Elise K

Twenty years ago I went to Garmisch-Partenkirchen on a Girl Scout trip, we went to visit a salt mine. We had wear special shirts and pants over our clothes, and we slid down a polished wooden ramp at one part of the tour. There was also a brine lake inside the mountain that we crossed on a boat.

However, what I really want to find is a picture of is the chapel that was inside the mountain. It had a "chandalier" made out of giant slabs of salt that glowed faintly orange.

I seem to remember something about it being built or dedicated by King Ludwig, but I may be mis-remembering.

Is this familiar to anyone?

I was cleaning my kitchen counter (which is white) with bleach. When I touched the paper towel (also white - unbleached, recycled paper) to it, the paper turned pink. Why?

I'm curious about the blue dresses with the embroidery that she and Granny Sun wear.

(This is the portion of the movie when Huo Yuanjia has left Tinjian and is wandering aimlessly before they take him in).

I'm curious about the blue dresses with the embroidery that she and Granny Sun wear.

(This is the portion of the movie when Huo Yuanjia has left Tinjian and is wandering aimless before they take him in).

I asked this question over in "Cars and Transportation" and was told (I quote), "PUT DOWN THE HASH PIPE DUDE!!!"

So I thought I'd ask again over here where I might get more constructive answers:

When I lived in Europe, I didn't need a car much because I could get most everywhere, from the next town over, to the other side of the continent, by train.

Since returning home, I've been frustrated by the lack of rail service. It seems everywhere I look, they are tearing up train tracks. And yet everyone is bemoaning our reliance on the automobile and what it is doing to our environment. I would take the train, if there were trains to take.

Does anyone know of an organization that encourages passenger rail, inter-city trains, things like that?

When I lived in Europe, I didn't need a car much because I could get most everywhere, from the next town over, to the other side of the continent, by train.

Since returning home, I've been frustrated by the lack of rail service. It seems everywhere I look, they are tearing up train tracks. And yet everyone is bemoaning our reliance on the automobile and what it is doing to our environment. I would take the train, if there were trains to take.

Does anyone know of an organization that encourages passenger rail, inter-city trains, things like that?

I play in the SCA and I've been asked to make a Pelicaning cloak for a man who plays a Conquest-era Norman (1066-1086). Things like the Bayeux Tapestry don't seem to show decorated cloaks of any kind and this gentle is very authenticity concious. He is both a knight and a count already, so higher status garb would be appropriate for him.

I'd like to embroider something, but I'm not sure how to balance what may be conflicting interests. I know that the English were known for thier embroidery and that later Normans were known for elaborate beading and embroidery (all that Romanesque statuary in France and the Coronation mantle of Roger II from 1133), but I don't know know about this narrow time frame.

Would a half circle mantle be appropriate? Or if I use a rectangular shoulder-pinned mantle could I embroider the short ends?

I'm looking specifically at the period between the Conquest (1066) and the Domesday Book (1086).

Would they have worn, for dress wear, not necessarily on the battlefield, half circle mantles at all?

If only the shoulder-pin rectangular cloaks (like in the Bayeaux tapestry), could they have been embroidered? Where? Along the the short ends?

I would like to know the populations of some cities 50 years ago (in 1956) and I'm having a hard time winnowing out this information. Can anyone help point me where to look? The cities I would like this information on are:

New York

London

Paris

Chicago

Los Angeles

Montreal

Toronto

Hamilton, Ontario (Canada)

Many thanks,

Elise