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Montana Territory and the Civil War

A Frontier Forged on the Battlefield

By: Ken Robison

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Montana Territory and the Civil War

A Frontier Forged on the Battlefield

By: Ken Robison

A compelling portrait of how the passions of the Civil War played out among gold miners in the remote mountains of the West. In 1862, gold discoveries brought thousands of miners to camps along Grasshopper Creek—and by 1864, the Federal government had carved the Montana Territory out of the existing Idaho and Dakota Territories. Gold from Montana Territory fueled the Union war effort, yet loyalties were mixed among the miners. In this compelling collection of stories, historian Ken Robison illustrates how Southern sympathizers and Union loyalists, deserters and veterans, freed slaves and former slaveholders living side by side made a volatile and vibrant mix that molded Montana. Discover how fiery personalities like Union Colonel Sidney Edgerton and General Thomas Francis Meagher fought to keep order in the newly formed frontier, while brave Confederate and Union veterans and their hardy families created an enduring legacy that helped shape modern Montana.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625846304

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9781625846303

Kwacha

By: Ken Swan

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Kwacha

By: Ken Swan

England, 1958: Young Higgs is a hard-working motorcycle mechanic in Milton-Keynes. The entire country is generally cold and damp. There’s got to be more out there for a man with his ambition. The future looks grey. Until he picks up the paper over a pint one night in The Carrington Arms. The Northern Rhodesia Police Force (NRP) needs men now. A phone call, some paperwork, and a few handshakes later, Higgs is aboard the R.M.M.V. Carnarvon Castle bound for Cape Town. The next three years see this handsome young ladies’ man get to grips with British law enforcement on the African continent; a rather different affair to the bobby-on-the-beat procedures of home. Cue hilarity, horror, and harrowing tragedy as Higgs builds a life of remarkable proportions as an officer of the Northern Rhodesia Police Force. Based on the true lives and stories of original NRP officers, Kwacha is both a fun-filled tale and an important historical document that captures and preserves a world order fast fading from living memory.

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FriesenPress

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1525517090

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9781525517099

Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems

By: Ken E. Giller

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Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems

By: Ken E. Giller

The second edition of this book, first published in 1991 and intended for students and researchers, contains revised and updated material on the theory and practice of nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems. There are 15 chapters in 3 parts. Part I, Introduction, contains 5 chapters on tropical environments (climate, soils and cropping systems), nitrogen fixing organisms, the process of nitrogen fixation, assessment of the role of nitrogen fixation, and cycling of nitrogen in tropical cropping systems. Part II, Tropical crops and cropping systems, comprises 7 chapters on freeliving, root-associated and endophytic nitrogen fixing bacteria of cereal crops and grasses, cyanobacteria and Azolla as green manure for wetland rice, grain legumes, legumes as green manures and cover crops, forage legumes, understorey legumes and shade trees in plantation crops, and nitrogen fixing trees in agroforestry. Part III, optimizing nitrogen fixation, includes 3 chapters on environmental constraints, approaches to enhancement, and future impacts on nitrogen fixation in tropical agriculture. A list of common names and subject index are included.

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CABI

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0851994172

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9780851994178

Nearly Always

By: Ken McCoy

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Nearly Always

By: Ken McCoy

Lucy Bailey is not a girl to take no for an answer. When she asks her friend Billy Wellington to help her rescue a stray dog, she has no idea of the potential repercussions. A serious crime is committed while Billy is absent from the children's home where he lives and, when suspicion falls on him, the police decide that the safest thing for everybody is to lock him away in a mental institution. Lucy refuses to believe that Billy has done anything wrong, and enlists her cool-headed teenage brother Arnold to help. DI Daniel Earnshawe, who has his own doubts about the police's conclusions, turns out to be unexpectedly helpful, and Billy has someone else on his side too: Helen Durkin, a beautiful, damaged girl who has been seeking to make amends for her past. With so many daring and resourceful people battling on his behalf, it looks as though Billy's freedom will soon be won - before an unexpected development sees Arnold too fall foul of the law. Refusing to give up hope of winning freedom for them, Lucy chases up the few remaining clues while Daniel and Helen resort to an alternative form of justice . . .

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Piatkus

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0349410240

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9780349410241

Silent Mystery and Detective Movies

A Comprehensive Filmography

By: Ken Wlaschin

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Silent Mystery and Detective Movies

A Comprehensive Filmography

By: Ken Wlaschin

The silent film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning to theaters week after week. Icons such as Douglas Fairbanks, Laurel and Hardy, Lon Chaney and Harry Houdini were among those who graced the dark and shadowy screen. This reference guide to silent films with mystery and detective content lists more than 1,500 titles in one of entertainment's most popular and enduring genres. While most of the films examined are from North America, mystery films from around the world are included.

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McFarland

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0786454296

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9780786454297

Luck!

By: Ken Smith

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Luck!

By: Ken Smith

In 1865, two boys stole a locked iron box from the empty Springfield home of Abraham Lincoln, not suspecting that it would be one hundred thirty-seven years before anyone discovered what it contained. In 2002, Springfield, Illinois engineer Rob Voyles found that the box concealed a cache of ancient Spanish silver that would lead him on a long and ultimately deadly path from the deserts of Arizona and Baja to the MIT campus and on to the Florida Everglades.

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Lulu.com

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1257752138

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9781257752133

The Nesters

By: Ken Robinson

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The Nesters

By: Ken Robinson

In a high-rise apartment block, tenants must deal with a nightmarish and unusual infestation. Little do they know, their fates would become intertwined. It starts with a bite followed by the sensation of something literally crawling under their skins. The sneezing comes next, the evacuating of a silk-like substance emerging through every orifice. Then comes the tiny black spiders with the small venomous fangs and with a unified, hive-minded purpose. It's soon revealed that the humans are mere vectors for the sole intent of bringing sustenance in the form of human flesh and blood to the brood mother, slowly growing larger and stronger within the building’s boiler room. Prepare yourselves for an arachnophobia experience the likes of which will scare you senseless!

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Black Bed Sheet Books

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1946874477

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9781946874474

Country Music

An Illustrated History

By: Dayton Duncan,Ken Burns

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Country Music

An Illustrated History

By: Dayton Duncan,Ken Burns

The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.

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Knopf

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0525520546

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9780525520542

Assault on Sicily

Monty and Patton at War

By: Ken Ford

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Assault on Sicily

Monty and Patton at War

By: Ken Ford

On the night of 9/10 July 1943, an Allied armada of 2,590 vessels launched one of the largest combined operations of the Second World War - the invasion of Sicily, Operation 'Husky'. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million British, Canadian, American and French soldiers, sailors, and airmen grappled with their German and Italian counterparts for control of this rocky outcrop of Hitler's 'Fortress Europe'. The Allied assault on Sicily featured airborne and amphibious landings; mountain warfare; international rivalry; poorly performing troops; tenacious German resistance; and, improvements in tactical air support and the ultimate Allied victory on the island. Almost the whole of the progress of the Second World War is illustrated by this one campaign. It was the only action where the whole Allied war effort was brought to bear on a single objective, with one army commanded by Patton and one army commanded by Montgomery. Both men were insufferable egoists and insubordinate commanders; they always chose to do their own thing, regardless of others' sensibilities and always with one eye on how history would see them.The seeds of rivalry between these two key Allied commanders that were sown in the Sicily campaign eventually grew to fruition in the battles for Normandy and the Ardennes.

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The History Press

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075249595X

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9780752495958

The Big Dance

The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

By: Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport

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The Big Dance

The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

By: Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport

Covered by four networks, allowing every game to be televised, “March Madness” has become an American phenomenon as anticipated as the Super Bowl. This is the story of the tournament from its beginnings seventy-three years ago as just an eight-team “bracket” to today’s sixty-eight-team format. From the “Cinderella” teams like Butler and Gonzaga to perennial powerhouses such as UCLA and Kentucky, covering buzzer-beaters, upsets, and dynasties, the story of one of the most-followed sporting events in history is comprehensively told here.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589796225

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9781589796225

In the Crosshairs of Deception

By: Ken Reamy

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In the Crosshairs of Deception

By: Ken Reamy

A young woman has disappeared and her fiancé believes she is being held against her will by a fanatical religious cult and its hypnotic leader. He enlists the help of a friend to rescue her from the cult before certain catastrophe occurs. The two men race against time and evil as the deadline nears for a prophecy of doom that they fear might mean they'll never see her again. God's power and grace, coupled with steeled determination, protect these men as they dodge the Crosshairs of Deception. Ken Reamy is a minister, evangelist and former pastor. He is a contributing columnist for the Trinidad Times-Independent and the Raton Range. He lives in Trinidad, Colorado.

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Xulon Press

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1606472399

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9781606472392

Constructing Civil Liberties

Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law

By: Ken I. Kersch

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Constructing Civil Liberties

Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law

By: Ken I. Kersch

This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521010551

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9780521010559

At the Grammys!

Behind the Scenes at Music's Biggest Night

By: Ken Ehrlich

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At the Grammys!

Behind the Scenes at Music's Biggest Night

By: Ken Ehrlich

As the producer of the Grammy Awards show, author Ken Ehrlich has seen it all. From Barbra Streisand to Bono, he has dealt with every major super-talent in music, making key decisions, solving problems, and putting on the most spectacular awards ceremonies in the history of television. For the first time he tells his story - the best and the worst of the rock stars, the divas, and the flash in the pans; the tear-jerkers and heartbreakers; the near-disasters; and of course the wild successes that are all part of Music's Biggest Night.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1423430735

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9781423430735

Hunter's Moon

By: Ken Gilland

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Hunter's Moon

By: Ken Gilland

Whats the worst thing that can happen to a scientist? For Adam Boone, it was to see something that defied scientific explanation. When he was in high school, one of friends vanished during an autumn hailstorm in a flash of light; an event only he saw. Unable to explain what happened, he lied to the authorities investigating the disappearance. Already mistrusted as an outsider in his own home town, the incident caused him and the other friends who were on the hill that night to be shunned by his neighbors. Adam left Milltown, North Carolina after high school graduation, attended college and achieved his dream of becoming an archaeologist. After a near-fatal accident, Adam returns to his home state. He reconnects with his old high school friends and must face, once again the events of that night. Why have he and the others received letters taunting them about that night, hinting of future retribution? What can any of them do when faced with the abduction of their children and murder? What is the connection to that night? And why is Adam the only one who ever left Milltown? Will they find the answers under a Hunters Moon?

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AuthorHouse

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147722887X

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9781477228876

The Bridge at Remagen

A Story of World War II

By: Ken Hechler

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The Bridge at Remagen

A Story of World War II

By: Ken Hechler

It was a stunning strategic victory of World War II–and one of the most fantastic breaks for the Allies. On March 7, 1945, a small group of American infantrymen, engineers, and tank crews secured the Ludendorff Bridge that crossed the Rhine. The successful mission saved thousands of American lives and spearheaded the invasion of Nazi Germany. The Bridge at Remagen is the detailed narrative of this surprising but crucial military action, one that stunned the German army. It is also the moving story of men who did not consider themselves heroes, but who performed magnificently under fire. In this amazing true story, Ken Hechler gives you the hour-by-hour account of brilliant military daring, human courage, and almost incredible luck that profoundly changed the course of the war.

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Presidio Press

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0307514927

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9780307514929

Caen 1944

Montgomery’s break-out attempt

By: Ken Ford

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Caen 1944

Montgomery’s break-out attempt

By: Ken Ford

One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall. It took three major offensives and more than 30 bloody days of struggle to finally take Caen. In the process the city was controversially devastated and its civilian population decimated. The Allies paid a high price for Caen but the horrific German casualties bled their forces in Normandy white. In this concise, illustrated volume, Ken Ford shows how Caen helped open the way for the American breakout in Operation Cobra.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1846036658

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9781846036651

Infraction -- Getting Even

By: Ken Lord

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Infraction -- Getting Even

By: Ken Lord

Here are two serial killers, each wishing to settle a score. Meet Wilberforce Duggie Hansen, at odds with a mother who is a domineering drunk and has a bias against the gay friends her son wishes to bring home. She arranges never to have to confront the question again. There's Marty Syrzinski, a Navy Seal dropout with a temper, who goes on a murder spree just because he can. There are eight victims, with nothing unique about them except that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. There are also two bank robbers, freshly released from an Oregon prison, on their way to Reno. A zip gun, a poisonous snake, a firebombing, stolen dynamite, an explosion, and three funerals-all within two weeks. Share the Chief's second mystery. Visit him and his new love; banter with the city's gadfly, Doris Odland; listen to the City's Mayor McCheese; and watch the antics of the Reverend Amos Wilson as he puts on a Northwesterner's version of a New Orleans funeral.

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Lulu.com

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1847289401

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9781847289407

Australian Taxation

By: John Bevacqua,Stephen Marsden,Annette Morgan,Elizabeth Morton,Ken Devos,Swapna Verma

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Australian Taxation

By: John Bevacqua,Stephen Marsden,Annette Morgan,Elizabeth Morton,Ken Devos,Swapna Verma

Now updated to reflect the changes to the 2023/2024 tax rates and the May 2023 budget, the text is concise and to the point, easy to digest and applied rather than legalistic. It aims to demystify legal jargon and legal technicality without sacrificing essentialcore legal knowledge and meaning. Importantly, it provides the requisite foundation for business students who intend to later undertake the professional programs of either CPA Australia or CA ANZ. This new edition discusses ethics and technology including cryptocurrency examples in every chapter. New features include more content on diversity and inclusion with a focus on indigenous content. Students can access both the print and digital formats, including animated work problems, practitioner videos, and questions with feedback in the eText.

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John Wiley & Sons

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139422592X

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9781394225927

The American bomb in Britain

US Air Forces' strategic presence, 1946–64

By: Ken Young

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The American bomb in Britain

US Air Forces' strategic presence, 1946–64

By: Ken Young

This study tells the story of the strategic nuclear forces deployed to England by the United States from the late 1940s, and details the secret agreement made to launch atomic strikes against the USSR. Drawing on more than a decade's research in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, hitherto unknown aspects of Cold War history are revealed. The book deals with the United States Air Force's (USAF) relations with their British hosts as well as tensions between the American commands, with the continuous struggle to develop and safeguard the expanding base network and with the losing battle to provide the deployed bomber forces with an adequate air defence. This challenging analysis, based on massive archival sources, will provoke and stimulate Cold War historians and air power enthusiasts alike, and be read by those many veterans who served in the units of Strategic Air Command and the USAF in Europe, during that brief but dangerous period of nuclear history.

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Manchester University Press

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1526100665

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9781526100665

A German Tommy

The Secret of a War Hero

By: Ken Anderson

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A German Tommy

The Secret of a War Hero

By: Ken Anderson

“How a soldier of German ancestry hid his identity to serve with the British Army . . . [Anderson] has pieced together Schwarz’s remarkable story” (The Daily Telegraph). It was a time of misguided loyalties. The First World War British Army, in a shameful act of patriotism, was withdrawing from the front line veterans who had a German name and posting them to a non-combatants regiment. At home, anti-German feeling was reaching fever pitch. However, one young man, the son of a German father, conspired to have the Army send him into battle. In doing so he became a hero. This is the story of the “German Tommy,” Walter Schwarz (alias Lieutenant Walter Lancelot Merritt, Military Cross and Bar, bearer of the king’s pardon), told in full for the first time after years of research in Australia and Britain. It reveals why and how others helped the young man from Queensland—an Australian Army deserter—survive in an atmosphere that was poisonous at home and in battle for those of German blood who were, nevertheless, like Schwarz, loyal to king and country. Ken Anderson has gone behind the accepted facts to claim how official documents were altered and members of a secret society lied and swore false testimony to help Schwarz, acting on their oath to help a fellow member in distress. The book offers an insight into the way in which people of German origin were treated in Australia and Britain during the First World War, as well as how Freemasonry, at its peak at that time, helped men of humble backgrounds improve their status in life.

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Pen and Sword

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1473834589

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9781473834583

The Encyclopedia of TV Pets

A Complete History of Television's Greatest Animal Stars

By: Ken Beck,Jim Clark

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The Encyclopedia of TV Pets

A Complete History of Television's Greatest Animal Stars

By: Ken Beck,Jim Clark

The Encyclopedia of TV Pets is an entertaining and comprehensive journey into the lives of the world's most famous television animal stars. All creatures great and small, from kangaroos, sea lions, simians, and horses to elephants, dogs, lions, cats, and bears are here and pictured in nearly 200 photographs. More than 100 TV series are represented along with the biographies and true-life stories of such memorable animals as Lassie, Mr. Ed, Gentle Ben, Wishbone, Flipper, Trigger, Arnold the Pig, Murray, Morris, Silver, J. Fred Muggs, Spuds McKenzie, Nunzio, Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion and Judy the Chimp, Benji, Morty the Moose, Marcel the Monkey, Salem from Sabrina, Fred the Cockatoo, Flicka, Fury, Lancelot Link, Tramp, Comet, Skippy the Kangaroo, Rin Tin Tin, Cheetah, London, C.J. the Orangutan, Eddie from Frasier, and even the Taco Bell® Chihuahua! The Encyclopedia of TV Pets is an amazing menagerie of facts and tales, many never before told to television fans. Owners, trainers, and the human actors who worked with the animals have told stories in exclusive interviews. What were the animals' real names? What were their favorite treats? Who trained them to do the incredible feats you see on TV? It's all here and more in The Encyclopedia of TV Pets, a book that animal lovers will keep handy alongside their remote control.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418557374

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9781418557379

League Park

Historic Home of Cleveland Baseball, 1891-1946

By: Ken Krsolovic,Bryan Fritz

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League Park

Historic Home of Cleveland Baseball, 1891-1946

By: Ken Krsolovic,Bryan Fritz

This is a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in Cleveland from 1891 to 1946, but with a significant history that includes the National Football League, Negro League baseball, college football and boxing, and an uncanny multitude of amazing events and people. This chronicle allows for these grounds to take their place among the more heralded parks of baseball's past and present. The site has survived to this day as a baseball grounds; a groundbreaking for renovations took place in October 2012.

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McFarland

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0786493283

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For the Glory

College Football Dreams and Realities Inside Paterno's Program

By: Ken Denlinger

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For the Glory

College Football Dreams and Realities Inside Paterno's Program

By: Ken Denlinger

For the Glory: College Football Dreams and Realities Inside Paterno's Program presents the college football experience as seen through the eyes of the young men who play the game. Sportswriter Ken Denlinger takes the reader on a five-year odyssey into the lives of one scholarship class and reveals their experiences at Penn State and in Coach Joe Paterno's program. Ken was given extraordinary access to the Penn State programs--starting with the recruiting process and then onto the field and in the locker room. He became friend and confidant to the players and found every player had the same dream: to bring glory to himself and his school and then ascend to the NFL. In this gritty account, Ken sets moving stories of triumph against the stark realities of injury, disillusionment, and failure. Here are the dreams, fears, and pressures facing young men who are exposed weekly to thousands of screaming fans. Here is a true picture of life in Division I college football. Anyone interested in Penn State, college football, or the larger issues or sports and society will find For the Glory an unforgettable experience.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466875011

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Warriors of the 106th

The Last Infantry Division of World War II

By: Martin King,Ken Johnson,Michael Collins

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Warriors of the 106th

The Last Infantry Division of World War II

By: Martin King,Ken Johnson,Michael Collins

This chronicle of the 106th Infantry Division follows the unit into the Battle of the Bulge and recounts the stories of GIs who fought—even after capture. On December 16, 1944, as the European conflict of World War II was reaching its climax at the Battle of the Bulge, the 106th Infantry Division was fresh, green, and right in the pathway of the Fifth German Army. Warriors of the 106th chronicles the movements and combat operations of this significant unit while sharing individual stories of the heroism and sacrifice of these young Americans in the face of overwhelming odds. From this division alone, 6,800 men were taken prisoner. But their stories didn’t end there. For the ones who miraculously escaped, there was a battle to fight. With remarkable courage, they survived debilitating weather conditions and fought a determined enemy with superior numbers. And despite all adversity, they eventually prevailed. One 106th GI waged his own personal war using guerilla tactics that caused serious consternation amongst the German troops. Another GI’s main concern was recovering his clean underwear. These stories are heartwarming, heartbreaking, nerve-wracking, and compelling. Warriors of the 106th puts readers on the front lines and in the stalags during the final months of WWII.

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Casemate Publishers

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1612004598

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9781612004594

Super Bomb

Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb

By: Ken Young,Warner R. Schilling

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Super Bomb

Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb

By: Ken Young,Warner R. Schilling

Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super," or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives and previously hidden contemporaneous interviews with more than sixty political, military, and scientific figures who were involved in the decision. Ken Young and Warner R. Schilling present the expectations, hopes, and fears of the key individuals who lobbied for and against developing the H-bomb. They portray the conflicts that arose over the H-bomb as rooted in the distinct interests of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Los Alamos laboratory, the Pentagon and State Department, the Congress, and the White House. But as they clearly show, once Truman made his decision in 1950, resistance to the H-bomb opportunistically shifted to new debates about the development of tactical nuclear weapons, continental air defense, and other aspects of nuclear weapons policy. What Super Bomb reveals is that in many ways the H-bomb struggle was a proxy battle over the morality and effectiveness of strategic bombardment and the role and doctrine of the US Strategic Air Command.

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Cornell University Press

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1501745182

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9781501745188

Malicious Bots

An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet

By: Ken Dunham,Jim Melnick

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Malicious Bots

An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet

By: Ken Dunham,Jim Melnick

Originally designed as neutral entities, computerized bots are increasingly being used maliciously by online criminals in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet explores the rise of dangerous bots and exposes the nefarious methods of "botmasters". This valuable resource assists information security managers in understanding the scope, sophistication, and criminal uses of bots. With sufficient technical detail to empower IT professionals, this volume provides in-depth coverage of the top bot attacks against financial and government networks over the last several years. The book presents exclusive details of the operation of the notorious Thr34t Krew, one of the most malicious bot herder groups in recent history. Largely unidentified by anti-virus companies, their bots spread globally for months, launching massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and warez (stolen software distributions). For the first time, this story is publicly revealed, showing how the botherders got arrested, along with details on other bots in the world today. Unique descriptions of the criminal marketplace - how criminals make money off of your computer - are also a focus of this exclusive book! With unprecedented detail, the book goes on to explain step-by-step how a hacker launches a botnet attack, providing specifics that only those entrenched in the cyber-crime investigation world could possibly offer. Authors Ken Dunham and Jim Melnick serve on the front line of critical cyber-attacks and countermeasures as experts in the deployment of geopolitical and technical bots. Their work involves advising upper-level government officials and executives who control some of the largest networks in the world. By examining the methods of Internet predators, information security managers will be better able to proactively protect their own networks from such attacks.

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The War

An Intimate History, 1941-1945

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ken Burns

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The War

An Intimate History, 1941-1945

By: Geoffrey C. Ward,Ken Burns

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world. From the Hardcover edition.

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$q$-Series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Physics

A Conference on Q-series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Physics, October 26-28, 2000, University of Illinois

By: Bruce C. Berndt,Ken Ono

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$q$-Series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Physics

A Conference on Q-series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Physics, October 26-28, 2000, University of Illinois

By: Bruce C. Berndt,Ken Ono

The subject of $q$-series can be said to begin with Euler and his pentagonal number theorem. In fact, $q$-series are sometimes called Eulerian series. Contributions were made by Gauss, Jacobi, and Cauchy, but the first attempt at a systematic development, especially from the point of view of studying series with the products in the summands, was made by E. Heine in 1847. In the latter part of the nineteenth and in the early part of the twentieth centuries, two Englishmathematicians, L. J. Rogers and F. H. Jackson, made fundamental contributions. In 1940, G. H. Hardy described what we now call Ramanujan's famous $ 1\psi 1$ summation theorem as ``a remarkable formula with many parameters.'' This is now one of the fundamental theorems of the subject. Despite humble beginnings,the subject of $q$-series has flourished in the past three decades, particularly with its applications to combinatorics, number theory, and physics. During the year 2000, the University of Illinois embraced The Millennial Year in Number Theory. One of the events that year was the conference $q$-Series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Physics. This event gathered mathematicians from the world over to lecture and discuss their research. This volume presents nineteen of thepapers presented at the conference. The excellent lectures that are included chart pathways into the future and survey the numerous applications of $q$-series to combinatorics, number theory, and physics.

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0821827464

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Face of the Screaming Werewolf

By: Ken Gage

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Face of the Screaming Werewolf

By: Ken Gage

AUTHORS FOREWARD The following selection is monophonic. Please adjust your stereo accordingly Heres a little yoga for the dead before you enter the next cultural traffic jam (on your way to making that fine tortured living in the modern past). Any ordinary levels of awareness make me want to kill that climb toward self-reconfiguration until you and I are declared as equal as any fellow subhuman reduced to the sum of his or her multiple intelligence quotient. Do you stare until the shadows cast light? Are you a fellow conspirator? Any spaceman-writer worth his anti-radiation suit knows that power floats, that youve got to build a fable to outlast the fads and popstars and media clatter, and youve got to document social deflations and disintegrations -- its got to be sold solid, before the warranty expires. Flesh, steel, concrete, rockets, dollars posts, girders, laser beams, words. Do you want people to say, He was an okay scribbler? Had his helmet on backwards? No, you want to be the Sphinx of scribblers, the one who etched his thoughts into stone and dared people to turn the heavy pages. Throw the helmet to Theseus and start gathering flowers and beechstaves in the folium et volumen. If you settle for less, theyll chuckle derisively, He took a stab at writing and killed everything he wrote. Journey to spaceman nowhere. Or maybe you are the Sphinx of readers? Most folks are seeing the world through a brain-tank of bubbling water and institutionally globalized poverty. Real eye-popping, from their phosphenes all the way down into that hippocampus. Tlcemsaio oiasmsaio. Dr. Wilder Penfield, an American surgeon, discovered he could induce hallucinations in the brain by applying the probe of a 60 volt D.C. charge. Theremin music penetrates, burp of lithium-6 isotope hits the Bhutanese refugee. Olmec-age negotiations remind us that the erosion of moral character is built on a series of thankless tasks (and grit smaller than one zeptometer). Oiasmeclt tlcemeclt. Los diableros hablan. All government is illegitimate. Love is a two-person conspiracy. Dont want to stumble, stand still. Tlcemsaio oiasmeclt tlcemeclt oiasmsaio? What are the qualities of a good conspiracy? Tight lips. And a backwards wall is just a llaw waiting for demolition. We are privileged to share this planet with persons of all backgrounds and degrees of mental defects and reading habits. Opposites and dualities and apostates are part of the same scheme. A robot looks down one of lifes pathways and sez, Looks kinda dirty. Of course its dirty -- its a dirt trail! You want it swept??? Neat concrete or asphalt would make for a nicer st/roll. (Especially if youre driving an electric wheelchair instead of a pair of hairy, chimpanzee-like legs.) Neat versus dirty or clean versus clutter; control versus free spirit; sterility versus life. Same things. Dont get your foot caught between the extremes while becoming who you are. You will be forever changed even by the end of this paragraph. People must, of course, create their own meanings and reasons to live. At least most people. As a gladly-suffered screwball, I shouldnt cast too many aspersions upon the habits of the unreflecting herd; the others, content to follow the make-believe of yet others still, probably mill about semi-consciously, driven by various addictions, phobias and animal impulses. I am a bookwriting animal, however, and these art projects occupy the otherwise empty, meaningless hours of my life, when not pursuing various addictions, phobias and animal impulses. In print, this is my first book. Its title is stolen from a Jerry Warren film -- a film which he, in kind, stole from Mexican filmmakers. Now the circle is broke

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The House on Bathurst Street

By: Ken Swan

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The House on Bathurst Street

By: Ken Swan

For Detective Chief Inspector Cameron Salnicki, who has served with the Toronto Metropolitan Police Force for almost two decades, murder is something he often sees on the streets. But the murder of a young prostitute offers him something different when it seems to link to a suspicious group of young men from Jamaica living in crammed quarters in a house on Bathurst Street. Only it turns out that the “Jamaicans” are actually a terrorist sleeper cell from Somalia, and they are not the only group with nefarious plans. Soon Salnicki discovers there are also terrorist cells made up of Kenyans and Tunisians and that they might be supported by Russia and the Ukraine. With involvement from Mossad, M16, and CSIS, Salnicki and his team must sift through the ever-thickening plot to stop the terrorists before they act and Canadian lives are lost. In Detective Chief Inspector Cameron Salnicki, author Ken Swan has created a memorable and likable, tough, tell-it-like-it-is character who also likes dancing, cooking, women, card games, and drinking gimlets. His distinctive way of looking at the world and his humour punch through The House on Bathurst Street, making this both an exciting police novel and an enjoyable read.

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103911301X

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Confederates in Montana Territory

In the Shadow of Price's Army

By: Ken Robison

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Confederates in Montana Territory

In the Shadow of Price's Army

By: Ken Robison

Confederate veterans flocked to the Montana Territory at the end of the Civil War. Seeking new opportunities after enduring the hardships of war, these men and their families made a lasting impact on the region. Their presence was marked across the territory in places like Confederate Gulch and Virginia City. Now meet the fascinating characters who came to Big Sky country after the war, including guerrillas who fought with William Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson, as well as cavalrymen who rode with Confederate legends General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Colonel John S. Mosby. Author and historian Ken Robison recounts where these soldiers came from, why they fought for the South, what drew them to the Montana Territory and how they helped shape the region.

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1625851383

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Art of the Hot Rod

Collector's Edition

By: Ken Gross

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Art of the Hot Rod

Collector's Edition

By: Ken Gross

A deserving tribute to the American muscle of the hot rod, this edition is filled with eye popping photography, gatefolds, and four prints to hang.

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0760349789

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Historic Tales of Fort Benton

By: Ken Robison

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Historic Tales of Fort Benton

By: Ken Robison

...more romance, tragedy and vigorous life than many a city a hundred times its size and ten times its age." - Historian Hiram M. Chittenden Deep in the heart of Blackfoot country on the Upper Missouri River, trade relations opened cautiously in 1831. A series of trading posts and clashes followed. By 1846, Fort Benton had become the center of commerce with Indigenous tribes, including the Blackfoot who dubbed it "many houses to the South." Drawing settlers from eastern states, the head of steamboat navigation became known as "the world's innermost port." As a result, the fort became a multicultural melting pot and home to the "Bloodiest Block in the West." Award-winning historian Ken Robison brings to life dramatic sagas of a rapidly developing frontier, from vigilante X. Beidler to the Marias and Ophir Massacres.

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Already Compromised

By: Ken Ham,Greg Hall,Britt Beemer

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Already Compromised

By: Ken Ham,Greg Hall,Britt Beemer

arents and students sacrifice large sums of money for a Christian college education. Why? They are purchasing a guarantee their child's faith in God and the Bible will be guarded and developed. But is the Bible being taught? Will they graduate believing in the inerrancy of Scripture, the Flood of Noah's Day, and a literal six day creation?Apologetics powerhouse Ken Ham and Dr. Greg Hall reveal an eye opening assessment of 200 Christian colleges and universities. In an unprecedented 2010 study by America Research Group, college presidents, religion and science department heads were polled on critical areas of Scripture and core faith questions.

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0890516073

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Baskerville

By: Ken Ludwig

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Baskerville

By: Ken Ludwig

Get your deerstalker cap on — the play’s afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Watch as our intrepid investigators try to escape a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be.

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0573704198

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College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009

The Essential Guide to the 2008 College Basketball Season

By: Ken Pomeroy,John Gasaway

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College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009

The Essential Guide to the 2008 College Basketball Season

By: Ken Pomeroy,John Gasaway

In the winning tradition of the New York Timesbestselling Baseball Prospectus, the ultimate guide to college basketball. From the brand that brought sports fans the New York Timesbestselling Baseball Prospectuscomes an all-new, one-of-akind, authoritative guide to college basketball. Utilizing the same unique prediction model, College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009applies objective knowledge, original hardhitting statistical analysis, and provocative writing to one of America’s most popular sports. Divided into three sections, the prospectus includes essays on various aspects of the college game and the past season, previews of all thirty-one Division-I conferences, and a statistical abstract with the same cutting-edge mathematical analysis that has yielded a winning record of accurate predictions for the Baseballand Pro Football Prospectusseries. For the 60 million Americans who are diehard college basketball fans, College Basketball Prospectus 2008-2009is a slam dunk.

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0452289874

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American Song

The Complete Musical Theatre Companion

By: Ken Bloom

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American Song

The Complete Musical Theatre Companion

By: Ken Bloom

American song contains data on over 4,800 American musicals spread over two volumes. All Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions are included, together with all resident theatre productions of shows by major artists, shows that closed out of town prior to Broadway, shows that toured, selected nightclub shows, straight plays with original songs, vaudeville and burlesque shows.

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