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This book is a fascinating collection of true short stories about the Civil War. It includes stories about Abraham Lincoln's personal bank records; Confederados in Brazil; Civil War poetry; and Civil War corruption and fraud. And many more. All of the stories in the book were meticulously researched by Paul N. Herbert, former President of the Historical Society of Fairfax County. He documents all of the sources for his stories with footnnotes.Young and old will find this book an int...

We all know the first words proclaimed by Neil Armstrong when he got to the moon, but did you know the last words said by the last (the 12th of 12) astronaut were: "Let's get this mother out of here!" Read many stories that NASA left out of its press releases.

A look at one U.S. Army private's attempt to free Nazi soldiers from a Colorado prisoner of war camp during World War II.Harvard honor alumnus Dale Maple had a promising future, but his obsession with Nazi Germany led to his downfall. Classmates often accused him of pro-Nazi sentiments, and one campus organization even expelled him. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, only to be relegated to a unit of soldiers suspected of harboring German sympathies. He...

The basic results and methods of projective and non-Euclidean geometry are indispensable for the geometer, and this book--different in content, methods, and point of view from traditional texts--attempts to emphasize that fact. Results of special theorems are discussed in detail only when they are needed to develop a feeling for the subject or when they illustrate a general method. On the other hand, an unusual amount of space is devoted to the discussion of the fundamental concepts of dis...

One can’t help but be intoxicated by Paris. Maybe it’s the steps you climb to the top of the Montmartre, the aroma of a freshly baked pain au chocolat from the patisserie on the corner, or the omnipresent chic of Parisians strolling down the Champs-Elysees. There is something special that makes Paris the most visited city in the world.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Welcome to Paris - Culture - Location & Orientation - Climate & When To Visit - Sightseeing Highlights - Eiffel Tower - Notre Dame...

Historic Cairo is Egypt’s famous capital city. It is the largest city in all of Africa as well as the Arab world with a population of 19 million. Egypt’s world famous Pyramids are just a few miles away in the suburb of Giza. Downtown Cairo is the city’s exciting, modern centre with busy streets lined with cafés, restaurants and boutiques.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Welcome to Cairo - Culture - Location & Orientation - Climate & When To Visit - Sightseeing Highlights - Great Pyramids & Sphin...

People with only a slight interest in history will enjoy these fascinating, short and easy to understand stories.Serious history buffs will like these lesser-known episodes, not the stories weve heard a million times. For example: try to find anyone who knows about the attempted slave insurrection in Fairfax County, Virginia.With Mary Lincolns spending habits, who knew that Abraham Lincoln actually saved an enormous percentage of his presidential salary? A slave honored in Virginia...

In Richmond, no other name is more synonymous with dance than Elinor Fry. Helen Keller, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and author Tom Wolfe were just some of the people with whom Fry connected in five decades of dance. From 1920 to 1970, Fry was involved, often accompanied by her beloved students, in nearly every major public event in the River City. Performing in an array of venues and photographed twice by "National Geographic," Fry was a blend of creativity and business savvy and a wonderful...

Designed by Richmond visionary Lewis Ginter, The Jefferson Hotel has been an icon in the community since 1895. From the alligators that used to roam the elegant lobby to the speakeasy housed within during Prohibition, the hotel has a fascinating and unparalleled history. Playing host to cultural icons like Charles Lindbergh and F. Scott Fitzgerald and surviving the Great Depression and catastrophic fires, the hotel has remained an important landmark throughout Richmond's history. Join loca...

This book has two essential aims. First, to introduce some of the key assumptions behind relational psychoanalysis to an international audience and to outline the points where this approach counters, complements, or extends existing object relations (Kleinian and Independent) traditions. Second, to consider some of the implications of the relational turn for the application of psychoanalytic concepts and methods beyond the consulting room. The emergence of what has become known as "the rel...

Step into the adventures of ten-year-old Jerry. It's 1951, and he is mobilizing his fifth-grade buddies to defend his Capitol Hill neighborhood from an imminent communist invasion. Hang on tight. It's complicated.

The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set about improving the quality of city life. In this study, first published in book...