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BBC - Legacies - Architectural Heritage - England - Oxford - Life before the freezer - Article Page 1

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:35:29 -0800

http://www.icehouses.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/ice/

Life before the freezer

Old Icehouses

Before the days of mechanical refrigeration, ice was stored in icehouses or in underground ice wells, some of which still exist today and date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Ice was a luxury item enjoyed only by wealthy people and in Britain for example the fondness for using ice grew to the point where by the 1850's most country homes had their own icehouse.

19th Century London wanted ice in far greater quantities than the British climate provided. Whilst ice was gathered from lakes, and indeed from the Regent's Canal, and was stored, the amount of ice available was small and its quality often poor. Ice started to be imported from the United States in the 1840's, with the Wenham Lake Ice Company as one of the most famous names in the business. Carlo Gatti brought his first consignment of ice from Norway to London in 1857, of 400 tons, and one of the two ice wells at 12-13 New Wharf Road was almost certainly dug to receive it and store it until it was wanted by customers.

http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/ice/iceimport.htm

The First Icehouse in America?

The Robert Morris icehouse at the southwest corner of the President's House property may have contained the most technologically sophisticated refrigeration system in the fledgling United States. Utilizing the 54-degree constant temperature underground, people had been storing ice in caves and pits since at least Roman times. Morris's icehouse relied on this natural phenomenon, but also on an overwhelming mass of ice, good drainage, and the superinsulation of the building above the ice pit to provide refrigeration through hot Philadelphia summers.

http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/history/icehouse.htm

History of Ice Cream, Ices, Sorbets, Granitas - Ice Cream History

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:45:33 -0800

http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/ice/icecream.htm

History of Ice CreamFrom the page: "Although the exact origins of ice cream have been lost in history, there are many fascinating legends and myths which surround it. Legend and facts meet and sometimes inaccurately become part of the history. Ice houses, ice wells, and ices (drinks made with ice and snow) also seem to get confused."

History of Inventions

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:08:45 -0800

"The concept of an aerosol can originated as early as 1790."

"A German patent in 1904 contained the earliest recorded proposal for a color television system. "

"In 1577, Jost Burgi invented the minute hand. Burgi's invention was part of a clock made for Tycho Brahe, an astronomer who needed an accurate clock for his stargazing.
The first reported person to actually wear a watch on the wrist was the French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal. With a piece of string, he attached his pocket watch to his wrist."

"Around 1750, the first glue or adhesive patent was issued in Britain. The glue was made from fish. Patents were then rapidly issued for adhesives using natural rubber, animal bones, fish, starch, milk protein or casein."

"The Romans built the first swimming pools, history does not say which Roman did but we do know that the first heated swimming pool was built by Gaius Maecenas of Rome in the first century BC."

"It was in June of 1956 that the television remote control first entered the American home. It was attached by a wire to the TV."

Wis&322;awa Szymborska

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:14:28 -0800

Wislawa Szymborska

an unexpected meeting

we treat each other with exceeding courtesy;
we say it's great to see you after all these years

our tigers drink milk
our hawks tread the ground
our sharks have alldrowned
our wolves yawn beyond the open case

our snakes have shed their lightning
our apes their flights of fance
our peacocks have renounced their plumes
the bats flew out of our hair long ago

we fall silent in mid-sentence
all smiles, past help

our humans
don't know how to talk to one another

Edward Hopper

&&Jacques Resch, Oil Paintings &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:47:13 -0800

http://www.galerie-boulet.com/Resch/CV_uk.lasso

Jacques Resch

"JACQUES RESCH was born in the South of France on 26 February 1946.

Entirely self-taught, his passion for plastic arts began at the age of 12 painting all subjects available to him, ranging from imaginary world landscapes to portraits. He painted his first works right at the beginning of his career in 1971 and began to exhibit in 1974.

Jacques Resch's world of paintings is close to that of Bosch or Breughel, but we can also discern in them the full range of society's fears to which artists are sensitive: problems of progress, drugs, pollution, etc."

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Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:25:10 -0800

Theme : Sleep

Matthew Rucker "Sleep"

http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=5285

Paul Wilson "Sleep Walking"

http://www.paulwilsonart.com/main/gallery/index.htm

Wladimir Mielnik "Sleep of ocean"

http://artboyko.com/artist;MVF;all

Akiko Endo "Afternoon sleep"

http://www.akiko-endo.com/oil-painting/index-2.htm

RIČARDAS FILISTOVIČIUS "Sleep of Lethargy II. Ship"

RIČARDAS FILISTOVIČIUS "Sleep of Lethargy I. Container"

http://www.filistowicz.com/paintings.html

Polish poet Jan Twardowski

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:14:09 -0800

http://www.brindin.com/potwanie.htm
http://www.brindin.com/potwaswi.htm
http://www.brindin.com/potwamro.htm
http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/twardowski.htm

"Polish priest and popular poet father Jan Twardowski has died in a hospital in Warsaw at the age of 90. His poetic debut came in 1936 with a small tome titled "Andersen's Return". "Signs of Trust" and "Blue Eyeglasses" were among the collections which brought him broader popularity in the early 1960's. Jan Twardowski won numerous literary awards both at home and abroad. Critics lauded his simple but profound observations made using an exceptional sense of intuition. His often humorous and deeply perceptive poetry is read both by children and adults."

Jan Twardowski

"overheard written down"

The door shuddered - who is it?

- death

entered slight teeny-weeny with a scythe like a matchstick

Surprise. Eyes agog

and it

- I came for the canary

Translated by Ryszard J. Reisner

"In March"

In March appears
the rook
magpie
lapwing
tawny owl
heron
post-communist comrade crow
only God is not seen
doesn't wish to upset the non-believers

Translated by Ryszard J. Reisner

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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:18:35 -0800

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4662112.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/30/poland.collapse/index.html

Poland is mourning the loss of the 67 people killed in the Katowice Trade Centre collapse - one of its worst disasters in recent years.

roois blog - StumbleUpon

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:42:00 -0800

Interesting links

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/qtluong/sequoias.html

and short adequate commentaries

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Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:34:22 -0800

Paken

Outstanding collection of biographies or should I say "love stories" - caution ! - not "smooth" .

Unique.
I've never seen anything like that at SU .