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Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of
headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the
Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele. Limited by the Imperial War
Graves Commission to sixty-six characters - far more restrictive
than Twitter's 140-character rule - these inscriptions are
masterpieces of compact emotion. But, as Sarah Wearne says, their
enforced brevity means that many inscriptions rely on the reader
being able to pick up on the references and allusions, or recognise
the quotations - and many twenty-first-century readers don't.
Consequently she has selected one hundred inscriptions from the
battlefield cemeteries and by expanding the context - religious,
literary or personal - she has been able to give full voice to the
bereaved. This collection, the second in a short series, will be
published to coincide with the centenary of the opening of the
Passchendaele offensive on 31 July 1917. Together with Epitaphs of
the Great War The Somme, published on 1 July 2016, these books
cover the epitaphs of the ordinary and the famous, the privileged
and the poor, the generals and the privates and, after a hundred
years, give us an insight into what contemporaries believed they
had been fighting for and how they viewed the loss of the men they
had loved.
Dunmore's War of 1774 was the culmination of a long series of
disputes between settlers and Native Americans in western Virginia
and Pennsylvania. In an effort to quell the increasingly violent
Indian incursions, Virginia Governor John Murray, the Earl of
Dunmore, carried on a successful retaliatory campaign known as
"Dunmore's War." This book presents a history of that war through
the use of primary documents selected from the mass of manuscript
historical material in the famous Draper Collection at the
Wisconsin Historical Society. Numerous footnotes throughout the
volume provide a wealth of biographical information, as do the
lists of muster rolls and biographies of field officers at the end
of the book.
Riding the white horse her father gave her as a wedding present,
Priscilla and her husband, Samuel Rugg, came to the Turkeyfoot
Valley in Somerset County, PA. The year is 1789 and she immediately
becomes a person of suspicion to the early German settlers. They
tag her as Hex Berge, or witch of the hills. The legend lives on.
Move ahead one hundred years to the times of Mary Wyno, the witch
from Slovenia whom most of the people in the area held with
suspicion. She appears and disappears at will, she can silence
horses and her spells become reality. Here in Hexie her spirit
lives on.
In the early seventeenth-century, when Spanish interests often
competed with those of the House of Austria, three women in the
court of Philip III of Spain--Empress Mar?a, Philip's grandmother;
Margaret of Austria, Philip's wife; and Margaret of the Cross,
Philip's aunt--worked behind the scenes to win favor for the causes
of the Austrian Habsburgs.
In "The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun," historian Magdalena
S?nchez offers an intriguing examination of the political power
wielded by these three women. S?nchez examines the ways that women
used religious piety, childbearing, illnesses such as melancholy,
and marriage arrangements to sway political decisions. They
employed distinct strategies and languages at informal occasions
such as meals, masquerade celebrations, and religious ceremonies to
influence the political scene. By incorporating women into informal
political networks, this work breaks new ground in the study of
early modern European politics.
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The Dragon Cede
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Nicholas de Vere, Michael Hunter
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Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication
date: 1890 Original Publisher: F. B.
A registry of names abstracted from a number of archival sources.
Compiled by Mrs. Cronk from volumes A through I, K through S, and 1
through 8 of the Orphans Court Books of Monmouth County, this
collection of abstracts focuses on intestates, their heirs, and
other family members mentioned in estate allotments, guardianships,
and an assortment of miscellaneous records buried among the vast
collection of the Orphans Court.Each entry begins with the main
surname in the record, followed by the page number of the Orphans
Court Book in question. In all the compiler abstracted 2,200
separate records, containing references to more than 12,000
intestates, heirs and associated individuals.
Professional genealogist Shirley Hornbeck has written a genealogy
how-to book that takes a decidedly fresh approach to its subject.
This and That Genealogy Tips homes in on the most salient aspects
of no fewer than forty-two different topics in American genealogy.
Shirley Hornbeck's new how-to book is the culmination of her
twenty-five years of experience as a genealogist. This and That
Genealogy Tips is a handbook for what to look for--and what to
avoid--when doing research. In this sense it is the perfect
companion volume to virtually any genealogy textbook.
The town of Waterbury, Connecticut is the focus of Volume 50 of the
Barbour Collection. Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Volume 50 refers
to nearly 40,000 inhabitants of Waterbury between 1686 and 1853.
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