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Excerpt from Archæology of Ohio During this centennial year of Ohio, the attention of its citizens will be generally directed to its past. The State is remarkable for the number and extent of its earthworks, no spot of equal size on the globe having so many and so extensive monuments of earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a r...

DNA Fingerprinting is a method of identification that compares fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) It is sometimes called DNA typing. DNA is the genetic material found within the cell nuclei of all living things. The techniques used in DNA fingerprinting also have applications law and law enforcement, palaeontology, archaeology, various fields of biology, and medical diagnostics. In biological classification, it can help to show evolution...

Excerpt from Geology of Knox County, Ohio About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in th...

Excerpt from Illustrated History of New Mexico The author of this work entered public life some years ago, as a school teacher, filling for the first time the honored post of preceptor of the College of the Christian Brothers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the year 1876 and continuing thereafter for several years in charge of the various public schools of the Capital. Thus it was that he came through personal observation, and after many and very c...

Excerpt from Popular Elementary History of New Mexico My chief purpose in the preparation of this brief popular history has been to enable the poor and the children of our State, especially those who are the descendants of the first explorers and conquerors, to partake of the interest and enthusiasm one experiences when reading of the marvelous deeds, the wonderful foresight, the peerless valor, and the sublime faith of the men who first visi...

Excerpt from Remarks of John M. Read: One of the Deputation From the General Town Meeting of the Citizens of the City of Philadelphia, Held January 16, 1830, Relative to the Termination of the Columbia and Philadelphia Rail Road, Before the Committee on Inland Navigation and Internal Improvem Mr. Read, said, That the subject was dry and uninteresting in its details to an individual, who was not an engineer, but as it was one of deep interest ...

The dawn of the 1950s signaled a boom time for many American cities, flush with new families in the years after World War II. In Clifton, founded in 1917, far-flung western farms were transformed into a new suburbia. The pace of growth was so fast that, decades later, one official would bluntly say, "Clifton wasn't planned. It just happened." Decades earlier, there had been a false start. In Clifton's Allwood, a development of a promised 4, 50...

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John M. Read: In Favor of Free Kansas, Free White Labor, and of Fremont and Dayton, at the Eighth Ward Mass Meeting, Held in the Assembly Buildings, on Tuesday Evening, September 30, 1856 By the purchase of Louisiana we had acquired a claim to what was called Texas, and our western boundary in that quarter, between us and Spain, was unsettled and undefined. Spain owned the Floridas, which, by a resolution and acts ...

The hybrids of Hippeastrum, also known by gardeners as amaryllis, have long been popular indoor plants, their flamboyant blooms bringing cheer during the dark winter months. This book for gardeners describes the astonishing range of hybrids and explains how to get the best results from these rewarding plants.

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and arts enthusiast R. H. Cromek. Though he is best known today as William Blake's nemesis, Cromek made significant contributions to the vitality of the arts in nineteenth-century Britain. Read traces Cromek's early years as an accomplished engraver, his collaborations and falling out with Blake, and his ...

For decades, Newark and its environs have been lit up by the bright neon lights of grand movie palaces and theaters. In the early 20th century, stages that were originally built for vaudeville acts were turned over to silver screens and the flickering images from motion-picture projectors. This new technology ushered Hollywood movies to the East Coast and made cinema accessible for locals to enjoy. Movie houses and palaces provided moviegoers ...

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Many Americans have walked through the traditionally massive red doors of a parish that is part of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, itself a part of the larger worldwide Anglican Communion that has its roots in England. One of the best known, and one of the world's largest, is the National Cathedral in the nation's capital. But perhaps nowhere is the history of this storied religious institution more evident than in the Episcopal Di...

DNA Fingerprinting is a method of identification that compares fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) It is sometimes called DNA typing. DNA is the genetic material found within the cell nuclei of all living things. The techniques used in DNA fingerprinting also have applications law and law enforcement, palaeontology, archaeology, various fields of biology, and medical diagnostics. In biological classification, it can help to show evolution...

This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: "Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin" (1927), "More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana" (1928), and "Indian Words" (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of "Indian Places Names in Alabama" and "Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names, " this volume completes the republication of the southern place name writings of William A. Read.