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Santa Cruz Wharf by Geoffrey Dunn
epub |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Geoffrey Dunn

For many years, a gate marked the entrance to the wharf. It closed to business between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Santa Cruz waterfront promoter and legendary booster Fred Swanton ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
Colorado National Monument by Alan J. Kania
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Alan J. Kania

Five CCC CAMPS AND OTTO’S HIGHWAY DREAM Other than foot-and-hoof trails along the canyon floor, the canyon walls of the Colorado National Monument were nearly insurmountable to the average visitor. ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
The Bridge by Thane Gustafson
epub |eng | | Author:Thane Gustafson

Managing the Initial Gas Bubble and the Cash Crisis Over the past quarter-century the Russian gas balance has shifted twice, from surplus to shortage and then to surplus again, and ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
Baseball in Tampa Bay by A.M. de Quesada
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:A.M. de Quesada

The Clearwater Phillies, a minor league division of the Philadelphia Phillies, have been a member of the Florida State League since 1985. Their home games are played at the Jack ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
Southern St. Joseph County by Franklin N. Sheneman II
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Franklin N. Sheneman II

A fire devastated the North Liberty Lumber and Coal Company in 1953. Everything on the property was destroyed except an old shed that had, ironically, been considered the greatest fire ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
St. Matthews by John E. Findling
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:John E. Findling

NANZ, NEUNER AND COMPANY GREEN-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. Henry Nanz bought 30 acres of land from Jacob Nicklies in 1872 to use for greenhouses in which to grow flowers and vegetables to ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
Cuyahoga County by Judith G. Cetina Ph.D
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Judith G. Cetina Ph.D.

The Republican National Convention came to Cleveland in June 1924 to nominate its presidential candidate, which marked the first national political convention to come to Cuyahoga County. This convention was ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
Los Angeles's Historic Ballparks by Chris Epting
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Chris Epting

This is a composite picture of the proposed Dodgers Stadium, dated March 13, 1958. This Herald-Examiner newspaper caption on this photograph reads, “Chavez Ravine wrangle at City Council (Zoning), May ...
( Category: Photography & Video September 10,2020 )
Cuttyhunk and the Elizabeth Islands by Cuttyhunk Historical Society
epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Cuttyhunk Historical Society

THE AKIN FAMILY AT THE STATION, C. 1905. In a letter dated February 22, 1893, Timothy Akin Jr. described a breeches buoy rescue of nine men aboard a wrecked four-masted ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
Historic Dance Halls of East Central Texas by Stephen Dean
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Stephen Dean

LA GRANGE PAVILION HALL. Located at the County Fairgrounds, just north of La Grange on Highway 77, the Fair Pavilion (Round Up Hall) was built in 1925. It stands beside ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
After Thermopylae by Cartledge Paul;
epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Cartledge, Paul;

Figure 5.2. The “Immortals,” as the Greeks knew a Persian King’s elite guard on campaign, depicted on glazed bricks from the Palace of Susa, Iran. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY. After ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 10,2020 )
The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles by Jon E. Lewis
epub |eng | | Author:Jon E. Lewis [Lewis, Jon E.]

El Alamein (1942) J. F. C. Fuller The first three weeks of July 1942, on the El Alamein line [in North Africa] were devoted to attack and counter-attack. Rommel’s one ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
Reckoning at Eagle Creek by Jeff Biggers
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Biggers

“WHEN MINING BEGAN,” noted a U.S. Coal Commission report in the 1920s, examining the conditions before the union movement in 1897, “it was upon a ruinously competitive basis. Profit was ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
San Francisco's Noe Valley by Bill Yenne
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Yenne

This is the intersection of Castro Street and Twenty-fourth Street as it appears today. The colorful cable cars were removed from the Castro Street line, which is now served by ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )
The 1984 New Orleans World's Fair by Bill Cotter
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Bill Cotter

The centerpiece of the Union Pacific System Pavilion was locomotive No. 8444, the last steam locomotive purchased by the railroad. A world’s fair veteran, having been displayed at Spokane’s Expo ...
( Category: American History September 10,2020 )

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