Author: First Baptist Church (Merton, Wis.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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In Commemoration of the One Hundred Twenty-fifth Anniversary, 1843-1968
Author: First Baptist Church (Merton, Wis.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Bicentennial Commemorative Coinage and Construction of New Mint Buildings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Minting and Coinage (Ad Hoc)
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Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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1968
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345471911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the women’s movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. From New York, Miami, Berkeley, and Chicago to Paris, Prague, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Mexico City, spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the globe. Everything was disrupted. In the Middle East, Yasir Arafat’s guerilla organization rose to prominence . . . both the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennale were forced to shut down by protesters . . . the Kentucky Derby winner was stripped of the crown for drug use . . . the Olympics were a disaster, with the Mexican government having massacred hundreds of students protesting police brutality there . . . and the Miss America pageant was stormed by feminists carrying banners that introduced to the television-watching public the phrase “women’s liberation.” Kurlansky shows how the coming of live television made 1968 the first global year. It was the year that an amazed world watched the first live telecast from outer space, and that TV news expanded to half an hour. For the first time, Americans watched that day’s battle–the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive–on the evening news. Television also shocked the world with seventeen minutes of police clubbing demonstrators at the Chicago convention, live film of unarmed students facing Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia, and a war of starvation in Biafra. The impact was huge, not only on the antiwar movement, but also on the medium itself. The fact that one now needed television to make things happen was a cultural revelation with enormous consequences. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written–full of telling anecdotes, penetrating analysis, and the author’s trademark incisive wit–1968 is the most important book yet of Kurlansky’s noteworthy career.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345471911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the women’s movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. From New York, Miami, Berkeley, and Chicago to Paris, Prague, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Mexico City, spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the globe. Everything was disrupted. In the Middle East, Yasir Arafat’s guerilla organization rose to prominence . . . both the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennale were forced to shut down by protesters . . . the Kentucky Derby winner was stripped of the crown for drug use . . . the Olympics were a disaster, with the Mexican government having massacred hundreds of students protesting police brutality there . . . and the Miss America pageant was stormed by feminists carrying banners that introduced to the television-watching public the phrase “women’s liberation.” Kurlansky shows how the coming of live television made 1968 the first global year. It was the year that an amazed world watched the first live telecast from outer space, and that TV news expanded to half an hour. For the first time, Americans watched that day’s battle–the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive–on the evening news. Television also shocked the world with seventeen minutes of police clubbing demonstrators at the Chicago convention, live film of unarmed students facing Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia, and a war of starvation in Biafra. The impact was huge, not only on the antiwar movement, but also on the medium itself. The fact that one now needed television to make things happen was a cultural revelation with enormous consequences. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written–full of telling anecdotes, penetrating analysis, and the author’s trademark incisive wit–1968 is the most important book yet of Kurlansky’s noteworthy career.
Bicentennial Commemorative Coinage and Construction of New Mint Buildings, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Minting and Coinage (Ad Hoc) of ..., 93-1 on S.422, S.1141, S.1927 ...,June 6, 1973
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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One Hundred Thirty-fifth Anniversary
Author: Central United Methodist Church (Sault Sainte Marie, Mich.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 1764
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 1764
Book Description
Combined Statement of Receipts, Expenditures and Balances of the United States Government
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Accounts
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations
Author: United States. President
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Category : Executive orders
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
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Publisher:
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Category : Executive orders
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations
Author:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.