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Harvey Richards began using a camera in the 1950s when he was in his mid-forties. He became a photographer after years of working as a machinist in the San Francisco shipyards, and as a merchant seaman sailing the Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean seas. Before moving to San Francisco in 1940, Richards also worked as a union organizer in Philadelphia and Boston. His photography began with a 35-millimeter still camera and a radical worker's awareness...
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#1 The Industrial Revolution, which was a process of denaturalization, began in the last third of the eighteenth century. The abolition of live workmanship by the division of labor corresponded in terms of materials and energies to the emancipation from the boundaries of nature which occurs when natural materials and energies are replaced by mineral or synthetic ones.
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Esta obra explora temas que se alejan de los hitos ya conocidos por muchos sobre la importancia de la Universidad del Rosario en la historia del país, y parte de ámbitos como las artes plásticas, la literatura, el periodismo, la cultura y la educación para dar cuenta de la participación de egresados rosaristas en dichas áreas y, de esta manera, mostrar que la oferta educativa del Rosario está a la vanguardia de la enseñanza, es amplia y permite...
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#1 Josephine Butler was a famous woman in England who had spoken out against the laws that governed prostitution. She was threatened and attacked by members of Parliament, her family, and even the mob.
#2 The debate over prostitution was raging in England in the 1870s. On the one side was the regulationist side, which believed that prostitution should be regulated to...
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Compiled a century ago, when the wildness of the American West was still a living memory, these tales chronicle the rugged lives and audacious crimes of bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and other desperadoes. Recounted mainly by the outlaws themselves along with eyewitnesses to their deeds, the stories profile Billy the Kid, Frank and Jesse James, the Dalton Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, and other legendary figures of the era. In...
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Book Preview: #1 The author was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement by a man who said he had invented an electronic machine that sharpened blunt razor blades. The author was suspicious, but he was curious to hear the man's story.
#2 The Stone Age was a time when metal was extremely rare and highly valued, since the only sources of it were copper and gold, which occur naturally...
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#1 Robert Smalls was a enslaved man who was planning on escaping slavery with his family. He had been planning this for years, and his chance came when he was assigned to the Planter, a Confederate steamer.
#2 The Planter was a coastal steamer used to transport personnel, ordinance, and supplies between various locations in and around the harbor. It was docked at Charleston's Southern...
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.' — Abraham Lincoln Is the story of the United States that of George Washington, John Adams and Barack Obama? Or of slave rebel Nat Turner, of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King? Or Sitting Bull and Al Capone? Or Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and OJ Simpson? Of course, it is the story of all these, of both civil war and world...
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#1 In the summer of 2008, a thunderstorm hit the small town of Prescott, Arizona, and drenched the thirsty pines, scrub oak, and manzanita. It was a emotional cleansing for the Kennedy family, who were finally starting to get along again.
#2 Carol was a gentle, loving and openhearted soul. She was a devoted mother and therapist, and she taught courses such as Yoga...
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#1 In 1797, a boarding party from the British frigate the HMS Rose went searching for four Marblehead sailors who had hidden themselves in the forepeak, a small space near the main hold. When they refused to yield, the British lieutenant attempted to push them around. One of the Marbleheaders stabbed him in the neck with a harpoon, and he died soon after.
#2 John Adams,...
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#1 The negotiator had to establish trust with the suspect. He had to make him believe that everything was going to be okay, even though he knew that the FBI was prepared to take down the suspect at any moment.
#2 Charlie and his family went into the woods again on Saturday, April 2. Charlie built a simple lean-to. They made their way to a nearby country store, where...
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#1 The American Revolution is a permanent revolution, a constant eviction of all elements foreign to the American essence. Anything that stands in the way of this invention is not American.
#2 The drive west was a period of relative theological calm in the first few decades of the 1700s. But then came the Great Awakening in the 1730s, and hectoring jeremiads once again...
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#1For over two hundred and fifty years, Europeans knew of the Pacific, but knew nothing about it. In September 1513, the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama, sighting the sea from high ground.
#2 The Spanish showed little interest in the Chamorro people, but a different traveler, William Dampier, was interested in their...
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#1 Following the deportation of Marcus Garvey, the Black Star Line, and the Great Migration, black nationalism did not so much decline as it transformed into diminished versions of the movement.
#2 Earl and Louise's shared love for social justice drew them to an itinerant lifestyle that was only predictable by the frequency of childbirth and relocation. Their political activism in...
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Nacido hace 51 años, curiosamente un 15 de setiembre de 1963 (día de la celebración de la independencia de Costa Rica) y siete meses después de que el volcán Irazú entrara en erupción en ese mismo año, pareciera no ser casualidad que en la personalidad y formación Giovanni Peraldo Huertas, profesor universitario y, en mi caso entrañable amigo, hermano y colega, se conjugaran desde su nacimiento, las disciplinas que han marcado su desarrollo...
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#1 The war worked to radicalize and arm paramilitary groups in the post–Vietnam War period. It brought racism, military training, weapons proficiency, and a readiness to continue fighting home with many veterans.
#2 The Vietnam War was also distinct from other wars in that it was a conflict with a local, civil conflict and an enemy comprised of highly motivated...
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#1 The end of American slavery was a process that took decades to complete. It began at the war's outset when slaves, eager to seize the opportunity presented by the presence of northern armies, began to seek refuge behind Union lines. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, was the crucial step in the process.
#2 Lincoln was not an abolitionist,...
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#1 Susanna's ordeal began when the group was attacked by the Abenakis. She was taken captive with her children, who were crying at a distance where they were held by their masters. She was pregnant, and soon after her daughter was born, she began having pains. The group proceeded on its way.
#2 The Abenakis brought Susanna to Fort St Frédéric, or Crown Point, at the...
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