Author: Dr. Alan N. Brown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439678626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida's dark side . Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too. And in the shadows, tragedy strikes. Ted Bundy leads a cast of serial killers who wrought havoc on the state. Storms spin onto its shores with landscape altering fury. Sharks lurk in the sea, and snakes and alligators lie wait in the swamps. Gangsters like Al Capone hit Miami Beach for a respite, but gangsters like Al Capone take no breaks from their trade. A woman spontaneously bursts into flames in St. Petersburg. Anthrax claims a life in Palm Beach. The Bermuda Triangle disappears vessels off the coast. Indeed, Florida knows boundless leisure, but it's just as familiar with catastrophe .
Author: Michael G. Hall
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476691215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out. It usually involves the common tropes we see splashed across news and social media: Disney, Miami, alligators, heat, retirees and weird people. As a result, very few people try to dig any deeper. This book explores the darkest parts of Florida's past. These stories, told out in sequential order and broken down by theme, contain everything that has come to make up the Sunshine State: from the surprising, to the weird, to the horrifying, and, in some cases, inspiring. Topics covered include Florida in the Age of Exploration, pirates, Spanish colonialism, the Seminole Wars, slavery and race relations during the Civil War, Prohibition, segregation, disco and drugs, serial killers, economic ruin, urbanism, and Florida in the age of DeSantis.
Author: Marvin Dunn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813041636
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A symbolic embodiment of racial violence and hatred, “The Beast” openly prowled the nation between the Civil War and the civil rights movement. The reasons it appeared varied, with psychological, political, and economic dynamics all playing a part, but the outcome was always brutal--if not deadly. From the bombing of Harriette and Harry T. Moore’s home on Christmas Day to Willie James Howard’s murder, from the Rosewood massacre to the Newberry Six lynchings, Marvin Dunn offers an encyclopedic catalogue of The Beast’s rampages in Florida. Instead of simply taking snapshots of incidents, Dunn provides context for a century’s worth of racial violence by examining communities over time. Crucial insights from interviews with descendants of both perpetrators and victims shape this study of Florida’s grim racial history. Rather than pointing fingers and placing blame, The Beast in Florida allows voices and facts to speak for themselves, facilitating a conversation on the ways in which racial violence changed both black and white lives forever. With this comprehensive and balanced look at racially motivated events, Dunn reveals the Sunshine State’s too-often forgotten—or intentionally hidden—past. The result is a panorama of compelling human stories: its emergent dialogue challenges conceptions of what created and maintained The Beast.
Author: John Brandon
Publisher: Neri Pozza Editore
ISBN: 8862511744
Category : Fiction
Languages : it
Pages : 232
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Esiste la Florida dei parchi divertimenti, degli alberghi, delle spiagge e dei surfisti. Ed esiste la Florida della contea di Citrus, nella cosiddetta Costa della Natura, dove c’è la natura perché non ci sono parchi divertimenti né alberghi né spiagge. E dove regnano i redneck al posto dei surfisti, e piante che fioriscono e marciscono sfacciatamente al posto di giardini rigogliosi. Toby McNurse ha quattordici anni e tante ferite dentro di sé: non ha mai avuto un padre e non ha piú una madre, abita in una casa malandata con uno zio che si arrangia pulendo cose che nessuno osa pulire, dai mattatoi ai vecchi motori incrostati, e discorre incessantemente e pateticamente di suicidio. Toby frequenta la scuola locale, dove impera il professor Hibma, un uomo insicuro e confuso che riesce a pontificare per venti minuti filati sulle mostruosità del capitalismo, la rivoluzione diventata merce, i poveri che hanno ormai la pizza e l’erba assicurata, i moralisti e gli artisti che se ne fregano di tutto. Toby infrange le regole e accumula punizioni, ma senza gioia nella disobbedienza, né rabbia. Le vuote passioni dei suoi compagni di classe – musica, droga, piccoli crimini, sesso – non significano nulla per lui. La droga è una cosa patetica. I flirt, umilianti. I furti e altra robaccia simile, ridicoli. Nella classe di Toby è arrivata da poco Shelby Register, trasferitasi in Florida con il padre e la sorellina dopo la morte della mamma. Shelby è carina, sveglia, sogna di fuggire in qualche paese lontano ed è attratta da Toby, pur sapendo che quello della brava ragazza che si innamora di un teppista è il classico luogo comune. Ma per Shelby i ragazzi normali sono una noia, quindi ben venga il luogo comune. Toby, tuttavia, non è affatto un vandalo qualsiasi, un banale teppistello angosciato come tanti. Toby è un ragazzo che, nel profondo della sua anima, è piú terribile di tutti i delinquenti minorili della contea messi insieme. Un malinconico destinato a infliggere danni ben piú gravi di quelli che Shelby o il professor Hibma osano pensare, e che, al cospetto di Shelby e di Kaley Register, la sorellina di quattro anni dai capelli che scintillano come un’esca nell’acqua, sa che è giunta la sua ora... l’ora di fare finalmente quello per cui è venuto al mondo. Magnificamente scritto, inquietante, commovente e ilare insieme, Dark Florida ha rivelato sulla scena letteraria americana e internazionale il talento di John Brandon, uno scrittore capace di illuminare, con crudo e poetico realismo, il lato oscuro della gioventú odierna. «Un giovane grande scrittore che farà molta strada». San Francisco Chronicle «Con Dark Florida John Brandon si aggiunge alla schiera di quegli scrittori che non smettono di ricordarci che il mondo reale è molto piú inquietante della letteratura. Il risultato è una grande storia con una voce eccezionale, ricca di personaggi che risultano veri proprio perché estremi». New York Times «John Brandon è uno scrittore dalla prosa infallibile – a metà strada tra Denis Johnson ed Elmore Leonard». Davy Rothbart «Dark Florida è un romanzo incantevole, con un tocco di dolente ilarità... Fa sorridere anche quando infligge un colpo al cuore, ed è uno dei migliori libri mai scritti sull’adolescenza». Dan Chaon
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Accompanied by "Florida highways official detour bulletin, " Feb. 1942-
Author: Jeffrey Cox
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472849884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
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Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces. Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy.
Author: United States National Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Author: United States National Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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Author: Robert Ridgway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Author: Bob Mizon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319338552
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Bob Mizon, one of the world’s best known campaigners against the veil of light pollution that has taken away the starry sky from most of the world’s population, takes readers to a hundred places in the UK and the USA where the wonders of the night sky might still be enjoyed in perfect or near-perfect night skies. Visiting small hotels and simple campsites, and savoring vast dark-sky reserves where the night sky is actively protected, The Million-Star Hotel celebrates the black skies of yesteryear – which may become a reality for more and more of us as modern technology reins in lighting and puts it only where needed. How can you prepare for your stay beneath the stars? What astronomy can you do during the daytime? What kind of equipment will you need? Questions such as these are answered, and if town dwellers return inspired – and, Bob hopes, also inspired to look with fresh eyes at their own local lighting – there is enough information here for them to equip themselves for some urban astronomy too.
