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Book A Most Remarkable Family

Download or read book A Most Remarkable Family written by Michael Hewitt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold day on the thirtieth of January 1649 in London, an anonymous executioner severed the head of King Charles I of England. The watching crowds had very mixed feelings about this regicide, but Oliver Cromwell’s troops kept order, and eventually the crowd dispersed, stunned by this momentous event in English history, which left the country in turmoil. Amongst the crowd that day were a father of fifty-nine years and his three sons. This moment in history was to change their lives. Who were this family? Where had they come from? What would become of them? The answer to these questions would lead us back to King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, forward to our own Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and would also greatly influence much of American history.

Book The Lyon Phonetic Manual

Download or read book The Lyon Phonetic Manual written by Edmund Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Gotham

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  • Author : Carla L. Peterson
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300162553
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Black Gotham written by Carla L. Peterson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period.

Book Legacy

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  • Author : Thomas Harding
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2019-08-29
  • ISBN : 1473537606
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Legacy written by Thomas Harding and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the forthcoming WHITE DEBT, a major piece of British history 'I was riveted' Nigella Lawson

Book The Lairds of Glenlyon

Download or read book The Lairds of Glenlyon written by Duncan Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lyon Memorial

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  • Author : Robert B. Miller
  • Publisher : Arkose Press
  • Release : 2015-11-06
  • ISBN : 9781346122656
  • Pages : 568 pages

Download or read book Lyon Memorial written by Robert B. Miller and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Princely Brothers and Sisters

Download or read book Princely Brothers and Sisters written by Jonathan R. Lyon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Princely Brothers and Sisters, Jonathan R. Lyon takes a fresh look at sibling networks and the role they played in shaping the practice of politics in the Middle Ages. Focusing on nine of the most prominent aristocratic families in the German kingdom during the Staufen period (1138–1250), Lyon finds that noblemen—and to a lesser extent, noblewomen—relied on the cooperation and support of their siblings as they sought to maintain or expand their power and influence within a competitive political environment. Consequently, sibling relationships proved crucial at key moments in shaping the political and territorial interests of many lords of the kingdom. Family historians have largely overlooked brothers and sisters in the political life of medieval societies. As Lyon points out, however, siblings are the contemporaries whose lives normally overlap the longest. More so than parents and children, husbands and wives, or lords and vassals, brothers and sisters have the potential to develop relationships that span entire lifetimes. The longevity of some sibling bonds therefore created opportunities for noble brothers and sisters to collaborate in especially potent ways. As Lyon shows, cohesive networks of brothers and sisters proved remarkably effective at counterbalancing the authority of the Staufen kings and emperors. Well written and impeccably researched, Princely Brothers and Sisters is an important book not only for medieval German historians but also for the field of family history.

Book A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans

Download or read book A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Lyon and Greenwald and Related Families of James Lyon Greenwald

Download or read book A History of the Lyon and Greenwald and Related Families of James Lyon Greenwald written by James Lyon Greenwald and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's Lyon, Daley and Greenwald families of New York and Connecticut.

Book Legacy

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  • Author : Thomas Harding
  • Publisher : Windmill Books
  • Release : 2020-08-27
  • ISBN : 9780099510789
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Legacy written by Thomas Harding and published by Windmill Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and grand.' TELEGRAPH A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company. This is the story of how a family transformed themselves from penniless immigrants to build a company that revolutionised the way we eat, drink and are entertained. For over a century, Lyons was everywhere. Its restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, its coffee and tea in every cup, its products in every home. But it was a victory that was not easily won. Told through the lives of five generations, Legacy is at once intimate and sweeping, charting the tragedy and unimaginable success of one of Britain's most famous families. It is also an illuminating new exploration of Britain and its place in the world, from the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake. 'A magnificent book... endlessly fascinating.' JEWISH CHRONICLE 'How the Lyons company took on the world... a satisfying slab of dynastic history.' GUARDIAN, 'Book of the Day' 'Written with love and imagination... a masterclass in historical empathy.' TLS 'An affectionate and colourful family history.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Rich... Fascinating... Harding is to be congratulated on this panoramic history.' EVENING STANDARD 'Endlessly fascinating and hard to put down... this is a tour de force.' JULIA NEUBERGER

Book Triumph and Tragedy

Download or read book Triumph and Tragedy written by Ida F. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2002* with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his early beginnings as a cowboy and self-taught mining engineer in the 1870s, Thomas Lyons -- with partner Angus Campbell -- would build an unparalleled cattle empire in southwest New Mexico. According to a livestock trade journal of the time, at its peak the LC Ranches controlled 1.5 million acres of range, grazed some 60,000 cattle, and employed 100 wagons, 750 riding horses, 400 work horses, and 75 cowboys in season. But powerful men create powerful enemies. The murder of Tom Lyons in El Paso in 1917 remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the olde Southwest. A man of myth until now, this thoroughly documented account is Tom Lyons and the LCs in history.

Book Lyon Memorial

Download or read book Lyon Memorial written by Albert Brown Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dirt

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  • Author : Bill Buford
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 0385353197
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Dirt written by Bill Buford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon’s best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.

Book Damned Yankee

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  • Author : Christopher Phillips
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 1996-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780807121030
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Damned Yankee written by Christopher Phillips and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861) was the first Union general to die in the Civil War. Killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, he became the North’s first war hero, famed as the man who saved Missouri for the Union. In Damned Yankee, chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1991, Christopher Phillips portrays Lyon not as the savior of a border state threatened by secessionist extremists but as an unbalanced, monomaniacal Unionist zealot who purposely—and perhaps unnecessarily—brought war to a fragile state whose populace had voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the conflict. Phillips meticulously examines Lyon’s role in the Camp Jackson affair, his quest to oust the pro-southern governor of Missouri, and his campaign to eliminate the secessionist element in the state. He contends that Lyon’s actions in Missouri in 1861 were congruent with his dogmatic personality and troubled past. Damned Yankee is a complex, often shocking, portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War and a sobering study of how the faults of men may greatly affect history.

Book The Book of Irish Families  Great   Small

Download or read book The Book of Irish Families Great Small written by Michael C. O'Laughlin and published by Irish Roots Cafe. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the master volume to the 28 book set on Irish Family History from the Irish Genealogical Foundation. The largest and most comprehensive of the series, this volume includes family histories from every county in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It also has, for the first time, the complete surname index for the entire series. The 27 other books which are indexed in this volume will provide additional information on even more families.

Book Wooden Boats of the St  Lawrence River

Download or read book Wooden Boats of the St Lawrence River written by David Kunz and Bill Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--