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How an Australian and New Zealand team salvaged eight tons of gold from a German minefield.
Author : Jeff Maynard
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Salvage
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How an Australian and New Zealand team salvaged eight tons of gold from a German minefield.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1438429304
A sweeping history of this natural wonder, from its geological beginnings to the present. "The noble cataract reflects the concerns, failings, and fancies of the times. If we gaze deeply into its shimmering image we can perhaps discern our own." - page 22 “[Pierre Berton] makes a serious and convincing case for Niagara's pivotal role in North American history. ... His Niagara is a lodestar for North American culture and invention: site of the first railway suspension bridge, inspiration for Nikola Tesla's discovery of the principle of alternating current, and the subject of Frederic Church's most celebrated landscape; a natural wonder that has bewitched generations of scientists, authors, and utopians, and stimulated innovations and social movements still casting long shadows. ... surprising, rich and engrossing.” -- Thurston Clarke, New York Times Book Review “Canadian historian Berton tells dozens of absorbing tales about the region and those who passed through it ... He tells them all superbly, aided by essential maps and a few reproductions of posters advertising some of the more bizarre stunts.” -- Publishers Weekly “Entertaining. . . . Berton brings to life the adventurers and dreamers, visionaries and industrialists, who over centuries have been drawn to the Falls.” -- Maclean’s "Berton at his storytelling best; there is something here for everyone. ... a vintage, full-bodied read." -- The London Free Press "A book worth diving into." -- Calgary Herald "By turns ironic, amused, shocked, horrified and awestruck, Berton traces Niagara's history through the deeds of those who came in contact with it ... all the while walking the fine line between detachment and emotion with agility and grace." -- The Whig-Standard (Kingston) Pierre Berton was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific authors, and is widely credited with popularizing Canadian history. His previous books include The Wild Frontier, Prisoners of the North, Klondike, The Invasion of Canada, and The Great Depression.
Author : American Unitarian Association
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Page : 900 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Illustrated books
ISBN : 1426215649
"Plan where, when, and how to plot your adventure with National Geographic's worldwide network of travel experts and insider tips from locals"--Cover.
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Page : 838 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Securities
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Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1443449369
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year In this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail). On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Corporations
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Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
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Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Government publications
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Page : 692 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Banks and banking
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