Author: Lauren Tarshis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545362687
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series! Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this New York Times bestselling series. Readers will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived!
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1)
Checklist of Hearings Before Congressional Committees Through the Sixty-seventh Congress
Author: Harold Ordell Thomen
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Checklist of Hearings Before Congressional Committees
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Regulations for the Government of the Navy of the United States
Author: United States. Navy Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Same-Sex Affairs
Author: Peter Boag
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520240480
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Same-Sex Affairs is a path-breaking history of male homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest from 1890 to 1930.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520240480
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Same-Sex Affairs is a path-breaking history of male homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest from 1890 to 1930.
Naval Register
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Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Melanoplus Plebejus, Including Two New Subspecies (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae): Notulae Naturae of The Acad. of Natural Sciences of Phila., No. 188
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Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN: 9781604831887
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN: 9781604831887
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Helene Schweitzer
Author: Patti M. Marxsen
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815653263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Born in Berlin, Helene Schweitzer came of age in Strasbourg during a time of great social, architectural, and historical developments. It was in this cultural milieu, as a history professor’s daughter, that Helene met a young pastor named Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) and developed a deep friendship that flourished for a decade before their marriage in 1912. During those years, she served as the first woman Inspector of City Orphanages in Strasbourg, a position she held for four years before becoming a certified nurse. She also edited and proofread a number of Schweitzer’s books in multiple fields as they worked together to realize their shared dream of devoting their lives to humanity. Together in 1913, Albert and Helene Schweitzer founded what is now the longest-running hospital established by Europeans in Africa, the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in current-day Gabon. With her quiet strength, clear sense of purpose, independent spirit, and wide range of skills and talents, Helene was a model for many other women who later served the Schweitzer Hospital. Drawing upon the couple’s lifelong correspondence, as well as Helene’s journals and professional writing, Marxsen reveals a modern woman of courage in dark times whose resilient, optimistic spirit allowed her to leave a lasting legacy that has yet to be fully understood. Helene Schweitzer’s dramatic life reveals deeper questions of how memory is influenced by gender assumptions and how biography is shaped by place and history. By providing a counter-narrative to the traditional image of a frail woman who sacrificed her life to her husband’s genius, this richly detailed chronicle of a little-known figure invites a larger discussion about the meaning of a woman’s life obscured by a partner’s fame.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815653263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Born in Berlin, Helene Schweitzer came of age in Strasbourg during a time of great social, architectural, and historical developments. It was in this cultural milieu, as a history professor’s daughter, that Helene met a young pastor named Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) and developed a deep friendship that flourished for a decade before their marriage in 1912. During those years, she served as the first woman Inspector of City Orphanages in Strasbourg, a position she held for four years before becoming a certified nurse. She also edited and proofread a number of Schweitzer’s books in multiple fields as they worked together to realize their shared dream of devoting their lives to humanity. Together in 1913, Albert and Helene Schweitzer founded what is now the longest-running hospital established by Europeans in Africa, the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in current-day Gabon. With her quiet strength, clear sense of purpose, independent spirit, and wide range of skills and talents, Helene was a model for many other women who later served the Schweitzer Hospital. Drawing upon the couple’s lifelong correspondence, as well as Helene’s journals and professional writing, Marxsen reveals a modern woman of courage in dark times whose resilient, optimistic spirit allowed her to leave a lasting legacy that has yet to be fully understood. Helene Schweitzer’s dramatic life reveals deeper questions of how memory is influenced by gender assumptions and how biography is shaped by place and history. By providing a counter-narrative to the traditional image of a frail woman who sacrificed her life to her husband’s genius, this richly detailed chronicle of a little-known figure invites a larger discussion about the meaning of a woman’s life obscured by a partner’s fame.
Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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