Author: Katrina Pescador
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738547954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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San Diego's North Island is one of the most significant venues of aviation in the world. Starting in 1911, it was the home to one of the nation's first aviation schools, founded by Glenn Curtiss, who pioneered seaplane flight. He trained the nucleus of America's future air forces there, including Lt. Theodore Ellyson, the first naval aviator. When the United States entered World War I, the government took over the island with plans to build a training center for the nation's armed forces. The new army base was named Rockwell Field, and the navy portion was named Naval Air Station San Diego. By 1937, the army had moved out, and the navy became the sole tenant. Today NAS North Island is part of the largest aerospace-industrial complex in the navy and is headquarters for the Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Author: Scott Cook
Publisher: Scott Cook
ISBN: 0979923239
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Author: Eldon Yellowhorn
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 1554519454
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle Island, refers to a Native myth that explains how North and Central America were formed on the back of a turtle. Based on archeological finds and scientific research, we now have a clearer picture of how the Indigenous people lived. Using that knowledge, the authors take the reader back as far as 14,000 years ago to imagine moments in time. A wide variety of topics are featured, from the animals that came and disappeared over time, to what people ate, how they expressed themselves through art, and how they adapted to their surroundings. The importance of story-telling among the Native peoples is always present to shed light on how they explained their world. The end of the book takes us to modern times when the story of the Native peoples is both tragic and hopeful.
Author: Chellie Pingree
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892723188
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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Sixteen patterns from 11 different designers, such as Helene Rush and Robin Hansen. Color photos of the sweaters in Maine island settings are augmented by interviews with the designers.
Author: Peter Maxwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473185565
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Elretta Sudsbury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912495101
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Author: Donovan Bixley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988516189
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Retelling of a traditional legend of how Maui fished up the North Island of New Zealand when he sneaks onto his brothers' canoe after they have refused to take him fishing.
Author: Scott Cook
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979923289
Category : North Island (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Author: David Stick
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469624168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in North Carolina's past, from the first expedition sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 to the mysterious disappearance of what has become known as the lost colony. Included in the colorful cast of characters are the renowned Elizabethans Sir Francis Drake and Sir Richard Grenville; the Indian Manteo, who received the first Protestant baptism in the New World; and Virginia Dare, the first child born of English parents in America. Roanoke Island narrates the daily affairs as well as the perils that the colonists experienced, including their relationships with the Roanoacs, Croatoans, and the other Indian tribes. Stick shows that the Indians living in northeastern North Carolina -- so often described by the colonists as savages -- had actually developed very well organized social patterns. The fate of the colonists left on Roanoke Island by John White in 1587 is a mystery that continues to haunt historians. A relief ship sent in 1590 found that the settlers had vanished. Stick makes available all of the evidence on which historians over the centuries have based their conjectures. Methodically reconstructing the facts -- and exposing the hoaxes -- he invites readers to draw their own conclusions concerning what happened. Exploring the significance of that first English settlement in the New World, Stick concludes that speculation over the fate of the lost colony has overshadowed the more important fact that the Roanoke Island colonization effort helped prepare for the successful settlement of Jamestown two decades later. "Had it been otherwise," he contends, " those of us living here today might well be speaking Spanish instead of English." The four hundredth anniversary of the exploration and settlement of what came to be called North Carolina occurred in 1984. For that occasion, America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee commissioned this factual and readable history.
Author: Rita Hadra Rusco
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781493792610
Category : North Manitou Island (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Rita Hadra Rusco, a North Manitou Islander for nearly fifty years, has turned her love for the island into a warm story reflecting not only the island's history but the character, romance and determination of its people."--Back cover.
