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We remember Pearl Harbor: Honolulu civilians recall the war ...

We remember Pearl Harbor: Honolulu civilians recall the war ...

Lawrence Reginald Rodriggs

Violet Lai Violet Lau Lai (Mrs. Kum Pui Lai), a fourth generation Chinese- American, was twenty-five and the mother of one-year-old Alma at the outset of the war. The family lived at 1037-C Seventh Avenue in Kaimuki. The couple agreed with ...
Hawaiian History: An Annotated Bibliography

Hawaiian History: An Annotated Bibliography

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... 1483,1933 Kwiatowski, P.P., 228 Kwon, Brenda L., 1842-1843 Kyselka, Will, 1526 La Croix, Sumner J., 693, 845 Ladd, Edmund, 229-230 Ladefoged, Thegn, 23 1 Ladenson, Alex, 1821 Lai, Him Mark, 175la-b Lai, KumPui, 1752 Lai, Violet L ...
Chinese Overseas: Comparative Cultural Issues

Chinese Overseas: Comparative Cultural Issues

Chee-Beng Tan

In her account of Aloiau (Wang Lo Yau), a Chinese immigrant to Hawaii, Violet L. Lai (1985) deals with this attitude of ensuring that Chinese remain Chinese. The following description of Lai (1985, 48) is illuminating: Although outwardly happy,  ...
Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 1999

Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 1999

Marlon K. Hom

Him Mark Lai, "Potato King and Film Producer, Flower Growers, Professionals and Activists: The Huangliang Du Community in Northern California," ... Violet L. Lai, "Tracing the Life of Wong Aloiau: Chinese Genealogy in Hawaii," 1988, pp.
Up and down the Cline _ The Nature of Grammaticalization

Up and down the Cline _ The Nature of Grammaticalization

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10. Some native speakers are ofthe opinion that negative permission is no longer one ofthe functions of déi, this function being taken up by modal verbs such as kéyi' and néng. 11. Ackowledgements are humbly due to Violet Lai for assisting ...
A sacred challenge: Violet Oakley and the Pennsylvania ...

A sacred challenge: Violet Oakley and the Pennsylvania ...

Pennsylvania. Capitol Preservation Committee

Likos, "Violet Oakley," 14. 61. Violet Oakley, taxi receipts, Violet Oakley Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 62. Loretta Hoagland, "Lawrence Park: Bronxville's Turn-of-the-Century Art Colony" ( Bronxville ...
Violet In Private

Violet In Private

Melissa Walker

The return of Violet, the not-so- confident model?
Haunting Violet

Haunting Violet

Alyxandra Harvey

Violet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts, especially since her mother has worked as a fraudulent medium for a decade.
Violet Oakley: An Artist’s Life

Violet Oakley: An Artist’s Life

Bailey Van Hook

Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, ...
Venous Hum

Venous Hum

Suzette Mayr

French? shouts MIle Tremblay at Lai Fun. Is there a name-tag for me somewhere ? Mile Tremblay! Bonsoir! My French is terrible. I'm sorry. No reflection on you. Je m'appelle Violet! Pas MIle Tremblay, says MIle Tremblay. MIle Tremblay 's hair ...
Iron Hearted Violet

Iron Hearted Violet

Kelly Barnhill

The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph...or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story.
Violet Dawn

Violet Dawn

Brandilyn Collins

Alone, terrified, fleeing a dark past, Paige must make an unthinkable choice. In Violet Dawn, hurtling events and richly drawn characters collide in a breathless story of murder, the need to belong, and faith’s first glimmer.
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America

William Cullen Bryant: Author of America

Gilbert H. Muller

The influence of the British poet can be seen in a delicate lyric, “The Yellow Violet ,” which Bryant wrote in 1814 when he was twenty years old. Over the eight quatrains of “The Yellow Violet,” Bryant creates a quietly dramatic encounter with the ...
Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian ...

Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian ...

Markus Poetzsch

... Anna Seward's “Sonnet: Tothe Poppy,” Harriet Falconar's “The Violet”and “The Snowdrop,” Helen MariaWilliams's “Sonnet to the Strawberry,” HenriettaO'Neill's “ Ode tothePoppy,” Walter Scott's “The Violet,” Mary Robinson's“The Snowdrop,” ...
The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and ...

The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and ...

Patrick Hagopian

Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, Four Hours in My Lai: A War Crime and Its Aftermath (New York: Penguin, 1993), 3, 74, 128-34. 19. Seymour Hersh, Cover- Up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4 (New York: Vintage ...
From Melos to My Lai: A Study in Violence, Culture and ...

From Melos to My Lai: A Study in Violence, Culture and ...

Lawrence A. Tritle

From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War.
The New Zealand Journeys of Lucy Violet Hodgkin

The New Zealand Journeys of Lucy Violet Hodgkin

Frances Henry

Lucy Violet Hodgkin (1869-1954), daughter of Thomas and Lucy Anna Hodgkin, was born in Northumberland, England. She later married John Holdsworth in 1922, whom she had met in an earlier visit to New Zealand.
Planning Buildings for a High-Rise Environment in Hong Kong: ...

Planning Buildings for a High-Rise Environment in Hong Kong: ...

Lawrence Wai-chung Lai

A Review of Building Appeal Decisions Lawrence Wai-chung Lai, Daniel Chi- wing Ho. l NOTE ON REPRINT EDITION Since the publication of this book, three major works on land and building control have appeared. The paper 'Defective ...
Change in Use of Land: A Practical Guide to Development in ...

Change in Use of Land: A Practical Guide to Development in ...

Lawrence Wai-chung Lai

A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong Lawrence Wai-chung Lai, Daniel Chi-wing Ho, Hing-fung Leung. x Preface to the First Edition To better understand the need for and type of professional services, a person should have some ...
Town Planning Practice: Context, Procedures and Statistics ...

Town Planning Practice: Context, Procedures and Statistics ...

Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai

Foreword vii By Professor John P. Lea Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii List of Illustrations XV Part I Context and Procedures 1 (By Lawrence Wai-chung Lai) Chapter 1 The Practical Need to Understand Town Planning for Professional ...
PROPERTY RIGHTS ANALYSIS OF ZO

PROPERTY RIGHTS ANALYSIS OF ZO

Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai

This dissertation, "Property Rights Analysis of Zoning" by Lawrence Wai-chung, Lai, 黎偉聰, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong ...
Principles of Hindu law: with a general introduction to ...

Principles of Hindu law: with a general introduction to ...

Sir Dinshah Fardunji Mulla

863. 872 C.S.V. Sarma v. C. Ramalakshmamma. 497 C.V.C. Chetty v. P.L.D. Chetty. 503-505 Dadaji Bhikaji v. Rukmabai. 483. 487. 641 Daddo v. Raghunath. 783 Dagadu v. Sakhubai, 389 Dagai v. Mothura. 408 Dagdu v. Namdeo, 88, 89. ... 368 Damodar v. Parmanandas, 164, 170 Damodar v. Banamali, 271 Damodar v. Senabutty, 373, 374 Damodar v. Purmanandas, 438 Damodar v. Bhogilal. 466 Damodar Lai v. Lalli Lai, 512 Damodar Rao v. Bhima Rao, 809, 812 Damodar Vishnu ...

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