A flack jacket is a form of protective clothing in the design of a vest. It is used to provide protection from shrapnel and other indirect low velocity projectiles. The flack jacket was originally developed by the Wilkinson Sword company during World War II to help protect the Royal Air Force air [...]
The attack was a direct response to suppression aid by the people of Kansas to the Missouri raiders, which were led by Quantrill, a member of the pro-slavery Confederate forces. Lawrence is also where Union and Jayhawker forces get a headstart when they enter into Missouri.
Before the Raid
The raid was partly caused by the issuance [...]
There were no Catholics in our town before JFK. If there were, none of the kids in my gang knew about them. It was rumored that they had a church in town somewhere behind the local A & P, but I never found it. I was already in my teens before I [...]
Chinese antiques have delicacy and intricacy that can amaze and delight. To view such pieces is to deeply appreciate that such an ancient civilization was creating such intricacy when most of the world, including Europeans lived in caves and trees is to appreciate the rich depth of the Inner Kingdom. And yet as the [...]
Chinese antiques civilization evolved very separately from influences from the west until modern times, and those were more of warships and gunboat diplomacy by the west to intrude itself into commerce of the Orient. The west has much to feel shame about in it’s treatment of China, as does Japan, and for which China never [...]
Japanese antiques follow the pattern of their mother China, in that as peoples poured out of Africa some million years ago, they took on various characteristics, whether the golden peoples of the east who also poured over into the America’s and became brown, or the Indo European groups that spread west into Europe, becoming lighter [...]
It will take some brilliant thinking, a collection of diamond minds, to ever hope to bring us back to blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long. We enjoyed that in our happy days youth, before all the modern progress. Then, it seems, we matured away from the massive amounts of humanity that traveled [...]
When Julius Caesar, and later Mark Antony first met Cleopatra she saw to it they were both in turn dazzled and enchanted. Her golden barge would pull up at the wharf at Alexandria; the mighty Roman would be brought aboard to more splendor than he could ever have imagined.
Cleopatra was dazzling with jewels, diamonds, [...]
Socrates in his youth was a fit warrior, but wounds of wars made him in old age an ugly old man. Socrates was retired with a small pension when he could no longer fight, and would walk in rags through the streets of Athens in his later years.
But in his youth, during the height [...]
How Roman antiques history can come and go in waves can fascinate and cause us to marvel. First major influences came out of west Asia and Egypt, then up the east side of the sea.
This great sea became the focus of western civilization and Phoenician and Greek ships colonized the more western regions, Greeks [...]