Amazing Ashville: The Most Colorful Community in America
Amazing Ashville: The Most Colorful Community in America

Author: Bob Hines

Publisher: Reedy Press LLC

Published: 2020-03-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1681062526

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In the heart of the Buckeye State, nestled amongst the corn and soy bean fields lies one of the most colorful rural communities in the United States. In Amazing Ashville, you’ll find a guide to all the weird and wonderful aspects of this Ohio community unlike any other, just waiting for you to unearth its uncounted mysteries. Read countless true tales of small town lore, like the dog who voted Republican, the rooster that paid for his own meals, the egg laid by an artistic goose, or the coin collector who was served in a soup. This rural community is the home of the first automated highway tests, the world’s largest woman, and the original Spiderman. Local author Bob Hines takes you on a fascinating tour of the community he’s proud to call home. You may not have ever experienced Ashville’s unusual traffic light that has found its way into Guinness World Records, but with Amazing Ashville to lead you, you’ll want to stop by for much longer than it takes the light to change.

Killers Amidst Killers
Killers Amidst Killers

Author: Bill Jensen

Publisher: Post Hill Press

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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In Chase Darkness with Me, readers and listeners learned Billy Jensen's journalist origin story, his struggles, his call to adventure, and his first successes in solving murders. In Killers Amidst Killers, readers will ride shotgun with Jensen as he takes on serial killers who are walking among us and planning their next moves in real time. The facts are not in old police reports and faded photos. They unfold before our eyes on the page. Our story begins in 2017, when two young women, best friends Danielle and Lindsey go missing in Columbus, Ohio, within weeks of each other, and their bodies are found soon thereafter. As Jensen investigates Danielle and Lindsey's cases, he comes across other missing and murdered women, and before long, he uncovers eighteen of them. All unsolved. And no one was talking about it. These are not women who were raised in the street. They got hooked on pills. The pills were taken away. They get hooked on heroin. And when the money is gone, they have to sell themselves. It happens very quick. Through his investigations and the help of experts, Jensen identifies serial killers in Cleveland and Columbus. Why there? Because it's easy. Sharks go where the swimmers are. Serial killers go where the easy prey are: Ground zero of the opioid epidemic. The heart of America. That is what happened to Danielle and Lindsey. But serial killers murdering sex workers in the 21st century will get 45 seconds on the local news, and page 3 in the local paper, and then can disappear in the wind.

The Best 380 Colleges 2016
The Best 380 Colleges 2016

Author: Robert Franek

Publisher: Princeton Review

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13: 0804126305

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A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in sixty-two different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.

Asheville
Asheville

Author: Douglas Stuart McDaniel

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780738516196

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Native American tribes, including Cherokee, Creek, and Shawano, passed through Asheville and Western North Carolina, building towns and villages along the banks of the Swannanoa and French Broad Rivers for more than 1,000 years. The first white settlers arrived in the Swannanoa Valley in October of 1784. After the Civil War, Asheville became a haven for the wealthy elite of Charleston and Philadelphia; as the resort era blossomed, so too did Asheville. Second only to Miami in its treasure trove of Art Deco landmarks, Asheville is an architectural and historical time capsule of national significance. It is a community with a rich heritage and history in the arts, including textiles, pottery, and modernist art. Today Asheville is at a crossroads; attempting to balance the environmental and natural attractions of the area with commercial development is and will be one of Asheville's greatest challenges.

The Life of Madie Hall Xuma
The Life of Madie Hall Xuma

Author: Wanda A. Hendricks

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2022-10-25

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0252053575

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Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women’s League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma’s life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women’s activism, and of South Africa and the United States.

Congressional Record
Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 1238

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)