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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Author: Charles R. Kubic
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ISBN: 9780981992952
Category : Iraq War, 2003-
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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The story of the U.S. Navy Seabees and the First Marine Expeditionary Force Engineer Group during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Bridges to Baghdad tells the story of the "fighting Seabees? and their role in the Iraq War, focusing upon their individual experiences from the time they "snuck" into Kuwait in the fall of 2002 through their redeployment to Iraq as part of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM II in 2004. Bridges to Baghdad also recounts the Seabees' operations at the command level from the perspective of their commander, Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic, including the story of the creation and employment of a new division-level organization, the First Marine Expeditionary Force Engineer Group (I MEG). This was the first such Naval Expeditionary Engineer formation of its kind since World War II. I MEF Commanding General, Lieutenant General James Conway, later summed up the Seabee?s value to the war effort when he told a key MEG task force commander that "the determination and skill that your Sailors displayed was nothing short of magnificent!"

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Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Author: Ralph E. Strootman
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ISBN: 9781494097059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.

Author: Darlene Clark Hine
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: Justin Healey
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ISBN: 9781876811273
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Examines the extent of the heroin problem - Heroin trials - Youth drug court - Methadone - Naltrexone - Need to see illicit drug use as a health and social issue rather than a criminal one.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Author: Aaron E. Klein
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Category : African American inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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This book presents the inspiring stories of numerous black Americans, from contemporaries of George Washington to men of the present, who have overcome restrictive prejudices to contribute significantly in their respective fields. --Jacket

Author: United States. War Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Juliet E.K. Walker
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock. With his wife and four of his children, Free Frank left Kentucky in 1830 to settle on a new frontier. In Pike County, Illinois, he purchased a farm and later, in 1836, platted and successfully promoted the town of New Philadelphia. The desire for freedom was an obvious spur to his commercial efforts. Through his lifetime of work he purchased the liberty of sixteen members of his family at a cost of nearly $14,000. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional man, through working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of African Americans.