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Category : Genealogy
Languages : zh-TW
Pages : 486
Book Description
Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica
London, Its Origin and Early Development
Author: William PagePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356406937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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Portishead Radio
Author: Larry BennettPublisher: New Generation Publishing
ISBN: 9781800318960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Portishead Radio was the world's largest long range maritime radio communications station. Originally located at a site in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1920, the transmitters were relocated to Portishead, near Bristol, shortly after the receiving station was moved to Highbridge, Somerset during the 1920s. The station, originally operated by the British Post Office, provided vital communication links both to and from ships at sea, using Wireless Telegraphy (Morse code), Radiotelephony, and latterly, Radiotelex. The developmental and war years are recounted in detail, as well as the rise (and eventual fall) of commercial maritime radio traffic over 80 years of service. The aeronautical and leisure markets are recalled, as well as other services provided by the station. The station closed in 2000, as satellite technology became the preferred method of ship-to-shore communication. This book gives both a technical and social history of the station; how it worked, what it was like to work there, and fondly recalls many of the stories and characters who became part of the station's charm. Using many photographs, staff memories, and with recently-found magazine and newspaper articles, the complete history of this important and much-missed station can be told for the first time.
The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies
Author: Alfred Thayer MahanPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown
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Category : Anglo-Saxon race
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Law on Its Trial
Author: Alfred Hutchinson DymondPublisher:
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Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Absolute at Large
Author: Karel CapekPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667661116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The Absolute at Large (Továrna na absolutno in the original Czech, literally translated as The Factory for the Absolute), is a science fiction novel written by Czech author Karel Čapek in 1922. The first sentence opens the story on New Year's Day 1943 -- a future date at the time of writing -- and describes the fundamental transformations in society as the result of a new mystical source of virtually free energy.
Adam the Creator
Author: Karel ČapekThe Wright Family of Penrith, 18th-21st Century, and the Relationship with the Lamley Family
Author: Jim TunleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781527225992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The Makropoulos Secret
Author: Karel ČapekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Czech drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Yvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.