Temple Pro Tempore : The Salt Lake City Endowment House

The Salt Lake City Endowment House, built of adobe, was located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. It served as a temporary temple during the construction of the Salt Lake Temple. It was completed in 1855 and razed in 1889. Using original floor plans, photographs, maps, and descriptions by persons who participated in its sacretodal activities, the author recreates its exterior and interior appearance. Floor plans and elevations of the building, prepared especially for the paper, are also included. The events leading to is destruction are chronicled. Finally, the author discusses the building’s influence on subsequent Mormon temple interior design and decoration

\u27A Perfect Estopel\u27 : Selling the Nauvoo Temple

As the Saints prepared to leave Nauvoo, Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve attempted to lease the Nauvoo Temple and sell other Church properties in order to finance the trip west. They hoped to sell the temple and the majority of the buildings to the Catholic Church, but the two groups could not come to an agreement. When Brigham Young left the city, Almon Babbitt, Joseph Heywood, and John Fullmer were left behind to act as trustees. Their difficult task was to settle debts, find purchasers for private properties, sell public buildings and other properties owned by the Church, and to find an appropriate leasor for the temple. They entered into several negotiations to sell or lease the temple, but a satisfactory arrangement was difficult to reach. The trustees were also hampered in the discharge of their duties by legal disputations about the ownership of the temple and other public buildings. Finally, in 1848, arrangements were made to lease the temple to a Mr. Bower of New York. However, before the lease was completed, an arson fire destroyed the building. The burned ruins of the temple and the surrounding grounds were sold to Etienne Cabet for the establishment of a communistic utopian society. Further damage from a tornado made the building irreparable and the surviving walls were knocked down for reasons of safety

West Virginia and Mormonism Rarest Book

The is an account of the Book of Commandments, which was the first monograph published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in 1833. The paper used to print to the book was purchased in Wheeling, (West) Virginia. The book was destroyed in press by a mob and was never completed. However, a limited number of the printed signatures were salvaged and bound. The few surviving, incomplete copies are worth thousands of dollars. The volume is Mormonism\u27s rarest book

Principals and presidents of Marshall University: 1837-2013

Marshall University has been known by three official names, and thirty-nine individuals have guided it as its forty chief administrative officers—one man served as its principal twice. The institution began as Marshall Academy in 1837, was renamed Marshall College in 1858, and finally became Marshall University in 1961. Of the thirty-nine persons who have shepherded the institution during its one-hundred and seventy-five years, thirty-eight were men and one was a woman. Eight men were principals during the Marshall Academy years, and five were teachers who stepped in to keep the academy functioning during critical years, especially the Civil War. It was during these war years that a single woman kept the dream of Marshall alive. After the Civil War there were nine men who held the title of principal during the Marshall College period. In 1907 the title of principal was changed to president, and six men held that title during the rest of the college period. Since becoming a university, thirteen men have held the title of president. Of these thirteen men, two were called acting presidents and two were called interim presidents. Each of these individuals has left his her own mark on Marshall University, whether for only a few months or for decades. Yet it has been difficult to find much information about the lives of many of them. Yes, there are a number of historical studies of the University, both published and unpublished, in which there appear brief biographical sketches of some of them, but the last of these studies was published in the 1980s, more than thirty years ago. There is no single place an interested person can go to find information about these important figures in Marshall’s history. The purpose of this brief paper is to ameliorate that unfortunate situation

Marshall University Chronology

A year-by-year listing of selected important events, from the founding of Marshall University in 1837 to the present. This was developed as part of the University\u27s 175th anniversary

Eastern Hemisphere 1724

'Hemisphere oriental dresse en 1720 pour l'usage du Roy ... rapportees ... dans l'histoire ... de l'Academie Royale des Sciences par Guilaume de Lisle ... Paris chez l'auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge sous le privilege de l'Academie Royale des Sciences le 15 Septembre 1724'. Shows Nouvelle Hollande, including the Gulf of Carpentaria and Western Australia with a slight gap in the coastline, New Guinea, part of Terre de Diemen, St. Esprit. Also shows route of Abel Tasman. Coloured. It is folded paper from Atlas, guard for binding behind fold. Size: 48 cm x 49 cm. Presented to Royal Society by R.W. Giblin 1927. RS Mp/

Southern Hemisphere c 1740 - 1745

Antarctic Pole: 'hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement le Terres Australes, par Guillaume Delisle, ou se royent les nouvelles decouvertes faites en 1739 au sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance par les ordres de Mrs. de la Compagnie des Indes. Dresse sur les memoires et sur le Carte Originale de Mrs. de Lozier Bouvet charge de cette expedition'. Terres Australes, Neuvelle Hollande, shown as on 1724 map, Isles de Salomon shown in two positions - according to Dudley and according to F. Gallego. Cap de la Circoncision shown and position of icebergs seen by Bouvet expedition and line of route of expedition north of the faintly indicated 'Terre de Vue' part of Southern land thought to be in Lat. 44 by some geographers. Beside map is a plan of Circoncision and drawings of icebergs, with description in French and Dutch; also description of the voyage in French and Dutch. Publisher: R. & I. Ottens, Amsterdam N. Map size: 46 cm x 45 cm - Whole sheet with description: 51 cm x 68 cm. RS Mp/l

Lie discrete symmetries of lattice equations

We extend two of the methods previously introduced to find discrete symmetries of differential equations to the case of difference and differential-difference equations. As an example of the application of the methods, we construct the discrete symmetries of the discrete Painlev\'e I equation and of the Toda lattice equation

Life Beneath Glacial Ice - Earth(!) Mars(?) Europa(?)

We are investigating a set of cold springs that deposit sulfur and carbonate minerals on the surface of a Canadian arctic glacier. The spring waters and mineral deposits contain microorganisms, as well as clear evidence that biological processes mediate subglacial chemistry, mineralogy, and isotope fractionation . The formation of native sulphur and associated deposits are related to bacterially mediated reduction and oxidation of sulphur below the glacier. A non-volcanic, topography driven geothermal system, harboring a microbiological community, operates in an extremely cold environment and discharges through solid ice. Microbial life can thus exist in isolated geothermal refuges despite long-term subfreezing surface conditions. Earth history includes several periods of essentially total glaciation. lee in the near subsurface of Mars may have discharged liquid water in the recent past Cracks in the ice crust of Europa have apparently allowed the release of water to the surface. Chemolithotrophic bacteria, such as those in the Canadian springs, could have survived beneath the ice of "Snowball Earth", and life forms with similar characteristics might exist beneath the ice of Mars or Europa. Discharges of water from such refuges may have brought to the surface living microbes, as well as longlasting chemical, mineralogical, and isotopic indications of subsurface life

Symmetries of Differential Equations via Cartan's Method of Equivalence

We formulate a method of computing invariant 1-forms and structure equations of symmetry pseudo-groups of differential equations based on Cartan's method of equivalence and the moving coframe method introduced by Fels and Olver. Our apparoach does not require a preliminary computation of infinitesimal defining systems, their analysis and integration, and uses differentiation and linear algebra operations only. Examples of its applications are given.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX 2.0