Since my grandparents were adults in the late 19th Century, I marvel at the fact he’ll live well into the 22nd Century.
A four century look at live generations by my own eyes is pretty mind-boggling to me.
From my own family - Grandparents to grand nieces (1874 - 2100+):
While living in Puerto Rico during the early 1950s my Dad acquired some beams of Ausubo wood that were salvaged from a renovation of a 17th Century Spanish colonial building on our US Army post (Fort Brooke).
That wood supposedly has a Janka hardness of 3130 lbs.
He had several table lamps (two single & one double) and some small items made from it, and I inherited this one single lamp…..(of course I attached the stained glass shade):
The side table is Taiwanese teak, custom made when we lived there in the late 1950s.
Oh, I have no doubts as to the pedigree of the source, but dunno which mutt (Texags, 12th Man Foundation, TAMU, Buc-EE’s or the A&M athletic department).
Probably the same nabobs who propagated these….