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John Dee: The Life and Legacy of the English Occultist, Alchemist, and Philosopher Who Became Queen Elizabeth I's Spiritual Advi*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent." - John DeeWith the golden glow of the candlelight kissing his cheeks, he hovered over a spirit mirror, a flat, exquisitely lustrous "shew-stone" fashioned...
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Mysterious Polynesia: The Myths, Legends, and Mysteries of the Polynesians*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingTaking into account similarities of appearance, customs and languages spread across a vast region of scattered islands, it was obvious that the Polynesian race emerged from a single origin, and that origin Cook speculated was somewhere in the...
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The Catacombs of Rome and Paris: The History and Legacy of Europe's Most Famous Ossuaries*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingAn inexplicable draft of wind dances across the dirt floors of the narrow passageway, which seems to stretch on with no end. The flickering flames of the torches mounted onto the rough, sandpaper-like walls of stone create eerie...
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Oliver Winchester: The Life and Legacy of America's Famous Rifle Manufacturer*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliographyBy the time weapons industrialist Oliver Winchester was born, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sent to the Pacific by Thomas Jefferson had only recently returned with their report on the first overland continental journey. Outside of a small group of mountain...
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William Powell: The Life and Legacy of One of Early Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Actors*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"My first scene with Bill, a night shot on the back lot, happened before we'd even met. Woody was apparently too busy for introductions. My instructions were to run out of a building, through a crowd, and into...
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American Legends: The Life of Kim Novak*Includes pictures. *Includes Novak's own quotes about her life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people...
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Saqqara: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian Necropolis near Memphis*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later....
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Mining for Michigan: The History of Mining along the Great Lakes and the Upper Peninsula*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as the automobile industry is to the Lower. Centuries before the first white man set foot in the New World, local natives...
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The Suez Canal and Panama Canal: The Turbulent History of the Globe's Two Most Important Canals*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In 1831, a 26-year old French foreign service official by the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps was sent to Alexandria to serve as vice-consul. While undergoing an obligatory period of...
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La KGB: La historia y el legado de la notoria agencia de espionaje de la Unión SoviéticaLa KGB es una de las abreviaturas m s famosas del siglo XX, y se ha convertido en sin nimo de las tenebrosas y a menudo violentas acciones de la polic a secreta de la Uni n Sovi tica y de las agencias de...
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American Legends: The Life of the Kingfish, Huey Long*Includes pictures *Includes Long's own quotes about his career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "For the present you can just call me the Kingfish." - Huey Long, 1933 The late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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American Legends: The Life of Jayne Mansfield*Includes pictures. *Includes Mansfield's quotes about her own life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I don't know why you people like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot...
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Freddie Mercury*Includes pictures *Includes Freddie Mercury's own quotes about his life and Queen *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend." - Freddie Mercury "I like people to...
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Antiquity's Greatest Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle*Analyzes the controversies and mysteries surrounding Socrates' life and death, including the debate over his portrayal in Plato's Socratic dialogues. *Discusses the philosophers' writings about knowledge, logic, metaphysics, science, reason, Forms, political science, rhetoric and more. *Includes busts and other art depicting the philosophers...
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The Hagia Sophia: The History of the Famous Church and Mosque*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the construction of the Hagia Sophia and its appearance *Includes a bibliography for further reading "So the church has been made a spectacle of great beauty, stupendous to those who see it and altogether incredible to those who...
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The Cathars and Carcassonne: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Christian Group and Its Last Stronghold*Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The Roman Church... says] that the heretics they persecute are the church of wolves. But this is absurd, for the wolves have always pursued and killed the sheep, and today...
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The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Cold Harbor*Includes pictures of the battle's important generals. *Includes several maps of the battle. *Includes accounts of the fighting written by generals and soldiers. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "Every corpse I saw was as black as coal. It was not possible to remove...
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The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Actium*Explains the events that led up to the Battle of Actium, as well as the differences in the opposing navies and tactics. *Includes ancient accounts of the Battle of Actium. *Includes a comprehensive discussion of the facts and myths surrounding the battle. *Includes a...
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Jedediah Smith: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Mountain Man*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,000 living in the West. Their origins were disparate, although they included many Anglo-Americans. A...
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The Disappearance of Jean Spangler: The History of One of Hollywood's Most Enduring Unsolved Mysteries*Includes pictures *Profiles Spangler's life and looks at the theories and suspects regarding her disappearance *Includes online resources, footnotes, and a bibliography for further reading "Can't wait any longer, Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away,"...
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