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I love working with Apple computers at my school, but seriously, how could they screw over their Enterprise/Education customers like this?? Ugh.
Design Fiction is critical speculation about different possible and preferable futures in media design using methodologies of science-fiction prototyping and design research. Students are examining possible scenarios for developing interfaces in a near future. They work within story laboratories investigating the “archeology of the present” (William Gibson), testing utopian and anti-utopian settings. Which future is possible, which probable, and what can we actually imagine and visualize? Design is an expression and representation of its users’ inherent hopes, projections and fears – Design Fiction as design method allows us to detect the hidden issues in media objects and their different usages.
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This is speculation from a message board that this caboose is Pittsburgh & Shawmut (P&S) 191
Gutted and repainted to become a B&B
Dr Doolittle's Roadside Café & Creamery
GPS coordinates... 41.135693, -78.778693
For many years, since the discovery of the first cave paintings shed light onto our origins as a human species, there has been much intensive speculation about the existence of a “missing link” connecting man with the apes that preceded him. Here at the Pastime Athletic Club, we proudly announce that we believe we have found this link, embodied in the person of our Club Devolver, Messmaker.
Several of the Red Suit Enthusiasts came upon the mischievous Messmaker during a spelunking expedition in Guatemala. For a time, she trailed this party with the stealth of a master of espionage, allowing only fleeting glimpses of a prehensile tail or furry paw to give the explorers a hint of her presence. The banana skins found draped across their rucksacks that evening, though, raised suspicions among the crew, and they set about poking torches into shadowy crevices to unearth the source of this potassium-rich mystery.
Years spent spying gleefully on slow-witted intruders, many of whom brought with them motives of destruction and exploitation, had given Messmaker a natural wariness of man, combined with the ability to become almost invisible at will; stories from across the world of Sasquatch or the famous Yeti can be attributed to our Devolver and her cunning at evading discovery and capture. A few moments spent in observation of the joviality and high spirits exuded by the Enthusiasts was enough, however, to convince our precocious Devolver of their purity of purpose. She leapt down among them from an overhanging stalactite, producing an effect of great bewilderment and genuine surprise. Quick to recover and no stranger to the Earth’s many oddities, the Club’s adventurers reacted with characteristic enthusiasm, welcoming this evolutionary oddity into their midst.
Today, in addition to amusing us with her constant high-spirited trickery, Messmaker stands as a constant reminder of the tenuous threads that separate us from the beasts of the wild, and of the fascinating spectrum of evolutionary wonders the world has wrought.
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compete with other Countries in the quality of its farinaceous productions. It must of necessity become a pastoral country in a greater extent than agricultural. Then why not throw open the back country to Emigrants as free grants, who would very soon make the interior produce wool, hides, tallow and salt beef at a low price. A very long period must necessarily elapse ere the land in the interior can attain any intrinsic value. The common calculation is that a sheep requires one acre per annum for its sustenance in New South Wales, nor can a price at present be given for its support, but if the back countries were once located, a population would gradually arise as the flocks and herds increased and then as in the old settled countries the rich cultivation lands will acquire a value. It has been long generally acknowledged that there is not a more promising speculation in the Country at the present price of its wools than for a settler to migrate with a sufficient establishment and about 3 or 4000 sheep several hundred miles into the interior, taking care to have a sufficient number of working oxen and drays to take his wool twice or [oftener] in the year to the nearest port and to bring back supplies. Any one who would have sufficient enterprise for the undertaking with a sufficient knowledge of the management of sheep and an adequate capital might calculate on realising a large sum in a few years. By this method he would avoid the scab which is the pest of the colony, he would ensure the best and most wholesome food for his flocks in abundance, and if he fixed his station on one of the rivers which have lately been discovered in the interior might ensure himself a plentiful supply of water and fish. But to carry this scheme into effect, he must first enure himself to the mode of life of the settler. He must be contented with a log hut covered with bark, but the climate is so false that this will be the least of his privations, he must be indifferent
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Starring Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis Van Rooten, Gar Moore, Felix Locher, Jan Arvan, and Bob Bryant. Directed by Edward L. Cahn.synopsis
Archeologists excavating the ruins of Pompeii discover what seems to be a perfectly preserved human figure, encased in lava. A scientific team led by Dr. Paul Mallon (Richard Anderson) begins to piece together the history and identity of the stone figure. Using surviving records from the city and the location where the figure was found as a starting point, the archeologists uncover the story of Quintilus, an Etruscan gladiator-slave who was tortured and sentenced to death for daring to love a noblewoman. He vowed to kill anyone who kept him from the woman he loved, and was in the process of being executed when the eruption of Vesuvius destroyed the city and buried Quintilus in molten lava. Their research takes on tremendous urgency when evidence -- in the form of a rising number of dead bodies -- begins to show that Quintilus may not only still be alive, in some impossible-to-fathom manner, but bent on carrying out his final wish, of rescuing and escaping with his beloved, and that the woman he loved has been reincarnated, in some manner, in the person of Mallon's fiancée, Tina Enright (Elaine Edwards). This all seems like fanciful speculation, especially to the police, until Quintilus breaks out one night and starts stalking Tina through the city, impervious to police bullets and a danger to everyone around him. When Quintilus takes the unconscious Tina, Mallon must try to anticipate his movements around the city by finding the modern locations of ancient streets that Quintilus seems able to navigate. He heads for the Cove of the Blind Fisherman, hoping to save his fiancée and put an end to this ancient curse.
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On its face, Curse of the Faceless Man is a retelling of The Mummy, incorporating elements familiar from both the Karloff film and from one or more of the Lon Chaney Jr. B-movie entries from the early to mid-'40s. Screenwriter Jerome Bixby, however, has added enough creepy details and personality to the characters to give this film an immediacy that The Mummy movies mostly lacked. We know far more about the city of Pompeii and the way its people lived and died than we do about religious rituals in ancient Egypt, and Bixby employs the richer, more detailed picture that he can draw from this material to great effect. Additionally, director Edward L. Cahn who also helmed the companion feature with which Curse of the Faceless Man was released, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which was also written by Bixby paced the movie for just the right level of suspense, and got convincing performances out of his cast. Gerald Fried's music, especially the twisting suspense theme accompanying Quintilus' awakening and wanderings, keeps the tension high, and the costuming and special effects make the picture work far better than its budget or its reputation would lead one to expect. (The frozen stone figure of Quintilus later reappeared in United Artists' Invisible Invaders, also directed by Cahn and sharing the same production designer, representing a captured and immobilized alien.)
Chunnaic mi an shunter Ruston seo aig latha-fosgailte bliadhnail Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Siorrachd Dhun Phris.
I saw this little shunter at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries at its annual open day, 02/05/10.
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Campaigners from WDM projected photos of people holding up messages asking George Osborne to stop bankers driving up food prices through food speculation in Birmingham on the eve of the Tory party conference.
Description: Illustrated London News: April 27, 1912 – p632
“Tilted straight on the end with the stern vertically upwards”: A parallel to the “Titanic”
The rare way on which the White Star Liner foundered: The sinking of the steam-ship “Hasland” in the manner in which the “Titanic” is reported to have sunk.
Date of Execution: 1912
Medium: Letterpress
Collection: Illustrated London News
Reference No: 67.0 ILN
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John Thornton refuses to enter into "Speculation" in order to save his cotton mill from bankruptcy in the novel "North & South" by Elizabeth Gaskell. The moment I captured is a scene during which it is suggested to him by a local banker that he invest in a scheme in order to raise money quickly. Haunted by the suicide of his father under similar circumstances, the idea is repellent to him.
There is speculation in Moscow the Ukraine crisis and slaying of an opposition politician has caused a breakdown in Vladimir Putin’s health.
But another theory, advanced by the lawyer of murdered Boris Nemtsov, was that the strongman may be lying low because he is “afraid” of...
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Therea are some new man in game of thrones season 3 dvd,do you know?
HBO finally put fans out of their speculation misery at Comic-Con by confirming the identities of more than a dozen actors who'll be joining the series in Season 3.They are actors in Office and Avengers.I think it is a wonderful thing for fans of tv series,no matter you are the fans of bones dvd or two and a half men dvd.
Diana Rigg of the classic British series "The Avengers" joins "Game of Thrones" as Lady Olenna Tyrell, "The Queen of Thorns." She is the grandmother of the aristocrats Loras and Margaery Tyrell and the matriarch of the powerful Tyrell clan.
Fans of game of thrones season 3 dvd have been eagerly awaiting casting news about Bryndon Tully, a.k.a. The same to the fans of bones dvd box set and two and a half men dvd box set.The Blackfish, and now, Clive Russell has been confirmed to play the much-anticipated character. The Blackfish is Catelyn Tully's famously valiant uncle, who was estranged from her father, Lord Hoster Tully, for years.
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“Seattle drivers are paying at the pump for excessive oil speculation, while federal regulators have blown off deadlines and failed to act,” Senator Cantwell said.“In last year’s Wall Street Reform law, we gave the financial cops the tools they need to rein in rampant oil speculation and protect consumers. Today, we’re demanding that they use those tools to help relieve the burden of gas prices on families and small businesses in Seattle and across the country.”
For more information: cantwell.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=332537
The opening reception for our "Tiffany Shin: Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings" featured a food-based performance entitled, "Perfect Fruit"–which mapped the degradation of biodiversity and homogenization of microbiota in our food systems.
Rodan speculates that I show my love for him by posing him with books....
This short experimental novel about the progression of a relationship is insightful and rich....
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The Eldorado, extending along the entire blockfront of Central Park West between 90th and 91st Streets, is the northernmost of the four twin-towered apartment houses that give Central Park West its distinctive skyline silhouette. The Eldorado was designed in 1929 by the architectural firm of Margon & Holder with the renowned early 20th-century New York City architect Emery Roth as consultant. These architects created one of the finest and most dramatically massed Art Deco style residential buildings in New York City.
The Eldorado is one of the most distinguished buildings erected as part of the early 20th-century redevelopment of Central Park West. Central Park West, a continuation of Eighth Avenue, runs along the western edge of Central Park. Development along this prime avenue occurred very slowly, lagging substantially behind the general development of the Upper West Side. When Frederick Law Olmsted laid out Central Park he saw that the presence of the park would raise the value of land immediately adjacent to it.
Olmsted expected these areas to develop as prime residential streets. Land speculation did indeed occur on Central Park West. However, the west side of the park never attracted the extremely wealthy people who could afford the inflated prices of land bordering on the park.
Thus, while the side streets of the Upper West Side were built up with rows of speculative houses, Central Park West remained largely undeveloped. A survey of Central Park West published in February 1893 shows that of the three blocks between 60th and 96th Streets nineteen were either totally vacant or contained old shanties and frame houses. Other blocks were partially vacant.
The earliest residential improvement on Central Park West, and one of its great architectural monuments, was the Dakota, a designated New York City Landmark, at 72nd Street. Built in 1880-84, this eight-story building established Central Park West's character as a street of multiple dwellings. In 1890, by which time the Dakota had been joined by two apartment hotels, the St. Remo on 75th Street and the Beresford on 81st Street, as well as several flat houses, real estate broker F.R. Houghton noted that:
Central Park West seems to have only one future— it is destined to become an avenue of grand apartment houses and hotels. Everything tends that way. It is too public a thoroughfare to become a private residential avenue.
However, it wasn't until several years later that Central Park West experienced the construction boom that Houghton had predicted.
The first concentrated building boom on Central Park West occurred at the turn of the century when a significant number of elegant residential and institutional buildings were erected south of 96th Street. These include some of the finest apartment houses in New York, such as the Prasada at 65th Street, the Langham at 73rd Street, the Kenilworth at 75th Street, and the St. Urban at 89th Street, as well as such institutional structures as the Ethical Culture Society School and Meeting House at 63rd and 64th Streets, Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at 65th Street, the Second Church of Christ, Scientist at 68th Street, the Congregation Shearith Israel Synagogue at 70th Street, the Universalist Church of the Divine Paternity at 76th Street, and the Progress Club at 88th Street.
The presence of these fine apartment buildings and institutions on Central Park West reflects the coming of age of the Upper West Side. The Upper West Side had developed in the final decades of the 19th century as an enclave of upper middle-class life. Affluent middle-class families were attracted to the area by the quality of its housing, the presence of Riverside Park and Central Park, and by the accessibility of the neighborhood.
As the Upper West Side became more and more desirable, developers began to build on the more expensive sites bordering the parks, and Central Park West began to be transformed into an elegant avenue of tall buildings that contrasted dramatically in scale to low rise residential Fifth Avenue.
During World War I construction on Central Park West slowed, but between 1920 and 1931 the area was transformed as the vacant sites were filled and many of the early apartment hotels and flats were replaced by new apartment houses. This final phase of Central Park West's development culminated in 1929-31 with the construction of the four twin-towered buildings that give Central Park West its characteristic skyline.
The distinctive form of the Century at 62nd-63rd Streets, the Majestic at 71st-72nd Streets, the San Remo at 74th-75th Streets and the Eldorado at 90th-91st Streets has come to symbolize the high quality of residential design on New York's Upper West Side.
The Eldorado Apartments is not the first building of that name at this location. The present building replaces the Eldorado flats which consisted of two eight-story structures designed in 1901 by Neville & Bagge, "which for more than a generation have been among the best of the fine houses on Central Park West."
In addition to the old Eldorado, the new apartment building replaced five row houses on West 90th Street and three tenements and a row house on West 91st Street. This site was assembled in 1929 and sold to realtor Frederick Brown who retained ownership for several weeks before transferring the property to the Elkay Building Corporation, Louis Kloak, president. The architects commissioned to design the new Eldorado were the firm of Margon & Holder.
Irving Margon and Adolph M. Holder are architects about whom little is known. One of the few buildings known to have been designed by Margon is an Art Deco apartment house at 2805 Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
Although Margon & Holder were the chief architects for the new building, they do not appear to have had the experience to design such a large structure. Emery Roth, one of the most talented residential architects in New York during the early decades of this century was hired as a consultant.
Among Roth's finest apartment buildings are three important Upper West Side structures designed just prior to the Eldorado—the Oliver Cromwell at 12 West 72nd Street, the San Remo at 145 Central Park West, and the Beresford at 211 Central Park West. It was undoubtedly Roth's experience with designing these large-scale residential buildings that prompted the builders of the Eldorado to hire him as a consultant. It is believed that Roth was responsible for the massing and plan of the building and that Margon & Holder designed the facade.
The form of the Eldorado, with its massive base and twin towers set at the Central Park West corners, closely resembles the massing of the San Remo on which Roth was working at the time he received the Eldorado commission. In addition, the apartment layouts of the two buildings are similar. The twin towered form of the San Remo and Eldorado resulted from the multiple dwelling law passed by the New York State Legislature in 1929.
This law mandated an increase in yard and court area, but allowed residential buildings to rise higher than before, legalizing setbacks and towers in this building type for the first time. The bill limited the height of street walls to times the width of the street, but, on plots of over 25,000 square feet, allowed towers that could rise up to three times the width of the street. The San Remo and Eldorado were the first two buildings on Central Park West to be affected by this new law.
The few drawings that Roth produced for the Eldorado have classical details, creating a design that resembles the style of the San Remo. They do not exhibit the Art Deco forms of the building as constructed. Art Deco style ornament appeared on apartment buildings as early as 1928 on Raymond Hood's 3 East 84th Street and on Horace Ginsberg and Marvin Fine's Park Plaza in the Bronx.
Margon & Holder were probably aware of the Art Deco forms in use on those apartment houses and they adapted these forms for their Central Park West building. Among the finest Art Deco motifs on the Eldorado is the tripartite Central Park West entrance. The three entrance portals take on the faceted crystalline form that Rosemarie Bletter has traced to German Expressionist architecture.
Above these bronze entrance surrounds are bronze panels with the clashing angular geometric forms and soft curving foliate forms that give the finest Art Deco ornamentation its special tension. The best known Art Deco features of the Eldorado are the futuristic rocket-like pinnacles which crown each tower.
Other notable Art Deco motifs include an angular frieze that runs above the third floor, stylized brick spandrel panels below many of the windows, and angular balconies with zigzag panels.
Unfortunately, construction of the Eldorado coincided with the stock market crash of 1929. The crash led to the collapse of the real estate market; cooperatives failed, rental apartments remained vacant, and foreclosure actions were brought against many buildings.
Financial and labor troubles delayed the completion of the Eldorado, but on November 26, 1930, it was announced that the building was to be completed.
Although the Eldorado was finished, it experienced rental problems and the owners finally defaulted on loan payments.
On November 5, 1931, the building was auctioned. In more recent years, the Eldorado has attracted many people of note, particularly people associated with the arts. Among the Eldorado's residents have been Milton Avery, Martin Balsam, Richard Dreyfuss, Faye Dunaway, Carrie Fisher, Tuesday Weld, Pinchas Zuckerman, Richard Estes, Sybil Burton, Phil Donahue, Mario Thomas, Edie Adams, Ernie Kovaks, Groucho Marx, Roddy McDowell, and Marilyn Monroe.
Description
The Eldorado is a symmetrical building set on a three-story yellow cast stone base and faced with tan brick trimmed with light brown brick and yellow terra-cotta above. The building extends along the entire Central Park West frontage between West 90th Street and West 91st Street, 200 feet along West 90th Street, and 194 feet along West 91st Street. In the center of the ground floor of the Central Park West frontage is the main entrance consisting of three faceted portals with bronze frames. Above each entrance are a pair of highly ornamental plaques embossed with Art Deco style geometric and floral forms. In the spandrels between the faceted entry arches and the plaques are panels with birds. Separating each pair of panels, as well as the windows above, are stepped piers with geometric incising. Above these piers are projecting skeletal cast stone motifs. A frieze of Art Deco chevrons and arches crowns the cast stone base of the building.
On the ground floor, to each side of the entrance are windows and metal doors with Art Deco grilles and handrails, all of which belong to professional apartments.
On Central Park West, the windows of the main bulk of the building are massed in a symmetrical pattern of 2-3-2-3-2-6-2-3-2-3-2 All of the windows were originally metal-paned casements with thin metal mullions. Each original window is divided into two movable casements of eight panes, each with a single transom of six panes. The small window panes add a sense of texture to the facade and prevent the window openings from becoming voids in the design.
The first and third window groups from either end project slightly, while the other groups are separated by projecting piers. The second and fifth groups from either end are framed with light brown brick that gives a vertical thrust to the facade. This vertical thrust is strengthened by the use of raised brick bands below the windows and by the addition of tan brick piers between the windows of the second group from each corner.
The patterned brickwork, also appears in the central two bays at the thirteenth and fourteenth floors . Projecting from the two central thirteenth floor windows are three-sided stone balconies each supported by a single corbeled bracket and ornamented with a vertical chevron panel.
The five central window groups step back above the fourteenth and sixteenth floors to form balconies, while the three end groups on either side rise up two additional floors before setting back at the sixteenth floor and again at the seventeenth floor. All of the balconies have Art Deco railings. Patterned brickwork and pairs of terra-cotta balconies also appear on the fifteenth and sixteenth floors of the end sections and on the sixteenth floor of the central section.
The brown brick bays are ornamented at their summits by terra-cotta panels adorned with chevron, diaper, and other geometric patterns.
The towers rise free of the base for twelve stories. Each tower is six bays wide on Central Park West and faced with tan brick highlighted by brown brick panels at the four central windows. Terra-cotta balconies appear at the twenty-sixth floor and terra-cotta panels at the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth floors.
The side elevations have similar detailing. There are corner penthouses at the twenty-ninth floor, as each tower steps back to the crowning pinnacle with its fin-like projections. It is these stepped pinnacles that give the Eldorado its distinctive silhouette and make the building immediately identifiable from as far away as Fifth Avenue.
On the side streets the Eldorado is seventeen stories tall with the three-story cast stone base continuing for the first seven bays before it drops down to a one-story base. Only near the Central Park West corners are there window bays articulated with the vertical brown brick bays used on the front elevation.
The side facades have penthouses with railings, the balconies and terra-cotta ornament described on the front, as well as professional office doors and secondary residential entrances with Art Deco carvings To the rear of the building are cast stone arches with Art Deco metal gates .
Alterations to the original design are limited to the replacement of some of the original multi-paned windows with plate glass windows. The most serious alteration has occurred on the eighteenth floor of the south tower where brickwork has been removed for the enlargement of several windows.
The Eldorado's futuristic crowning pinnacles, visible from up and down Central Park West and from as far east as Fifth Avenue, are true architectural landmarks. The Eldorado is the northernmost of the four twin-towered buildings that identify Central Park West as one of New York City's great residential boulevards and the building stands as one of the most important Art Deco apartment buildings in the city.
- From the 1985 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
On the day of a key European parliamentary vote on food speculation, campaigners from Campact, Friends of the Earth Europe, SOS-Faim and the World Development Movement lay out 925 pots and pans outside the European parliament. 925 represents the number of people hungry in the world today. Campaigners also present a petition with 100k signatories to key Euro MPs.
Let the speculation begin!
I hope to have the build up sometime tomorrow, perhaps on Monday. Still editing photos and busy with other stuff.
This is just a teaser to whet your appetite, the final build is 64x80 studs.
Sir Valiant~
By transforming the gallery space into an immersive DIY indoor garden and micro-brewery. Shin will home-brew lactic acid and use it to facilitate plant growth and seed germination, a tradition used in a Korean natural farming called JADAM. Part of Shin's Session project, "Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings"
Activists from Manchester (South) and Macclesfield WDM groups lobbied Chris Davies (LD MEP for the NW of England) on Friday 27th. April 2012 at his surgery over their concerns about food speculation and the pressures brought by financial elites such as Barclays Capital and hedge funds who trade in contracts with no interest in the production of food or its processing and delivery to consumers. In particular we were anxious to encourage him to follow the lead given by farmers in Scotland and several business leaders who are calling for the EU to follow the US lead in bringing in effective regulation of markets, increasing transparency of dealings by demanding it occurs in exchanges (analogous to the Stock Exchange), that clear and predictable limits are put on the amount that traders or groups of traders can hold (rather than the ineffective regime of "position management" currently allowing irresponsible anarchy that only favours the financial elite), and mandatory, open and clear reporting on positions held by traders.
Activists from Manchester (South) and Macclesfield WDM groups lobbied Chris Davies (LD MEP for the NW of England) on Friday 27th. April 2012 at his surgery over their concerns about food speculation and the pressures brought by financial elites such as Barclays Capital and hedge funds who trade in contracts with no interest in the production of food or its processing and delivery to consumers. In particular we were anxious to encourage him to follow the lead given by farmers in Scotland and several business leaders who are calling for the EU to follow the US lead in bringing in effective regulation of markets, increasing transparency of dealings by demanding it occurs in exchanges (analogous to the Stock Exchange), that clear and predictable limits are put on the amount that traders or groups of traders can hold (rather than the ineffective regime of "position management" currently allowing irresponsible anarchy that only favours the financial elite), and mandatory, open and clear reporting on positions held by traders.
The media is rife with speculation over whether Gen. Kayani will remain loyal to President Musharraf. We clear the air of all the speculation and elucidate things for our readers here: Musharraf and Kayani: Pakistan's Top Tag Team?
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Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) aka Kitty Norton; School Teacher in Jersey City, New Jersey who Died under Mysterious Circumstances (b. June 30, 1894, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA - d. November 10, 1942, 4:20 pm, Hudson County Hospital, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA)
Birth:
Katherine was born on June 30, 1894 to Patrick J. Norton (1858-1905) and Sarah Jane Carr (1866-1950). She was one of five children, out of which only three lived to adulthood.
Siblings:
Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) who married Mary Margaret Burke (1890-1949) aka May Burke, and after her death he married her half-sister, Josephine Burke; James Joseph Norton I (1892-1961) who married Helen Marie Maher (1895-1974) aka Eeenie Maher; Sarah Francis Norton (1896) who died as an infant of acute pachymeningitis; and Mary Norton (1898) who died as an infant of acute meningitis.
Jersey City, New Jersey:
In the year 1900 she was living at 101 Bright Street in Jersey City and by 1910 the family had moved to 31 Germania Avenue. During World War I the name of Germania Avenue was changed to Liberty Avenue.
Marriage:
On July 28, 1930 she married James Patrick Langan I (1889-1975). James was an Army sergeant during World War I and a newspaper pressman after the war.
Children:
They had three children: James Patrick Langan II (1931- ), John Bernard Langan I (1934- ) and Kathryn Anne Langan (1937- ).
Teacher:
Katherine was put through teacher's college by her bother, Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968). He became the man of the house at age 14 when his father died. Tom went to work for the railroad and became the source of income for the household. Katherine became a school teacher in the Jersey City public school system, as were her two sister-in-laws, Helen Marie Maher (1895-1974) aka Eenie Maher, and Mary Margaret Burke (1890-1949) aka May Burke.
Roman Catholic:
She was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America (CDA) and the Holy Rosary Society. Her mother forbade her from attending the wedding of her nephew, Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920- ) on October 03, 1942 because Tom was marrying a Protestant, but, she watched the wedding from outside the church. She wrote Tom a letter telling him she saw the ceremony from outside the church.
Death:
She died just five weeks later, on November 10, 1942. Her death is a bit of a mystery, Thomas Patrick Norton II (1920- ), her nephew, says that she died while they were trying to clear her sinuses with a hot needle. Ann Elizabeth O'Malley (1933- ) remembers talk in the family that she had become very depressed.
Psychological Exhaustion:
Her death certificate says that she died from "psychological exhaustion". Unless her medical records are recovered, the circumstances of her death will remain a mystery.
Speculation:
It appears that she was hospitalized for her depression and that she died at the hospital. It is possible that they performed an operation to relieve her depression and she died during the operation.
Burial:
She was buried at Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City.
Relationship:
Katherine Mary Norton (1894-1942) was a grandaunt of Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ). She was the godmother of Thomas Patrick Norton (1920- ).
"Hannah Courtoy (1784 - 26 January 1849), born Hannah Peters, was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant John Courtoy in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's Brompton Cemetery has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by Reuters in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine.
"Hannah Courtoy was born Hannah Peters in 1784. She never married but had three daughters, Mary Ann (1801), Elizabeth (1804-1876), and Susannah (1807-1895). In 1830, Susannah married Septimus Holmes Godson, a barrister of Gray's Inn.
"In 1815, Courtoy inherited a fortune from the elderly merchant John Courtoy (born Nicholas Jacquinet in France, 1709) through a Will that was disputed in court.
"Courtoy's distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum of 1854[9] in Brompton Cemetery, where her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Mary Ann are also interred, has been the subject of considerable curiosity ever since a report by Reuters in 1998[10] reported on rumours that it might be or contain a working time machine, a speculation that has been fuelled by various articles written by the musician Stephen Coates of the band The Real Tuesday Weld."
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More on the story of Hannah Courtoy's mausoleum
Independent article on the time machine theory
"Brompton Cemetery is a London cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is managed by The Royal Parks, and is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Established by Act of Parliament and erected in 1839, it opened in 1840 and was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery.
"Consecrated by Charles James Blomfield, the Bishop of London in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. Some 35,000 monuments, from simple headstones to substantial mausolea, mark the resting place of more than 205,000 burials. The site includes large plots for family mausolea, and common graves where coffins are piled deep into the earth, as well as a small columbarium. There is also a secluded Garden of Remembrance at the northern end, for cremated remains. It is also an urban haven for nature.
"By the early years of the 19th century, inner city burial grounds, mostly churchyards, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. In 1837 a decision was made to lay out a new burial ground in Brompton, London. The moving spirit behind the project was the engineer, Stephen Geary, and it was necessary to form a company in order to get parliamentary permission to raise capital for the purpose. Securing the land – some 40 acres – from local landowner, Lord Kensington and the Equitable Gas Light Company, as well as raising the money proved an extended challenge. The cemetery became one of seven large, new cemeteries founded by private companies in the mid-19th century (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') forming a ring around the edge of London."
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Situated on Speculation Place, Washington, THE FORESTERS ARMS had the builders in when pictured on January 3rd 2011. Sadly, a visit during August 2011 found it called LAST ORDERS, and with all the blandness (and lack of real ale) that that chain seems to pride itself in.
Pure speculation, of course... but what a match it would be and what gorgeous cubs they would have! Stay tuned... :)
This is Kletchka, the shy male amur (siberian) tiger who now lives in Danya's old enclosure.
After weeks of media speculation, Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover finally made their wedding official some time ago, reports Times of India. The couple will be tying the knot on Saturday, April 30. Before the arrival of their big day, Bips and Karan have been sharing some adorable...
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After a week of much speculation about the traction for the Lowestoft Airshow specials of 2012, especially in light of the fact that two sets of stock were in use, the Saturday morning provided final confirmation that 37419 and 37425, newly overhauled and added to the DRS fleet, were to visit the seaside. The event provided the first Class 37-hauled service train to Lowestoft for some 18 years. 37419 trails 1G92 0928 Norwich to Lowestoft at Haddiscoe.
Ludhiana , 26 February 2014 -
National BJP leader Advocate, Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal said that in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections 2014 the season is on for political speculations. Talking in a press conference here today, he said that all knows of Delhi are continuing to evolve their views not based on any field reality but based on either their own assessments or what the pollsters keep indicating. He said till September 13, 2013 when the BJP announced Narendra Modi name for Prime Minister candidate-ship, the speculation was to will the Party be able to project one person Additionally, there was an argument that the issues of governance and anti-incumbency against the government will take a back seat and the elections will get polarized. The size of Modi?s rallies is unquestionably the largest I have seen in the past 25 years. Never since 1989 have we seen such enthusiasm in the Party rank and file; the only exceptions were the two elections of 1998 and 1999 when Shri Atal Bihari vajpaee was considered the most acceptable Prime Ministerial candidate in the political horizon of India. The BJP would have a high strike rate in States in the Northern, Central and Western parts of India. In states like Bihar and Karnataka located in the East and South, it would reconsolidate its gains. In some other States the BJP would be a balancer. Amongst various players in the traditionally Non-BJP states, the Modi BJP momentum could benefit any ally, even without an ally the party could pick up some stray seats. The aspirants for Government formation are many. The obvious front-runner is the BJP-led NDA. If the Congress is reduced to a double digit figure, it would be a clear loser. It cannot be the nucleus of an alliance. He said the "third Front" and the Federal front have too many claimants. There is hardly a large single claimant with presence in more than one state. Obviously, the front-runner's ability to first pass the post is significant. He said that the question now being posted is to How will the BJP led NDA cover the last mile, this is a time for theoretical calculations. He said that the "political pundits" will espouse on them. If one gets a feel of the ground reality it will become clear that these large crowds at Narendra Modi rallies are bringing a clear message, the front- runners score eventually will even be higher than what the pollsters are capturing. It is for smaller groups in several states to decide which way they want to move. There are smaller groups in several states which can marginally add to the collective vote of the BJP and allies partners.