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Author : Bruce Edward Hall
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :

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This is the astonishing illicit history of Hudson, New York, which for many years was the unlikely setting for a world of prostitution, gambling, murder, and government corruption?with more than a touch of the Keystone Kops thrown in. In the century or so before 1950, Hudson was famous as a shopping center of vice. There were at least two major illegal horse rooms, a big-stakes floating crap game, and as many as fifteen houses of ill repute. Meanwhile, the church suppers took place and the parades marched up and down as Hudson's respectable citizenry convinced themselves that there was nothing out of the ordinary in this town described as, ?ten streets wide and ten streets deep... a Norman Rockwell painting in motion.?

Author : Audrey Vernick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544612361

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Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again collaborated to bring us a captivating picture book about a compelling but little-known piece of baseball history. Beginning in 1922, when Edith Houghton was only ten years old, she tried out for a women’s professional baseball team, the Philadelphia Bobbies. Though she was the smallest on the field, soon reporters were talking about “The Kid” and her incredible skill, and crowds were packing the stands to see her play. Her story reminds us that baseball has never been about just men and boys. Baseball is also about talented girls willing to work hard to play any way they can.

Author : Craig Revel Horwood
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1789292492

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An offbeat, funny and heartwarming romantic novel from the fabulous King of Strictly, Craig Revel Horwood.

Author : Rachel Lichtenstein
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0241142873

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Hatton Garden is one of the most secret streets in England, home for two centuries to a deeply private working community of diamond and jewellery dealers. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) and professionally (as an artist archivist of London's streets), Rachel Lichtenstein is uniquely placed to explore the extraordinary history of this mysterious quarter, with its ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, subterranean rivers, monastic dynasties and forgotten palaces. Moving beyond the street itself into parts of Clerkenwell, Holborn and Farringdon, Rachel follows the ancient perimeter of the original Hatton Garden estate, which once bordered the lost River Fleet. Guided on her walks by archaeologists, sewer flushers, artists, goldsmiths, geologists and visionaries of the city such as Iain Sinclair, she crosses the same territory repeatedly, gathering new layers of the story with each journey. The result is a brilliantly immersive and multi-layered portrait; both a documentary and a secret history of a vanishing world.

Author : Jane Langton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1973-10-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064400428

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Eddy and Eleanor discover a secret attic room in their extraordinary house.

Author : Susan Escherich
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 0788135023

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A guide for developers of affordable housing on how to work with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Contents: benefits of rehabilitating historic buildings for affordable housing (benefits to owners and developers, benefits to tenants, benefits to the community, a successful approach to rehabilitation, and solving common design issues in historic buildings); and 11 case studies of successful projects. Appendices: Federal section 106 review; state and local environmental review; and historic building codes. Glossary and bibliography.

Author : Pennsylvania Bar Association
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Bar associations
ISBN :

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List of bar associations in Pennsylvania, in v. 2-39; 1896-1933.

Author : Allen Meyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1439627126

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Strawberry Mansion: The Jewish Community of North Philadelphia is a testament to the urban experience in American Jewish life. Perfect for fans of Jewish-American History. A section of North Philadelphia, Strawberry Mansion is nestled high on the banks of the Schuylkill River, adjacent to the large expanses of Fairmount Park, with many wonderful venues such as Woodside Park. The area became the setting for America's premiere Jewish Community in the 20th century, with over 50,000 inhabitants. Strawberry Mansion was the first Jewish suburb within an urban setting. Affectionately known as the Mansion, it was only a trolley car ride away from South Philadelphia's immigrant district. Jewish families migrated from one neighborhood to another as they advanced economically in American society during the early 1900s. By the mid-1950s, the decision to discontinue the once heavily traveled Route #9 trolley car marked the decline and eventual demise of Strawberry Mansion as a Jewish enclave.

Author : Julia Golding
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1596433515

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Cat Royal has long red hair, green eyes, and not a penny of her own. But she does know where a treasure is hidden in the theater that is her home. The problem is, she isn't the only one looking for it, in this mystery set in 18th-century London.