Mesopotamian potters discovered the method for making multi-colored opaque glass beads around 2,750 BC. Circa 1,100 AD, a window of colored glass was documented in Germany. Colored glass windows were used in churches, monasteries, and other ...
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All six figures on the stained glass of the east window at Saints Church at Great Melton have now been identified, after a number of calls from the public, historians and stained glass experts. The window, made from Victorian glass from ...
Older women are physically inactive for about two-thirds of their waking hours, according to new research. But that doesn't mean they're just sitting still. Although women in the study appeared to be inactive for a good portion of the ...
Builders and designers did not stop at the sanctuary when they made stained glass windows a focus of the First Presbyterian Church of Carthage. The church has more than 20 stained glass windows, all original to the church constructed in ...
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People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
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Don and Debora Young watched anxiously as Dorothy Patterson’s dream came one window closer to fulfillment at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. “I’m a little nervous, because glass breaks and a million things ...
One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
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Church & Dwight is set to add a new production line at its manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania to expand its gummy vitamin production capacity. Work on the $55m project is scheduled to commence in January 2014. The line is expected to ...
Three prominent U.S. senators have in a federal court filing questioned the claim of the National Security Agency that its bulk collection of phone records is required for intelligence purposes. The brief argues that after extensive ...
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C&R Flooring is the recipient of a 2013 Silver PRISM Award in the "Community Spirit" category by the Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston (BRAGB). The PRISM (Prestigious Results in Sales and Marketing) Awards recognize ...
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With food prices skyrocketing and food supplies looking increasingly questionable for 2013, you'll be happy to know I've selected and assembled a list of recommended storable foods from a trusted discount source. All the foods listed below ...
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SageGlass options eliminate trade-offs between energy efficiency and aesthetic design goals SAGE has expanded architectural design possibilities for dynamic glass by making SageGlass® available in multiple shapes and colors with ...
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For those who study stained glass windows, reveling in the parables of faith and sunlight crafted by master artisans, the art form is full of unanswered questions. For example, the information Barbara Johnson could gather listed the ...
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The American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) announced Tuesday the selection of Richard Chriss as its new Executive Director, replacing David Phelps, who is retiring. Phelps served as the Institute's Executive Director and later ...
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Jervis B. Webb Company, a subsidiary of Daifuku Webb Holding Company, will be holding a FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League scrimmage and demonstration on Saturday, November 9, 2013, at Jervis B. ...