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Ted Turner: it ain't as easy as it looks

Ted Turner: it ain't as easy as it looks

Porter Bibb

ndent Peter Bibb of the brilliant man whose cable network revolutionized the television industry is now available and updated in paperback for the first time. "(Bibb is) at his best recounting juicy tales of Turner's life not just as a ...
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

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There are two contingencies, on the happening of either one of which, the estate given to Thomas Bibb was cut off and vested in his brother, David Porter Bibb. The one was, that Thomas Bibb " should die leaving such male issue, the same ...
Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South

Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South

J. Frazer Smith

Mr. Bradley Bibb, eldest son of Captain Porter Bibb, is the present owner and lives there with his twin sister and very delightful family. Mr. Bibb is a gentleman of the Old South who is passing his last years amid the traditions of the three ...
Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Alabama. Supreme Court

The testator's second son, David Porter Bibb, was married in the year 1834, and had two children living at the time of the testator's death, the eldest of whom, a son, was born in 1837, and is still living; and said David Porter Bibb died on the 9th ...
Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and ...

Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and ...

Margaret M. Storey

Take, for instance, the experience of Porter Bibb, a "very strong union man" who was "devoted to the United States government" and was threatened with hanging by Confederates on numerous occasions.30 Bibb was part of an "intimate" ...
Tales Round a Winter Hearth

Tales Round a Winter Hearth

Jane Porter

Jane Porter, Anna Maria Porter. prodigies of valour, Eustace and Baldwin de Bouillon gained the walls in one quar-' ter; and Godfrey, with De Bourg, and their followers on the other. My Baron and his, were with the latter. The town was carried ...
General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account ...

Edward Porter Alexander

In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life.
General Edward Porter Alexander at Antietam: Account of the ...

General Edward Porter Alexander at Antietam: Account of the ...

Edward Porter Alexander

In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life.
Robertson Report

Robertson Report

E. Dale Hastin Smith

Lester Franklin Saffell. 2. Ruth Harriet Porter b 5 Jun 1900 Union Co, IA; m. 23 Jul 1917 George Anderson. 3. Edith Leota Porter b 31 Aug 1901 Union Co, IA; m 12 Feb 1927 Phil E. Petty. 4. Gladys Alona Porter b 29 Mar 1904 Union Co, IA; ...
The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical ...

The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical ...

Steve Schifferes

Notes 1 Dilwyn Porter pioneered research into the history of the financial press: Dilwyn Porter, '“A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public”: Harry Marks and the Financial News, 1884–1916', Business History, 28 (1986), pp. 1–17; Dilwyn Porter, ...
The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

Frances Porter Stewart

Frances Porter Stewart. UC-NRLF HIINIHIWIHHMH lli) llHHlilNVIIHIHIIIV В 5 BDC ] ULB The alooholysis of some amine salts By Frances Porter Stewart. Front Cover.
Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World

Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World

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Senior Research Fellow Department of Historical and International Studies Dilwyn Porter, Dilwyn Porter, Adrian Smith. Contents. List of contributors vii Introduction 1 ADRIAN SMITH AND DILWYN PORTER 1 Sport and national identity in ...
Peace and Security: Implications for Women

Peace and Security: Implications for Women

Elizabeth Porter

Implications for Women Elizabeth Porter, Anuradha Mundkur. NEW APPROACHES TO PEACE AND CONFLICT PEACE AND SECURITY: implications for Women Elisabeth Porter & Anuradha Mundkur Professor Elisabeth Porter teaches ...
The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

Cole Porter

From "Begin the Beguine" to "It's Delovely" to "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "I Get a Kick Out of You", here are the complete lyrics to the much-loved songs of Cole Porter--800 songs meant to be hummed, sung, danced to, and remembered.
Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing

Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing

James E. Porter

In the second half of the book, Porter considers special cases involving electronic discourse on the networks that challenge or undermine conventional print-based law and ethics.
Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Laurin Porter

In comparing the cycle with the works of William Faulkner and Eugene O'Neill, Porter positions Foote at the intersection of southern literature and American drama.
My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled ...

My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled ...

Frances Porter

From these rich, diverse (and largely unpublished) sources, Frances Porter and Charlotte Macdonald have built up a portrait of 'life as it happens' in nineteenth-century New Zealand. The women of this book are mainly Pakeha.
London: A Social History

London: A Social History

Roy Porter

Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Feminist Perspectives on Ethics

Feminist Perspectives on Ethics

Elizabeth Porter

In addressing the issue of ethics, Elisabeth Porter goesto the heart of some ofthemost heated debates in contemporary Western civilization. Issues suchasabortion, reproductive technology, pornography, loveand friendship are ones which ...
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of ...

Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of ...

Edward Porter Alexander

Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manass Rescued from an archive and published only eight years ago, this private memoir by Confederate General Porter Alexander is now recognized as one of the ...
One's Self I Sing, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Porter Gould

One's Self I Sing, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Porter Gould

Elizabeth Porter Gould

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Roy Porter

Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.
Recovery of Virtue

Recovery of Virtue

Jean Porter

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas' theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary ...
Horton Foote: A Casebook

Horton Foote: A Casebook

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... with the town becoming a kind of extended family. As in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga, Foote's cycle extends beyond the story of the Robedauxs and Harrison, Texas, to the entire South, tapping finally 112 Laurin Porter LAURIN PORTER.
Her One and Only (A Porter Family Novel Book #4)

Her One and Only (A Porter Family Novel Book #4)

Becky Wade

This is a must-read for anyone testing the balance between autonomy and faith."--Booklist "Romance readers will find this a satisfying conclusion to the Porter Family series."--Christian Retailers + Resources
The Scottish Chiefs

The Scottish Chiefs

Jane Porter

The Scottish Chiefs By Jane Porter. Originally published in 1931. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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