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When the Chinese were asked to help dig irrigation ditches in the 1850s in Genoa and Dayton, Nevada, no one imagined that they would constitute almost nine percent of the state's population by 1880. Although many were attracted by mining prospects, the ability to own land, and work in railroad construction projects, they held a wide variety of jobs, including ranching, sheepherding, logging, medicine, merchandising, and gaming. Their restauran...

Founded on America's frontier in 1828, Fayetteville soon became a trade center and educational oasis for northwest Arkansas and the Indian Territory just to the west. Its location up in Ozark hills gave it a picturesque setting, a healthy climate, and diverse economy. The earliest residents named the town Washington Court because it was the county seat of Washington County, but its name was changed to Fayetteville in 1829, soon becoming synony...

Walking down the dirt, cobblestone, or paved streets of downtown Cincinnati in the past, there is no telling whom a person would meet. Someone might rub elbows with future presidents, such as Hayes, Taft, or that visiting lawyer from Illinois--Lincoln, dine with Generals Wayne, Grant, or Sherman, have tea with Harriet Beecher Stowe, or share a mug of Hauck beer with Frank Duveneck, Stephen Foster, or that poet-warrior William Lytle. A person l...

US Assistance to Turkey Handbook Volume 2 Defense Security Cooperation and Assistance

Turkey Wine Industry Investment and Business Opportunities Handbook - Strategic Information, Opportunities, Contacts

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Kingsport, the "Model City, " was the first American city in the 20th century that was privately financed and professionally planned. Chartered in 1917, it was also the first city in Tennessee to adopt a city manager form of government. Kingsport's location on the Clinchfield Railroad played a significant role in the development of the city, but it was the early visionaries and leaders who embraced the city's potential and transformed it. City...

Die Erfindung des Papiers war für die weltweite Verbreitung von Kultur und Wissenschaften nicht weniger bedeutsam als die Erfindung des Buchdrucks mit beweglichen Lettern. Dieses Buch bietet eine fundierte und verständlich geschriebene Geschichte der Papierherstellung in Deutschland - von der mittelalterlichen Schöpfbütte über die erste deutsche Papierfabrik, die 1818 in Berlin gegründet wurde, und ihr Zweigwerk in Hohenofen bis hin zur modern...

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The histories of Roxbury and Bridgewater are intertwined, as both communities developed from settlement to ecclesiastical society to incorporated town. Both were once part of larger adjoining towns, with Bridgewater originally known as Shepaug Neck and Roxbury first named Shepaug Plantation. Shepaug is a Mohegan word meaning "rocky river" and was taken from the name of the river that runs through Bridgewater and forms Roxbury's western border....

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Tom's plan to quietly shut down his late father's law practice runs into an unexpected roadblock--two million dollars of unclaimed money in a secret bank account that leads to a tangled web of lies, theft, and off-shore financial transactions manipulated by powerful men who will do anything to stop Tom from discovering the truth.

Cole Camp was named by Ezekiel Williams, who established a post office in 1830 on Williams Creek, south of the present town. Settlers from the south followed Williams, and in the 1840s an influx of German immigrants arrived to leave their mark on the area. Cole Camp maintains a cultural connection with the original settlers through year-round festivals and celebrations. In 1861, an early Civil War battle was fought nearby by the militia, the s...

Seit wann gibt es Hörspiele in Deutschland? Welche verschiedenen Formen haben sich während der langen Hörspielgeschichte entwickelt? Welchen Einfluss hatten technologischer Fortschritt oder die Politik auf Inszenierung und Produktion von Hörspielen? Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf viele Fragen der Entwicklung des Hörspiels in Deutschland von der Weimarer Republik bis zur Gegenwart. Das Hörspiel in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus oder das "Neue...

Skurril und grotesk wird Emil C. Schuggolevsky zu seinen drei Heimkehren getragen. Sarkasmus und parallele Erzählverliebtheit vereinen sich zu einer Buntheit von Wegbegehung. Schuggolevsky, der Held wider Willen, beschreitet allein gegen den ganzen Rest, als wenig angepasster Charakter, seine Reise durch die Vielfalt von Erleben quer hindurch. Ein Reigen an Ereignissen begleitet den nicht vorgezeichneten Weg eines Protagonisten, der aus dem Au...

Wenn das Auto oder die Spülmaschine streikt, sorgen wir schleunigst dafür, die Ursache zu finden und zu beheben. Wenn Studierende immer wieder dieselben Probleme haben, streichen wir immer wieder dieselben Fehler an. Oft gäbe es eine Abkürzung zum Erfolg, wenn man sich nur die Mühe machen würde, die Ursachen der Probleme und Fehler, die Störquellen zu entdecken und ihnen vorzubeugen. Störquellen sind z.B. grundsätzliche Irrtümer, ungünstige Ha...

This book explores how lexical competence develops in a foreign language, and also argues for the importance of lexical accuracy as a measure of the quality of foreign language writing and as an indicator of receptive vocabulary knowledge.

Twelve year old Sarah Cahill and her family are moving from the home they love on Bainbridge Island, Washington to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Her first day at school she discovers that everyone at Stockbridge Elementary believes her house is haunted. Unhappy with the move, and the new target of the class bully, Sarah doesn't know how she will survive the changes in her life, until she finds out she's not the first person living at 54 Ice Bend...

black box" is the first volume in the "save the world complex series". This sci-fi series explores a mysterious and powerful black box, the shepherd and their enormous impact on the world's people and their politics, religions, science and militaries. "Conversionists" and "anti-conversionists" engage in aggressive struggle for the black box's potentially unlimited power and the human race's future. Moving amongst them is the quiet shepherd, ke...