Report
Report

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 1978

ISBN-13:

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Context Study of the United States Quartermaster General Standardized Plans, 1866 - 1942
Context Study of the United States Quartermaster General Standardized Plans, 1866 - 1942

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1997-11-01

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781423558965

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The Context Study of the United States Quartermaster General Standardized Plans 1866-1942 was developed to assist the Department of Defense in fulfilling its responsibilities as mandated under Army Regulation 200-4, the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Preservation Planning, and the guidelines of the National Register of Historic Places. The Quartermaster Corps constructed thousands of buildings, often using standardized plans throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Panama. These buildings can be divided into types such as transportation-related buildings (aircraft hangars, gas stations, motor pools, and other buildings and structures). Multiple copies of the same buildings were built from nearly-identical plans at numerous installations, some differing only in external decorative features. The purpose of this study is to provide written historic context statements for the use of installation managers in inventorying and evaluating cultural resources.

America's National Game
America's National Game

Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.

Yvain
Yvain

Author: Chretien de Troyes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1987-09-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0300187580

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The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.