Death On The Waterways
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Death On The Waterways
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Author : Allan Scott-Davies
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-10-21
Death On The Waterways written by Allan Scott-Davies and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-21 with Transportation categories.
Canals reached their zenith in the eighteenth century during the Industrial Revolution, before the arrival of the railways usurped their position, whereupon a number of them fell into disrepair and disuse. For many years forgotten, canals and waterways have enjoyed an enormous resurgence in popularity as the recent leisure industry has placed them once more at the forefront of a lively community. This fascinating book delves into the murkiest criminal cases to occur or be associated with the canals and waterways of Britain, including many high-profile murders, and considering other crimes such as pick-pocketing, robberies, drunkenness and assaults. Also looking at the use of canal crime in film and literature, this illustrated history offers a chilling glimpse into the criminal past.
The Rivers Of Life And Death
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Author : William T. Harper
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013-04-14
The Rivers Of Life And Death written by William T. Harper and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-14 with History categories.
Through the pages of "The Rivers of Life – and Death," nine horrific tragedies on the Nation's inland waterways, stretching back over 41 years (1964-2005) are graphically reported. September 22, 1993 was, without a doubt, the darkest day in the American towboating industry's 200-year history. At 2:45 that morning, the towboat Mauvilla, pushing six barges in dense fog, nudged a railroad bridge, causing the derailment of Amtrak's Sunset Limited passenger train. Forty-seven hapless souls plunged to their deaths in an alligator- and snake-infested murky bayou near Mobile, Alabama. One-hundred-and-three others were injured in the flaming carnage. Other dark days have been: June 16, 1964 – April 6, 1969 – August 1, 1974 – May 28, 1993July 15, 2001 – September 15, 2001 – May 26, 2002 – January 9, 2005Those nine days saw towboats and their barges slam into highway and railroad bridge pilings, collide with another vessel, run over a fishing boat, and wash over a dam. The resulting catastrophes ended the lives of 114 unsuspecting motor vehicle occupants, railroad train passengers and crew, fishermen, and mariners in those nine separate accidents. "The Rivers of Life – and Death" is meant for those who have traveled on and/or marveled at any of this nation's 25,000 miles of inland waterways – the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Arkansas, the Illinois, the Ohio, the Gulf Intracoastal Canal, etc. For those who have navigated the locks or merely putt-putted up and down those waterways – whether commercially or as a pleasure boater – the stories herein (told in reverse chronological order) are for you. It may also be that this book will find its way into the crews' quarters on many of the 3,000-plus towboats and tugs that ply those waterways. To some of them with whom we have traveled the inland waterways, we say “Hello” again. To all of them, we say “God Speed.” And last, but surely not least, "The Rivers of Life – and Death" may ironically bring some small sparks of knowledge to everyone about how that breakfast cereal on your table this morning got there.
Death On The Bank Of Two Rivers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
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Death On The Bank Of Two Rivers written by and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
River Of Life River Of Death
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Author : Victor Mallet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
River Of Life River Of Death written by Victor Mallet and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with SCIENCE categories.
India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga): "If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. The lives of 500 million people is no small thing." Drawing on four years of first-hand reporting and detailed historical and scientific research, Mallet delves into the religious, historical, and biological mysteries of the Ganges, and explains how Hindus can simultaneously revere and abuse their national river. Starting at the Himalayan glacier where the Ganges emerges pure and cold from an icy cave known as the "Cow's Mouth" and ending in the tiger-infested mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal, Mallet encounters everyone from the naked holy men who worship the river, to the engineers who divert its waters for irrigation, the scientists who study its bacteria, and Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister, who says he wants to save India's mother-river for posterity. Can they succeed in saving the river from catastrophe - or is it too late?
Shadows On The Water
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Author : Allan Scott-Davies
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2010-09-06
Shadows On The Water written by Allan Scott-Davies and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-06 with Transportation categories.
This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings reported across Britain's canal and waterways network: echoes in dark tunnels; stone steps stained red with blood spilled long ago; ghostly footsteps accompanying barges beneath a bridge... Mixing long-established ghostly tales with first-hand accounts, Allan Scott-Davies presents a grisly collection of supernatural stories. From the screaming ghost near Market Drayton to the Roman soldier in Chester guarding the canal, the drowning man at Lapworth and the white lady of the Hatton flight, all is revealed with a map of locations and, for some of the more haunted sites, a guided tour map. This illustrated book is sure to delight lovers of the waterways and paranormal alike.
The Black Death 1346 1353
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Author : Ole Jørgen Benedictow
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2004
The Black Death 1346 1353 written by Ole Jørgen Benedictow and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Black Death categories.
"Benedictow's findings relating to the mortality caused by the Black Death are based on the study and synthesis of all available demographic studies. Published over the past forty years, most of them in widely dispersed local journals and local histories, this cumulative evidence, astounding in its implications, has gone largely unnoticed. This book makes it indisputably clear that the true mortality rate was far higher than has been previously thought."--BOOK JACKET.
The Big If
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Author : B.L. Buehler A Servant of Stewardship
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-24
The Big If written by B.L. Buehler A Servant of Stewardship and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Religion categories.
The Big IF By: B. L. Buehler The Big IF pertains to a righteous relationship with God in the light of truth and reality. Having served the Lord for 30 years at his own expense, B. L. Buehler was anointed to write the book for the spiritual edification of others. The emphasis of The Big IF is upon God first and foremost, sincere and devotional faith, truth, discipline, and reverence for the Lord. Buehler’s experiences, failures, and devotion unto the Lord, and the truth of the spiritual relational reality, which is all about the Lord, are all depicted in the pages within.
Where The Water Goes
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-04-11
Where The Water Goes written by David Owen and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Science categories.
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
Annual Report Of The Inland Waterways Corporation To The Secretary Of Commerce
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Author : Inland Waterways Corporation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Annual Report Of The Inland Waterways Corporation To The Secretary Of Commerce written by Inland Waterways Corporation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Inland navigation categories.
Ordinary Lives Death And Social Class
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Author : Ciara Breathnach
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-23
Ordinary Lives Death And Social Class written by Ciara Breathnach and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-23 with Coroners categories.
Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical frameworks to examine what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives. Coroners' inquests are a combination of eyewitness testimony, expert medico-legal language, detailed minutiae of people, places, and occupational identities pinned to a moment in time. Thus they have a simultaneous capacity to reveal histories from both above and below. Rich in geographical, socio-economic, cultural, class, and medical detail, these records collated in a liminal setting about the hour of death bear incredible witness to what has often been termed 'ordinary lives'. The subjects of Dr Byrne's court were among the poorest in Ireland and, apart from common medical causes problems linked to lower socio-economic groups, this volume covers preventable cases of workplace accidents, neglect, domestic abuse, and homicide.