Legends of New York State
Author: Catherine Harris Ainsworth
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
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Legends of Pro Wrestling
Author: Tim Hornbaker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 1066
ISBN-13: 1613218753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegends of Pro Wrestling offers the first comprehensive look at the entire world of wrestling. With detailed biographies and never-before-seen statistics of some of the greatest athletes in the sport, you will be able to read about hundreds of wrestlers, dating back to the mid-1800s. As the first of its kind, this centralized reference book offers wrestling enthusiasts a range of information at their fingertips and stands alone as the ultimate wrestling resource. This book offers readers a link between what happened a century ago to what is currently happening today. An older fan of Bruno Sammartino or “The Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers can enjoy this book as much as someone who follows John Cena or The Undertaker today. This collection is a never-ending source of facts, figures, and other entertaining data. Professional wrestling is a world of accomplishment, legacy, and, most importantly, fate. Through injuries, sickness, and family tribulations, many wrestlers have given everything they have to give in the ring, and true fans of the sport love every single second of it. No matter your age, if you’re a fan of professional wrestling, Legends of Pro Wrestling is the book for you to own and cherish. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
The talkSPORT Book of Premier League Legends
Author: Bill Borrows
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1849839425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this wonderful celebration of all that is best about the world's greatest football league, talkSPORT has taken on the challenge of listing the 100 greatest Premiership legends. Featuring contributions from many of talkSPORT's presenters, including Alan Brazil, Darren Gough and Stan Collymore, the talkSPORT team has drawn up its definitive listing of Premiership stars. Of course, being talkSPORT, nothing is straightforward and the opinions are hotly debated. Some surprising names make into the list, while others are relegated to the bottom or even fail to appear at all. Who comes out on top: Gianfranco Zola or Alan Shearer? How do you decide who's in and who's out from 20 years of footballing genius? Each of the stars is fully profiled, with surprising and fascinating information revealed about all of them, and their individual ranking in the list is fully justified. In short, this book will not only provide great football memories of moments that won leagues, spared clubs from relegation, and drew stunned silence from watching crowds, but cause much controversy - just like talkSPORT itself.
Life and Legend of Bhagat Singh
Author: Chaman Lal
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Published:
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9354097413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography is based on authentic sources like Bhagat Singh’s own family’s writings, interviews with them and interviews of his comrades and other revolutionaries in archival records of credible institutions. Many biographies of Bhagat Singh have been published earlier also, but in writing this biography some new information and documents of his lifetime like certain newspaper coverages have been added in form of pictures.
The Encarta Book of Quotations
Author: Bill Swainson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-09-30
Total Pages: 1360
ISBN-13: 9780312230005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
The Legend of Dead Men Dwarf at Winsor Ruins
Author: Parker Chamberlain
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1466945923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParker Chamberlain; brings to his readers every Childs Secret wish, a treasure hunt set to a historical background of southern plantations; legends, and the oldest Plantation in Mississippi Winsor Ruins; this story has the flavor of Mark Twain's Huckel Berry Finn; a drop of Edgar Allen Poe's Darkness in Fiction. Parker Chamberlain in his author's word utilized Julia and David green a living examples that down line slave descendents have obtained A unique place in American Politics and the communities in the state of Mississippi. The honorable David Green was elected to the office of State Representative for District 96 and is a graduate of Al Corn State University, this university was established by the Mississippi Legislature in 1871 he is a first graduate from this university as a down line slave descendant to be elected to public office to service the community as from the very legislative body that chartered the first and largest black university in the history of the state of Mississippi since the civil war, this has never been possible before the 1963 and 1964 voting rights act was approved by John F. Kennedy and the congress of the united stated; these leaps and bounds, in social and political change that began with the emancipation proclamation form the 1800's thru the 1900's, brought political change and self realization to the Negros, that education was not just a dream, but a doorway that accessed the stair well to power in America; a clear message Unlocked by President Kennedy in the 1963 and 1964 Voting Rights Act, to young Black Americans that a turning point has been achieved. It began with 40 acres and a mule and has climaxed at the 44th president, a Black American; Barock-O-Bama, proof positive that America has reached her turning point. Envoked by Dr. Martin Luther King I Have a dream, America Experience not a Fiction, but a true story of his families American experience. Touched by the divine the Real Hunt For Treasure is Education, Political Activeness in The Communities of Our America.
Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings
Author: Steve Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-05-17
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 1442254491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording
Lenya, the Legend
Author: David Farneth
Publisher:
Published: 1998-09
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
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Polish-American Folktales
Author: Catherine Harris Ainsworth
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 124
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Author: Keith Thomson
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0316703621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England—perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God) The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become legends. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era—a story not given its full due until now. Inspired by the intrepid forays of pirate turned Jamaican governor Captain Henry Morgan—yes, that Captain Morgan—the company crosses Panama on foot, slashing its way through the Darien Isthmus, one of the thickest jungles on the planet, and liberating a native princess along the way. After reaching the South Sea, the buccaneers, primarily Englishmen, plunder the Spanish Main in a series of historic assaults, often prevailing against staggering odds and superior firepower. A collective shudder racks the western coastline of South America as the English pirates, waging a kind of proxy war against the Spaniards, gleefully undertake a brief reign over Pacific waters, marauding up and down the continent. With novelistic prose and a rip-roaring sense of adventure, Keith Thomson guides us through the pirates’ legendary two-year odyssey. We witness the buccaneers evading Indigenous tribes, Spanish conquistadors, and sometimes even their own English countrymen, all with the ever-present threat of the gallows for anyone captured. By fusing contemporaneous accounts with intensive research and previously unknown primary sources, Born to Be Hanged offers a rollicking account of one of the most astonishing pirate expeditions of all time.
