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It's sad when people do this kind of thing. These kinds of items are irrrplacable and should be somewhere where we can all view them.
I remember my Grandfather telling me how he hopped a fright train from Oklahoma to caifornia in 1937, he was 14.
Well (and maybe this is what you really meant) I do think that they can fill up those CDs (as well as make them) with content, but the content is, for lack of a better word, "dumb". And I'm not just talking literally about some guy rapping "this is why I'm hot" and scoring a hit single with it. I mean that good citizens are not produced - ones who know and understand the deeper principles that form the foundation of America and that of Western Culture. There might be art in our world today, but what can we say about it? The "great art" (or at least "popular" art) has become the creation of blasphemous chocolate sculptures or turning Obama into a religious figure. The most beautiful structures in our cities are either virtually non-existent, or those based on older designs. How far removed we are from the glorious creations of Michelangelo and Raphael, the architecture of Brunelleschi or the Greeks or Romans. Or look at the magazines of today that crowd grocery store check out counters. Would we have found Thoreau, Hamilton, Locke - even Voltaire - reading any of these? Part of the problem, I think, is simply that our social standards have relaxed so greatly. We haven't had pressing needs, we're moved by materialism, and we feel we're entitled to special grants and favors. I don't mean to say that everyone is this way, but the ideological trends of our time have moved in that direction. Had Aeneas come from a 21st Century America mindset, I don't know that he would ever have founded Rome.
And thus we have a society that apprciates nothing. You hit the nail on the head.
Heres a site with a little history and pictures of the Victory.http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/Heritage/1797/Victory/index2.html
Around the turn of the 19th century the british navy rated there ships like this: They were divided into 6 rates:First Rate:100-112 guns, 841 men (thats all aboard)Second Rate: 90-98 guns, 743 menThird Rate: 64, 74 and 80 guns and up to 724 menFourth rate: 50 guns, 345 menFifth Rate: 32, 36, 38 and 44 guns 217 to 219 menSixth Rate: 20, 24, and 28 guns and up to 198 menThe ships that carried 60 or more guns were called ships of the line because it was they alone who could stand in the line of battle. Frigates in the military were ships that carried all there armamnet on one deck and were built for speed, thay also served as the eyes of the fleet. A two masted ship was called a brig and most of the other bigger vessels had three: the formast, mainmast and mizzenmast.http://www.frigate.com/frigate-defined.html
I actually did that and I got rid of all my shortcuts both desktop and on my favorites list and renewed them.
I never heard of them, but they sound pretty neat. I remember as a kid local dairys running their weekly routes with milk, ice cream, cheese, bacon and other good eats.
I am still having to refresh 3 or 4 times to pull up this site. And only this site. Anybody have any suggestions?
I'll get more to you later on this, but the main differnce is masts. anywhere from two to five (most of the bigger and faster ships had four) few had five.
