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Colored news: Criterion Club meets with Mrs. Evans by High Point Enterprise.;
Subjects: Evans, Earle, Mrs.; Burns, Arnetta.; Ross, James, Mr. & Mrs.; Gilreath, Gladys.; Harrison, George.; Lawrence, B.J.; Young, Lorene.; Graves, Anne.; Morgan, Pauline.; Parker, Mary.; Trues, Leslie.; Thompson, Sam.; Saunders, W.H., Rev.; Evans, Earle.; Champlin, James.; McRae, Julius.; Ross, James.; Holt, Carl.; Cooley, Charles.; Hill, Julius.; McRae, Earnest.; Walden, H.R., Jr.; McRae, Chesley.; Criterion Club (High Point, N.C.);
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Head Lions: Last week; List of Lions absent; Prospective new members; First meeting for 1959 annual horse show Thursday; Shorties; How fortunate; Blind man "sees" camellias; Letters to editor by High Point Lions Club.;
High Point Vertical Files: Civic Clubs--Lions Club--Newsletters
Subjects: Crawford, Herman.; Burns, James C., Mr. & Mrs.; Young, Gene.; Black, Horace.; Bollinger, M.O., Jr.; Bowman, Worth B.; Burrows, E.H.; Carter, David L.; Cheek, Ken.; Coltrane, J.W.; Covington, George A.; Ellis, L.Z.; Freeman, E. B.; Hart, C.B.; May, Sturgis.; Monroe, D.H.; Mendenhall, Robert.; McGahey, C.S.; Neill, D.S.; Norman, Ralph.; Pace, O.D.; Safrit, Bobby.; Schoch, Arch.; Short, D.H.; Smith, Frank.; Sowers, R.W.; Van Loan, J.W.; Kalte, John.; Nash, Charles.; Smith, G.D.; Wittenauer, Charles.; Chiles, N.H.; Ward, L. Glenn.; Ward, Glenn.; Miller, Ralph.; Chiles, L.C.; Conrad, James.; Slane, Willis.; Josey, Dovie.; Proctor, Vance.; Zimmerman, T.R., Dr.; Wagoner, Graham.; Rouse, D.H.; Early, Doyle.; High Point (N.C.) Lions Club.;
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HOME AND GARDEN TOUR PRESENTS "Living with Flowers" / by High Point Enterprise,author.;
PamphletHigh Point Vertical Files: Civic Clubs--High Point Garden Club
Subjects: Kellam, Hugh R., Mrs.; Spencer, Paul, R., Mrs.; Haworth, C.C., Mrs.; Linthicum, W.H., Mrs.; Ivey, Worth J., Mrs.; Grimsley, Edward, Mrs.; Thomas, O.W. "Pete", Mrs.; Napier, S.P., Mrs.; Hawthorne, Harry D., Mrs.; Wright, D.B., Mrs.; Smith, Joe H., Mrs.; Van Loan, J.W., Mrs.; Perry, Glenn G., Mrs.; Storms, Ray A., Mrs.; Idol, Ray, Mrs.; Eagle, James, Mrs.; Rivers, Leon M., Mrs.; Michael, J.A., Mrs.; Burns, Jones, Mrs.; Haworth, C.C., Mrs.; Thomas, J. W., Mrs.; Hayworth, Richard, Mrs.; Easter, Howard B., Mrs.; Lindsay, John, Jr.; Cross, Robert, Mrs.; Parker, David R., Mrs.; Given, W.M., Mrs.; Kester, Vance, Mrs.; Ivey, Worth J., Mrs.; Pitts, Reitzel, Mrs.; Ruark, Jim, Mrs.; Hughes, Fred, Mrs.; Siceloff, John, Mrs.; Gray, Alson, Mrs.; Poston, Banks, Mrs.; Thomas, J. W., Mrs.; Creech, Donald C., Mrs.; Ragan, Herb, Mrs.; Thomas, Dean K., Mrs.; Koonce, E.E., Mrs.; Bales, Carl, Mrs.; Out To Grow Garden Club.; Mattocks, C.B., Mr. & Mrs.; Rochelle, Jack, Mr. & Mrs.; Robins, Alan, Mr. & Mrs.; Jackson, W.L., Mr. & Mrs.; Graham, J.R., Mr. & Mrs.; Culler, R.B., Mr. & Mrs.; Armfield, George W., Mr. & Mrs.; Wilkinson, L.L., Dr. & Mrs.; Barthmaier, H.C., Mr. & Mrs.; Oliver, A.A., Mr. & Mrs.; Grimsley, Edward, Mr. & Mrs.; High Point (N.C.). Council of Garden Clubs.; Hum 'N Hoe Garden Club.; Dogwood Garden Club.; Tuesday Afternoon Garden Club.; Wild Flower Garden Club.; High Point (N.C.). Camellia Garden Club.; Wayside Garden Club.; Out-Our-Way Garden Club.; Garden Study Garden Club.; Country Garden Club.; Garden Makers Garden Club.; Garden Gate Garden Club.; Almanac Garden Club.; Town and Country Garden Club.; Almanac Garden Club.; Nature Study Garden Club.;
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The annals of the Civil War / by McClure, Alexander K.(Alexander Kelly),1828-1909.(CARDINAL)199978;
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv)A campaign with sharpshooters / John D. Young -- A ruse of war / John Scott -- Characteristics of the armies / H.V. Redfield -- Confederate Negro enlistments / Edward Spencer -- Death of General John H. Morgan / H.V. Redfield -- Fire, sword, and the halter / J.D. Imboden -- Flight and capture of Jefferson Davis / J.H. Reagan -- General Meade at Gettysburg / James C. Biddle -- General Reynolds' last battle / Jos. G. Rosengarten -- General Stuart in camp and field / J.E. Cooke -- Gregg's cavalry at Gettysburg / J.E. Carpenter -- How Jefferson Davis was overtaken / James Harrison Wilson -- Lee and Grant in the wilderness / C.M. Wilcox -- Lee in Pennsylvania / James Longstreet -- Lee's West Virginia campaign / A.L. Long -- Morgan's Indiana and Ohio raid / Basil W. Duke -- Morgan's Indiana and Ohio raid / J.E. M'Gowan -- Mr. Lincoln and the force bill / A.R. Boteler -- On the field of Fredericksburg / D. Watson Rowe -- Recollections of General Reynolds / T.F. M'Coy -- Some recollections of Grant / S.H.M. Byers -- Stonewall Jackson and his men / H. Kyd Douglas -- Stonewall Jackson's valley campaign / Wm. Allan -- The Baltimore riots / Frederic Emory -- The battle of Beverly ford / F.C. Newhall -- The battle of Fleetwood / A.B. M'Clellan -- The battle of Shiloh / Wills De Hass -- The Black Horse Cavalry / John Scott -- The burning of Chambersburg / John M'Causland -- The campaign in Pennsylvania / W.H. Taylor -- The campaign of Gettysburg / Alfred Pleasonton -- The capture of Mason and Slidell / R.M. Hunter -- The career of General A.P. Hill / Wm. E. Cameron -- The Dalton-Atlanta operations / Jos. E. Johnston -- The draft riots in New York / T.P. M'Elrath -- The exchange of prisoners / Robert Ould -- The famous fight at Cedar Creek / A.B. Nettleton -- The first attack on Fort Fisher / Benson J. Lossing -- The First Cavalry / James H. Stevenson -- The first great crime of the war / W.B. Franklin -- The first iron-clad Monitor / Gideon Welles -- The first shot against the flag / S.W. Crawford -- The last Confederate surrender / R. Taylor -- The mistakes of Gettysburg / James Longstreet -- The morale of General Lee's army / J.W. Jones -- The "Old Capitol" prison / N.T. Colby -- The right flank at Gettysburg / Wm. Brooke-Rawle -- The siege of Morris Island / W.W.H. Davis -- The Union cavalry at Gettysburg / D.M'M. Gregg -- The Union men of Maryland / W.H. Purnell -- The war's carnival of fraud / Henry S. Olcott -- Torpedo service in Charleston harbor / G.T. Beauregard -- Union view of exchange of prisoners / R.S. Northcott -- Van Dorn, the hero of Mississippi / D.H. Maury -- Vicksburg during the siege / Edward S. Gregory -- War as a popular educator / John A. WrightOriginally commissioned for the Philadelphia Weekly Times and first issued as a single volume in 1878, The Annals of the Civil War contains more than fifty articles and encompasses a variety of important personalities and topics. Within these pages Longstreet evaluates Lee's performance in Pennsylvania and his mistakes at Gettysburg; Kyd Douglas pays tribute to Stonewall Jackson as both general and man; H.V. Redfield examines the circumstances of John Hunt Morgan's death; P.G.T. Beauregard discusses his brilliant fortification on Charleston Harbor; Joseph Johnson critiques Sherman's account of the Dalton-Atlanta operations; J.H. Reagan recalls his pursuit and capture that led to the last Confederate surrender; and much more. But the scope of The Annals is not limited to the achievements of the sword. Other articles focus on the political and personal aspects of the war. The exchange of prisoners, the carnival of fraud and profiteering that plagued both sides, Confederate Negro enlistments, the morale of Lee's army, as well as recollections of Generals Grant, Reynolds, Meade, Stuart, and Lee are also included
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Binge Box [videorecording] : romantic comedies. by Strouse, James C.(James Clifton),1977-film director,screenwriter.; Iwanyk, Basil,film producer.(CARDINAL)341234; Lee, Erica(Producer),film producer.; Hornstein, Esther,film producer.; Stupnitsky, Gene,film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)873384; Phillips, John M.(John Masterson),screenwriter.; Saks, Alex,1987-film producer.(CARDINAL)873720; Odenkirk, Naomi,film producer.(CARDINAL)872870; Provissiero, Marc,1966-film producer.(CARDINAL)873955; Lawrence, Jennifer,1990-film producer,actor.(CARDINAL)591847; Ciarrocchi, Justine,film producer.; Gluck, Willfilm director,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)884459; Wolpert, Ilana,screenwriter.; Roth, Joe,1948-film producer.(CARDINAL)785879; Kirschenbaum, Jeffrey Alanfilm producer.(CARDINAL)824994; Coiro, Kat,film director.; Rogers, John(Screenwriter),screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)847298; Sagher, Tami,screenwriter.; Dill, Harper,screenwriter.; Lopez, Jennifer,1970-film producer,actor.(CARDINAL)220217; Goldsmith-Thomas, Elainefilm producer.(CARDINAL)848462; Medina, Benny,film producer.; Kapur, Shekhar,1945-film director.(CARDINAL)685151; Khan, Jemima,1974-screenwriter,film producer.; Barnes, Nicky Kentish,film producer.; Bevan, Tim,film producer.(CARDINAL)533640; Fellner, Eric,film producer.(CARDINAL)431530; Chopra Jonas, Priyanka,actor.(CARDINAL)344911; Heughan, Sam,1980-actor.(CARDINAL)838647; Feldman, Andrew Barth,actor.; Sweeney, Sydney,1997-actor.(CARDINAL)884828; Powell, Glen,1988-actor.(CARDINAL)850022; Wilson, Owen,1968-actor.(CARDINAL)349053; James, Lily,1989-actor.(CARDINAL)344892; Latif, Shazad,1988-actor.; 2.0 Entertainment (Firm),presenter.; Binge Box (Firm),publisher.; Columbia Pictures,presenter.(CARDINAL)747663; Excellent Cadaver (Firm),production company.; Instinct Productions,production company.; Kung Fu Monkey (Firm),production company.; Nuyorican Productions,production company.; Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment,production company.(CARDINAL)873987; Olive Bridge Entertainment,production company.(CARDINAL)884597; RK Films (United States),production company.(CARDINAL)886315; Saks Picture Company,production company.; Screen Gems (1998- ),presenter.(CARDINAL)433551; Shout! Studios,production company.; SK Global Entertainment (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)884824; Studio Canal,presenter.(CARDINAL)548221; Thunder Road Films,production company.(CARDINAL)341228; Universal Pictures (Firm),presenter, .(CARDINAL)318695; Wan mei shi jie (Beijing) ying shi wen hua you xian gong si,presenter.(CARDINAL)788294; Working Title Films,production company.(CARDINAL)532039;
Anyone but you: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Hadley Robinson, Michelle Hurd, Dermot Mulroney, Darren Barnet, Bryan Brown, Rachel Griffiths.Love again: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan, Celine Dion, Russell Tovey, Steve Oram, Arinzé Kene, Lydia West, Sofia Barclay, Celia Imrie, Omid Djalili.Marry me: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, John Bradley, Chloe Coleman, Sarah Silverman.No hard feelings: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti, Natalie Morales, Matthew Broderick.What's love got to do with it?: Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Aly, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.Anyone but you: Bea and Ben look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So, they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.Love again: Dealing with the loss of her fiancé, Mira Ray sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number...not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns' new work phone. A journalist, Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he's assigned to write a profile of megastar Celine Dion, he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person...and win her heart.Marry me: A betrayed pop star, slated to marry her pop star fiancée on stage, instead marries a stranger from the audience, a high school math teacher. Against the odds, their sham relationship develops into something real, but can their love survive the limelight?No hard feelings: On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to "date" their introverted nineteen-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.What's love got to do with it?: How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe, swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.DVD format ; wide screen.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Comedy films.; Romantic comedy films.; Romance films.; Grief; Marriage; Dating (Social customs); Man-woman relationships;
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A new Christmas treasury / by Newcombe, Jack.(CARDINAL)523389; Newcombe, Jack.(CARDINAL)523389;
The rescue / Cleveland Amory -- The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen -- Saint Stephen was a clerk / Anonymous -- I saw three ships / Anonymous -- The ghost of Christmas Eve / J.M. Barrie -- The white road / E.F. Bozman -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- December night / Willa Cather -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever -- What was the Christmas star? / Arthur C. Clarke -- Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- The Christmas tree / Samuel F. Coleridge -- Christmas Eve / Alistair Cooke -- A Christmas dinner won in battle / Stephen Crane -- little tree / e.e. cummings -- Santa Claus / Walter de la Mare -- A Christmas chapter / Charles Dickens -- The holly-tree / Charles Dickens -- A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoyevski -- An Iowa Christmas / Paul Engle -- A Christmas gift of music, long ago / Hans Fantel -- The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field -- Home for Christmas / M.F.K. Fisher -- Christmas trees / Robert Frost -- Dulce domum / Kenneth Grahame -- The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- Mellstock-Lane / Thomas Hardy -- Going the rounds / Thomas Hardy -- The listeners / Thomas Hardy -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte -- The Christmas spirit / William W. Hassler -- Gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- The inexhaustibility of the subject of Christmas / Leigh Hunt -- New-fashioned Christmas / Aldous Huxley -- Christmas Eve / Washington Irving -- A visit to the bank / Shirley Jackson -- Paris, Christmas, 1876 / Henry James -- The murder of Santa Claus / P.D. James -- Christmas Eve / James Joyce -- A letter at Christmastime / John Keats -- A schoolboy's holiday / Charles Lamb -- Old folks' Christmas / Ring Lardner -- Joy in Freetown / Edna Lewis -- Valley Forge: 24 December 1777 / F. Van Wyck Mason -- The cloud forest / Peter Matthiessen -- The lily-white boys / William Maxwell -- All the days of Christmas / Phyllis McGinley -- Merry Christmas / Herman Melville -- Christmas story / H.L. Mencken -- A hint for next Christmas / A.A. Milne -- On the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley -- A Christmas dinner / Noel Mostert -- The Christmas that almost wasn't / Ogden Nash -- Our crafty little Christmas / John Neary -- A Christmas train / Jack Newcombe -- The Christmas football match / Oswestry Observer -- War in Val D'Orcia / Iris Origo -- Celebration in Cherokee Flats / Gordon Parks -- The Christmas bird count / George Plimpton -- A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter -- The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter -- The kid hangs up his stocking / Jacob Riis -- Christmas / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the Magi / Leo Rosten -- Now is the time of Christmas / James Ryman -- Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki -- A Brooklyn Christmas / Betty Smith -- Tree-shaking day / Lillian Smith -- The burning babe / Robert Southwell -- Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Christmas on the frontier / Joanna L. Stratton -- Crisp new bills for Mr. Teagle / Frank Sullivan -- Is there a Santa Claus? / The Sun -- In Memoriam A. H. H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Doctor Birch and his young friends / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Conversation about Christmas / Dylan Thomas -- A winter walk / Henry David Thoreau -- Merry Christmas / James Thurber -- Christmas at Claremont / Queen Victoria -- The annual crisis of love / Loudon Wainwright -- The Christmas feast / Andrew Ward -- The distant music of the hounds / E.B. White -- Merry Christmas / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- An editorial on Christmas Day, 1917 / Wipers Times -- The Magi / William Butler Yeats.
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Literature.; Short stories.; Christmas;
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These were our years / by Brookhouser, Frank,1912-1975,editor.(CARDINAL)225436;
Subjects: American literature; Twentieth century.;
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Arguably : essays / by Hitchens, Christopherauthor.(DLC)n 84159549 ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.All American. Gods of our fathers: the United States of enlightenment -- The private Jefferson -- Jefferson vs. the Muslim pirates -- Benjamin Franklin: free and easy -- John Brown: the man who ended slavery -- Abraham Lincoln: misery's child -- Mark Twain: American radical -- Upton Sinclair: a capitalist primer -- JFK: in sickness and by stealth -- Saul Bellow: the great assimilator -- Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita -- John Updike: No way ; Mr. Geniality -- Vidal Loco -- America the Banana Republic -- An Anglosphere future -- Political animals -- Old enough to die -- In defense of foxhole atheists -- In search of the Washington novel -- Eclectic Affinities. Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: poor old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P.G. Wodehouse: the honorable schoolboy -- Anthony Powell: an omnivorous curiosity -- John Buchan: spy thriller's father -- Graham Greene: I'll be damned -- Death from a salesman: Graham Greene's bottled ontology -- Loving Philip Larkin -- Stephen Spender: a nice bloody fool -- Edward Upward: the captive mind -- C.L.R. James: mid off, not right on -- J.G. Ballard: the catastrophist -- Fraser's Flashman: scoundrel time -- Fleet Street's finest: from Waugh to Frayn -- Saki: where the wild things are -- Harry Potter: the boy who lived -- Amusements, annoyances, and disappointments. Why women aren't funny -- Stieg Larsson: the author who played with fire -- As American as apple pie -- So many men's rooms, so little time -- The new commandments -- In your face -- Wine drinkers of the world, unite -- Charles, Prince of Piffle -- Offshore accounts. Afghanistan's dangerous bet -- First, silence the whistle-blower -- Believe me, it's torture -- Iran's waiting game -- Long live democratic seismology -- Benazir Bhutto: daughter of destiny -- From Abbottabad to worse -- The perils of partition -- Algeria: a French quarrel -- The case of Orientalism -- Edward Said: where the Twain should have met -- The swastika and the cedar -- Holiday in Iraq -- Tunisia: at the desert's edge -- What happened to the suicide bombers of Jerusalem? -- Childhood's end: an African nightmare -- the Vietnam syndrome -- Once upon a time in Germany -- Worse than "Nineteen Eighty-four" -- North Korea: A nation of racist dwarves -- The eighteenth brumaire of the Castro dynasty -- Hugo Boss -- Is the Euro doomed? -- Overstating Jewish power -- The case for humanitarian intervention -- Legacies of totalitarianism. Victor Serge: pictures from an inquisition -- André Malraux: one man's fate -- Arthur Koestler: the zealot -- Isabel Allende: Chile redux -- The Persian version -- Martin Amis: lightness at midnight -- Imagining Hitler -- Victor Klemperer: survivor -- A war worth fighting -- Just give peace a chance? -- W.G. Sebald: requiem for Germany -- Words' worth. When the king saved God -- Let them eat pork rinds -- Stand up for Denmark! -- Eschew the taboo -- She's no fundamentalist -- Burned out -- Easter charade -- Don't mince words -- History and mystery -- Words matter -- This was not looting -- The "other" L-word -- The you decade -- Suck it up -- A very, very dirty word -- Prisoner of shelves.Essayist Christopher Hitchens ruminates on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men, the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard, the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell, the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad, the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and how politics justifies itself by culture--and how the latter prompts the former.
Subjects: Essays.;
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Diary of America; the intimate story of our nation, told by 100 diarists--public figures and plain citizens, natives and visitors--over the five centuries from Columbus, the Pilgrims, and George Washington to Thomas Edison, Will Rogers, and our own time. / by Berger, Josef,1903-1971.(CARDINAL)122533; Berger, Dorothy.;
1. The New World -- Land! / Christopher Columbus -- The Lost Colony of Roanoke / John White -- The Pilgrims find a home / William Bradford and Edward Winslow -- The City of New York / Jasper Danckaerts -- A Judge atones for the sin of Salem / Samuel Sewall -- Venturesome journey of a Boston schoolma'am / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Coffeehouse characters / Alexander Hamilton -- Diversions of a diplomat / William Black -- Major Washington earns a promotion / George Washington -- For one Indian scalp / James Cargill -- When Pittsburgh was a trading post / James Kenny -- A Quaker disarms the warriors / John Woolman -- A whimiscal "Daughter of Liberty" -- The facts of gracious living in Virginia / Philip Vickers Fithian -- Fare overseas : four years of a man's life / John Harrower -- A British Lothario goes home / Nicholas Cresswell.2. The New Nation -- The Boston Massacre / John Tudor -- How Patrick Henry made the speech / William Winstan Fontaine -- Washington is named to command / John Adams -- The Redcoats end a visit to Boston / Timothy Newell -- Tory on a tightrope / James Allen -- Sergeant Smith's subversive turkeys / John Smith -- John Paul Jones invades Great Britain / Ezra Green and John Paul Jones -- Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown / James Thacher -- Gadfly in the Senate / William Maclay -- Pa gets a new coat / Elizabeth Morris -- Alexander Hamilton loses a duel / Gouverneur Morris -- Expatriate Burr comes home / Aaron Burr -- The Devil is given a hard time in Virginia / John Early -- Andrew Jackson reads the law to the South / John Floyd -- London's darling is vexed / Fanny Kemble -- Life in Old Natchez / William Johnson -- Davy Crockett at the Alamo / David Crockett -- Farmer Brown keeps up with his chores / William R. Brown -- Metropolis in the making / Philip Hone -- The Little girl in glass and gold / Catherine Elizabeth Havens -- What they used to do at college / Joseph Cleaver, Jr. -- Thoreau describes his neighbors for posterity / Henry David Thoreau -- A Tale of two authors / Amos Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott -- Newcomer to the land of promise / Jacob Saul Lanzit -- Boy meets etc. girl / Lester Frank Ward.3. Westward the course -- Ship Columbia finds a noble river / John Boit -- Lewis and Clark go west to the sea / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- On the Santa Fe Trail / Alphonso Wetmore -- The Buffalo hunters / George Catlin -- Smallpox in Dakota / Francis Auguste Chardon -- Parkman hits the Oregon Trail ǂr Francis Parkman -- "First woman to cross the plains" / Susan Shelby Magoffin -- The Donner train is trapped in the high Sierra / Patrick Breen and James Frazier Reed -- Gold in California! / Walter Colton -- A Missourian in the Gold Rush / Bennett C. Clark -- Coronado's successors / James Henry Carleton -- A Pioneer woman's busy trip to the Northwest / Amelia Stewart Knight -- Riding herd on the Texas longhorns / James G. Bell -- "The Blackest crime on American soil" / John Doyle Lee -- California's gold fever dies hard / William Henry Brewer.4. Dedication to a proposition -- J.Q. Adams wins a fight for freedom / John Quincy Adams -- A Visitor to America witnesses a sale / William Charles Macready -- A Slave is dragged back to the South / Richard Henry Dana -- Cry from the heart of a Black girl / Charlotte L. Forten -- Death races the governor of Kansas / Andrew H. Reeder -- Lincoln's unfading old soldier / Ethan Allen Hitchock -- The Federals are routed at Bull Run / William Howard Russell -- The Lady spy of Capitol Hill / Rose O'Neal Greenhow -- Lee loses at Gettysburg / Arthur James Lyon Fremantle -- Horror at Andersonville / John L. Ransom -- The Death of Abraham Lincoln / Godeon Welles -- Booth learns he is not a hero / John Wilkes Booth -- Bad news at the old plantation / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Walt Whitman sums up for the dead / Walt Whitman.5. New Frontiers for Old -- Horace Greeley goes West / Horace Greeley -- Captain Joshua quits the sea / Joshua Sears -- Mad pace on Mississippi / Charles Francis Adams, Jr. -- Sad plight of the whaleship Minnesota / Clothier Peirce -- Litle Laura goes a-whaling / Laura Jernegan -- East and West are linked by rail / Silas Seymour -- New York in the postwar years / George Templeton Strong -- A Chicago girl's home burns / Julia Newberry -- A British lad sees the wild west / Sidford Hamp -- Mr. Edison's unuseful inventions / Thomas Alva Edison.6. Of Recent memory -- Wall street tells Barron / Clarence W. Barron -- A Yank at St. Mihiel / Elmer W. Sherwood -- War in the air / an unknown aviator -- Wilson signs the Treaty of Versailes / Edith Benham Helm -- A Visiting VIP is misunderstood / Clare Consuelo Sheridan -- A Journalist fights for Sacco and Vanzetti / Heywood Broun -- "Our own Samuel Pepys" / Franklin Pierce Adams -- A Cowboy looks at Congress / Will Rogers -- For the people, a new deal / Harold L. Ickes -- Diary of a suburban housewife / Dorothy Blake -- Behind the advertisements / James Webb Young -- Vingar Joe and the peanut / Joseph W. Stilwell -- The GIs invade Hitler's Europe / George Groh -- The Magic of Manhattan / Simone de Beauvoir -- The Abundant life of a boy / David S. Kogan.
Subjects: Diaries.; Excerpts.; American diaries.;
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Big trouble in Little China [videorecording]/ by Burton, Kate,actor.(CARDINAL)736967; Carpenter, John,1948-film director,composer.(CARDINAL)681000; Cattrall, Kim,actor.(CARDINAL)518258; Cundey, Dean,1945-director of photography.(CARDINAL)848561; Dun, Dennis,actor.; Edlund, Richard,1940-visual effects provider.(CARDINAL)847964; Franco, Larry J.,film producer.(CARDINAL)786207; Goldman, Gary,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)813471; Hong, James,actor.; Mirkovich, Steve,editor of moving image work.; Richter, W. D.,adapter.(CARDINAL)784579; Russell, Kurt,actor.(CARDINAL)809886; Warner, Mark(Mark Roy),editor of moving image work.; Warschilka, Edward A.,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)784805; Weinstein, David Z.,screenwriter.; Wong, Carter,1947-actor.; Wong, Victor,actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)340075; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation,presenter.(CARDINAL)137420;
Commentary by John Carpenter & Kurt Russell ; interactive menus ; scene selection ; original theatrical trailer ; pan & scan ; languages: English, French, Spanish ; subtitles: Spanish & English.The truth about magic -- The pork chop express (main titles) -- Nothing or double -- Miao Yin -- The airport -- Son of a bitch must pay -- Little China -- The funeral -- Chinese stand-off -- The storms -- China is here -- The white tiger -- Re-abducted -- Plan B -- Wing Kong exchange -- Mr. Egg Shen -- Elevator to hell -- Metaphysical salad bar -- Hell of the upside-down sinners -- The other David Lo Pan -- Thunder's guided tour -- Myths and legends -- Lo Pan's lament -- Freeing the captives -- We may be trapped -- Two girls with green eyes -- Plan C -- Lo Pan Don Juan -- The bog of the dead trees -- The burning blade -- It will come out no more! -- More bad news -- The spirit path -- Here comes the groom -- Time for the medicine -- Crashing the party -- Orient meets accident -- The way of all flesh -- Heavy thunder -- Lightning cracks -- 6.9 on the Richter Scale -- Order out of chaos -- Dark and stormy night -- End credits.Music, John Carpenter in association with Alan Howarth ; director of photography, Dean Cundey ; edited by Mark Warner, Steve Mirkovich, Edward A. Warschilka.Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax.Jack Burton is a big-talking, wisecracking trucker who goes beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to battle an army of spirits when his friend's fiancee is kidnapped.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) and widescreen (2.35:1) presentations; Dolby 4.1 surround (English), stereo. (French), mono. (Spanish); NTSC.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Martial arts films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Kidnapping; Martial arts; Supernatural; Truck drivers; Ghosts;
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