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Memorial Day has become synonymous these days with barbecues and great sales. But all the distractions can make it harder for many Americans to remember the reason for the 3-day weekend: to honor ...
For years Workers' Memorial Day events have been organized in North America, and then worldwide. Since 1989, trade unions in North America, Asia, Europe and Africa have organized events on April 28. The late Hazards Campaigner Tommy Harte brought Workers' Memorial Day to the UK in 1992 as a day to ‘Remember the Dead: Fight for the Living'.
The Fiesta Tableware Company originated as Laughlin Pottery, a two-kiln pottery on the banks of the Ohio River in East Liverpool, Ohio — started in 1871 by brothers Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin. Shakespeare left the company in 1879. [3] [4] In 1889 William Edwin Wells joined Laughlin, and seven years later they incorporated. Laughlin sold ...
Decorated Nene Valley Roman Pottery, Wisbech Museum Nene Valley Colour Coated Ware (or Castor Ware [1]) is a type of Romano-British ceramic produced in the lower Nene Valley centred on Durobrivae (Water Newton) [2] from the mid-2nd to 4th centuries AD.
The pottery factory that started in 1861 continues to the present day under the names of Red Wing Pottery and Red Wing Stoneware. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There was a respite in production when Red Wing Pottery Sales, Inc. had a strike in 1967 causing them to temporarily cease trading.
This method of decoration became almost homogeneous for Mayan potters, thus signaling the beginning of the Classic Period. Across the Classic period, Maya pottery has little comparisons between its assemblages. [39] Polychrome pottery was a luxury item not commonly available to the general population. Most Early Classic Ceramics were monochrome ...
Mug with mocha decoration, England, c. 1800, earthenware. Mocha decorated pottery (also known as the " Mocha Tea" technique) is a type of dipped ware (slip-decorated, lathe-turned, utilitarian earthenware), mocha or mochaware, in addition to colored slip bands on white and buff-colored bodies, is adorned with dendritic (tree-like or branching) markings resembling the natural geological ...
Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.