History of the Blickensderfer Family in America (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from History of the Blickensderfer Family in America The earliest known authentic information of the Blick ensderfer family in America is contained in the land titles in the government archives o the city of Speyer, the capital of the Palatinate or Rheinish province of the kingdom of Bavaria, in C.ertnanv. These records state that on August 20. ijtt, the Elector John William sold and conveyed a certain "ICohlacher Estate on the Uehehuette.''situated in the Schifferstadt sub-division of the Klectorate of Sfiey-er. containing about 60 morgen of grain land and April 27. 1713- this estate was transferred to a certain Uthich Schneider, who. an February 12, 1716. received permission of the Electoral Palatinate Court to convey the same to the "Anabaptist" Blickensderfer. or Pleickens-doerffer. as the name is there written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







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History of the Blickensderfer Family in America


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Christian Blickensderfer was born 6 March 1724 in Kohlhof, Germany and emigrated to America with his family in 1753. He died 8 April 1800 in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Includes Blickenstaff, Blickensdörfer, and related families.




Big Trouble


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Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.




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Kathy Fiscus


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In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well--a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family's home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio's klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers, miners, cesspool laborers, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. The region, the nation, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio, newsreel footage, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well's proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. William Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past.




Reporting the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5


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British military and naval officers as well as journalists and others observed the Russo-Japanese War from close quarters. But there was one journalist in particular, the Times' correspondent, Lionel James, who made war-reporting history. Details have been carefully pieced together from official Times records and other sources and recorded here for the first time.




Typewriter


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In recent years, typewriters have experienced a resurgence. This fascinating book celebrates that renaissance through images of the most heralded typewriters in history, along with the stories of people who have created and used these beloved machines. Written by typewriter collectors and experts, it features 125 photographs tracing the typewriter's evolution from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries, along with print advertisements, vintage photographs, patents, and other memorabilia.