Welcomed. Airmen keys cabinet of curiosity is a production. If I hurt radio and grim and mild our world is full of the unexplainable and of history has open book. All of these amazing tales are right there on display just waiting for us to explore, welcome to the cabinet of curiosities marriage is a strong bond. In many cases, it can be the strongest. John Adams may have been one of the architects of the united states and the country's second president, but he always found time to write to his wife Abigail back in massachusetts. To correspond it often and when he entered the presidency in one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven abigail wasn't just his first lady. She was all

an adviser, anna confidence as trusted to him as any cabinet member poet bert browning had to marry his true love. Elizabeth bear it in secret because her father did not approve of their courtship bear. It had been sick for a while and the two wrote letters to each other for months before finally meeting in eighteen, forty five after Wedding bear its health improve so much. She gave birth to a son, robber whiteman bear it browning. She lived out the remit. Of her life with her family in ITALY, dine in her husband's arms at the age of fifty five. These were novices couples who had gone to great lengths for each other. In sickness and in health for richer or for poor until parted by death

During a troublesome in one thousand one hundred and forty, however, the love women had for their husbands was put to the ultimate test and how they passed has become the stuff of legend lothaire. The third had served as king of germany for years before becoming holy roman emperor in one thousand one hundred and thirty three, although many supported his rule, he found particular trouble in the hohenstaufen or stouffer. family that had ruled parts of germany and ITALY. For one thing, his father had died in battle against them. In ten seventy five they had also had to give up. Land up land believes fell under his rule, the staffer weren't, the only ones who rebelled against the new emperor, with the help of the duchy of Austria, the duchy of Swabia and other free lands. A anti king was Lected conrad, the third of germany lothar, had launched a military campaign against the staffer and took control of two of their cities. In eleven, twenty nine cents

years later as emperor, he defeated them in sicily when their power had diminished. However, his father attack on the normans of ITALY did not fare well, he was able to lay claim to the city of salerno, but he died on his return trip home in one thousand one hundred and thirty seven, as you might imagine, the emperor's death caused upheaval among the staffer and compete dynasties conrad. The third was elected king of germany within the holy roman empire, but Henry the proud who is velvet dynasty had helped lothaire in his campaign against the stouffer believe that he should have been next in line. So these two sides competing for the crown took up arms. Their conflict coming to a head in one thousand one hundred and forty in the town of vines berg, germany within vines berg, was a castle or fortress that had been under the control of dale forces. Conrad laid siege to the castle as the welsh soldiers inside waited for help to arrive. Unfortunately, that help had also been stopped by car

armies. It didn't take long for those inside the castle to see only two options, fight or surrender realising they were out man they chose to surrender conrad I was not about to let those who had fought against him go without punishment. He plan to reduce the town and its castle to rubble and take all the wealth loyalists as prison

but he was not an unreasonable man as part of the negotiations he allowed the women to leave with whatever they could carry on their backs. The women of the castle began packing that which was most important to them, strapping everything to their backs and proceeding out of the fortress conrad's men, including the duke, implored the king, to stop them, but he refused saying a king could not go back on his word. After all, he was impressed by their quick thinking because, rather than pack up food or close or family heirlooms, the women of vines burg left with their husbands, hung over their backs earning the castle, its new name, viper, trout, otherwise known as women's faith or wifely royalty. It says

The true love bears all and that's a beautiful sentiment. Thankfully, though, in this case, all these ladies had to bear where their husbands The construction of a large building or skyscraper can take months or even years, a lot of planning goes into creating something as massive as the empire state, building or as run of the mill. As your average office, complex permits must be secured. Soil samples must be taken. Environmental impact studies must be considered in the land needs to be prepared to accept such a heavy structure. It takes hundreds of hard working people to complete such a project, but it also takes some one to draft the plan that will eventually become an office or a hospital or a company headquarters, and sometimes that plan involves tearing down the old to make way for the new.

But what happens when you can't tear down the old for an architect named Kurt? You had to find another way. Her was and raised in indianapolis indiana. At the turn of the 20th century, he went to college and Strasbourg france before returning to the united states to complete his architectural degree at mit in one thousand, nine hundred and eight current was quite the creative thinker when he wasn't worth

as a partner at his architecture firm. He was teaching a lettering class at the Herron school of art and design part of indiana university, the stock market crash of nineteen, twenty nine hit him and his company hard. The house he designed and built for his family had to be sold and commercial construction came to a halt all over the state. His firm produced almost no work for quite a while, then in nineteen thirty, a unique opportunity was presented to him. Despite the depression communications company indiana bell had recently bought the central union telephone company, which provided Indiana with telephone service to accommodate the influx of new employees and broaden their footprint within the state. Indiana bell decided to des moines

central union's headquarters to make room for a brand new building. They hired kurtz firm to design the new construction. There was just one problem tearing down the old headquarters would have wiped out phone service across the state. Instead, Indiana bell at Kurt's insistence, chose a less messy path. They decided to move the building instead, today, how His hotels and even churches can be migrated from one location to another, using hydraulic equipment and large trucks. Oftentimes the structures are broken down into multiple pieces and then reassembled at the new site back. one thirty, though the process was a little more involved, especially because telephone service could not be interrupted even for a minute but Kurt's idea. Wasn't.

of the eight story. Eleven thousand tonnes headquarters entirely only to shift it out of the way in order to make room for an expansion to facilitate the move. The building sat upon a concrete matt, which itself rested on timbers made of oregon fur every day with the help of a steam engine. Six hundred workmen cranked. and power jack's to pivot the structure, the concrete matt would move forward on massive hydraulic rollers, as it shifted off of one roller at the rear. Another was slid in front to catch it and keep it up right. Every six turns of the jack's. The building would move three eighth of an inch. This meant that they were able to shift at fifteen inches per hour. Incredibly, all major services flowing to and from the headquarters were not interrupted during the four weak operation, including gas, water and sewage, and telephone service never dropped. Now.

has been attempted today. Whole building would have been evacuated for safety reasons and one thousand nine hundred and thirty, though employees of a telephone company needed to be on site to keep things running. So the project was completed with everyone still working inside Reports claim that no one ever felt the building moving either by the time it was often If the indiana bell building had been rotated by ninety degrees and shifted nearly sixty feet self, leaving plenty of room for kurt and his firm to begin work on the addition. The architect kurt by the way, was none other than Kurt Vonnegut senior. Father of the author of slaughterhouse five, Kurt Vonnegut junior. I hope you've enjoyed today's guided tour of the cabinet of curiosities subscribe for free on apple pie,

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