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61) Amory
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In November 1887, the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad (KCM&B)-later the St. Louis–San Francisco Railroad, or "Frisco"-established a new town as a halfway point on its route between Memphis and Birmingham. The town was named Amory in honor of Harcourt Amory, a prominent Bostonian and railroad executive. The 500 acres the railroad purchased from Amanda Owen were surveyed and drawn into plots parallel to the railroad tracks, creating Mississippi's...
62) Joe's New World
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There are times when only a polar bear will do. . .
When Joe's parents told him the family would be moving, Joe took it in stride. Moving to a new house would be an adventure, nothing to worry about, right?
But then they dropped the bomb: they weren't simply moving to a different house down the road, or even one in the same town. No, they were moving to a new country!
They urge Joe to make new friends and try to fit in, not seeming to understand...
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Before Bernard Bailyn published The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution in 1967, it was generally believed that the Revolution was driven both by social conflict between colonial settlers and the ruling British government, and by differences between classes in American society. Bailyn had a different view. He said that it was radical ideas that fired the American Revolution, and that the Revolution was above all else an ideological, constitutional,...
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In the Take Back Your Family Handbook, Jefferson Bethke gives families fifty-two weeks of practical tools and inspirational advice for creating a thriving family that makes an impact for the kingdom.
Readers of Take Back Your Family were moved by Jefferson Bethke's eye-opening insights about the harm caused by idealizing the "nuclear family" in our culture. He challenged readers to discover and live by God's original and better plan for families...
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They looked like the typical, happy family. David and Helen Runcie had brought their three sons up to fear the Lord and honour His Name. When they sang together as a quintet audiences were moved to tears. In their teenage years the boys became heroin addicts. It was then that the whole atmosphere in the home changed. Tensions rose, money disappeared, and the telltale signs of drug addiction began to appear around the house. Every day seemed to present...
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When Elizabeth is about to turn sixteen years old she starts to learn different things about her parents and the parties that they were attending throughout the entire time that she was growing up. The first thing that Elizabeth finds out is that her parents had spent quite a bit of their time gambling whenever they would attend the parties that their newest neighbors were having in the hopes of finding a bride for their son Josiah. Sarah and Alexander...
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This work identifies some of the major messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and shows their New Testament fulfillment in Christ.
To focus attention on the unparalleled wonder of this literary miracle, think for a moment: who could have prewritten a life of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, or any other character, five hundred years before he was born? Nowhere in any of the literature of the world, secular or religious, can one find a duplicate...
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In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the guerrilla war that followed reached its peak in August 1920, in the garrison town of Templemore, when a series of extraordinary events occurred. Sixteen-year-old farm labourer Jimmy Walsh claimed that he was experiencing Marian apparitions, and that religious statues owned by him were moving and bleeding. Miraculous cures were claimed and the religious fervour which gripped Ireland led to an influx of thousands...
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#1 I was on my first search for matsutake in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. I had found the Forest Service's big camp for mushroom pickers, but all the pickers were out foraging. I decided to look for mushrooms myself while I waited for their return.
#2 In 1908 and 1909, two railroad entrepreneurs raced to build track along Oregon's Deschutes River. The goal of each was...
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Sally couldn't believe it, but it was finally here-moving day. Her parents had been talking about it and making preparations all summer long. Sally had spent most of the last two weeks, packing her room and saying goodbye to her friends. As she went back up to her room for the last time, the tears rolled down her face. She looked around and remembered all the countless hours she and her best friend, Jane, had spent there.
Saying goodbye to her best...
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A moving memoir of childhood in Dutch colonial Java, coming of age in wartime, and the trauma of life in WWII Labor Camps run by the Japanese.
As a boy growing up the Dutch island colony of Java, John K. Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. It was a fairly typical life for a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies, but their colonial idyll ended...
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Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past-and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the battlefields of a world war, and ended when he took...
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The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War. The Valiant was less aerodynamically advanced than the other two and went into service in 1955. The Vulcan entered service in 1956 and the Victor a year later. The Valiant finished operating in 1965 and the Vulcan in 1984. The later Victors were converted into...
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Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling attention to some of downstate New York's most spectacular and historic rocks: balanced rocks, perched rocks, rock shelters, talus caves, glacial potholes, split rocks, rock profiles, historic rocks, and massive, larger-than-life boulders.
Many large glacial erratics have a history going back thousands of years to when they were moved to their present location by...
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In The Lost Gold Chain of Machu Picchu, Gary Swagart provides a logical explanation for the establishment of Machu Picchu, its abandonment after being occupied for several centuries, the manner in which the rocks could have been fitted into the walls of Machu Picchu and Cuzco as they were, and the way the large rocks were moved and placed by the Incas and Pre-Incas. He provides a very logical reason why no gold was found at Machu Picchu when it was...
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THE LIFE OF S. ROSE is translated from the French of Father Jean Baptist Feuillet, a Dominican friar, and Missionary Apostolic in the Antilles; the copy which has been followed is the third edition, published at Paris in 1671, the year of her canonization by Clement X.
Rose of Lima (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586—24 August 1617) was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe...
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#1 Alderson, the anti-money-laundering director for the B. C. Lottery Corp, was about to meet with Calvin Chrustie, a senior officer with Canada's Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit. Chrustie had sent Alderson a cryptic text about a big deal.
#2 Alderson was hired to help clean up the Lottery Corp. in 2015. He knew that China's economy had to be considered in order...
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The 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange forcibly relocated one and a half million people: Muslims in Greece were resettled in Turkey, and Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey were moved to Greece. This landmark event set a legal precedent for population management on the basis of religious or ethnic difference. Similar segregative policies-such as creating walls, partitions, and apartheids-have followed in its wake. Strikingly, the exchange was...
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Night of Confusion…Down the "Slot"-that fabled channel between chains of islands in the Solomon group-steamed the task force of Admiral Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese Imperial Navy. His target: the Allied cruiser group gathered off Savo Island, near Guadalcanal. Three thousand Japanese guns were pointed at the destroyer Blue, on interception duty at the head of the Allied column. But no one aboard Blue noticed the enemy force churning past-so Blue roused...
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#1 I grew up in West Hollywood in the 1970s, and I remember how colorful the area was. It had the aesthetic of old cars, the way everyone idealizes Havana, and the wildly different styles of architecture from one house or apartment building to another.
#2 I had many questions about what was this or what was that as a kid, and the birds-of-paradise plants next to my house...