenon in experimental animals;

2. Linoleic acid contained can reduce blood cholesterol level and prevent and treat atherosclerosis;

3. Linoleic acid can inhibit the adrenal cortex function to a certain degree in experimental animals;

4. Linoleic acid can reduce blood sugar, increase glycogen content in liver and muscle, but decrease glycogen content in large doses;

5. Fatty oil contained can lubricate intestines and relieve constipation.

  

Proven black sesame herbal remedies

Based on Chinese Materia Medica, it is sweet in flavor and neutral in properties. It covers three meridians of liver, spleen, and kidney. Basic functions are tonifying liver and kidney, enriching blood to boost essence, and loosening bowel to relieve constipation. Key black sesame seeds uses and indications are liver-kidney deficiency induced dizziness and tinnitus, flaccid lower back and knee, premature graying hair, dry skin, intestinal dryness and constipation, less milk during lactation, carbuncle and eczema, leprosy, scrofula, ulcers, infantile scrofula, burns, and hemorrhoids. Recommended black sesame seeds dosage is from 9 to 15 grams in decoction, tea pills, or powder.

 

This is a nutritional herb that can boost essence and nourish blood. It is neutral, sweet, delicious, and good for food therapy. One of its representatives is Fu Sang Zhi Bao Dan, or Sang Ma Wan, which comes from Shou Shi Bao Yuan (Protection of Vital Energy for Longevity). This formula combines it with Sang Ye (White Mulberry Leaf) for the treatment of dizziness, premature graying, and weakness of limbs due to kidney essence and blood deficiency or liver and kidney deficiency.

 

Simple but effective black sesame seeds recipes

As you can see, this is a good healthy vegetable for food and medicine at the same time. Here are some useful tips and convenient cooking recipes for your reference.

 

1. Sesame walnut porridge. Ingredients: black sesame seed 50g, walnut 100g, and right amount of rice. Directions: smash them together, add in rice and water, and then cook congee. This recipe nourishes liver and kidney and has therapeutic effect for secondary brain atrophy.

 

2. Sesame fungus tea. Ingredients: raw sesame 30g, fried sesame 15g, and fried black fungus 30g. Directions: grind them into powder and fill the powder into a bottle for future use. 5 grams each time for making tea with boiling water is highly recommended. This tea has therapeutic effect on hemafecia due to blood heat or dysentery as it can cool blood and stop bleeding.

 

3. Sesame honey. Ingredients: honey 15g, black sesame seed oil 5g, and warm boiled water. Directions: blend them well and take them before breakfast. This recipe works for constipation.

 

Black sesame seeds side effects and contraindications

Good as black sesame seeds are for hair, overdose or misuse may speed up the hair loss rate and lead to endocrine disorders, manifested as oily scalp, withering hair follicles, or even baldness. And because it can cause diarrhea, its oil cake after oil expression is toxic to livestock and can cause adverse reactions such as cramps, tremors, difficulty breathing, flatulence, cough and suppression. Excessive feeding on calf can cause eczema, hair removal and itching. TCM wise, use it with care in the case of poor appetite and loose stool.

 

Source: www.chineseherbshealing.com/black-sesame-seeds/

   

I've been on the ground shooting this movement since it was just a few days old.

 

People come and go.

 

Opinions are expressed and listened to and considered by the group.

 

Ideas wax and wane.

 

The movement's been criticized for not having a concrete agenda.

 

It's criticized for not having a specific list of demands.

 

Or publicly identified 'leaders.'

 

It's been called loosely structured and ragtag.

 

So what?

 

The revolutionaries that kicked King George outta here had to spend a lot of time in taverns and other places talking with each other and developing their agenda.

 

It probably took months or even years.

 

None of them agreed on shit at the beginning.

 

Except that they wanted change enough to take up arms and possibly give their lives for it.

 

Even at the end they were still bickering.

 

By some miracle they kicked George's ass all the way back to England.

 

Barely.

 

And the weather almost decimated them too.

 

I see so many similiarities in this movement.

 

It's the conversations and the discussions and the teach ins on the sidewalks and the plaza that are the beauty of what's going on.

 

The founding fathers went through the same thing.

 

When it was all done they wanted to make George Washington the King of the Colonies!

 

After all that bad shit they said about kings!

 

Even George Washington called bullshit on that.

 

He was a religious man and he said that there was only one true king...

 

but if the people wanted him as a leader he would 'preside' over the fledgling nation.

 

That's how he became our first President.

 

Why'd they dress up like indians... I mean Native Americans... when they went and dumped all that tea into the harbor?

 

And the 'civilized' British called us terrorists for not standing shoulder to shoulder in lines to fight... they looked with contempt on the revolutionaries hiding behind trees when they fired on them... they said that our style of 'guerilla warfare' was dishonerable!

 

I heard Benjamin Franklin... the same man who wrote, published and sold a book on flatulence called 'A Treatise on Farting' went to France towards the end of the revolution and he played chess with King Louis...

 

the first thing he did was knock the two kings off the board.

 

He told King Louis 'in America we have no need for kings.'

 

That was some balls right there.

 

And he was there to ask the King for some money!

 

I dig the founding fathers...

 

but there were some hypocrisies in their beliefs.

 

All men were created equal with certain inalienable rights they said...

 

except for those slaves they owned.

 

And no one even thought for a second that women should be allowed to vote.

 

Democracy can be an awkward thing.

 

But good principles are what the Occupy movement needs.

 

Solid and strong principles.

 

Forget a plan or a list of demands.

 

The movement will be mired down in discussing that for months.

 

And the media doesn't have that kind of attention span.

 

What we need to do is get together and identify the principles we stand for.

 

We do that and then everything will flow right out of those.

 

Lets start talking about principles...

 

not economic complexities or legislative 'solutions.'

 

What are the principles on which this movement stands?

 

I believe we all think that the economic 'playing field' needs to be levelled.

 

That special interests and big money control politics in the republic.

 

This country was founded on some pretty amazing principles.

 

We've lost sight of some of them.

 

Situations have arisen that the founders couldn't have foreseen.

 

Principles should be the very center of the movement.

 

Everything else will spring from right and just principles naturally.

 

Forget 'what' we want...

 

what do we stand for?

 

Where is our 'constitution?'

 

The answers we seek as a movement will come from the principles we identify as being true to our beliefs and motivations.

 

Let's put our hearts and our souls into it.

 

Let's make this a 'principle centered' movement.

 

Wisely chosen solid principles will be a strength unparalleled.

 

Viva la Occupation!

  

Skylab orbited Earth 2,476 times during the 171 days and 13 hours of its occupation during the three manned Skylab missions. Astronauts performed ten spacewalks, totaling 42 hours and 16 minutes. Skylab logged about 2,000 hours of scientific and medical experiments, 127,000 frames of film of the Sun and 46,000 of the Earth.

 

Solar experiments included photographs of eight solar flares, and produced valuable results that scientists stated would have been impossible to obtain with unmanned spacecraft. The existence of the Sun's coronal holes were confirmed because of these efforts. Many of the experiments conducted investigated the astronauts' adaptation to extended periods of microgravity.

 

Owen Garriott performing an EVA in 1973

A typical day began at 6 AM Central Time Zone. Although the toilet was small and noisy, both veteran astronauts—who had endured earlier missions' rudimentary waste-collection systems—and rookies complimented it.

 

The first crew enjoyed taking a shower once a week, but found drying themselves in weightlessness[11] and vacuuming excess water difficult; later crews usually cleaned themselves daily with wet washcloths instead of using the shower. Astronauts also found that bending over in weightlessness to put on socks or tie shoelaces strained their stomach muscles.

 

Breakfast began at 7 AM. Astronauts usually stood to eat, as sitting in microgravity also strained their stomach muscles. They reported that their food—although greatly improved from Apollo—was bland and repetitive, and weightlessness caused utensils, food containers, and bits of food to float away; also, gas in their drinking water contributed to flatulence.

 

After breakfast and preparation for lunch, experiments, tests and repairs of spacecraft systems and, if possible, 90 minutes of physical exercise followed; the station had a bicycle and other equipment, and astronauts could jog around the water tank. After dinner, which was scheduled for 6 PM, crews performed household chores and prepared for the next day's experiments.

 

Following lengthy daily instructions (some of which were up to 15 meters long) sent via teleprinter, the crews were often busy enough to postpone sleep.

 

Each Skylab mission set a record for the amount of time astronauts spent in space. The station offered what a later study called "a highly satisfactory living and working environment for crews", with enough room for personal privacy.

 

Although it had a dart set, playing cards, and other recreational equipment in addition to books and music players, the window with its view of Earth became the most popular way to relax in orbit.

Let me introduce our latest product, Charm Secret™ that replace Charm. If your goal is to have young and radiant looking complexion with balanced hormones, Charm Secret™ which contains all natural ingredient can help you prevent skin aging, skin dryness and hormones imbalances.

 

There are 4 well-known super fruits that we use as our main ingredients in Charm Secret™, which are strawberries, blueberries, cranberries and lingonberries. These super fruits that have high nutritional value, high antitoxidant property and high consumer appeal.

 

Charm Secret™ consists of not just berries but other organic ingredients such as wild yam and pueraria miritica, produced under Japan's advanced and sophisticated technology and we named it Hyper Berie® technology. It has a fantastically great result for skin beautification, hormones balancing and breast enlargement.

 

Hyper Berie® contains estrogenic substances, miroestrol which has been proven to be 2 times more effective than human estrogen. Hyper Berie® also contains diosgenin, a popular source of natural progesterone that can travel along the circulatory system and be absorbed and stored in tissues to help in hormone balancing.

 

Hyper Berie® also contains phytoestrogen and miroestrogen which can effectively stimulate female characteristics such as breast and hip enlargements. These two substances will induce cell turgidity, not cell proliferation. The enlargement process will continue to a responding level before termination and the process will be replaced by breast firming action and the maintenance of breast size.

 

Charm Secret™ would not cause any weight gain due to its BIO-IDENTIFY system which contains no carbohydrate but just nano size phyto-estrogen and JAPAN Hyper Berie® technology facilitates easy and better absorption into the body cells.

 

Benefits of Hyper Berie® Technology

 

1. Fountain of youth for aging women

2. Maintains female sex characteristics

3. Stimulates breast enlargement and firms breast

4. Promotes younger, translucent and radiant looking complexion

5. Smoothens skin and reduces open pores

6. Hydrates skin and enhances skin renewal process

7. Increases skin elasticity and reduces sagging

8. Lightens uo freckles, pigmentation and dark spots

9. Darkens gray hair and increases hair growth

10. Regulates menstrual cycle, eases menstrual pain and alleviates menopausal symptoms

11. Alleviates sleep disorders

12. Prevents osteoporosis, prostate cancer and cancers associated with imbalanced hormones

13. Improvers healing and reduces scarring

 

Why you should go for Charm Secret?

 

Well defined safety profile

 

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Specification

 

Serving size : 15 sachets per box, 15gm per sachet

preparation : Mix 1 sachet with 150ml room temperature water and stir well.

take 1 sachet before bedtime daily.

Precaution :Consume 15 minutes before dinner if you have the problem of gastric, stomach

flatulence and others.

Storage :Keep in cool and dry place.

 

Ingredients

 

soy powder, strawberry powder, bilberry powder, cranberry powder, lingonberry powder , wild yam , pueraria mirifica, saw palmetto, milk thistle, licorice, silk peptide .

1. Make race car noises when people get on and off.

2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex to other passengers.

3. Grimace painfully while slapping your forehead and muttering, "Shut up dammit, all of you just SHUT UP!"

4. Whistle the first 7 notes of "It's a Small World" incessantly.

5. Sell Girl Scout Cookies.

6. On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.

7. Shave.

8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask, "Got enough air in there?"

9. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear your upside-down.

10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.

11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to pull the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.

12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper, "Ever had a Wet Willy?"

13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you "Admiral."

14. One word: Flatulence!

15. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.

16. Do Tai Chi exercises.

17. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on."

18. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back, "Oh, not now, damn motion sickness!"

19. Give religious tracts to each passenger.

20. Burp, then say, "Mmmmm.....tasty!"

21. Meow occasionally.

22. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.

23. Frown and mutter, "Gotta go, gotta go," then sigh and say, "oops!"

24. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.

25. Sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" while continuously pushing buttons.

26. Holler, "Chutes away!!" whenever the elevator descends.

27. Walk on with a cooler that says "Human Head" on the side.

28. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce, "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.

29. Leave a box between the doors.

30. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.

31. Wear a hand puppet and talk to the other passengers "through" it.

32. Start a sing-along.

33. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?"

34. Play the accordion.

35. Shadow box.

36. Say, "Ding!" at each floor.

37. Lean against the button panel.

38. Say, "I wonder what all these do?" and then push ALL the red buttons.

39. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.

40. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space."

41. Bring a chair along.

42. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger, "Wanna see wha in muh mouf??"

43. Blow spit bubbles.

44. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.

45. Announce in a demonic voice, "I must find a more suitable host body."

46. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.

47. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.

48. Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers.

49. Stare at your thumb and say, "I think it's getting bigger."

50. If anyone brushes against you, recoil fiercely and scream, "BAD TOUCH!"

 

One of two similar adverts I saw recently , whilst using the mens urinals at Watford Gap Motorway service area. At first I wondered if this was some kind of tounge-in-cheek joke, but looking at the company's website it would seem that there is a big problem out there that they feel their products can cater for!

 

I quote from the "about" section of their website......

 

"In many cases, simply not having to worry about flatulence can help improve a persons condition. Anxiety can create chemical changes in your body which can affect your digestive system, exacerbating a person’s condition. The average person passes wind 14 times per day so whether you’re a sufferer of a digestive disorder or just have flatulence, Shreddies can help. Our garments are discreet, offering the wearer added assurance that nobody will be able to tell you are wearing anything other than regular clothing. Unlike other pads which are stuck into your underwear, Shreddies are long lasting and won't need replacing after just 2 weeks".

 

Daniel Ruth : Is he Lyndon LaRouche at the Tampa Tribune with Elaine Silvestrini? After Ruth's previous loss to Dr. Rex Curry, the response against Ruth from the general public was so great that Ruth said he was labeled a "Dork, anti-free market statist, $#@%!&@, Dummkopf, liberal, daffy, dolt, stupid, dunce and, oh by the way, socialist." rexcurry.net/ruth.html

 

Here is another photograph with Elaine Silvestrini

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Here is another graphic image of Dan Ruth

rexcurry.net/daniel-ruth-elaine-silvestrini.jpg

 

That is why the Tampa Tribune said: "Uh, Daniel Ruth? Start packing your bags!"

rexcurry.net/daniel-ruth-tampa-tribune.html

 

On another occasion, Ruth admitted publicly that locals have labeled him "bigot, prejudiced, hateful and ignorant" among many other similar insults.

 

Ruth's use of "socialist" is telling in that Ruth covers-up for the National Socialist German Workers Party and its deadly dogma. Ruth has probably never written the actual name of the group "National Socialist German Workers Party" ever in the Tribune (check it yourself).

 

On the Tribune's flag fetishism, Silvestrini and Ruth are disturbingly silent about Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and their racism, bigotry, militarism, robotic chanting for children, and authoritarian socialism (and their influence upon German National Socialism, its symbols and rituals). Their silence becomes deafening about the related hate-mongering, persecution, violence, and even lynchings inspired by the Bellamys and their socialist religion. It becomes scarier in that Ruth refers to himself as the "Book of Ruth."

 

Good Grief, Lyndon LaRouche was not as delusional as Ruth is. Ruth writes flippantly about torture. LaRouche La Ruth's insane clown posse act is like something out of "Apocalypse Now" meets "A Clockwork Orange."

 

For many years, the near-sighted loopy leprechaun (Ruth) has flittered about the fringes of political life in the Tampa Bay area as a sort of scary class clown, in the "special" section, hoping that his kindergarten cracks will make his teachers give up and leave him alone.

 

Ruth once told a critic that Ruth would let the critic find out if Ruth has a hybrid toupee/combover if the critic paid Ruth $5000 (Ruth knew that if Ruth put the price high enough the critic would pass on Ruth's toupee/combover question). Ruth, a Dominick Dunne wannabe, is the Rump-hole of the Insanely. One suspects that Ruth's flatulence worsens whenever Ruth rubs his brain cells together. Both of them.

 

Is Daniel "LaRouche La Ruth" the person known as Lyndon LaRouche? Has anyone ever seen those two together? Has the mystery of Ruth's hybrid toupee / combover question been solved? See the startling photographic evidence.

 

Think of the Tampa Tribune as a torture and terrorism conspiracy (as its readers think of it; both of them).

June 15 - 167/366

Let me start off by saying I'm a huge Tim McGraw fan. I've been to countless concerts. Many up close and personal. These were the worst seats I've had in years. My concert neighbors were not friendly.

 

Here's my little "review of the nights events":

The weather held up for the Tim concert yesterday. That was about the only good thing (well besides actually seeing and hearing Tim of course). I swear in all the yrs I've gone to his concert this by far was the absolute worst; not because of him. First of all the venue stinks. It has the absolute worst parking lot ever. The sound was awful. It wasn't just LOUD it was unaudiable. Most of the words were muffled. Thank goodness I knows the lyrics/music. There were 4 stuck up party girls beside me. The girl right beside me was a hefty girl. Her one leg was equivalent to both of mine. When she did sit she was also in my sit. Not pleasant. She wore her purse on her shoulder and kept whacking me with it as she tried to dance all the while moving her arms around in my tiny space. The man beside me arrived late missing the opening acts. He talked on his cell for most of the show each time to answer or get it out of his shorts pocket he'd lean into me. He also had a huge flatulence problem. I swear I almost vomitted. Fart man also spilled his beer. It went all over my purse. I was not thrilled. There was a homosexual couple in front of me. They sat most of the show which I guess was a good thing because then I could see. I had horrible seats this show. The one man kept looking at his watch like is it over yet? If you're that bored and miserable stay home. The couple beside them; the guy was such a jerk. He toked up right in front of everyone. At first I wasn't sure but then I saw a plume of smoke and smelt it. Rude! Usually I can make friends with the people around me. Not so with this group. I swear I was around the worst group of drunken rednecks. Then there was the other couple a few rows ahead. They stood and danced if thats what you want to call it the entire night. He kept picking the girl up and holding her up in the air. They kissed hard core. He had his hands all over her most of the night. Get a room!! I couldn't find my friends I usually meet at the show. Bummer. Actually I ran into one. He was drunk by the time I found him. His face was red as were his eyes. I thought he had a sunburn. Apparently he had an allergic reaction to the beer he was drinking. Did that stop him from drinking? Of course not. When the show was over I couldn't find my car. There were a few moments when I honestly thought it was stolen and a wave of panic went through me. Finally I found my car. I got to it at 11:20. At 12:00 I was finally pulling out of the venues parking lot. Oh I almost forgot that on the way to the concert there was a major accident causing a huge traffic jam. The road was closed. Police redirected traffic. As I pulled onto the exit ramp to get onto Rt. 66 I saw cars coming at me in the emergeny lane. I was like HUH? So I quickly took that que and cut across the median grass and got back on the road and took a side road to get onto 66 further down. The trip that normally should have taken about 45 minutes was 1.5 hr long. Ok so I never ate before the show. I didn't have time and didn't feel like it. I figured I'd grab something at McDonald's drive-thru on the way home. So I pull into McDonalds complete famished and thirsty. No one is at the window. It was closed. UGH! Apparently they close at 12:30 on Sundays and I got there at 12:38. OMG I was so irritated. So I had a couple pretzels and a gatorade before bed. Not exactly filling. When I finally laid down it was 1:00 am. My ears were ringing. I've had close seats and been right on the speaker and never had ear problems before. It took me awhile to doze off. I swear when my alarm went off at 5:30 this morning I didn't want to wake up.

One of the "Big Three" of famous Yokai (oni and tengu are the other two), the kappa is easily more prevalent and popular in Japan than Bigfoot is in America. Seriously. Here, let me put it in perspective:

 

In America, "Danger! No Swimming" signs show a little sillhouette of somebody drowning.

 

In Japan, "Danger! No Swimming" signs show a kappa devouring a child's butt.

 

See what I mean?

 

Kappas are kind of an odd mixture of turtle, monkey, and man. They are aquatic, and quite mischievous - some are nice, some are tricky, but many are mean, desiring nothing less than some human rump roast. You know, I think there's something else I have to explain here.

 

Kappas eat meat from the human anus. They like big butts and cannot lie.

 

Wow.

 

*ahem* ANYWAY, kappas also love cucumbers - in fact, you can sometimes get one to stop chasing your ass by feeding him a cucumber! (And yes, this is the reason why cucumber rolls are called kappamaki. Wow.) Of course, there are other ways to deal with marauding kappas if you lack a cucumber. You can also bow to one - you see, every kappa has a little indentation on top of its head that can hold water. If th water spills, it becomes powerless, so a pretty common tactic is to bow to a kappa. If he returns the gesture, he just might spill his water! And then he'll really be embarrassed. I mean, that's like getting Superman to eat kryptonite because "I double dog dare you!" And the other way to escape a kappa is to fart really hard in his face. Really, really hard. So hard that, according to traditional artwork, the very force of your flatulence blows him away.

 

You know, I totally didn't intend this to become so scatological. It's just that Japan is Japan. But anyway, another way to escape a kappa is to tear off its arms, and make it apologize to you before returning them. I guess it has to apologize for being armless, or something. But a properly disarmed (ha ha) kappa will then repay you, either by feeding you fish every day (but fish don't have butts!), or teaching you some of its vast medicinal lore. So that's how proctologists earn their degrees.

Polyester è un film del 1981 diretto da John Waters, quarta collaborazione del regista col suo attore feticcio Divine.

 

Agli spettatori del film prima di entrare in sala veniva consegnata una scheda chiamata "Odorama"; questo foglio aveva dieci zone che strofinate emettevano ognuna un profumo diverso da annusare in precisi momenti del film. Proprio per questo all'uscita nei cinema il film fu pubblicizzato come "Il primo a coinvolgere anche l'olfatto dello spettatore con fragranze vomitevoli", anche se l'iniziativa fu un fiasco. Gli otto odori erano: profumo di rosa, flatulenza, colla, gasolio, pizza, cannabis, odore di forno, odore di auto nuova, puzza di piedi e aerosol. (Wikipedia)

 

The smells on the Odorama Card were as follows: 1. A rose flower. 2. Flatulence. 3. Model Airplane Glue. 4. Pizza. 5. Gasoline in a can. 6. Skunk. 7. Natural Gas from an oven. 8. A new car smell of leather upholstery. 9. Dirty shoes. 10. Air Freshener from an aerosol can.

Drying Kelp in Hokkaido Japan

 

Kombu (昆布 konbu?) is edible kelp from the family Laminariaceae and is widely eaten in East Asia. It may also be referred to as konbu (Japanese), dashima (Korean: 다시마) or haidai (simplified Chinese: 海带; traditional Chinese: 海帶; pinyin: Hǎidài). Some edible kelps in the family Laminariaceae are not always called kombu, such as arame, kurome (Ecklonia kurome) or Macrocystis pyrifera. Most kombu is from the species Saccharina japonica (Laminaria japonica), extensively cultivated on ropes in the seas of Japan and Korea.

 

With the development of cultivation technology, over 90% of Japanese kombu is cultivated, mostly in Hokkaidō, but also as far south as the Seto Inland Sea.

 

Kombu can be used to soften beans during cooking, and to help convert indigestible sugars and thus reduce flatulence.

 

Source: Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelp

Terrence & Philip finding some success with a random girl they met on the convention floor. Although, based on her clothing, my money's on her kicking their... behinds... if they crack any more flatulence jokes. ;-D

I got her expression by telling a joke about flatulence . . . with a 13 year old daughter, those things can make for a great moment. It worked this time around.

Common name: Coffee Senna, Coffeeweed, Negro coffee

 

Botanical name: Cassia occidentalis

 

Synonyms: Senna occidentalis

 

Family Fabaceae

 

Subfamily: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)

 

Malayalam: Naattu Takara, Ponnaviram

 

The Negro coffee or Stinking weed is found throughout India, growing abundantly on waste lands immediately after the rains. It is an offensively odorous undershrub with furrowed subglabrous branches. Leaflets are 3-5 pairs. Flowers are yellow, arranged in short peduncled few flowered racemes. Fruits are cylindrical or compressed, transversely septate glabrous pods containing 20-30 seeds. Seeds are ovoid, compressed, hard, smooth and skin dark olive green or pale brown.

 

The plant is useful in vitiated conditions of vata and kapha, cough, bronchitis, constipation, fever, epilepsy and convulsions. The roots are useful in inflammation, diabetes, strangury, elephantiasis, ringworm, colic, flatulence, dyspepsia, epilepsy, convulsions and scorpion sting. The leaves and seeds are used in leprosy, erysipelas, pruritus, wounds and ulcers, cough, bronchitis, hiccough, asthma, pharyngodynia, fever and hydrophobia (Warrier et al, 1994). A paste made out of roots is considered as a specific remedy for ringworm, eczema and other skin ailments (Aiyer amd Kolammal, 1964). Bark, roots, leaves and seeds are used in medicine. The drug is an ingredient of Surasadi taila (Sivarajan et al, 1994).

 

The plant contains emodin, physcion, chrysophanol, sitosterol and a xanthone- cassiollin. Seeds contain phytosterolin and 3-methyl-6-methoxy-1, 8-dihydroxy anthraquinone. Flowers contain physcion-b-D-glucopyranoside. Roots contain phytosterol, 1, 8-dihydroxy anthraquinone, a-hydroxy anthraquinone, quercetin, 1, 4, 5-trihydroxy anthroquinone derivatives, namely, islandicin, helminthosporon and xanthorin, a xanthone derivative-cassiollin. Leaves contain flavonoids- matteucinol-7-rhamnoside and jaceidin-7-rhamnoside. The plant is febrifuge, purgative, diuretic and tonic. Seed and leaf are bitter, sweet, acrid, thermogenic and depurative and used in skin diseases. Root is an antidote for snakebite (Husain et al, 1992).

 

Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India

 

amprs.kau.edu/Html/AgrotechMPs.htm

 

www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Cassia_occidentalis_page...

 

www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Coffee Senna.html

 

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cassia_occidentalis

Common name: Coffee Senna, Coffeeweed, Negro coffee

 

Botanical name: Cassia occidentalis

 

Synonyms: Senna occidentalis

 

Family Fabaceae

 

Subfamily: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)

 

Malayalam: Naattu Takara, Ponnaviram

 

The Negro coffee or Stinking weed is found throughout India, growing abundantly on waste lands immediately after the rains. It is an offensively odorous undershrub with furrowed subglabrous branches. Leaflets are 3-5 pairs. Flowers are yellow, arranged in short peduncled few flowered racemes. Fruits are cylindrical or compressed, transversely septate glabrous pods containing 20-30 seeds. Seeds are ovoid, compressed, hard, smooth and skin dark olive green or pale brown.

 

The plant is useful in vitiated conditions of vata and kapha, cough, bronchitis, constipation, fever, epilepsy and convulsions. The roots are useful in inflammation, diabetes, strangury, elephantiasis, ringworm, colic, flatulence, dyspepsia, epilepsy, convulsions and scorpion sting. The leaves and seeds are used in leprosy, erysipelas, pruritus, wounds and ulcers, cough, bronchitis, hiccough, asthma, pharyngodynia, fever and hydrophobia (Warrier et al, 1994). A paste made out of roots is considered as a specific remedy for ringworm, eczema and other skin ailments (Aiyer amd Kolammal, 1964). Bark, roots, leaves and seeds are used in medicine. The drug is an ingredient of Surasadi taila (Sivarajan et al, 1994).

 

The plant contains emodin, physcion, chrysophanol, sitosterol and a xanthone- cassiollin. Seeds contain phytosterolin and 3-methyl-6-methoxy-1, 8-dihydroxy anthraquinone. Flowers contain physcion-b-D-glucopyranoside. Roots contain phytosterol, 1, 8-dihydroxy anthraquinone, a-hydroxy anthraquinone, quercetin, 1, 4, 5-trihydroxy anthroquinone derivatives, namely, islandicin, helminthosporon and xanthorin, a xanthone derivative-cassiollin. Leaves contain flavonoids- matteucinol-7-rhamnoside and jaceidin-7-rhamnoside. The plant is febrifuge, purgative, diuretic and tonic. Seed and leaf are bitter, sweet, acrid, thermogenic and depurative and used in skin diseases. Root is an antidote for snakebite (Husain et al, 1992).

 

Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India

 

amprs.kau.edu/Html/AgrotechMPs.htm

 

www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Cassia_occidentalis_page...

 

www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Coffee Senna.html

 

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cassia_occidentalis

This editorial cartoon by Bearman of beartoons.com was posted on January 18, 2010. It depicts a radio host who looks very similar to Excellence in Broadcasting's Rush Limbaugh. However this host has a farting ass where his face is spewing hated lies such as Cancer more likely among Democrats, Obama will steal your Haiti Money, Drug Addicts have no will power.

Hi ! Still alive but been quite busy the last few months. Much like particularly pungent flatulence in a small room I still remain.

 

Anyways, some posts starting with my spotting crowd... A Dodge Grand Caravan much like my service vehicle parked behind a BMW 330 convertible. Think I'd choose the ragtop.

There is so much happening here. How I would market these smokes:

 

Chocolate and Cherry flavored cigarettes offer all the harmful effects of smoking masked by the joyful taste of chocolate or the wonder of cherry goodness. Chocolate and Cherry cigarettes are for the hip and now smoker.

 

In 2004, a pack of cigarettes costs 270¥. Now it is 320¥. You smokers need to find a new hobby.

 

OMG, they used the word "Black" and "Devil" in the same sentence! How could they be so insensitive? And it is obvious the silhouette represents a Black-American man and women from the '70s who cannot control their flatulence while "gettin' down".

 

Not really. I like the 'fro and bell bottoms.

Locally known as Kecubung. Fruits have numerous tubercles containing red seeds inside. All parts of this plant are poisonous and are used for external treatment only. Dried leaves inhaled to relieve asthma; poltice of leaves used to treat flatulence or to reduce swellings.

Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

 

PROCRUSTES IN SITU

 

Detail on the panels of THE JOTTING WALL behind the figure of PROCRUSTES. This JOTTING WALL served the artist almost as a diary of his thoughts as he was working on PROCRUSTES IN SITU, thoughts and ideas and phrases that passed through his mind as he considered Procrustes and all that his being symbolizes, thoughts concerning specific and contemporaneous procrustean events in his actual life. Also recorded thereon are the names of those whose death occurred during the creation of the work. Many of these words, thoughts, names and events will be transcribed here and elsewhere within this recordation in photographs of the actual sculpture.

 

For example:

 

The most profligate preach the preciousness of human life

 

To embrace Desire one must repudiate ambition

 

A pathology of indifference

 

Why would you falsify my worth?

 

Contact sports—uniformed inversion/sanctioned pornography

 

Craft is a moral issue

 

an anatomy of chaos

 

An anatomy of chaos

 

A flatulence of self-righteousness

 

We stand in the valley of astonishment

 

Dilemma: In what best way can Art and artist survive?

 

Nothing can grow in the shade of your bowler

 

One penis does not a canon make

 

Every artist dies in ignorance

 

Failure is moot

 

I am owed nothing

 

The neuter gender threatens a change in reality—an engendering of fear

 

Dilemma: Art is not linearly progressive

 

My demons are extinct

 

Of all the signatures in the register of the Inn of Procrustes, the young artist's is most prized

 

And it is, I think, almost always true that it is

single works, experienced vividly, that yield the

transformative experiences of which art almost alone is capable.—Danto

 

a confrontation of smiles

 

Have we invented time only to lament its passage?

 

Van Gogh's ear is Art's Nemesis

 

Will I never heel this barking starving ego?

 

Write for me a brief history of plagiarism

 

An ambiance of shame

 

The truth cannot destroy me

 

Mankind truly is a plague upon the earth

 

I could dance this life forever

 

All reverence to nature regarding human behavior id specious

 

Ah critic, I listen with the ear of the snake

 

Your smile is a rictus of bigotry

 

Who can sustain the dreams of dead children?

 

I give so as to carry less

 

A smile of meretricious eloquence

 

Who will read this false anthology of hope?

 

Are we living in epilogue?

 

To be ethical is to be free

 

I would forget all that is unnecessary

 

Color like smell is aggressive and instantaneous

 

Life is a continuum of interruptions

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Below is a transcription of the writing in red on the lower left of the image:

 

"Traveler! (fool) Why do you pursue your madness? Athens and Eleusis will evade you—mirages that evaporate on approach. You cannot reach what does not exist. There is no destination. You create what you seek—What drives you is what leads you…they are one and the same. And when your mad journey is done, it is I, Procrustes, who will fit it to my bed. Snipping, adjusting, defining all. All finally becomes property of the Inn. Dead or alive, traveler or guest, no one escapes my beds. Why do you persist? Do you enjoy pain? My beds become increasingly comfortable as time passes—not so your quest when you finally realize there are no rewards. I have already begun mapping and charting your course—cutting and stretching and fitting you to the procrustean bed of history."

 

As Robert Cremean wrote:

 

PROCRUSTES IN SITU attempts to illustrate the obvious and redundant visages of Procrustes. He is omnipresent within the human condition: cutting, trimming and stretching each individual to fit the beds of conformity. During this phase of the Trilogy, I came to see how essential he is to everything that we are. Without Procrustes, there is no coherence. Procrustes is the antithesis of chaos. He is also the enemy of Art.

 

Procrustes thrives on repeat, stasis, and order. His sole purpose is to determine and control. Anything that threatens his authority and the dimensions of his beds is trimmed away or stretched beyond its viable scope of importance. The enforced illusions of Procrustes are in constant conflict with the Artist’s desire for truth, no matter what the cost.

 

In PROCRUSTES IN SITU, the connection between Procrustes and nature, sexuality and reproduction is considered. The linear extension of the species gives Procrustes great authority within the strictures of society. This is acknowledged in the beds of the mother, the father, the young woman, the young man, the child, and fear. Procrustes controls these beds through instinct. We are born into them. By these he controls us all. Chaos is not a threat to Procrustes in his natural form but rather to the illusions that that form has itself constructed. It is this illusion of identity that centers the drama of Procrustes: Theseus versus Procrustes, Art versus culture, chaos versus illusion.

  

Collection:

Fresno Art Museum

Fresno, California

i hope.

 

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Elaine Silvestrini & Benito Mussolini. The Italian cohort of German National Socialism (Benito Mussolini) developed power as a socialist "journalist" among socialists and socialist newspapers in Italy. He covered up the origin of National Socialist dogma and of its stiff-armed salute. Many modern media mussolinis become mean or tyrannical when an interviewee wants to make a record of an interview. Learn more at RexCurry.net

Another background texture from my Food Backgrounds collection.