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Original D&P Pipe Works/Dr. Grabow pipe factory in Sparta. The earliest inhabitants of the area eventually comprising Alleghany County were Cherokee and Shawnee Native Americans. By the late 1700s these people had been displaced by English, German, and Scotch-Irish settlers. The county was formed in 1859 from the eastern part of Ashe County. [4]
Möller remained the primary supplier of additions until after World War II. Today this mostly-Möller organ is the world's largest all-pipe organ in a religious structure, although the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, California makes a similar claim with its two pipe organs.
The use of a maker's mark, shape of the bowl, size of foot and angle of connection with the stem suggest a c.1740-1760 AD date. Clay pipe stems were first used as a dating tool beginning in 1954, when archaeologist J.C Harrington realised that the imported English white clay tobacco pipe stem fragments found in archaeological sites across ...
In the 1950s, the American archaeologist J. C. Harrington noted that the bore of pipe stems decreased over time, so a late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries pipe would have a stem bore diameter of around 9 ⁄ 64 inch (3.6 mm), but a late eighteenth century pipe would have a bore diameter of around 4 ⁄ 64 inch (1.6 mm). The size of ...
Christie experienced an amniotic fluid embolism and was "clinically dead" for 45 minutes, her anesthesiologist Dr. Ricardo Mora told the outlet.
A methamphetamine pipe is a glass pipe which consists of a tube connected to a spherical bulb with a small opening on top designed for smoking methamphetamine. A pipe that has been used will have carbon deposit on the exterior of the bulb and white or gray crystal residues on the inner surface. [ 1 ]
The configuration of the typical opium pipe consists of a long stem, a ceramic pipe-bowl, and a metal fitting, known as the "saddle", through which the pipe-bowl plugs into the pipe-stem. The pipe-bowl must be detachable from the stem due to the necessity to remove the bowl and scrape its insides clean of opium ash after several pipes have been ...