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In the early 1940s, the 8th U.S. Army Air Corps was asked to fly daylight missions over Germany in non-pressurized, unheated aircraft that were built in the early 1930s (at the same time Model "A" Fords were being produced). They were to fly missions against the largest, most modern air power in the world, the German Luftwaffe, right into the sites of the world's heaviest and most dangerous concentration of anti-aircraft guns. Experts consider...

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Excerpt from Results of an Examination of Syrian Molluscan Fossils, Vol. 10: Chiefly From the Range of Mount LebanonAmong the stores of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a third small collection of fossil shells has been found, which is understood to be from Lebanon, and to have been forwarded, perhaps presented, in 1866, by Rev. W. M. Thomson, D.D., author of the well known work, The Land and the Book, - for more than thirty years missionary...

Excerpt from The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin The chief feature of Hannibal Hamlin's career is his anti-slavery record. This is the principal story of the biography, and it includes a substantial account of the rise and fall of the slave party in Maine, as well as in the nation. In dealing with the struggles of the anti slavery men in Maine, one invaluable authority was my grandfather's private correspondence, which included fully ten th...

Excerpt from The Act to Regulate Commerce: As Amended and Acts Supplementary Thereto, Indexed, Digested, and Annotated, Including the Carriers Liability Act, Safety Appliance Acts, Act Requiring Reports of Accidents, Arbitration Act, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and Others The digest beginning on page 81 covers the six Acts which are of special interest and importance to shippers and carriers. The digests of the other Acts will be found by consult...

Excerpt from Brief Sketch of the Battle of Gettysburg The First Maine Cavalry under Kilpatrick was engaged in this battle in desperate conflict and in which it bore itself with great credit. This struggle at Brandy Station ended in defeating and driving the Confederate cavalry from the field, but on the arrival of Ewell's infantry from Culpeper, Pleasonton withdrew his forces and recrossed the river. By the capture of Stuart's headquarters Le...

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Seventeenth Maine Regiment at Gettysburg is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks ne...

Composed almost entirely of abstracts of wills, deeds, marriage records, powers of attorney, court orders, church records, cemetery records, tax records, guardianship accounts, etc., this unique work provides substantive evidence of the migration of individuals and families to Virginia or from Virginia to other states, countries, or territories. Each record provides prima facie evidence of places of origin and removal, irrefutably linking indi...

The 1830s and 1840s are the formative years of modern public health in Britain, when the poor law bureaucrat Edwin Chadwick conceived his vision of public health through public works and began the campaign for the construction of the kinds of water and sewerage works that ultimately became the standard components of urban infrastructure throughout the developed world. This book first explores that vision and campaign against the backdrop of th...