Čulen, Konštantín.

Summary: "Konštantin Culen was the first Slovak writer to undertake systematic research in the history of the American Slovaks, and the first to write a part of that history. He prepared many rich chapters on the history of parishes, movements, organizations, societies...Culen was the first to bring about a rapprochement between Slovak America and the land of its origins. And had he accomplished nothing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International 2007

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Bolen, Jean Shinoda.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1994

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Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1995

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Van Buren, Peter.

Summary: From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq. A shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad, and a vividly rendered tale of ineptitude and corruption.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2011

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Allen, P. David

Contents: Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Part I. making a federal case, by accident -- Green Bay convergence -- The Feds don't take Wisconsin's hint -- Inner turmoil at Fish and Wildlife -- Grand theft -- Part II. The Feds take the case -- Can't we all just get along? -- Making the case -- Escalation to the breaking point -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- References.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2023

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Steves, Rick

Summary: From the top of the Eiffel Tower to the ancient catacombs below the city, explore Paris at every level with Rick Steves!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2019

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Steves, Rick

Summary: A series of self-guided tours around the city of Rome including the Vatican Museum and St. Peter's Basilica, and the ancient ruins.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, an imprint of Perseus Books 2017

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Bunten, Alexis

Summary: "Pia rushes over to the Indigenous community center after school. It's where she goes every day to play outside with friends and work on her homework. But today--March 18, 2021--is special: Auntie Autumn gathers all the children around their television to witness Secretary Deb Haaland in her ribbon skirt at the White House as she becomes the first Native American to serve as a cabinet...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Puleo, Stephen

Summary: "On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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Stuever, Hank.

Summary: In "Tinsel," Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

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Boles, Frank

Summary: "The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2017

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Bulion, Leslie

Summary: "...Galápagos tells the complex story of a young volcanic ecosystem influenced by seasonal ocean currents, where food energy moves through integrated land and sea communities, each in its own season of growth and renewal. Millions of years ago, undersea volcanos in the eastern Pacific Ocean erupted, spewing up lava, rocks, and ash that eventually formed a cluster of islands: the archipelago...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023

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Culin, Stewart

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1975

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Otele, Olivette

Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans"...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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Puleo, Stephen

Summary: "The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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Bolden, Tonya

Summary: "A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022

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Buhle, Paul

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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2003

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Butel, Jane.

Summary: "In all, more than 160 recipes to feed the irresistible passion and teach the methods of 'Chili Madness.'"--Back cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2008

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