Island Breeze Queen Panel Bedroom Group with Armoire The Island Breeze Queen Panel Bedroom Group features Solid Northern White Birch with Maple Veneers and Walnut Accents in an Aged Coconut Peel Finish. Group Includes: Queen Headboard: 65″H Queen Footboard: 40″H Queen Wood Rails: 82″L: 33″W x 21″D x 31″H Triple Door Dresser: 76″W x 20″D x 37″H Landscape Mirror: 54″W x 48″H Armoire Top: 50″W x 22″D x 52″H Armoire Base: 48″W x 23″D x 41″H

Tags: Bedroom Furniture, Dark Maple & Ash Finish Bedrooms

Stone Top Cocktail Table Hand carved detailing. Intricate inlays. Superior drawer assembly and joinery. Choice, premium woods and veneers. Hand cut and polished, premium natural fossil stone tops and accents. Exceptional beauty and style. The Heritage Stone Top Cocktail Table is crafted to be enjoyed today and for generations to come. Features: Selected solids and veneers. Carved turned legs. Attractively designed fossil stone top. Two working drawers. Includes:Cocktail Table: 38″dia X 22″h.

Tags: Coffee and End Tables, Living Room Furniture

The Royal Muscled Cuirass is made of steel with a black finish and contains the symbols of a lion head in brass along with two sea serpents on either side as emblems of royalty and power. A black leather sectioned skirt is attached around the base of the Cuirass done also with brass cap points and lion’s heads. A pin closure secures the armor on and overall there are six pin closures for a secure fit and done in brass.

Authentic detailing is done for the chest, peck and belly button. The Royal Muscled Cuirass weighs approximately 8-10 lbs. Fits up to 48″ chest. Not adjustable. The Cuirass measures 17 1/2″ long in back, 20 1/2″ in front.

Cuirass is body armor that protects the torso of the wearer above the waist or hips. Originally it was a thick leather garment covering the body from neck to waist, consisting of a breastplate and a backpiece fastened together with straps and buckles and a gorget, a collar protecting the throat. In Homeric and Hellenistic times, it was made of bronze. Cuirasses of leather as well as iron were worn by officers in the armies of the Roman Empire. Later made of steel, the cuirass was forerunner to the body armor worn to deflect bullets.

Royal Muscled Cuirass and Belt

Tag: Armor

Celtic Plate

The Celtic Plate is highly polished traditional 17th Century style 11″ pewter dinner plate, with the added detailed motif of Celtic Engraving. The Celtic Plate is hand made in England from fine English BS. 179828 quality pewter.

Celtic art appeared as an identifiable tradition in about 600 BC and flourished until the mid-1st century AD, when the expansion of the Roman Empire and the Roman conquest of the Celts of Britain, Gaul, and Germany largely extinguished Celtic culture. Celtic art is ornamental, avoiding straight lines and only occasionally using symmetry. Celtic art often involves complex symbolism. It includes a variety of styles and often includes slightly modified elements from other cultures.

There are three traditions of Celtic art, the first being the continental Iron age, which draws on native, classical and oriental sources; the second is the Iron Age art in Britain and Ireland which draws on the continental tradition while adding distinctive regional styles; and the third is the Celtic renaissance of the early Middle Ages in Ireland that borrows heavily from Roman motifs. This third tradition formed the basis for the relatively recent Celtic Revival art.

Tags: Medieval Decorative Displays, Medieval Home Decor

I am posting around the 10th of each month “THANK-YOU” posts, like this one, to all the advertisers of the previous month listed as at month end. That’s a permanent link in this blog, under the category heading which I call .. “Sponsor Appreciation”. I know it’s hard out there trying to figure out where to spend your advertising dollars .. and well .. THANKS for considering the 1-800-HART’s Picks.
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Food Network darling Ray wants home cooks to become more “instinctual,” and this assortment of quick meals is expansive enough to encourage even novices to wing it. The author hopes readers cook their way through the entire book; to that end, she organizes the recipes not by course or main ingredient (though there are indexes), but by number. The organization takes some getting used to. Helpful but occasionally jarring “tidbits” pop up everywhere, and many “recipes” make more than one dish, so cooking just one requires a fair amount of reading. For example, number 16 encompasses “Oregon-Style Pork Chops with Pinot Noir and Cranberries; Oregon Hash with Wild Mushrooms, Greens, Beets, Hazelnuts, and Blue Cheese; [and] Charred Whole-Grain Bread with Butter and Chives.” Readers making just the hash must read around the instructions for the other two dishes. Still, the recipes are great. They vary in technique and ethnicity, and many give instructions on expanding the dish (after making Spicy Shrimp and Penne with Puttanesca Sauce, for example, “now try” omitting the olives and capers, swapping linguine for the penne, reducing the number of shrimp, and adding lump crab meat and mussels to make Frutti di Mare and Linguine). As Ray would say, “Yummo.” (Nov.)
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Book Description
Even your favorite dinner can lose its appeal when it’s in constant rotation, so mix it up! With her largest collection of recipes yet, Food Network’s indefatigable cook Rachael Ray guarantees you’ll be able to put something fresh and exciting on your dinner table every night for a full year… without a single repeat!

Based on the original 30-Minute Meal cooking classes that started it all, these recipes prove that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every night. Rachael offers dozens of recipes that, once mastered, can become entirely new dishes with just a few ingredient swaps. Learn how to make a Southwestern Pasta Bake and you’ll be able to make a Smoky Chipotle Chili Con Queso Mac the next time. Try your hand at Spring Chicken with Leeks and Peas and you’re all set to turn out a rib-sticking Rice and Chicken Stoup that looks and tastes like an entirely different dish.

As a best-selling cookbook author and host of three top-rated Food Network shows, Rachael Ray believes that both cooking and eating should be fun. Drawing from her own favorite dishes as well as those of her family, friends, and celebrities, she covers the flavor spectrum from Asian to Italian and dozens of delicious stops in between. Best of all, these flavor-packed dishes will satisfy your every craving and renew your taste for cooking. With so many delicious entrees to choose from you’ll never have an excuse for being in a cooking rut again.

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Components

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2GHz/667MHz/4MB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
LCD DISPLAY 20.1 inch WSXGA+ Wide Screen with TrueLifeâ„¢ and Integrated Web Cam
MEMORY FREE Upgrade to 2GB, 677MHz 2 Dimm from 1GB – $250 Value
HARD DRIVE 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
OPTICAL DRIVE Slot Load DVD Drive on XPS M2010
WIRELESS NETWORK CARD Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n Dual-band Internal Wireless
GRAPHICS CARD 256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1800
SOUND OPTION Integrated Creative SoundBlaster High Definition Audio

Accessories

FLOPPY DISC & MEMORY KEYS 512MB Dellâ„¢ USB Memory Key
MEDIA CENTER ENHANCEMENTS USB TV Tuner for Windows Media Center
WIRELESS ROUTER Belkin Wireless G Travel Router
CAMERAS, WEBCAMS Logitech Quickcam Fusion Webcam
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ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM

Network Card and Modem Integrated 10/1000 Network Card and Modem
Future Operating Systems Windows Vistaâ„¢ Capable
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