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Little Captive: Wait for Freedom is the inspiring true story of a child whose city was bombed, whose rescue ship was sunk, and who was held prisoner of war by the Japanese during World War II. Author Susan McCabe knew it was a story that had to be told when she met Des Woodford at his home in Perth Australia, where she and her family had moved from Canada. The story takes the reader with the young Des on his journey of adventure, pain, sufferi...

George Cram's "Unrivaled Atlas of the World" contains an index of over 100, 000 place names of "every county, city, town, village, and post-office in the United States [showing] the population of the same according to the Census of 1890." This index is of critical importance to the genealogist, for most genealogical research takes place on the county level, and in Cram's index all 100, 000 places--large and small--are tied to a specific county...

Scrupulous in every detail, this work contains the names of 3, 600 passengers on the ninety-six ships which brought them to New England between 1620 and 1640. Working with the same records employed by Savage, Drake, and Hotten, and with records unknown or inaccessible to them, Col. Banks here pulls the several classes of records together to form the most complete and authoritative collection of passenger lists for the period ever published. In...

This is the final volume in a three-volume series of vital records drawn from early New York newspapers. This volume focuses on the interior county of Otsego and on the 300-mile strip comprising the eastern-most counties of Clinton, Essex, Saratoga, Rensselaer, Albany, Columbia, and "Old Dutchess, " which, prior to 1812, included the territory of present-day Putnam County. Records in this volume are drawn from the marriage and death columns of...

Drawing on virtually all extant sources, Mr. Holcomb has compiled a list of some 6, 500 marriages which bear reference to approximately 15, 000 persons. Since official South Carolina marriage records are extremely scarce, Mr. Holcomb labored valiantly to extract records of marriage from parish registers, as well as Quaker meeting records, marriage settlements, court records, bonds and licenses, and a variety of other sources. The work is arran...

Today''s networks are characterised by increasing complexity and heterogeneity. Consequently, network configuration management is getting excessively costly and error-prone. Long network downtime and complex manual recovery of network configuration consistency can cause heavy business losses. Traditional network configuration tools become inadequate and obsolete. This is the reason why new, more reliable solutions are necessary to provide auto...

Originally published in 1917, "The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack" is part of the rich heritage of children's nature books left to us by Thornton W. Burgess in his long running - and much beloved - series of children's nature books about the Green Meadow a

Except for the brief period from March 1803 to March 1806, no official registers of passengers leaving Irish ports were ever kept. The exception refers to lists contained in the so-called Hardwicke Papers, now located in the British Library, London. Altogether, some 4, 500 passengers are identified in the 109 sailings recorded in the Hardwicke Papers--most cited with their all-important place of residence. Although Dublin was the most popular ...

Through the analysis of "Pasos bajo el agua" (Steps under Water) and "Bosquejo de alturas" (Impressions of Heights), both from the Argentine writer Alicia Kozameh, Ana Luiza Libanio Dantas depicts an embodied ecriture feminine. The Autonomous Sex: Female Body and Voice in Alicia Kozameh''s Writing of Resistance will guide you through the reading of the literary texts while analyzing theories from French feminists Helen Cixous and Luce Irigaray...

At times Winterowd is playful, and at other times he's the mordantly cynical critic--of the academy, of academicians, and of society in general. His attitudes are leavened by wit, and his insights are never mundane. ATTITUDES is for anyone who has become jaded by the gray monotone of much writing in our profession. W. ROSS WINTEROWD is the Bruce R. McElderry Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, where he founded its PhD pr...

One of the few aircraft to fly in three wars - WWII, Korea and Vietnam - the Douglas A-26 / B-26 Invader gained fame as a light bomber. Designed by engineer Ed Heinemann, the XA-26 prototype first flew in 1942 and flew combat missions beginning in June of 1944. Two versions were produced: a heavily-armed solid nose "B" model and a glass nose "C" model for precision high altitude bombing. More than 2400 were built, serving with distinction in b...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportgeschichte, Note: 2, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am 30. April 2006 feiert der SC Preußen Münster 06 sein 100-jähriges Jubiläum. Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling nimmt dies zum Anlass, über die Zeit der Nationalsozialisten zu berichten, und u.a. ist zu lesen: "Zeitzeugen legen großen Wert darauf, dass der SCP auch in den NS-Jahren eine unpolitische ...

The motivation behind most of the applications of off-line text recognition is to convert data from conventional media into electronic media. Such applications include cheques, security documents and form processing. A document analysis system is presented to transfer grey-level composite documents with complex backgrounds, watermarks and poor illumination into electronic format that is suitable for efficient storage, retrieval and interpretat...

This useful compendium will show you how to turn old and unwanted textiles in to usable and beautiful objects. Every pattern in this collection uses a different textile ranging from denim to natural raffia and each design illustrates how innovative transformation can create contemporary knits on a next to nothing budget. All the projects are aimed to inspire the thrifty knitter to look with new vigor at the items we discard as well as introduc...