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Stinson Aircraft Company - John A. Bluth - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uQ9UkaAU7ioC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=Stinson+Aircraft&source=bl&ots=VCQ_tbEap9&sig=Me01slKQ7ld7TyuG
By the early 1920s, Eddie Stinson-a charismatic daredevil pilot-had become nationally known for his fearlessness and skill. In 1926, he and his close friend Bill Mara founded a company to design and manufacture airplanes that combined features then only…
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Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin - Pauline Fairclough - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=GLAODAAAQBAJ&pg=PT243&lpg=PT243&dq=Ashraf+Abbasov,&source=bl&ots=_uAdunuj2p&sig=hzaOjUX4v89K1LQ
Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship,…
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Dicaearchus of Messana: Text, Translation, and Discussion - William W. Fortenbaugh, Dicaearchus, Dicaearchus Messenius, Eckart Schütrumpf - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Ez17E-Wgv2QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dicaearchus&source=bl&ots=fIezNDmkYj&sig=wVCnv2_YMyndIqVSjUw
Dicaearchus of Messana (fl. c. 320 b.c.) was a peripatetic philosopher. Like Theophrastus of Eresus, he was a pupil of Aristotle. Dicaearchus's life is not well documented. There is no biography by Diogenes Laertius, and what the Suda offers is meager.…
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The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book - Raphael Patai - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=EUQABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA61&dq=marien-bad+jewish+bain-marie&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr4crK1YLaAhVD6aQKHX
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the…
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The Creative Artist's Legal Guide: Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in ... - William J. Seiter, Bill Seiter, Ellen Seiter - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=rwdODs6YACMC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=rick+rush+serigraph&source=bl&ots=e30KSu9d40&sig=yKhDLiFns4Rz
In today's complex media environment, aspiring filmmakers and new media artists are as vulnerable as swimmers in shark-infested waters. This user-friendly guide supplies creative artists with the essential legal concepts needed to swim safely with lawyers,…
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Historical Dictionary of Mali - Pascal James Imperato, Gavin H. Imperato - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zf6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA331&dq=Ti%C3%A9oul%C3%A9+Konat%C3%A9&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo1fmcnLfTAhWMalAK
Mali is currently the seventh largest country in Africa. It shares borders with Mauritania and Senegal in the west, Algeria in the north, Guinea and Ivory Coast in the south, and Burkina Faso and Niger in the east. After decades of dictatorship, in 1992, a…
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A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 - Sherry Lamb Schirmer - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=cFTxodD44OwC&pg=PA169&dq=Black+and+Tan++clubs+jazz+race&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TK9fT62RBMzCtAbp05SEBg&red
"A City Divided traces the development of white Kansas Citians' perceptions of race and examines the ways in which those perceptions shaped both the physical landscape of the city and the manner in which Kansas City was policed and governed. Because of…
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Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=q9eFckEQAMkC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=%22Miura+Ayako%22+1922&source=bl&ots=31IDwklzSs&sig=v8siCPqf0
Women have made many important contributions to Japanese literature since the Heian period (794-1192), when Murasaki Shikibu wrote her prose masterpiece, The Tale of Genji. Even earlier, though documentation is scant, women actively participated in…
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The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust - Karen Auerbach - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Km1iq8M3Lw8C&pg=PA101&dq=Undzer+veytik+un+undzer+treyst&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZoI3FwdjRAhXGbZo
The compelling history of ten Jewish families rebuilding their lives in Warsaw after the Holocaust—“amply illustrated . . . the book reverberates with hope” (Jewish Book Council). Warsaw, Poland, once described as the “Paris of the East,” had been…
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Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna - C. R. F. Maunder, Richard Maunder - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=XxDisZxtRBcC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=Johann+Dejobe+de+Moyse&source=bl&ots=o5XCYWSiDC&sig=-z9pJxih
Although eighteenth-century Viennese keyboard music, especially by such composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, is among the most popular ever written, there has been surprisingly little serious research into the instruments for which it was composed.…