Arcadia publishing sc jun 2018 (32 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Northern Kentucky serves as the gateway between the North and the South. Explore its many places long-forgotten with Lost Northern Kentucky.Many of Kentucky's historic businesses, religious structures, homes and buildings were lost to time. Just after the Civil War, Daniel Henry Holmes purcha…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New Jersey's institutional research accolades are renowned--medical inventions at Johnson & Johnson, the genius of Edison Labs and fourteen Nobel Prizes to Bell Labs scientists.But beyond those behemoths of innovation lie many more breakthroughs and firsts. In 1869, Rutgers and Princeton play…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Akron and Summit County's classic hot spots have satisfied palates since the early twentieth century. Akron alone could sit up to thirty thousand people at once during the golden age of the '50s and '60s.Marcel's made a name for itself with its scampi, and Icaomini's became synonymous with lo…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dublin used to be just a small village on a major route to San Francisco. For much of its history, Dublin attributed its recognition to treacherous roads notorious for grisly stagecoach accidents and, later, near-fatal car crashes. Change came during World War II, when the community hosted on…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World.Subsequent violence and disease all but wiped out the native population. The land nurtured Charlton Heston and Ernest Hemingway in their youths and spaw…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Touch down at Dead Cow International Airport and sample the state's bumper crop of bizarre history. The most commonplace sights contain unlikely stories, from the bulldozer's Morrowsville origins to the sunflower's journey from outlawed weed to state symbol. Some of this heritage lies submerg…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offering a panoramic view of present-day Pittsburgh, Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines attract pedestrians traveling from the river's shore to the top of Mount Washington.These inclines were completed in 1870 and 1877 by real estate speculators hoping to capitalize on undeveloped land at the…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brooklyn, or Bruculinu, as many Italians affectionately pronounced it, is where Italian values, culture, and dreams thrived.In an era when over four million Italians found their way to America, the first significant influx came during the 1880s, primarily from rural peasant communities fleein…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many of the places that helped make Dayton a center of innovation were lost to history, while others survived and adapted, representing the city's spirit of revitalization.Some of the city's distinctive and significant structures, such as Steele High School and the Callahan Building, were dem…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Main-Travelled Roadscollects 11short stories, originally published in 1891, set in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, or what Hamlin Garland called the 'Middle Border.' Depicting an agrarian life of exploitation, misogyny, and poverty, Garland's radical, realist stories refute romantic conceptio…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Northern Kentucky has a unique location as the gateway between the North and the South. Many of its historic businesses, religious structures, homes and buildings were lost to time. Just after the Civil War, Daniel Henry Holmes purchased a large Victorian-Gothic house he named Holmesdale, better kno…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Southern California, with its burgeoning Latino population, marked the spot as the proving ground for world-class boxers from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to showcase their talent with exciting and unforgettable bouts. Latino Boxing in Southern California tells the t…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - North Mississippi's idyllic rolling hills and deep forests hide a history steeped in blood. America's first serial killers, the Harpe brothers, brutally murdered as many as fifty people at the end of the 1700s before finally meeting their end on the Natchez Trace. During Reconstruction, politician W…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These mailable vintage-photograph postcards showcase the inclines that were completed in 1870 and 1877 by real estate speculators hoping to capitalize on undeveloped land at the top of 'Coal Hill,' a name given due to its many coal mines. Housing in the valleys and other low-lying areas could not ac…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brooklyn, or 'Bruculinu,' as many Italians affectionately pronounced it, is where Italian values, culture, and dreams thrived. In an era when over four million Italians found their way to America, the first significant influx came during the 1880s, primarily from rural peasant communities fleeing po…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1889, a 40-acre parcel south of downtown Tacoma was set aside as South Park. In 1901, park commissioners officially changed the name to Lincoln Park to honor the former president. Lincoln remained the area's namesake, and portions of the park were carved out to create Lincoln High School in 1913…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The oldest freshwater port in the United States is nestled firmly into the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario at Oswego, New York. Since 1822, four lighthouses have guided the mariner's safe passage to shore, and just as those lighthouses stood watch, so did the men and women who manned them. Member…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Before the early 1900s, the northern edge of the eroded White River Badlands was virtually impenetrable except for the precarious horseback trails that reached the plain below. The 'Badlands Wall' is an escarpment that separates the upper prairie from the lower prairie for 60 miles. In 1907, the Chi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nestled along the banks of the Susquehanna River, Muncy first situated itself within the dynamic beginnings of America as the center of action during raids and battles on the frontier. Following the American Revolution, the town prospered as the lumber industry profited from its bountiful mountains…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Baker Island is a quintessential Maine island, frozen in time. It was settled in 1806 by one family, and the island's population peaked at about two dozen people in five households at mid-century. The US government made use of the island's strategic location at the entrance to Frenchman's Bay with a…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From villages and cities in Lithuania, immigrants came to America to find what they were denied in Eastern Europe, which was freedom from tyranny and want as well as freedom to worship and live as they chose. Through centuries of bloody invasions and cruel oppression, their Lithuania was denied to t…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Yarmouth, founded in 1639, has always had close ties with the sea. From shore whaling, fishing, and boatbuilding to sailing, salt making, and other maritime pursuits, almost everyone dealt with the ocean. A 160-acre Indian reservation existed until a smallpox epidemic in the 1770s. Later, a substant…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Located in Westmore, Vermont, Willoughby Lake was carved out by a glacier; the latest findings state it is 357 feet deep at its greatest depth, about 5.5 miles long, and 1 mile wide. Mount Hor and Mount Pisgah tower above its tranquil beauty. During Prohibition, Mount Hor was the site of a secret ca…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1928, Edward and Florence Clark opened a roadside attraction in Lincoln, New Hampshire, for visitors to the White Mountains. Ed Clark's Eskimo Sled Dog Ranch featured guided tours with its purebred Eskimo sled dogs and artifacts from Labrador, Canada. 'The Stand' offered souvenirs, tonic, and map…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With financial help from his father, Peter Joseph Schroeder, Peter Schroeder opened a small dry goods business in 1891 at the southeast corner of Eighteenth and Washington Streets in the B. Mayer Building. Over the next five years, his brothers Joseph, John, and Frank joined the operation. In 1899,…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The community now called Logan Square began as a patchwork of farms, hay fields, subdivisions, and small towns in rural Jefferson Township. Subsumed into the rapidly expanding city of Chicago at the end of the 19th century, the elegant residences lining the boulevards would gain prominence as an eth…