Quincy Quarries Gold And Gloom

Author : John A. Laukkanen
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412022910

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Quincy Quarries Gold and Gloom by John A. Laukkanen Pdf

Quincy Quarries: Gold and Gloom contains more than thirty pictures of various structures built of world famous Quincy granite during the "Golden Years" and of quarry scenes and individuals involved in various incidents during the years of "Gloom." Many deaths have been recorded due to rock slides, drowning, murder, and suicide.

Author : Emily Sweeney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781493030378

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Gangland Boston by Emily Sweeney Pdf

Welcome to Boston’s criminal underworld Author covers crime for the Boston Globe An entire chapter dedicated to Whitey Bulger: “Whitey’s World” 150 photos from author’s own Boston crime archives and more Organized criminals have haunted Greater Boston’s history, lurking just around the corner or inside that nondescript building. Packed with photos, sidebars, and maps, Gangland Boston reveals the secrets of these places, showing how the Italian mafia and Irish gangs rose to power, how the Winter Hill gang ascended to prominence, and how James “Whitey” Bulger became the region’s most feared crime boss. These are the places where deals were made, people were killed, and bodies were unearthed. From South Boston to the North End, Chinatown, Downtown, and Charlestown; Somerville, Brookline, and more . . . come and see where mobsters lived, worked, ate, played, and died.

Author : Orison Swett Marden
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781528788373

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Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden Pdf

“Pushing to the Front” is a 1911 self-help book by Orison Swett Marden that includes true stories of extraordinary achievement from humble beginnings or in the face of significant adverse, specially chosen to inspire the reader and motivate them to realise their full potential in life. Contents include: “The Man and the Opportunity”, “Wanted – A Man”, “Boys with No Chance”, “The Country Boy”, “Opportunities Where You Are”, “Possibilities in Spare Moments”, “How Poor Boys and Girls Go To College”, “Opportunity Confronts You – What Will You Do With It?”, etc. Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1848–1924) was an American author of inspirational books. He wrote primarily on the subject of being successful and founded “SUCCESS” magazine in 1897. Marden's books deal with attaining a fruitful and well-rounded life, with many of his ideas being based on the New Thought movement.

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Children
ISBN : NYPL:33433066337365

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Stories of Invention by Edward Everett Hale Pdf

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000057829

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The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams Pdf

The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication of the book had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Quotations
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021235585

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A Collection of Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett Pdf

Author : Charles McLeod
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472900183

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Settlers of Unassigned Lands by Charles McLeod Pdf

In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream does an interview with a German reporter in “The Subject of Our First Issue Is Art.” In the title story, a closeted heroin dealer follows a ghostly girl into an Oakland graveyard. And in “Rancho Brava,” the conductor of a focus group about corporate salsa keeps getting interrupted by visitors from the Old West. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the neurotic—and often all three at once—McLeod’s second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland’s lost, forgotten towns, into the lives of people trying to decipher if they can escape their pasts, and at what cost.

Author : James E. Talmage
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547103530

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The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern by James E. Talmage Pdf

'The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries, Ancient and Modern' is a 1912 book by James E. Talmage that discusses the doctrine and purpose of the temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Published by the LDS Church, it was the first book to contain photographs of the interiors of Mormon temples. James Edward Talmage was an English chemist, geologist, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Author : Eric Wollencott Barnes
Publisher : London : Secker & Warburg
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Actors
ISBN : UCAL:B3327161

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Anna Cora by Eric Wollencott Barnes Pdf

Author : Carol Strickland,John Boswell
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0740768727

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The Annotated Mona Lisa by Carol Strickland,John Boswell Pdf

Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.

Author : Patricia Harrigan Browne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0738537349

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Quincy by Patricia Harrigan Browne Pdf

Quincy, Massachusetts, is a historic and solid community whose first fortunes were made in the granite and shipbuilding industries. Its battleships and stone carvings have traveled the country and the world over, and the legacy of Quincy's early years is indeed carved in stone. Patricia Harrigan Browne's new visual history of this fascinating city chronicles its development from the 1870s through World War II in a series of remarkable vintage photographs. For many, of course, Quincy is a beloved and welcoming hometown community. Its natural charm and beauty hold great attraction; Quincy's Hough's Neck was once considered one of the premier summer resorts in the United States. Ms. Browne's book contains photographs of beachgoers along the Quincy shore in 1916 and the building of the Neponset River Bridge, in addition to some especially moving pictures of the granite workers and carvers.

Author : Samuel Breck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014578538

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Recollections of Samuel Breck by Samuel Breck Pdf

Author : Virgil M. Harris
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1587980711

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Ancient Curious and Famous Wills by Virgil M. Harris Pdf

An entertaining collection of wills, reflecting the times and the people who wrote them. This collection offers delightful reading for lawyers and laymen alike. As the author states: Wills reflect, as a mirror, the customs and habits of the times when written, as well as the characters of the writers. In the category of ancient wills, the reader will find the oldest written will, dated at 2550 B.C., as well as wills of such personages as Plato and Aristotle. Other categories in the collection include: wills in fiction and poetry; curious wills; testamentary and kindred miscellany; wills of famous foreigners, such as Napoleon and William Shakespeare; and wills of famous Americans, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

Author : Jonathan D. Bratten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1222068176

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To the Last Man :. by Jonathan D. Bratten Pdf

Author : Louis Torres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1907521283

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To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington by Louis Torres Pdf

The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's 1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and, from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n 1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they completed the construction of this great American landmark. The book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs, some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in 1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.