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Thunderbirds are Go! - Fast motoring on a stylish and beautiful machine was apex motorcycling. It also hurt, so I was glad for gas stops every 50 miles The post Thunderbirds ar...
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Charlotte Douglas : Beyond Reason : Malevitch, Matiushin, and their Circles - One of 19 essays in the catalog of "Abstract Art : Abstract Painting 1890-1985" ..for the 1986 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...
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Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse - [image: Image: Bathhouse built on top of a hot pool, Taiwan. Photo from early 19th century, public domain.] Image: Bathhouse built on top of a hot pool, T...
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Real Finishes

Gebs, Chiselled Gypsum Plaster - Bou Inania Madrasa, FesThe word "Gebs" (الجبس) literally means "gypsum" in Arabic. The carving of gypsum plaster as a means of decoration came to be r...
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Urban Scale Richmond

- BASIC BUILDINGS *...The division of dwelling place and working place was no recognized feature of the social structure of the towns which our ancestor...
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L.M. Sacasas

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Buckets, Wells, and Aqueducts

A Revolution to Get In - When asked about his aims by Robert Penn Warren, Martin Luther King Jr. described the civil rights movement as "a revolution to get in." "In this revolutio...
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All Kinds of Junk

June 10th Racing -
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The Aldi Spanish Wine Tour

Spoonerisms

The Reverend Dr. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) Click above to view the new series.

Grebe

Restoring and sailing a 1981 Mariner 19'

Pandora

Click the picture for more on the 1951 lapstrake Nordic Folkboat "Pandora."

Maps from Books

Click above for the best maps from literature.

Tidbits

Learning From Pompeii - Caroll William Westfall
Architectural Squares; between Tradition and Modernity - Mario Gallarati
Dr. Sampo On the Purpose of a Catholic College
The Folkboat: Little Beauty with a Big Heart

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