Download or read book Shattered Spring 1927 written by Barbara Perkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 12, 1927, a low-pressure system was moving across the Edwards Plateau of Texas. A blustery, gritty wind had been blowing all day and the townspeople were expecting rain. Three miles northwest of town, a monster tornado descended from the clouds. It took direct aim at Rocksprings, population 800. The first warning the townspeople had was the thunderous hail, breaking windows and crashing through rooftops. Moments later, at 7:50 p.m., the F5 tornado, now a mile wide, unleashed its fury with winds of over 260 miles per hour, destroying nearly everything in its path. In less than ten minutes, it was all over. The town was in ruins, lit only by a fierce lightning storm and the buildings that were burning. Almost 80 people were dead, dying or missing. Some were never found. Over 150 were injured. The torrential rain rendered many roads almost impassable. Yet rescuers came from all over to help. Over the next several days, the severely injured and dying were transported to San Antonio, 140 miles away, by cars, trucks, ambulances, and trains. Gathered from personal accounts and historical records, this is the first book to tell the story of the tornado and the people who suffered through the Rocksprings tornado and those who came to their aid. The F5 tornado still ranks as the third deadliest in Texas since 1900.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief Inspector Bureau of Locomotive Inspection written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Locomotive Inspection and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Section of Locomotive Inspection written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Wave written by Roy Hofheinz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sophisticated and deeply researched volume on Mao Tse-tung's early leadership and on the formative years of the Chinese Communist Peasant movement. It has been axiomatic in Asian studies that knowledge of the early years of Chinese communism would throw the most light on modern happenings. In this landmark volume, Hofheinz provides the much-needed map for understanding. Hofheinz shows how the rural revolution began, dissects with exquisite care the mentalities of the first leaders, and assesses the early gropings of peasant revolutionaries toward class struggle. He explains why Mao and others came to believe that the huge rural population was the most powerful force in China and that warfare against any visible enemies constituted progress for the Communist cause. Yet the first Chinese Communists failed miserably both as members of the Kuomintang coalition and on their own. The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. Mao and his followers shaped every decision in later years to avoid the errors of the past. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief Inspector Bureau of Locomotive Inspection written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Director of Locomotive Inspection written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Summer written by Ruby Mildred Ayres and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken Wings written by Stephen L. Renner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “outstanding piece of research” on Hungary’s secret air force program “fills a critical gap in our understanding” of pre-WWII military advancement (John H. Morrow Jr., author of The Great War). In the aftermath of World War I, Hungary was officially banned from maintaining a military air service. Despite this mandate, however, the embattled nation was determined to rearm itself. Drawing upon a wealth of previously untranslated documents, this fascinating history reveals the story of how Hungary secretly built an entire air force during the interwar years. In the early 1920s, Hungarian officials managed to evade and obstruct Allied inspectors at every turn. Unable to pursue domestic manufacturing, the clandestine rearmament program secretly bought planes from Italy and Germany. Great efforts were made to stockpile equipment from the Great War, and the Hungarian government promoted the development of commercial aviation—partly as a front for military flight operations. During the late 1930s, the Hungarian air force went from a secret branch of the army to an independent modernizing force in its own right. But this success came at a heavy cost: increasing German support brought a growing Nazi influence over the country. Hungary entered the Second World War on the side of the Axis in 1941, with its air force soon becoming little more than a Luftwaffe auxiliary force. Besieged by Allied bombings, the Hungarian air force ended the Second World War much as they had the First—salvaging aircraft parts from downed invaders and fighting until they no longer had airfields from which to operate.
Download or read book Report written by Illinois. Division of Waterways and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aphrodite s Daughters written by Maureen Honey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
Download or read book Pit Quarry written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agricultural Outlook for 1928 written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Vol 5 written by Robinson Jeffers and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of the first comprehensive edition of all of Robinson Jeffers's completed poems, both published and unpublished, consists of commentary: various procedural explanations and textual evidence for the edition's texts, transcriptions of working notes for the poems and of alternate and discarded passages, a chronology of Jeffers's career, appendixes, and indexes.
Download or read book English Herd Book and Register of Pure Bred Jersey Cattle written by English Jersey Cattle Society and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agricultural Outlook for 1923 1940 written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Illinois. Division of Waterways and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salvador Dal Or the Art of Spitting on Your Mother s Portrait written by Carlos Rojas and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many books written on or by Salvador Dalí, this is the first to give a complete, well-documented picture of his life and art. Carlos Rojas's approach to Dalí is somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation. Dalí is haunted from earliest childhood by the specter of his elder brother who died as a toddler shortly before Dalí was conceived (both brothers and the father bore the same name), as he is haunted by the devouring phantom of his mother, that praying mantis on whose portrait he would like to spit. Dalí is seen as endlessly struggling to affirm his identity and existence. A combination of genius, madman, neurotic, and spoiled brat, Dalí is illuminated by his work, while the known facts of his life, his own writings, those of his sister, and of others, are used to analyze the paintings, which are described in considerable detail. Rojas also provides sustained analyses of Dalí's relationships, including his influential amorous and intellectual affair with Federico García Lorca.
