Author : Jane M. Hatch
Publisher : New York : Wilson
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Profiles the lives of many distinguished citizens of the U.S., explores the richness of its religious traditions, describes its holidays, customs, and festivities, and reports its ways of marking anniversaries.
Author : Stephen G. Christianson
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
The American Book of Days features 850 essays marking important anniversaries and the birthdays of history-making Americans throughout the 366 days of the year. All American holidays and pivotal moments are noted as readers can delve into fascinating and often overlooked accounts connected to otherwise familiar facts of American history. Cross-references and an extensive index make information easy to find, while expanded appendices feature historical documents.
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN :
Author : Robert McCord
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780806523088
Sure to delight every links enthusiast, this compendium of golf facts, trivia, anecdotes, and anniversaries presents a fascinating history and celebration of the game in a highly browsable day-by-day format. Classic games, birthdays of golf greats, the history and evolution of golf rules, equipment, and courses are all included, with an emphasis on golf's "Olympian heroes." Each entry contains a brief essay on an event or person associated with that day, such as: January 1, 1932: The United States Golf Association standardizes the golf ball. April 8, 2001: Tiger Woods wins the Masters, thus winning all four major "Grand Slam" championship tournaments in one calendar year. More than just a book of facts and dates, The Golf Book of Days is an affectionate look at "this most elegant of games." This fact-packed volume deserves a place on every golfer's bookshelf.
Author : Lanford Wilson
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802137418
In Book of Days, Lanford Wilson uses note-perfect language to create characters who are remarkable both for their comic turns and for their enormous depth."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375005385
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the calendar. Including anecdote, biography, and history. Curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character.
Author : Robbins Elliott
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1988-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1550020331
The Ontario Book of Daysis a light-hearted and whimsical chronicle of some of the most interesting events in Ontario's history. Events and happenings of all sorts from all parts of the province -- from politics, sports, and business, to cultural events and natural disasters are happily intermingled -- whether they took place two centuries or two years ago.
Author : George William Douglas
Publisher :
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Fasts and feasts
ISBN :
Author : Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0873517415
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN :
