Queen Of The Cinder Track

Author : Ron Hotchkiss
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039118799

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Queen Of the Cinder Track by Ron Hotchkiss Pdf

When Rosa Grosse first ran at the Canadian National Exhibition's Athletic Day in 1923 she never imagined the heights she would reach in the sport of sprinting. Already known as a fine basketball player, she became a world record holder and arguably the finest female sprinter Canada ever produced. Her running earned her fame and publicity she did not seek. Never comfortable in the spotlight, she was a reluctant sports hero who was celebrated and acclaimed throughout the country. By her achievements she brought women's running from a sideshow entertainment at picnics and men's competitions to the international stage. As such, she was a trailblazer, breaking down barriers and rousing young women everywhere to take up the sport. Her story is an inspiring one. While achieving greatness she faced a significant personal challenge. She was losing her hearing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061551102

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The Law Reports. Queen's Bench Division by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew M. Colton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339521650

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Frank Armstrong at Queens by Matthew M. Colton Pdf

"Frank Armstrong at Queens" by Matthew M. Colton continues the adventures of Frank Armstrong as he navigates the challenges of Queens College. Colton's storytelling keeps readers engaged as they follow Frank's journey of growth and discovery. This installment in the Frank Armstrong series is an ideal choice for young readers and fans of educational narratives that emphasize personal development, friendship, and the pursuit of knowledge.

Author : Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Battalion, 1st
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D00015347M

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Historical Records of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders by Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Battalion, 1st Pdf

Author : Ian Stone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527513839

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Alec Nelson and British Athletics prior to World War II by Ian Stone Pdf

British athletics in the era of Chariots of Fire is explored through the rediscovered life of amateur and professional runner and leading British coach, Alec Nelson. Though necessary for competitive success, professional coaches were kept firmly in their place by the socially elite athletes and administrators of the sport. The contradictions and hypocrisy within athletics, and the class-based antagonism between amateurism and professionalism, are central themes of this book. The relationship between professional trainers and amateur athletes and clubs is examined, and the resistance to change while British Olympic performances increasingly fell behind. The sporting world and its main personalities are brought to life through exploring the clubs Nelson coached (Cambridge University, the Army, the Achilles Club and various Olympic teams), the athletes he trained (Harold Abrahams, Douglas Lowe and Bob Tisdall among them) and the controversies over the methods and role of coaches. The book also brings to light a remarkable partnership which crossed the lines of social class, between Nelson and his mentor, Philip Noel-Baker, a prominent Olympian and politician who attempted to modernise British athletics.

Author : Hugh Strafford
Publisher : hugh strafford
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1845490517

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Queen's Airman - The School Days by Hugh Strafford Pdf

First novel in the Queen's Airman series, following Hugh Thomas through his early air force days. He completes his growing up in a strict regime enlivened by demanding training both physically and academically. Love and sex are also taken care of by several women only too eager for liaisons with the handsome young man in uniform. He is involved in many escapades and forms friendships with members of the 73rd Entry, No1 Radio School. Friends who appear later in the series. During his third year Thomas comes to the attention of the security services who recruit him for a special task working in a secret establishment in an attempt to hoodwink a Russian GRU team operating in the UK. An early introduction in to what is to become a life of love, despair, intrigue and death. A time of growing up in a treacherous world of betrayal.

Author : Merv Daub
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780773553040

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Gael Force, Second Edition by Merv Daub Pdf

Football at Queen’s University has one of the richest and longest histories of any sport in Canada. The Golden Gaels have been a presence in Canadian football at both the amateur and professional levels since 1882. Gael Force traces this history, chronicling the team’s ups and downs and integrating them within the history of the university, the country, and the sport in general. Providing a wealth of interesting facts and engaging anecdotes as well as profiles and photographs of the coaches, captains, and players, Merv Daub takes the reader through more than a century of Queen’s football. Drawing from a wealth of sources, Daub recounts the team’s key milestones including their first Dominion championship in 1893 with “Curtis and his boys,” three consecutive Grey Cup wins in the 1920s, the 1934–35 victory of the “Fearless Fourteen,” the 1955 season when Gus Braccia, Ronnie Stewart, Gary Schreider, Lou Bruce, Al Kocman, “Jocko” Thompson, and the rest of that “band of merry men” brought Queen’s back into the limelight, the golden years of the 1960s, and the 1978 and 1992 Vanier Cup championship seasons. Adding twenty more years of football history since Gael Force was first published in 1996, this new edition includes the 2016 season played at the revitalized Richardson Stadium. It is both a tribute to a long-standing football legacy at Queen’s and an important historical and sociological study of college sport in Canada.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573627118

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Not about Nightingales by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Never produced until this year (1998), NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES (1938), portrays a shocking prison scandal in which convicts leading a hunger strike in prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Williams himself later said that he had never written anything to compare with it in violence and horror. The play indelibly presages the great plays he was later to write. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Oiva W. Saarinen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889203204

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Oiva W. Saarinen Pdf

This sociological/historical text chronicles the story of Finnish immigrants in the Sudbury area of Canada, from 1883 to the present. Saarinen (geography, Laurentian U., Sudbury) describes how Finnish society, culture, economics, and politics influenced the development of a small rail town toward its present role as regional capital of northeastern Ontario. The title refers to the physical reality of the area (rugged hills, mines, farms, forests) as well as the difficulties encountered by the immigrants. Statistical graphs, maps, and bandw photos support the text. Canadian card order number: C98-932487-7. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mervin Daub,Bruce Buchan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773566330

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Gael Force by Mervin Daub,Bruce Buchan Pdf

Gael Force provides a wealth of interesting facts and engaging anecdotes as well as profiles and photographs of the coaches, captains, and players. Merv Daub takes the reader through a century of Queen's football, from the first "Dominion" championship in 1893 with Curtis and his boys, through three consecutive Grey Cup wins in the 1920s, the 1934-35 victory of the "Fearless Fourteen," the 1955 season when Gus Braccia, Ronnie Stewart, Gary Schreider, Lou Bruce, Al Kocman, "Jocko" Thompson, and the rest of that "band of merry men" brought Queen's back into the limelight, the golden years of the 1960s, to the 1978 and 1992 Vanier Cup championship seasons. Gael Force is a tribute to the long-standing football legacy at Queen's and an important historical and sociological study of college sport in Canada.

Author : Jonathan Andrews,Asa Briggs,Roy Porter,Penny Tucker,Keir Waddington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136098529

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The History of Bethlem by Jonathan Andrews,Asa Briggs,Roy Porter,Penny Tucker,Keir Waddington Pdf

Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.

Author : John Philbric Hasty
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493114832

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Harrold's Choice by John Philbric Hasty Pdf

It's 2010. In North Georgia, a 44-year-old owner of a convenience store in the County Seat town of Clearmont is a divorced man with a shady past. Disillusioned with his life without a purpose, he sells his store in its prime location to an Indonesian Cartel. They remodel it into one like their other 250 stores scattered throughout the South. Harrold is surprised when he learns the buyers are Muslims. The six-year-old daughter of the Muslim family that moves into the store's annex is killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident on the highway in front of the store. Law authorities never discover the killer. Harrold Holden, now Clearmont's mayor, learns the killer's identity but cannot reveal the secret. In an unpredictable event, Saudi Arabian oil money builds a large Islamic complex near Clearmont City. The result is an invasion of thousands of Muslims into the region's traditional culture. The result is catastrophic! Bloodshed follows. This culture clash has severe repercussions on traditional Christianity and especially on Mayor Holden and his new religious beliefs. Some might say his life has a heartbreaking ending in 2045. Others say just the opposite. What do you say?

Author : Emily Mann,David Roessel
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476847757

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Political Stages by Emily Mann,David Roessel Pdf

(Applause Books). Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged, even threatened, and often changed, the thinking of millions. These are the plays which either lit or reflected the fires of those political controversies which blazed across the American Twentieth Century. Individually, each is a molotov cocktail tossed onto the stage, each a political movement encapsulated in dramatic form. Combined, they constitute both a conflagration and a record of American political and theatrical ideology. Never before, however, have they been collected in one explosive volume. In Political Stages , they have at last been preserved, ever ready to serve at the barricades of subsequent eras. Includes works by Tennessee Williams, Emily Mann, Clifford Odets, Langston Hughes, and others.

Author : A.E. Eddenden
Publisher : ChicagoReviewPress + ORM
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613733172

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Murder at the Movies by A.E. Eddenden Pdf

A policeman tracks a killer inspired by 1939’s hit films in “an entertaining read . . . chock-full of menace, momentum, and multiple Movietone moments” (Booklist). Inspector Albert V. Tretheway is perturbed when his beloved bowler hat disappears in what seems to be a relatively harmless prank. Three weeks later Tretheway and Constable Jake Small investigate a nervous neighbor’s report of an anonymous phone tip that her long-dead husband is in her garage. What they find there instead is a live horse—wearing Tretheway’s missing bowler. As the pranks escalate, Tretheway connects them and surmises they are inspired by the films showing at the local theater in Fort York, Ontario. The guessing game begins. Which of this year’s Hollywood releases is next? When the fourth prank involves a pre-dug grave, the Hindu goddess Kali, and the murder of a popular Bugle-Major, Tretheway spearheads a chase, both cerebral and physical, through more movie murder adventures to a fiery, spectacular finale . . . “[An] amiable sleuth . . . [A] gently satirical series.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : John Bryant
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781782196204

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26.2 - The Incredible True Story of the Three Men Who Shaped The London Marathon by John Bryant Pdf

This is the thrilling account of heroism, ambition and scandal of three remarkable men whose actions at the 1908 Olympics overshadowed the first London Olympic Games.... A diminutive Italian, Dorando Pietri, who fell five times, and was practically carried across the finish line. Scottish sprinter, Wyndham Halswelle and American competitor, Johnny Hayes who were drawn into a dispute between the United States and the British Empire about sporting superiority which spilled over into politics, lifestyle and ethics, with allegations of cheating, drug-taking and professionalism. John Bryant delves into the lives of these three extraordinary men in a tale that stretches from rural Italy to the battlefields of the Boer War and beyond to explore the foundations of the modern sporting and marathon movement.