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Edgartown
(Paperback)
A.Bowdoin Van Riper
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Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of
Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers,
stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot
strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A
refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates
of the Midwest.
In Sorcery in Salem, local author John Hardy Wright examines the
witchcraft delusion that afflicted Salem Village and Salem Town in
the winter of 1691-92. Twenty inhabitants lost their lives at that
time; nineteen were hanged on Gallows Hill, and one elderly man,
Giles Cory, by remaining mute as a personal protest to the
proceedings of the court, was pressed to death under heavy weights.
Once the prosecuting examinations began on March 1, 1692, local
authorities were uncertain what course the following trials would
take. Spectral evidence, in which the shape of a suspected witch
tortured people, was a primary indication of guilt, as was the
"touch test," in which a victim was released from the witch's power
upon the laying on of hands. Not being able to correctly recite the
Lord's Prayer was also damning.
Few teams in Georgia high school football can document their
history as far back as the Bulldogs. Cedartown High School played
its first game at the turn of the century, kicking off a historic
tradition that endures today. Join author William Austin, born and
raised in Cedartown, as he recounts the history of this proud
football program. Austin covers the careers of expert coaches like
Doc Ayers and John Hill and highlights the star players and crucial
games that helped shape Cedartown's legacy of tough play on the
gridiron. From that first game in 1900 to the 1946 conference
champions, through the 1963 state champion team and all the way to
the 2001 state championship game, here for the first time is the
history of Bulldogs football.
Easternmost of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario is bordered by both
New York and Ontario. Upon its pristine surface, countless vessels
have sailed, but its bottom depths are littered with the skeletons
of shipwrecks, including Fleetwing, caught and destroyed in one of
the sudden storms that often turn this sea-like lake deadly. Daring
mariners, male and female, have seen their share of peril, and
battles during wars between Britain and the US and Canada have also
been waged here. From Huron canoes to today's "Sunday Sailors" who
venture from shore only during warmer months, local author Susan
Gateley tells some of the lake's most exciting stories.
It Happened in Kansas will feature over 25 chapters in Kansas
history. Lively and entertaining, this book will bring the varied
and fascinating history of the Sunflower State to life.
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Holland
(Paperback)
Karen L Kline, Sandra B Smith
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R565
R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
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Mystic
(Paperback)
J. Huguenin, M Earl Smith
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R561
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Discovery Miles 5 150
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Andre Laurendeau was the most widely respected French-Canadian
nationalist of his generation. The story of his life is to a
striking degree also the story of French-Canadian nationalism from
the 1930s to the 1960s, that period of massive societal change when
Quebec evolved from a traditional to a modern society. The most
insightful intellectual voice of the nationalist movement, he was
at the tumultuous centre of events as a young separatist in the
1930s; an anti-conscription activist and reform-minded provincial
politician in the 1940s; and an influential journalist, editor of
the Montreal daily Le Devoir, in the 1950s. At the same time he
played an important role in Quebec's cultural life both as a
novelist and playwright and as a well-known radio and television
personality. In tracing his life story, this biography sheds
indispensable light not only on the development of Laurendeau's own
nationalist thought, but on his people's continuing struggle to
preserve the national values that make them distinct.
Unitarians established a church in the nation's capital in 1821,
and the first Universalist sermon in Washington was presented at
city hall in 1827. Since these beginnings, Washington-area
Unitarians and Universalists have created congregations that affirm
ideals of religious liberalism: a commitment to religious freedom,
a reasoned approach to faith, a hopeful view of human capacities to
create a better world, and the belief that God is most
authentically known as love. Images of America: Unitarians and
Universalists of Washington, D.C. features prominent figures such
as Robert Little, an English Unitarian who fled his native land and
became minister of First Unitarian Church of Washington; political
rivals John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun, both founding members
of the congregation; and Clara Barton, who organized the American
Red Cross after her experiences on the battlefields during the
Civil War. In 1961, Unitarians and Universalists joined together,
and the story continues as Unitarian Universalists interpret the
values of religious liberalism for each new generation.
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Pueblo
(Paperback)
Charlene Garcia Simms, Maria Sanchez Tucker, Jeffrey Deherrera, District the Pueblo City-County Library
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R561
R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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