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The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877-1917) (SparkNotes History Note)
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SparkNotes History Guides help students strengthen their grasp of history by focusing On individual eras or episodes in U.S. or world history. Breaking history up into digestible lessons, the History Guides make it easier for students to see how events, figures, movements, and trends interrelate. SparkNotes History Guides are perfect for...
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News of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was met with so much excitement, emotion and ticket demand in November 2022 that the concerts could become one of the biggest runs of live shows in the history of pop music. It would be a remarkable accomplishment, but not all that shocking considering the multitude of record-breaking achievements Swift has managed to amass since she first arrived on the music scene in 2006. On her way to becoming the definitive
...7) Cold War Era
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Two nations. Two ideologies. One Cold War. From 1947 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an open rivalry known as the Cold War. Dive deep into your exploration of history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include images of maps, images, newspaper...
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Dive into history and explore the Progressive Era, a time of real change for the United States. Discover the changes inspirational men and women were able to make for better work conditions, women's rights, and breaking up monopolies. The change makers were Presidents, writers, reformers, and suffragists, all working hard to make the United States better.
This book builds content knowledge across multiple social studies disciplines. The text features...
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"[A] book critic of The Washington Post digs into the books of the Trump era and ... [asserts] that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible"--
As a book critic for The Washington Post, Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Now he uses these books to tell the story of how we understand...
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With the voice of over forty-five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes explore key moments in the history of espionage.
• The rise of spy ships.
• How torpedo boats faced the might of the Soviet Union.
• A blow-by-blow of the USS Liberty incident.
• The North Korean capture of the USS Pueblo and her crew.
• Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and the failed Operation Barbarossa.
• The South's fatal miscalculation.
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Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775-1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure of the Napoleonic War. Lavishly illustrated with period maps, views, portraits, cartoons and newly commissioned color photographs, it includes not only these structures' forerunners, and plans that were never executed, but also the grand...
14) Supernova era
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Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left to them. And in shaping the future however they want,...
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30 Wrestlers in 13 Super Bouts, Featuring Dr. Jerry Graham & The Fabulous Kangaroos VS Antonio Rocca, Miguel Perez & Ricky Starr, Bruno Sammartino VS Fred Blassie, "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers VS Johnny Valentine & "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers VS Pat O'Connor For The NWA World title. More stars include Nick Bockwinkel, Ed Carpentier, The Sheik & Boxer Joe Louis. Plus nostalgic interviews.
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20 wrestlers in 10 bouts. See "baby face" legends including WWWF Champ Bruno Sammartino who held the title 11 years over 2 reigns, AWA Champ Verne Gagne, NWA Champ Lou Thesz, NWA Champ Bobo Brazil, & NWA/AWA Champ Edouard Carpentier. There's "Mr. America" Gene Stanlee, ballet sensation Ricky Starr, & Antonino Rocca, who thrilled millions with his ring acrobatics. Plus nostalgic interviews.
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This book presents a critical review of the performance of UN Peacekeeping with its changing scope from traditional peacekeeping to peacemaking and peace building. In this context while taking the of case studies of UN peace building operations in Rwanda, Mozambique, East Timor and Sierra Leone, he has critically examined the achievements and challenges before the UN peacekeepers in performing their responsibilities in civil war like conditions. This...
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In 1854, two horrendous shipwrecks took place off the New Jersey coast. The Powhattan and the New Era were both American-flag sailing packet ships carrying hopeful European immigrants to new lives in America. The ships ran aground on the offshore sandbars along the shoreline between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Inlet, claiming the lives of many passengers and crew. The staggering casualties finally prompted calls from the public and politicians for reforms...
19) The Dark Era 2
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Dark clouds enveloped the world, the sun disappeared forever, the demons of the abyss watched the world, and mankind entered the darkest era. When I wake up, the eternal night shall be my world.
20) The Dark Era 3
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Dark clouds enveloped the world, the sun disappeared forever, the demons of the abyss watched the world, and mankind entered the darkest era. When I wake up, the eternal night shall be my world.
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