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Not just a rhetorical question. Edgar Dale proposed the famous heirarchy of learning, with a triangle diagram meant to show approximately the importance of various ways of communicating knowledge:...

This is all I got so far. November is when they say it'll be out:

http://lsupress.org/books/detail/narrative-of-james-williams-an-american-slave/

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I read the book but I didn't know there would be a test on it.

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Imagine what it must be like to be born with the last name "Dumas," and the uphill struggle to get it pronounced the right way. I don't know whether that's his birth name, but a quick google search...

Did a soldier throw away his letters from home and his paper money fairly often? If so, fine. If not, then I think a reenactor is coming at it from the wrong angle if he's seeing these as items just...

I didn't see anything about the statue at that link.

A news story on the statue:
http://www.wtop.com/159/3322329/105-year-old-Confederate-statue-stirs-controversy-Photos

This seems to be the...

Just curious why the assumption is that a trunk would have a clear finish. My first instinct would be to cover it in leather. You see antique trunks today mostly stripped to the bare wood and coated...

Reminds me of the time there was a trash pile at an event, and I wanted to take a crate out to use for a table. I asked the surgeon, in whose charge I was, if I could and he said no, he thought it...

Yes, I've also been noticing a lack of events, and not much forward progress overall. Not that where things are is bad, just that I'd like to see the same discontent there was in, say, 2000, except...

I agree, the kepi gives him a quasi-military look, not that there's anything wrong with that--are you thinking of portraying one of Pinkerton's men? It'd be perfect for that, of course. From the same...

First thing I thought of was this drawing:
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A typical kind of sheath from the period is a "center seam" sheath. You might be able to find directions online for making them by googling that. You wrap the leather around so the seam is in the...

How are you defining "modern," though?

As far as I know, there's no modern requirement, even for commercial foodhandlers, to keep meat refrigerated if it's preserved for room temperature storage....

I'm guessing it would be the same thing as a stereopticon, a magic lantern with two lenses which allowed for dissolving views. It didn't project anything that looked three-dimensional, but they were...

I've nailed thousands of cut nails. They have heads. They hold normal things, from boxes to fence boards, just fine. There's even a kind, with a thinner than normal shaft, called "box nails." Photo...

I would have thought cut nails would be used, so I'm curious about David Einhorn's post above that wrought nails may have been used. Cut nails were cheaper in the period, more common and usually...

I didn't claim it would necessarily be found in a written regulation. I meant it could be found in any of the numerous letters, recollections, diaries, memoirs, etc. Something like, We liked to stand...

I don't disagree. The question is whether walking between stacks is one of those rules. There's also the problem of different spacing, as in some of the previous photos posted. Closely-spaced stacks...

Also, keep in mind that period sugar loaves were white, not brown, so those little ones in the Mexican section of the grocery don't look like what someone in the period would have had in the...

No, that's not my point. There are lots of things the group isn't going to be happy about, but sergeants don't react the same way. My point is why that one thing in particular?

You have to be...

Really? I thought greenbacks were still legal tender. That's what hobby sites seem to say, for example "Also known as United States Notes, these were first authorized in 1862, and although none have...

I don't think we're talking about common sense, like not adding logs to the fire when people have coffee cups balanced in the coals, or not walking close to tents in the dark that might have ropes...

If it was a common-sense rule which naturally followed from the practice of stacking arms, here's a counter-example. French soldiers, probably World War I, some of whom are standing between and...

Guess I didn't connect the dots well enough in my post. I thought it was common knowledge that "shoddy" referred to cloth made from recycled material during the Civil War and spread to apply to...

It's actually older than the Civil War, but the war certainly popularized it. For example, from England, 1832: "Shoddy-grinders (a provincial term) are persons employed in certain districts of the...