The legendary weaving tradition of Bhutan, spanning several centuries with meticulously-constructed traditional and classic design layouts, continue to be woven to this day. This photographic volume provides a visual tribute and catalogue of the kira. It is the national and traditional dress of Bhutanese womenfolk worn with pride, in daily life and on special occasions.

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This key catalogue and special focus on kiras begins the exploration with the kishung or poncho, said to be the forerunner of the presentday kira. The photographs in this volume document the kira�s evolution as a garment. Depending on the quality and intricacy of patterns, the weaver may be required to spend up to two years of daylight hours to create one kira.

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The kira is akin to a blank canvas upon which weavers display, thread by thread, their creative inspiration.

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The excellence, evidence of painstaking crafting, and highly-formed creative abilities of the Bhutanese women weavers present to us a visual range of wearable art that is both beautiful and functional. Expression of design skills provides a near-kaleidoscopic montage of elegance where Bhutanese fashion and art merge as one. In this day and age, the user, beholder, collector, and heirloom historian are indeed fortunate to fully enjoy and appreciate this living tradition and heritage of art and craft.

The legendary weaving tradition of Bhutan, spanning several centuries with meticulously-constructed traditional and classic design layouts, continue to be woven to this day. This photographic volume provides a visual tribute and catalogue of the kira. It is the national and traditional dress of Bhutanese womenfolk worn with pride, in daily life and on special occasions.

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This key catalogue and special focus on kiras begins the exploration with the kishung or poncho, said to be the forerunner of the presentday kira. The photographs in this volume document the kira�s evolution as a garment. Depending on the quality and intricacy of patterns, the weaver may be required to spend up to two years of daylight hours to create one kira.

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The kira is akin to a blank canvas upon which weavers display, thread by thread, their creative inspiration.

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The excellence, evidence of painstaking crafting, and highly-formed creative abilities of the Bhutanese women weavers present to us a visual range of wearable art that is both beautiful and functional. Expression of design skills provides a near-kaleidoscopic montage of elegance where Bhutanese fashion and art merge as one. In this day and age, the user, beholder, collector, and heirloom historian are indeed fortunate to fully enjoy and appreciate this living tradition and heritage of art and craft.

This is Volume 1 containing the story and never before seen pictures (140) from April 2004 of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Facility located 17 miles northeast of Amarillo Texas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) approached the author in the state of Texas and wanted the pictures that are contained in this book, citing that they are a threat to U.S. National Security. The FBI took all the negatives, developed film, and photo CD�s. Then presented Mr. Rolig with a receipt and stated that further communication would come from agents in the state where Mr. Rolig lives. The author having eight months of labor into writing the first book, decides that pictures are needed to complement the book on U.S. Nuclear Weapons. Mr. Rolig contacted the Los Alamos National Laboratory they stated to him that they would charge $300 per hour at an estimated 80 hours, that�s $24,000 dollars for them to look into their archives and acquire the needed pictures requested by the author. That�s when the author decided to go to New Mexico himself, charter a helicopter and acquire the photos, at a much more reasonable cost. Mr. Rolig also set up a charted helicopter in Amarillo, Texas to acquire pictures of the Pantex Nuclear Weapons facility. Intelligence failure; the FBI held the pictures for years without any further explanation or verbal communication, not answering any of Mr. Rolig�s requests for information. The FBI finally returned the pictures by placing them into an unmarked, unaddressed FED-Ex box then dumped them off on the author�s 76 year old mother to return to her son. In the coming Volume 2, and Volume 3 the story will continue and there will be an additional 120 pictures per volume that have never been viewed by the general public. The real FBI agent names in this book have been changed for their protection.

In the book �The Tragedy of our hometown. Holocaust in Disna�, you hear the voices of Jews who have escaped from Disna�s ghetto. Their parents, brothers and sisters were murdered and remained in the mass graves.

Local History teachers are telling the truth about the Jewish tragedy in Disna. Escapees from ghetto-partisans are telling about diversions against the Nazis and local policemen.

A list of murdered Disna�s Jews Jews from Disna, who shed blood on different frontlines of WWII, have reached Vienna and Berlin. Some local Belarusian risked their lives for hiding and saving Jews.

Although the Holocaust of the Jewish population was a tragedy of Belarus, Belarusian historians almost omitted the Holocaust or describe it extremely briefl y. Authors of the History handbook are telling that ��a tragic fate has befallen the Jews. The destruction by the Nazis during the WWII of the Jewish population of Europe has received the name �holocaust� A result of the carried out punitive operations during the war were exterminated more than 600 thousands Jews�. The authors do not describe the essential role of the many local collaborators who assisted the Nazis in humiliation, robbery, shooting of the innocent Jewish men, women and children, and in hiding of their atrocities.

The Holocaust survivors have disturbed the Nazi plan of �Final Solution of the Jewish question.� The small number of Holocaust survivors has planted and their descendants continue planting new Jewish generations. They are successful wherever they found a refuge around the world.

In the book �The Tragedy of our hometown. Holocaust in Disna�, you hear the voices of Jews who have escaped from Disna�s ghetto. Their parents, brothers and sisters were murdered and remained in the mass graves.

Local History teachers are telling the truth about the Jewish tragedy in Disna. Escapees from ghetto-partisans are telling about diversions against the Nazis and local policemen.

A list of murdered Disna�s Jews Jews from Disna, who shed blood on different frontlines of WWII, have reached Vienna and Berlin. Some local Belarusian risked their lives for hiding and saving Jews.

Although the Holocaust of the Jewish population was a tragedy of Belarus, Belarusian historians almost omitted the Holocaust or describe it extremely briefl y. Authors of the History handbook are telling that ��a tragic fate has befallen the Jews. The destruction by the Nazis during the WWII of the Jewish population of Europe has received the name �holocaust� A result of the carried out punitive operations during the war were exterminated more than 600 thousands Jews�. The authors do not describe the essential role of the many local collaborators who assisted the Nazis in humiliation, robbery, shooting of the innocent Jewish men, women and children, and in hiding of their atrocities.

The Holocaust survivors have disturbed the Nazi plan of �Final Solution of the Jewish question.� The small number of Holocaust survivors has planted and their descendants continue planting new Jewish generations. They are successful wherever they found a refuge around the world.

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Digging for Treasure could possibly have been titled “Memoirs of a Dump Digger,” as although it is a practical book packed with know-how gained by the author over a number of years, all the information passed on through the book is from the author’s own real-life experiences.

     Digging into Victorian and Edwardian rubbish dumps may seem a crazy way to earn a living, but many thousands of people in Britain alone have been involved in such a hobby part-time since the 1970s.  It all started in the U.S.A. in the 1950s when old frontier towns were searched for their throwaway bottles. The patent quack medicine bottles of the 19^th century proved a fascinating subject of research.  Dump- digging soon spread to Canada and the U.K. and is also particularly strong in Australia.

     The finds in old refuse are not just bottles. In a century when local chemists made their own toothpaste in the back of the shop, it was sold in small ceramic pots with lids which had printed advertising on them under the glaze. Chemists could design their own advertising lids and the individuality and naivety of these is part of their charm. This was a time before the invention of the squeezable tube which we use today for toothpaste, creams and ointments. Ointments claiming to cure a wide variety of illnesses were sold in these pots, something which is illegal today. Ointments can alleviate or soothe problems, but they cannot claim to cure!

     In Digging for Treasure the author points out that once a dump has been emptied of its finds by hordes of collector-diggers, they have to constantly be searching for other sites. This has become a problem today as gradually more and more old rubbish dumps disappear under the building of trading estates, car parks and housing estates. Whilst this is admittedly true, the author believes there are still some town dumps yet to be found, although fast disappearing. Also he advocates the re-digging of sites which were inefficiently dug by zealous collectors the first time around.

     Victorian refuse dumps yield a wide variety of glass bottles, printed stoneware and ceramic pots and advertising lids, clay pipes with decorated bowls, china dolls’ heads, brown salt-glazed stoneware bottles and jars. Some of the rarer bottles and pot-lids are now selling for several hundreds of pounds and the very rare up to £5,000. As sites become even more difficult to find, this trend for higher prices must continue.

     The author points the way to the future in what he describes as the “forgotten dumps.” In the book he describes the research he has done on the collection of refuse in the U.K. which is a subject most of us pay scant attention to.  Many would believe that there has always been a collection of our waste, but this is not so.  In many towns and villages, the collection of household waste was not organised until after 1900. The smaller the village, the later was collection introduced. Although in London and a few other large cities, refuse collection began from about the 1880s, some small villages did not have this facility until about 1920. As town dumps gradually disappear under buildings, the author points the way forward for dump-diggers of the future – what he calls the forgotten dumps – and he claims there are tens of thousands of them to be found.

     The hobby of bottle-collecting also covers the collecting of pot-lids and other finds and in all English-speaking countries there are clubs, magazines and auctions to cater for collectors. Online auctions on e-bay for antique bottles and pot-lids receive bids from all over the world. Bottles and pot-lids are big business and for anyone wishing to dig up their own antiques, this book is indispensable.

Digging for Treasure could possibly have been titled “Memoirs of a Dump Digger,” as although it is a practical book packed with know-how gained by the author over a number of years, all the information passed on through the book is from the author’s own real-life experiences.

     Digging into Victorian and Edwardian rubbish dumps may seem a crazy way to earn a living, but many thousands of people in Britain alone have been involved in such a hobby part-time since the 1970s.  It all started in the U.S.A. in the 1950s when old frontier towns were searched for their throwaway bottles. The patent quack medicine bottles of the 19^th century proved a fascinating subject of research.  Dump- digging soon spread to Canada and the U.K. and is also particularly strong in Australia.

     The finds in old refuse are not just bottles. In a century when local chemists made their own toothpaste in the back of the shop, it was sold in small ceramic pots with lids which had printed advertising on them under the glaze. Chemists could design their own advertising lids and the individuality and naivety of these is part of their charm. This was a time before the invention of the squeezable tube which we use today for toothpaste, creams and ointments. Ointments claiming to cure a wide variety of illnesses were sold in these pots, something which is illegal today. Ointments can alleviate or soothe problems, but they cannot claim to cure!

     In Digging for Treasure the author points out that once a dump has been emptied of its finds by hordes of collector-diggers, they have to constantly be searching for other sites. This has become a problem today as gradually more and more old rubbish dumps disappear under the building of trading estates, car parks and housing estates. Whilst this is admittedly true, the author believes there are still some town dumps yet to be found, although fast disappearing. Also he advocates the re-digging of sites which were inefficiently dug by zealous collectors the first time around.

     Victorian refuse dumps yield a wide variety of glass bottles, printed stoneware and ceramic pots and advertising lids, clay pipes with decorated bowls, china dolls’ heads, brown salt-glazed stoneware bottles and jars. Some of the rarer bottles and pot-lids are now selling for several hundreds of pounds and the very rare up to £5,000. As sites become even more difficult to find, this trend for higher prices must continue.

     The author points the way to the future in what he describes as the “forgotten dumps.” In the book he describes the research he has done on the collection of refuse in the U.K. which is a subject most of us pay scant attention to.  Many would believe that there has always been a collection of our waste, but this is not so.  In many towns and villages, the collection of household waste was not organised until after 1900. The smaller the village, the later was collection introduced. Although in London and a few other large cities, refuse collection began from about the 1880s, some small villages did not have this facility until about 1920. As town dumps gradually disappear under buildings, the author points the way forward for dump-diggers of the future – what he calls the forgotten dumps – and he claims there are tens of thousands of them to be found.

     The hobby of bottle-collecting also covers the collecting of pot-lids and other finds and in all English-speaking countries there are clubs, magazines and auctions to cater for collectors. Online auctions on e-bay for antique bottles and pot-lids receive bids from all over the world. Bottles and pot-lids are big business and for anyone wishing to dig up their own antiques, this book is indispensable.

Donald Young�s poems are tight and loose at the same time�the reader can move within them�and the reader will feel strongly the concern, the emotion, the flow that carries the words along. There is color, music and a wonderful reliance on imagery that makes the poems a joy to read and reread. But what gives the poems their energy and depth is the feeling of necessity that underlies each poem�there is an idea or passion (or both) which strongly compels its utterance. The poems are journeys toward some discovery (as the very best poems always are), toward revelation or satori (sudden illumination). In many cases, the poems push us beyond what we could ever anticipate. Herein lies the pleasure. We leave Donald Young�s poems enlightened, deepened and thankful for the keen eye and compassionate heart. Tom McKeown, author of The Luminous Revolver and Three Hundred Tigers

Donald Young�s poems are tight and loose at the same time�the reader can move within them�and the reader will feel strongly the concern, the emotion, the flow that carries the words along. There is color, music and a wonderful reliance on imagery that makes the poems a joy to read and reread. But what gives the poems their energy and depth is the feeling of necessity that underlies each poem�there is an idea or passion (or both) which strongly compels its utterance. The poems are journeys toward some discovery (as the very best poems always are), toward revelation or satori (sudden illumination). In many cases, the poems push us beyond what we could ever anticipate. Herein lies the pleasure. We leave Donald Young�s poems enlightened, deepened and thankful for the keen eye and compassionate heart. Tom McKeown, author of The Luminous Revolver and Three Hundred Tigers

Donald Young�s poems are tight and loose at the same time�the reader can move within them�and the reader will feel strongly the concern, the emotion, the flow that carries the words along. There is color, music and a wonderful reliance on imagery that makes the poems a joy to read and reread. But what gives the poems their energy and depth is the feeling of necessity that underlies each poem�there is an idea or passion (or both) which strongly compels its utterance. The poems are journeys toward some discovery (as the very best poems always are), toward revelation or satori (sudden illumination). In many cases, the poems push us beyond what we could ever anticipate. Herein lies the pleasure. We leave Donald Young�s poems enlightened, deepened and thankful for the keen eye and compassionate heart. Tom McKeown, author of The Luminous Revolver and Three Hundred Tigers

An Inkling of Brewster details a decade long foray into custom built automobiles by Brewster and Company of Long Island City, New York beginning in 1915. Brewster and Company was the foremost custom coachbuilder of 19th Century America. Founded in 1810, Brewster and Company began building bodies for European chassis such as Rolls Royce, Delaunay-Belleville, Fiat, and Renault in 1905. The advent of World War I and the interdiction of shipping by German U-boats on the high seas made it impossible for Brewster and Company to secure chassis from the continent, so they produced the most expensive automobile of the day bearing their name. An Inkling of Brewster examines not only the Brewster automobile, but also the wealthy who purchased them. A Brewster owner’s list reads like a “Who’s Who” of New York Society. The Rev. Frank E. Wismer III is the owner of a 1921 Brewster Double Enclosed Drive automobile that originally belonged to Mrs. H. D. Auchincloss of Hammersmith Farm, Newport Rhode Island. He has been researching Brewster and Company for the past two years and has been fortunate enough to study the Brewster and Company journals along with the correspondence of Mr. William Brewster. CH (COL) Wismer is a retired United States Army Chaplain having served in the First Gulf War, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq and Kuwait. He is the author of War in the Garden of Eden: A Chaplain’s Memoir from Baghdad. He is also the author of two meditation guides published by the Episcopal Cursillo Movement.

An Inkling of Brewster details a decade long foray into custom built automobiles by Brewster and Company of Long Island City, New York beginning in 1915. Brewster and Company was the foremost custom coachbuilder of 19th Century America. Founded in 1810, Brewster and Company began building bodies for European chassis such as Rolls Royce, Delaunay-Belleville, Fiat, and Renault in 1905. The advent of World War I and the interdiction of shipping by German U-boats on the high seas made it impossible for Brewster and Company to secure chassis from the continent, so they produced the most expensive automobile of the day bearing their name. An Inkling of Brewster examines not only the Brewster automobile, but also the wealthy who purchased them. A Brewster owner’s list reads like a “Who’s Who” of New York Society. The Rev. Frank E. Wismer III is the owner of a 1921 Brewster Double Enclosed Drive automobile that originally belonged to Mrs. H. D. Auchincloss of Hammersmith Farm, Newport Rhode Island. He has been researching Brewster and Company for the past two years and has been fortunate enough to study the Brewster and Company journals along with the correspondence of Mr. William Brewster. CH (COL) Wismer is a retired United States Army Chaplain having served in the First Gulf War, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq and Kuwait. He is the author of War in the Garden of Eden: A Chaplain’s Memoir from Baghdad. He is also the author of two meditation guides published by the Episcopal Cursillo Movement.

An Inkling of Brewster details a decade long foray into custom built automobiles by Brewster and Company of Long Island City, New York beginning in 1915. Brewster and Company was the foremost custom coachbuilder of 19th Century America. Founded in 1810, Brewster and Company began building bodies for European chassis such as Rolls Royce, Delaunay-Belleville, Fiat, and Renault in 1905. The advent of World War I and the interdiction of shipping by German U-boats on the high seas made it impossible for Brewster and Company to secure chassis from the continent, so they produced the most expensive automobile of the day bearing their name. An Inkling of Brewster examines not only the Brewster automobile, but also the wealthy who purchased them. A Brewster owner’s list reads like a “Who’s Who” of New York Society. The Rev. Frank E. Wismer III is the owner of a 1921 Brewster Double Enclosed Drive automobile that originally belonged to Mrs. H. D. Auchincloss of Hammersmith Farm, Newport Rhode Island. He has been researching Brewster and Company for the past two years and has been fortunate enough to study the Brewster and Company journals along with the correspondence of Mr. William Brewster. CH (COL) Wismer is a retired United States Army Chaplain having served in the First Gulf War, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq and Kuwait. He is the author of War in the Garden of Eden: A Chaplain’s Memoir from Baghdad. He is also the author of two meditation guides published by the Episcopal Cursillo Movement.