Oil, Money, Murder and the birth of the FBI. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team ... |
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George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world, containing over 400,000 images and negatives - among them the work of such masters as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams. Home also to 23,000 cinema ... |
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The United States in the 1950s and 60 s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings. But above the angry noise came the voice of one man - a man of peace. "I have a dream", said Martin Luther King, and it was a dream of blacks and whites living together in peace and freedom. This is the story of an extraordinary man, who changed American history in his short life. Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford Bookworms Library available ... |
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This is the Taschen 25 - Special edition! The Case Study House program (1945 - 66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was "Arts & Architecture" editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Six stories about a world we cannot explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father's history. An Irish-American family cannot escape someone from the past. A woman doesn't listen to warnings about an old tree. An English writer slowly becomes more and more Japanese. And a killer watches himself die in hospital. ... |
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A #1 "New York Times" bestseller and one of "Time Magazine's" best novels of all time. Illustrated by Dave Gibbons. ... In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the cold war is in full effect. "Watchmen" begins as a murder-mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the resolution comes to a head, the unlikely group of reunited heroes - Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias - have to test the limits of their convictions and ask themselves ... |
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Надникнете зад вратата на местната ви масонска ложа. Кои са масоните? Списъкът включва поне четиринадесет американски президента, петима английски крале, прочути бизнесмени и актьори, и вероятно някои от членовете на семейството, съседите или колегите ви. Дори с толкова много масони в историческите книги и ежедневието ни, обществото остава забулено в тайна за тези, които не принадлежат към него. Тази книга помага да се демистифицират ритуалите, правилата и символите на една организация с вековна история. Тя е идеален указател за всеки, който се интересува от присъединяване към ложа или е просто любопитен за какво се ... |
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Editor: Roxane Gay, author of "Difficult women". ... "I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed", writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to "The Best American Short Stories 2018", "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world." The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a ... |
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Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse-unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more ... |
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A Century of Practical Magic. A dive into the world of movie make-up effects, along with a treasure trove of hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs from the private collections of the greatest practitioners of the art. Dive into the fascinating world of movie make-up effects with this stunning illustrated oral history of the art form. Masters of Make-Up Effects is a celebration of make-up artists and acclaimed make-up effects from the world of film and television. Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius have gleaned untold stories from the sets of cult classics (Planet of the Apes, An American Werewolf in London, ... |
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The book is concerned with the history of the Protestant missions in Bulgaria, their evangelistic, educational and literary activities, and offers a case study of a particular Czech-speaking Protestant community in north-western Bulgaria. The history of the Protestant mission is followed since its establishment in the 19th century in the territory of the Ottoman Empire to the foundation of Congregationalist and Methodist missions in southern and northern Bulgaria respectively. The role of American missionaries and linguists such as Albert Long and Elias Riggs in the translation of the Bible into modern Bulgarian is ... |
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The International symposium dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of Sofia University and the 50th Anniversary of the Commencement of the European Economic Community was organized by the Department of Logic, Ethics, and Aesthetics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia, and the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Sofia. It was held at the SU main campus on 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., known as the Rectorate, on September 23-25, 2008 as the news of the bizarre and troubling financial crisis poured in from all sides. The conference organizers observed that since the last two ... |
