Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780448437026
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Their search for an Easter Island idol takes the Hardy boys to Easter Island and on to investigate the theft of government material in Antarctica.

Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101076747
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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When an ancient stone idol disappears, the Hardy Boys are off on another fast-paced adventure. It's a mystery that takes the boys from a primitive village in the Andes Mountains to Antarctica and finally to Easter Island. By using their fine investigative skills, the Hardy Boys find that the mystery of the stone idol is not what it seems!

Author: Historical Society of New Mexico
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207959882
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Author: Frederick Catherwood
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781363110322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063081695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past. In 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced, and in some cases, hauled down statues of Confederate icons, slaveholders, and imperialists. General Robert E. Lee, head of the Confederate Army, was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Edward Colston, a member of Parliament and slave trader, was knocked off his plinth in Bristol, England, and hurled into the harbor. Statues of Christopher Columbus were toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. Belgian King Leopold II was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill’s monument in London was daubed with the word “racist.” As these iconic effigies fell, the backlash was swift and intense. But as the past three hundred years have shown, history is not erased when statues are removed. If anything, Alex von Tunzelmann reminds us, it is made. Exploring the rise and fall of twelve famous, yet now controversial statues, she takes us on a fascinating global historical tour around North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, filled with larger than life characters and dramatic stories. Von Tunzelmann reveals that statues are not historical records but political statements and distinguishes between statuary—the representation of “virtuous” individuals, usually “Great Men”—and other forms of sculpture, public art, and memorialization. Nobody wants to get rid of all memorials. But Fallen Idols asks: have statues had their day?

Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN: 9780671694029
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Their search for an Easter Island idol takes the Hardy boys to Easter Island and on to investigate the theft of government material in Antarctica.

Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639106X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Sir William Jones. Featuring writings by soldiers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, theologians, and colonial officers, this volume contains a wide range of portraits of the Buddha. The descriptions are rarely flattering, as all manner of reports—some accurate, some inaccurate, and some garbled—came to circulate among European savants and eccentrics, many of whom were famous in their day but are long forgotten in ours. Taken together, these accounts present a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddha as he was understood and misunderstood for centuries, but also of his portrayers.

Author: Michael Stone
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1843589729
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Michael Stone was born in East Belfast in 1955. In 1988 he was sentenced to 800 years in prison. He served twelve years in the Maze prison before being released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. He is now an artist, and proponent of the peace process.

Author: James Rust
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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