On Carl’s encouragement, I contacted the Public Library of Manchester England. I wrote in hopes of finding some information about “Arnold & Lewis”, the manufacturers of my tower clock.

This is my “war post”. If you don’t want to have anything to do with it, do not read further and just wait for my next post.
“History ignored, repeats.” … While profound, the title of this blog is evidenced and true. “History”, if ignored, is destined to repeat. Put another way, if you do not [...]

… rustling in the leaves was a small creature, not more than 4 inches in length. On a forceful day, it might be found standing on its hind legs and even then it would be little more than half a foot high. Still, it was the ruler of the forest from which it [...]

“When is dinner ?” - this is not a request to be invited over for food, although, if you are a good cook, have an extra chair, and are somewhat regionally located, I would be happy to assume that definition. No, this has to do with the growing ambiguity of the definition of [...]

75 years ago today, the United States government enacted the minimum wage.
In 1933, that was $0.40/hour. What’s interesting is that if you take 75 years of inflation (a bit more than 1500%) as well as the cost of living index (which has risen from 13.1 to nearly 220) you end up [...]

From AVWeb

By Mary Grady, Contributing Editor

Seven years later, we still are caught short by the appearance of that date on the calendar — September 11 — it brings back all those memories of a day when aviation, and our country, were changed forever. While everyone was affected in one way or another, those of us [...]

Hey again. This started as a letter to a friend of mine who will be headed this way in a few weeks …
I was about to call it a night and a mash of things took place. I was brushing my teeth and thinking; “when he arrives, should I tell him that the evening news [...]