Gillespie and the Guards
Author: Benjamin Elkin
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 74
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Author: Benjamin Elkin
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe king offers a prize to anyone who can fool his sharp-sighted guards.
Author: Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-03-27
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1623560659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats�and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs�and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth�Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock �n' roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen�the misunderstood lyric�seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that's the title, too, of rock �n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation�and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 1032
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 1156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Danial F. Lisarelli
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 1999-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781581127836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive years ago, I was told that Union prisoners of war from the Civil War were buried in Hempstead, Texas. In being a descendent of six Union veterans of the Civil War, I was obligated to investigate. The story turned out to be true, but there was much more to it than what I bargained for.
Author: Paul Witty
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher D. Dishman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0806184507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, graduates of the U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterrey's ideal defensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call the city "a perfect Gibraltar." The first day of fighting was deadly for the Americans, especially the newly graduated West Point cadets. But they soon adjusted their tactics and began fighting building to building. Chris D. Dishman conveys in a vivid narrative the intensity and drama of the Battle of Monterrey, which marked the first time U.S. troops engaged in prolonged urban combat. Future Civil War generals and West Point graduates fought desperately alongside rough Texan, Mississippian, and Tennessean volunteers. General Taylor engineered one of the army's first wars of maneuver at Monterrey by sending the bulk of his troops against the weakest part of the city, and embedded press reporters wrote eyewitness accounts of the action for readers back in the States. Dishman interweaves descriptions of troop maneuvers and clashes between units using pistols and rifles with accounts of hand-to-hand combat involving edged weapons, stones, clubs, and bare hands. He brings regular soldiers and citizen volunteers to life in personal vignettes that draw on firsthand accounts from letters, diaries, and reports written by men on both sides. An epilogue carries the narrative thread to the conclusion of the war. Dishman has canvassed a wide range of Mexican and American sources and walked Monterrey's streets and battlefields. Accompanied by maps and period illustrations, this skillfully written history will interest scholars, history enthusiasts, and everyone who enjoys a true war story well told.
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Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
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Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9789712332876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathryn Gillespie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-11-12
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 022658285X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals—animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly benign practice of raising animals for milk is just one link in a chain that affects livestock across the agricultural spectrum. Gillespie takes readers to farms, auction yards, slaughterhouses, and even rendering plants to show how living cows become food. The result is an empathetic look at cows and our relationship with them, one that makes both their lives and their suffering real.
Author: Charles MacFarlane
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 698
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