The native TNG search form and pagination controls in browsemedia.php are laid out and interact differently than in other TNG search pages.
This mod reconfigures them so that, for example, the pagination controls are now adjacent to the "Matches x to y of z" message,
and both are below the the search form.
Under the control of three mod configuration settings:
A "Media Collections" selection box is displayed so users can more easily switch to another collection,
while keeping the current search string and tree.
An information icon is placed next to the searchstring field. The popup help text is
An information icon is placed next to the Gallery button, to explain what "Gallery" means and does.
In the results table:
The fixed-width "Info" column (which is often empty) is allowed to float with the results table.
The fixed width of the "Linked to" column is enlarged.
If more than one tree is active in the search, there is now a column for the tree ID.
When "All Media" are being displayed, there is now a column for the Collection.
The results table is no longer forced to be the full width of the page.
Day H Bacon Obituary Brief obituary in Crossville, TN Chronicle, published on May 27, 1976.
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Death Notice for John A Myers Brief item noting that John A Myers was "once a professor in Kentucky University and later was connected with the West Virginia experiment station"
Death of Humphrey Madison Indian attack in Bath Co., VA in September 1756. John Byrd/Bird killed by Shawnee; son John Jr., wife, and 5 other children abducted. After truce with Indians in 1763, mother and John Jr. returned.
Death of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk Published in The Weekender, Lexington, Virginia (December 13, 1997), pp. 1-3.
This article appears to give a good, detailed historical view of the death of the Native American chief Cornstalk and related events. However (although I admit that I haven't read the specific sources that are cited in the article), I believe that it falls into the same trap as many stories about Point Pleasant and Fort Randolph, and confuses the Arbuckle brothers, Matthew and William.
At the famous Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, Matthew was a well-known frontiersman, and a 34-year-old Captain, whereas William was a 22-year-old private. Most stories of Cornstalk's death three years later identify the fort's commander, Captain Arbuckle, as Matthew, not William. And though it is possible, I doubt that William had become a 25-year-old captain in the interim.
In the 1780's after Matthews's death, William continued to serve at, or at least live in the vicinity of (the new) Fort Randolph, and some stories say that he also served as commandant. But I know of no records that say that he did, or that he definitely achieved the rank of Captain. However, it is certainly plausible that he acted as commandant of the fort at some point.
Media items (whether images, PDF files, word-processiong files, web pages, recording, videos, etc.)
saved within this application are listed in a database table that describes the media item
and points to its file.
They are organized into "Collections" by their content rather than by the file format.
This search focuses on the "histories" collection and selects items if
the search string is found in one of these three database fields:
Title. Titles are hyperlinked at the top of the Description column
in the results table below.
Description. Longer than the title, but usually no more than a few lines long.
BodyText. This can be an arbitrarily large block of text with rich formatting
(i.e headings, lists, borders, backgrounds, colors, hyperlinks, etc).
The bodytext sometimes just adds a bit more information beyond the description and
and sometimes it is virtually a full web page.
But most media items do not have a bodytext value, ,
(The bodytext is not shown on this page.
You can see it only if you view the media item by clicking on the image thumbnail or hyperlinked title.)
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What's in the 'Gallery'
The Gallery shows just thumbnail images; no descriptive text to identify media items. It may be useful only for photos.
Significantly, media items without thumbnails do not appear in the Gallery.
Media items that are not likely to have thumbnails include
Non-images such as Word documents, PDF's, HTML pages, etc.
Images that were scanned from books and other documents.
In truth, it wouldn't be hard to generate thumbnails for those images,
and some do have thumbnails, but it isn't generally worthwhile to do so, since
thumbnails of scanned documents are usually too small to reveal anything useful about the document.
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Media 'Collection'
This site uses thousands of media files including many types of images and documents. To facilitate various aspects of file management, they are are broken out into what might be called a functional categorization the we refer to as "Collection".
Some (not necessarily all) of the active collections are:
Photos - Most photographs of people, places, and things.
Histories - Stories and other narratives that are not primarily focused on data.
Censuses - Images of census worksheets from national and state censuses and other similar accountings of the people in a given place at a given time.
Documents - All other representations of formal documents such as marriage, birth, death, military draft, naturizalization, and graduation certificates; church and town birth, marriage, and burial registers; city directories etc., etc., etc.
Headstones - Photos, maps, and documents tied to an application feature that focuses on finding graves and headstones within cemeteries.
Clearly, many, files could be logically be assigned to different collections, and other potentially-useful collections come fairly easily to mind. But these functional collections are much more useful than a breakdown based on less ambiguous file formats.
This help message window can be dragged out of the way,
and left on the screen as long as you need it.
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