Download or read book Sic Semper Tyrannis So be it Ever to Tyrants written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tyrants Within Us and the Thread of History written by Benjamin Todd Koucherik and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sic Semper Tyrannis written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chasing Lincoln s Killer written by James L. Swanson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.
Download or read book The Big Lebowski written by Jenny M. Jones and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhether contending with nihilists, botching a kidnapping pay-off, watching as his beloved rug is micturated upon, or simply bowling and drinking Caucasians, the Dude—or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing—abides. As embodied by Jeff Bridges, the main character of the 1998 Coen brothers’ film The Big Lebowski is a modern hero who has inspired festivals, burlesque interpretations, and even a religion (Dudeism). In time for the fifteenth anniversary of The Big Lebowski, film author and curator Jenny M. Jones tells the full story of the Dude, from how the Coen brothers came up with the idea for a modern LA noir to never-been-told anecdotes about the film’s production, its critical and commercial reception, and, finally, how it came to be such an international cult hit. Achievers, as Lebowski fans call themselves, will discover many hidden truths, including why it is that Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) is so obsessed with Vietnam, what makes Theodore Donald “Donny� Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi) so confused all the time, how the film defies genre, and what unexpected surprise Bridges got during filming of the Gutterballs dream sequence. (Hint: it involved curly wigs and a gurney.) Interspersed throughout are sidebars, interviews with members of the film’s cast and crew, scene breakdowns, guest essays by prominent experts on Lebowski language, music, filmmaking techniques, and more, and hundreds of photographs—including many of artwork inspired by the film./div
Download or read book Sic Semper Tyrannis Book One Passage written by Eli Solitas and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby is on the run. His country has been annexed, horrors roam the wastelands, and now that he has made a terrible mistake, he knows he can never go home. When he meets Victory, it's a blessing. Victory has been on the Blue Road for years. Victory is smart. Victory is cruel. She takes him in, and it might be the one chance of survival Baby has. But the comet has passed. The world is changing, and Victory is at the centre of the storm. Saving himself is hard enough - now, Baby might have to save her, too.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Julius Caesar A Critical Introduction written by Cedric Watts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the play really about? Tragedy, history, problem play - what is its genre? Who, if anyone, is the play's hero? Is the murder of Caesar justified? Is Brutus a hypocritical Stoic? How does posthumous characterisation work? What makes the play so topical? ""Julius Caesar"" has long been regarded as one of Shakespeare's greatest dramas. Some of its phrases live on famously: "Beware the Ides of March"; "Et tu, Brute?"; and "Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears!". When Cassius says, "How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, / In states unborn and accents yet unknown?", his question is indeed prophetic: history's answer has transformed the question into a boast. This concise, clear introduction explains just why. Professor Cedric Watts, M.A, Ph.D., is the editor of the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series. In 2020, this book was banned by Amazon!
Download or read book Our Martyred President Abraham Lincoln A poem written by Mrs. Phebe Ann HANAFORD and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington on Coins and Currency written by Heinz Tschachler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington is the most popular subject on coins, medals, tokens, paper money and postage stamps in America. Attempts to eliminate one-dollar bills from circulation, replacing them with coins, have been unsuccessful. Americans' reluctance to part with their "Georges" are beyond rational considerations but tap into deep-felt emotions. To discard one-dollar bills means discarding the metaphorical Father of His Country. Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, said that monetary tokens were "vehicles of useful impressions." This numismatic history of George Washington traces the persistence of his image on American currency. These images are mostly from the late 18th-century. This book also offers a close look at the pictorial tradition in which these images are rooted.
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey Volume 68 Shakespeare Origins and Originality written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 68 is 'Shakespeare, Origins and Originality'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey. This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results.
Download or read book Soldiering For Freedom written by Bob Luke and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Civil War history provides an in-depth look at the impact and experiences of African American men fighting in the Union Army. After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, many enslaved people in the Confederate south made the perilous journey north—then put their lives at risk again by joining the Union army. These U.S. Colored Troops, as the War Department designated most black units, performed a variety of duties, fought in significant battles, and played a vital part in winning the Civil War. And yet white civilian and military authorities often regarded the African American soldiers with contempt. In Soldiering for Freedom, historians John David Smith and Bob Luke examine how Lincoln’s administration came to the decision to arm free black Americans, how these men found their way to recruiting centers, and how they influenced the Union army and the war itself. The authors show how the white commanders deployed the black troops, and how the courage of the African American soldiers gave hope for their full citizenship after the war. Including twelve evocative historical engravings and photographs, this engaging and meticulously researched book provides a fresh perspective on a fascinating topic.
Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book—named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “The most accurate, thorough, and up-to-date quotation book ever compiled.”—Bryan A. Garner, Los Angeles Review of Books Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Download or read book Saratoga National Historical Park New York written by Charles W. Snell and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lincoln Museum and the House where Lincoln Died written by Stanley William McClure and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Titanic Edition written by Robert Marshall Haven and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I went ahead and integrated some of Robbie's shorter works into the one now called "The Titanic Edition", materials now also including Abe Lincoln, Pinocchio, John Lennon and Jesus – keeping in mind that all individual pages don't necessarily work in and of themselves but somehow contribute to the respective specific tale, taken as a whole. Maybe it is this idea of Robbie's very real challenges with autism, that are types of parts contributing to the whole which would seem to apply in other ways, perhaps, as a message to us for our mental, if not religious benefit, general principle or rule of thumb for daily living. It is this idea that that which immediately meets the eye is not necessarily everything underlying the whole substance either, somewhat like the inevitable iceberg that so sunk the Titanic. It becomes one of Robbie's obsessions that continues as he is still knocking the sketches out, always about this majestic ship that proved temporary/transitory, at best. Let's hope this particular interest of his doesn't reflect an exact parallel/parable of other things going on for him and/or all of us either. Sometimes actually, my wife, Lisa, and I aren't always so certain that this particular interest of his is altogether so wholesome either. It is as if, you know, the people don't end up faring so well of course, once the majestic mechanical industrial floating wonder hits the massive ice crystal to its, and by extension perhaps, to everyone else's demise too. But if we don't take it that way, that is, if this story of a sinking ship, at least as Robbie sees it, is really a type of triumph, then perhaps Robbie is on to something. A tragic event that is cool, not because of the corresponding deaths, but because the nature of a majestic ship used once, somehow still existing in our minds, becomes a worthy attainment – that the birth, short-lived journey and abrupt plummeting has value beyond the tragedy of lost lives. And for Robbie, at least, that value seems to continue on if not in his mind's eye, then perhaps in his sketches and drawings. That there could be a type of silver lining to a story that doesn't end well. It still endures, hopefully in a wholesome way, as he contributes to this kind of residual art – a kind of manifestation, as it were, that continues through the eyes and hands of an autistic young man, in this case Robert Marshall Haven. It serves to please us, if not feed us, as well-founded art often does.
Download or read book Historical Handbook Series written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
