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Steelers hold off Colts fight back to claim fourth win of season
PA Sport Staff
November 29, 2022, 3:00 a.m. ·1 min read
The Pittsburgh Steelers held off a big second-half rally from the Indianapolis Colts to secure a 24-17 win on Monday night.
The Steelers all but shut down the Colts in the first half, holding them to zero yards in the first quarter and sitting on a 16-3 lead at half-time after Najee Harris' six-yard touchdown run and three field goals from Matthew Wright.
It all changed in the third quarter as the Colts, playing their third game under interim coach Jeff Saturday, came alive.
First Jonathan Taylor ran in a touchdown four plays after an 89-yard kick-off return from Dallis Flowers, then Matt Ryan found Michael Pittman with a six-yard touchdown pass that put Indianapolis up 17-16.
But they could not make it stick. The Steelers responded with an 11-play, 75-yard scoring drive that stretched into the fourth quarter, retaking the lead through Benny Snell's two-yard touchdown run before rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett hit George Pickens for a two-point conversion.
The Colts had an opportunity to respond late on after converting a fourth down on the Pittsburgh 37 with two minutes remaining, only to waste 36 seconds between first and second-down plays, rushing the next play on third down before being stopped on the fourth.
The Steelers improve to 4-7 after winning two of their last three, while the Colts are 4-7-1.
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Tag Archives: The Darcy Monolgues: Part II Other Eras
The Colonel
So I promised to post this in February, but I didn't end up doing it.
I really meant to post it on February 17th, after Valentine's Day as
"this isn't a love story but the end of one. The story of two ships forever passing in the night…
…this isn't a love story.
But almost."
But then I didn't like my review, so I shuffled the posts around so I could rewrite it.
But then I didn't like that review either-so this is my third time writing it.
I have been having such trouble with it as this story is a saga. It is an intense story spanning from the 1940s to the 2000s. It has drama, comedy, heartbreak, love, births, deaths, weddings, funerals, etc. The themes involve parenthood, family, trauma, biracial/bicultural romance, etc. This is a meaty book.
So this book is long, and I'm sorry if this review gets too long, as I want to reach a good point to pause at-discussing some but not revealing everything (you want some surprises when reading after all).
The story is flips from present (2002) to flashbacks of the past and is told with multiple narrators. That's not a bad thing, it just makes it harder for m to summarize as I don't want to confuse anyone reading my review.
None of the other reviews I wrote seemed right. So here we go again-try three.
Now I wasn't sure if I should do this review as I haven't read the first book, Longbourn's Songbird, but then decided to as this book isn't exactly a sequel as events in the novel do take place before the other book, as well as after it. The Colonel, follows Richard Fitzwilliam's exploits (Colonel Fitzwilliam from Pride and Prejudice) and his family's.
So the story is set in America during, and post WWII. I loved the idea of setting them in a different timeline and setting as it made the book more…hmm, I guess…unknown. North also focused on more of the supporting characters of Pride and Prejudice-Colonel Fitzwilliam, Charlotte Lucas, Anne de Bourgh, and Georgiana Darcy-with the main characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, etc-getting a back seat. With this focus on these characters and being set in a new timeline, it really allows the author to have the freedom to create their own story, while at the same time keeping the parts and the people we love in it.
So to make this easier for those reading, and myself (don't want literary whiplash) I'm going to start with Bennet "Ben" Fitzwilliam's story line [Richard's son] in the present (2002), and then Richard Fitzwilliam [Colonel Fitzwilliam from Pride and Prejudice] in the past and his family.
Bennet "Ben" Fitzwilliam
So the book starts off in 2002 NYC. Ben Fitzwilliam is the only son of Richard Fitzwilliam and life is not going well. He is suffering from trauma faced in 9/11, his girlfriend left him-and so he decides to quit his job and return to his father's home, the Fitzwilliam House in Annapolis, MD.
As he goes through the house, he starts to wonder more about his father. His father was a complicated man, with a very complicated life. There is so much he doesn't know about him and things he wish he could ask him. After much thought he decides to write a book about him:
Who better to write about a twice-decorated war hero who took two bullets in World War II and lost an eye in Korea? A man who spent his life making every damaged solider his brother, a man who never married but fathered a child out of kindness?
Who? Who is Ben's mother?
Ben also meets and begins a relationship with African-American Police Officer Keisha Barnes. When Ben discovered a locked drawer in his fathers study, he invites Keisha along, and the two get caught up in trying to discover "who" Richard Fitzwilliam is. They find some correspondence, one being to a woman he loved who he referred to as "Slim."
Slim? Ben knew he his father had a tattoo of "Slim" on him, but thought that was his war nickname. Who is this woman? What happened to her?
He later finds out from his cousin Maggie Darcy that his dad Richard dated her mom, yes Slim was his aunt, Elizabeth Bennet.
But his mother is Charlotte Lucas:
Okay, at this point of the book my interest was super piqued.
We have a mystery on our hands and I am utterly baffled what is going to happen next. Usually I have an idea of the direction the author will go in, but I have no clue with this story.
Will Ben be able to handle the truth about his father? Or will he be biting off more than he can chew? Will he learn from the mistakes and loves his father had-or will he fall victim to repeating the same choices as his father?
He also discovers a life changing secret that his father never knew. Will he be able to right this wrong and take on his father's legacy, in the best way?
Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam
So let's move to the Colonel's story:
So we start off in 1941, the war has just begun for the US and Richard and his brother are shipping out. Richard is quite the ladies' man and has been saying fond farewells with one and all, whilst older brother James, has been waiting with family. Darcy is visiting, he is not leaving for war as he owns factories that are producing War necessities.
James is loved by his father while Richard is not. Their mother was injured and had to be hospitalized after an accident involving Richard and both he and his father blame him for her state, even though it is no one's fault.
Sad…traumatic…poor guy
James is sent to Australia, Richard to Florida and Darcy to an unknown location (which I'm guessing is Oak Ridge, Tennessee). War life is hard and the trauma made harder when Richard loses his brother. He feels the loss strongly and now there is no one to smooth out the rough edges in his father. After he is wounded in a battle his father has him discharged and sent home.
But Richard has a lot of trauma over the war, and he takes off, disappearing from Darcy and Georgiana's lives. No matter how many detectives Darcy employs, they cannot find them.
A mystery, within a mystery…
Mystery, you say?
Richard decides he can't stand it any longer-the memories, the loss, the pain-he decides to end his life. He's about to jump and drown himself, but before he can he hears the pier snapping and rushes in to save a woman, Elizabeth Bennet. The two fall head over heels in love and spend all their free time together, as they only have a summer and then she will return home.
However, the summer ends when Richard purchases Elizabeth an expensive gift and the bill goes to Pemberley, bringing Darcy to his door.
Richard wants to stay and marry Elizabeth, but Darcy opens his eyes to the mess he is. He desperately needs some help, he's living in rathole, he's lost a lot of weight, he'd be making Elizabeth give up college, and his father had a stroke. Darcy is right on the fact that he needs help but I didn't get the other arguments as Richard has money. He and Elizabeth could marry and she could still go to school, I mean Richard's G.I. bill could pay for that if he doesn't want to use his money. But Richard doesn't stay, he recognizes that he is not in a good place and doesn't want to tie Elizabeth to all his pain and sorrow. He then leaves (which is good because Elizabeth needs to end up with Darcy.)
Richard writes letters to Slim (Elizabeth) but doesn't send them. This saga then takes on a new twist with the introduction of a completely new character, Miss Evelyn Ross, James' former fiancé.
Evelyn writes to Richard and the two continue correspondence throughout the whole book. She marries another man and has girls, the two continuing to write through all the ups and downs of life. They ask each other advice, share their hopes and sorrows, love each other unconditionally and platonically. I loved their characters together, their friendship, and the whole character of Evelyn Ross. I have to admit I think it was letter 3 or 4 and I wanted Richard and Evelyn to marry (unfortunately she already is married [Darn])
OMGosh, these letters. They are just so cute and sweet together.
So Richard returns to Pemberley, and helps with the Georgiana and the Wickham issue. A year goes by and Darcy has been out to Bingley's home he rented and is excited and relaxed, so Richard concludes there is only one thing to make him fell that way-it must be a girl. And when Richard goes to celebrate Charles' Bingley's birthday, he discovers that it isn't any girl his cousin is going ape over, but Slim-Elizabeth Bennet.
Richard is struck…
Very awkward.
So there are some fights, drama, and Richard ends up leaving to New York to live with Anne de Bourgh and Charlotte Lucas-where he causes more fights and drama. He then decides to date a girl who looks about 60% like Elizabeth-yes you can see he's making stellar decisions.
As you can imagine, it crashes and burns when Darcy and Elizabeth come to visit for New Year's Eve.
There is a big blow up between him and Darcy, although they tenuously mend it. Things take a turn when Richard reenlists for the Korean war and stops at the Pemberley house to say goodbye.
He leaves for Korea and gets damaged a bit more, physically and emotionally. He gets severely wounded and Darcy comes to stay with him and help him. The cousins repair their relationship, although their mutual love for Elizabeth will always stand between them and cause them to be insecure and lash out at each other.
Time passes, and Richard goes with Charlotte (who has escaped her horrible husband-see her section below) to help with her husband's funeral and they grow even closer. So close, that Charlotte asks him to be the father of her child when she is in a relationship with Anne de Bourgh.
This is like the worst idea ever. This is going to cause so many issues with the little family the three have made…but Richard says yes and the two are just sooo adorable together! When he tells her he respects her and it is an honor to be with her, and wants to treat her right-oh my heart!!! Having been in an abusive relationship, words cannot express how sweet that was to read. Now I want them together!
After little Ben is born. They are just so cute…but it doesn't last-Richard hasn't finished his ramblin'. He has more paths to take, old acquaintances to run back into, and maybe even a chance at falling in love again?
Georgiana Darcy
Georgiana is a young girl who stays and studies at home. She's never seen anything of the world, nor ever really wanted to. She's grown up not lonely, but has wished for more family. Especially now: with their father and cousin James dead, Richard lost in the wind, Anne sequestered on her mother's mansion, and Darcy upset and running through the rings of grief. Georgiana wishes there was more for her to do to help, but there isn't. She thinks about leaving for boarding school, but if she leaves her brother-who will he have? Who will she have?
A George Wickham returns to the estate and lifts Georgiana's young heart-she begins dream, hope, and even starts digging through her mother's belongings to take her luggage and clothes with her as she plans to run off with Wickham. Luckily she is stopped and saved, with Wickham getting sent into the military as punishment, (but not the kind of punishment I would give him.)
Is this too far?
Years go by and one day Georgiana runs into one of her brother's furniture factory workers, Ari Penska, a Jewish Polish refugee. The two begin a friendship-she teaching him English along with falling head over heels in love with him. But is this love? Georgiana has been fooled before…should she open her heart or will this be a big mistake?
Anne de Bourgh
In this version Anne is a lesbian who falls in love with Charlotte Lucas-Collins. She grew up imprisoned in her mother's home, controlled by her, and when she left to New York she began a new life as a painter with Charlotte.
Richard goes to stay with her and Charlotte but does cause a few problems with his drinking, roughhousing, etc. His disorderly contact gets him arrested more often than not, bringing Police Sergeant Kelly into their lives. Ann likes the man and decides she wants to paint him, the two becoming friends-with Kelly pining over her. Now, I know North wrote it a certain way but I loved how much Sergeant Kelly cared for Ann and then I wanted them together.
Things go well until Charlotte wants to have a child. Anne wants to support her but will she be able to handle Charlotte and Richard having a bond she can never be a part of?
Charlotte Lucas
Charlotte Lucas grew up with the Bennets and married their cousin. It appears the match was urged on by her parents, and it quickly became an unhappy one as he was an abusive monster.
She ends up falling for Anne de Bourgh, and after a truly horrible fight with Mr. Collins, the Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys help her leave him. She then journeys to New York with Anne. There she starts to undue the damage from her abusive relationship-the parts with Charlotte finding herself I really enjoyed as North really nailed the emotions and feelings of coming out of an abusive relationship. Charlotte later starts working as a seamstress.
Charlotte and Richard become very close, he wanting to protect her and Charlotte enjoying the friendship of a good man who won't hurt her.
Charlotte receives news that Leland Collins, her husband, is dead and she, Anne, and Richard head off to Florida to see for themselves. Mr. Collins was a traveling minster who would pull snakes out for his act. Usually they were milked of venom, but one was missed and he died.
Charlotte goes to see his "wife", a girl really, that he used and abused. I really like the interactions between Charlotte and this woman, and I think North did a great job capturing it.
Charlotte wants to be a mother, she has always wanted to be a mother, and she asks Richard to be the father of her baby. But is that a wise decision? How will that affect the family they have created in New York?
This story was compelling, my attention was captured from page one and I wanted to finish reading it and discover what the conclusion of the book would be.
I liked that North focused on other characters that aren't usually written about and ones that we don't know that much about-I mean in the original Pride and Prejudice we have Colonel Fitzwilliam, Charlotte Lucas-Collins, Georgiana Darcy, and Anne de Bourgh for only a few scenes and that gives a lot of room for an author to create.
I for one, never saw Colonel Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth as lovers-I always thought of them as mutually attracted to each other but never serious. But this is North's story and I don't mind that she took the story in this direction as it was done well, added to the characters, and that in the end she didn't decide to ignore Jane Austen's work and change Darcy and Elizabeth getting together (I'm looking at you Beth Patillo).
Darcy always!
But even if you don't agree with all the decisions that the author made, (clearly you can see I wanted the romance to go in different directions [I couldn't help myself]) or have a different viewpoint there is much to enjoy in North's take on a loved story.
There were some sex scenes, but they were tasteful and progressed the story line, rather than feeling like it was just sex to be sex. Like with Dangerous to Know, they don't overwhelm the story so if you like reading them you get what you want-and if it isn't for you you can just skip over it.
And let me say-I LOVE how the story is peppered with characters from other Jane Austen novels. While Richard is in boot camp he meets a Teo Bertram (Tom Bertram from Mansfield Park); Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility) is leading the troops in Korea, and Captain Wentworth (Persuasion) is the military doctor who operates on him. We finally have a Marvel Cinematic Universe-I think we need a Jane Austen Universe where all the characters show up in a book together (and something better than Austentatious)
One thing I also just love about North is that in her work she tends to do include multiracial romances. As being biracial and growing up with only I Love Lucy, it is great to have something to read that has that-like I can not express enough with words how it felt growing up and feeling so different and alone, with no one like you. This feeling of inbetween as you don't belong to one or the other. North, I wish you were writing stuff like this like 15 years ago.
North is a talented writer, really knows how to craft a story, and has an incredibly command with words and phrases. I look forward to reading the first book.
For more Beau North, go to Holiday Mix Tape
For more Pride and Prejudice, go to North by Northanger (Or, the Shades of Pemberley)
For more Colonel Fitzwilliam, go to Dangerous to Know, Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues: MILD
For more Georgiana Darcy, go to YULETIDE: A Jane Austen-inspired Collection of Stories Audiobook
For more on Charlotte Lucas, go to Rational Creatures: Elizabeth Bennet & Charlotte Lucas
Posted in Pride and Prejudice
Tagged A Summer Song, Anne de Bourgh, Ari Penska, Beau North, Bennet "Ben" Fitzwilliam, Beth Patillo, Charlotte Lucas, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Dangerous to Know Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues: MILD, Elizabeth Bennet, Evelyn Ross, Fitzwilliam House, Georgiana Darcy, James Fitzwilliam, Longbourn's Songbird, Mr. Darcy, Rational Creatures: Anne Elliot Mrs. Croft Mrs. Clay & Louisa Musgrove, Richard Fitzwilliam, Saga, The Colonel, The Darcy Monolgues: Part II Other Eras, The Darcy Monologues, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, World War II
May 29, 2013 by Moreland
Happy Birthday Pride & Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813, marking this year the 200th anniversary!
Now many there are many fandoms out there and in which the people convene, talk, dress as their favorite characters, create fan-fiction tales, etc. Some of the more known ones are Star Wars, Star Trek, Supernatural, Sherlock, Lord of the Rings, and Doctor Who; but none of these are anywhere near as well known, talked about, continuously recreated in film, book, clothing, memes, etc as Jane Austen. Face it, us Austenites have been around a long time and we are all pretty crazy.
If Jane Austen were still alive today this would be countless fans
And out of all of her amazing works which is the most loved, fantasized, recreated, and inspirational to other films/books/movies?
You guessed it Pride & Prejudice
I mean when someone mentions the name we all fangirl over it
This is so me
When a group of us Austenites get together and start discussing the books and the movies and we hear that someone hasn't read it, we all are shocked and disappointed.
It is a testament to how awesome Jane Austen is that her work is still compatible to today's times. It is so easily relatable, and she has clearly stood the test of time.
Here's to another 200 years!
One of the biggest reasons why is is the characters. Elizabeth and Darcy are so lovable, everyone wants to be Elizabeth and everyone wants a Darcy.
I mean even in a culture where bad writing has become popular reads (for example Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey) Pride and Prejudice still reigns supreme.
So to celebrate Pride and Prejudice's birthday, I am going to be doing a series of Pride and Prejudice posts honoring one of Jane's greatest works.
I also will be reviewing the books, films, musicals, etc that are based on Pride and Prejudice. So if you are a fan, I am pretty sure you will enjoy these posts, if not-sorry but Jane Austen is in the web address.
For those of you who enjoy my non-Austen posts, never fear those will be coming as well. I just figured it was time to put the Austen back in JaneAustenRunsMyLife.
Here is the first of a series: 30 works based on Pride & Prejudice that I plan to be reviewing. (As there are a LOT, I will be posting multiple lists. In fact, thus far my list is 83 items and I'm adding all the time.)
Pride & Prejudice: A BabyLit Counting Primer by Jennifer Adams
An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman #1) by Pamela Aidan
Darcy's Story: Pride & Prejudice Told From a Whole New Perspective by Janet Alymer
Pride & Prescience: Or a Truth Universally Acknowledged (Mr & Mrs Darcy Mystery #1) by Carrie Bebris
Suspense and Sensibility (Or First Impressions Revisited) (Mr & Mrs Darcy Mystery #2) by Carrie Bebris
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (Darcy & Elizabeth #1) by Linda Berdoll
Dangerous to Know, Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues: MILD edited by Christina Boyd and written by Various
The Darcy Monolgues: Part I, The Regency edited by Christina Boyd and written by Various
The Darcy Monolgues: Part II, Other Eras edited by Christina Boyd and written by Various
Victoria and the Rogue (An Avon True Romance #12) by Meg Cabot
The Butterfly and the Violin (A Hidden Masterpiece #1) by Kristy Cambron
Prude & Prejudice by Francine Carroll
Definitely Not Mr. Darcy by Karen Doornebos
Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
Fall for You (Jane Austen Academy #1) by Cecilia Gray
Too Pretty by Andrea Grigg
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
The Accidental Bride: A Romantic Comedy by Janice Harayda
Death Comes to Pemberly by P. D. James
Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart by Beth Pattillo
Pride and Prejudice Paper Dolls by Brenda Sneathen Mattox
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street
Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)
The 12 Men of Christmas (2009)
Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade (2012)
Death Comes to Pemberley: Episode One (2013)
Death Comes to Pemberley: Episode Two (2013)
Death Comes to Pemberley: Episode Three (2013)
For an earlier Pride and Prejudice post go to It's Super Important
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No guild quest linked with this event this time?
Thanks, Gambit. Just following in your footsteps. LOL.
Sad part is, I still can't trigger the effin boss.
Is Gree trying to dumb things down?
GLTQ still going on, so no thank goodness....GREE really another event? 3 at the same time, right after the wars? Are you even seeing all the people quitting this week??
There's people quitting? what? where?


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Novartis provides drug candidate compounds to TB Alliance
Novartis has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), which has locations in the U.S., Brussels and South Africa, for compounds to fight tuberculosis (TB) that have been discovered at the Novartis Institutes for Tropical Diseases (NITD).
According to the World Health Organization, there are more than 8.6 million cases of tuberculosis each year, with more than 1.3 million deaths reported annually. TB is a global disease, but has its deadliest impact in resource-poor countries. Current therapies for TB require six- to 30-month dosing regimes and drug-resistant strains of TB increasingly are emerging.
"TB is one of the scourges of the developing world and new medicines desperately are needed to combat its continued spread," said Mark C. Fishman, president of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. "TB Alliance is well placed to take our discoveries and compounds through development for the benefit of patients with TB."
NITD will fully transfer its TB R&D program to TB Alliance, which will take financial and operational responsibility for continued research, development, approval and distribution of compounds in the portfolio. Included is a novel class of drugs called indolcarboxamides that are active against drug sensitive and multi-resistant strains of TB. One of these preclinical compounds, NITD304, blocks MmpL3, a protein essential for the TB bacterium's survival.
Novartis efforts in discovery of medicines specifically for the developing world continues, especially focused now on new therapies for treating parasitic diseases such as malaria and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as well as viral disease such as dengue fever.


Ikkaku is a famous chicken restaurant from the Marugame district of Kagawa. Marugame is an area just west of Takamatsu. It is more famous for their udon, rather an udon shop called "Marugame". Also note that Marugame, the shop, is actually from Hyogo, not Marugame city. Ikkaku however is from Marugame. It is a small chain of chicken restaurants with only 4 locations in Japan. They have their Marugame shop, a Takamatsu shop, and one shop in Osaka and Yokohama respectively. When I first visited Takamatsu in 2009, I was told by my student to visit this chicken shop. I went there and put my name onto their list. It was a relatively small shop on the top floor of the building. As you got off the elevator, you entered the main entrance where you put your name onto the waiting list. You are then surprised by the line which extended onto an outdoor balcony for about 20 metres. It was insane but I had to try it. Last year, they moved into a new location that is a lot bigger and a lot nicer. It was a beautiful shop located just around the corner from the original shop. If you are in Takamatsu, from Takamatsu Station, just head down the shotengai and turn right when you see Starbucks. Then turn left at the first intersection and you'll see Ikkaku on your left.
The shop is a victim of its own success as I saw many potential customers decide to leave as they didn't want to wait. The food is delicious and in my recent visit to Takamatsu for the Setouchi Triennale, I visited Ikkaku twice! It really was that good. Ikkaku only has a few items on their menu. There are only 2 main dishes to order, the Oyadori or the Hinadori. The Oyadori is a tough bird to eat. It is cooked very well making it a chore to eat, but it is delicious. The best one to eat is the Hinadori. It is a very soft and juicy chicken leg that is sitting in its own fat. The chicken is very salty and peppery, and the skin is very crispy. While it may sound like the chicken is overly spiced, it is perfect, and when drinking beer with it, you can't stop drinking! There are 3 sizes of beer, the small, regular, and jumbo size. The jumbo size was large enough to fit a little baby inside it. It was just the right size for me and one piece of chicken but it does have a slight premium on the price. Other restaurants in the area try to replicate Ikkaku's chicken, and while I haven't tried it, they don't look the same and they probably aren't as popular. Whenever I'm in Takamatsu, I will have to go to Ikkaku at least once. It is akin to saying you have to eat udon when visiting Takamatsu. You just have to do it.
While the chicken is the main attraction, Ikkaku does have various other side dishes you can enjoy. I tried the Japanese style ham, which was salami with bonito flakes. I also had the curry tofu and cucumber. They were both nice but my only regret was not trying the Torimeshi, or chicken rice. It was a small bowl of rice with grilled chicken on top. It looked delicious but since I was already eating the regular chicken leg, I didn't bother to try it. I wish I had tried it but that may be in the future for me. I don't plan to go to their Yokohama shop anytime soon as Yokohama is not a place that I would naturally think to visit. I would consider it in Osaka but that is also unlikely in the near future. If you do have a chance to go, I highly recommend going there as you will not be disappointed.
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Actually, I believe that are three locations in Takamatsu. The one downtown that you're mentioning, one in Ota (the part of Takamatsu that's just south of the highway) and my wife tells me that there is one in Yashima also (not on the mountain, but in the neighborhood), and yes, I do recommend the place.
"The jumbo size was large enough to fit a little baby inside it." This made me grin.
The chicken sounds very nice – so does the beer – but do they have chocolate pudding?!
Looking at the menus, there is no chocolate pudding. I'm sure you can find another place for it there. You can always have the ice cream.


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Anchorage mother calling for safer student walking routes
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Updated: Sun 7:44 PM, Sep 22, 2019
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A concerned Anchorage mother is taking action to improve safety for student pedestrians on their way to and from school -- but she's finding out that a mother's touch isn't quite enough to make permanent changes to Anchorage roadways.
A student crosses the road near Mears Middle School
April Eide says she's tired of hearing about students getting hit at a busy intersection near Mears Middle School.
"I had just picked my daughter up, and I got a phone call from one of my board members, and she was like, 'A kid was hit.' It made me sick to my stomach," Eide said, recalling when a vehicle hit a student in 2018. "The first week of school this year, another kid was hit."
Eide has kept a close eye on the busy four-way intersection of Victor Rd. and 100th Ave. out of concern for her two children who have attended Mears. She's made it her goal to keep all students out of harm's way.
"Something needs to be done about this intersection," Eide said. "It's so big, and drivers think they're more important than the kid crossing. What they need to think about is 'What if it was their child?'"
She says the route that students are supposed to use to cross 100th Ave. is out of the way from where they actually exit the school. Because it's more convenient, they cross at the busy intersection. Eide wants the city to move the crosswalk so students can safely cross as they exit school grounds.
She's made calls to city and state officials, the school district -- anyone who could possibly help make these changes. The municipality has its hands tied with making physical changes to state-managed roadways.
"We certainly want to be part of that conversation," Anchorage School District Chief Operating Officer Tom Roth said. "We want to be engaged in it. But if it's infrastructure-related, we don't have the ability to execute those to completion."
Any design changes to local roadways fall to the Department of Transportation to complete. Assembly member John Weddleton says ASD should be able to get DOT's attention.
"We need ASD to say 'Move your crosswalk. You put it in the wrong place,'" Weddleton said. "And you guys have a lot of clout to say that."
The assembly and school district recently formed a Hazardous Routes Committee to look at ongoing safety and transportation issues. ASD Superintendent Dr. Deena Bishop says the district recognizes there's a problem and wants to be part of the solution.
Channel 2 reached out to DOT for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.
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Geography: The Kyrgyz Republic is a mountainous country, dominated by the Tien Shan range. The climate is sharp continental, with cold winters, hot summers, and numerous microclimates as a result of altitudinal variance. Kyrgyzstan is often called the 'Water Tower' of Central Asia. High altitude pastures and grasslands account for 85% of all agricultural land and are an important part of mountain ecosystems as they provide habitat for wildlife, as well as a variety of ecosystem services for human populations. (ELD, 2016)
Land Degradation: Soil erosion is a particular challenge for modern Kyrgyz agriculture. All agricultural areas of the republic are considered potentially vulnerable, especially to wind and water erosion, which affects already 45.7% of the total agricultural land. The main causes of deterioration are excessive stocking rates, overgrazing, and a lack of investments into improvement. (ELD, 2016)
Sustainable Land Management: Kyrgyzstan has set national voluntary LDN targets, established an LDN baseline, and formulated associated measures to achieve LDN. The country wants to improve the environmental condition of pastures through the introduction of a pasture rotation system, improve access to 10,000 ha of pastures via improved infrastructure, adopt sustainable land management practices on 100,000 ha of land area (including pastures and forests) and conduct land improvement works on 10,000 ha. (UNCCD, 2018)
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Scope and findings: This is the first study in the Kyrgyz Republic and one of few in Central Asia to assess the value of pasture ecosystem services with cost-benefit analyses. The study shows that although they provide a number of valuable ecosystem services, highland pastures have been intensively used in a way that threatens long-term sustainability, with pasture degradation occurring across all three sites studied here. Making changes towards sustainable land management can see increases in yield of up to 5%.
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How Geometries transformed Time Counts into Circles
Above: example of the geometry that can generate one or more circles,
equal to a linear time count, in the counting units explained below.
It is clear, one so-called "sacred" geometry was in fact a completely pragmatic method in which the fourfold nature of astronomical day and month counts allowed the circularization of counts, once made, and also the transmission of radius ropes able to make metrological metrological circles in other places, without repeating the counting process. This "Equal Perimeter" geometry (see also this tag list) could be applied to any linear time count, through dividing it by pior π: The constant ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159, in ancient times approximated by rational approximations such as 22/7. = 22/7The simplest accurate approximation to the π ratio, between a diameter and circumference of a circle, as used in the ancient and prehistoric periods., using the geometry itself. This would lead to a square and a circle, each having a perimeter equal to the linear day count, in whatever units.
And in two previous posts (this one and that one) it was known that orbital cycles tend towards fourfold-ness. We now know this is because orbits are dynamic systems where potential and kinetic energy are cycled by deform the orbit from circular into an ellipse. Once an orbit is elliptical, the distance from the gravitational centre will express potential energy and the orbital speed of say, the Moon, will express the kinetic energy but the total amount of each energy combined will remain constant, unless disturbed from outside.
In the megalithic, the primary example of a fourfold geometry governs the duration of the lunar year and solar yearFrom Earth: the time in which the sun moves once around the Zodiac, now known to be caused by the orbital period of the Earth around the Sun., as found at Le Manio Quadrilateral survey (2010) and predicted (1998) by Robin HeathEngineer, teacher and author, who discovered the Lunation Triangle (c. 1980), now evidently known to the megalithic as rationally relating the lunar year to the solar year. Collaborator with me during the 90s, in our understanding discoveries of the megalithic astronomers. in his Lunation TriangleThe right-angled triangle within which the lengths of the two longer sides are the relative proportions of the solar and lunar years. with base equal to 12 lunar months and the third side one quarter of that. Three divides into 12 to give 4 equal unit-squares and the triangle can then be seen as doubled within a four-square rectangle, as two contraflow triangles where the hypotenuse now a diagonal of the rectangle.
The linear count of 12 months in days was found to be a triangle where 3rd side of 3 gives a Lunation triangle with hypotenuse equal to the solar year in days (and months) which can be seen most simply as a geometry of the four-square rectangle side length three. Note the number of "dice" are 36, the number of months over three lunar years.
(This is Figure 1.3 of Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels)
Another megalithic example is only a few miles from Le Manio, at Crucuno and see also last post, where the Octon of 4 eclipse years was equated to a linear count just less (1.5 days) than 47 lunar months or 1388 days. This monument was built as a framework to reliably count between two eclipses four eclipse years apart, by counting days in one Iberian foot per day, since 27 feet are then 29.53125 Iberian feet (its rational length in days) since, at Le Manio, it had been established that 32 lunar months corresponded to exactly 945 days. The eclipse seasons are already the eclipse yearthe time taken (346.62 days) for the sun to again sit on the same lunar node, which is when an eclipse can happen. divided by two and so half again gives units of 86.655 days, which, times 16, is the Octon of 1386.48 days.
The geometry of Equal Perimeter (to the right) can be arrived from a time factored length using a "hop, skip, and jump" of
(a) 1/4 the count as a squares side length,
(b) a unit 1/11th of that and
(c) a radius rope 7 of those units.
The last eclipse year can be made into a square of that side length, whilst that side length can be divided into eleven parts and a radius rope can then be generated of length seven of those parts to create a circumference of 1386.48 days, in that case each day being an Iberian foot. This makes the circumference about 1267.63 English feet (386 meters).
While not every time cycle in the heavens is literally or visually made of four parts, any counted length can be halved and halved again to create a four-square rectangle. And the whole of the counted length can be transformed (as above) into a circular count of the whole counted cycle, once you have made the right length of radius rope in the same units used to count days or months. Such ropes could be retained so that circular structures are easily made without a count, at other megalithic sites.
Gough & Harris have recently found for many of Britain's and Brittany's circles, eggs, flattened circles , squares and other geometries incorporating the eclipse year, both in units known to Alexander Thom's work and in other units like the Iberian foot, and I shall be investigating their proposed sites in later posts and their Megalithic Foot which they found in lengths near the length in days of the eclipse year.
Recent book by
Thomas Gough and Peter Harris which proposes a special interest in the megalithic for structures of perimeter equal to the eclipse year of 346.62 days, or thereabouts.
Such "eclipse perimeters" or indeed, the counting of time as lengths, was not realized by Thom and in the later megalithic and by early dynastic Egypt, the English footThe standard prehistoric foot (of 12 inches) representing a unity from which all other foot measures came to be formed, as rational fractions of the foot, a fact hidden within our historical metrology [Neal, 2000]. was soon taken as the number one in a much more sophisticated metrological system, the most famous being the Great Pyramid of Giza as a geodetic model of the World. One still finds counted lengths of time and Equal Perimeter geometries within such later buildings (see Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels) since those cycles related to later sacred calendars, or the celestial spheres as spiritual beings within civilized religious thought.
Author Richard HeathPosted on July 4, 2022 July 15, 2022 Categories Geometry and Metrology, in Britain, near Carnac, Sacred Geometry: Language of the AngelsTags counting, Crucuno, eclipse cycles, eclipse year, eclipses, equal perimeters, Le Manio Quadrilateral
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by Archie P. McDonald
In my academic career I have been a Buffalo, a Cardinal, an Owl, a Tiger, a Thoroughbred, and for the past forty years, a Lumberjack. Those are the mascots of French High School, Lamar University (Lamar Tech when I was a student there from 1954 to 1958), Rice University, Louisiana State University, Murray State University in Kentucky, and Stephen F. Austin State University. I was a student at the first four and an employee of the latter two. One might say that I never "finished" schooling, because all told, I have been attending classes some where since 1941.
Lamar University is located in my hometown, Beaumont, Texas, which is why I got to attend college. The college wasn�t much older than I was when I became a Cardinal. It began as South Park Junior College in 1923 when the South Park School system accepted plans presented by Superintendent L.R. Pietzch to create the college from the growing population of Beaumont and the Golden Triangle Pietzch hired Carl W. Bingman as dean of the college and also principal of South Park High School. Within the year the name of the college was changed to Lamar in honor of President Mirabeau B. Lamar because of his well-known interest in education.
Classes began on the third flour of South Park High School but moved to separate facilities on the same campus. This made the college almost separate from the high school both physically and administratively, and the affiliation came to an end with the creation of the Lamar Union Junior College District in 1940. The district sold bonds to raise revenue to construct a separate campus only three blocks east on Virginia Avenue and the Port Arthur Road. These facilities were occupied in 1942 and John E. Gray became president of Lamar.
Lamar's curriculum featured traditional academic subjects but it also provided ample vocational instruction to train workers for a multitude of local industries. Rapid growth during and immediately after World War II justified expanding Lamar into a four-year institution, which was achieved in 1950. Gray left the presidency of Lamar in 1952 for a banking position and the board appointed Dr. F.L. McDonald as Gray's successor.
Under McDonald's guidance Lamar grew to over 9,000 students occupying more than 25 buildings. Graduate work was begun in 1960, two years too late for me, and by the 1970s Lamar had grown into a "system" with campuses in Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange.
Despite all my affiliations, I am still a Cardinal. Without Lamar, I would never have become an Owl or a Tiger, and especially not a Lumberjack.
� Archie P. McDonald
All Things Historical July 29, 2004 column
Distributed by the East Texas Historical Association. Dr. Archie McDonald is executive director of the Association and author of more than 20 books on Texas history.


Busy times call for some workarounds. One of the distinct advantages of audio books over its more physical form is that it saves time. Audio books take away a sliver of fun from the enjoyment of a book, but if the voiceover is well done, it makes up for it.
With the explosion of personal media players like iPods and even mobile phones which can carry media files, even a routine walk can be turned into an education.
Not all books are good for easy listening. Audio books on goal setting and motivation lend themselves well to listening while walking. That's not to say you can't enjoy an audio narration of a novel or even a bit of poetry.
The search for audio books may not always get you the title you want. Even then, you can get a few gems when you go searching. So, where do you go searching for free audio books to download and enjoy?
The following ten audio book websites, of course.
At this address you get free audio books in multiple genres and languages. You can check out the Top 100, drill through the genres, or use the Google search at the top to get the free audio book for download.
Downloads are available in mp3 and iTunes format. The books are mostly classical literature and very well organized with reviews and a small preview. You can also check out the Wikipedia links on the book and the author.
NewFiction.com is one of the better "˜lookers' in the class of free audio book websites. Perhaps, because it's about "˜iSoaps' or fictionalized stories delivered in episodes daily. Stories are voiced by trained dramatic actors for your aural appeal.
You can subscribe to the "˜iSoaps' and play episodes online, get it as a podcast, or download it to your PC or your portable device (iPod, cell phone etc).
ThoughtAudio is a neat little audio book website with a neat collection of classical works. You can listen to them online or download them in segments. You can also view the written text of some of the books as a PDF download.
Our previous thorough review Get Free Public Domain Audiobooks From LibriVox Get Free Public Domain Audiobooks From LibriVox Read More on LibriVox covers this audio book website. LibriVox is a repository of free audio books in the public domain. It is a volunteer driven site, where enthusiasts record freely available books and make them available as MP3 downloads or podcasts.
You can also volunteer to be a reader, no qualifications other than an audible voice is necessary. You can search through the collection using the catalog search on the site. An advanced search option is also available.
Podiobooks is a similar episodic audio rendition of free audio books as podcasts. Like lot of podcasts, you can receive them as RSS feeds or download them directly. The number of categories is well covered from alternative history to chick lit and satire. The audio book site has about 434 titles in its stock.
Audio books are just one of the sections covered on this site which focuses on educational media collected from other sites. You get to download free courses from universities in MP3 format, language lessons as podcasts, and a variety of other podcasts that cover subjects like technology, travel, music, science, and more.
LearnOutLoud.com is a well designed and large collection of audio books. Their catalog has 25,000 audio and video titles in a mixture of paid and free. You can click on the tab marked as Free Stuff to access the free audio books that are available for download with a right click.
All usual genres are well represented. For instance, if you are into self development, you have 425 titles to choose from. All titles are rated and reviewed.
Project Gutenberg is the ongoing effort to digitize and archive cultural works in the form of eBooks. It also works in co-operation with websites like LibriVox and AudioBooksForFree for creating audio books. As a result, you can browse through their comprehensive list of human and machine read audio books.
You can go through the list alphabetically for author and title. Audio books are also available in a number of languages. But the quicker way would be to use the Advanced Search page.
A free audio book site especially for children is a nice little place for classic children stories like "˜A Christmas Carol', fairy tales "˜Aesop', educational stories that cover The Bible or history, and lots of other original stuff. You can download a free audio story every week.
The interface at first glance appears a bit off-the-wall. Then you realize that it's a search tool for eBooks. Librophile collects and displays eBooks mostly from LibriVox and Audible. Click on the Free button and then go through the listings.
A mouseover over the thumbnail cover gives you a sketchy summary. You can download the free audio books as a ZIP file, play it in the browser, or check it out as a readable eBook. Clicking on a title takes you to the Audible or LibriVox website.
Do you have any other free audio book site to add to the list? Personally, I have found audio books to be the best way to beat traffic jams. What about you?
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Hi I just want to say that Librivox is really the only one you need to use. Librivox audios are the audio carries by most of the other sites and it is the best catologed.
Glad it helped! Hope you found the right books for re-learning embroidery. I thought audiobooks normally wouldn't help because the skill is more visual.
There doesn't seem to be an audio version of it.
The Library of Congress Talking Book Library has this title. If you don't qualify to be a member of this library perhaps you know someone who is and they can receive the book on any apple product after downloading the BARD app.
Thank you for taking the time to prepare this nice list.
I just wanted to offer an opinion about LearnOutLoud.com. I have been trying it, off and on, for years. I find that about 75% of it is PAID material, and among the freebies, there is not much useful. Much of the freebies consist of the first chapter of a narration that they sell, or the first lecture of a series that they sell, and much of the other stuff is either outdated or items of little appeal, such as perhaps the 9/11 report, or Clinton's speech given about some insignificant event. Every time I try the site, I wish I hadn't.
All the other sites that you named may be very good. Thought Audio's narrations are simply wonderful, but the selection is rather limited.
You may wish to add to your list EJUNTO.ORG for a few political and philosohical narrations, equally well done.
Thanks for the feedback Erik. This article is pretty dated now. Perhaps, we will bring out an updated one soon.
audiobookbay is the only useful suggestion here... unless of course someone wants only 100yrs old books or some amateur stuff.
I'm a huge fan of https://archive.org/details/audio for all kinds of audio materials.
There's also CraftLit, Forgotten Classics and Chop Bard.
There's also CraftLit, Forgotten Classics, and ChopBard.
http://www.the-airheads.com (My Audiobook Collection) an extensive tool for my Audiobooks.
Audiobooks turns your car into a university on wheels.
I'm a road-warrior that listens to more books than music in a 5-7hr drive (one way). Not finding what I want through the local library has me thinking this post really-really helpful. Thanks a bunch for the list and descriptions!
Hi Ethan, wow...a 7 hr commute everyday! You can get quite an education in an year's worth of time through audio-books.
I love these! I have been using many of them for quite a while. Thanks for this list!
Thanks a lot for all the extra links guys!
Also, http://www.overdrive.com publishes a HUGE catalog of audio books that are offered through memberships at your local library. They have many newer titles, and are compatible with most MP3 players. Only downside is that you may have to wait for the title to become available, and the title expires and cannot be played after 14 days. Did I mention...it's FREE?
Just move the audio book title you want to keep out of Overdrive's "My Media" folder and it's yours forever!
Great list Saikat - I've been wanting to give audiobooks a try so this is a fabulous place to start. Thank you!
AudioforBooks.com offers a growing library of free audiobooks for its members. Membership is free and there are other benefits for subscribers. I think you have summarized the benefits of audiobooks very well in the first paragraph of this page.
It's the quality of the narration that projects the scene of the story into the mind of the listener that makes a great audio book. This is often borne out by listening to the same book, read by a different narrator.
Recording an audiobook is no simple task and does require certain skills by the narrator, an analogy I sometimes use to explain this is, most people can sing! But not everyone can do it really well.
This is not a free site!
The website AudioforBooks not offer free audio books!


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The Best Comedy Movies By Dramatic Actors You Shouldn't Miss
June 28, 2016 By Deana T 13 Comments
I don't know about you, but I love watching the best comedy movies. Comedy is my go to genre, the staple I gravitate to, the peanut butter to my jelly. The best comedy movies cheer you up when you have a bad day, and can help you celebrate a good day. Yet sometimes our favorite drama actors mix it up a little bit and step outside of the best drama movies to bring you something amazing. What happens when a drama actor takes on a more comedic role? Here are some of the best comedy movies by dramatic actors you have to check out!
Pirates of the Caribbean- Johnny Depp
Pirates of the Caribbean is a 2003 pirate fantasy movie, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbosa, Orlando Bloom as Will Turner and Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann. The movie showcases Will Turner (a blacksmith) and Jack Sparrow (a pirate) who team up to save Elizabeth (the daughter of the governor) from a group of undead pirate allies. This movie is part of a series, and currently has four movies in the franchise, with the fifth movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, slated to be released in 2017. For this movie, Depp won the Empire Award for Best Actor, the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance and Best Comedic Performance and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. Depp is best known for his dramatic roles in the 1993 What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Gilbert Grape, the 2004 Transcendence as Doctor Will Caster and the 2015 Black Mass as James "Whitey" Bulger.
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Forrest Gump- Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump is a 1994 epic movie that combines romance, comedy and drama, starring Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Robin Wright as Jenny Curran, Sally Field as Mrs. Gump and Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor. The movie is about the life of Forrest Gump, a man who is slow-witted yet kind-hearted. You see all the crazy events that happen in Forrest's life, as well as witnesses some major events that happened primarily during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. For this movie, Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture and the People's Choice Award for Favorite Actor in a Motion Picture. Gump is best known for his dramatic roles in the 1993 Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett, the 1995 Apollo 13 as Commander Jim Lovell, the 1999 The Green Mile as Paul Edgecomb and the 2013 Captain Phillips as Richard Phillips.
Elf- James Caan
Elf is a 2003 Christmas comedy movie, starring Will Ferrell as Buddy, James Caan as Walter Hobbs, Mary Steenburgen as Emily Hobbs, Daniel Tay as Michael Hobbs, Zooey Deschanel as Jovie, Edward Asner as Santa Claus and Bob Newhart as Papa Elf. The movie is about Buddy, who is one of Santa's elves, who learns that he's really a human and meets his real dad, Walter Hobbs. Caan is best known for his dramatic roles in the 1972 The Godfather as Santino "Sonny" Corleone, the 1992 Honeymoon in Vegas as Tommy Korman and the 2013 Blood Ties as Leon Pierzynski.
What are the best comedy movies you have ever seen? Do you love any of our picks? Talk about it down in the comments!
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Forrest Gump was a great movie when it was released just a few years ago 🙂
Elf is definitely one I always LOL at. Enchanted has a few scenes that I always laugh at too.
Jessica Harlow says
I loved the Pirates of the Caribbean series too! Johnny Depp brought the hilarious and eccentric Jack Sparrow to life!
Elizabeth O. says
These movies are all so entertaining and funny! I love seeing dramatic actors in roles where you don't expect them! This is a nice line-up, that's for sure.
Karlaroundtheworld | Karla says
Those are great recommendations, I've personally watched them all and Forrest Gump, although not comic, is by far the best one here. Will Ferrell's movies tend to be a bit more extreme when it comes to humor and not to say they're bad for teens (since objectiovely, his movies are really funny), I would suggest some Adam Sandler movies as alternatives.
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Racing history comes to life at the Fred Simeone Museum
jonathano October 29, 2019
By Al Kemp
When Fred Simeone was a young man, his father gave him his first car, a used Alfa Romeo 6C 2500. The car was in such a sorry state that it spent more time out of commission than on the road, thus achieving the father's goal of keeping his son from driving as long as possible.
But that's when Simeone's passion for automobiles was born. It didn't take long before Simeone was entirely enthralled with race cars — a passion that has lasted all his life.
The young man grew up to be Harvard-trained neurosurgeon Dr. Fred Simeone, and his collection of cars grew so fast and so vast that it takes a museum to house them all — which is lucky for anyone interested in motorsports and automotive history.
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia is one of the world's greatest collections of racing sports cars. Assembled over 50 years, the collection features more than 75 historically significant cars including Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Mercedes, Jaguar, Bentley, Porsche, Aston Martin, Corvette, Ford and more.
From a 1909 American Underslung Traveler to a 1987/88 Ford Thunderbird, the collection is devoted to the most pristine and the most lovingly restored models the history of car racing, as seen through Dr. Simeone's eyes.
The cars in the collection are presented almost as living specimens, and examples of how "racing improves the breed."
Far from being a sterile "laboratory" of automobiles, the Simeone Foundation strives to share the thrill of racing through its Demo Days held on 20 Saturdays throughout 2019, when select models are taken for a spirited spin around the racetrack behind the building.
Before the demo begins, there is a brief discussion on the importance of the vehicles being driven, their technical aesthetic and historical relevance.
"Our philosophy is that it is not just the mechanics of the machine, or how fast it can go, but about where the car has been and what it has experienced," said Simeone. "Each one has a story worth hearing."
The Simeone Foundation research library is one of the largest automotive specialized libraries in the world, offering a wide variety of research materials for the automotive historian, restorer and constructor. The collection includes sales literature and other factory-produced material, from 1892 to the present, with over 1,700 different makes of cars represented.
The museum also hosts summer camp sessions where campers get daily instruction in automotive technology and artistry while experiencing the collection up close.
The 78,000-square-foot museum is also available as a venue for special occasions. It can accommodate 1,000 people seated, and has hosted hundreds of events weddings, fundraisers, birthday parties, retirement parties and more. IAH
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, located on Norwitch Drive near Center City Philadelphia, was named Museum of the Year by the International Historic Motoring Awards.
Learn more at www.simeonemuseum.org
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