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In and Out of Hollywood: A Biographer’s Memoir

In and Out of Hollywood: A Biographer’s Memoir

Charles Higham

A Biographer's Memoir Charles Higham. slave of a prefect, or senior boy, whose every command I must obey or be caned in the process. The cheerless establishment with its dismal chilly schoolrooms was haunted by smells of body odor, ...
Howard Hughes: The Secret Life

Howard Hughes: The Secret Life

Charles Higham

Bestselling biographer Charles Higham goes beyond the enigma to reveal the incredible private life of Howard Hughes: * his romances with the great stars of Hollywood--Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and numerous ...
The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia

The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia

Charles Higham

This book addresses the controversy over the origins of the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Charles Higham provides a systematic and regional presentation of the current evidence.
Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia

Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia

Charles Higham

The archaeology of the early cultures of mainland Southeast Asia has been transformed in the ten years since Charles Higham published the first major summary of the period from 10000 BC to the fall of the Kingdom of Angkor.
Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America

Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America

John Higham

--Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Higham's topics range from the work of the Jewish novelist Abraham Cahan to the Statue of Liberty.
American Swastika

American Swastika

Charles Higham

William Wiseman (Sir William Stephenson's precursor as British Intelligence chief ) and Charles Howard Ellis, both had Nazi connections. In that book, Sir William, through his biographer, addresses himself to the matter of the theft of the Victory ...
Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery

Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery

Charles Higham

Martin Jarvis narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series.
Dark Lady

Dark Lady

Charles Higham

The book charts her luxurious New York upbringing, her eyebrow-raising entry into the British aristocracy through marriage to Lord Randolph Churchill, son of the Duke of Marlborough, her endless line of liaisons with men of vastly inferior ...
The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor

The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor

Charles Higham

The book covers the background of environmental change, the adoption of rice farming, archaeogenetics, the adoption of copper-based metallurgy, the iron age and the origins of state formation.
Kate: The Life of Katharine Hepburn

Kate: The Life of Katharine Hepburn

Charles Higham

Thoroughly revised and updated, this vivid biography surveys the life and career of the eminent American film and stage actress, highlighting important episodes and relationships in her life and outstanding productions and performances.
The Origins of Ancient Vietnam

The Origins of Ancient Vietnam

Nam C. Kim

In Handbook of Archaeological Theories, edited by R. Alexander Bentley, Herbert Maschner, and Christopher Chippindale, pp. 245–272. Lanham: AltaMira Press. Bentley, R. Alexander, Katherine Cox, Nancy Tayles, and Charles Higham.
The Civilization of Angkor

The Civilization of Angkor

Charles Higham

""The Civilization of Angkor is remarkable and unique in that it delves into the prehistoric roots of the civilization.
The English Journal of Education

The English Journal of Education

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Trinity College ; Samuel Butler, Thomas Higham, Samuel Wayland Kershaw, Charles Stanwell, Wm. Mathew Thomas, and Ant. J. Anstruther Wilkinson, St. John's College ; Chas. David Blomefield, and Arthur Watson, Caius College ; Alex.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Letters of the king of England

Letters of the king of England

Halliwell-Phillipps

Charles I. to Richard Browne 1643 343 Charles I. to prince Maurice . . , 1643 343 Charles I. to the mayor of Newbury 1643 344 Charles I. to the queen 1644 344 Charles I. to general Goring 1644 145 Charles I. to the earl of Newcastle . , 1644  ...
Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

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Charles and I unpacked the root of the problem in the following exchange: Cheryl : Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: What do you think caused the problem with the [first story of reform—the state ...
The Boston Directory

The Boston Directory

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Hunt Charles. ship and freight broker, 156 State, bds. 65 Hancock Hunt Charles. h. Nep. av. near Chickatawbut, Nep. Hunt Charles A. boards 17 Green. Charlestown Hunt Charles А. machinist, house 54 (lates Hunt Charles E. clerk, 60 11igh,h ...
The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

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John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

Charles W. Maynard

His father, also named John Charles, was from France. Anne Beverley Whiting, John Charles's mother, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Whiting of Richmond, Virginia. When John Charles was only five years old, his father died.
Researching World War I: A Handbook

Researching World War I: A Handbook

Robin D. S. Higham

General accounts that place the American combat experience in the broader context of the 1918 campaign can be found in John Toland's No Man's Land [206 ], Rod Paschall's The Defeat of Imperial Germany [163], James H. Hallas' Doughboy ...
Criminalizing Sex, Defining Sexuality: Sodomy, Law, and ...

Criminalizing Sex, Defining Sexuality: Sodomy, Law, and ...

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According to Peter G. Filene, this period represented a crisis in masculinity. Building on Commager and Higham's concept of a “watershed moment,” Filene defines the Progessive Era as an important era in the reconstruction of masculine  ...
The genuine works of Charles Cotton

The genuine works of Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton. SCAR RONID ES; OR, Virgil Travestie. A MOCK-POEM In Imitation of the FOURTH BOOK O F FIRGIL's Æneis, In Englifo Burlesque, By CHARLES COTTON, Esq; The Fourteenth Edition. .f v. '-.-' a .a J V ' -'. .1.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark ...

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark ...

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5,752,675 THRUSTER CONTROL OF YAW WITHOUT YAW MEASUREMENTS Thomas Joseph Holmes, Portola Valley; Peter Timothy Gauthier, and John S. Higham, both of Mountain View, all of Calif., assignors to Space Systems/Loral, Inc., ...
Cuttings from newspapers, etc. relative to the county of ...

Cuttings from newspapers, etc. relative to the county of ...

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... Cookley—Samnel Stagoll Higham Corehithe—Edmund Cuttingham ('rutjield— Samnel Churchyard Dara/Iam—Simon Kemp Dunu'ich—John Robinson Euslon Bavents— Frustenden—Daniel Riches Halerworth—William Anner George G.
The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

In the year 1795, Charles Lamb resided with his father, mother, and sister, in lodgings at No. ... whom he had faithfully served for many years ; Charles's salary , which, being that of a clerk of three years' standing in the India House, could have ...

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