Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia but on the other side of the mountains from the settled areas. As a young adult, Boone supplemented his farm income by hunting and trapping game, and selling their pelts in the fur market. Through this occupational interest, Boone first learned the easy routes to the area. Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775, Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky. There, he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 Americans migrated to Kentucky/Virginia by following the route marked by Boone. Boone was a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–83), which, in Kentucky, was fought primarily between the American settlers and the British-aided Indians. Boone was captured by Shawnee warriors in 1778. He escaped and alerted Boonesborough that the Shawnees were planning an attack. Although heavily outnumbered, Americans repelled the Shawnee warriors in the Siege of Boonesborough. Boone was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly, during the Revolutionary War, and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782. Blue Licks, a Shawnee victory over the Patriots, was one of the last battles of the Revolutionary War, coming after the main fighting ended in October 1781. Following the war, Boone worked as a surveyor and merchant, but fell deeply into debt through failed Kentucky land speculation.
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Joan of Arc was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if all that happened to her had not been told by people in a court of law, and written down by her deadly enemies, while she was still alive. She was burned to death when she was only nineteen: she was not seventeen when she first led the armies of France to victory, and delivered her country from the English. This book is fully illustrated and annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
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In this exhilarating sequel to the Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton's allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. And don't forget the dastardly machinations of Seaton's arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, who embarks on a nefarious mission of his own. Against such vile foes and impossible odds, how is victory possible?
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Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck was born at the manor-house of Schoenhausen, in the Mark of Brandenburg, on April 1, 1815. Just a month before, Napoleon had escaped from Elba; and, as the child lay in his cradle, the peasants of the village, who but half a year ago had returned from the great campaign in France, were once more called to arms. A few months passed by; again the King of Prussia returned at the head of his army; in the village churches the medals won at Waterloo were hung up by those of Grossbehren and Leipzig. One more victory had been added to the Prussian flags, and then a profound peace fell upon Europe; fifty years were to go by before a Prussian army again marched out to meet a foreign foe...
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Rebecca ist auf der Flucht - wegen eines Diebstahls, den sie begangen hat, um ihre Mutter vor dem sicheren Tod zu retten. In Italien schleicht sie sich als blinde Passagierin auf den Luxus-Liner "Victory". Ein nervenaufreibendes Abenteuer beginnt. Jeder Tag bringt neue Herausforderungen. Wohin wird sie die Reise ihres Lebens führen?
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Das Buch 70 Jahre Observatorium Hoher List beleuchtet in sieben Kapiteln die Gründung der Sternwarte Hoher List in der Eifel mit sechs Beobachtungstürmen in den 1950/60er Jahren und ihre Entwicklung. Die eindrucksvolle astronomische Instrumentierung umfasst einen Schmidtspiegel (Akania 1953), einen 106cm-Cassegrain-Nasmyth-Reflektor (Akania 1965), ein 60cm-Ritchey-Chrétien-Spiegelteleskop (1984), einen 30cm-Astrographen (Zeiss Jena 1968), den Schröder-Refraktor (1874) und den Doppelrefraktor (Repsold Hamburg, Steinheil München 1899). Die Herausgeberin stellt die Vorgeschichte, also die Bonner Sternwarte, dar. In diesem Kontext werden auch kurz der Astropeiler Stockert, das Radioteleskop Effelsberg und die Volkssternwarte Bonn thematisiert. Schließlich folgen noch Bemerkungen zu Denkmalschutz und Kulturerbe, u.a. die Bonner Sternwarte im Vergleich zu Quito, Kolumbien. Dr. Christoph Schmidt präsentiert die Erinnerungen an seinen Vater Hans Schmidt und die Entstehung des Observatoriums. Neben einem Lebenslauf gibt es auch eine sorgfältig zusammengestellte umfangreiche Liste der Veröffentlichungen und Vorträge; das gibt einen hervorragenden Einblick in das vielseitige Wirken von Hans Schmidt, einschließlich Astronomiegeschichte. Das Werk erscheint im Jahr seines 100. Geburtstages. Prof. Dr. Hans Schmidt (1920-2003) gab 1987 als langjähriger Direktor einen Überblick über die Gründung, die Instrumente und den wissenschaftlichen Erfolg. Der Weg zum Sternenpark Nationalpark Eifel wird von Dr. Andreas Hänel vorgestellt - die Anerkennung als Sternenpark Nationalpark Eifel (2019) von der International Dark Sky Association. Als Zukunft des Observatoriums stellt Prof. Dr. Ulrich Klein die Aktivitäten der Astronomischen Vereinigung Vulkaneifel am Hohen List e.V. (AVV) dar. Das Buch endet mit dem Beitrag von Dr. Bruno Nelles über die Sanierungs- und Restaurierungsaktivitäten sowie seine Vorstellungen über die Zukunft des Observatoriums, besonders für die Öffentlichkeit.
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Here, now fully updated for the twenty-first century, is the complex and fascinating history of the formation of the British Women Police. Full of drama, intrigue and humour, it also captures, through well-authenticated primary material, the colour and manner of the times. Remarkable women abound in this book, from the wealthy and eccentric Margaret Damer Dawson to the excitement-hungry ex-suffragette Mary Allen; and from the alluring but ill-starred Mrs Stanley to the tireless Mrs Peto. A few famous faces like Winston Churchill, Lady Astor and Adolf Hitler also feature, as does the women police's arch-enemy: the magistrate Frederick Mead. The pressure for the appointment of women police began well before World War I. Anti-white-slave traffic organizations felt they would help to stem the flow of prostitutes to and from Europe and suffragettes wanted them to ensure fairer treatment for women from the police and courts of law. But it was the Great War that gave them a launching pad for their battle. Early policewomen fought much public and police prejudice, wondering all the time how far to hold out for their ideals and how much to compromise for the sake of some official recognition; the eternal problem when breaking new ground. Their story, which was played out not only in the streets and courts of Great Britain and the House of Commons but in a defeated Germany and strife-torn 1920s Ireland, as well as in prohibition-era USA, ended in victory with their official integration into the force in the 1970s, but the battle did not end there, as our story shows...
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European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms. The memory of this greatest and most enduring victory ever won by a non-European society against the West still lives in the minds of millions of Arabs today. Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
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