[lace-chat] Punctuate!
A friend sent me a blurb from a blog about this T-shirt, which I found totally irresistible. Got one for myself and one for my son but every reader (and/or teacher) should, at least, get a chuckle out of it http://www.sackwear.com/product_info.php?products_id=34 -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] English Civil War question
The lace-chat list is for any and all subjects. What a find. Please reply to the list if you have any knowledge, it sounds like an interesting thing to hear about. I can't help, history was a favorite subject at school until we reached the Corn Laws and then I just lost interest. Maybe you should take it to an Antiques Road Show. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Thurlow Weed wrote: From: Thurlow Weed Subject: [lace-chat] English Civil War question To: "lace chat" Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 7:02 PM Greetings to all spiders on this the first day of Spring! So why is it so much colder today than yesterday? :( I have a question highly off-topic, but there is such a wealth of knowledge here I'm hoping someone on the list is an English Civil War history buff or historian or have connexions thereunto and can provide some help. For many years I've had years a military draft (conscription) document signed and sealed by the James 4th Duke of Lennox and Jerome 2nd Earl of Portland, and is dated 12 December 1636. It commissions a man with "the charge and leadinge of all the able men from the age of sixteene to threescore furnished and unfurnished to be taken within the hundreds of Odiham and Crondall." It is a form letter, with all spaces completed with the name of the man commissioned, where to bring them, who is in charge, etc. My late father found this piece of paper folded up and stuck inside an old book in a second-hand bookseller's. I think he paid 25 cents for an uninteresting book just so he could get this interesting-looking "old document" stuck in its pages. I'm curious to know if such a thing would be considered a rare document, would this be something of significant interest to history buffs or historians, does it have any value, etc., as well as suggestions for preservation, if other than a good quality acid-free sleeve. Please respond privately. Thurlow Weed Lancaster, Ohio tw...@greenapple.com To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] English Civil War question
Greetings to all spiders on this the first day of Spring! So why is it so much colder today than yesterday? :( I have a question highly off-topic, but there is such a wealth of knowledge here I'm hoping someone on the list is an English Civil War history buff or historian or have connexions thereunto and can provide some help. For many years I've had years a military draft (conscription) document signed and sealed by the James 4th Duke of Lennox and Jerome 2nd Earl of Portland, and is dated 12 December 1636. It commissions a man with "the charge and leadinge of all the able men from the age of sixteene to threescore furnished and unfurnished to be taken within the hundreds of Odiham and Crondall." It is a form letter, with all spaces completed with the name of the man commissioned, where to bring them, who is in charge, etc. My late father found this piece of paper folded up and stuck inside an old book in a second-hand bookseller's. I think he paid 25 cents for an uninteresting book just so he could get this interesting-looking "old document" stuck in its pages. I'm curious to know if such a thing would be considered a rare document, would this be something of significant interest to history buffs or historians, does it have any value, etc., as well as suggestions for preservation, if other than a good quality acid-free sleeve. Please respond privately. Thurlow Weed Lancaster, Ohio tw...@greenapple.com To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Daily test
On Mar 19, 2009, at 14:37, Agnes Boddington wrote: 3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from? * * Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said 'green bricks,' why the hell are you still reading these??? Um... Nope. If red houses are made from red bricks, etc, then green houses are made from green bricks. Greenhouses, on the other hand, are made (mostly) from glass. Lacemaker, lace maker, build me a house... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
