April 24, 2024
Tag: quilts for a cause
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Quilts for a Cause
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“Gun Boat Quilt” was a term given to the raffle quilts made by southern women in order to finance the building of gun boats needed during the Civil War to protect the ports of the southern states and the shipping lanes in and out of southern harbors. This is part of the story.
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April 30, 2020 1 Comment
[elementor-template id=”3378″] Tuffi und die Schwebebahn The suspension monorail was invented in England in the 1820s. The distinction is small but the first suspended railway was opened on June 25, 1825, using a patent recorded by Henry Palmer. It was built to carry bricks, but as an opening stunt it carried passengers. Through the next […]