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The Record of an Aeronaut: Being the Life of John M. Bacon

The Record of an Aeronaut: Being the Life of John M. Bacon

Gertrude Bacon

John Mackenzie Bacon was no exception to the rule. His mother was, and still is ( for at the moment of writing she yet survives at an extremely advanced age but in fullest possession of all her powers), an exceedingly clever woman.
International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to ...

International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to ...

Catharine M. C. Haines

John Mackenzie Bacon, a keen balloonist and scientist who conducted numerous experiments on sound transmission. Gertrude Bacon accompanied him on most of his expeditions and lecture tours. In August 1896 Bacon traveled to Norway ...
Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Gilles Deleuze

Francis Bacon is Deleuze's long-awaited work on Bacon, widely regarded as the one of the most radical painters of the twentieth century. The book presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art.
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

Alice Walker

Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, ... placed one hand under a wing, the other under Gertrude's body, covering Gertrude's gray, scaly, entirely precious feet.
Francis Bacon: The Human Body

Francis Bacon: The Human Body

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest British artists of this century.
Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict

Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict

Wieland Schmied

This book includes many private photographs of Bacon in his studio. There is an increasing interest in Francis Bacon - exhibition just ended at The Scottish National Gallery of Art (September 2005).
The Party Begins with Bacon

The Party Begins with Bacon

Peter Kaminsky

Great appetizers can help break the ice and jumpstart a party. In The Party Begins with Bacon, bacon masters Peter Kaminsky and Marie Rama have selected fifteen fabulous party recipes from Bacon Nation to kick off your next great gathering.
Wars I Have Seen

Wars I Have Seen

Gertrude Stein

Wars I Have Seen is the American writer Gertrude Stein's memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. Gertrude Stein was living in Europe during the time of the war.
Proceedings of the ... Representative Assembly

Proceedings of the ... Representative Assembly

National Education Association of the United States. Representative Assembly

I would like to yield to Linda Bacon at Mike 2. President Chase: Microphone 2, Linda Bacon. Linda Bacon (Florida): Thank you, President Chase. Linda Bacon from Florida, speaking for the delegation. Delegates, this item is simple and it helps ...
Bacon Nation: 125 Irresistible Recipes

Bacon Nation: 125 Irresistible Recipes

Peter Kaminsky

Bacon Nation is a bacon-lover’s dream, a collection of 125 smoky, savory, crispy, meaty, salty, and sweetly sensuous recipes that go right through the menu.
The Congregationalists(1904), by Leonard Woolsey Bacon ...

The Congregationalists(1904), by Leonard Woolsey Bacon ...

Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Leonard Woolsey Bacon (January 1, 1830 - May 12, 1907)was an American clergyman, born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

A. Funari

1 (Winter 2000): 96–143. Bacon,Francis. The Advancement ofLearning.1605. Facsimilereprint. London:Dodo Press,2005. ... Coleridge, SamuelT. “Francis Bacon.” InColeridge ontheSeventeenth Century,edited by Roberta Florence Brinkley, ...
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

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Eight children. 2. Margaret (Peggy), bapt. in Truro 20 April 1788; d. in Bangor, Maine, 5 Feb. 1864; m. 25 Dec. 1810 John Arno Bacon, b. in Boston 10 April 1783, d. 15 June 1829, son of Josiah and Dolly (Arno) Bacon. Mr. Bacon, by act of the ...
Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell

Susan Goodman

During her lifetime the name of Gertrude Bell evoked rich images of the exotic and mysterious Arab world.
Bacon's Dictionary of Boston

Bacon's Dictionary of Boston

Edwin Monroe Bacon

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer Writing

Elizabeth Bacon Custer Writing

Elizabeth Bacon Custer

This collection consists of an essay entitled "Christmas on the Plains" by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer.
A Stein Reader

A Stein Reader

Gertrude Stein

This important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity.
LEONARD BACON

LEONARD BACON

Leonard 1802-1881 Bacon

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of ...

A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of ...

Liora Lukitz

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, the daughter of one of the most eminent members of the rising elites, was a vivid example of the new spirit of enterprise that spilled over from the aristocracy to Britain's financial and industrial upper classes.
The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing

The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing

John D. Ramage

The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, Brief Edition, is a paperback volume that contains all of the content of The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing with the exception of Part Six, A Guide to Editing.
Narration: Four Lectures

Narration: Four Lectures

Gertrude Stein

Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein delivered her Narration lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935.
Top 101 Remarkable Women

Top 101 Remarkable Women

Britannica Educational Publishing

(b. 1868–d. 1926) nglish traveler and writer Gertrude Bell worked as an administrator in Arabia. She playedaprincipalpart in the establishment of the Hāshimite Dynasty inBaghdad. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born on July 14, 1868, ...
Portraits and Prayers

Portraits and Prayers

Gertrude Stein

Portraits and Prayers is a collection of early essays and word portraits by the American writer Gertrude Stein. Her subjects often provide a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons.
Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon

Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon

Professor Steven Matthews

This book argues that by considering the historical context of Bacon's society, and his conversion from Puritanism to anti-Calvinism as a young man, his own theology can be brought into clearer focus, and his philosophy more properly ...

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