Florence Joseph Paul is a native New Yorker who has lived in Orange County, California for over thirty-nine years. She wrote about whatever interested her, for her own enjoyment for many years. In 1975 she showed an article on China(she and her husband with two others were practically the first visitors after President Nixon opened the doors to tourism in the Peoples Republic of China) to an editor, who published it in three parts for three days, in the newspaper. It was the first for her, and it gave her the confidence to continue to try to have material published. She became very successful, and has been published internationally in fifty-five magazines, plus many newspapers. To her credit she has also had two books published---He Never Pulled The Trigger, a bio on her late husband, as well as an Autobiography. Florence is a proud mother, grand-mother, and great grand-mother, award winner from the California Press Women, public speaker, free-lance writer, interviewer, and community activist. She is also the proud recipient of a bronze plaque in her name which stands in a linear park. Florence and Les, her late husband, have done a great deal of traveling, the entire world available to them. She has written a book I See The World which she has not as yet had published. She now travels by herself, to cover the areas she did not go to with Les. In a New York school, there is a large kitchen for the children to have their lunch, which everyone called Mrs. Pauls Kitchen, for the amount of effort it took on her part to have it made. When asked by the Board of Estimate representative why she wanted an enclosed kitchen built in such an old school, she replied, Sir, the school may be old, but our children are very young. She got the kitchen. All the articles Florence has written are nonfiction, but her new books are both fiction, one a sequel to the other. Leahs Dream is about the daughter of the woman Peg in Peg--- A Dream Betrayed. On the walls of her office, hang, along with awards, etc. permanized copies of letters from Queen Margarete of Denmark, and one from the King of Spain. Les had surprised her with the permanized framing. She has a wonderful family, not only her immediate, but also her extended family of friends and relatives. She is grateful to the public for her success. Florence J. Paul has been repeatedly told she is eternally youthful.
Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.
From the accounts of 18th-century travelers to the interpretations of 21st-century historians, Jumonville lists more than 6,800 books, chapters, articles, theses, dissertations, and government documents that describe the rich history of America's 18th state. Here are references to sources on the Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, Carnival, and Cajuns. Less-explored topics such as the rebellion of 1768, the changing roles of women, and civic development are also covered. It is a sweeping guide to the publications that best illuminate the land, the people, and the multifaceted history of the Pelican State. Arranged according to discipline and time period, chapters cover such topics as the environment, the Civil War and Reconstruction, social and cultural history, the people of Louisiana, local, parish, and sectional histories, and New Orleans. It also lists major historical sites and repositories of primary materials. As the only comprehensive bibliography of the secondary sources about the state, ^ILouisiana History^R is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers.
This fine piece of literature was written in the seventies. Florence rediscovered it, read it and wanting to bring her dream to fruition, is now offering this masterwork to the world. Florence imagines that this book will be a screen play. May you find pleasure in the story of a young woman's flight, as she takes you through the pages of this written word.
One story is about a girl that is attacked by a bear, but her life is saved by a ranger. Another is about a young woman who blames a doctor for carelessness; another is about a man and a woman who accidently meet after twenty years, he a judge and she an attorney, so each story is different than the other. You will have to read on to find out the other exciting stories.
Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China.
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