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Pedestrianism

When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport

By: Matthew Algeo

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Pedestrianism

When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport

By: Matthew Algeo

Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America's most popular spectator sport wasn't baseball, football, or horseracing-it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonstop for six straight days (never on Sunday), risking their health and sanity to see who could walk the farthest-500 miles, then 520 miles, and 565 miles! These walking matches were as talked about as the weather, the details reported in newspapers and telegraphed to fans from coast to coast. This long-forgotten sport, known as pedestrianism, spawned America's first celebrity athletes. The top pedestrians earned a fortune in prize money and endorsement deals. The sport also opened doors for immigrants, African Americans, and women. But along with the excitement came the inevitable scandals, charges of doping-coca leaves!-and insider gambling. It even spawned a riot in 1879 when too many fans showed up at New York's Gilmore's Gardens, later renamed Madison Square Gardens, and were denied entry to a widely publicized showdown. Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport chronicles competitive walking's peculiar appeal and popularity, its rapid demise, and its enduring influence. In many ways, pedestrianism marked the beginning of modern spectator sports in the United States. Matthew Algeo is the author of Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure, The President Is a Sick Man, and Last Team Standing. An award-winning journalist, Algeo has reported from three continents for public radio's All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613743971

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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

By: Matthew Algeo

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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

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From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.

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1556527772

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Last Team Standing

How the Steelers and the Eagles—"The Steagles"—Saved Pro Football During World War II

By: Matthew Algeo

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Last Team Standing

How the Steelers and the Eagles—"The Steagles"—Saved Pro Football During World War II

By: Matthew Algeo

An almost unknown chapter of sporting—and American—history Tracing the history of the National Football League during World War II, this book delves into the severe player shortage during the war which led to the merging of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, creating the “Steagles.” The team’s center was deaf in one ear, its wide receiver was blind in one eye (and partially blind in the other), and its halfback had bleeding ulcers. One player was so old he’d never before played football with a helmet. Yet somehow, this group of players—deemed unfit for military service due to age or physical ailment—posted a winning record in the league, to the surprise of players and fans alike. Digging into the history of the war paralleled by the unlikely story of the Steagles franchise, both sports fans and history buffs will learn about the cultural significance of this motley crew of ball players during a trying time in United States history.

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161374885X

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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

By: Matthew Algeo

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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

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From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.

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Abe & Fido

Lincoln's Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion

By: Matthew Algeo

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Abe & Fido

Lincoln's Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion

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1556523831

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Pedestrianism

When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport

By: Matthew Algeo

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Pedestrianism

When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport

By: Matthew Algeo

Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America’s most popular spectator sport wasn’t baseball, football, or horseracing—it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonstop for six straight days (never on Sunday), risking their health and sanity to see who could walk the farthest—more than 500 miles. These walking matches were as talked about as the weather, the details reported in newspapers and telegraphed to fans from coast to coast. This long-forgotten sport, known as pedestrianism, spawned America’s first celebrity athletes and opened doors for immigrants, African Americans, and women. But along with the excitement came the inevitable scandals, charges of doping and insider gambling, and even a riot in 1879. Pedestrianism chronicles competitive walking’s peculiar appeal and popularity, its rapid demise, and its enduring influence.

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1613744005

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That's The Way It Crumbles

The American Conquest of the English Language

By: Matthew Engel

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That's The Way It Crumbles

The American Conquest of the English Language

By: Matthew Engel

Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now. In That's The Way It Crumbles Matthew Engel presents a call to arms against the linguistic impoverishment that happens when one language dominates another. With dismay and wry amusement, he traces the American invasion of our language from the early days of the New World, via the influence of Edison, the dance hall and the talkies, right up to the Apple and Microsoft-dominated present day, and explores the fate of other languages trying to fend off linguistic takeover bids. It is not the Americans' fault, more the result of their talent for innovation and our own indifference. He explains how America's cultural supremacy affects British gestures, celebrations and way of life, and how every paragraph and conversation includes words the British no longer even think of as Americanisms. Part battle cry, part love song, part elegy, this book celebrates the strange, the banal, the precious and the endangered parts of our uncommon common language.

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Profile Books

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1782832629

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Understanding Twice-Exceptional Learners

Connecting Research to Practice

By: C. Matthew Fugate,Wendy Behrens,Cecelia Boswell

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Understanding Twice-Exceptional Learners

Connecting Research to Practice

By: C. Matthew Fugate,Wendy Behrens,Cecelia Boswell

Understanding Twice-Exceptional Learners offers an in-depth look at the needs and lived experiences of students who are twice-exceptional. This book: Includes detailed examinations of co-occurring disabilities commonly found in twice-exceptional populations. Features studies of ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, autism spectrum disorders (ASD), anxiety, OCD, and more. Bridges the divide between research about and practical strategies for teaching gifted students with learning challenges. Is Ideal for university teacher preparation courses and graduate programs. Provides strength-based strategies that focus on students' unique gifts and talents. Each chapter includes a comprehensive literature review, suggested interventions, resources for further exploration, and vignettes that highlight experiences of twice-exceptional students and the behaviors and needs that practitioners might commonly see in the classroom.

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Routledge

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100049022X

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Tone Sandhi

Patterns across Chinese Dialects

By: Matthew Y. Chen

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Tone Sandhi

Patterns across Chinese Dialects

By: Matthew Y. Chen

Matthew Chen's study, first published in 2000, offers a most comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide repertoire of tones which undergo often surprising changes when they are connected in speech flow. The term tone sandhi refers to this tonal alternation. Chen examines tone sandhi phenomena in detail across a variety of Chinese dialects. He explores a range of important theoretical issues such as the nature of tonal representation, the relation of tone to accent, the prosodic domain of sandhi rules, and the interface between syntax and phonology. His book is the culmination of a ten-year research project and offers a wealth of empirical data not previously accessible to linguists. Extensive references and a bibliography on tone sandhi complete this invaluable resource which will be welcomed as a standard reference on Chinese tone.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139431498

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9781139431491

Customer Development of Effective Performance Indicators in Local and State Level Public Administration

By: Rebekah Schulz,Andrew Sense,Matthew Pepper

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Customer Development of Effective Performance Indicators in Local and State Level Public Administration

By: Rebekah Schulz,Andrew Sense,Matthew Pepper

This book is the first to offer a structured process which enables public organisations and their communities to jointly develop performance indicators for the public organisation's operations, enabling communities to determine performance indicators that are highly relevant and contextually useful.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1839821485

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Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management

By: Matthew D. McEvoy,Cory M. Furse

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Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management

By: Matthew D. McEvoy,Cory M. Furse

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management is a high-yield, clinically-relevant resource for understanding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of a wide variety of perioperative emergencies. Each chapter opens with a clinical case, followed by a discussion of the relevant evidence. Case-based learning discussion questions, which can be used for self-assessment or in the classroom, round out each chapter. This book is an ideal resource for trainees, clinicians, and nurses who work in the perioperative arena, from the operating room to the postoperative surgical ward.

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Oxford University Press

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0190226455

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9780190226459

The President Is a Sick Man

Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth

By: Matthew Algeo

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The President Is a Sick Man

Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth

By: Matthew Algeo

An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expose. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president's palate along with much of his upper jaw. When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it and Edwards was consequently dismissed as a disgrace to journalism. Twenty-four years later, one of the president's doctors finally revealed the incredible truth, but many Americans simply would not believe it. After all, Grover Cleveland's political career was built upon honesty--his most memorable quote was "Tell the truth"--so it was nearly impossible to believe he was involved in such a brazen cover-up. This is the first full account of the disappearance of Grover Cleveland during that summer more than a century ago.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569768765

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When Harry Met Pablo

Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art

By: Matthew Algeo

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When Harry Met Pablo

Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art

By: Matthew Algeo

Truman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century—the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians. But in most ways, they couldn't have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Harry Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso's studio in the south of France? Truman's meeting with Picasso was quietly arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of New York's Museum of Modern Art and an early champion of Picasso. Barr knew that if he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician from Missouri and the Cubist painter from MÁlaga, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message, not just to reactionary Republicans pushing McCarthyism at home, but to the whole world: modern art was not evil. Truman author Matthew Algeo retraced the Trumans' Mediterranean vacation and visited the places they went with Picasso, including Picasso's villa, Picasso's ceramics studio in Vallauris, and ChÂteau Grimaldi, a museum in Antibes. A rigorous history with a heartwarming center, When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core it is the touching story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in common—and are more alike—than they ever imagined.

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1641607890

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Last Team Standing

How the Steelers and the Eagles—"The Steagles"—Saved Pro Football During World War II

By: Matthew Algeo

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Last Team Standing

How the Steelers and the Eagles—"The Steagles"—Saved Pro Football During World War II

By: Matthew Algeo

During World War II, the National Football League faced a crisis unimaginable today: a shortage of players. By 1943, so many players were in the armed forces that the league was forced to fold one team and merge two others: the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles—the Steagles. Its roster that included military draft rejects, aging stars lured out of retirement, and even a couple of active servicemen who managed to get leave for the games. The team's center was deaf in one ear, its wide receiver was blind in one eye, and its halfback had bleeding ulcers. One player was so old he'd never played football with a helmet. Yet, somehow, this motley bunch managed to post a winning record—the first for the Eagles and just the second for the Steelers. But Last Team Standing isn't just about football. It's also about life in the United States during World War II, a time of fear and hope, of sacrifice and momentous change. It's about rationing, racism, and Rosie the Riveter. It's about draft boards, bond drives, and movie stars. Above all, it's about the men and women of the Greatest Generation who couldn't fight, but helped win the war in immeasurable ways.

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1613748884

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Abe & Fido

Lincoln's Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion

By: Matthew Algeo

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Abe & Fido

Lincoln's Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion

By: Matthew Algeo

In early 1861, as he prepared to leave his home in Springfield, Illinois, to move into the White House, Abraham Lincoln faced many momentous tasks, but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons, Willie and Tad, that the family's beloved pet dog, Fido, would not be accompanying them to Washington. Lincoln, who had adopted Fido about five years earlier, was afraid the skittish dog wouldn't survive the long rail journey, so he decided to leave the mutt behind with friends in Springfield. Fido had been by Lincoln's side as the prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to the presidency, sometimes carrying bundles of letters from the post office as Lincoln walked the streets of the state capital. Abe & Fido: Lincoln's Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion tells the story of two friends, an unlikely tandem who each became famous and died prematurely. The book also explores the everyday life of Springfield in the years leading up to the Civil War, as well as Lincoln's sometimes radical views on animal welfare, and how they shaped his life and his presidency. It's the story of a master and his dog, living through historic, tumultuous times. Matthew Algeo is the author of Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure, The President Is a Sick Man, Pedestrianism, and Last Team Standing. An award-winning journalist, Algeo has reported from four continents, and his stories have appeared on public radio's All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition.

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1556522223

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Alpha to Omega

Journey to the End of Time

By: Matthew Petti

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Alpha to Omega

Journey to the End of Time

By: Matthew Petti

Petti's unprecedented perspective will forever challenge the way people thinkabout God, human origins, ancient mysteries, and Revelation's foretold perilsand deceptive abuse of mistaken beliefs.

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0985685522

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Pedestrianism

Pedestrianism

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

Last Team Standing

Last Team Standing

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

Abe & Fido

Abe & Fido

Pedestrianism

Pedestrianism

That's The Way It Crumbles

That's The Way It Crumbles

Understanding Twice-Exceptional Learners

Understanding Twice-Exceptional Learners

Tone Sandhi

Tone Sandhi

Customer Development of Effective Performance Indicators in Local and State Level Public Administration

Customer Development of Effective Performance Indicators in Local and State Level Public Administration

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management

The President Is a Sick Man

The President Is a Sick Man

When Harry Met Pablo

When Harry Met Pablo

Last Team Standing

Last Team Standing

Abe & Fido

Abe & Fido

Alpha to Omega

Alpha to Omega

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