Annapolis Vignettes

Author : Ginger Doyel
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0870335715

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Annapolis Vignettes by Ginger Doyel Pdf

Annapolis, an outstanding colonial city, is the capital of Maryland, the home of the U.S. Naval Academy, and host to two of the largest boat shows in the country. It offers a veritable architectural feast to the masses of visitors, showing buildings representing every period Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Gothic Revival, Victorian, and Modern. Visitors can marvel at stately dwellings like the Hammond-Harwood and Paca Houses with their meticulously manicured formal gardens, enjoy the simple shops, row houses, and taverns of the area. This pocket guide puts the city's outstanding buildings in historical perspective and adds colourful facts to enhance enjoyment of them. Spiced with anecdotes of many early Annapolis inhabitants and enlightened by recent research. The text includes helpful maps and the superb photographs by M E Warren.

Author : Oscar 'Skip' Booth
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781312682658

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Linthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian by Oscar 'Skip' Booth Pdf

Local historian Oscar 'Skip' Booth spent his life living, working, advocating for and writing about his hometown of Linthicum, Maryland. His "Vignette" series provided some of the only written histories of the small, unincorporated Baltimore suburb. The historical local landmarks like Tauber's, Chuck's Drive-In, BWIi Airport, and Bruce's Hardware are carefully detailed here. Skip passed away after a short illness in 2014. His commitment to community lives on in the pages of this book.

Author : Elizabeth Leah Reed
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627878555

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Mrs. Musterman, Milliner of Main Street by Elizabeth Leah Reed Pdf

Who Was Mrs. Musterman? We often think of women who came of age in 1900 as submissive flowers waiting to be plucked, but not Lillian Johnson. No, this remarkable woman left her small Virginia town and headed to the big city -- Baltimore -- to become a milliner. She took her creativity to Annapolis, Maryland, where she created Gainsborough hats, married, and became Mrs. Musterman. When her third child was born, her husband fell ill and suddenly she became the sole breadwinner of the family. Then her employer died. What was she to do? How would she survive? If she can possibly succeed, she must have her own shop and years of crowning the heads of the women of Annapolis. She once said, "Nothing is impossible if you really want to do it."

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780826204165

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Views and Viewmakers of Urban America by John William Reps Pdf

Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.

Author : P. Schrijvers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230292307

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Bloody Pacific by P. Schrijvers Pdf

Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life.

Author : Peter Schrijvers
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814740156

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The GI War Against Japan by Peter Schrijvers Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Even in the midst of World War II, Americans could not help thinking of the lands across the Pacific as a continuation of the American Western frontier. But this perception only heightened American soldiers' frustration as the hostile region ferociously resisted their attempts at control. The GI War Against Japan recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theater to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Schrijvers brings to life the GIs’ struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Amidst the frustration and despair of this war, American soldiers abandoned themselves to an escalating rage that presaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The GI’s story is, first and foremost, the story of America's resounding victory over Japan. At the same time, however, the reader will recognize in the extraordinarily high price paid for this victory chilling forebodings of the West’s ultimate defeat in Asia’and America’s in Vietnam.

Author : Robert M Gillespie
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612510644

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Black Ops, Vietnam by Robert M Gillespie Pdf

During the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization that consisted of personnel from Army Special Forces, the Air Force, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, and the CIA. This secret organization was committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major build-up of U.S. forces in 1965 and also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethnic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots in its varied reconnaissance, naval, air, and agent operations. MACVSOG was without doubt the most unique U.S. unit to participate in the Vietnam War, since its operational mandate authorized its missions to take place “over the fence” in North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, where most other American units were forbidden to go. During its nine-year existence it managed to participate in most of the significant operations and incidents of the conflict. MACVSOG was there during the Gulf of Tonkin incidents, during air operations over North Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, the secret bombing of and ground incursion into Cambodia, Operation Lam Son 719, the Green Beret murder case, the Easter Invasion, the Phoenix Program, and the Son Tay POW Raid. The story of this extraordinary unit has never before been told in full and comes as a timely blueprint for combined-arms, multi-national unconventional warfare in the post-9/11 age.Unlike previous works on the subject, Black Ops, Vietnam is a complete chronological history of the unit drawn from declassified documents, memoirs, and previous works on the subject, which tended to focus only on particular aspects of the unit’s operations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UCAL:B4162759

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Maryland Libraries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015011339028

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Between Librarians by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ginger Doyel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1884878180

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Annapolis Market House by Ginger Doyel Pdf

Annapolis had five different market houses at four different locations from 1698 to 1775. It found a permanent home at the head of the dock in 1784. That year eight men deeded Market Space to the city under one condition: the land had to be used for a market house. What was once a sleepy fishing village has evolved into a thriving city bustling with an ever-growing number of residents, tourists and workers. Today the market provides for people in every strata of Annapolis' diverse population.

Author : Ronald Rudin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442693340

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Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie by Ronald Rudin Pdf

Between 2004 and 2005, Acadians observed two major anniversaries in their history: the 400th anniversary of the birth of Acadie and the 250th anniversary of their deportation at the hands of the British. Attending many of the commemorative activities that marked the anniversaries, Ronald Rudin has documented these events as an "embedded historian." Conducting interviews and collecting the opinions of Acadians, Anglophones, and First Nations, Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie examines the variety of ways in which the past is publicly presented and remembered. A profound and accessible study of the often-conflicting purposes of public history, Rudin details the contentious cultural, political, and historical issues that were prompted by these anniversaries. Offering an astounding collection of materials, Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie is also accompanied by a website (www.rememberingacadie.concordia.ca) that provides access to films, audio clips, and photographs assembled on Rudin's journey through public memory.

Author : Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2574114

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Bulletin by Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library Pdf

Author : P. Diane Frey
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015002048008

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Exploring the Northeast States Through Literature by P. Diane Frey Pdf

Describes print and non-print materials for use in studying the northeastern states in grades K-8.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Stamp collecting
ISBN : PSU:000054951792

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The American Philatelist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Hudson River school of landscape painting
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Asher B. Durand: An Engraver's and a Farmer's Art by Anonim Pdf