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The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World

The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World

Patricia Tyson Stroud

Looks at the life and work of the father of descriptive ornithology.
Thomas Say: New World Naturalist

Thomas Say: New World Naturalist

Patricia Tyson Stroud

It was there, under relatively primitive conditions, that he produced his great work on shells, American Conchology, with plates drawn and colored by his wife, Lucy Sistare Say. This is the first full biography of Thomas Say in sixty years.
America's Communal Utopias

America's Communal Utopias

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On Thomas Say, see Patricia Tyson Stroud, Thomas Say: New World Naturalist ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). 60. The nature and implications of the social structure of Owenite New Harmony are analyzed in Lucy ...
American National Biography: Rousseau-Simmons

American National Biography: Rousseau-Simmons

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Patricia Tyson Stroud SAYENQUERAGHTA (1707M786?), Seneca leader and diplomat, was born probably in Ganundasaga near present-day Geneva, New York, the son of Cayenquaraghta, a Seneca chief killed during one of the frontier  ...
The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's ...

The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's ...

Patricia Tyson Stroud

12. Joseph to Baron de Me ́neval, Point Breeze, 30 May 1836, quoted in Lettres d 'exil, 210. 13. Ibid., 203. 14. Joseph to Joseph Hopkinson, London, 30 January 1835, Mailliard Family Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth ...

Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth ...

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Patricia Tyson Stroud's full-length biography of Say, the first to be published since Harry Weiss and Grace Ziegler's biography in 1931, reestablishes an accurate, sensitive portrait of this front-ranking zoologist. Hardly a branch of natural history  ...
Le roi Jérôme: Frère prodigue de Napoléon

Le roi Jérôme: Frère prodigue de Napoléon

Jacques-Olivier Boudon

988 Voir Patricia Tyson Stroud,The ManWho Had Been King. The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph, Philadelphie, University of Philadelphia Press, 2005, 269 p. 989AN,400AP 85,Jérôme à Joseph,16juillet 1821. 990 Ibid., Jérôme  ...
Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: ...

Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: ...

John Woolf Jordan

Church of Philadelphia, September 30, 1784, Barbara Wentz, of a family long settled in Whitpain township. Issue of Joseph and Elizabeth (Robinson) Tyson: Hannah Tyson, b. Jan. 6, 1774, d. inf.; Hannah Tyson, b. March 25, 1775; Mary Tyson ...
Pennsylvania State Reports

Pennsylvania State Reports

Pennsylvania. Supreme Court

E. Tyson, by her will, proved in 1845, bequeathed to " my sister, Hannah Tyson, intermarried with Charles Tyson, the interest of the sum of five thousand dollars ( now secured, &c.), to be paid to her in equal half-yearly payments, yearly and ...
Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants

Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants

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sp -Cat her ine BER6EY-3260 (1796 -1845) 4 - Hannah TYSON- 3263 sp Sol omon M I LL3 -3265 4-- Abraham TYSON 3264 (1023-1098) sp Elizabeth KEY3ER -3266 (1829-1901) 5— Isaack TYSON 3267 (1849- 1853) 5— Mary Emma ...
Lineages of Members of the National Society of the Sons and ...

Lineages of Members of the National Society of the Sons and ...

National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

The said Edwin Tyson Coxe was the son of Jonathan Cox, born 1789, died 1852, and his wife Hannah Tyson Cox, born 1797, died 1873; married 1818. 4. The said Hannah Tyson Cox was the daughter of Johathan Tyson, born 1773, died ...
The Kansas Historical Quarterly

The Kansas Historical Quarterly

Kirke Mechem

New York, The Ligon Family and Kinsmen Association, 1939. Lowell, Mrs. Harriet (Davis), The Stroud Family History, Descendants of Captain Richard Stroud of New London, Connecticut. Rutland. Vt., The Tuttle Company, 1934. McCoy ...
Ian Tyson: I Never Sold My Saddle

Ian Tyson: I Never Sold My Saddle

Ian Tyson

A no-holds-barred portrait of the legendary singer/songwriter.
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Reflecting on topics that range from scientific literacy to space-travel missteps, Tyson gives us an urgent, clear-eyed, and ultimately inspiring vision for the future.
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal ...

American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal ...

Ann Scott Tyson

Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first spoke with Gant when he was awarded the Silver Star in 2007.
Familiar Spirits: A Practical Guide for Witches & Magicians

Familiar Spirits: A Practical Guide for Witches & Magicians

Donald Tyson

Now, renowned occultist Donald Tyson shares his revolutionary system for safely and successfully summoning, directing, and dismissing a familiar.
Major Problems in American History

Major Problems in American History

Elizabeth Cobbs

Timothy B. Tyson of Duke University looks at the career of Robert F. Williams, who first advocated the strategy of militant resistance to white violence. Williams's viewpoint was shocking to many at the time, but Tyson argues that Williams ...
5 Seven Magazine

5 Seven Magazine

Nikita K. Grayson

Primadonna Brand Marketing brings the business acumen of CEO Danielle Tyson to the forefront. As the leading woman of Party Primadonna, Tyson understands that without brand identification, a product, service, or persona has no ...
Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories

Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories

Ian Tyson

The title song of the CD was co-written by Tyson with Stewart MacDougall, and tells the story of a pack of wolves transported from Canada s Yellowhead Pass to America s Yellowstone National Park, where the species had become extinct told in ...
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all—from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, ...
The Demonology of King James I: Includes the Original Text ...

The Demonology of King James I: Includes the Original Text ...

Donald Tyson

Now occult scholar Donald Tyson has modernized and annotated the original text, making this historically important work accessible to contemporary readers.
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy

William Wade Hinshaw

Parvln prcf Short Creek MM, dtd 1839,10,22, to m Ellen Stroud 1839, 11, 13. Parvin rmt Ellen Stroud 1840, 1, 15. Ellen S. get Short Creek MM 1841, 9, 15. Joab & w, Ruth, & ch, Amy, Hannah, Julian, Catharine, Griffith, Joel & Phebe, get White ...
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

Neil deGrasse Tyson

From the first image of a galaxy birth to Spirit Rover's exploration of Mars, to the discovery of water on one of Jupiter's moons, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct a galvanizing tour of the cosmos with clarity and ...
Three Stories

Three Stories

Marcia Tucker

Marcia Tucker Marion Boulton Stroud. INDIANA UNlVEl?.SiTT LIBRARIES BLOOMINGTON Marcia Tucker Three Stories Edited by Marion Boulton Stroud Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, Matsumoto Incorporated a?*aP* Published by Acadia ...
Jet

Jet

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Tyson's Return A Triumph, KO's Frank Bruno In Five Undisputed heavyweight champion Iron Mike Tyson shook off eight months of ring rust and dismantled British challenger Frank Bruno in five rounds, proving once again that inside the ring ...
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Neil Degrasse Tyson

This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of ...
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

“[Tyson] tackles a great range of subjects . . . with great humor, humility, and—most important— humanity.” —Entertainment Weekly Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil ...
Catalogue from Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago, U. ...

Catalogue from Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago, U. ...

Charles Tyson Yerkes

Charles Tyson Yerkes ... The picture contains 103 figures, including the little dog to the left. ... One sweet little girl of the trio, with lovely complexion and graceful pose, has her left arm around the shoulder of her little black-haired companion, ...
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at ...

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at ...

Marion Boulton Stroud

The founder of the Acadia Summer Arts Program, Marion Boulton Stroud, asked Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour to design and construct houses and other structures for the camp.
Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained

Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained

Patricia Hughes

Patricia Hughes, Daniel Riordan ... clumsy use of 'he or she', we have used 'she' for the therapist and 'he' for everyone else. Patricia Hughes Daniel Riordan April 2006 About the authors Patricia Hughes MD, FRCPsych is Professor in Preface.

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