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Pigments, Paints & Dyes
Today volumes and varieties of premixed paints are easily purchased in stores, but this has not always been the case. Our predecessors just a generation or two prior had to make their own paints,...
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Isometric Camouflage
“Camouflage” was not an existing word back in 1890 when the Darwinist-zoologists Sir Edward Poulton wrote his book ‘The Colours of Animals’. It was not yet a proper word even later in 1909 when...
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Bake, Boil & Brew
Some beautifully simple and primitive forms of baking can be accomplished over just an open fire. Delicious soups and stews can be created from almost nothing. Soups and stews were historically...
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Splendid transitory shelters
Above is a little page construction built with the intention of quickly explaining the design elements for one specific type of dome. A physical photograph of this image along with a few other...
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Simple Dairy
* Two centuries ago ninety percent of the populous had to labor on farms, for the whole of civilization to eat. Only one short century ago, feeding everyone still required the full time labor of half...
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Cements & Mortars
_ Some of the strongest concrete in existence today was mixed by Roman laborers some two thousand years ago. It has been slowly growing stronger every day. Due to an ongoing “pozzolanic activity”...
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Chivalry or Probability
Notice above that neither one of the two-eyed Jacks has a mustache. Neither does the “Suicide King”. Notice that the King of ‘Diamonds’ carries an axe. The “Bedpost Queen” is the only queen that...
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Buggy & Wagon
_ If they sat in non distracted quietness during the recent pandemic, some people might have had time to reflect upon the simpler necessities in life. For example in February 2021, seven million...
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Dastardly “Imperial Roof Pitch”
Suppose a healthy young adult finds a summer job, working on a construction site. And that he or she is employed by an individual or carpentry firm that is currently building houses, condominiums...
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Book is here
Book is finally on the market. There is still a great deal of work to do in its promotion. Towards that end, it has recently been entered in the London Book Fair – which runs from 12-14 March 2024....
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