From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10979 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, March 24 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10979 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The Plants That Will Disappear First in a Crisis ["Medicinal Garden Kit" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:44:49 +0100 From: "Medicinal Garden Kit" Subject: The Plants That Will Disappear First in a Crisis The Plants That Will Disappear First in a Crisis http://metanail.ltd/qzcK__SoSYHXKbYgfLKfWswB_S9-ynJsyLWuzb8Om32YnEdoqw http://metanail.ltd/kbIPewItiycRPo71DHvHKNwwPxsBpvOfCALEHMlpGfuhDgpjcg n 1882 the Moore Street Market and Dublin City Improvement Act was passed by the Westminster parliament, overriding the trust and giving the Corporation authority to resite the Pillar, but subject to a strict timetable, within which the city authorities found it impossible to act. The Act lapsed and the Pillar remained; a similar attempt, with the same result, was made in 1891. Not all Dubliners favoured demolition; some businesses considered the Pillar to be the city's focal point, and the tramway company petitioned for its retention as it marked the central tram terminus. "In many ways", says Fallon, "the pillar had become part of the fabric of the city". Kennedy writes: "A familiar and very large if rather scruffy piece of the city's furniture, it was The Pillar, Dublin's Pillar rather than Nelson's Pillar ... it was also an outing, an experience". The Dublin sculptor John Hughes invited students at the Metropolitan School of Art to "admire the elegance and dignity" of Kirk's statue, "and the beauty of the silhouette". In 1894 there were some significant alterations to the Pillar's fabric. The original entry on the west side, whereby visitors entered the pedestal by a flight of steps taking them down below street level, was replaced by a new ground level entrance on the south side, with a grand porch. The whole monument was surrounded by heavy iron railings.[n 10] In the new century, despite the growing nationalism within Dublinb80 per cent of the Corporation's councillors were nationalists of some descriptionbthe pillar was liberally decorated with flags and streamers to mark the 1905 Trafalg ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10979 ***********************************************