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The True History of Cozumel is an impeccably researched iconoclastic account of the islands past that offers the reader accurate detailed information that often disproves the dross masquerading as history found in tourist guide books websites and the like By combing governmental archives privatelyheld rare documents and university microfilm collections Hajovsky is able to explain through the presentation of firsthand accounts just how interesting Cozumels history turns out to be Chapters in the book run the gamut from Pirates testimony obtained through torture in the cells of the Holy Inquisition The near annexation of Cozumel by the Republic of Texas in 1837 The role of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in the resettlement of the island in 1848 Abraham Lincolns attempt to buy Cozumel and use it as a colony to house freed black slaves The original Indiana Jones and his search for German spies on the island in WWI General López de Santa Anas role in developing the chewing gum fad that brought the island riches To talking crosses onearmed Christ statues parroteating boas and cannibalistic islanders
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A storytelling wonderstarred review Kirkus ReviewsA Publishers Weekly Flying StartFour starred reviewsLyndie B Hawkins loves history research and getting to the truth no matter what But when it comes to her family her knowledge is full of holes Like what happened to her father in the Vietnam War Where does he disappear to for days And why exactly did they have to move in with her grandparentsDetermined to mold recalcitrant Lyndie into a lady even if it kills her her fusspot grandmother starts with lesson number one FamilyLoyaltyKeeping quiet about family secrets Especially when it comes to Lyndies daddyThen DB a boy from the local juvenile detention center comes to stay with Lyndies best friend Dawn Hes as friendly and open as a puppy There to shape up his act he has an optimism thats infectious But when DB and Lyndie are paired for a school project about family history it puts Lyndie in direct opposition to her grandmothers rulesA oneofakind voice lights up this witty heartwarming debut about the power of homespun wisdom even when its wrong the clash between appearances and secrets the effects of PTSD and the barriers to getting help even when its needed most
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Joseph Carey Merrick born in England on August 5 1862 is better known as The Elephant Man Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenthcentury sensibilities could take no more Hounded persecuted and starving he ended up at Londons Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued housed and fed by the distinguished surgeon Frederick Treves To Treves surprise he discovered during the course of their friendship that lurking beneath the mass of Merricks corrupting flesh lived a spirit that was as courageous as it had been tortured and a nature as gentle and dignified as it had been deprived and tormented The subject of several books a Broadway hit and a film Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology Here in this fully revised edition containing new details are the true and unromantic facts of his life This is an extraordinary and moving story set among the brutal realities of the Victorian world telling of a tragic individual and his survival against overwhelming odds
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A beautifully writtenand illustrated history of the Food of the Gods from Olmecs to presentday developmentsChocolatier This delightful and bestselling tale of one of the worlds favorite foods draws upon botany archaeology and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate The story begins some 3000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree Theobroma Cacao and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as chocolate This was centuries before chocolate was consumed in generally unsweetened liquid form and used as currency by the Maya and the Aztecs after them The Spanish conquest of Central America introduced chocolate to Europe where it first became the drink of kings and aristocrats and then was popularized in coffeehouses Industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made chocolate a food for the masses and now in our own time it has become once again a luxury item The second edition draws on recent research and genetic analysis to update the information on the origins of the chocolate tree and early use by the Maya and others and there is a new section on the medical and nutritional benefits of chocolate 100 illustrations 15 in color
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This rugged new translationthe first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MSallows Diaz to recount in his own battleweary and often cynical voice the achievements stratagems and frequent cruelty of Hernando Cortes and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezumas Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New WorldThe concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins history and methods of the Spanish enterprise in the Americas it also discusses the nature of the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs in Mexico and compares Diazs version of events to those of other contemporary chroniclers Editorial glosses summarize omitted portions and substantial footnotes explain those terms names and cultural references in Diazs text that may be unfamiliar to modern readers A chronology of the Conquest is included as are a guide to major figures a select bibliography and three maps
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The True History of Cozumel is an impeccably researched iconoclastic account of the islands past that offers the reader accurate detailed information that often disproves the dross masquerading as history found in tourist guide books websites and the like By combing governmental archives privatelyheld rare documents and university microfilm collections Hajovsky is able to explain through the presentation of firsthand accounts just how interesting Cozumels history turns out to be Chapters in the book run the gamut from Pirates testimony obtained through torture in the cells of the Holy Inquisition The near annexation of Cozumel by the Republic of Texas in 1837 The role of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in the resettlement of the island in 1848 Abraham Lincolns attempt to buy Cozumel and use it as a colony to house freed black slaves The original Indiana Jones and his search for German spies on the island in WWI General López de Santa Anas role in developing the chewing gum fad that brought the island riches To talking crosses onearmed Christ statues parroteating boas and cannibalistic islanders
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A biographical and medical exploration of the tormented life of John Merrick a nineteenthcentury cripple who became the most famous professional freak in history
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In a dazzling act of ventriloquism Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave True History of the Kelly Gang is the song of Australia and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate menacing and heartwrenching Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan as Oedipus as horse thief farmer bushranger reformer bankrobber policekiller and finally as his countrys beloved Robin Hood
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Due to horrible physical deformities he spent much of his life as a fairground freak He was hounded persecuted and starving until his fortune changed and he was rescued housed and fed by the distinguished surgeon Frederick Treves The subject of several books a Broadway hit and a film Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology Here in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information are the true and unromanticized facts of his life
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This extraordinary eyewitness account by the young friend of John Surratt who was a boarder at Mary Surrats rooming house in Washington during the months when Mrs Surratt John Wilkes Booth and the others shaped their plot Weichmann then 22 saw the furtive meetings the midnight rides the strange happenings whose full and terrible meaning was to elude him until the fateful night at Fords Theater And in his astonishing manuscript Weichmann tells his story and defends his role as the chief Government witness against the conspirators in a military trial whose legality was dubious and whose findings created intense controversy After the trial many in Washington doubted Weichmanns testimony and some indeed believed that he may have gained immunity by turning states evidence against fellow conspirators Weichmann felt the public suspicion profoundly his entire life came to be dominated by the accident of his sojourn in the Surratt House and by what he witnessed there In this book answering his persecutors he relates the entire story as he would have like to have told it at the trial and as with his Victorian attitudes and his sense of mystery melodrama and selfjustification he was finally compelled to tell it A fascinating account whose extraordinary cast that includes John Wilkes Booth Mary E Surratt John H Surratt Michael OLaughlin Samuel Arnold George A Atzerodt Lewis Payne David E Herold Dr Samuel A Mudd Edward Spangler and Louis Weichmann himself Floyd E Risvold has annotated this manuscript which had been in Weichmanns family since his death in 1902 and has added an appendix of important hitherto unpublished material Weichmanns story now becomes part of the vast and accumulating historical data on one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes in American history
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A lively and beautifully illustrated history of one of the worlds favorite beverages and its uses through the ages Worldrenowned sinologist Victor H Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses from ancient times to the present from East to West For the first time in a popular history of tea the Chinese Japanese Tibetan and Mongolian annals have been thoroughly consulted and carefully sifted The resulting narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties from the tea ceremony politics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia and the arrival of the first European vessels in Far Eastern waters Through the centuries tea has inspired artists enhanced religious experience played a pivotal role in the emergence of world trade and triggered cataclysmic events that altered the course of humankind How did green tea become the national beverage of Morocco And who was the beautiful Emma Hart immortalized by George Romney in his painting The Teamaker of Edgware Road No other drink has touched the daily lives of so many people in so many different waysThe True History of Tea brings these disparate aspects together in an entertaining tale that combines solid scholarship with an eye for the quirky offbeat paths that tea has strayed upon during its long voyage It celebrates the common heritage of a beverage we have all come to love and plays a crucial part in the work of dismantling that obsolete dictum East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet 50 illustrations
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The True History of Cozumel is an impeccably researched iconoclastic account of the islands past that offers the reader accurate detailed information that often disproves the dross masquerading as history found in tourist guide books websites and the like By combing governmental archives privatelyheld rare documents and university microfilm collections Hajovsky is able to explain through the presentation of firsthand accounts just how interesting Cozumels history turns out to be Chapters in the book run the gamut from Pirates testimony obtained through torture in the cells of the Holy Inquisition The near annexation of Cozumel by the Republic of Texas in 1837 The role of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in the resettlement of the island in 1848 Abraham Lincolns attempt to buy Cozumel and use it as a colony to house freed black slaves The original Indiana Jones and his search for German spies on the island in WWI General López de Santa Anas role in developing the chewing gum fad that brought the island riches To talking crosses onearmed Christ statues parroteating boas and cannibalistic islanders
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The 49th North Carolina saw action as part of Ransoms Brigade It fought at Malvern Hill served in the North Carolinasouthern Virginia region and later participated in the 1864 siege of Petersburg Good details on the Battle of the Crater
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The True History Of Master Fard Muhammad Allah In Person By Elijah Muhammad Since the Nation of Islam has been known to the public the question of Elijah Muhammads teacher has been at the top of the inquirers want to know list His disappearance and the never ending insistence by Elijah Muhammad that his teacher was in fact God in person This title examines Elijah Muhammads historical empirical as well as theological positions regarding Master Fard Muhammads birth and whereabouts The arguments are quite enlightening Publication Date Nov 14 2008 ISBNEAN13 1884855784 9781884855788 Page Count 180 Binding Type US Trade Paper Trim Size 55 x 85 Language English Color Black and White Related Categories Biography amp Autobiography Religious
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts 1 We have not used OCROptical Character Recognition as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos 2 In books where there are images such as portraits maps sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images so they represent accurately the original artefact Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy
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Who was the historical Merlin Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniaenbsp But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known Merlin the historical figure and his relation to medieval magic are less familiar In this book Anne LawrenceMathers explores just who he was and what he has meant to BritainThe historical Merlin was no rough magician he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology cosmology prophecy and natural magic as well as being a seer and a protoalchemist His powers were convincingly realand useful for they helped to add credibility to the longlost history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public Merlins prophecies reassuringly foretold Britains path establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times Merlin helped to put British history into world historyLawrenceMathers also explores the meaning of Merlins magic across the centuries arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework Linking Merlins reality and power with the culture of the Middle Ages this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time
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Since the Nation of Islam has been known to the public the question of Elijah Muhammads teacher has been at the top of the inquirers want to know list His disappearance and the never ending insistence by Elijah Muhammad that his teacher was in fact God in person This title examines Elijah Muhammads historical empirical as well as theological positions regarding Master Fard Muhammads birth and whereabouts The arguments are quite enlightening
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This rugged new translationthe first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MSallows Diaz to recount in his own battleweary and often cynical voice the achievements stratagems and frequent cruelty of Hernando Cortes and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezumas Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New WorldThe concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins history and methods of the Spanish enterprise in the Americas it also discusses the nature of the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs in Mexico and compares Diazs version of events to those of other contemporary chroniclers Editorial glosses summarize omitted portions and substantial footnotes explain those terms names and cultural references in Diazs text that may be unfamiliar to modern readers A chronology of the Conquest is included as are a guide to major figures a select bibliography and three maps
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