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JackPrintMD said:
Nice... that’s it, I gotta find something else on the site or check the shipping cost and it will be mine.


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Your welcome. Ii however priced in Pounds-Sterling (coming out of the UK) so take that into consideration. The GBP is worth approximately one & half times the value of the USD.
 
Grandpa's daycare center.

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For many moons I've been wondering what the "Spanish Moss-Like" green stuff hanging from my trees is. Today I finally remembered to check it out and found out it called "Old Mud's", I mean "Old Man's Beard" and the genus Usnea is not made of mosses, but are lichens. I was getting concerned because they're really taken off on our beloved white birches, and turns out they are not harmful to the trees they can be found on and they are a "good thing." They thrive in areas of very pure air, so that's a happy thing to find out. Also they're highly regarded by naturalists in that tinctures of them are said to be very effective antibiotics, better than penicillin.

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Roccus7 said:
For many moons I've been wondering what the "Spanish Moss-Like" green stuff hanging from my trees is. Today I finally remembered to check it out and found out it called "Old Mud's", I mean "Old Man's Beard" and the genus Usnea is not made of mosses, but are lichens. I was getting concerned because they're really taken off on our beloved white birches, and turns out they are not harmful to the trees they can be found on and they are a "good thing." They thrive in areas of very pure air, so that's a happy thing to find out. Also they're highly regarded by naturalists in that tinctures of them are said to be very effective antibiotics, better than penicillin.

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The name Bonaparte brings to mind many locales: Corsica, Paris, Alexandria, Waterloo and, finally, St. Helena.

New Jersey? Not so much.

Napoleon, the French emperor, never stepped foot in the state, but New Jersey was home to another Bonaparte: Napoleon’s older brother, Joseph, who was once the king of Naples and then Spain.

Bonaparte built a sumptuous estate in 1816 called Point Breeze in Bordentown, N.J., just south of Trenton, between the power centers of New York City and Philadelphia. He constructed atop a promontory that allowed him to see any hostile forces and perforated the grounds with tunnels that allowed quick escape, if necessary, to a boat on Crosswicks Creek, and from there to the Delaware River.

The name Bonaparte brings to mind many locales: Corsica, Paris, Alexandria, Waterloo and, finally, St. Helena.

New Jersey? Not so much.

Napoleon, the French emperor, never stepped foot in the state, but New Jersey was home to another Bonaparte: Napoleon’s older brother, Joseph, who was once the king of Naples and then Spain.

Bonaparte built a sumptuous estate in 1816 called Point Breeze in Bordentown, N.J., just south of Trenton, between the power centers of New York City and Philadelphia. He constructed atop a promontory that allowed him to see any hostile forces and perforated the grounds with tunnels that allowed quick escape, if necessary, to a boat on Crosswicks Creek, and from there to the Delaware River.

Read it here: Napoleon’s Brother Lived in N.J. Here’s What Happened to the Estate.
 
Roccus7 said:
The name Bonaparte brings to mind many locales: Corsica, Paris, Alexandria, Waterloo and, finally, St. Helena.

New Jersey? Not so much.

Napoleon, the French emperor, never stepped foot in the state, but New Jersey was home to another Bonaparte: Napoleon’s older brother, Joseph, who was once the king of Naples and then Spain.

Bonaparte built a sumptuous estate in 1816 called Point Breeze in Bordentown, N.J., just south of Trenton, between the power centers of New York City and Philadelphia. He constructed atop a promontory that allowed him to see any hostile forces and perforated the grounds with tunnels that allowed quick escape, if necessary, to a boat on Crosswicks Creek, and from there to the Delaware River.

The name Bonaparte brings to mind many locales: Corsica, Paris, Alexandria, Waterloo and, finally, St. Helena.

New Jersey? Not so much.

Napoleon, the French emperor, never stepped foot in the state, but New Jersey was home to another Bonaparte: Napoleon’s older brother, Joseph, who was once the king of Naples and then Spain.

Bonaparte built a sumptuous estate in 1816 called Point Breeze in Bordentown, N.J., just south of Trenton, between the power centers of New York City and Philadelphia. He constructed atop a promontory that allowed him to see any hostile forces and perforated the grounds with tunnels that allowed quick escape, if necessary, to a boat on Crosswicks Creek, and from there to the Delaware River.

Read it here: Napoleon’s Brother Lived in N.J. Here’s What Happened to the Estate.
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While exiled General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna lived on Staten Island for a while. He brought chicle with him for use in tire manufacturing instead of rubber. It didn’t pan out. It wound up becoming gum instead. Ever hear of the chiclet?
 
Another quaint, mostly European tradition that I've never heard of. Have to ask my beekeeping neighbors if they have also delivered the bad news...

When the Queen Died, Someone Had to Tell the Bees​

A report that the royal beekeeper had informed Queen Elizabeth II’s bees of her death received some mockery, but it has been a tradition for centuries.

LONDON — As news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II reverberated through the world, a headline over the weekend puzzled many on social media: The Daily Mail’s exclusive that the “royal beekeeper has informed the Queen’s bees that the Queen has died.”

Did bees need to be told about human affairs? Would they have any sort of opinion on the matter?

But some beekeepers, backed by folklore historians, say “telling the bees” is a standard practice that goes back centuries, with potentially grave consequences if not followed.

“It’s a very old and well-established tradition, but not something that’s very well-known,” said Mark Norman, a folklorist and the author of “Telling the Bees and Other Customs: The Folklore of Rural Crafts.”

The tradition holds that bees, as members of the family, should be informed of major life events in the family, especially births and deaths. Beekeepers would knock on each hive, deliver the news and possibly cover the hive with a black cloth during a mourning period. The practice is more commonly known in Britain but is also found in the United States and other parts of Europe, Mr. Norman said.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was believed that neglecting to tell the bees could lead to various misfortunes, including their death or departure, or a failure to make honey. Nowadays, beekeepers may be less likely to believe they risk bad luck, but they may continue to follow the tradition as “a mark of respect,” Mr. Norman said.

Stephen Fleming, a beekeeper for 25 years and the co-editor of BeeCraft, a magazine for British beekeepers, said he once performed the tradition after a friend died. He went to the friend’s bees, quietly knocked on the hives and told them the news, he said.

“It was just something I thought my friend would have enjoyed,” he added.

After BeeCraft published an article about telling the bees in 2019, several people wrote in with their own stories of doing the task. One reader, addressing someone else’s bees, spoke in rhyme to tell them their master had died: “Honeybees, honeybees, hear what I say. Your master [name] has now passed away.”

John Chapple, the beekeeper at Buckingham Palace, declined to comment. The Daily Mail reported that he had placed black ribbons tied into bows on the hives before telling them in hushed tones that the queen had died and that they would have a new master.

Mr. Fleming said most beekeepers would most likely be aware of the tradition, but not as many would practice it.

“It’s generally thought to be a good and nice thing to do,” he said.
 
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B.B. King: 7 Things You Didn't Know About the Late Blues Icon​

In a career that lasted almost seven decades, he inspired Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and generations of other guitarists. His music never lost the weary sound of the impoverished Mississippi Delta where he grew up.

Here are some things you may not have known about the King of the Blues:

  • His real name is Riley B. King. B.B. stood for "Beale Street Blues Boy," a nickname he acquired after his radio DJ days in Memphis.
  • King grew up on a tenant farm near Itta Bena, Mississippi, where he worked as a sharecropper picking cotton. He was raised by his grandmother.
  • He was married twice but his greatest love was his guitar, which he affectionately called Lucille. The New York Times shares the legend of the guitar:
He was playing a dance hall in Twist, Ark., in the early 1950s when two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove. Mr. King fled the blaze — and then remembered his $30 guitar. He ran into the burning building to rescue it.He learned thereafter that the fight had been about a woman named Lucille. For the rest of his life, Mr. King addressed his guitars — big Gibsons, curved like a woman’s hips — as Lucille.
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  • By the numbers: King won 15 Grammy Awards, recorded more than 50 albums and toured the world well into his 80s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He had 15 children.
  • He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2006.
  • "The Thrill is Gone," King's biggest hit, from 1969, was a cover of Roy Hawkins' 1951 jam about heartbreak.
  • In October, he was forced to cancel eight tour dates because of dehydration and exhaustion. In 2013, he told Rolling Stone: "I'm slower. As you get older, your fingers sometimes swell. But I've missed 18 days in 65 years. Sometimes guys will just take off; I've never done that. If I'm booked to play, I go and play."

— Amber Payne​

 
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