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…
Quantrill’s Massacre of Lawrence
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…
Religion, Politics And Fear Of The Unknown!
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…
Chinese Antiques; Wise, Glorious – China Now; 1936 Berlin Olympics?
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…
Chinese Antiques, China’s Olympics – Less Athens, More Roman Circus?
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…
Japanese Antiques, Modern Japan – Less Samurai, More Buddha
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…
Diamond Minds, Blue Skies – On the Train from New York to London, Don’t Look Down
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…
American Antiques, Power, Wealth, Vision – How NAFTA Helps More Than It Hurts
In politics everywhere, even your favorite politician is forced into some mindless blather about some issue that the locals worry about. That has been happening in Ohio, where Democrats who know better reply that if…
Healthy Lifestyles – More Soul Of Aristotle, Less Sword Of Caesar
To watch the news from the middle east can be so painful. We can feel our hearts ache for those dying and being blown apart each day, we can despair, or still search for ways…
American Antiques, Reagan, NAFTA, – The Bigger The Better
When I first heard that American antiques legend speak of a North America all together as one, while he stared down the U.S.S.R. and had only known a hostile Russia all his life. To Reagan…