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Author | : James A Magner MD |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2023-04-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 166574068X |
Martin Metzger is a German farmer who travels with his wife and eight children in 1846 to settle in mid-America. They are nearly trapped between the Mexican and United States armies in Texas. Based on actual events, the family travels from New Orleans up the Mississippi River by steamboat while gradually learning how to work and live in America where slavery exists in some states, multiple paper currencies circulate, opportunities abound, love beckons, and dangers lurk. The successes and challenges of three generations of the family in Illinois are chronicled (Martin, his son John, and his son Arthur), as national historical developments become entwined with events in the family. John is bright and draws the attention of prominent politicians, including Abraham Lincoln. John must decide how best to contribute to the Union’s war effort, and he becomes a wealthy businessman and co-founder and president of an insurance company. His son, Arthur, faces challenges growing up in the shadow of his illustrious father as he must navigate disruptive changes in the family and the Depression. In 1901, fifteen-year-old Eilish knows vital clues (left in the family Bible by her mother) to the location of a valuable treasure. Trusting no one, she must solve the clues to recover the treasure while avoiding violent criminals, resolving police suspicions about her, and completing her education at the University of Chicago. The saga of the Metzgers proves that truth may be stranger than fiction, while the tale of clever, kind Eilish illustrates the challenges faced by bright, young women in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Author | : Mason Crest Publishers |
Publisher | : Mason Crest Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | : 9781422225660 |
You won't get more over the top than these fantastic festivals, sensational stunts, and magnificent machines. Read about the incredible human towers at a festival in Spain, the couple that got married on biplanes, and the car in the shape of a fish!
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | : 9781422225608 |
Author | : James A. Magner |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-04-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781665740692 |
Martin Metzger is a German farmer who travels with his wife and eight children in 1846 to settle in mid-America. They are nearly trapped between the Mexican and United States armies in Texas. Based on actual events, the family travels from New Orleans up the Mississippi River by steamboat while gradually learning how to work and live in America where slavery exists in some states, multiple paper currencies circulate, opportunities abound, love beckons, and dangers lurk. The successes and challenges of three generations of the family in Illinois are chronicled (Martin, his son John, and his son Arthur), as national historical developments become entwined with events in the family. John is bright and draws the attention of prominent politicians, including Abraham Lincoln. John must decide how best to contribute to the Union's war effort, and he becomes a wealthy businessman and co-founder and president of an insurance company. His son, Arthur, faces challenges growing up in the shadow of his illustrious father as he must navigate disruptive changes in the family and the Depression. In 1901, fifteen-year-old Eilish knows vital clues (left in the family Bible by her mother) to the location of a valuable treasure. Trusting no one, she must solve the clues to recover the treasure while avoiding violent criminals, resolving police suspicions about her, and completing her education at the University of Chicago. The saga of the Metzgers proves that truth may be stranger than fiction, while the tale of clever, kind Eilish illustrates the challenges faced by bright, young women in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Author | : Philip Ball |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2014-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022621169X |
"Looking closely at the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Ball vividly brings to life the age when modern science began, a time that spans the lives of Galileo and Isaac Newton. In this entertaining and illuminating account of the rise of science as we know it, Ball tells of scientists both legendary and lesser known, from Copernicus and Kepler to Robert Boyle, as well as the inventions and technologies that were inspired by curiosity itself, such as the telescope and the microscope. The so-called Scientific Revolution is often told as a story of great geniuses illuminating the world with flashes of inspiration. But Curiosity reveals a more complex story, in which the liberation--and subsequent taming--of curiosity was linked to magic, religion, literature, travel, trade, and empire. Ball also asks what has become of curiosity today: how it functions in science, how it is spun and packaged for consumption, how well it is being sustained, and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may continue to ask"--OCLC
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Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
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Total Pages | : 1082 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : David Norman Mackay |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Clans |
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Author | : Josephus Nelson Larned |
Publisher | : Boston : Houghton, MIfflin and Company |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : John Henry Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521175036 |
A 1994 scholarly edition of a major Renaissance text linked with Marlowe's Dr Faustus.