Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach


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"The history of a thriving and integrated yet forgotten Japanese American community before World War II"--




Avoiding the Subject


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Annotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.







Historic Place Names in Orange County


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Lists over 650 place names and gives a brief explanation of their origin, significance and location.




A Passion for Performance


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A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.










The Ochsenreuter's [sic]


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Jacob Oxenreider (d.1801) immigrated to Philadelphia (from Switzerland or Germany) in 1753, and settled in Northumberland County, Pennsyl- vania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, North Dakota, Montana, California and elsewhere. Includes some history of Ochsenreiters and Ochsenreithers in Germany. Includes history of the annual reunions of the Oxenreider family.