Download or read book World Famous Firsts written by A. P. Dubarry and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has always had a fascination with innovation and 'what came first' or 'who did it first'. This book points out the "what" and the "who" was first in the fields of sports, science, flight and space, history, literature, biology, medicine, American presidents,
Download or read book Famous Firsts in the Ancient Greek and Roman World written by David Matz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists discoveries and "firsts" from the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, from Aeneas's first wife to the first Roman to cultivate oysters, arranged in categories such as politics and law, mythology, literature, and military affairs.
Download or read book Famous Firsts written by Arto Best and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous First Bubbles written by Peter M. Garber and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven, what it really means, claims Peter Garber, is that we have grasped a near-empty explanation rather than expend the effort to understand the event. In this book Garber offers market-fundamental explanations for the three most famous bubbles: the Dutch Tulipmania (1634-1637), the Mississippi Bubble (1719-1720), and the closely connected South Sea Bubble (1720). He focuses most closely on the Tulipmania because it is the event that most modern observers view as clearly crazy. Comparing the pattern of price declines for initially rare eighteenth-century bulbs to that of seventeenth-century bulbs, he concludes that the extremely high prices for rare bulbs and their rapid decline reflects normal pricing behavior. In the cases of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles, he describes the asset markets and financial manipulations involved in these episodes and casts them as market fundamentals.
Download or read book Famous First Facts written by Joseph Nathan Kane and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Firsts written by Wilson Casey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who ever wanted to know the history of the chocolate chip cookie, earmuffs, and Daylight Savings! Firsts, history through the milestones of human achievement, are fun. And Wilson Casey, trivia expert, has collected over 500 firsts in nearly every major category of culture: from fashion to food, politics to science, entertainment to art to architecture. Each 'first' is a full explanation of the topic at hand, written in a humorous yet authoritative style. It includes: ?The true history of the golf tee ?How a blind man came up with cruise control ?The myth behind the origins of the Caesar salad ?Why and how the first dieter dieted
Download or read book Famous First Facts written by H. W. Wilson and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, Famous First Facts has earned the accolades of reviewers and a place on library reference shelves nationwide. This new edition of the reference classic is updated and expanded with new entries reflecting the latest developmen
Download or read book Famous First Facts written by Joseph Nathan Kane and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of World famous Music written by James J. Fuld and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-researched compilation of music information, analyzes nearly 1,000 of the world's most familiar melodies -- composers, lyricists, copyright date, first lines of music, lyrics, and other data. Includes 30 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book The Book of World famous Libretti written by James J. Fuld and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this handsome and invaluable book, James Fuld, author of The Book of World-Famous Music, examines the libretti of 167 works of musical theater. For each opera, operetta, or musical comedy libretto, he supplies a facsimile of the title page (see opposite) and, facing, all the relevant facts that can be gleaned from a close study of the original publication. In addition to a description of the physical properties of each libretto, you will find, for example, the date and place of the first performance, the names of the singers who created the roles, the original publisher of the score, and the libraries in which copies of the work in question may be found. Opera lovers will browse in it with delight, and scholars consult it with profit. Andrew Porter
Download or read book The South Pole written by Roald Amundsen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all the way from the preparation leading up to the initial sea voyage, the voyage itself and then the establishing of a camp at the Antarctic. Although they were lucky with the weather, and Amundsen attributed the success of the expedition to "good luck", it is obvious that the Norwegian expedition was well prepared and ready for the troubles ahead; the equipment, the sledges with well-trained dogs, the supply depots with seal meat at regular intervals along the route, the sunglasses to avoid snow blindness; it was all thought of in advance.
Download or read book Famous first facts a record of first happenings discoveries and inventions in the United States written by Joseph Nathan Kane and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marvel Famous Firsts written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of its 75th Anniversary, Marvel Comics proudly presents this deluxe collection of its 10 mightiest Masterworks hardcovers - plus the all-new, long-in-demand NOT BRAND ECHH VOL. 1! Each titanic tome in this limited-edition boxed set features a newly designed cover treatment and interlocking spine artwork, and the slipcase itself is patterned after stately Avengers Mansion! Order yours today, True Believer, while supplies last! SLIPCASE SET INCLUDES: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 1 HC 264 PGS./COLLECTING TALES OF SUSPENSE #59-81. DAREDEVIL VOL. 1 HC 256 PGS./COLLECTING DAREDEVIL #1-11. DOCTOR STRANGE VOL. 1 HC 328 PGS./COLLECTING STRANGE TALES #110-111 AND #114- 141, AND AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #2. NOT BRAND ECHH VOL. 1 HC 456 PGS./COLLECTING NOT BRAND ECHH #1-13; AND MATERIAL FROM AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #5, AVENGERS ANNUAL #2, DAREDEVIL ANNUAL #1, FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5 AND SGT. FURY ANNUAL #4. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1 HC 272 PGS./COLLECTING AMAZING FANTASY #15 AND AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1-10. THE AVENGERS VOL. 1 HC 248 PGS./COLLECTING AVENGERS #1-10. THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 HC 272 PGS./COLLECTING FANTASTIC FOUR #1-10. THE INCREDIBLE HULK VOL. 1 HC 176 PGS./COLLECTING HULK #1-6. THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOL. 1 HC 208 PGS./COLLECTING TALES OF SUSPENSE #39-50 THE MIGHTY THOR VOL. 1 HC 280 PGS./COLLECTING JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #83-100 THE X-MEN VOL. 1 HC 248 PGS./COLLECTING X-MEN #1-10
Download or read book Famous Firsts in Exploration written by Herbert Molloy Mason and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of thirty-two heroic explorations into the unknown, from Erik the Red's venture to Greenland, to Yuri Gagarin's flight into space.
Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball 2d ed written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Download or read book There s More to New Jersey than the Sopranos written by Marc Mappen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American tourist in Europe stopped at a restaurant in Gdansk, Poland, and struck up a conversation with a local. "Where do you come from?" he asked. "New Jersey," she said. He smiled and replied, "Ah, Sopranos!" Even fans of that popular show, one that held viewers captive, may be a bit disheartened to discover that the first thing that pops into minds around the world about New Jersey is a dysfunctional crime family, just an exit or two off the infamous N.J. Turnpike. But there's no need to live in fear that the only culture and history that the state is known for is, well, let's say, a bit of bada bing. Actually, the echo of the Big Bangùthe cosmic event that marked the birth of our universe some 13.7 billion years agoùwas first identified by scientists from Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In this lively romp through history from the primitive past to the present day, Marc Mappen's message resonatesùThere's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos. Real tales, wise tales, tall tales abound throughout the pages of Mappen's collection, filled with zest, humor, scandal, and occasionally tragedy. Annie Oakley. Ulysses S. Grant. Benedict Arnold. Ezra Pound. Shoeless Joe Jackson. These luminaries and many others share a common bond with the state that witnessed prehistoric elephants roaming its pastures, the explosion on the USS Princeton, a Martian invasion, famous firsts like the phonograph, electric light, and movies, and, well, step aside Tony Soprano: mobster Al Capone strolling along the Atlantic City boardwalk. Providing a lens into American history through lively prose and more than twenty-five illustrations, There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos is as much fun as a trip to the Jersey Shore and definitely more rewarding than a night home watching televisionù simply stated, this book is one you can't refuse to read.
