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Parsons, located in southeast Kansas, owes its existence to the railroad. When the first Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad locomotive reached the southern border of Kansas in June 1870, the railroad won two prizes, the coveted right to build across Oklahoma Indian Territory and the right to acquire extensive land grants in the territory. The fall of the same year, railroad executives selected a site for a major junction and terminal. The Parsons ...

In response to the American administrations attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to unify Latin American society. Renowned radical writer and activist Tariq Ali provides a searing analysis of the relevance of Castros message for today.

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On June 20, 1945, just before the end of the war, 123 American bombers took off from the island of Guam for an attack on Shizuoka, a Japanese city at the foot of Mount Fuji. The raid destroyed two-thirds of the city, taking the lives of two thousand of its citizens. Twenty-three American airmen also died when two of their planes collided in mid-air. That these twenty-three men were enemy soldiers mattered little to one Japanese person who buri...

A survey of Arabic and allied loanwords in Western languages is a first-rate tool to asses the impact of Islamic factors in the emergence and background of Western civilization. The Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula are in an ideal position for this kind of research, considering the length and strength of Muslim states on its soil.

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieua (TM)s relational concepts of the a ~fielda (TM) and a ~habitusa (TM), the book offers an alternative conceptual framework to appreciate the police response to marital violence in the Singapore context.

For the millions of readers who love Ayn Rand's novels and who seek to understand her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism, there has not been available a simple and concise introduction to her thought. Objectivism in One Lesson is that book.

I confess: Great is my shame and great is the bewilderment of Christ's Church in Brazil, upon seeing unbelievers release their slaves out of simple love for humanity, while those who profess faith in the Redeemer of captives fail to break the fetters of impiety nor set the oppressed free " -Eduardo Carlos Pereira (1886) In 1888, Brazil was the last nation in the modern west to abolish slavery. Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil...

On the seventeenth of July, 1979, the dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after forty-five years. Finally, the family that had ruled and owned the country was gone. It took its money, which was much of the money the country had. The dictator left. The generals left. The colonels. They fled by helicopter and airplane, by car and on foot. By the nineteenth they were, almost all of them, gone. But the soldiers remained. And in San Juan del S...

World Checklist of Myrtaceae is a much needed work that lists all validly published names in the family, providing the source of their publication and indicating which names are currently accepted and which are synonyms.

Foster explains why liberal socialism is stupid and suicidal as he presents the true facts of corrupted life and religions. His techniques bring about a return to absolute spirituality.

It's All About Evil" Volume II, Understand the mechanism of evil within the World's Greatest Conspiracy (between ego and the evil). Destroy this evil, even in you and destroy evil socialism and Russian PsychoPolitics and their American operators. They want the depression. Many unique discoveries.Chapters: Part I: Have Fun Destroying Evil, Evil Liberal Socialism, Liberal Fascism, The Lord's Prayer, Part II: Corruption, Guilt, The Expert that is...

The first book on bioactive nanoceramics to unite the many multidisciplinary concepts useful for those working in bioceramics today.

This book provides a wide-ranging overview of Dutch technological leadership in the early modern Europe, it explains whence this leadership came about and why it ended and it explores to what extent the Dutch case illuminates the evolution of technological leadership in general.

Personal letters with a message from the Bible for seniors. It is good to be a senior and you need to know how valuable you are. After all, you can give us direction and advice, empathize with us, and listen to our stories. You may have more time than before to pray, think, and read. You might be available for a good talk with a relative or friend. Seriously, we need you in our society, our families and our churches. In this little devotional ...

Scrimshaw is a technique of stippling and scratching on fossil ivory, horn, and bone. Its roots lie in the traditional art of whaling men of the 18th and 19th centuries, but it has developed as a recognized art form. Today, fine scrimshaw miniatures adorn

This book is a map to success. It combines specific personal and business lessons, experiences, affirmations and actions taken to make Mike the person he is today. This book is real. This book has Mike's feelings and emotions in it. This book ultimately attempts to explain how a normal guy who received a business degree from the University of Oklahoma rose to the top levels of corporate America, earned millions of dollars, worked in Fortune ma...

The book is full of strategies and tips. Principals, those wanting to be principals, and those mentoring principals will find this book very useful' -Nancy M. Moga, Principal Callaghan Elementary School, Covington, VA 'First-year principals need a mentor, and if one is not readily available, then this book helps fulfill the need. I found myself answering the questions, filling in the blanks, or considering how a scenario played out' -Ann Port...