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The Elizabeth River courses through the heart of Virginia. The
Jamestown colonists recognized the river's strategic importance and
explored its watershed almost immediately after the 1607 founding.
The Elizabeth River traces four centuries of this historic stream's
path through the geography and culture of Virginia.
The Oceanfront's Cottage Line, the music halls of Seaside Park, and
dunes so large they dwarfed the old Cape Henry lighthouse are a
memory. Gone too are many of the city's iconic landmarks and open
spaces, lost to flood, fire, storm and the relentless onslaught of
post-World War II development. With a deft hand and rare vintage
images, historian Amy Waters Yarsinske recalls a time when the
likes of Chuck Berry and Ray Charles played beneath the sizzling
lights of the Dome and locals shagged the night away at the
Peppermint Beach Club. Join Yarsinske as she takes one final stroll
through a Virginia Beach lost to time.
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Lost Norfolk (Hardcover)
Amy Waters Yarsinske
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Discovery Miles 6 950
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Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS
Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class
battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built.
Wisconsin saw action in World War II and the Korean Conflict for
which the Big Wisky earned a collective six battle stars. Brought
out of mothballs and recommissioned a second time on October 22,
1988, the Wisconsin saw action again during the Persian Gulf War
but was decommissioned a third time on September 30, 1991. But this
great piece of American history was not destined for a lengthy
slumber. Resurrected by the city of Norfolk and USS Wisconsin
Foundation, working in lockstep with the Navy, it has become a
museum ship and Navy heritage site that continues the legacy of
duty, honor, and country that was the calling card of Wisconsin's
crew, and to inspire future generations of Americans.
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Ocean View (Hardcover)
Amy Waters Yarsinske
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Discovery Miles 8 270
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In its first century and counting, NASA Langley Research Center
[LaRC] has had a remarkable history that has stood out not only for
the many outstanding achievements in flight and space exploration
but the people who made it happen. "If there were a list of 100
people who contributed the most the progress in the world of
flight, I believe Langley would provide the most names. Without
question," observed astronaut, aeronautical engineer and the first
man to walk on the Moon, Neil Alden Armstrong (1930 - 2012) on
LaRC's nineteenth anniversary, "many of the giants of aero research
spent their careers here, and many others, who learned their craft
here, went on to lead other research efforts at other governments
labs in the industry. Langley has been a powerhouse of creative
thinking." With a centennial theme of "inventing the future," NASA
LaRC is poised to enter its second century of ingenuity and
invention with a wealth of pending and proposed research, and
near-term prognostication may prove a bit easier.
Richmond is a city with a pedigree, a past that can be traced back
to the first English settlers who landed at Jamestown in 1607. Yet
the focus of this volume is the twentieth century, which was, by
all rights, America's century and Richmond's rebirth as a modern,
changed city. "The closer Richmond moved toward the twentieth
century, the more it seemed to be a city of archives and icons, the
'holy city' of the Confederacy, and an American industrial city,
reflecting the prosperity and problems of mass production," wrote
historian Marie Tyler-McGraw, of the city that had held on so
tightly to its status as capital of the Confederacy and bastion of
the South's cause in the war. "The Lost Cause as a form of civil
religion for the South was especially evocative in Richmond,"
McGraw continued, "Yet the political influence of the Lost Cause
zealots was probably not as great as its acolytes imagined. Both
politicians and businessmen found the Lost Cause to be a malleable
concept, adaptable to new circumstances." Richmond was ready for a
makeover - and it got it.
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