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The Central Delta Depot & Museum in Brinkley, Arkansas, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Central Delta Depot & Museum was built as the Brinkley Union Train Depot in 1912. The depot hosted Rock Island and Cotton Belt passenger trains. Nearly 500 passengers a day passed through Brinkley at the height of rail travel between WWI and WWII.
As the 50's became the 60's those numbers declined. Cotton Belt passenger service ended at Brinkley in 1959. The Rock Island held on until 1967.
A letter writing campaign was started in 1999 to save the depot. Union Pacific, who now owned the depot, and area politicians were petitioned to save the depot and use it as a museum.
In February 2001 Union Pacific deeded the property to the city of Brinkley. The city in turned gave a long-term lease to the Central Delta Historical Society for their museum.
Ground breaking began in May 2001 and by May 2003 the depot was restored and opened as the Central Delta Depot & Museum.
The Elingamite set out from Sydney for Auckland on 5 November 1902, with a crew of 58, carrying 136 passengers and 1,000 tons of cargo. On the 9th she was moving slowly in a thick fog and foundered on the Three Kings. Passengers and crew took to lifeboats. Most were rescued, but 45 lives were lost.
The telegram from the Auckland Collector of Customs announced “Sad news just received that the “Elingamite” is a total wreck on the Three Kings”
Another telegram (transcribed) lists the ships involved in the search for survivors, which included the Greyhound, the Clansman, the Countess of Ranfurly, HMS Penguin the Sterling and the Omapere. The Zealandia, which had also sailed from Sydney, picked up 70 survivors.
The images are taken from Customs records held at Archives New Zealand Auckland Regional Office [Archives reference: BBAO 5544/212/1902/993]
The Wellington Office of Archives New Zealand holds additional files on the wreck of the elingamite, including files on the attempted salvage of the wreck. These files can be searched for using our online finding aid Archway archway.archives.govt.nz/
For further enquiries please email Research.Archives@dia.govt.nz
Material from Archives New Zealand
I'd written this on my whiteboard late one afternoon, just before I left work; I took a photo of it, in the idea of perhaps creating a series of whiteboard quotes/scribbles/daily meanderings with dry erase markers. The next morning, just as I was settling in to the workday, a group of suits from HR walked past my cube. A few minutes later, our department's admin came and whispered to me, "What do you have on your whiteboard?"
"Oh," I looked at what I'd written. "A quote from Patti Smith."
"Well, you better erase it; those people from HR saw it and were commenting on it; a couple of them were offended, but they thot maybe someone had played a joke on you by writing that."
I sighed. The opening lines of Smith's "Babelouge" are certainly not a joke. But I erased it. I still need this job.
Its a very very rare sight!
Found on this crummy video... news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7409475.stm
Oh and kids - heres some do's and don'ts for graffiti. Always listen to the BBC!
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File name: 10_03_001464b
Binder label: Sewing Machines
Title: Ah! For a New Home. She shall have one. (back)
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 12 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Adults; Beaches; Sewing machines
Notes: Title from item. Retailer: C. P. Bell, 99 Main St., Nashua, N. H.
Statement of responsibility: New Home Sewing Machine Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
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On October 30, 2013, I found a small cardboard box amid a stack of larger boxes that put into storage in the basement of my mother’s home in Pretoria, South Africa, about three decades ago. When I pack stuff away, I usually record what's in the box by writing an inventory list on the outside. This one had nothing written on it, so I decided to take it upstairs to investigate. Back in my former bedroom, I opened the box up and found it to contain all manner of military ephemera from my two years compulsory national service in the South African Defence Force (July 1979 - July 1981). A menacing little time capsule from the worst years of my life.
The label from a bottle of Kronenbräu 1308 beer and a ball of nylon pantyhose used to buff boots after polishing and "boning".
Can you sing me the sweetest lovin' lullaby...
Fly me over the moon
With your love so high...
If it's not our day
Will you Give it another try...
Would you Listen for a symphony
In my softest sigh...
Tint my stained glass wings
I'm your pretty Butterfly
Let It Rock MAGAZINE- May 1974 - Bryan Ferry
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Rock_(magazine)
Laing, Dave (October 2010). ""The World’s Best Rock Read": Let It Rock 1972-1975". Popular Music and Society.
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www.rocksbackpages.com/media.html?PublicationID=LIR
Let It Rock was a monthly British music magazine which featured lengthy critical articles, record reviews and features covering a wide spectrum of popular music, including soul, reggae, and blues. Between October 1972 and December 1975, 35 issues of the magazine were published in London. Dave Laing was the founding editor of the magazine, and John Pidgeon took over as editor in October 1973. The reviews editor was Simon Frith, and Charlie Gillett was consultant editor. Music writers David Hepworth and Barney Hoskyns have called Let It Rock influential, and suggested that it was the precursor of such music publications as Q magazine and Mojo.
influential British music publication of the 1970s. …the origins of the magazine in the nascent rock criticism of the era and … its ethos in terms of historical perspective, transatlantic links and the dichotomy between pop and rock. The content of Let It Rock was broad, including soul, jazz, country, and folk. Many of its writers were new to music journalism and several went on to careers in rock writing or the music industry. As reflected in the letters pages, the readership also included some future music writers. Finally, the article discusses the legacy of Let It Rock as an inspiration for music publications of the 1980s and 1990s.
Contributing writers included John Peel, Lester Bangs, Michael Gray, Mick Gold, David Downing, Phil Hardy, and the soul music column was written by Pete Wingfield. The magazine struggled to achieve consistent sales of 20,000 and closed down due to market forces.
Thirty-five issues of the magazine were published between October 1972 and December 1975
Some articles in this ish:
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Richard and Linda Thompson: British Hokey Pokey
Profile and Interview by Dave Laing, Let It Rock, May 1974
ALTHOUGH the mid sixties was a golden era for British rock, very few of the best artists from that time have survived as significant parts of ...
How the other half lives: The Best of Girl Group Rock
Guide by Greil Marcus, Let It Rock, May 1974
GIRL GROUP ROCK flourished between 1958 and 1965, and though, with the passing of the Brill Building and the coming of the sophistication of the soul ...
Lou Reed: Rock N Roll Animal
Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, May 1974
AND IT CAME TO PASS in the 1970's that rock culture began to doubt whether it existed at all, and every time that two or three ...
Roxy Music’s Picture Palace
Profile and Interview by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, May 1974
ROXY MUSIC ARE Paul Thompson, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Bryan Ferry and Eddie Jobson, but the first thing you’ve got to understand is that Roxy Music ...
Leiber And Stoller Part One: The Blues (1950-1953)
Retrospective by Bill Millar, Let It Rock, May 1974
JERRY LEIBER AND MIKE STOLLER. They rank alongside Berry as rock ‘n’ roll’s wittiest composers and their influence as record producers has been immeasurable. ...
the writing is on the wall for this bar/venue which seems to have made itself unpopular with it's neighbours.
One of a photo collection taken at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Ariznoa. They have an amazing collection, and a friendly and knowledgeable staff. We had a great day there with the whole family. The kids love it… and so do the grown-ups. I had not been since I was a child… anyway. I hope you enjoy the image.
I'm busy writing a research proposal for an MA thesis. Or, rather, I'm busy taking pictures of my desk when I should be writing my research proposal.
I'm taking part in a workshop called "Justice Has A Face". It's almost over and I've jus now decorated the front of the journal! I decided to go for the simple doodle with a pen. :) I used a leftover journal from my run with scissors class. ;)
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CDV, around
Photographer: Uher Ödön,cs. és kir. udvari fényképész (Royal photographer)
Budapest
IV. Kossuth Lajos utca 7.
In addition to the replacement of vellum by paper for production of Qur’an manuscripts during the tenth and eleventh centuries, different types of Arabic calligraphy styles were introduced. Some of the new scripts included naskh, thuluth, and muhaqqaq, which began the replace the angular Kufic script used in the writing of early Qur’an manuscripts. Naskh is simple, supple without any particular emphasis, and highly readable, while Tuluth is wider, more elaborate, and uses elongated verticals. Thuluth was used by Mamluks during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and later was refined by Ottoman calligraphers in Turkey. Another script that was highly prized was known as muhaqqaq, which is characterized by its large size, elongated letter endings, and flattened curves that highlight the text.
Miscellany of medical recipes, culinary recipes, and other ephemera, mostly in Italian (Bolognese dialect), some in Latin. Incomplete composite manuscript, compiled for personal use. Variety of scribal hands. One dated folio (32v): "3 Dbre 1614 in bolog(n)oa." Some lively pen trials and doodles (50-51).
*yesterdays photo*
sorry, again....i've been a bit out of taking photos recently: but thats going to change!
last week it was summer...its now completly autumnal. LOVELY :)
Ancient Midas City....The site of Midas City or Midas Şehri, in Turkish, is known for its abundance of rock-cut tombs and monuments that date from the period of the Phrygians. Midas City is located some ninety kilometers to the southeast of Eskişehir, in the vicinity of the town of Çifteler.
HISTORY OF MIDAS CITY
The site is known to have flourished in earlier times from the remains of ceramics that date to prehistoric man, but it prospered and flourished during the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., when the Phrygians were occupying the area, it is thought that the Phrygian settlement was left in ruins toward the end of the 7th century, around the time of the Persion invasions. The Phrygians rebuilt the town sometime during the beginning of the 6th century. This second city lived on until the period of the Romans in the 3rd century A.D., when it was abandoned. One of the rock-cut tombs, of which there are many at the site, was mistakenly thought to be the tomb of King Midas.
RUINS OF MIDAS CITY
The ancient city was composed of two towns, a lower one which stretched into the surrounding countryside and an upper town, the acropolis. The acropolis was a large affair measuring soma two hundred by six hundred meters. Around the upper town was a wall that was dotted with towers, but only the foundations remain today. Water for the acropolis was apparently taken from the large grotto that lies to the east of this area. Stairs and underground passages lead down to the source of a spring. In this corner at the bottom of the acropolis is a hollowed-out basin equipped with a stairway that must have served the lower town for water. The monument long thought to be the tamb of Midas is found to the northwest of the acropolis. The building carries several Phrygian inscriptions of which one refers to the mythical mother of King Midas, the Anatolian fertility goddess Cybele. A decorative door was carved into the monument at the level of the ground. This^rock-cut monument was likely used In the Phrygian religious cult. It dates to the 6th century B.C. A statue of Cybele is thought to liave been installed in the niche of the monument. The large affair was mistakenly Identified as the tomb of Midas because of the word Midai that is carved in the inscription at the upper left of the monument. This refers to the fertility goddess Cybele. All of the Phrygian monuments and remains at Midas City are from the 6th century B.C. Among some of the others to be seen at the site are various tombs and inscriptions, an aitar, a throne cut out of the rock, a fountain and two sepulchral chambers. Also found here are several reliefs that date from the 8th century B.C., from the Neo-Hittite period. The rock-cut throne is located on top of the acropolis; a statue of the fertility goddess was placed on the throne during religious ceremonies, it measures nearly four meters long and has an inscription in the Phrygian language. Two exceptional rock-cut tombs along the same lines as the Midas Monument are the Küçük Yazılıkaya and the Maltaş. Another, called the Kink Arsiantaş or Broken Lion Monument, shows a Phrygian warrior in full battle attire slaying the mythical Gorgon monster. No longer seen is another warrior engaged in a similar pursuit on the left side of the monument. This part has since collapsed. A cast of the missing section can be seen at the archaeological museum in Ankara. It lies face-down at the foot of the monument in Midas City, It is thought that this monument dates to 540-530 B.C., from the dress of the warriors. The lion is on the lateral side