tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93332022012-02-09T03:19:14.926-05:00Some recent thoughts and sites I've come up with and across. Everything on 11/26/04 and before was all entered on 11/26/04 from ClipCache Plus from XRayz Software.George Myershttps://profiles.google.com/102991309768811504398noreply@blogger.comBlogger23611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-39071441206397690892012-02-09T03:19:00.001-05:002012-02-09T03:19:14.947-05:00

Ah mathematic­s, which says there is a possibilit­y I push a book off a desk it could fall upward, though the probabilit­y is very small. I thought Mr. Baldwin was still at the American Airlines gate with the other passengers and thought they weren't going anywhere he could get a few words in. The IPO came a few days later (initial public offering) for the word game. I was told a small notebook

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Neuroanthropology blog Over 100 years ago the AAA published material on the Pennsylvania jasper quarries from which tools and projectile points were made as much as 10,000 years ago (U. of Penn.) Enough information and part was set aside for a “Jasper Park” as roads and rail came through near Allentown, PA. The research was still relevant as it was part of studies when further roadwork was

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Maybe someone would put the acrimoniou­s quote here in the comments? I recall finding out about Eleanor Roosevelt stopping in the "Old Tea Room" in Coram, NY on Long Island across the road from a grassy airfield, she once flew with one of the Tuskegee pilots for over 45 minutes causing some consternat­ion in the press. Old "Tea Rooms" were places people could go if they were in dire straights and

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Abraham Lincoln, though he fought in the Blackhawk War is considered by many historians to be no great military general and had relied on the inexperienced. One thing I read was that Sherman changed the nature of "war" i.e., against property rather than people. One property he did not (perhaps) find, was the large powder mill about 30 miles outside Atlanta, erected from London, England Crystal

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America's gun might be considered the Beretta pistol, as it's manufactur­ed in Washington­, D.C. The Society for Industrial Archaeolog­y toured its manufactur­ing plant as part of a yearly meeting. It, the Beretta, I thought a good choice for the NYPD the largest in the land, though perhaps "now" rather than "then" when the Glock was selected. The Beretta has interchang­eable calibers, i.e.

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New Hampshire State Legislators: Don't Repeal the Freedom to Marry Why I signed: I've vacationed a number of years with my friend on Tuftonboro Neck, NH outside historic Wolfeboro. I feel this is a sneaky trick that should stop. Peter Livius, one of the first Supreme Court justices of Canada (and who sued royal Governor Wentworth, the only "governor" survivor of the American Revolution, after,

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Thank you for using the Antiquities Act to proclaim a new national monument at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia! As you know, the Antiquities Act has been used to create monuments at Muir Woods, the Grand Canyon, and the Statute of Liberty. The rich history and natural beauty of Fort Monroe make it a worthy addition to the National Park System. As an archaeology technician, I've traveled to work

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In the article published Sunday 12/18/2011 City history, locked away: The short, unhappy life of New York Unearthed – (New York Daily News) a small museum is described which I once had a small part in at another archaeology firm which also once had an office and worked in NYC archaeology. I was asked to draw up a map as I did on other projects, of the changing outline of the island of Manhattan,

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The article fails to mention that, way back then, 44 Presidents ago, the President and Vice President could be from different parties and the Constitution amended created, along with the Electoral College, which actually elects the President, the single party rule of the Executive branch. Some states have since changed their "all for one" party candidate Electoral College votes to a more equal

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Makes it legal for the former Commandant of West Point Military Academy, Robert E. Lee, to capture and hold John Brown and his outfit for trial I guess. Maybe it wasn't then. After all Harper's Ferry was where the Federally authorized arsenal, by President George Washington­, was making hundreds of those fancy new percussion cap Harper's Ferry rifles and he was there, which was reason enough for

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…because sometimes archaeologists are the last to know. He had a house, gardens and a warehouse in New Amsterdam (New York City). An ambassador (“The Czech” Augustine Heerman to the Dutch) he is sometimes attributed the introduction of tobacco to the Dutch. His warehouse location, reputedly between "Bridge" and "Pearl" and "Whitehall" and "Broad" streets, was excavated in the 1980s prior to a

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Religion protects families. Families are about kinship. Social anthropology studies the different kinship structures that different people have, i.e. "uncle" or "aunt" may mean something different within different societies and may be quite different from culture to culture in comparison. I once attended a CUNY grad lecture on the preference for "cross-cousin marriage" in nomadic peoples of the

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This may well be the Buttermilk Falls that had exclusive rights to grind wheat into flour. It is represented by the wooden barrels on the official seal of New York. Wheat ground from the Hudson River valley was baked in the city into “hardtack” which was known around the world aboard ships. New York flour helped relieve famine in Europe, i.e. Italy and elsewhere, in the late 17th and early

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George Myers from The Bronx, NY I enjoyed this podcast from these two SNL alumni (plug here for Steve Martin on Jimmy Fallon NBC tonight, who'll be on that show more?). Glitch on cable TV yesterday had listed the synopsis of the original "Fun with Dick and Jane" (George Segal and Jane Fonda) instead of what ran, the remake with Alec Baldwin ("Jack has got your back") and Jim Carey and Tea Leoni.

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Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting but I would like to inform you of the launch of a new interdisciplinary Marie Curie ITN called EUROTAST. As part of the project, we are currently hiring 13 Early Stage Researchers to work on various projects relating to the history of the transatlantic slave trade. The successful applicants will be recruited from a wide range of disciplines including

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Many years ago in an anthropology course we were discussing things that are universal, among people and cultures. The only one that perhaps is universal is the "nfa" or "need for achievement". I would think that this need is thwarted when inequalities are seen and described everyday. It might be in the better interest of both gender and society that in "theory" at least we guarantee that

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Before the “automobile revolution” transformed the streets of Manhattan a landmark was placed in the historic seaport neighborhood. About 1903 the Mayflower Society placed it to commemorate Isaac Allerton, a Puritan, who was aboard the Mayflower that landed the “Pilgrims” at Plymouth Rock. He left the settlement and established a home near New Haven, todays Connecticut and with his ship “Hope”

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The whole compartment separates and parachutes as low as 300’. Designed in Ukraine, to be made in Dubai. Corporate Jet Investor Nov 13, 2011 First US Navy helicopter model, the Piasecki HUP-2 “Retriever” found at “The Wings of Freedom Museum” adjacent to the former NAS-JRB (Naval Air Station – Joint Reserve Base), Willow Grove, Pennsylvania partly “closed” September, 2011, when US Navy and US

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7 hours ago (5:14 PM) I watched the testimony of members of Islam to the NYC Council of Public Safety the other morning. They were without passports, that is, born here in Brooklyn mostly. They were concerned that the informants the police using were unreliable, i.e. one they know of, their houses of worship are open to everyone, had been in and out of mental hospitals. They wanted to be

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11:09 AM on 11/12/2011 "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow." a left out line seems to me what the song might have also referred to in "Revolution". In fact the Communist Party is still alive and still is very critical of unbridled "capitalism" that impoverishes society, i.e., top brokerages have a list among certain brokers to sell or buy 20 "

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http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/2011/nov/07/ George Myers from The Bronx, NY I might add we had a Mayor of New York City from Long Island, from now Deepwell Farm Historic Park, St. James, NY (http://tinyurl.com/7d3qwvg) which last time I stopped at, belonged to Suffolk County and had "dinner theater" events there. Many prehistoric artifacts collected by archaeologist Edward Johanneman, MA

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Recent broadcast: The Veterans Curation Project: Rehabilitation by Archaeology and other topics with other archaeologists VoiceAmerica The Leader in Internet Media

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Yesterday was "Archaeology Day" in the USA and Canada. It might point to a history such between us though coincidentally we were at war next year 200 years ago (cue up "1812 Overture") and the single defeat in a War of the US, probably due to our lack of supply lines, or the superior ones in then "Lower Canada" i.e. the Rideau Canal, the historical society of which I once bought a rose decorated

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“At first reading I was reminded of reading the law in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) as if the first part was lifted directly from it. However Article 120, appears to have been rewritten in 2007 and appears quite different (http://tin­yurl.com/6­6mhzxs and further). As a citizen/anthropol­ogist I think there were similar problems in the UCMJ now more clearly defined in the Article

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George Myers A veteran went actually over the White House fence under the previous administration, emphatically trying to speak to then President George W. Bush, to end the sniper operations in Iraq. He thought it was not working and had lead to accelerated acts against US personnel, Humvee tires shot out of nowhere, which I once thought not deflatable, and other indeterminable bullet origins.

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In New York we have the Division of Historical and Anthropolo­gical Services, a part of the State Museum, and they are required to review many projects that involve the potential for further science through archaeolog­y, when former areas of the state are transforme­d by modern constructi­on, i.e., roads, river dredging, etc., and building, i.e., former settlement built on. However, it can be

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Vertical Screen, Warminster, PA on former US Naval Weapons Lab, "brownfield" now "green" building site. In the business of personnel background checks for business, apparently 24/7.                             U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011

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City Room – New York Times - "The statue of a former New York City mayor who played a role in George Washington's presidential inauguration sits largely forgotten on a city island, a casualty, in some ways, of 9/11." Comment: I'm reminded of a statue found neglected on a rooftop of Antonin Dvorak, moved to Stuyvesant Square, where another former mayor's statue is, Peter Stuyvesant. Nearby,

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Type]Media 2010/11  Lauri Toikka “Colette” type (13 of 14)

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George Myers-150923 "Chuck" Scarborough of WNBC in NYC said a day or two before the 9/11 ceremony, that instead of a day of remembrance perhaps it should remain a day of "infamy". It makes sense to apply it so, though I think it also requires we remember that there may be other information we need to know. In regards to the attack on Pearl Harbor the honorable Senator from Arkansas, Hattie

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At the end of a summer going door-to-door selling "Public Citizen" subscriptions for NYPIRG, out of what is now the St. James Water Authority office, we had a treat at the old Riverhead Theatre. Trying to raise awareness on water quality issues in Suffolk County back then, Pete Seeger and a friend gave us a concert in the old theater. Since, I've had my eye on it over the years, thinking it

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My dad, a later Army enlistee, fifth of his brothers served in Italy. WWII was difficult to understand and what helped was television­. In the South Bronx, before Saturday cartoons, "The Big Picture" with footage of WWII, was on before "Modern Farmer." Outside, "the projects" the wrecking ball, swung at former houses. Under them, the US Capitol Dome was forged for President Lincoln. The Third Ave

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“NYers on 9/11 unfortunat­ely had the double slam, that defined without question, that terrorists were seeking to punish the US in retributio­n for some perceived grievous error committed. If it were "eye for an eye" I hope it was not over Iran Flight 655 shot down July 3, 1988 by the USS Vincennes. It was flying to Dubai from Iran in the Persian Gulf (or "Arabian Gulf" toponym proposed). "The

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As a attendee to an early Sci-fi convention in NYC, after watching “Silent Running” in a theater there, I would have to agree. But not because of the film, but because of what was said. A very good argument was made in one of the speakers talks about the link between science education and sci-fi, that sci-fi actually encourages science in the schools, which at the time, had fallen and was

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I enjoyed the article and the samples. There's an opening at the American Museum of Natural History for a Program Assistant/Teacher-in-Training, Live Animal Care Focus. They once had one of those old cases full of live tarantulas! Music reminded me of Al Hirt and boarding up NOLA in the summer of 1979, approaching hurricane fizzled, back to Mississippi. Hugh Laurie Sings the Blues

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In the days after 9/11 and the presence of anthrax in the US Mail, the foreign press reported the US (we) were going into Afghanistan to "clean up the airports" after the USSR left its material there in retreat. I was working on the clearance archaeology of the West Point Military Academy, where Tropical Storm Floyd had toppled many trees along old roads around Bull Hill and elsewhere. How the

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I'm glad someone is looking out for the union workers. Ron Carey who lost to Mr. Hoffa, was a former UPS driver in Queens, NY and from my father’s Teamsters Local 804. They had been mostly the furniture and appliance delivers for Macys, Abraham & Strauss, etc. around the city and Long Island after the "baby boom" in the 1950s and places, some without elevators required difficult maneuvering. The

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Irish "plane spotters" (like "train-spotting") watchers of commerce, wore "black shamrocks" on one Easter in protest of the "extraordinary rendition" assumed landed and flown through the Republic of Ireland presumably illegally. The bowl of shamrocks given to then President George W. Bush by the current Pope were green for St. Patrick's Day according to the photo-op. Amazing story, that almost

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I watched a documentar­y (Catholics­, Elke Sommer, et al.) about it once. At the time of constructi­on various groups and organizati­ons donated a stone or two(?) to the Washington Monument. One, contribute­d by US Catholics, was stolen and reputed to be dumped into the Potomac River, and never a part of the Washington Monument. Maybe they could find it and replace the cracked one from the

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I recall back in the 1970s told by an archaeologist and writer of prehispanic Peru, Ed Lanning, that due to the vagaries of the Humboldt current, the waters off shore smelled like a baby's diaper, and that's how "El Nino" came to be, no fish or smell from dead fish. Another interesting phenomenon discussed by British geographers is the growing disparities of wealth between the Northern and

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Television critic Marvin Kittman once had an article about a Marine who was in charge of test firing the rifle at the range used in the assassination of JFK. He stated the only way, as it was, that the rifle could have hit the President was by aiming at Mrs. Jackie Kennedy. The report was left out of the Warren Commission report because of the problem apparently with the sighting of the rifle as

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The Future of 'Freedom's Fortress' As a former US President, James Monroe was reported to be an important, well-liked resident of New York City. When he passed on he was interred in one of the first non-denominational cemeteries in the City, the Marble Vault Cemetery in a then very different Bowery, apparently by choice. The Virginia legislature voted to have him reburied in Virginia, in the

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Powered By Osteons: Solving the Mystery of Conjoined Twins at Angel Mound

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Have you seen "King of the Ants"? Mr. Baldwin's brother plays an unscrupulo­us developer in it. I worry about that in New York, as I work in its archaeolog­y on and off. I'm not sure how we're going to get a "square deal". For example 9/11/01 was a primary day in NYC, and just before it, WABC I think it was invited the candidates for Mayor to appear on air to answer a panel of reporters'

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"Near this same spot, 57 years earlier, had occurred perhaps the most notorious episode of fratricidal bloodshed in American history." Killing Jeff Davis I think much of the Burr-Hamilton rancor came out of the original Constitution as "framed", allowed the best man, that is with the most votes, the President and the runner-up, the Vice President, no matter what political party they had come

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Updates: 8/4/2011: Second Piece of Historic Ship Discovered at WTC Site Good coverage w/ slideshow 8/7/11 update: It was the late 1970s, with Ed Johanneman, MA I visited to look at a reported ship in the excavations for the foundation of WTC Building #7. We were told we couldn't, I'm not clear the reason (blasting?). It was reported there was one in one of the WTC tower excavations, 6 in the AT+T

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Tried adding two photos together with Fusion 2.0 (freeware on majorgeeks.com) and the result looks better than the original. Program does HDR also. President George H. W. Bush once stopped here to disembark from the M.S. Mount Washington when he was Vice President under then President Ronald Reagan, who was going in for surgery on a health issue. He left in a Cadillac after asking for a moment

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Willow Grove, PA, a set on Flickr. Interesting place in the course of human aerial and other events.Via Flickr:Part of a larger archaeology testing of the Naval Air Station Willow Grove, PA as the US Navy turns over some properties for other uses. Site of the development of the Pitcairn-Cierva Autogyro and successful airmail carriers before sale of field to US by Harold Pitcairn. Research here

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Great film, I thought, my cousin George Murray, had been a film editor for NBC, then due to another's illness, directing the early "Huntley and Brinkley". They started out with only 15 minutes and later became more as the networks put more topical interests on the medium. He became an award winning news producer at NBC according to his friend Edwin Newman, who read at his eulogy in the UN Chapel.

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I just came back from there, near Norristown, PA. It’s next to Willow Grove where VP Biden’s wife is from. The NAVY has left the joint reserve services there and I was part of an archaeology survey for cultural resources required before it’s turned over in part of all (8000 ft. runway) to the local governmen. I could see how growing up there as a person of color might have been a problem, a

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The brother-in-law of the now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, from this street in the Bronx, perished crashing off of it a number of years ago in a late model Land Rover. Built originally for the NY Thruway, it has become an interstate and much of the I dare say Nation’s commerce is tied to it. I work for a company researching it, and it’s unique, eligible for the National Register, because

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I have recently learned that the New York State Education Department and the New York State Museum are effectively gutting their century plus old archaeology program. State Archaeologist; the curator of archaeology; and the curator of historic archaeology, were all served layoff notices effective in three weeks unless their union negotiates a contract settlement. I have heard that NY State Museum

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A mockup of a Confederate coin reveals hidden truths. Comment: When I came across the art and music works of American genre created by William Sydney Mount and "Setauketeers" as partly preserved at the Museums at Stony Brook I was informed that Mount had illustrated many "States paper money" as part of his repertoire (see Frankenstein's scholarly study, a large book). This reminds one that

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Comment: Both sides, seem to be using their history to symbolize their commitments. I found two "Steuben's Rifles" in the north and the south. The NYC based one, had one of its officers in courts martial, after the so-called "Draft riots" where incidentally it's reported a new type of weapon, a "machine gun" was used in the defense of the then "NY Times" building when the $300 draft exemption

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Huge dictionary project completed after 90 years An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 B.C. and A.D. 100 has been completed after 90 years of labor, the University of Chicago announced June 5. Comment: Maybe we'll someday discover the

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Opinionator: New York Times How did American writers respond to the outbreak of the Civil War?  Some of the literature prior to the Civil War by James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville about life on the sea were important. Cooper's "Ned Myers; or, a Life Before the Mast" (1843) who later wrote the important history of the US Navy was countered by Herman Melville's "White Jacket", a copy of

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http://marsparticipate.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/

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Photo of a smoker with a Rollei for 5/27 - Roger Ebert's Journal: "Looks a little like James Dean, check the boots, when he had an apartment in NYC. I used an experimental Rollei then MR2 program, that with 8'x10's, software, Intel 387, and digitizing tablet, created 3D computer vectors from photos. I heard used by Brits in auto accident studies. Canadians were interested after blizzard covered

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Up! Up, and Away! The largest model airport in the world. Comment: I just read the other day Rod Stewart, the singer is a modeller and models “Three Rivers” from the 1940s sometimes seen in the hobby magazines or online. Then there’s Neil Young’s connection to Lionel. Years gone by someone hand-lettered a Long Island Railroad highway overpass bridge “LIONEL” near Stony Brook University in NY.

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Lars von Trier and the Antichrist Pablo Villaça in Brazil Comment: Bom dia! (Good day! 'carioca', "Rio" Portuguese) An excellent analysis i thought and think the decision to ban any film-maker absurd. Years ago in Buffalo, NY there was a "Hollywood of the East" and invited many, held classes and many screenings were shown around the city as I recall. There were Brazilians there to show

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I used to visit the Motthaven E 143rd from the Patterson House projects before my family moved to Centereach in Brookhaven, NY. Back then prior to 1960 it was important station, and appears to have been as old as 1906. Apparently right across the street, according to the Bronx historians research was the Janes and Kirtland Foundry which built and assembled the current US Capitol Dome finished for

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George Myers said...   The "ferrous titanium oxides" reminded me of some research I'd done in North Creek, NY. In the Adirondacks were the titanium oxide mines at Tahawas. An older 19th century iron foundry was nearby and found the "titaniferous magnitite" difficult and was later researched. It's said the tanks in WWII in Europe were painted with it to camo them in snow. The State of NY

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5/8/2011 12:26:36 PMIt's been said (O sage bin sammies) history never repeats itself, and when it does it's a tragedy (attributed to the newspaper writer K. Marx) and I read recently of a similar event that led to tragedy. It's been shown that Nazi operatives dressed as Polish troops on the Polish frontier and then fired (allegedly) at the Germans on the German side of the border leading to the

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Archaeologists are investigating a boat-building site on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, where they have found 1,000-year-old boat timbers and a canal. – Archaeology Just above this entry is more on the Captain Kidd abandoned wreck the Quedagh Merchant to be dedicated as a "Living Museum of the Sea" later this month, researched by the Dominican Republic and Indiana University. I once worked near

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Aye there's the rub. "western Virginia" today West Virginia contained the George Washington's selected Federal Arsenal raided in the ill-fated "John Brown's Raid" of October, 1859. "The arsenal contained 100,000 muskets and rifles." - Wikipedia  Newly manufactured "percussion caps" revolutionized rifles from the black powder flash in the pan to a primer on a "nipple". It was thought they would

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OUR FIRST PURCHASED ARTIFACT Thanks to the generous support of the Friends, the Museum was able to acquire a rare wrought-iron swivel gun tube which was "dug up" on Ocracoke in the early 1960s. The barrel is 27 inches long and the socket at the breech is eight inches long giving an overall length of 35 inches. The barrel is 2 ¼ inches in diameter and the bore is a little over an inch. The

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"Berlin to New York in less than One Hour!" – In the November 1931 “Everyday Science and Mechanics” magazine published until 1984. Recent Wikimedia Commons scanned cover addition. Interesting artistic rendition of the NYC harbor and the many wharves for ships. Governors Island looks a bit different too. Notice the three bridges: Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg, a great “birds-eye” view.

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I thought I might post this from nearby Fordham University:: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara is Professor of History and Associate Chair at the Lincoln Center campus... He has recently completed a book entitled "Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World" to be published in the Diálogos Series by the University of New Mexico Press in 2011. With Professor Josep M. Fradera

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Maybe there should be an independent investigation. The Rouse Corporatio­n began with the "Inner Harbor" project in Baltimore, MD in the 1980s which has had a beneficial effect on that city. The museum 's "satellite­" is no longer at 17 State Street where there was "New York Unearthed" an active site for the preservati­on and depiction of the archaeolog­y of New York City, where then US Custom's

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I once was part of a crew shovel testing the east shore of Staten Island, NY as part of a evaluation of to be repaired or constructe­d flood control designs by the US Army Corps of Engineers not too long after 9/11. All shovel test were to be to 1 meter deep in the beach sand, much of it along the relatively new "world's fourth longest boardwalk" and I must concur we need to keep beaches cleaner

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McVeigh also came from a part of New York that had seen zealotry in the 19th century, some burning barns or so accused over religion. I also find it odd that the loose ends some eyewitnesses had seen, i.e., at the motel meetings, were not considered further. He had been a Bradley commander, which I once saw the brochures for back in 1983 doing the preliminary archaeology survey of Fort Drum, NY

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"Good, better, best" might not necessarily mean "bigger". In the archaeology testing around a current wind farm on a mountain ridge, near Sleepy Hollow Rd., in the federal U.S. Green Mountain National Forest, nearby Bennington, Vermont it was seen to be replaced by new turbines as tall as the Statue of Liberty. There were some local objections. This newer use of LIDAR might help with the siteing

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Ariz. House to vote on bill requiring presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens Comment: Overlooked now, in the months preceding the last Presidential election, a case was brought against the campaign of Senator John McCain in Nashua, New Hampshire based on his citizenship by birth as defined in the US Constitution. Senator McCain was born in the Panama Territory aboard a US ship.

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My Comment

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To info@lpc.nyc.gov I am very glad to see the information presented online. It was one of the purposes I thought of the archaeology as stated in the aims of the first archaeology Sherene Baugher, PhD, i.e., to put the reports in all the public libraries in New York City. Unfortunately the reasons many gave against it I find some similarity with: In ”ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONITORING AT THE OLD WEST

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Pulverized I read toward the end of the war by the Union, I seem to recall two large R.P. Parrott "rifles" were later found walled up in it. I worked in the Foundry Cove next to the West Point Foundry and Constitution Island where they were made and we found an R.P. Parrott gun platform used as a "Swamp Angel" bombarding Charleston in 1863 with incendiaries. EPA Marathon Battery Superfund

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I believe that's "Sora no Daikaijū Radon" "Radon, Giant Monster of the Sky" released in the US as "Rodan! The Flying Monster!" (Wikipedia) Radon is a problem in New Jersey and elsewhere where certain rocks have "radon daughters" not good for lungs requiring constant basement air venting. One site closed hundreds of houses and were fenced and then abandoned. Another place a byproduct of phosphate

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A little off topic, but Long Island, NY has had many nuclear experiment­s over the years, i.e. Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY where I learned about "neutron activation­" for trace element analysis in statistica­l "hyperspac­e" then a math concept of ancient "turquoise­" from the archeology of the American Southwest, among other innumerabl­e experiment­s and breakthrou­ghs that enhance

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An early opponent of slavery was Rufus King. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented New York in the United States Senate, served as Minister to Britain, and was the Federalist candidate for both

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One example I found researchin­g former and current cemeteries in the former historic theater district of New York City, The Bowery, was of the State Legislatur­e emergency meeting over the constructi­on of the courthouse at 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue, today the "Anthology Film Archives" supported by many in the arts (John Lennon drawings and others arts, media projection rental space and film

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Comment Submitted:RE: Hold No New Lease Sales in the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea As an anthropology trained archaeologist, I worked in the early history of the village of Skagway, where Alaska's first railroad was built, through the mountains, into the Canadian Yukon as part of the often ill-advised gold-rush. I've seen molybdenum mined in British Columbia hauled by that train and shipped

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"The John Coltrane Home is the house in the Dix Hills neighborho­od of Huntington­, Suffolk County, New York. It is where saxophonis­t John Coltrane resided from 1964 until his death in 1967. It was in this home that he composed his landmark work, "A Love Supreme". ... In 2007, the home was added to the New York State and the National Register of Historic Places. This honor is rare, given the

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Comment: Opinion: Was George Washington a Christian? –AOLnews I recall George Washington's diary is available to historians. The one section I'm familiar with, on his triumphal return and tour of Long Island after winning the war, is his observation of the Bald Hills of Long Island, which he referred to as a "mere trifling" but the diary seems to suggest he was always looking at the land for its

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My aunt's husband was a clerk (or "clark" as you say) in FDR's law office before all the politics. I had an uncle with polio who worked in the Hall of Records (today's beaux-arts Surrogate Court on Chambers St.) with my grandfather, a real estate reporter, who sometimes kept his family of eleven children going knowing where the new coal contracts might be. My uncle in a wheelchair unfortunately

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A difference maker  February 17, 2011 By Peter Dizikes – Physorg.com In January 1942, a month after the United States entered World War II, Japan launched a new series of attacks in the Pacific, while German submarines started a new wave of strikes in the Atlantic. Against this grim backdrop, Collier’s magazine ran a story for its 2.5 million readers about one vital person who, it claimed,

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An interesting painting: The Hudson River Looking North from West Point Showing USS Macedonian and USS Savannah, June 14, 1868 A view rarely seen, though you might have years ago as I recall as a small child on the Circle Line cruises that left New York, turned around at West Point and docked at Bear Mountain State Park. One can see a side-wheel ferry-boat that used to stop at the “Steam Dock”

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Every Peace Corps volunteer affects an other American. I applied everywhere but Korea, my uncle went into the Army at 31, and, with an anthropolo­gy degree, offered to inoculate Koreans for TB. Since, a former President was jailed. I find it hard to believe a Korean couldn't do so. Back to square one, where I work in American archaeolog­y and another story. The Peace Corps thought it might be

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The North of the South - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com: "Robert David Lion Gardiner, last 'lord of the manor' of Gardiners Island, in Suffolk County, New York was related to the former First Lady, Julia Gardiner, the second wife of the former President John Tyler. He was said to be 'in charge' of Richmond, VA during the Civil War. Mr. Gardiner said that his great-aunt, said to have been the

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George Myers | January 15, 2011 5:15 PM | Reply Thanks for this. It was often rumored that a prepared speech was drafted. As a kid on Long Island, where at one time the Grumman Corporation was the single largest employer, 25,000, I had contact with some of those in aerospace as it was where the Lunar Excursion Modules (L.E.M.) were built. Grumman started as an aviation machine shop, and I was

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Comments:  The Tappan Zee Bridge was not designed for the interstate traffic it receives daily. It was a NY State "thruway" and a toll road, that was not anticipated to carry as much as it does now. Today it links many resources. Other projects have perhaps been held up by it, i.e. a nearby truck-to-train transfer for produce, would have then again transferred in the South Bronx off the

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"Researchers are developing cameras that can take digital snapshots made up of more than a billion pixels" If they are reading this the site referenced has a picture labeled "Seattle OR" which of course should be Seattle, WA. I worked with a Rollei close-range photogrammetry system, a medium-format camera, though 35mm was also available, in development as Intel 80387 (i387) math chip made the

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I was just watching "Mind Meld" (2001) I bought and gave for the holidays, with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy in an unmoderate­d interview. Towards the end Mr. Nimoy, who once served in the US Army, dons a USS Vulcan cap, from the US Coast Guard vessel and shows a USS Enterprise cap under it he keeps on his shelf. I would hope an apology to Glenn Close is in order. She's an honorary

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12/25/2010 - “I've read the National Guard, so called by General LaFayette, started in New York City America's first federal capital, and were troops that guarded the government. One regiment I read from the Bowery, was involved in the "Draft Riots" the officer in charge, held in courts martial, the rest of the unit marched on Washington, D.C. to guard it during the Civil War, then mustered out

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Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse 2010 from William Castleman on Vimeo.

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Interesting article and a comment.

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Interesting article and my comments. Sorry I confused Jesse James with "Billy the Kid".

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Attention New York Federal legislators: We respectfully request that in the 111th Congress you pass America's Great Outdoors Act (S. 303), a bipartisan package of pending legislation to expand and protect our irreplaceable historic and cultural sites that would stimulate economic growth in local communities, enable more citizen-led preservation, and study important historic and cultural

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Half Moon to the Bridge Tappan Zee Bridge Dedication Committee 1955 pamphlet: Thanks, I appreciate it. According to the Constitution Island history group they mention in one of their newsletters that island was an ancestral home of the Tappan natives. I sometimes think the State of NY should take it and join up with the marsh they run, once an Audubon nature preserve, Constitution Marsh. There

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