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Maj. Albert Willie “Bill” Sheldon, 81, died peacefully at home on Jan. 18, 2021.
The son of predeceased Charlie and Thelma Sheldon of Cherry Creek, N.Y. One of five sons, two predeceased and two surviving.
He was a graduate of Pine Valley Central School in South Dayton, N.Y., in 1957. After high school, he served in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1983, working his way through the ranks from Private to Major, with tours in Vietnam, Japan, Europe and the U.S.
After retiring from the military, he worked for ADAP, Sanel Auto Parts, Bay State Floral Supply and AJ Carbone Floral Supply Co., which he finally retired from in 2018.
United States 1933 Double Eagle $20 Gold Coin
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1933 double eagle $20 gold coin is one of American Numismatics’ most notorious coins. Only one surviving specimen was ever monetized and made legal to own, yet an uncertain number of examples still exist.
When the
United States made the controversial decision in 1933 to suspend the gold standard that it had based its monetary policy on since the turn of the 20th century, most double eagles dated that year were summarily melted down. It was an ignoble end for the most spectacular of all American coin designs.
That American sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens would have a hand in creating that design and remaking American coinage was no easy accomplishment. The world-renowned sculptor, venerated in his time and even more so sense, had a serious distaste for the Mint’s bureaucracy and an even lesser opinion of its chief engraver. He turned down more commissions than he could possibly accept. Commissions with even better terms. A
Free online event: The story of Rathangan s Quaker community revealed
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A unique free online seminar, which traces the story of Rathangan s Quaker community from 1692 to 1928, takes place on February 20 at 10am.
Local historian, Laurence Fullam has been researching the project. The Religious Society of Friends - Quakers - were meticulous record-keepers. Working through existing records we can trace their presence in the Rathangan area from the birth of William Sheldon (son of Elizar Sheldon and Susanna Edmundson) in 1692 to the departure of Sidney G Nicholson for Dublin in 1928, he said. Meetings recorded births, deaths and marriages, as well as the names of those disowned from the unity of the society . Records of Sufferings detail the value of goods seized from individual Quakers by tithe-mongers because their refusals to pay tithes to the established Church.
Back in the Golden Age of Science Fiction seventy-something years ago there was a novel everyone read, title
The World of Null-A. It was about a future planet Earth that had moved on from simple Aristotelean logic to something more subtle. So the A there stood for Aristotle.
The author, A. E. Van Vogt, was actually promoting a trendy philosophical system called General Semantics. This was one of those pseudoscientific fads that were popular in the mid-20th century, like William Sheldon s body-typing, Wilhelm Reich s theory of orgone energy, Immanuel Velikovsky s colliding planets, or J.B. Rhine s parapsychology.
I m a bit surprised to see that the Institute of General Semantics is still around seventy years later. A bit surprised, but only a bit; these fads never disappear completely. In New York City you can still find people practicing Freudian psychoanalysis. I bet there s a Velikovsky discussion group active on the Upper West Side somewhere.