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2008 a bad year for children, says CARE October 6th, 2008 Posted in Children/Family, Medical Ethics | From Christian Today As MPs and Peers returned to Parliament today after the summer recess, Christian social policy charity CARE released a disturbing new publication, ‘Wither Children’s Rights?’

Outlet stores could have sprung up from country potteries that sold their less than perfect products as “seconds” for reduced prices.  Stoneware jugs, crocks and churns are examples of a utilitarian antique pottery that spanned the early 19th century through the Civil War and beyond.  They progressed from being one-man made to being mass produced by the hundreds in large factories.

Greetings, Earthlings! Call me Zontar. Of first priority, I would most humbly like to thank Ms. Monkey for allowing me this exalted venue to make a very important announcement. Zontar the Magnificent (this is where my blog is), your ever faithful scribe has in the past been merely an observer of the machinations and follies of the events on your fair planet Earth.

Greetings, Earthlings! Call me Zontar. Of first priority, I would most humbly like to thank Ms. Monkey for allowing me this exalted venue to make a very important announcement. Zontar the Magnificent (this is where my blog is), your ever faithful scribe has in the past been merely an observer of the machinations and follies of the events on your fair planet Earth.

Old Russia Category: History, Photos, Society | Russia, some hundred years ago. (more…) Comments (54) 9:44 am

Wargames Factory announced release date October 2nd, 2008 Wargames Factor have announced a shipping date for their Roman and British plastic sets. From their website: Our printer let us know that the boxes have printed and will be sent to die-cutting and then gluing to be ready for us next week.

This month's issue of the Revue de Paris appeared on this day, containing the opening chapters of the first novel by an obscure writer who decided that realisticially depicting the adulteries of a provincial wife was the next new direction for the novel.

At the northern end of St John Street, you'll notice some mast-like structures on the banks of the North Esk River. Back in the 19th century, this area was known as the Russian Wharves. Why? Not sure. I assume these structures are there to represent this period of Launceston's history, when it was still a busy, functioning port.

A Netherlandish silver plated monstrance and a probably Italian silver ex-voto, 17th and 19th century the monstrance on hexafoil foot, rising to a lobed stem the the sides decorated with scrolls, the hinged lid with a figure of Mary Magdalene holding the alabaster box; the ex-voto designed as a young boy, maker's mark GM, Napels.

$2.00 Download Now! by Henry James 44 minutes, 35 seconds Unabridged Fantasy/Horror Story 1868 The first ghost story of Henry James, and was part of a gothic literature revival in the 1880s. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly.