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A History of Detroit's Palmer Park (Landmarks) by Piazza Gregory C
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Piazza, Gregory C. [Piazza, Gregory C.]

An undated postcard image showing the Merrill Fountain in its original location in front of the Detroit Opera House in Campus Martius. From the collection of Allan Machielse. A detail ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
The Audacity of Inez Burns by Stephen G. Bloom
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen G. Bloom

Pat announced that he personally was committed to providing the Shannons with around-the-clock police protection when they returned to San Francisco (whether they needed it or not). For her part, ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Prohibition Pittsburgh by Richard Gazarik
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Richard Gazarik

7 Murder and Mayhem Joseph LoBianco; his pregnant wife, Josephine; and his brother, Carmen were working in their Braddock store, ten miles east of Pittsburgh, one day in the fall ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 14,2018 )
America's Corporate Art by Christensen Jerome;
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Christensen, Jerome;

Figure 3.13 As Walling decries the decline of the Tredway Corporation to his colleagues before the final ballot, he laments that when Bullard lost faith in the future his prideful ...
( Category: Movies March 14,2018 )
Nature Calls by Dottie Booth
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Dottie Booth [Booth, Dottie]

Homer Allison, Carole F. Reily The Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse is distinguished by its outhouse, which hangs vertically over the edge of the lowest gallery. The lighthouse is located in ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 14,2018 )
Garden District of New Orleans by Fraiser Jim; Freeman West;
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Fraiser, Jim; Freeman, West;

WAXING AND WANING GARDEN DISTRICT FORTUNES Although not wishing to appear as radical as Bullitt, other native northerners in the Garden District made the most of their northern ties during ...
( Category: Architecture March 14,2018 )
Speaking of Bears by Rachel Mazur
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Rachel Mazur

Leroy Maloy, longtime packer, describes the camps from a user’s perspective: I started packing in 1948 with my dad. We would start packing June fifteenth and quit the middle of ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market by Leah McGrath Goodman
azw3 |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Leah McGrath Goodman [Goodman, Leah McGrath]

10 Dark Days Lemme tell you something—you know how our market might be better? If we had a war or a hurricane. People pray for that shit. —Mark Lichtner Danny ...
( Category: Investing March 14,2018 )
Stories from the St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans (Landmarks) by Asher Sally
epub |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Asher, Sally [Asher, Sally]

Antoinette K-Doe with her mannequin of Ernie K-Doe. Courtesy of Cheryl Gerber . Antoinette’s indefatigable spirit proved essential during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She had never evacuated before for a ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
Texas Lizards by Troy Hibbitts
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Troy Hibbitts [Hibbitts, Troy D.]

Mesquite Lizard, male, Nuevo León, Mexico. REPRODUCTION Little is known about their reproduction in Texas, but like similar lizards in South Texas, they breed in April and May. Females give ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
The 1936-1937 Great Lakes Exposition by Brad Schwartz
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Brad Schwartz

Along the lakefront at the north end of the Expo grounds, the elegantly-designed, 60-foot by 190-foot Horticulture Building and the 1,000-foot-long Horticultural Gardens offered visitors one of the largest horticultural ...
( Category: Engineering March 14,2018 )
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century by G. Pascal Zachary
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:G. Pascal Zachary [Zachary, G. Pascal]

* * * The most curious aspect of the rapid selector was its hybrid nature; though Bush did not advertise the fact, the machine was part digital. Photographic images—microfilm images—were ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 14,2018 )
Stone Mountain Park by Tim Hollis
epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Tim Hollis

How did an advertisement for Florida get into this book? Oh, wait—it is just that by the early 1960s, Stone Mountain Park had learned how to use bikini-clad beach bunnies ...
( Category: Americas March 14,2018 )
Arts and Crafts Architecture by Meister Maureen;
epub |eng | | Author:Meister, Maureen;

In any case, Skinner Hall was built to the highest standard in terms of design, materials, and finishes. The facade overlooking the green reveals the architects’ scholarly knowledge of English ...
( Category: Architecture March 14,2018 )
America's Wild Horses by Steve Price
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Steve Price

In 1833, brothers Charles and William Bent opened a trading post on the Arkansas River in southeast Colorado named Bent’s Fort. Located along a 775-mile trade route that had become ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care March 14,2018 )

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