Story Started In 1908
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Story Started In 1908
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Author : Birthday Gift Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-19
Story Started In 1908 written by Birthday Gift Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-19 with categories.
Ideal birthday gift - 6x9 119 lined page journal - unique funny gift!
Against All Odds
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Author : Jackie L. Frady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-12-01
Against All Odds written by Jackie L. Frady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-01 with Automobile racing categories.
Against All Odds is the story of the 1907 Thomas Flyer, America¿s entry in the 1908 New York to Paris Automobile Race and its incredible journey told in a beautifully illustrated hard cover book. The Thomas Flyer and its hardy team competed in the longest and most difficult race of all time that started from Times Square on February 12, 1908, before a crowd of 250,000.The route the Flyer and its foreign competitors followed had proved dusty, snowy, muddy, and ¿ in some cases ¿ nonexistent. They¿d driven in regions where an automobile had never before been seen.Constantly tinkering with their car to keep it running, making major repairs and changing tires all too often, the Flyer¿s crew endured snowstorms, sandstorms and torrential rain, freezing cold and blistering heat, to make its way across three continents to claim victory ¿ and to prove wrong the many doubters who believed an automobile could not manage such an incredible feat.For those in the cars, the race was a tough, jarring, relentless trip that tested the limits of their endurance, health and sanity during the 22,000 mile odyssey. Like the pioneers who¿d crossed the North American continent a half-century earlier, they had a great sense of adventure. Six cars left Times Square that cold February morning, but this is largely the story of the 1907 Thomas Flyer and George Schuster, who was at the wheel most of the way and drove the winning car into Paris, and history, in the summer of 1908.
Story Started In 1908
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Author : Birthday Gift Cnyto Media
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Story Started In 1908 written by Birthday Gift Cnyto Media and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with categories.
Ideal birthday gift - 6x9 119 lined page journal - unique funny gift!
Race Of The Century
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Author : Julie M. Fenster
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2005-06-14
Race Of The Century written by Julie M. Fenster and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-14 with History categories.
On the morning of February 12, 1908, six cars from four different countries lined up in the swirling snow of Times Square, surrounded by a frenzied crowd of 250,000. The seventeen men who started the New York to Paris auto race were an international roster of personalities: a charismatic Norwegian outdoorsman, a witty French count, a pair of Italian sophisticates, an aristocratic German army officer, and a cranky mechanic from Buffalo, New York. President Theodore Roosevelt congratulated them by saying, “I like people who do something, not the good safe man who stays at home.” These men were doing something no man had ever done before, and their journey would take them very far from home. Their course was calculated at more than 21,000 miles, across three continents and six countries. It would cross over mountain ranges—some as high as 10,000 feet—and through Arctic freeze and desert heat, from drifting snow to blowing sand. Bridgeless rivers and seas of mud blocked the way, while wolves, bears, and bandits stalked vast, lonely expanses of the route. And there were no gas stations, no garages, and no replacement parts available. The automobile, after all, had been sold commercially for only fifteen years. Many people along the route had never even seen one. Among the heroes of the race were two men who ultimately transcended the others in tenacity, skill, and leadership. Ober-lieutenant Hans Koeppen, a rising officer in the Prussian army, led the German team in their canvas-topped 40-horsepower Protos. His amiable personality belied a core of sheer determination, and by the race’s end, he had won the respect of even his toughest critics. His counterpart on the U.S. team was George Schuster, a blue-collar mechanic and son of German immigrants, who led the Americans in their lightweight 60-horsepower Thomas Flyer. A born competitor, Schuster joined the U.S. team as an undistinguished workman, but he would battle Koeppen until the very end. Ultimately the German and the American would be left alone in the race, fighting the elements, exhaustion, and each other until the winning car’s glorious entrance into Paris, on July 30, 1908. Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12, 1908 . . . The crowds gathering on Broadway all morning were not out to honor Abe Lincoln, either. They were on the avenue to catch sight of the start of the New York-to-Paris Automobile Race. There would only be one—one race round the world, one start, and one particular way that, for the people who lived through it, the world would never be the same. The automobile was about to take it all on: not just Broadway, but the farthest reaches to which it could lead. On that absurdity, the auto was about to come of age. “By ten o’clock,” reported the Tribune, “Broadway up to the northernmost reaches of Harlem looked as though everybody was expecting the circus to come to town.” The excitement was generated by the potential of the auto to overcome the three challenges most frustrating to the twentieth century: distance, nature, and technology. First, distance: in the form of twenty-two thousand miles of the Northern Hemisphere, from New York west to Paris. Second, nature: in seasons at their most unyielding. And third, the very machinery itself, which would be pressed hard by the race to defeat itself. Barely twenty years old as a contraption and only ten as a practical conveyance, the automobile couldn’t reasonably be expected to be ready to take on the world. But there were men who were ready and that was what mattered. —From Race of the Century
A Group Of Their Own
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Author : Katherine H. Adams
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2001-02-22
A Group Of Their Own written by Katherine H. Adams and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Group of Their Own is the fascinating story of the first generations of women who went to college to learn to be writers and then launched their careers writing poetry and prose. This unprecedented group included Elizabeth Bishop, Ruby Black, Pearl Buck, Emma Bugbee, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, Mildred Gilman, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary McCarthy, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, and Margaret Walker.
The Bachelor And The Baby 1908
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Author : Margaret Cameron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-05
The Bachelor And The Baby 1908 written by Margaret Cameron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with Literary Collections categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Post Yugoslav Literature And Film
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Author : Gordana P. Crnkovic
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Post Yugoslav Literature And Film written by Gordana P. Crnkovic and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance.
Journeys Into Darkness
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Author : James Goho
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Journeys Into Darkness written by James Goho and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice, writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting truths about the human condition, ranging from mistreatment of women and minorities to the ever-present dangers of modern city life. In Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror, James Goho analyzes many significant writers and trends in American and British horror fiction. Beginning with Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing novels of terror and madness, Goho proceeds to discuss the influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” on H. P. Lovecraft, who is treated in several penetrating essays. Lovecraft was a uniquely philosophical writer, and Goho approaches his work through the lens of existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, while also probing Lovecraft’s racism as exhibited in several tales about Native Americans. Goho also discusses the Welsh writer Arthur Machen’s tortured tales of suffering and evil and Algernon Blackwood’s numerous stories set in the wilds of the Canadian backwoods. The book concludes with a centuries-spanning essay on the witchcraft theme in the American Gothic tradition and a comprehensive essay on Fritz Leiber’s invention of the urban Gothic. In this wide-ranging study, James Goho examines the varied ways in which supernatural fiction can address the deepest moral, social, and political concerns of the human experience. Journeys into Darkness will be of interest to readers and scholars of horror fiction and to students of literary history and culture in general.
The Director
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Author : Paul Letersky
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-07-13
The Director written by Paul Letersky and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff--his former assistant, Paul Letersky--The Director offers unprecedented insight into an American legend.
Albany Stories From The Village By The Bay
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Author : Karen Sorensen
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2020
Albany Stories From The Village By The Bay written by Karen Sorensen and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Albany, California--just 1.7 miles square--is one of the smallest cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Located across the bay from the Golden Gate Bridge, Albany not only has its own captivating past, but it is also tightly linked to the fascinating regional history of the Bay Area: from notorious 19th-century powder company explosions to an early-1900s plague scare and a famous actor accused of murder. This colorful collection of historical vignettes reveals little-known details about Charles MacGregor, the man who built many Albany homes; the origins of the famous Solano Stroll street fair; and how extensive train systems once linked local residents to the rest of the Bay Area. Today, Albany is known as a family-oriented "Urban Village by the Bay." The stories of the city--many obscured by time--reflect its struggle to incorporate and the circuitous path leading to the modern, vibrant community of today.