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5 days ago | 
thedailytimes.com | Terry Kovel |Kim Kovel
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1 week ago | 
thedailytimes.com | Terry Kovel |Kim Kovel
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1 week ago | 
agrinews-pubs.com | Kim Kovel
Ceramics collectors know Newcomb College for its famous pottery. From 1895 to the 1940s, students at the college, which was, at the time, Tulane University’s coordinate women’s college, decorated the ceramics that Newcomb Pottery sold. In accordance with the Arts and Crafts movement, the intention was to both teach the students vocational skills and encourage their appreciation for decorative arts and fine craftsmanship.
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1 week ago | 
lockhaven.com | Kim Kovel
By TERRY AND KIM KOVELSalt has played an important a role in human history as it does at the dinner table. It provides necessary nutrients, and it made food preservation possible long before refrigeration. The difficulty of obtaining it and the amount of processing required made it extremely valuable. Many known prehistoric towns were salt production sites; human migration, trade, and even wars have been driven by access to salt.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailygazette.com | Kim Kovel
With April showers comes the question: What do you do with your dripping raincoats and umbrellas? By the Victorian age, wealthy households had hall trees or hall stands in the entryway. They were functional pieces, kept against a wall to save space and featuring a place for everything: coat hooks, an umbrella stand, a bench with storage and often a shelf for small items. They usually have a mirror, too — after all, you want to look your best when you’re leaving the house or visiting someone else’s.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailytimes.com | Terry Kovel |Kim Kovel
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2 weeks ago | 
agrinews-pubs.com | Kim Kovel
Solar eclipses have fascinated observers for thousands of years. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle pointed to the round shadows that appear during eclipses as evidence that the Earth is round. European Renaissance figures like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton paved the way for more widespread interest in and more advanced devices for learning about the orbits of planets around the sun. One such device was the orrery, believed to have been invented in the early 1700s.
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3 weeks ago | 
agrinews-pubs.com | Kim Kovel
Many of us have a bread box in the kitchen. It’s usually a simple, purely utilitarian affair made of metal or plastic; nothing as fancy as a carved panetière like this one that sold for $1,408 at Neal Auction. Panetières were made and used in the Provencal region of France by the 1600s. Like the bread boxes of today, they kept loaves of bread safe from pests while allowing air to circulate to prevent mold. Unlike the humble bread box, they were made from wood with decorative carvings.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailytimes.com | Terry Kovel |Kim Kovel
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1 month ago | 
thedailytimes.com | Terry Kovel |Kim Kovel
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