In Rajin, a town of dirt roads and occasional blackouts, the guides stuck to the program, first taking their guests to a towering portrait of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, for photographs and then ushering them into a theater to watch children perform patriotic numbers.
In 1815 Congreve further improved his designs by mounting his guide stick along the central axis.
William Hale, a British engineer, invented a method of successfully eliminating the deadweight of the flight-stabilizing guide stick.
The forward portion of the guide stick, which screwed into the rocket, was sheathed with brass to prevent burning.
Congreve's metal rocket bodies were equipped on one side with two or three thin metal loops into which a long guide stick was inserted and crimped firm.
In 1875 The Record and Guide stuck in the knife with a twist: "If the owner is penurious or the architect barren, there is one immediate way to make it known: let them concoct a mansard".
Here our guide sticks on a mustache and steers you around the gay French capital, making his inimitable comments as he goes through the various sections of the city.
Normally, in these "cheap eats" guides, we stick, for obvious reasons, to city-centre venues.
Photos show their instructors holding threads as rifle guides, or sticking needles in soldiers' shirt collars, pointed at their necks, to correct poor posture.
In a way, they are the perfect hotel souvenirs, and also the most anachronistic — having been left essentially unchanged since the bygone days of steamer trunks, Baedeker guides, swizzle sticks and, let's not forget, smoking.
