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Republican Ascendancy in Southern U.S. House Elections by Seth C. McKee
epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Seth C. McKee [McKee, Seth C.]

Competitiveness A look back at Figure 1.1, which displays the partisan makeup of the southern U.S. House delegation from 1946–2004, shows that Republicans made their greatest gains in southern House ...
( Category: African History June 2,2022 )
Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir by Christopher Armstrong
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Christopher Armstrong [Armstrong, Christopher]

1941 DAM AT LAKE MINNEWANKA (AUTHOR PHOTO). The only other public opposition seems to have come from the Alberta Fish and Game Association, whose vice president complained that Calgary Power ...
( Category: Accounting June 2,2022 )
Whatever's Fair: The Political Autobiography of Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe by Vernal G. Riffe & Cliff Treyens
epub |eng | 2007-02-20 | Author:Vernal G. Riffe & Cliff Treyens [Riffe, Vernal G. & Treyens, Cliff]

Speaker Riffe swears in son, “Skip,” as a Scioto County Commissioner in 1990. Grandchildren Micah and Nick assist. The Speaker thanks friends and family during the dedication of a bust ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies June 2,2022 )
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2 by George Katsiaficas
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:George Katsiaficas [Katsiaficas, George]

Jana Andolan 2—The 2006 Loktantra Andolan On April 6, exactly sixteen years after the first jana andolan according to the Nepali Calendar, the leadership of the democracy movement again mobilized ...
( Category: South June 2,2022 )
Labour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851 by Jules Ginswick
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Jules Ginswick [Ginswick, Jules]

Bolton Bolton is as bad a specimen of a nucleus of cotton manufacture as can be conceived. It is an old spinning and weaving station, and the great mass of ...
( Category: Europe June 2,2022 )
The Refugee-Diplomat by Diego Pirillo
epub |eng | 2018-12-15 | Author:Diego Pirillo [Pirillo, Diego]

Several contemporary marginal annotations confirm that Castelvetro gave particular attention to the controversy over the oath of allegiance. In annotating Campanella’s Discorsi ai Principi d’Italia, for example, Castelvetro questioned the ...
( Category: Renaissance June 2,2022 )
Rida Said by Sabah Kabbani Peter Clark
epub |eng | 2021-06-05 | Author:Sabah Kabbani, Peter Clark [Sabah Kabbani, Peter Clark]

Saturday, 1 May 1926 Dr Rida Saïd’s office manager informed him that the French High Commission had been in touch to say that the High Commissioner, Count Henri de Jouvenel,23 ...
( Category: Syria June 2,2022 )
Operation Menace by Arthur J. Marder
epub |eng | 2016-06-30 | Author:Arthur J. Marder [Marder, Arthur J.]

At 4.48 the Westernland stopped near Cape Rouge, 7½ miles from Rufisque. The sea was calm and the chances for landing were, in Spears’s judgement, ‘unique’. On the other hand, ...
( Category: West Africa June 2,2022 )
Wellington's Highland Warriors by Stuart Reid
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Stuart Reid [Reid, Stuart]

6 Castlebar Races: The Fencibles at War Altyre’s efforts to bring the Strathspeys around were ultimately to be in vain, for although he soon convinced himself that everyone except the ...
( Category: Regiments June 2,2022 )
A Taste of Progress by Nelleke Teughels Peter Scholliers
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Nelleke Teughels, Peter Scholliers [Nelleke Teughels, Peter Scholliers]

Conclusion Names like ‘Belgian Waffles’ and associated world’s fair fantasies have economic value (see http://www.wafelsanddinges.com/), but they also have effects for identity construction and loaded image building, even of a ...
( Category: 19th Century June 2,2022 )
Cold Harbor to the Crater by Gary W. Gallagher Caroline E. Janney
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney [Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney]

The End of the Civil War For all practical purposes, Barlow’s war was over. His devastating experiences in the Overland and Petersburg campaigns led to what contemporaries called an extreme ...
( Category: Reconstruction June 2,2022 )
The Allegheny Frontier by Otis K. Rice
epub |eng | 2021-12-14 | Author:Otis K. Rice [Rice, Otis K.]

1 [John Cross], Five Years in the Alleghanies (New York, 1863), pp. 57-58; Charles H. Ambler, Frances Haney Atwood, and William B. Mathews, eds., Debates and Proceedings of the First ...
( Category: Colonial Period June 2,2022 )
Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns by Letty ten Harkel D. M. Hadley
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Letty ten Harkel, D. M. Hadley [Letty ten Harkel, D. M. Hadley]

7 WHITHER THE WARRIOR IN VIKING-AGE TOWNS? D. M. Hadley Analysis of the construction and articulation of gender identities has become fundamental to historical and archaeological studies of early medieval ...
( Category: Medieval June 2,2022 )
Liberalization and Crisis in Colombian Agriculture by Felipe Jaramillo
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Felipe Jaramillo [Jaramillo, Felipe]

Ley Agraria The agricultural crisis of 1992 generated anti-government feelings among some influential farming groups, particularly those representing crops most affected by falling returns. During the first months of 1993, ...
( Category: History June 2,2022 )
The Unknown Commandant: The Life and Times of Denis Barry 1883-1923 by Denis Barry
epub |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author:Denis Barry [Barry, Denis]

Later that day, 26 November 1923, the authorities relented and the mortal remains of Denis Barry were exhumed from the site near ‘the Glasshouse’ in the Curragh Camp where he ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies June 2,2022 )

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