Louisiana Pastimes Ancient Fishing Methods The Hippo Bill A Squirrel Stampede And Other Tales

Author : Terry L. Jones, PhD
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467145848

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Louisiana Pastimes: Ancient Fishing Methods, the Hippo Bill, a Squirrel Stampede and Other Tales by Terry L. Jones, PhD Pdf

"Few states can match Louisiana in terms of rich history, colorful characters and strange occurrences. It was home to America's first mound builders, the birthplace of the nation's modern army and the scene of a dismaying number of natural disasters. Louisiana's story also includes the weird and bizarre. Fish and worms have rained from the sky, sea serpents have been spotted off its coast and Bigfoot is said to roam the woods. From stampeding squirrels and bayou hippos to Native American hunters and sunken galleons, this collection of tales will entertain anyone who enjoys outdoor adventures and offbeat history. Award-winning author Dr. Terry L. Jones has tapped into his broad knowledge of Louisiana and his own outdoor experiences to produce this engaging book.Few states can match Louisiana in terms of rich history, colorful characters and strange occurrences. It was home to America's first mound builders, the birthplace of the nation's modern army and the scene of a dismaying number of natural disasters. Louisiana's story also includes the weird and bizarre. Fish and worms have rained from the sky, sea serpents have been spotted off its coast and Bigfoot is said to roam the woods. From stampeding squirrels and bayou hippos to Native American hunters and sunken galleons, this collection of tales will entertain anyone who enjoys outdoor adventures and offbeat history. Award-winning author Dr. Terry L. Jones has tapped into his broad knowledge of Louisiana and his own outdoor experiences to produce this engaging book."--back cover.

Author : Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin
Publisher : Salem House Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780986261091

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Murder on the Common by Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin Pdf

The immortal Henry Sinclair goes on another journey to solve the most famous murder of the nineteenth century within the Witch City. Captain Joseph White is bashed on the head and stabbed 13 times with two daggers, but there is no blood on his sheets. He is murdered on the same day as Joseph Smith founds the Mormon Church amidst the formation of the Anti-Masonic Party. Sinclair will go against the power-brokers in Washington who call Salem home to protect his Templar treasures he brought to America from Scotland a 100 years before Columbus. The powers of the Illuminati and Lovecraftian dark magic threaten him from solving the murder as oriental vampires and a plague of opium hits the shores of Salem. Prince Henry Sinclair is the creator of the Money Pit on Oak Island and the murder led to the Parker Brothers shaping their game Clue.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781408102572

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Anagram Solver by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807127865

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Lee's Tigers by Terry L. Jones Pdf

Sometimes called the "wharf rats from New Orleans" and the "lowest scrapings of the Mississippi," Lee's Tigers were the approximately twelve thousand Louisiana infantrymen who served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from the time of the campaign at First Manassas to the final days of the war at Appomattox. Terry L. Jones offers a colorful, highly readable account of this notorious group of soldiers renowned not only for their drunkenness and disorderly behavior in camp but for their bravery in battle. It was this infantry that held back the initial Federal onslaught at First Manassas, made possible General Stonewall Jackson's famed Valley Campaign, contained the Union breakthrough at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle, and led Lee's last offensive actions at Fort Stedman and Appomattox.Despite all their vices, Lee's Tigers emerged from the Civil War with one of the most respected military records of any group of southern soldiers. According to Jones, the unsavory reputation of the Tigers was well earned, for Louisiana probably had a higher percentage of criminals, drunkards, and deserters in its commands than any other Confederate state. The author spices his narrative with well-chosen anecdotes-among them an account of one of the stormiest train rides in military history. While on their way to Virginia, the enlisted men of Coppens' Battalion uncoupled their officers' car from the rest of the train and proceeded to partake of their favorite beverages. Upon arriving in Montgomery, the battalion embarked upon a drunken spree of harassment, vandalism, and robbery. Meanwhile, having commandeered another locomotive, the officers arrived and sprang from their train with drawn revolvers to put a stop to the disorder. "The charge of the Light Brigade," one witness recalled, "was surpassed by these irate Creoles." Lee's Tigers is the first study to utilize letters, diaries, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of these soldiers. Jones supplies the first major work to focus solely on Louisiana's infantry in Lee's army throughout the course of the war. Civil War buffs and scholars alike will find Lee's Tigers a valuable addition to their libraries.

Author : Hilary Cotter,Michael Coles
Publisher : Apress
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430215950

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Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008 by Hilary Cotter,Michael Coles Pdf

Businesses today want actionable insights into their data—they want their data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user–friendly form. What could be more natural than human language? Natural–language search is at the center of a storm of ever–increasing web–driven demand for human–computer communication and information access. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of its built–in enterprise–level natural–language search engine in the form of integrated full–text search (iFTS). iFTS uses text–aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access to content. Whether you want to set up an enterprise–wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural–language search applications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008 iFTS: Introducing powerful iFTS features in SQL Server, such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, custom thesauruses, and stop lists Showing you how to optimize full–text query performance through features like full–text indexes and iFilters Providing examples that help you understand and apply the power of iFTS in your daily projects

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : OCLC:1259497052

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Crossword Lists by Anne Stibbs Pdf

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : 9781423623809

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The Louisiana Journey by Terry L. Jones Pdf

Author : Janine M. Benyus
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780061958922

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Biomimicry by Janine M. Benyus Pdf

Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.

Author : Solomon Northup
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788726609059

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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Pdf

Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man in New York. Working as a travelling musician, Northup goes to Washington D.C, where he is kidnapped, sent to New Orleans, and sold to a planter to suffer the relentless and brutal life of a slave. After a dozen years, Northup escapes to return to his family and pulls no punches, as he describes his fate and that of so many other black people at the time. It is a harrowing but vitally important book, even today. For further reading on this subject, try 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Solomon Northup (c.1807-c.1875) was an American abolitionist and writer, best remembered for his powerful race memoir 'Twelve Years a Slave'. At the age of 32, when he was a married farmer, father-of-three, violinist and free-born man, he was kidnapped in Washington D.C and shipped to New Orleans, sold to a planter and enslaved for a dozen years. When he gained his freedom, he wrote his famous memoir and spent some years lecturing across the US,on behalf of the abolitionist movement. 'Twelve Years a Slave' was published a year after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe and built on the anti-slavery momentum it had developed. Northup's final years are something of a mystery, though it is thought that he struggled to cope with family life after being freed.

Author : John Denison Champlin,Charles Callahan Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Artists
ISBN : HARVARD:32044039199724

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Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings by John Denison Champlin,Charles Callahan Perkins Pdf

Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307820273

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Lanterns On The Levee by William Alexander Percy Pdf

Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life—although his life was exciting and varied—but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker Percy—Will's nephew and adopted son—recalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known."

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306812354

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Cemetery Hill by Terry Jones Pdf

The fight for Cemetery Hill was long and bloody--whoever controlled the hill would win the battle of Gettysburg.

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:49015002818046

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Historical Dictionary of the Civil War: M-Z by Terry L. Jones Pdf

An expert in world conflicts, Jones brings the sounds and sights of battle to life, detailing each charge, the evolution of battle tactics, and the importance of diplomacy for both sides. In these two volumes Terry Jones provides impressively clear coverage of the underlying economic causes, the progressively divisive political developments, the outbreak of the war itself, and, finally, the military campaigns year-by-year and battle-by-battle. He clarifies complex issues as he explains the various factions, their interests, and their hidden agendas. From the hopelessly impotent Congressional votes to the spilling of blood on the battlefield, Jones makes this period of American history compelling reading. Extensively cross-referenced; includes a substantial bibliography; illustrated with maps and photos.--Amazon.com.

Author : David J. Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015079196823

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American Wildlife Art by David J. Wagner Pdf

Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0451197143

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Leonard Maltin's Family Film Guide by Leonard Maltin Pdf

Recognized as one of the leading authorities on American film, Leonard Maltin is also a parent who is aware of the differences between a child's and critic's perspective on films. Each film listed includes its MPAA rating, an explanation of that rating, category, and the author's own rating system of whether or not a film is good, bad, or okay for both older and younger children. Leonard Maltin's film essays bring families together to create movie experiences that both parents and children can enjoy.