Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Bailey, F. Lee (Francis Lee)
Summary: F. Lee Bailey shares his experiences from the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 BAIHallman, J. C.
Summary: "In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures--performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"--forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, ANARCHA HALMinert, Roger P. (Roger Phillip)
Contents: Reverse alphabetical index -- Alphabetical index -- Reverse alphabetical index -- Alphabetical index
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Publisher / Publication Date: GRT Publications 2005
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19 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert ALSACE-LORRAINECall number: R GEN 929.343 Minert BADEN
Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert BAVARIA
Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert BRANDENBURG
Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert BRAUNSCHWEIG
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Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert KINGDOM OF SAXONY
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Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert PROVINCE OF SAXONY
Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert RHINELAND
Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
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Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert WURTTEMBERG
Hammer, Peter J.
Summary: The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith, authors Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 347.732 KEIPlace, Frank
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cortland County Historical Society 1983
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 PlaceSummary: Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC O.J.Dilts, Bryan Lee
Summary: Index for genealogists, historians, demographers, and other researchers who wish to quickly determine where specific individuals are located on the available portions of the 1848 and 1850 censuses of Canada West (approximately the same in boundaries as modern Ontario).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Index Pub. 1984
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3713 CEN 1848 1850Summary: In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, and he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaufort Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 SIMSummary: The original nominal return of the various nineteenth-century censuses are among the most commonly used and most useful of genealogical sources, providing the name, age, birthplace, ethnic origin, and occupation of every resident at a point in time, in this instance 2 April 1871. It is the only source that comes close to being a comprehensive listing of the population. Why 1871? There are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3713 INDToobin, Jeffrey.
Summary: "The Run of His Life will be the definitive history of the most famous criminal proceeding of the century. Here is the whole story of the events of June 12, 1994, and their aftermath, as it has never been told - rich in character, driven by the nonstop plot of a legal thriller, and nuanced by the foibles, vanities, and idiosyncracies of its participants. This news-breaking, behind-the-scenes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 TOODoyle, Brian
Summary: "Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers to call it, like the Native Americans once did, Wy'east). He is entering high school, adulthood on the horizon not far off in distance, and contemplating a future away from his mother, father, and his precocious younger sister. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYSimpson, J. A.
Summary: "What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments, its quirks,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMPSON, J. A.Young, R. J.
Summary: "With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the racial tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOUNG, R.J. YOUContents: Run to Jesus for refuge (Charles Barnett) -- Joe Turner (Ed Young & Hobart Smith) -- The Titanic (Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & the Georgia Sea Island Singers) -- Witness for my Lord (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Dark day (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- The very same God (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Gospel train (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- I got a home (Nat Rahmings, Hobart Smith & Ed Young) -- Hey, hey, honey...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOUBugliosi, Vincent.
Summary: A best-selling account by the author of Helter Skelter outlines the main reasons O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, from the jury's makeup to the incompetence of the prosecutors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1532 BUGSummary: Several essays discussing the past, present, and future of the National Geographic Society accompany an index covering one hundred years of the Society's magazine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 910.5 NATHinshaw, William Wade
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1999
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3 HINBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021