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  • Control of the Wine Industry
    Prior to the eighteenth century the wine trade was in the hands of small individual merchants, and establishments on the scale of modern bodegas were entirely unknown; there was no continuity of name and no records of individual merchants have survived Only one modern firm—J
  • Louis Seize (XVI) 1774-1793
    Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette succeeded to a shamed throne Out of sympathy with a licentious Court, they played child-like on the edge of a volcano
  • Louis Quatorze (XIV) 1643-1715
    A few months after the death of Richelieu, Louis Xlll died, leaving his five-year-old son Louis XIV to reign for seventy-two years, first under the restraint of Mazarin, and later as absolute monarch With his succession and under the unbroken influence of his long reign all the arts flourished to an extraordinary degree
  • History of the New Movement
    Beginning in Austria with the "Secession" in 1897, the new art movement spread immediately to Germany, became significant in interior decoration in France since the World War, and arrived in the United States after 1925 However, it had been preceded by certain voyages of discovery before the pioneers invaded the new territory
  • History of Textiles--an Overview
    Textile weaving is, with architecture, among the oldest of the arts, and dates from the earliest periods of history It was understood in Egypt, and records are found showing that it was practiced at a remote period in the Far East
  • Personalize Your Christmas Ecards
    When you shop for traditional Christmas cards, most of them contain the same greeting You can make your greeting personal when you send Christmas ecards
  • American Colonial Periods
    The arts of the early settlers of this country so accurately portray the condition of the people, their lives, and their struggle for the establishment of a stable government that a study of their social conditions allows us to imagine the forms of the various household furnishings with which they surrounded themselves
  • Bordeaux and the Barbarians
    The early prosperity of Bordeaux and the fame it enjoyed under Rome’s rule was quickly destroyed when it was invaded The city was blasted by the Alans, Ilerulians, Sarmatians, and Vandals in 406, which left the city in ruins
  • The Life Insurance Business in 1868
    The world of 1868, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was born, was very different from the world we know today There were no telephones in those days and no electric lights
  • The Investigation Into the Life Insurance Business
    The marked depreciation of urban real estate, farm lands, and bond values called for the rearrangement of the investment portfolio of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

    President Ecker, with his long and varied experience in this field, addressed himself to the solution of this problem, made particularly difficult by the continued decline in opportunities for the profitable investment of insurance funds
  • Details of Rock Garden Construction
    The first step in the actual construction of a rock garden is to lay it out, at least in enough detail to show its general contour, to indicate paths and so on These points had best be marked by fairly stout stakes driven into the ground, as otherwise they are likely to be obliterated
  • The Wine Boom!
    Winemaking in California has never been an unsupervised industry The first vines were brought to the Pacific shores by Cortez
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