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Showing posts with label Arthur Conan Doyle. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Little Russia - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
Little Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Little Russia (Rus' Minor), sometimes Little or Lesser Rus’ (Russian: Малая Русь or Малороссия; Ukrainian: Мала Русь), is a historical political and geographical term in the Russian language referring to most of the territory of modern-day Ukraine before the 20th century."
Saturday, April 23, 2011
E. Remington and Sons - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
Image via WikipediaA maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome. E. Remington and Sons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Remington's typewriter
Sholes & Glidden Typewriter, 1876
In 1867 Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Lewis invented another typewriter. The Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first device that allowed an operator to type substantially faster than a person could write by hand. The patent (U.S. 79,265) was sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E. Remington and Sons (then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines), to commercialize what was known as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. Remington started production of their first typewriter on March 1, 1873 in Ilion, New York. The Type-Writer introduced the QWERTY, designed by Sholes, and the success of the follow-up Remington No. 2 of 1878 – the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters via a shift key – led to the popularity of the QWERTY layout.[1][2]"
Hansen Writing Ball - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
experimented with different placements of the letters to achieve the fastest writing speed. Malling-Hansen placed the letters on short pistons that went directly through the ball and down to the paper. This, together with the placement of the letters so that the fastest writing fingers struck the most frequently used letters, made the Hansen Writing Ball the first typewriter to produce text substantially faster than a person could write by hand.
Writing ball - model from 1870
Writing ball - model from 1878
Thursday, February 24, 2011
White Cotton Grass - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
Black Labrador Dog In The Marsh And White Cotton Grass On Isle Of Anglesey North Wales Stock Photo 32270800 : Shutterstock: "Black Labrador Dog in the marsh and white cotton grass on Isle of Anglesey North Wales"
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
A tin box for botanical specimens - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly- net in one of his hands.
Carl Giordano, Tinsmith - Biographical Information: 'We created a reproduction botanist's specimen case, or vasculum,'"
Carl Giordano, Tinsmith - Biographical Information: 'We created a reproduction botanist's specimen case, or vasculum,'"
Propitious - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion.
[pruh-pish-uhs] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather."
Efface - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and gray impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.
Efface | Define Efface at Dictionary.com: "ef·face
[ih-feys] Show IPA
–verb (used with object), -faced, -fac·ing.
1.
to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.
2.
to rub out, erase, or obliterate (outlines, traces, inscriptions, etc.)."
[ih-feys] Show IPA
–verb (used with object), -faced, -fac·ing.
1.
to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.
2.
to rub out, erase, or obliterate (outlines, traces, inscriptions, etc.)."
copses - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
I drew aside my curtains before I went to bed and looked out from my window. It opened upon the grassy space which lay in front of the hall door. Beyond, two copses of trees moaned and swung in a rising wind.
Image by Pretty Poo Eater via Flickr
Image by Pretty Poo Eater via Flickrcopses - definition of copses by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.: "copse (kps)
n.
A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice."
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n.
A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice."
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Baluster - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes
A square balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair. Baluster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Image via Wikipedia
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