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The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights

Brian Alderson

Brian Alderson brings out all the humor, enchantment, suspense, and mystery of these delightful stories.
A Sense of Honor

A Sense of Honor

James Webb

Two dissimilar midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy personify the sense of conflict and transition afflicting the academy as it shifts from being a military training school to a college for nuclear engineers and technicians
Songbird:

Songbird:

Syrie James

I did not want this story to end.” —Jane Austen’s World The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen “This fascinating novel will make readers swear there was such a man as Mr. Ashford and that there is such a memoir…Tantalizing, tender, and ...
Propositions:

Propositions:

Syrie James

I did not want this story to end.” —Jane Austen’s World The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen “This fascinating novel will make readers swear there was such a man as Mr. Ashford and that there is such a memoir…Tantalizing, tender, and ...
Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, ...

Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, ...

H. Michael Gelfand

Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of ...
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Academy

It was moved, seconded, and— Rssonvsn,—-That the fresh thanks of the Academy are due, and are hereby returned to ... Richard O'Donnell, Bart, has this day deposited in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy that ancient Irish reliquary, ...
Directory of the Members of the American Academy of ...

Directory of the Members of the American Academy of ...

American Academy of Periodontology

... M. Schaffer Robert G. Schallhorn David R. Scharf Miles H. Scheffer Michael J. Scheidt Eric Scheyer Robert E. Schifferle ... Richard James Sternberg Martin Stemig John D. Sterrett Kathy J. Stetler Carol W. Stevens George G. Stewart Norman ...
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Polite literature ...

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Polite literature ...

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It was moved, seconded, and— REsoLvED,--That the fresh thanks of the Academy are due, and are hereby returned to Sir ... Richard O'Donnell, Bart, has this day deposited in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy that ancient Irish reliquary, ...
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Academy (Dublin)

THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. VOLUME XXII. PART VI.-POLITE LITERATURE. DUBLIN: PRINTED BY M. H. GILL, PRINTER TO THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. SOLI) BY HODGES AND SMITH, DUBLIN, AND BY T.
National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Hydrology. The U.S. Department of State transmitted it to UNESCO, and international planning meetings, under its auspices, were held in 1963 and 1964. Nearly 100 nations are participating. The major ...
Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy, ...

Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy, ...

United States Naval Academy

Post, John H., III Potter, Miles B. . . Potter, Stephen D. Potts, Edwin S. . . Prairie, John E. . . Pratchios, John R. Price, Gene Hill . ... Silverthorne, C. W. . Simmons, Eric C. . . Sjostrom, Nils A. . . Slaight, James B. . . Slonecker, M. L. . . Smith, Baker A.
Annual Report - National Academy of Sciences

Annual Report - National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

.Solar Observatory, Mount Wilson, Cal. 1902 HASTINGS, CHARLEs S . . ... U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. 1885 HoLMEs, WILLIAM H . . . . . . .Bureau of ... Tufts College, Mass. 1889 MICHELsoN ... Columbia University, New York City.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting, National Academy of ...

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting, National Academy of ...

National Academy of Arbitrators. Meeting

Chapter 6 THE PENSION PROTECTION ACT, VEBAS, AND OTHER CHANGES TO THE PROVISION OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS: SHOW ME THE MONEY Co- Moderators: IraJaffe, Member, National Academy of Arbitrators, Potomac, ...
The Hagey families in America and the Dulaney family

The Hagey families in America and the Dulaney family

King Albert Hagey

See Orline St. John Alexander, The St. John Genealogy (New York, The Grafton Press, 1907), p. 518; also Dulaney-St. John connections under Dulaney Family, Part Three of this volume. b. Nov. 23, 1919; son of James Eugene Alderson and ...
Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Vol. 11, pt. 1, "Centennial volume," includes full list of officers and members of the academy, 1780-1881.
Report of the National Academy of Sciences

Report of the National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). rockets and satellites; the Panel on Oceanographic Data of the NRC Committee on Oceanography (see page 74) has agreed to serve as an advisory panel to the Geophysics Research Board for WDC-A ...
Power Play

Power Play

Avon Gale

A freak accident during the Stanley Cup Playoffs put an end to Max Ashford's hockey career.
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Academy (Dublin)

Royal Irish Academy (Dublin). In the calamities of the civil wars of 1641 this family lost their ... Some of the translations made for the latter are to be found in the library of the British Museum. To these meagre facts I can only add that of his death, ...
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Academy. Of this metal I analyzed eight specimens, viz.: No. 1. Fragments of one of the twisted “torques,” supposed, I believe, to have been worn round the neck (Museum mark, 513 D). It consisted of a strip of thin plate gold, twisted ...
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

... George Henry- Chase (FE IV :2), Henry Asbury Christian (11:4), Clive Day (111 :3), Henry Sturgis Dennison (111:4), John Dickinson (111:1), John Erskine (IV :4), Clark Leonard Hull (IV :1), James Robertson Jack (1:4), Dugald Caleb Jackson ...
Historic Photos of United States Naval Academy

Historic Photos of United States Naval Academy

James W. Cheevers

Through captions and essays, author James Cheevers does commendable work recounting the story of this unique school, pivotal to maintaining the nation’s naval supremacy on the seven seas.
Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering

Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

Julius Adams Stratton, eminent scientist, educator, leader of institutions, and an important figure in the ultimate establishment of the National Academy of Engineering, died on June 22, 1994. He was ninety-three years old. Dr. Stratton grew up ...
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: for the year ..

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: for the year ..

Royal Irish Academy

William R. Wilde, Esq., presented a remarkably round skull found in a tumulus with an urn, near Dunamaes, and also a skull discovered at Kilmainham with the iron weapons lately presented to the Academy by the Governors of the Royal ...
Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences

Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences

More editions

THOM, SEARS, REESIDE, SPENCER, and LAWSON. C. WYTHE COOKE, Secretary. JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BOARD OF EDITORS 382 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL ...

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