Antique

Antique An antique (Latin: antiquus; "old", "ancient") is an old collectable item. It is collected or desirable because of its age, beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features. It is an object that represents a previous era or time period in human society. It is common practice to define "antique" as…

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Personalize Your Home Page Experience Lost your password?Designing the Scarlet Pearl: Examining a new casino project that merges form with functionFrom roof to foundationThe Construction Specifier has announced the newest volume in its series of free, downloadable ebooks—a technical discussion on modern exterior design practices.It looks at the variety of cladding materials available today, and…

Safety and Entertainment

Safety and Entertainment Some entertainments, such as at large festivals (whether religious or secular), concerts, clubs, parties and celebrations, involve big crowds. From earliest times, crowds at an entertainment have associated hazards and dangers, especially when combined with the recreational consumption of intoxicants such as alcohol. The Ancient Greeks had Dionysian Mysteries, for example, and…

Entrepreneurship and ADHD: Fast Brain, Fast Company? – ADDitude

Entrepreneurship and ADHD are connected in research — and the anecdotal success of businesses ranging from JetBlue to Kinko’s and beyond. Here, entrepreneurs with ADHD reflect on the ways tenacity, ingenuity, hyperfocus, and other ADD traits offer a strategic advantage. Risk-taking. Impulsivity. Sensation seeking. Hyperfocus. Curiosity. We associate these traits and qualities with some of…