How did cranes come to symbolize matrimonial happiness? Why were magpies the only creatures that would not go inside Noah's Ark? Birds and bird imagery are integral parts of our language and culture. With her remarkable ability to dig up...
In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancee captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National...
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first ......
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1971. On the shores of Botany Bay lies an oil refinery where workers are free to come and go. But they are also part of an unrelenting, alienating economy from which there is...
As President Obama began to unveil sweeping government programs to restore the crippled economy, the public and media drew numerous comparisons with the actions of Franklin Roosevelt, who faced the grim prospects of the Great Depression almost eig......
Since arriving nearly 250 years ago in Franklin County, Virginia, German Baptists have maintained their faith and farms by relying on their tightly knit community for spiritual and economic support. Today, with their land and livelihoods threatene......
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. (Franklin P. Adams) .What renders a picture "life" are...
Just 23, Franklin Ludlow applies for a job with a temporary help agency. Inadvertently his pants zipper breaks. That fateful day was just the beginning to an innocent young mans education. As a young girl Odessa was happy to play...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Financing the Future: Market-Based Innovations for Growth (9780137011278) by Franklin Allen and Glenn Yago. Available in print and digital formats. How the housing ......
Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United Stages might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D. Roosevelt had been killed by one of Giuseppe Zangara's bullets in Miami on February 17, 1933? Wou......
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This is the Repair Service Work Shop Manual for Ariens 931 series GT Series Hydrostatic Garden Tractor. This manual contains all the information you need to properly perform complex repairs on the entire machine, excluding engines. Engine repair manuals sold...
This is the Repair Service Work Shop Manual for Ariens 939 Series Snowblower Sno-Thro Snow Thrower. This manual contains all the information you need to properly perform complex repairs on the entire machine, excluding engines. Engine repair manuals sold separately....