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Book Ireland s Forgotten Past  A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered

Download or read book Ireland s Forgotten Past A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered written by Turtle Bunbury and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume delves into Ireland’s forgotten history bringing to light some of the most colorful characters and intriguing episodes of the country’s long history. Ireland is approximately the size of the state of Indiana, yet this small country boasts an extensive, rich, and fascinating history. Ireland’s Forgotten Past is an alternative history that covers 13,000 years in 36 stories that are often left out of history books. Among the characters in these absorbing accounts are a pair of ill- fated prehistoric chieftains, a psychopathic Viking, a gallant Norman knight, a dazzling English traitor, an ingenious tailor, an outstanding war-horse, a brothel queen, an insanely prolific sculptor, and a randy prince. This volume offers a succinct account of the Stone Age and Bronze Age, as well as insights into the Bell-Beakers, the Romans, and the Knights Templar. Historian Turtle Bunbury writes a gently off-beat take on monumental events like the Wars of the Roses, the Tudor Conquest and the Battle of the Boyne, as well as the Home Rule campaign and the Great War. Ireland’s Forgotten Past adds color to the existing histories of the country by focusing on the unique characters and intriguing events. This volume will delight anyone interested in the rich untold history of Ireland.

Book Welfare s Forgotten Past

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  • Author : Lorie Charlesworth
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2009-12-16
  • ISBN : 1135179638
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Welfare s Forgotten Past written by Lorie Charlesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.

Book Forgotten History

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  • Author : Jem Duducu
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2016-06-15
  • ISBN : 1445656353
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Forgotten History written by Jem Duducu and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird and wonderful tales from the history you never knew happened

Book Forgotten

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  • Author : Cat Patrick
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2011-06-07
  • ISBN : 0316175064
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Forgotten written by Cat Patrick and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as she might, London can't find him in her memories of things to come. When London starts experiencing disturbing flashbacks, or flash-forwards, as the case may be, she realizes it's time to learn about the past she keeps forgetting-before it destroys her future.

Book Forgotten Past

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  • Author : Mary Alford
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0373446047
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Past written by Mary Alford and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOST MEMORIES Faith McKenzie was the only survivor of a brutal home invasion. Viciously attacked and left for dead, Faith can't remember anything about that night--including the identity of the killer. All she knows is that he's stalking her from every place she flees and has tracked her to a small Maine island. Her neighbor, private investigator and security specialist JT Wyatt, rescues her twice. Now JT is insisting on the whole story--a story that Faith can't remember. Desperate to feel safe, Faith puts her trust in the handsome P.I. Yet a killer is dead set on ensuring that Faith's memory never returns.

Book Forgotten Past

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  • Author : Robert A. D.D.S
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2006-06-22
  • ISBN : 1413478913
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Past written by Robert A. D.D.S and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forgotten Past" is the story of Moon Township's initial settlement and its demise during the American Revolution. Reborn after the Treaty of Paris, the settlers gradually restored the remnants of their frontier farms and succeeding generations proceeded to make them self-sufficient. As the nineteenth and twentieth centuries arrived, daily life is revealed in the context of local government, economic transition, social amenities, educational advances and the diversity of religious affiliations.

Book Shadows of a Forgotten Past

Download or read book Shadows of a Forgotten Past written by Paul French and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This all-new work chronicles the experiences of Paul French who, upon leaving the British Army's 21 SAS (V), sought adventure and excitement in C Squadron of the Rhodesian SAS. Upon passing the arduous Rhodesian SAS selection course, Paul was thrown into the maelstrom that was the Rhodesian Bush War. Here he participated in the SAS's infamous raid on Joshua Nkomo and numerous other operations against insurgent / liberation forces. Passing selection for Ron Reid-Daly's elite counterinsurgency specialists, the Selous Scouts, the author took part in 'externals' against FRELIMO and ' attachments' with the Mozambique National Resistance. Paul continued to serve on operations with the Rhodesian SAS until the end of the 'Chimurenga' in 1980. Paul then went on to join the South African Defense Force's elite 6 Reconnaissance Commando. A career in private security followed, with a series of assignments in Angola, Iraq and Somalia. This impressive book pulls no punches. It gives a unique and purposefully opinionated insight into the workings of the Rhodesian SAS and the Selous Scouts. It tells of the missions that succeeded and of the many that failed. It notes simply and succinctly the sheer stress and danger of special forces operations - all of which were deep in enemy-held territory with the threat of capture and death. Attempts to blow rail lines, helicopter assaults, pseudo-operations, the laying of deadly ambushes and risky parachute inserts are candidly related, accompanied by an unparalleled selection of photographs, most of which have never been published before. Born in West London, Paul French first sought military adventure in the County of London Yeomanry and then 21 SAS (V). Here, Paul discovered a yearning for hard work and arduous duty. A subsequent defence contract took him to Abu Dhabi where he learnt of Rhodesia and its attractions. Holidaying in Rhodesia, Paul took the opportunity to join the Rhodesian Army, serving with the renowned Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts. In 1980, Paul moved to the South African Defence Force, joining its elite 6 Reconnaissance Commando. Upon leaving the SADF a career in private security followed. An accomplished skydiver, Paul has thousands of jumps to his credit, and still jumps today. Married to Petah, Paul has three children. He continues to work in the security industry and now lives in the South-west of England. Shadows of A Forgotten Past is his first book.

Book The Forgotten Door

Download or read book The Forgotten Door written by Alexander Key and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Well written fantasy with strong character emphasis and empathy” from the author of the sci-fi classic Escape to Witch Mountain (Kirkus Reviews). At night, Little Jon’s people go out to watch the stars. Mesmerized by a meteor shower, he forgets to watch his step and falls through a moss-covered door to another land: America. He awakes hurt, his memory gone, sure only that he does not belong here. Captured by a hunter, Jon escapes by leaping six feet over a barbed-wire fence. Hungry and alone, he staggers through the darkness and is about to be caught when he is rescued by a kind family known as the Beans. They shelter him, feed him, and teach him about his new home. In return, he will change their lives forever. Although the Beans are kind to Little Jon, the townspeople mistrust the mysterious visitor. But Jon has untold powers, and as he learns to harness them, he will show his newfound friends that they have no reason to be afraid.

Book Tales of Forgotten Chicago

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  • Author : Richard C Lindberg
  • Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN : 0809337819
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Tales of Forgotten Chicago written by Richard C Lindberg and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden gems from Chicago’s past Tales of Forgotten Chicago contains twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people. Richard C. Lindberg has dug deeply to reveal lost historical events and hidden gems from Chicago’s past. Spanning the Civil War through the 1960s, the volume showcases forgotten crimes, punishments, and consequences: poisoned soup that nearly killed three hundred leading citizens, politicians, and business and religious leaders; a woman in showbiz and her street-thug husband whose checkered lives inspired a 1955 James Cagney movie; and the first police woman in Chicago, hired as a result of the senseless killing of a young factory girl in a racially tinged case of the 1880s. Also included are tales of industry and invention, such as America’s first automobile race, the haunting of a wealthy Gilded Age manufacturer’s mansion, and the identity of the telephone’s rightful inventor. Chapters on the history of early city landmarks spotlight the fight to save Lakefront Park and how “Lucky” Charlie Weeghman’s north side baseball park became Wrigley Field. Other chapters explore civic, cultural, and political happenings: the great Railroad Fairs of 1948 and 1949; Richard J. Daley’s revival of the St. Patrick’s Day parade; political disrupter Lar “America First” Daly; and the founding of the Special Olympics in Chicago by Anne Burke and others. Finally, some are just wonderful tales, such asa touching story about the sinking of Chicago's beloved Christmas tree ship. Engrossing and imaginative, this collection opens new windows into the past of the Windy City.

Book People of the Lakes

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  • Author : Kathleen O'Neal Gear
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1995-06
  • ISBN : 9780812507478
  • Pages : 820 pages

Download or read book People of the Lakes written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otter, a Mississippi Valley trader, undertakes a perilous journey to lead the Mound Builders to prosperity, while Star Shell, a chief's daughter, accompanies him toward Niagara Falls to destroy an evil totemic mask.

Book Forgotten Past

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  • Author : D.P. Pankratz
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2019-05-13
  • ISBN : 199948214X
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Past written by D.P. Pankratz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgotten Past is a collection of four stories. The Furnace tells the tale of Mary Lou Bell, a woman with an evil side. Owe her money, and your family will burn! The Sanatorium follows a doctor by the name of Stephen Delve who continues his work in the afterlife. Looking for a cure for Tuberculous, he uses the Sanatorium patients as lab rats. Stranger in a Strange Land finds Annabelle Church transported from 1945 to 2000. As doctors try and dissect her, wanting fame for finding out the secrets she hides within, they discover all too late the secret she carries is the demise of the human race. The House God Damned, starts with a death back in 1885 in a newly built Victorian house. In 1985, a reporter for the Star Phoenix begins investigating. The more questions he asks, the more people in the church stand in his way. As the threats fly, Vincent weathers the storm, attempting to find the answers to this house.

Book People of the Earth

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  • Author : W. Michael Gear
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2009-11-03
  • ISBN : 146681778X
  • Pages : 613 pages

Download or read book People of the Earth written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear bring the stories of these first North Americans to life in this and other volumes in the magnicent North America's Forgotten Past series. Set five thousand years ago and ranging through what is now Montana, Wyoming, northern Colorado, and Utah, People of the Earth follows the migration of the Uto-Aztecan people south out of Canada. It is the unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men who love her and the third who must have her, and of the vision given to the peoples long ago by the spirit of the wolf. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Our Forgotten Past

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  • Author : Jerome Blum
  • Publisher : London : Thames and London
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780500250808
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Our Forgotten Past written by Jerome Blum and published by London : Thames and London. This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the last seven centuries of agriculture, tells how farming methods have changed, portrays the life of the peasant, and discusses rural folklores.

Book Welfare s Forgotten Past

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  • Author : Lorie Charlesworth
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2009-12-16
  • ISBN : 1135179646
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Welfare s Forgotten Past written by Lorie Charlesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.

Book The Forgotten Past

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  • Author : Heather Hayashi
  • Publisher : BookPros, LLC
  • Release : 2007-10
  • ISBN : 1933538775
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The Forgotten Past written by Heather Hayashi and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Derrick discovers that his mother and sister are missing, hes determined to find them. As he retraces their steps, he encounters Jason, whose sister also disappeared. The two embark on a journey that leads them to Arhka where the connections between the aliens, Arhka, Earth, and the fate of the three women they're searching for slowly become clear.

Book The Forgotten Past

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  • Author : Andrew Vinken
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 178901879X
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Forgotten Past written by Andrew Vinken and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’ve all been taught about kings and queens, great battles and the rise and fall of empires. The term historians have coined for this is ‘history from above’. But what about the ordinary folk? What about almost everybody who ever existed? What about the places where no earth-shattering events have ever occurred? This book is comprised of fascinating stories and anecdotes throughout history, such as how a Bristol merchant may have played a part in giving America its name; why a First World War naval battle was fought in a jungle, and how Sir David Attenborough helped to solve a Victorian murder mystery.

Book The Forgotten Cure

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  • Author : Anna Kuchment
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-12-09
  • ISBN : 1461402506
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Forgotten Cure written by Anna Kuchment and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a void. Never before has a comprehensive history of phage therapy—a once-neglected, now resurgent field—been written. Kuchment writes from the perspective of the eager student of history for the common reader.