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Author | : Joe Ralko |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2017-06-22 |
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ISBN | : 9781546969716 |
The scene on May 10, 1973, seemed like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster. In the town of Kenora, on the north shore of the Lake of the Woods near the Ontario-Manitoba border, a man was robbing a bank in the most bombastic way. Paul Higgins walked into the bank armed with a home-made bomb and Dead Man's Switch in his mouth to detonate it. If anyone were to shoot him and if he let go of the switch, he would blow himself up and take as many people with him as possible. The police were in a standoff. Was it worth the risk to shoot? Acclaimed journalist Joe Ralko has spent his entire life mulling over this case. It wasn't his career that put him on the trail of Paul Higgins-Joe was there! He was a curious high school student who watched the drama unfold from the street. He had a clear line of sight down the sidewalk as Higgins emerged from the bank fifty feet away. What happened next would go down in Canadian history. Ralko would become fascinated with every aspect of the case. It was only years later, after he had established himself as a writer and while recovering from his first battle with cancer, that he decided to finally tell the story.
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Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Author | : National Museum of Canada |
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Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Smithsonian Institution |
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Canada. National Parks Branch |
Publisher | : Department of the Interior |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Smithsonian Institution |
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Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Scientific expeditions |
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Author | : National Museum of Canada |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Brian Patton |
Publisher | : Summerthought Publishing |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780978237509 |
Author | : James W. Loewen |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620974932 |
A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.