Books written by Benjamin F. Shearer
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State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols: A Historical Guide
... 312 , 320 Garrett , Elizabeth , 203 Gavia immer , 181 Gebhardt , Dixie Cornell , 79 Gem of the Mountains ( Idaho ) ... King of England , 5 , 198 George B. Post and Sons ( architects ) , 122 Georgia : atlas , 313 ; bird , 175-76 ...
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Home Front Heroes [Three Volumes]
Ginsberg, Allen William Burroughs in Mexico City. Burroughs was gone, but they spent time with his girlfriend, Joan Vollmer. On his way back, he learned that Burroughs had accidentally killed Joan when attempting to shoot a glass off ...
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Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary
Presents biographial essays on ninety-seven women scientists who have contributed to the life sciences from antiquity to the present
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State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols: A Historical Guide
This must-have third revised and newly expanded edition of the only single reference source for information about state symbols features over 300 information updates plus three new chapters, updated license...
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The Uniting States: Louisiana to Ohio
5. William S. Powell , North Carolina through Four Centuries ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1991 ) , PP . 161-163 . 6. North Carolina Gazette , November 20 , 1765 , February 16 , 1766 , reprinted in Hugh Talmage ...
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Culture and Customs of the United States [2 volumes]
The Southwest and West In the Southwest and on into the southern West Coast, Spanish influence, mixed with native and Mexican, has created a special regional cuisine. Southwestern cuisine's basic ingredients are corn, chiles, beans, ...
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Culture and Customs of the United States
Four very different major cities dominate the Mid - Atlantic states , three of them — New York City , Philadelphia ... The city gave birth to America's film industry , and it remains the cultural capital of American theater , fashion ...
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Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime
Cushing , Harvey Williams Continuing on his success with the navy , Curtiss began work on flying boats . ... submarine aircraft , the NavyCurtiss ( NC ) series was developed for the war to protect American shipping in the Atlantic .
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Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime
Robertson , James ROBERTSON , JAMES ( 1742-1814 ) a James Robertson , the " Father of Tennessee " and founder of Nashville , was born in Brunswick County , Virginia , on June 28 , 1742 , to John and Mary Gower Robertson .
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Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary
Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the...
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The Uniting States: Alabama to Kentucky
Harrison, Kentucky's Road to Statehood, pp. 67-72; Watlington, Partisan Spirit, pp. 175-182. 39. Quoted in Hazel Dicken-Garcia, To Western Woods: The Breckinridge Family Moves to Kentucky in 1793 (London: Associated University Presses, ...
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Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime
Though the horrors of war were very real to Hornberger , causing him to later coin the phrases " meatball surgery " and " par surgery , " which summed up the brusque yet effective lifesaving techniques practiced in the field , he was ...
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State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols: A Historical Guide
A reference source for information about state symbols, featuring chapters on official state and territory names and nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, capitols, flowers, trees, birds, songs, and miscellaneous designations. This...
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Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime
Presents the lives and accomplishments of over a thousand Americans who were involved in the country's wars from the Revolutionary War to the present, including photographer Ansel Adams, nurse Dorothea Dix, and actor Danny Glover.
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The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States
The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States Benjamin F. Shearer ... Along with Barbara Shearer he is co - author of State Names , Seals , Flags , and Symbols , third edition ( Greenwood Press , 2002 ) , Notable Women in the ...
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State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols: A Historical Guide
... Facts , " www.fau.edu/academic/iea/inst/facts . 53. Personal e - mail correspondence from Ka- trina McCormack , 3/4 ... hawaii.edu/tradition . 79. Personal e - mail correspondence from Gwen Nakamura , 4/20/00 . 80. " About Idaho State ...