In an important victory, the Union Navy captured the forts, which had guarded the mouth of the bay.
But concerns persist among the population about the sweeping changes ahead for Bhutan, which has guarded its traditions and identity.
Two of the most distinctive were a gilded wood carving of the Angel Gabriel, which had guarded the entrance to a tavern in upstate New York for 150 years, and a gold-leaf sheet-iron weather vane, which depicted a now-extinct long-billed shore bird, a Hudsonian curlew.
There are other startups generally in this space, but the real heavyweight (we hear) is Mint, which has guarded the specifics of its service closely.
One pioneer of commercial micro-malting, Jason Cody of the Colorado Malting Company in Alamosa, Colo., said it was difficult simply learning the details of the process, which brewers have guarded like a trade secret.
Neither NATO nor the United Nations, both of which track assassinations, had any record of the mass beheadings, of the Maktab Bazaar killings or of the two men killed after Mr. Khan's capture, reflecting the intense secrecy with which villagers have guarded the deaths.
Ms. Sontag's admirers are not mass market and probably care less about her private life, which she has guarded quite well, than about her writing and her causes.
We even know about the toys she carefully distributed among Johanna, Marinus, Rudolphus and Cornelia -- silver toys, which she had guarded for years.
But the idea of an exchange was hijacked by the German federal government in Bonn, which has jealously guarded its prerogative to negotiate with the Russians over trophy art.
It also represented a huge drop in status for the army, which had jealously guarded its kingmaker role as guardian of Turkey's secular political order since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, himself a top army commander, established the modern republic in 1923.
