Vanished Houston Landmarks
Vanished Houston Landmarks

Author: Mark Lardas

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1467142816

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Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of sprawling past that includes a frontier port, a moon landing and a supermarket that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union. In fact, there is so much history that much has been forgotten. Visit the landmarks of that neglected heritage, from the Cotton Exchange to Astroworld. Dropping in on legendary spots like Shamrock and Gilley's Club, Mark Lardas tells the stories of a Houston that has largely disappeared from the public eye.

Vanished Houston Landmarks
Vanished Houston Landmarks

Author: Mark Lardas

Publisher: History Press Library Editions

Published: 2020-02-24

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781540241962

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Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of sprawling past that includes a frontier port, a moon landing and a supermarket that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union. In fact, there is so much his

Vanished
Vanished

Author: Kristi Holl

Publisher: Zonderkidz

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0310399637

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Lonely and a long way from her Iowa home, twelve-year-old Jeri McKane reacts to boarding school the way most middle schoolers would. Even with close friends, she wonders whether her scholarship to prestigious Landmark School was worth it. She’s tempted to give up when her Mom can’t make parents’ weekend, and the school bus carrying her roommate, Rosa, disappears. But this reporter for the sixth-grade newspaper has an eye like Nancy Drew and more faith and courage than she realizes. Jeri solves the mystery—and makes landmark decisions to trust God and his Word through circumstances and feelings that don’t make sense.

Museum of the Missing
Museum of the Missing

Author: Simon Houpt

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781402728297

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Where No Man Has Gone Before
Where No Man Has Gone Before

Author: William David Compton

Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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When the crew of Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969, Americans hailed the successful completion of the most complex technological undertaking of the 20th century: landing humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth. This document records the engineering and scientific accomplishments of the people who made lunar exploration possible. It shows how scientists and engineers worked out their differences and conducted a program that was a major contribution to science as well as a stunning engineering accomplishment.

Lost Dallas
Lost Dallas

Author: Mark Doty

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738585084

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Although founded in 1841, Dallas did not experience significant growth until 1873 when the Texas and Pacific (T&P) Railroad crossed the Houston and Texas Central Railroad (H&TC) near downtown. Securing these railroads led to a prolific building boom that has never fully ended, even during the Great Depression and subsequent world wars. Dallas's ability to sustain growth and development as a banking and commercial center led to the demolition of much of the early built environment, a trend that continues even today. Lost Dallas explores and documents those buildings, neighborhoods, and places that have been lost and even forgotten since the city's modest antebellum beginning.

The 1913 McKinney Store Collapse
The 1913 McKinney Store Collapse

Author: Carol O'Keefe Wilson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018-07-02

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1439664501

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A powerful vibration, a deafening noise and a swell of thick dust brought residents of McKinney pouring into the public square on the afternoon of January 23, 1913. What they saw was horrifying--an entire building had collapsed, demolishing two popular retailers, the Cheeves Mississippi Store and Tingle Implement Store. Their contents, including many shoppers and clerks, spilled out into the streets, where layer upon layer of debris settled into a massive, ragged pile. In spite of a herculean rescue effort, eight people perished. Carol Wilson sifts through the disaster and its aftermath, dredging up some troubling facts about how the tragedy might have been prevented.

The Anonymous Signal
The Anonymous Signal

Author: Erec Stebbins

Publisher: Twice Pi Press

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1942360231

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"STEBBINS IS THE MASTER OF THE THINKING READER'S TECHNO THRILLER" -Internet Review of Books No Forgiveness. No Forgetting. Expect It. The global financial system is in chaos. World leaders have been compromised. An unstoppable computer virus eats through the Internet. Join an elite team of FBI and CIA agents, and the shadowy figures they must work with, as they try to stop a global catastrophe and act of digital terrorism unlike anything ever witnessed. Can they stop the virus devouring the world's digital mind before it releases The Anonymous Signal? "Hang on tight for this one" -Tome Tender"A thrilling and frightening story" -Portland Book Review "Excellent, detailed plot, and clever storytelling" -San Francisco Book Review Book three in the INTEL 1 novels followed by The Nash Criterion.