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101 Things You Didn't Know About Ann Arbor, Michigan: (But Are About to Find Out)
ISBN: 9781453891353 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After you've browsed through this little book, you will better understand why Ann Arbor has a greater quirk quotient than most places. To prove his point, your curious author has dug up bits of esoterica - odd, amusing, and little-known strands that make up the city's variegated fabric. Sure, you live here, but how much do you really know about Ann Arbor? Can you name your hometown football legends, Playboy Magazine playmates, 1960s radicals, NASA astronauts, the local boxer who fought Jack Dempsey, the brainy UM graduate who attempted the perfect crime, or the local girl who flirted with...
After you've browsed through this little book, you will better understand why Ann Arbor has a greater quirk quotient than most places. To prove his po...
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44,43 zł |
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101 Things You Didn't Know About Columbus, Ohio: (But Are About to Find Out)
ISBN: 9781453745021 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to James Thurber, Columbus-born author and celebrated wit, "Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has." To prove Thurber's point, your curious author has dug up bits of esoterica - odd, amusing, and little-known strands that make up the city's variegated fabric. You may live here, but how much do you really know about Columbus? Can you name your hometown football heroes, Playboy Magazine playmates, Pop Movement luminary, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, World War I flying ace, the local boxer who became heavyweight champion,...
According to James Thurber, Columbus-born author and celebrated wit, "Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which al...
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44,43 zł |
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Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights: A Century or so with the Albion Fire Department
ISBN: 9781484959473 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humor writer Mark R. Hunter often speaks of his life ballooning out of control, and there's no better example than this work, a look at the first century of service for his home town's volunteer fire department. Hunter, who's also a thirty-three year veteran firefighter, turned an idea for a pamphlet for the Albion fire Department's 100th anniversary into a 25 year marathon that produced a book ... just in time for the 125th anniversary. Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights chronicles the hazardous early days of Albion, Indiana, which like many small towns of the time tended to burn down - a lot....
Humor writer Mark R. Hunter often speaks of his life ballooning out of control, and there's no better example than this work, a look at the first cent...
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44,43 zł |
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Great Lakes Lighthouse Tenders: A History of the Boats and Crews That Served in the U.S. Lighthouse Service on the Great Lakes
ISBN: 9781942731061 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ships and crews of the U.S. Lighthouse Tender Service were the unsung heroes of Great Lakes transportation for more than a century. Yet despite the critical role they played in maritime operations, little information is available about these hard-working men and the ships they called home. Author Paul J. Mason provides an illustrated history of lighthouse tenders that served on "The Lakes," complete with rare photos and fascinating back stories. Great Lakes history buffs will enjoy learning about these forgotten ships and crews, and their place in maritime's golden age.
The ships and crews of the U.S. Lighthouse Tender Service were the unsung heroes of Great Lakes transportation for more than a century. Yet despite th...
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44,43 zł |
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Indiana Prohibition
ISBN: 9781512307016 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Story of 200 years of the fight for souls and tastebuds in Indiana.
The Story of 200 years of the fight for souls and tastebuds in Indiana.
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44,43 zł |
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Serial Killer in Ford County
ISBN: 9781517603908 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Frederick William Hollman, one of our nation's first serial killers, who was compared to H. H. Holmes, Jack the Ripper and Jekyll and Hyde. Captured and executed in Ford County, Illinois on May 14, 1897, this former resident of Grand Haven, Michigan, may have killed up to 17 women during his murderous rampage. Discover who he was, what motivated him, his Ford County area victims, and how he swore he would come back to haunt those who sent him to the gallows. Featuring 9 pages of historic photographs and news clipping from the period. Visit: frederickhollman.blogspot.com
The story of Frederick William Hollman, one of our nation's first serial killers, who was compared to H. H. Holmes, Jack the Ripper and Jekyll and Hyd...
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44,43 zł |
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The Roebling Suspension Bridge: Wilhelm Hildenbrand's Report on Its Reconstruction in the 1890s
ISBN: 9781718828469 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,43 zł |
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Once Upon A Time In Lansing: The Benefactors / Marks of Identification
ISBN: 9798505972427 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,43 zł |
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Missouri Word Search: Word Search and Other Puzzles about Missouri Places and People
ISBN: 9781542969376 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,43 zł |
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Living The Dream: A Historical Fiction Novel
ISBN: 9781434896407 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Bassett is a land surveyor in the small Midwestern town of St. Elsewhere. While surveying along US Highway 40, he is struck by a car, inducing a deep coma. It is December of 1818 and Illinois just became a state. William is a US Deputy Surveyor in the new Capital city of Kaskaskia. He has been given the task of finding a more centralized location for the state's Capitol. He must form a survey party and be ready to embark on a journey through uncivilized territory. In the local tavern, he finds Duke and Montgomery Longhorn, brothers and buffalo hunters. Two French trappers, Martin St....
William Bassett is a land surveyor in the small Midwestern town of St. Elsewhere. While surveying along US Highway 40, he is struck by a car, inducing...
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44,60 zł |
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Prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary 1834-1905- From Lawrence County, Ohio
ISBN: 9781456530495 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken from microfilm reels filmed by the Columbus Historical Society, 1982. Each register of inmate includes their name, age, birthplace, occupation, term of sentence, county, discharge date, crime, property, physical description, habits, property, relatives and their residence, and education.
Taken from microfilm reels filmed by the Columbus Historical Society, 1982. Each register of inmate includes their name, age, birthplace, occupation, ...
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44,60 zł |
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A Strenuous Day
ISBN: 9781942341147 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stretching three quarters of a century, from roughly 1870 to 1945, "A Strenuous Day" traces the lives of Harve and Hattie England of Maryville, Missouri, an otherwise ordinary couple caught up in events which transformed their lives. In telling their story, Mahood comes to know his grandparents, who are a very real part of a period in history marked by a World War, a flu epidemic, the likes of Charles Lindbergh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and distinguished by the Great Depression. Mahood deftly pieces together this chronicle of the Englands from diaries,...
Stretching three quarters of a century, from roughly 1870 to 1945, "A Strenuous Day" traces the lives of Harve and Hattie England of Maryville, Missou...
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44,60 zł |
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The New All-too-True-Blue History of Iowa
ISBN: 9781986322935 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
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The New All-Too-True-Blue History of Nebraska
ISBN: 9781986541022 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
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The New All-Too-True-Blue History of Indiana
ISBN: 9781986678261 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
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The Ozarks Spook Light: History, Legend, and Speculation
ISBN: 9780970282934 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
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History in the Heartland Volume 2: Missouri Stories: Interesting Stories from America's Midwest
ISBN: 9798401306067 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
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History in the Heartland Volume 4: Indiana Stories: Interesting Stories of America's Midwest
ISBN: 9798378054442 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
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Franconia: An Immigrant's Gateway
ISBN: 9781546356714 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Franconia" In 1838 the first riverboats came up the Saint Croix River full of adventurous and hardy immigrants who came for the timber, the fertile ground and to start a new life. Many came across the pier at a place called "Franconia" a growing and prosperous river town just south of Taylors Falls, Minnesota by The Dalles on the Saint Croix in Chisago County, Minnesota. A small boat landing is all that is left of a waterfront that rivaled any on the upper Saint Croix River. Ansell Smith's Sawmill and others once fronted the river at Franconia with paddleboats arriving and departing daily....
"Franconia" In 1838 the first riverboats came up the Saint Croix River full of adventurous and hardy immigrants who came for the timber, the fertile g...
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44,60 zł |
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The New All-Too-True Blue History of the Ewe-Knigted States
ISBN: 9781981257799 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |