1852年の冬、ジョン・ロブリングは、ニューヨーク・ブルックリン間に巨大なつり橋を架けることを思いつく。広い川幅のイースト川に、安全な橋を架けることは可能のか。不可能と思われたその夢は、息子夫婦にひきつがれ、30年後、完成した。どんな困難にあっても、決してあきらめずに夢を実現した、ロブリングの家族の力強い物語。
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"This was an anxious time for American Jews, stung by the anti-Semitic quotas and discrimination of the interwar years and the growing horror regarding the fate of European Jewry as the Holocaust came…
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"Showers of blood, however dreadful, were not news. Pliny, Cicero, Livy, and Plutarch mentioned rains of blood and flesh. Zeus makes it rain blood, 'as a portent of slaughter,' in Homer's Iliad."This…
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This edition features• illustrationsPrefatory NoteHeadquarters Southeastern DepartmentCharleston, S.C.11th August, 1917Captain Keene has made an interesting contribution to the literature of the…
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The TaxTheRichDotName e-mails evolved as an effort to draw attention and popularize the author’s view of a quick and easy solution to the problem of income disparity and the distribution of…
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"He was such an eye-opener to me . . . such a reversal of the whole way you think about life and society."This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also…
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История Америки для тех, кто не любит историю. Читается как роман.
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Entre Marcelle et Marie, il y a plus qu’un océan. Les croyances, les niveaux de vie, les préoccupations de chacune ne peuvent a priori être identiques, puisque l’une grandit dans un confortable Canada…
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En 1908, afin de lutter contre le favoritisme qui mine autant l’efficacité de l’administration publique que la démocratie, le Parlement canadien décrète que les fonctionnaires de l’État seront…
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