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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Witness Carnival Number
Author: The Witness Carnival Number
Author: The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward BeecherPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The New York Supplement
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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The Wall of Death: Carnival Motordromes
Author: David GaylinPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146712706X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In 1911, the operators of Coney Island's Luna Park premiered a miniature, radically banked racetrack for staged automobile races that seemed to defy gravity. For a fee, patrons would watch from the perimeter of the 85-foot wooden saucer as daredevil drivers raced on the steep angle of the tiny track. The attraction created a sensation and was quickly copied with a show that featured motorcycle riders performing breathtaking stunts. When portable versions were made available, every traveling carnival owner in the United States rushed to have one. Motordromes with perfectly vertical walls soon followed, which permitted riders on their Indian motorcycles to climb, sometimes to a height of 20 feet, with nothing but centrifugal force between them and a trip to the trauma ward. And when full-grown lions were added to pursue riders in the arena, no one could resist buying a ticket! The Wall of Death, a name these shows received in 1917, remained a staple attraction on American carnival midways until the 1970s.
Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes
Author: Richard MargittayPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465332367
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book, written primarily as a training guide for law enforcement personnel, demonstrates how easily police officers can get sucked in by professional con artists. Secondly, the book was written to alert potential victims of the lack of police protection. Thought of by many as just "nickel and dime," the reality is that most midway games, which start with $2 or $5 per play, sometimes builds to more than $100 in losses. It was evident these openly brazen career criminals, who primarily target children these days, account for several million dollars annually in Michigan alone, while they proclaim that their good-natured fraud and gambling enterprises are not crimes at all, but merely "games of skill." For more information, please visit www.carnivalcongames.com You may email the author at [email protected] You may visit http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/money/consumer/call_for_action/before-you-head-out-to-a-summer-carnival,-we-tell-you-why-you-need-to-beware-of-some-carnival-games to view the WXYZ-TV exposure of rigged Carnival Games.
From Subjects to Citizens
Author: Sarah C. ChambersPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271042575
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Offering a corrective to previous views of Spanish-American independence, this book shows how political culture in Peru was dramatically transformed in this period of transition and how the popular classes as well as elites played crucial roles in this process. Honor, underpinning the legitimacy of Spanish rule and a social hierarchy based on race and class during the colonial era, came to be an important source of resistance by ordinary citizens to repressive action by republican authorities fearful of disorder. Claiming the protection of their civil liberties as guaranteed by the constitution, these &"honorable&" citizens cited their hard work and respectable conduct in justification of their rights, in this way contributing to the shaping of republican discourse. Prominent politicians from Arequipa, familiar with these arguments made in courtrooms where they served as jurists, promoted at the national level a form of liberalism that emphasized not only discipline but also individual liberties and praise for the honest working man. But the protection of men's public reputations and their patriarchal authority, the author argues, came at the expense of women, who suffered further oppression from increasing public scrutiny of their sexual behavior through the definition of female virtue as private morality, which also justified their exclusion from politics. The advent of political liberalism was thus not associated with greater freedom, social or political, for women.
Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division
Author: Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor Or Management Field
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management FieldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1472
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management FieldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1506
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