The history of Galveston is the history of Texas. Beyond that, it is the history of the European colonization of the New World. Galveston has seen cannibalistic Indians, Spanish conquistadors, explorers, filibusters, pirates and their treasure, ship wrecks, Civil War battles, yellow fever epidemics and survived all these to become the leading city in Texas in both population and commerce during the mid and late 19th Century. The heroes of the Alamo and San Jacinto have walked her streets. ...

Victorian Texas Courthouses have been called the “architectural treasures of the state”. Although they have a number of characteristics in common, such as the use of wrought iron, stained-glass, towers, turrets, and gingerbread, the architecture of the Victorian Era was not just one style but a collection of many styles. Coinciding with these architectural styles in Texas was the “golden age” of courthouse design and construction. The Victorian styles fit perfectly with the public’s idea o...

Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of thousands of rugby supporters at the natio...

Barry a passé du temps en prison pour avoir été accusé du crime de viol d'une jeune fille mineure, qui s'est jouée de lui en lui faisant croire qu'elle avait une vingtaine d'années. Il rencontre Patsy, qui lui trouve un emploi en falsifiant des documents pour lui. Ils entament une histoire d'amour éclair et, alors qu'ils sortent ensemble, ils apprennent qu'elle était la pute de la ville. Il décide qu'il ne peut pas supporter qu'elle lui ait menti et rompt avec elle.Il rencontre ens...

Get the most from your table saw and router while displaying your craftsmanship wth these 26 ingenious projects from the pages of Woodworker's Journal.

Barry pasó un tiempo en la cárcel por ser acusado del delito de violar a una niña menor de edad, quien lo tomó por tonto, haciéndole creer que tenía veintitantos años. Conoce a Patsy, quien le consigue un trabajo falsificando documentos para él. Comienzan un romance vertiginoso y, mientras salen, se enteran de que ella era la prostituta del pueblo y decide que no puede soportar que ella le haya mentido, por lo que rompe con ella.Luego conoce a Lisa, una exitosa agente inmobiliaria....

Barry pasó años en la cárcel, acusado de haber violado a una niña, Nikki, quien lo engañó, haciéndole creer que estaba en sus veinte. Tras salir de prisión, conoce a Patsy, a quien se sintió muy atraído. Patsy le consiguió un trabajo a Barry en el departamento de tecnología de un centro comunitario, habiendo ayudado a falsificar sus registros. Luego de unos meses, ya muy enamorado de Patsy, oye rumores de que ella es la ramera de la ciudad.Barry se entera de que, mientras estaba en...

Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts: Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology examines how social agents construct autonomous spaces in the context of neoliberal education. The contributors to this edited collection consider the ways that educators, students, and families assert agency, claim space, and thereby reshape the constraints imposed by the durability of the academic institutions of which they are a part.

L'ouvrage En parfaite cohérence avec le programme de DFASM et les ECNi, cet ouvrage rassemble les connaissances fondamentales en ORL. Il présente dans le détail les 20 items du programme relevant de cette spécialité, avec des objectifs pédagogiques clairement définis, et comporte deux parties : - une partie Connaissances divisée en chapitres consacrés chacun à un item. Chaque chapitre commence systématiquement par un rappel des objectifs pédagogiques nationaux accompagnés des objectifs add...

Images in the Pines is more than a book of photographs and poems. It is a book of memories of life in East Texas in the late 1800s and early 20th Century. Newton County, as this book illustrates, is unique within itself, yet so similar to all of East Texas in its history, its culture and its people. Even if you didn't grow up here, you'll find that these photographs and poems will rekindle memories and images of a simpler time, a time where the pace of life was slower and the world didn't ...

What does it mean to live a life that quietly transforms others?At the end of the 19th century, in the rugged village of West Bay, Nova Scotia, Herbert Stewart Gray was born into humble beginnings. Over time, he would become a pioneer in the North American laundromat industry and the visionary founder of Mac-Gray Corporation. Yet, The Treasurer is far more than a business biography. It is the moving account of a man whose life embodied Christian business e...

Barry spent time in jail for being accused of the crime of raping an underage girl, who played him for a fool, making him believe she was in her mid-twenties. He meets Patsy, who gets him a job by falsifying documents for him. They start a whirlwind romance and while dating learns that she was the town whore, and decides he can't handle her having lied to him, so breaks up with her.He then meets Lisa, a successful real estate agent. Barry does not tell her about his imprisonment, bu...