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Month: February 2021
Il Cognome Franch In Cloz
Genealogy is engrossing.
Di questo cognome ci è pervenuta una ricerca completa da parte di Allen Rizzi, un Americano originario di Cloz, attulmente residente a Tret.
Franch è lo cognome più comune in Cloz e anche un di più antico di Cloz. Il cognome Franch originalmente descrisse una persona libero delle tasse. Ma, perche? Ricerca recente ha trovato che i Franch eranno originalmente delle classe nobile sotto Charlemagne, Re di Franks (742-814) durante la sua conquista di questa regione di anno 773. Il cognome sviluppò come un sopranome per descrivere un gruppo di famiglie che non doverono pagare tasse sotto l’imperatore. Eranno libre delle tasse per la volanta del Charlemagne. Perciò, noi possiamo presumere che le persone chiamarono Franch sia originalmente di Lombardia e una parte della corte di Charlemagne. Le altre teorie suggeriscono che Franch è un nome ebreo portato a questa regione dei schiavi ebrei di Roma. Comunque, questa teoria non…
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Can You Top This?
In a random spontaneous discussion yesterday, I divulged that I was married 53 years ago in Nairobi Kenya. Wow – I heard a cry from the “crowd” assembled there to get their 2nd dose of the COVID vaccine. A girl said she was married in the Masai Mara. Well I didn’t have time to compare notes as we were moved along in the line to get our jabs. But I am very curious to hear more of her marriage in the Kenya/Tanzania Game Park. My wedding was very conventional and traditional – St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, a Scottish Rector, traditional hymns, organ music, etc. And the reception was held in the Norfolk Hotel.
How could a wedding take place in the Masai Mara? Well I guess times have changed. Did she just assemble all the necessary people and they all went on safari. Maybe they were able to find a few wild animals as well to add to the group!
John Clayton ‘Circles Series’ cross stitch: 1 – choosing the design
More textile work to tempt me.
I have loved the ‘John Clayton Circles Series cross stitch designs for years. If you’ve not come across them yet, I bet you could be easily tempted! These were first put on sale over twenty years ago, but they are still selling well – they are produced by Heritage Crafts, from original watercolours by John Clayton. John first paints the picture and then chooses the thread shades for the cross stitch design version, before Heritage package them up and market them. They’re available as either full kits (on 28 count evenweave, or aida fabric), or as chart packs.
There are loads to choose from, and they’re all lovely!!
I made one, about 25 years ago, called ‘High and Dry’, featuring boats when the tide has gone out. I loved stitching it, and always planned to do more. Life got in the way, though, and I’ve only just got round…
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USS Cod (SS 224)
Brave men!
U.S.S.Cod(SS 224), was launched on March 21, 1943. under the command of CDR James C. Dempsey, USN. Dempsey had already won fame by sinking the first Japanese destroyer lost in the war while in command of a tiny, World War I-era submarine.
It was onCod‘s third patrol, Dempsey’s last in command, thatCodfought her biggest battle. Tracking a massive Japanese convoy heading for Subic Bay in the Philippines on the night of May 10, 1944,Codmaneuvered into firing position just after sunrise.Codfired three of her four stern tubes at the Japanese destroyer,IJN Karukaya,before unloading all six of her bow tubes at two columns of cargo ships and troop transports. Dempsey watched as the first torpedo exploded under the destroyer’s bridge after a short, 26 second run. Both smoke stacks collapsed and dozens of enemy sailors (watching for submarines) were tossed high…
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La Storia della Famiglia Rizzi in Cloz
For a study in genealogy.
Origini del Cognome Rizzi
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Rizzi è uno dei cognomi più comuni in Cloz. Comunque, la famiglia ha le sue radici fuori della Val di Non.
Il cognome Rizzi (Ritz nel latino) originalmente descrisse una persona con capelli ricci. Rizzi letteralmente voule dire “uno con capelli ricci.” Il cognome ha potuto sviluppare simultaneamente in molte parti diverse di Italia incluso le aree latine e tedesche del Tyrol Meridionale.
Si ha congetturato che il cognome Rizzi probabilmente originato a Venezia tra gli anni 800-1100. Prima di approssimativamente 1100, persone furono sapute da solamente loro nome di battesimo. Cognomi furono sviluppati per distinguere persone diverse che avevano lo stesso nome. Come gli anni avanzarono, “sopranomi” fu aggiunto per distinguere famiglie che condivisero un cognome comune ma non fu riferito direttamente. Persone col cognome Rizzi emigrò probabilmente nordovest di…
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Hooray The Robins And Stellar Jays and Finches Have Arrived
You can’t see all the birds in this picture but believe me, there were many many big fat Robins and Stellar Jays and Finches flying about, from branch to branch. And a squirrel joined in too. Wonderful sight. A harbinger of Spring?
New York City Vintage Photographs Part IV
A Douglas DC-3 of The Great Silver Fleet over Manhattan before the war. The DC-3 is a classic design, adapted as the primary air transport type of the U.S. and Allied services under a wide variety of designations. Many still fly today.
A fireboat welcomes the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) to New York Harbor in 1958. Nautilus was the world’s first nuclear powered submarine, and the first submarine to travel submerged to the North Pole under the arctic ice sheet.
Another submarine from a different era, USS Plunger (SS-2) underway off the Brooklyn Naval Yard. In September 1905 Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to submerge in a submarine aboard Plunger. In 1909 she was commanded by Ensign Chester Nimitz, who would rise to the rank of Fleet Admiral in the Second World War.
A Y1B-17 flies over New York with Manhattan in the background. The US Army Air Corps…
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I Could Not Put It Down
I have just finished reading a fascinating book – The Sisters The Saga of the Mitford Family, by Mary S. Lovell. This book was published 20 years ago so the subject matter is becoming of less and less interest to today’s reading public. And even when it came out most of the population probably had never heard of the Mitford sisters. So it is now a historical account of a famous family in the early part of the 20th century. And you are probably age 70+ if you have ever heard of the Mitford sisters.
Family Fun
The child squirming in her mother’s arms is now 16 years old and studying to be a nurse in Seattle Washington.
Photo take in Dublin Ireland in 2004 From left to right: Husband Ian, son Andrew, son James, daughter-in-law Susan, granddaughter Caitlin
Janet's Thread 2 