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June, 2010:
Singh’s Department Store – Jersey City, NJ
790 Newark Avenue
Religious Articles, Mandir Supplies....
This mandir looks very Danish modern - Alibaba dot com
Mandir is a place where Hindus go to worship God in the form of various deities. Murtis help them to do this. The Murtis are marble images ceremonially infused with the divine presence of god. They are daily worshipped with five artis and other ceremonies. Mandir – Wikipedia
Pink Saturday in Amersfoort NL on June 26, 2010!
Bed Bug – Flatlands, New Amersfort – Brooklyn
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I’m assuming this is an ad to get rid of bed bugs and not to sell a single bed bug.
Wikipedia
- Bed bug – Wikipedia
Good night, Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.
Origin of this phrase according to The Straight Dope:
There are two possible explanations for this expression. We’ll start with the one I personally like, because it’s a lot more interesting, and then we’ll get to what in all probability is the real one.
Explanation #1. Here in Cajun country where I live, before the days of mattresses, beds were square frames elevated from the ground, with ropes tied across in a sort of weave. It was similar to a hammock in concept. Anyway, in order to sleep well, the “mattress” couldn’t sag, so the bed had to be “tight.” (And free of bed bugs, but I thought that went without saying.)
For further insight I spoke to Dr. Jerry Lee Cross, a historian with the state of North Carolina. He confirms that the beds were, in fact, made of ropes tied across a frame. He adds that the origin of the phrase “sleep tight” is almost common knowledge among historians, simply because the modern bed is a little over a hundred years old.
But first a little about bedbugs. The 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, under “bedbug,” shows a critter not unlike a flea. Known to others as Cimex lectularius, this beast is a blood-sucker (literally). It is further described as nocturnal and capable of consuming its body weight in blood in five minutes. This one meal can provide nourishment for the insect for six months! This flat, oval, wingless bug measures about 0.6 cm long and produces irritating bites but is not known to carry disease. How comforting. — Hawk
O & W Station – Middletown, NY
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- Hudson Valley Ruins – Ontario & Western Railway Station – Middletown, NY
- Map at Kingly Heirs dot com
- New York Ontario Western Museum – Roscoe, NY
- Ontario & Western Railways – Wikipedia
- O & W Caboose – Ready Made Toys
On March 29, 1957, the last train ran on the 541-mile New York, Ontario & Western Railway/NYO&W. It was the first major railroad to completely abandon its line when a bankruptcy judge ordered it liquidated and remained the largest major railroad liquidation until the Rock Island suffered a similar fate in 1980.
Based in Middletown, N.Y., the New York, Ontario & Western Railway, or “O&W,” was incorporated in 1882 to succeed the bankrupt New York & Oswego Midland Railroad. The railroad’s mainline ran from Weehawken, N.J., in the greater New York City area to Oswego, N.Y., a port city on Lake Ontario. It had branch lines in New York to Kingston, Port Jervis, Utica, and Rome and to Scranton, Pa., where it served anthracite coal mines. South of Cornwall, N.Y., the railroad operated over New York Central’s West Shore Line along the Hudson River via trackage rights to Weehawken, NJ and a ferry connection across the Hudson River to New York City. – Ready Made Toys dot com
The O&W reached from New York City to the Great Lakes - kinglyheirs dot com
