Silver Throughout History From Spoons To Noble Plates
A sweeping survey traces silver from ancient spoons and apostle pieces to European and Asian customs. It notes silversmiths in Newburyport and Boston, Navajo craft, and major firms like Gorham Tiffany Wallace International shaping trophies and artistic wares.
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Duke of Albuquerque
New England
William Moulton
Newburyport
Mass
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Far West
Moultons
Paul Revere
America
Boston
Gorham
Providence
Tiffany
Wallace, International
Helen of Troy
Cleopatra
Mark Antony
Nile
Orient
Emi
China
India
Spain
Seven and the mystic number across world wonders
The piece catalogs seven wonders of the world three times over and lists seven virtues seven deadly sins seven champions of Christendom seven sages and other sevenfold sets. It notes the repeated cultural prominence of the number seven.
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Artemisia
Halicarnassus
Artemis
Ephe
New World
Yellowstone Park
Garden of the Gods
Niagara Falls
Lridge
Yosemite Valleys
Mammoth Cave
Christendom
St. George
England
St. Andrew
Scotland
St. David
Wales
St. Patrick
Ireland
St. Denis
France
St. James
Spain
St. Anthony
Italy
Sages
Greece
Locomotive Idolized by American Youth Across Generations
A nostalgic piece explains how the railroad engine remains a central boyhood fascination despite the rise of air travel. It recalls countless youths imagining themselves in the cab, watching engines in yards and stations, shaping lifelong dreams.
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America
The Engineer and the Engine in Boyhood Heroism
Washington Test reflects on railroad engineers as heroic figures to American boys. The engine symbolizes power and adventure, inspiring dreams of distant places as trains rush by in dawn or twilight.
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Washington
Firestone
Indianapolis
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Story of
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Iwnu Service
British
Pliny
Christ
St Peter
Wanamaker’s
James Ayn
Lytyl
Stussia
Thames
Winter Palace
Petrograd
Leningrad
Barcelona
Toledo
Isabella
Ferdinand
Mexico
Peru
Europe
Dabslon
Rhodes
Zeus
Phidias
Osmpia
Alexandria
Nome
Nanking
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Solon
Athens
Thales
Miletus
Periander
Corinth
Pitterus
Mitylene
Cleobulus
Licius
Bias
Priene
Chilon
Sparta
Palatine
Capitoline
Quirinal
Aventine
Caelian
Ephesus
Seas
North
South Atlantic
South Pacific
Arctic
Antarctic
Indian Ocean
Montreal
Hersig
WNU
Ram
Raymond Knight
Tims
Acven
Paker Peak
Hailweay and Electric Company
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