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The Tale of the Three-Bladed Propeller
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Article by Paul Balcaen
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HERE IS AN INSIGNIFICANT-LOOKING grey wooden propeller on a hangar wall at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg.
It came off...
Documentary Calligraphy at Kings Landing
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Article by Darrell Butler
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CCORDING TO MR. WILLIAM GANONG, the collection donor, this is one of two pieces of calligraphy by George Bragg (1783-1859) in the Mary...
Symbol of the Realm
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Article by Michael Prokopow
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IVEN THAT EVERY HUMAN-MADE OBJECT is a text born of context, the challenge of getting at the meaning of a thing necessarily becomes...
Carving the City
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Article by Wayne Reeves
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HILE THREE-DIMENSIONAL depictions of buildings and towns date back to antiquity, terrain models (or raised-relief maps) became popular only from the 1890s...
Georgia Baths: A Steamy History
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Article by David R. Johnston
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TEAM BATHS WERE ONCE A COMMON PART OF LIFE in Edmonton, popular with European immigrant groups and working men. Edmonton Turkish...
Crushing Beauty
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Article by Elizabeth Semmelhack
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HIS CLOG PRICKS the imagination. Was it an implement of medieval torture or was it perhaps a weapon? Its form does, in fact,...
Spring/Summer 2015 Issue
EDITORIAL – Anniversary – John Fleming
A Prairie Beacon: Gasoline Alley’s Rare Pump – Sylvia J. Harnden
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A Prairie Beacon: Gasoline Alley’s Rare Pump – Sylvia J. Harnden
Anniversary
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Editorial by John Fleming
ORNAMENTUM celebrates 10 years of publication in 2015 as it continues to record our delight in the pursuit and pleasure of discovering and promoting interest...
A Prairie Beacon: Gasoline Alley’s Rare Pump
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Article by Sylvia J. Harnden
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ASOLINE ALLEY MUSEUM, in Calgary’s Heritage Park Historical Village, is home to thousands of artifacts relating to the retail of petroleum products...