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Historic Milwaukee Public Schoolhouses - Robert Tanzilo - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=eVF_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT139&lpg=PT139&dq=Charles+Quentin+Milwaukee&source=bl&ots=v_abmbnKJq&sig=p9M6z
It's no surprise we feel a connection to our schools, where we learn to read, write and forge social bonds of all kinds. They are potentially the scenes of our first crushes (and the second and third). They are where we learn to create ourselves. For more…
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Central City - Lola Roush Miller - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=rcaParHRSMIC&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=cumberland+%22Michael+Fesenmeier%22&source=bl&ots=cH2pwEQGV2&s
In 1893, a few businessmen purchased some land just west of Huntington, West Virginia, to develop a new community. Eventually, Central Cityas it was calledbustled with industry, thriving on the five major factories that became the nucleus of the small…
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Stories from the St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans - Sally Asher - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=vGxyCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=louisiana+%22lieutenant+governor%22+estopinal&source=bl&ots=
The tombs and graves of the St. Louis Cemeteries rise from the ground, creating labyrinthine memorials aptly dubbed "cities of the dead." Most are in even rows with quaint street names. Some are of crumbling brick and broken marble. Others are miniature…
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Legendary Locals of Forest Hills and Rego Park - Michael H. Perlman - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=3Uu6BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false
In 1906, Cord Meyer Development Company purchased 600 acres in Whitepot and renamed it Forest Hills after its high elevation of rolling hills and proximity to Forest Park. After the Russell Sage Foundation acquired 142 acres and Grosvenor Atterbury and…
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Kingman - Dan W. Messersmith - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ZOEVfHvwJM4C&pg=PT134#v=onepage&q&f=false
Kingman, county seat of Mohave County in northwestern Arizona, owes its beginning and subsequent prosperity to the building of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1882. The city was named for the projects chief engineer, Lewis Kingman. The initial…
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The Glorious Golden Ratio - Alfred S. Posamentier, Ingmar Lehmann - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Gw-lqvE6fNgC&pg=PT216
What exactly is the Golden Ratio? How was it discovered? Where is it found? These questions and more are thoroughly explained in this engaging tour of one of mathematics' most interesting phenomena. The authors trace the appearance of the Golden Ratio…
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Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District - Hannibal B. Johnson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=8KhpBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA120
In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsas historic African American community, the Greenwood District. This Negro Wall Street bustled with commercial activity. In 1921, jealously, land lust, and racism…
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Canastota and Chittenango: Two Historic Canal Towns - Lionel D. Wyld - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=FYlY49j7pXEC&pg=PT116
Canastota and Chittenango share a growth spawned by the building of the Erie Canal, the longest continuous canal in the world. These two upstate New York communities also share much in addition to their canal related background, for both have a history of…
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The Caucasus: An Introduction - Thomas de Waal - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=kZ1oAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
In this fascinating book, noted journalist Thomas de Waal--author of the highly acclaimed Black Garden--makes the case that while the Caucasus is often treated as a sub-plot in the history of Russia, or as a mere gateway to Asia, the five-day war in…
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Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany - Jonathan Petropoulos - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=EuU4PhMmt9kC&pg=PA111&dq=%22Prince+Raphael+von+Thurn+und+Taxis%22#v=onepage
Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in World War I and, like much of the German aristocracy, feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic.…