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Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966 by John Blair
epub |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:John Blair

The Pyramids were a five-piece surf band from Long Beach known for their hit surf instrumental “Penetration.” The record’s success led them to appear on several television dance programs, such ...
( Category: Americas May 13,2018 )
San Francisco Beer by Bill Yenne
epub |eng | 2016-05-13 | Author:Bill Yenne

Acme’s selling point was that, as a light lager, it “quenches.” By mid-century, beer was being seen primarily as a thirst quencher. Author’s collection. In 1950, Acme rolled out a ...
( Category: Photography & Video May 13,2018 )
Lincoln's Sword by Douglas L. Wilson
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Douglas L. Wilson [Wilson, Douglas L.]

Lincoln then concluded the story so that it drew its own moral. When word of the peace was finally received, Jackson withdrew martial law and permitted himself to be fined ...
( Category: Americas May 13,2018 )
Israel and the United States by Freedman Robert O;
epub |eng | | Author:Freedman, Robert O;

Too Much of a Good Thing? Ultimately the IDF’s poor performance in the Second Lebanon War of 2006 brought these debates to an abrupt halt. Sometime during the previous decade, ...
( Category: Middle East May 13,2018 )
Spirits and Cocktails of Upstate New York by Donald Cazentre
epub |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:Donald Cazentre

Tom & Jerry serving bowl and mugs at the Crystal Restaurant, Watertown. Author’s photo. In Imbibe!, David Wondrich dismisses the claim. He cites references to the Tom & Jerry drink ...
( Category: Americas May 12,2018 )
Lost Restaurants of Seattle by Chuck Flood
epub |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:Chuck Flood

MAGNOLIA Northwest-bound out of downtown Seattle, Elliott Avenue runs along the bay for two and a half miles before turning north and becoming Fifteenth Avenue W on its way to ...
( Category: Americas May 12,2018 )
Brunswick Stew by Joseph R. Haynes
epub |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:Joseph R. Haynes

You know Brunswick stew is done when it is thick enough to hold the paddle up straight. Author’s collection. Ladling the stew in Richmond, Virginia, on Brunswick Stew Day in ...
( Category: Photography & Video May 12,2018 )
The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife by Max Foran
epub |eng | 2018-05-12 | Author:Max Foran

The Woodland Caribou Caribou are another inhabitant of boreal regions and have become synonymous with Canada’s northern environments. Also known as reindeer in North America, they are the only member ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 12,2018 )
Edna Lewis by Sara B. Franklin
epub |eng | 2018-05-12 | Author:Sara B. Franklin

As the colonies approached the War of Independence, tobacco’s hungry nature sucked all the nutrients out of the land and the tobacco market shrank. As a result, prices for the ...
( Category: Regional & International May 12,2018 )
The Great Revolt by Salena Zito & Brad Todd
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Salena Zito & Brad Todd

Joe Steil Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa Donald Trump struggled mightily in the 2016 election to win over the two-college-degree, two-car- garage, two-income families that fill up America’s subdivisions—a group that ...
( Category: Americas May 12,2018 )
The Soul of America by Jon Meacham
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Jon Meacham

* * * — And of Lyndon Johnson’s. In the months after the Kennedy assassination, the new president pressed his old colleagues on Capitol Hill to give the civil rights ...
( Category: Americas May 12,2018 )
Lost Restaurants of Knoxville by Paula A. Johnson
epub |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:Paula A. Johnson

The Inferno Drive-In. Standard Souvenirs. Despite Gunther’s blatant insult, tourism in Knoxville continued to grow, even as the rest of the country was reporting a decline. In 1954, Knoxville reported ...
( Category: Americas May 12,2018 )
Pennsylvania Scrapple by Amy Strauss
epub |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:Amy Strauss

Barry Schwenk Sr. with son, Barry Jr. (far left), and two grandsons, Cole and Barry III, on scrapple-making day. Rachael Schwenk. But, why continue making scrapple—especially such a large batch—when ...
( Category: Americas May 12,2018 )
Cape Cod Curiosities by Robin Smith-Johnson
epub |eng | 2018-05-11 | Author:Robin Smith-Johnson

A family of gypsies or itinerant workers in front of a tent. Courtesy of the W.B. Nickerson Archives, Cape Cod Community College. In West Barnstable, a number of Finnish immigrants ...
( Category: Photography & Video May 11,2018 )
Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-27 | Author:Sara Suleri

‘I have never heard a lovelier thing,’ he gravely said. I was silent then, but later in the night I think I heard again, Jesu Maria, shield her well, Hush, ...
( Category: Asia May 11,2018 )

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