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The ambivalence of air
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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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Talent, tech and visual art
Jamie Hale finds a combination of talent and technology are crucial when it comes to creating great visual art, but how do you keep working when your circumstances are in constant flux?
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Keeps the Mountain, a Sioux. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)Date: [1898], ©1898Reference: 557546i- Pictures
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A hospital beneath a castle keep and a range of mountains (the Alps?) Engraving by R. Wallis, 1835, after W.H. Bartlett.
Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854.Date: 1835Reference: 24309i- Books
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The seaman's vade-mecum, and defensive war by sea: containing the proportions of rigging, masts, and yards, ... Also shewing how to prepare a merchant-ship for a close fight, ... An essay on naval book-keeping; ... By William Mountaine, ...
Mountaine, William, -1779.Date: 1767- Books
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The seaman's vade-mecum, and defensive war by sea: containing, the proportions of rigging, masts and yards, ... Also shewing how to prepare a merchant-ship for a close fight, ... An essay on naval book-keeping; ... By William Mountaine, ...
Mountaine, William, -1779.Date: 1761- Books
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The seaman's vade-mecum and defensive war by sea: containing a maritime dictionary; the proportions of rigging, masts and yards; Weight of Anchors; Sizes and Weight of Cables and Cordage; List of the Navy. The Words of Command in exercising the small Arms, Bayonet, Granadoes, and great Guns, Duty of Officers, &c. Also shewing how to prepare a merchant-ship for a close fight, through the Bulk-Heads, Coamings, Loop-Holes, &c. with the Advantages to be taking in Chacing, considered, under all Positions in respect to Wind and Tide. Defensive Fighting; Shewing how Merchant - Ships are to act, in Fleets, when Canonaded or Boarded by the Enemy. Naval Fortification; The Advantages of Mooring considered, in respect to Wind and Tide; and how to lay Booms in Rivers, and raise Redoubts to defend them. An Essay on Naval Book - Keeping; Or a regular Method for the Purser, Clerk, Steward, and other Officers to keep an Account of Stores, &c. The Method of forming Signals for sailing in Company, under a Commodore in Time of War; with many other Particulars relating to the Navy, East-India, and Merchant Service. By William Mountaine, Mathematical Examiner to the Honourable Corporation of Trinity-House of Deptlord-Strond, and F.R.S. With additions by John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Mountaine, William, -1779.Date: 1783