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... Borax in Death Valley 5 The Railroads Come to the Amargosa Valley Clark Builds the LV&T Smith Builds the T&T 6 People and Places — The Early 1900s "Dad" Fairbanks Outlaw Country The Ash Meadows Clay Camps Life in Clay Camp 7 The Amargosa Valley in the 1930s-1950s Stops on the T&T Railroad The T&T Ranch—The Leeland Water and Land Company Ash Meadows Dur...

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...The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition and redemption in the “Old South.” (Summary by AJai Hilton)...

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The history of a small town in central Virginia (1700s to 1900s) with bibliography and photographs

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...of Kalialinui, including the land that became the Waikamoi Preserve, has been held by Haleakala Ranch since that time. In the later 1800s and early 1900s, cowboys of the Haleakala Ranch traveled from the lower Kula lands to the mountain lands of Haleakala via the “Aina Hou Trail,” passing Halemau (Halemauu) and Leleiwi, and through Kalialinui, towards the Koolau Gap la...

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...tive life is treasured and protected. Kupuna express this thought in the words, “Hoohana aku, a hoola aku!” (Use it, and let it live!). In the early 1900s, the Hilo and Olaa forest lands were determined to be of significance, and worthy of protection. In between 1905 to 1928, the lands of the Olaa and Waiakea Forest Reserves, and the neighboring Kilauea Forest Reserve wer...

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... French Canadian novels. It is the love story of Maria Chapdelaine, daughter of a peasant family in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, in the 1900s. It is often seen as an allegory of the French Canadian people, describing simple joys and great tragedies, the bonds of family, the importance of faith, and the strength of body and spirit needed to endure the harshnes...

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...0) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British revolt against idealism in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. In this book, written in 1918, he offers his assessment of three competing strea...

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...ntos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautreamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse. Many of the surrealists in the early 1900s cited the novel as a major inspiration to their own works and Les Chants de Maldoror , and its protagonist Maldoror, have continued to fascinate people since its publication. The work revolves around the misanthropic ch...

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...as diving) that extracted the parachute from a bag. Only later still, in the early 1900s, did the rip cord that allowed the parachutist to deploy t... ... City, fiery Irish immigrant cook - Typhoid Mary - was widely dreaded in the early 1900s. Immune to the disease herself, she was the perfect carrie...

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...STONETHROWING INPALESTINE As you can tell from the article above, in Palestine in the early 1900s Zionist Jews employed throwing stones, for the same reasons that the Palestinians throw stones and rocks today. It’s all they have. The Zionists were, most of them, unarmed and the Palestinians today, the vast majority ...

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... written by two scholars, W.W. Atkinson and E.E. Beale, back in the early 1900s. I spent a lot of time with this formula a number of years ago. It s...

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... introduced the concept of the death instinct into psychology in the early 1900s, it was received with a general skepticism which has continued unabat... ... Paul’s condition as epilepsy by psychiatrists in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is often at this stage that experiences occur which correspond to... ...o contact between the two. Eastman published books in English in the early 1900s about his Indian boyhood and about the spiritual beliefs he learned f...

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...w country, didn‟t have to endure the problems that plagued China during the 1900s. There were 40 years of war then 40 years of backward moving commun...

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...ell guys let me talk about my other concern, licensing parents. In the early 1900s maybe a few people dreamed of space travel. But did any even conc...

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...rch in other sci- ences, as well. The era of modern physics began in the early 1900s with Albert Einstein’s (1879-1955) revolutionary discoveries. Ei...

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...e, have also made overnight visits to girls' houses in the 1800s and early 1900s. In Finland, boys addressed girls in poetic language, and rules exist...

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...owing I describe here has one end in the hymns and spiritu- als of the early 1900s and the other in the twenty-first century’s chaotic stew of digital ...

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...reignty it had acquired in the 1700s but lost to the British in the early 1900s. Certainly invading another country is routine for the regiments of ... ...ere‘s certainly no question that STDs are bad for any society. In the mid-1900s the UN General Assembly adopted a strong convention against prostitu...