Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
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Category : Bixby letter
Languages : en
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Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
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Category : Bixby letter
Languages : en
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Executive Mansion Washington, Nov. 21, 1864 To Mrs Bixby, Boston, Mass. ...
Author: Abraham LincolnExecutive Mansion. Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam: I Have Been Shown in the Files of the War Department a Statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that You are the Mother of Five Sons who Have Died Gloriously on the Field of Battle ...
Author: Abraham LincolnA Letter by Abraham Lincoln
Author: Abraham LincolnFacsimile of an Autograph Letter to Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass., Dated, Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864, Signed A. Lincoln
Author: Abraham LincolnA Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts
Author: Willard Goldthwaite BixbyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Abraham Lincoln
Author: Abraham LincolnSelections from Abraham Lincoln
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Ambrose Bierce is Missing
Author: Joe NickellPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813164141
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another -- or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to look over his shoulder as he demonstrates the use of varied techniques in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. All the major categories of historical mystery are here -- ancient riddles, biographical enigmas, hidden identity, "fakelore," questioned artifacts, suspect documents, lost texts, obscured sources, and scientific challenges. Each is then illustrated by a complete case from the author's own files. Nickell's investigation of the giant Nazca drawings in Peru, for example -- thought by some to provide proof of ancient extraterrestrial visitations -- uses innovative techniques to reveal a very different origin. Other cases concern the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce, the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the truth about the identity of John Demjanjuk ("Ivan the Terrible" to Polish death camp victims), the fate of a lost colonial American text, the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In reaching his solutions, Nickell demonstrates a wide variety of investigative techniques -- chemical and instrumental analyses, physical experimentation, a "psychological autopsy," forensic identification, archival research, linguistic analysis, folklore study, and many others. His highly readable book will intrigue the scholar and the history buff no less than the mystery lover.
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