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In reply to Billy ... Thank you for your follow up on the Smithsonian inquiry! Yesterday, while channel surfing, I found a travel show which had stopped by a rug making shop in (what I think was) India. The owner of the shop showed how thread for the loom is made from 500 strands of silk, and he the...

In reply to Maurice ... The four search engines I have seen visiting the-knowledge forum are: Yahoo, Bing, Google and Baidu Your report of topics not found is concerning but not conclusive ... The Subject for this message was set to: avuncular pumpkin ... in light of the season at hand, and to creat...

For germanforestgump ... Thank you for bringing this thread back on topic ... And thank you for providing a link to the Refugee Nation web site. I followed a few of the links and concluded there is substance there, with thoughtful discussions on both sides of the issue. No one (that I could see) is ...

For those interested in blueprints of early looms, as described in earlier posts in this topic, here is an update from the Smithsonian Institution: Begin Quotation: Office of Visitor Services - Request for Information (imailagent) To tahanson@ameritech.net Today at 11:32 AM Dear tahanson@ameritech.n...

As a follow up to the proposal, here is an example of an activity that can be emulated by members of The Knowledge forum: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/09/08/startup-grows-plants-in-shipping-containers.html This article by Naomi Nishihara of the Dallas Morning News describes ...

discuss.the-knowledge.org is coming back to life after a quiet period. The forum software has a number of features to facilitate communication. It also has some statistical reporting capabilities. From my perspective, Dr. Dartnell's mission to bring about positive change to PREVENT loss of civilizat...

Yahoo News just published this announcement: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-billionare-offers-buy-med-island-refugees-154413262.html Here is an outstanding example of the kind of "wealthy family" investment that germanforestgump may have been talking about. Is there anything the members of th...

This is for SibS ...

You are toying with the founder of the forum, who granted you the "license" to post messages in this place.

Please improve your performance.

You can edit your posts on this forum, due to a quirk of the software.

Please edit your post and answer the question.

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This is primarily for Billy ... Feedback from others in the membership of this forum is welcome. Maurice Goldsmith tells me he has completed transmission of private email to all previous posters. This was done in batches of five, due to limitations of the Knowledge Forum software. As a reminder to e...

Thanks to everyone who has responded to the private email from maurice goldsmith. Please be patient! It would be difficult for Maurice to reply to everyone. I have suggested to Maurice that he include the ID's of each person in the groups of five he is writing. Then, if you are willing, you might re...