Ramage"...an axis of innumerable relationships..." Jorge Luis BorgesSweet spirits of cats a-fighting...!- April 15, 2004 ....otherwise known as white lightning, skull cracker, see seven stars, bush whiskey, or moonshine. From the Palmer Appalachian Photograph and Artefact Collection at the Virginia Tech Imagebase. Earl Palmer's photographs, taken over a fifty-year period, include depictions of the traditional...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/04/sweet_spirits_o.html Disfarmer, 1884-1959- April 11, 2004 The young Mike Meyers "rejected the Arkansas farming world and the family in which he was raised. He even claimed at one point in his life that a tornado had lifted him up from places unknown and deposited him...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/04/mike_disfarmer_.html Corkscrew revolutionaries- April 11, 2004 "The old &38; tiresome process of drawing Corks by the ordinary Corkscrew is entirely obviated in the Construction and novel action of the Presto Corkscrew. Its superiority will at once be seen and its use understood by the following...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/04/corkscrew_revol.html Picturing Japan- April 11, 2004 Anthropologist John W. Bennett's extraordinary photographs of occupied Japan, 1949-1951. Bar-girls soliciting vigorously. Rice stalks at a traditional farmhouse, with a man wearing a traditional rice straw raincoat. via metafilter....http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/04/picturing_japan.html Victorian Patents and Patentees 1854-1904- April 11, 2004 That's Victorian as in "pertaining to the state of Victoria" in Australia. This is a patent applied for there in 1875, filed as Volume 10, Patent 2020. "A.D. 1875, 8TH FEBRUARY. No. 2020. REEVES, CHARLES STEPHENS, of Railway place, Williamstown,...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/04/victorian_paten.html Scrubbed- April 8, 2004 Victorian Turkish Baths, public and private. Advertisement for Turkish baths at home, Illustrated London News, 1900. via the Librarians' Index to the Internet....http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/04/scrubbed.html On Blogging- April 6, 2004 Kotkowska On Blogging "As a religious practice, blogging acquired the same status as begging..." Witty and erudite cod-history of this thing of ours. Via boynton. Here's another extract that particularly appealed to me: Footnote number ix reads: "Streets and sidewalks...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/04/kotkowska_on_bl.html |