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A similar Epson HX-20 notebook or laptop computer, said to be "firsts" made by Epson, though with a micro cassette tape drive in the upper right side to store BASIC programs and data, printed out on paper on the left, was used as data recorder for the Lietz Elta 38 (Zeiss?) infrared transit on different archaeology sites, the first one, the winter excavation of the so-called "Augustine Heerman Warehouse" site in lower Manhattan, off of Whitehall St. The infrared transit measures the time a bounced LED emitted infra-red light takes to return into the telescope of the transit from a reflecting prism, which as a single prism will work to 1000 meters (then now 4000 m See Forestry Supplies, Inc.) and in an array, much further. "Corner Cube Prisms are designed to reflect any ray or beam entering the prism face, regardless of the orientation of the prism, back onto itself." - Edmund Optics. A similar setup is used to track the variable Earth to Moon distance, a laser though and astronomical telescope. That prism array was left on the Moon by Apollo astronauts. Another similar set were carried to the top of Mt. McKinley (or Denali) by Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts a number of years ago to determine the mountain's height. A similar science was used to situate a new rail curve from the top of the former World Trade Center a number of years ago, complicated conditions, necessitated it. Another similar system, wearing a gyro stabilized "hat" of reflecting prisms is suggested for rescuing downed flyers in the water, as a plane flying overhead with scanners could pin-point the hat wearer quickly, a plane flying over, would scan a much larger area than other methods currently used. The oldest lens in the world was found in the "Arab" world, which advanced the science of math and optics during the European "dark ages" and why many stars and constellations have "Arab" names. Currently, more sensitive and cheaper models can measure up to 100 meters without a prism, or using a reflective tape marker.

How many keys were there?

The Blog | James Pinkerton: Grave Wisdom from a Grave Oxford Don | The Huffington Post Not familiar with the source, it seems the chess game is on the table. However, former President Clinton used to speak of a new covenant when he was elected, somewhat more assuring, and President Carter used the prophet Micah in his. President Bush sounds like he's just heard the key to the Bastille, the famous almost empty prison liberated in the French Revolution (after Jefferson and Franklin just about bankrupted the monarchy with out "problems" thankfully) which President George Washington was given, had been found after being stolen in Australia. I find some undercurrent in his speeches to Australia's history and fear we, the most imprisoned people on the planet are about to be put in more while the rich get richer, etc., etc., and so forth. Original key to the Bastille stolen from Sydney wax museum The Marquis de LaFayette And Two Keys To The Bastille

John Walker, founder of Autodesk upgrades Earth Screen Saver for Windows

Earth Screen Saver for Windows

Black Tom: The first U.S. terror attack?

Black Tom Island exploded on July 30, 1916 when 2000 tons of explosives blew up, where they had been stored on the way to Europe for World War One. The link is to today's AP story about it, 90 years later. Here's a link to the Wikipedia map of it's location. Here's the Google Earth forum link to it on a map.

In the same period, there was a fire in the chemical processing plant in Solvay, NY next to Syracuse, NY. It's said much of the dynamite used in World War One was made there. The water system failed and the fire continued. It fortunately did not jump Canada Creek, where the small "barrels" of dynamite were stored. If it had, it has been argued, it would have flattened Syracuse, some say, contested by Albert Einstein, with the force of a small atomic bomb. Solvay is an important industrial process invented by a "Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922). An industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide". "A sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper" replacing tallow for soap for example, for washing. I thought I saw him listed somewhere as a French sociologist (in English).

Around the time of the explosion of the 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland I went to evaluate the site for archaeological potential with Will Roberts the "Principal Investigator, P.I." archaeologist (on a "Register of Professional Archaeologists" formerly a "Society of Professional Archaeologists" like the one for journalists, SOPJ) at Greenhouse Consultants on 40 Exchange Place (the building is featured in the recent film "Werewolves of Wall Street" with Eric Roberts, Julia Roberts' brother, the landlady in the film, is Louise Lasser once Woody Allen's wife and star of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"). NY State DOT (Dept. of Transportation) ran a signs factory there. We met a Vietnam Vet who was trying to get some attention for the historic significance of it. It was an important funicular system, cables carried buckets between large towers, looking like modern electric power lines, from the mine site over a mile away to the processing plant, an important industrial site. I think it was recorded by HABS/HAER, "The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consists of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports." Wikipedia

The Black Tom Island Story by James Ottavio Castagnera (added 9/1/06)

West Nile found again on LI

"The public is encouraged to report dead or dying birds to the state hotline at 866-537-2473 or Suffolk County Department of Health at 631-853-8405. " West Nile found again on LI NEWSDAY article I once called in to the NYC Health Dept., after a WNBC newscast asked if people who had seen birds dead or dying would call. I also, before 311, tried to notify the NYC administration when a dead red tail hawk (large) was seen by me and a passenger on the Bronx River Parkway, in the fast lane. The call was long and torturous as then the City had a weird switchboard to follow to get to speak to anyone about it. The crows were in the "Old Soldier Cemetery" where people are not permitted then being re-fenced near the Bronx Zoo (a block or two from it on 180th St.), near the Bronx River, and the hawk was on the Bronx River Parkway between the Zoo and the Botanical Gardens back in 1999. Quoth the "raven" "Nevermore!" A TV news reporter gave me his cell phone number after that and told me to call him, recounting the story. There's an interesting story online I've used from China's school children. In their science class they cut plastic soda bottles near the shoulder, pour in some brown sugar mixed with water, add a little yeast, invert the bottle top into the vessel, tape it secure, cover with dark plastic and put in a dark corner. Mosquitoes and bugs are attracted to the CO2 and get in and don't get out! Traps a lot of insects.

Humans Emerge as a Primary Vector for West Nile Virus

GeoPlace.com - Top News Stories

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 During a keynote speech at the GeoTec Event, Canadian researcher Tom Koch examined the role of mapping for analysis and suggested that humans are the primary vector for the spread of West Nile Virus. The author of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping and Medicine currently is using mapping to critique theories of West Nile Virus and understand its ecology.

(Maybe a similar mechanism in the spread of Lyme disease from sheep on Nantucket Island after the wood was cleared off.)

New Jersey's Revolutionary War sites

Monday July 24, 2006 By DONNA DE LA CRUZ Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The House on Monday passed a bill designating New Jersey's Revolutionary War sites a National Heritage Area. The Senate approved the bill last year and it now awaits President Bush's signature. ... More Revolutionary War battles nearly 300 were engaged in New Jersey than in any other state, Frelinghuysen said. The Heritage Area, a unit of the National Park Service, will be based at Morristown National Historical Park and in Trenton.

Live from the UK an archaeology site in progress

http://www.chester.gov.uk/amphitheatre/webcam.htm

Archaeology and technology

I've worked in contract archaeology for a number of years, incorporating new technology in beta and development as work progressed in the compliance of business to local state and federal laws in the United States. My experience has been in archaeology for almost 30 years. I worked for Envirosphere, a division of Ebasco, then in the World Trade Center, in NYC, 22 years ago on the archaeological clearance of Fort Drum, NY prior to the relocation of the US Army 10th Mountain Division from Camp Hale, Colorado. The former seasonal Army facility, outside Watertown, New York, has since became a year-round military base. I've worked with Zeiss-Leitz infrared transit attached to the world's first "laptop" computer (Epson HX-20 though the photo exhibit is missing the microcassete storage device that would replace the plastic panel on the right side of the screen, for storing BASIC programs, the paper "register" tape was the "permanent" record) which became ubiquitous in many companies new survey instruments using infrared transits now applied to traditional optical surveying (bought by Sokkia in 1978 formally un-PC "Sokkisha"). I've also worked with the data recording of remote sensing, i.e., magnetometer survey in the historic West Point Foundry Cove for EPA Superfund cleanup, as another example. I worked on NY/NJ EPA National Priority Superfund cleanup sites over ten years ago, as a cartographer, in part with the Rollei metric close-range photogrammetry system in development (tablet register a collection of documented photos of a place or object, software analyzes them for similarities, and allows measurement in 3-D on them, reconstructing a measurable, accurate, 3-Dimensional virtual reality) the field transit surveyor and computer-graphics report preparer for Joel W. Grossman, Ph.D., (Grossman and Associates). The work during 1989-1994 required HAZMAT certification and yearly refresher courses, taken at the Westchester County Fire Training Center, Dana Road, Valhalla, NY after certification at CUNY and a client's offices in NJ. I once held a supervisor's "Health and Safety" certificate. I worked with underwater archaeologists, remote sensing, and map compilations for the use of agencies at the Federal level for compliance then. The EPA has became very political and determined by "loopholes" (i.e., mortgage grantors were about to be held legally responsible for cleanups) rather than enforcement. More recently I have worked in fieldwork mostly, in southeastern Orange County, NY last year, on two large, 500 + acre, projects one near Harriman and Kiryas Joel, NY and the other, across the road from the west perimeter of West Point Military Academy, near Mineral Springs Road in Woodbury, NY. Ironically I could see Bull Hill the Harriman one where I had worked with Panamerican, testing after the tree upheaval after Hurricane Floyd on the US Military Academy property in 2001, also still apparent in the Woodbury survey, (treetops torn off in Harriman) though not as drastic. I also worked across the Hudson River in Putnam County in Cold Spring, NY for an EPA remediation evaluation in the border of the West Point Foundry National Register District. I've also helped document two Hudson River centerboard sloop wrecks at the shoreline of the Bear Mountain State Park, in Popolopen Creek, for the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. An article from the research, published by one of their employees, appeared in "Sea History: the Art, Literature, Adventure, Lore & Learning of the Sea" the quarterly magazine of the National Maritime Historical Society, based in Peekskill, NY which I have been a member of. I started using computers in archaeology with the IBM-XT 8088 desktop, and Compaq portable with stand alone Tallgrass hard drive and tape backup. Initial uses of computers also created a hobby for me having a souped up IBM PCjr and currently a VIA Nehemiah cpu (1 Ghz) in a "Pentium III" for internet use and a 19" Hanns-G LCD so I could also do some limited CAD work, having experience in AutoCad since it started, used in a tree survey for the botanist of Wave Hill, in the Bronx, NY way back in desktop computer history in 1984 or so.

Interesting British blogs podcasts I've listened to...

Brain Damage The definitive Pink Floyd radio show BZoO HomeGrown Radio's SandBox ~ Where Political Pundits, Indie Music & Spoken Word Poetry Artist & Fans Play

Aerial WWII target practice?

About Long Island, "Cradle of Aviation"

Google Earth Community: Mock Aircraft Carrier

There's also 60' x 60' cross in the former practice circuit for WWII on Long Island. This might have gone with the mock destroyer and mock aircraft carrier outlined with white rocks in the pine barrens so far identified by Mitragorz. The USGS old topo map in NASA's World Wind shows the cleared flight "lane" well. (There's a small white cross in Camp Hero too though about 15' x 15' probably for aerial mapping out in Montauk, NY.)

West Point Foundry Cove

USGS digital orthophoto of the Marathon Battery/Foundry Cove after the clean-up. Cold Spring, NY. Constitution Island is at the bottom. The historic railroad bed around the cove is/was known as "Market St." apparently. From Dapple 1.0.4.0 Report on the "History of Metal Pollution in Foundry Cove".

USGS Seamless Data Distribution

EPA Superfund Cleanup of Marathon Battery Site and Foundry Cove, Cold Spring, NY. 

"The Swamp Angel" by Herman Melville

The Swamp Angel.[11] There is a coal-black Angel With a thick Afric lip, And he dwells (like the hunted and harried) In a swamp where the green frogs dip. But his face is against a City Which is over a bay of the sea, And he breathes with a breath that is blastment, And dooms by a far decree. By night there is fear in the City, Through the darkness a star soareth on; There's a scream that screams up to the zenith, Then the poise of a meteor lone— Lighting far the pale f right of the fac es, And downward the coming is seen; Then the rush, and the burst, and the havoc, And wails and shrieks between. It comes like the thief in the gloaming; It comes, and none may foretell The place of the coming—the glaring; They live in a sleepless spell That wizens, and withers, and whitens; It ages the young, and the bloom Of the maiden is ashes of roses— The Swamp Angel broods in his gloom. Swift is his messengers' going, But slowly he saps their halls, As if by delay deluding. They move from their crumbling walls Farther and farther away; But the Angel sends after and after, By night with the flame of his ray— By night with the voice of his screaming— Sends after them, stone by stone, And farther walls fall, farther portals, And weed follows weed through the Town. Is this the proud City? the scorner Which never would yield the ground? Which mocked at the coal-black Angel? The cup of despair goes round. Vainly she calls upon Michael (The white man's seraph was he), For Michael has fled from his tower To the Angel over the sea. Who weeps for the woeful City Let him weep for our guilty kind; Who joys at her wild despairing— Christ, the Forgiver, convert his mind. [11] The great Parrott gun, planted in the marshes of James Island, and employed in the prolonged, though at times intermitted bombardment of Charleston, was known among our soldiers as the Swamp Angel. St. Michael's, characterized by its venerable tower, was the historic and aristrocratic church of the town. In: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. By Herman Melville. NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square 1866. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by Harper & Brothers, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. The Battle-Pieces in this volume are dedicated to the memory of the THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND who in the war for the maintenance of the Union fell devotedly under the flag of their fathers.

Re: Abraham Lincoln Assassination

I'm not sure it might just be a cadet story. The picture I think a photo, maybe a re-enactment, didn't have the Parrott gun I recall. At the end 100 lb Parrott rifled cannon were put in place at Fort Sumter. The explosion of the "Swamp Angel" was investigated by the Franklin Institute I think as to why it did. I think the results were inconclusive. The Parrott Gun Platform found at Foundry Cove in Cold Spring, NY, under the concrete stanchions of the circa 1900 "Bridge Shop" was found with over 600 spent friction primers (mercury fulminate nasty stuff) and was on top (without any gun and two empty shells found nearby, where over 1 million had once been made its said with 30,000 caissons) of timber "grillage" as it was constructed perhaps at Morris Island. It had a short section of railroad left up to it probably associated with it. The platform was cut up to retain the pintle and went to the museum in Orange County New York, once a foundry too, where one of Parrott's brothers ran an operation, six brothers from New Hampshire in all. Google Earth Community: Reply to (Re: Abraham Lincoln Assassination) Herman Melville's poem "The Swamp Angel" commentary now only links to the Gutenberg Project in the book available on-line "Melville's Use of 'The Rebellion Record' In His Poetry," by Professor Emeritus Frank Day of Clemson University, digital press. The archaeology museum I once helped create at 17 State St. in NYC, run by the South Street Seaport, was created in response to the lot being trashed without appropriate procedures followed for cultural resources, i.e., Herman Melville, once a US Customs inspector, lived there, later famous for having written "Moby-Dick". It has since been closed and the artifacts moved to the State Museum in Albany, NY a fiscal decision by South Street Seaport. Famous Cannon and Mortars The Swamp Angel Swamp Angel Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). [The Swamp Angel?] [Morris Island (vicinity), South Carolina. The "Marsh Battery" or "Swamp Angel" after the explosion, August 22, 1863] The Swamp Angel, a unique gun emplacement delivered Charleston's first Civil War bombardment Swamp Yankee

Former Seward Estate, Montrose, NY

"In the mid-1800's, the original church land on Montrose Point became the home of Frederick W. Seward (1830-1915), son of William H. Seward (1801-1872), U.S. Secretary of State during the administration of Abraham Lincoln. The older Seward was the man instrumental in purchasing Alaska from Russia for $7 million, a purchase which was known as "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox." Frederick, the son. who was a journalist and diplomat, became politically prominent himself as Assistant Secretary of State under his father. In the spring of 1865, Frederick assumed the position of acting Secretary of State when his father was seriously injured in a carriage accident." "On the evening Lincoln was assassinated, one of the conspirators forced his way into the injured Seward's home in Washington, intent on killing him. Frederick confronted him in the hall and was seriously injured trying to prevent the slayer from reaching his father's bedside. The gun, broken on Frederick's skull, was unusable for the assassination, thus saving his father's life. Both Sewards survived the vicious attack, but it is said that Frederick lived out his life with a silver plate in his skull." "The handsome Seward Estate covered about 30 acres. A stately mansion with a beautiful Victorian garden and various outbuildings, it commanded a magnificent view of the Hudson River. The grounds of the estate were dotted by little ponds that had been made by excavating clay for the brickyards which flourished along the Hudson during that period." "Frederick married Anna M. Wharton of Albany on November 9, 1854. He died in Montrose on April 25, 1915, and was buried at Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York. Sometime after Frederick's death, the house which was occupied by Mrs. Seward alone, burned. A tangle of wisteria vines marks the spot where the house once stood. The property is currently owned by the Catholic Kolping Society. The gardener's house and other outbuildings are used to house vacationers seeking a peaceful country setting." Page 65 has a photo of the large open porch of arches Mr. Seward and five women, "Figure 24. Frederick W. Seward, President Abraham Lincoln's Assistant Secretary of State, with family on the porch of his Montrose Point home. (Courtesy of the Church of Divine Love, Montrose)" "History of the Town of Cortlandt" by the Bicentennial Committee, 1988, pps. 64-66. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-51063 ISBN 0-9621119-0-2 I reposted this, as the location was inside Georges Island State Park which was wrong and should be "next door" to the north according to a county "Riverwalk" map. The park had the second oldest shell midden in New York. Nearby also was the Kings Ferry road, where at the Kennedy House, Alexander Hamilton recovered from a grave illness while there for two weeks. It was also where in 1778, was held the "moving" trial of General Charles Lee, for "disobedience and disrespect" suspended for one year over the outcome of the "Battle of Monmouth" in New Jersey. The French troops, 6000 strong, arrived after marching from Rhode Island, and the combined forces crossed the Hudson River nearby with the Americans, and onto the defeat of General Cornwallis in Virginia, and winning the American Revolutionary War.

Re: Abraham Lincoln Assassination

It's reported in the history of Cold Spring, NY ("1845 Cold Spring NY" on the funeral train route traced in Google Earth) named for the spring near the Hudson River by George Washington, its said, that Abraham Lincoln had come to the West Point Foundry to witness the firing of the 200lb and 300lb Parrott rifled cannons, patented by R.P. Parrott in 1861, adding a twist to the "sabot" of a shell, and "banding" the barrel base for strength. I worked on the EPA Superfund National Priority cleanup of the cadmium in the Foundry Cove from the NIKE missile battery production at Marathon Battery factory. We discovered a very similar if not the R.P. Parrott gun platform seen in the old photographs of the "Swamp Angel" which bombarded Charleston, South Carolina in 1863, before exploding, about 6 miles from the downtown of that city, involved in the siege of Fort Sumter, later again pulverized at the end of the Civil War. There is some story about it being "a student firing at an artillery teacher" he recently placed in charge there. They had had many disagreements in class at the West Point Military Academy across the Hudson River from the foundry it's reported, the student part of the battery that fired the first shots in the American Civil War.

Google Earth Community: USA Presidential Assassinations

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Industrial Archaeology in Cold Spring, NY

West Point Foundry Research Notes from Field School in Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University Google Earth Community listing for link

Odd NYC Connection

Airline scraps online 'Hoffa' game A former United Parcel Service (UPS, headquarters across from the world-famous Guggenheim art museum in NYC) driver Ron Carey, was Teamster President, from my father's Local 804, many were the furniture delivery loaders and drivers for Macy's, A&S, and other stores in NYC and he was accused of some election wrongdoing when Mr. Hoffa's son ran successfully against him, though exonerated by the Federal investigation after the election. Mr. Hoffa's sister is also legally trained, she a judge I read. Mr. Hoffa writes at "Huffington Post" from time to time on labor issues, like the Sikorsky strike, the people who used to make the helicopter Presidents flew in, now to be replaced by a foreign consortium of companies. Go figure! Mr. Hoffa is a good president.Yahoo! News Message Boards Oddly Enough News

Low Water - "Strange New Element"
Interesting music video (with a sitar too! Wonder if she knows Nora Jones, Ravi Shankar's daughter?)

Hudson River dredging may be delayed again

July 18, 2006, 10:58 PM EDT FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) _ One of the nation's delayed Superfund cleanups may be in line for another impasse. The town of Fort Edward, 40 miles north of Albany, could vote as soon as Friday on a proposal to seize by eminent domain the land where General Electric plans to build a massive plant to process sediments scooped from the river.

Hudson River dredging may be delayed again - Newsday.com

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Where's T.V. Humphrey?

Industry Interview: Hybrid GPS and TV Positioning Technology Focuses on Public Safety: Rosum Corp., Mountain View, Calif., has been working diligently over the last six years to bring an assisted Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to market that harnesses the power of television signals to augment the GPS signal for indoor positioning. Matt Ball, GeoWorld editor, spoke with Todd Young, director of Rosum’s Product and Business Development, about the technology and its application.

Hybrid GPS and TV Positioning Technology Focuses on Public Safety

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Odessa

I read a new canal connects the Black Sea with the North Sea, in Germany, quite an engineering feat! I just wanted to say, years ago, after the North American Mt. St. Helens volcano exploded (we were taught in school there were no active volcanos) I bussed and flew to work in historical archaeology in Skagway, Alaska, near the once Russian "Paris of the East" Sitka, Alaska for the US National Park Service. There the 1898 Klondike "Gold Rush" (and Charlie Chaplin film, and others) started and the Russian cruise ship, "Odessa" gave free entertainment for the small town at lunch time with their balalaikas and other acts. A 1979 perestroika or glasnost? Later a boss was in Moscow, in the White House palace coup, he said he saw bodies and American troops, while visiting their archaeologists during the Gorbachev/Yeltsin transition. He went back again. Half-Life 2 has been like therapy.

Steam Users Forums - a proof of city 17`s location?

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Prose Models

wcbstv.com - Local Wire

"STONY BROOK, Long Island (AP) Stony Brook University has announced it will offer a bachelor's degree program in its newly created school of journalism beginning this fall."

John-John’s last case

BostonHerald.com - More Inside Track: Hub heat wave leads to Naked City

"Seven years ago yesterday, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. In honor of that sad anniversary, we offer this little-known tale about the late hunk di tutti hunks."

Sea Day

Digital World Tokyo Today in Japan is a national holiday called Umi no Hi, or "Sea Day" to its friends.

About Long Island Sound (NY/CT)

"FARMINGDALE, N.Y. Lobstermen have reached a settlement with the final chemical company targeted in legal action over the steep decline in the lobster population in Long Island Sound. Seventy-five percent of full-time lobstermen on Long Island Sound were driven out of business. Lobster catches in the Sound dropped to less than one (m) million pounds a year, compared with six (m) million pounds in the late 1990's. Money will be divided among several hundred commercial lobstermen. Lawsuits filed in 2000 targeted the makers of chemicals sprayed in and around the New York area in 1999 to combat an outbreak of the West Nile virus, which is spread by mosquitoes. Suits against two companies were settled in 2004." Link for names in title.

Another Google Earth placemarker

New York State Archaeology Collections of native Long Island prehistoric materials collected from plowed fields and elsewhere are stored in this facility. It is maintained from a stock portfolio donated by a benefactor(s). (opens the Google Earth Community listing for the placemark, not "Google Earth")

NY minute for Nicholas Cirillo, D.O. (doctor of osteopathy)

He gave me this broken guitar, an acoustic Turuna made by Tranquillo Giannini from Sao Paulo, Brazil in 9/65. I fixed it and play on it now and then. The few I bought in the East Village pawn shop didn't last very long (give a friend a Hohner tuner will ya'?)

Follow-up: Location map techy

 George,

Thank you for this feedback. The person who created these maps no longer works here so I cannot check his sources. It may take us a while to change this map because the images are not easy to manipulate. However, I have added your note to the bottom of the page.

If you are responding to this email please include both your original question and my answer with your response.

If there is anything else I can do for you please let me know.

Jim Gandy
Assistant Librarian / Archivist
NY State Military Museum
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Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518.581.5109
Fax: 518.581.5111
http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/mil-hist.htm

Follow up: In a barn in a barrel

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3 "In mid-May 2006, the U.S. Northeast experienced days of heavy rain. Several states declared a state of emergency as floods strained dams and forced people to evacuate. Near the New Hampshire town of Epsom, the flooding Suncook River abandoned its meandering course around Bear Island and carved a more direct course southwest, the most dramatic change in a New Hampshire river course in recorded history."

In a barn in a barrel

I just returned from Durgin Bridge in central New Hampshire, a covered bridge named after the man who ran a grist mill nearby and ran the "underground slave railroad" from Meredith to Conway, New Hampshire, according to the state marker there. The bridge "is 110 feet long and spans the Cold River. It was built in 1869 by Jacob Berry with Paddleford truss construction. This is the fourth bridge to be built over the swift and easily flooded Cold River and is high enough to escape a flood crest of ten feet. It was repaired and arches added in 1967." - DeLorme c) 1987 "The New Hampshire Atlas and Gazetteer" Eighth edition. There are some substantial stone foundations in the valley sides not far from Grover Cleveland's sons place on Cleveland Memorial Road near Tamworth, NH, where American poet Robert Frost, who spoke at President JFK's Washington D.C., inauguration said he spent some of his childhood. (Interestingly JFK spent some of his childhood in Riverdale in the Bronx county of NYC, before the stock market crash, his father was interested in investing in the movie business here in NY.) Actor Claude Rains lived nearby Sandwich, NH and once remarked that he had moved there to be "invisible" (he played "The Invisible Man" and many other roles on the stage and in film) and was surprised how true that was, as he was accepted into the community. (See originally "William Claude Rains") This would place that linkage in the foothills of the Federal White Mountains, not far from Sandwich Notch, the last unprotected "notch" in New Hampshire. Back in the 1940's I think (1930's?) a timber railroad ran nearby and on a very hot Fourth of July a spark from the locomotive set the whole Sandwich Range on fire and it was fought for weeks to put out making national headlines. The Sandwich Notch Road runs through the range from Sandwich, NH to the Mad River, near Waterville, in part in the Federal forest. There's a complete set of "flow blue" transfer printed ceramic ware in the Sandwich Historical Society, once a wedding gift, thought better off in the barn in a barrel.

Gmail - florida law on history

geoff carver	Sun, Jul 2, 2006 at 3:01 PM
Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY To: HISTARCH@asu.edu
just an editorial, and possibly slightly off-topic (apologies!), but i was wondering what impact this law might have on archaeology, specifically historical archaeology in florida the separation of facts from interpretation/theory sounds familiar, at any rate http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/opinion/02norton.html

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George Myers	Mon, Jul 3, 2006 at 12:04 AM
To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
"Take an example from my own experience. Several years ago I was delighted to uncover proof in the British Public Record Office that an accused male "witch" in 1692 Salem, Mass., had been trading with enemy French and Indians, just as a young accuser had charged. That document confirmed my developing conviction that the Salem witch trials were linked to New England's hostile relationships with the French and Indians. But to many other scholars who previously had encountered that document, it meant no such thing." Interesting, I once met the youngest woman dean of a college in the United States, of Hobart - William Smith College, and her thesis was on the markets of Salem, that is if I recall, set prices were not being obeyed, and practically given away based on need, that lead to the trials she researched, this is an interesting additional "construction" based on "facts". Beats the rye grain ergot poisoning model, though maybe its part of the proscription. It seems odd to legislate history, though arguably curriculum is sort of, though one might argue the school book printers, mostly in Texas, have the upper hand, except where the books haven't been upgraded since President Nixon. I worked on the archaeology of an EPA site, it contained a former school book warehouse, that had been contaminated by cadmium and nickel and wondered what they would do with all those pallets of books. The warehouse is gone, like it flew away. Maybe they were washed off sufficiently, or the outside ones only disposed of, or just tested and redistributed. The "cold war" NIKE missile's electric batteries had once been made there.

Re: They turn the electricity back on to the US embassy in Cuba yet?

That's an interesting question. For example, the City of New York, owns Rufus King Manor, a now 25 (?) room house in Jamaica, Queens. He was known as the "last Federalist, signer, our first ambassador to Great Britain, and New York's first Senator" I think. The house is in part open to the public and and he sits in an all white sculpture in his library (by the way, one of the stoves was made in one of the Bronx foundries, the Mott foundry, which made many ironworks shipped around the world. The other "South Bronx" foundry, Janes and Kirtland made and assembled the Capitol dome for President Lincoln for a little over a million after building a fireproof Library of Congress). Rufus King was publicly very opposed to slavery, he bought the place from a man who had 10 slaves. I have been on two or three archaeology testing phases there by a couple of RPA archaeologists (Grossman, Stone) and the question I am not sure was considered hypothetically, as the practical archaeology, of testing where the new porch, pathways, and replacement beams in the "summer kitchen" house was the motivation of the archaeology, why even the location of termite traps were to be tested. Also, from my experience at the Waverly Plantation nearby Columbus, Mississippi, the larger "places" for slaves were said not to be nearby the "big house" and closer to fields further away. A similar problem was with the "Wanderer". You can find 200 years of "sheet scatter" behind the house of the ship builder and chandler that sold it to the Louisiana cotton merchants broker, read about the boarding of it by the British naval officer in the blockade of Africa, and his disbelief that a luxury yacht could not be used as such, read the correction to its building for the bronze plaque on Jekyll Island Georgia where it put in 1858 (Wikipedia) with 400 of 600 poor souls who survived the "Middle Passage" and read how the ship became a chess piece in the Civil War, used as a very fast mail packet, on both sides, read about its survivors (the African-American "Doublemint twins" descendants (Newsday) that anthropologists have found, yet unless someone knows where they went after being fed from the big cast iron kettle on Jekyll Island (playground of the more modern rich Americans today) you would have a hard time finding archaeological evidence, even if you dove onto the wreck of "Wanderer" off Cape Maysi (old Spanish, named by Christopher Columbus, the east tip of Cuba near Guantanamo) with its large "water tanks" put on in Port Jefferson, NY for trans-Atlantic crossing, which sank in a storm in the "fruit trade" in the early 1870's, you would find little evidence. I read the real problem too is finding archaeological evidence for it in East Africa though known to have gone on for centuries in trade to Asia. World Archaeology Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group Issue: Volume 33, Number 1 / June 1, 2001 Pages: 44 - 60 Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa J. Alexander Abstract: Two different types of chattel slavery, those permitted by the Christian and Islamic religions, were introduced into Africa but only the Christian slave trade to the Americas has been studied by archaeologists. The much longer duration (over 1000 years) of the Islamic slave trade to Asia and of the Dar el Islam in North and East Africa is at present known only from literary and eyewitness accounts. It will prove difficult to recognise archaeologically and new techniques will have to be developed. Even more difficult to recognise will be the indigenous forms of slavery which existed in many parts of the continent at the coming of both Christianity and Islam, and the interaction between the three different concepts on which they were based. Keywords: Chattel Slavery Dar El Islam Dar El Mu'HAA Dar El Harb Bilad Es Sudan Zanj Jihad Posted to histarch forum today.