According to Geraldine Chimirri-Russell curator emerita for the Nickle Art Museum of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, certain series...
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Back when the Gallery Mint Museum was more active, at least one coin dealer fell for a reproduction that was tooled to look like a circulated...
Some discussions here can be found by searching for "Chimirri". Geraldine Chimirri-Russell is the Calgary museum curator who first posited the...
Great write-up! I note that the extreme cold and scorched earth policy should have been a history lesson to at least two armies later on... And...
Nice old machine. Gotta love 'em... but these days, you can sinter metal with a 3-D printer. And there are job shops who will do it for you.
Halloween 2008 Ann Arbor. [ATTACH] Kids got world paper or world coins. Grown ups got stock certificates. (It was the 2008 Meltdown.) Q: "What...
Those were two different experiences. And as you note, you miss the time you spent with your Dad. I don't know if dads and kids click-click-click...
Yes, that is another point. Editors send articles to reviewers. There are stories of areas in physics where one reviewer had to pass on doing the...
That is a whole other discussion, but let me suggest something, being a professional writer. I write online, as I am doing now. I have a blog. On...
Just by analogy, we look to the ancient Greeks for the roots of science. But, Democritus and his atom and even Empedocles suggesting based on...
Former ANA President and president of Krause Publications, Clifford Mishler, calls collecting "a gene you do not inherit." Something special,...
Marksmanship M-1 [Another Carbine; cannot read] Army Service Ribbon. NCO Professional Development Ribbon Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal...
As I said above in #4, he did get the Good Conduct (twice). That was for his ten years in the National Guard. However... I thought that he did not...
The DD-214 is the general discharge papers and the 201 is the cumulative personnel record. There are others such as DD-4 and DD4/1 Enlistment /...
We do not do much with these here. Over the years, we have had few discussions, and most of them were thin. 2011 did not go anywhere...
See the coins of colonial France Indochina (Vietnam). [ATTACH]...
Anyone? I work for an engineering firm and we play with magnets. (Drop a disk magnet down a copper tube and it will float to the bottom...)....
We too easily think of ten as being "natural" and wonder why 12 was used. If you use your thumb for a pointer, you can count off twelves on the...
Thanks for the continuing story... My first undergraduate school was the College of Charleston. Francis Marion National Park is outside of that...
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