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Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: The Story of McIntosh ...

Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: The Story of McIntosh ...

Buddy Sullivan

Charles C. Thorpe of Lebanon plantation was one South Newport River planter who had a real brush with the effects of the Civil War, according to a story told years later by his granddaughter, Isabel Thorpe Mealing. C.C. Thorpe was captured ...
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Helen Thorpe

What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history...Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review).
Jim Thorpe: A Biography

Jim Thorpe: A Biography

William A. Cook

A Biography William A. Cook. 8 Thorpe Loses His Olympic Meelals By early January 1913, the question of Jim Thorpe's amateur status was fast becoming a major media event. According to sports columnist Edward MOSS, the first article to be ...
Fatal Identity

Fatal Identity

Joanne Fluke

Ashley Thorpe led her into the trailer. “You can leave us, Jolene. I'll bring Miss Calder to the set when we're ready.” As Marcie followed him to the couch, she was thoroughly awed. Ashley Thorpe was even more handsome in person than he ...
The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: Higher ...

The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: Higher ...

Hannah Gay

J. C. Philip, who earlier had been appointed to boost physical chemistry in the department, was given a chair in 1914.44 At the same time, one of Thorpe's old students and namesake, Jocelyn Thorpe, was appointed professor of organic ...
Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe

Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe

Barrie Penrose

At 2:34pm on Friday 22 June 1979, the jurors in what had been billed as "The Trial of the Century" filed into Number One Court at the Old Bailey to deliver the verdict on the Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, Privy Counsellor, the former MP for North ...
The Chemistry Department at Imperial College London: A ...

The Chemistry Department at Imperial College London: A ...

Hannah Gay

She and Jocelyn Thorpe became coeditors of the fourth edition. After Jocelyn Thorpe died in 1940, Whiteley continued as sole editor, working on the Dictionary into her seventies with the help of an Assistant Editor, A. J. E. (John) Welch.156 ...
RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX

RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX

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Terrence Fong, Charles Thorpe, and Charles Baur. Advanced interfaces for vehicle teleoperation: Collaborative control, sensor fusion displays, and remote driving tools. Autonomous Robots, 11(1), July 2001. Terrence Fong, Charles Thorpe, ...
Shakespeare, Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard

Shakespeare, Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard

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Rogers, Amanda and Ashley Thorpe, eds. Contemporary Theatre Review, 24(4), 2014a. Rogers, Amanda and Ashley Thorpe. 'Interview with the RSC's Hannah Miller, Head of Casting, and Kevin Fitzmaurice, Producer', Contemporary Theatre  ...
British Marine Conchology: Being a Descriptive Catalogue, ...

British Marine Conchology: Being a Descriptive Catalogue, ...

Charles Thorpe

Being a Descriptive Catalogue, Arranged According to the Lamarckian System, of the Salt Water Shells of Great Britain Charles Thorpe. MAKINE CONCHOLOGY; BEING 21 Betfrripttfct Catalogue, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE ...
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George

Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George

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Andrew Thorpe, Richard Toye. No Royal o HISTORICAL - SOCIETY CAMDEN Fifth series Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George EDITED BY ANDREw THORPE AND RICHARD TOYE WOLUME 50 PARLIAMENT ...
Yesterday and Forever

Yesterday and Forever

Sandra Marton

Daniel Thorpe was tall, dark, and gorgeous, with money to burn.
Missing Children

Missing Children

Gerald Lynch

Dr. Lorne Thorpe, a well-known pediatrician, is on a rare outing with his daughter Shawn when she is abducted.
Theirs to Cherish

Theirs to Cherish

Shayla Black

Now Callie is torn between Sean and Thorpe, and though she’s unsure whom she can trust, she’ll have to surrender her body and soul to both—if she wants to elude a killer… From the Trade Paperback edition.
Votes & Proceedings

Votes & Proceedings

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_ ' b d th t th' 2'tl d of A il, in the ear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred BE It remem ere , a on Is a 1 8y p1'lony of NZw South Wales, Charles Thorpe, Sub- Inspector d - ' t R nd Terrace, in the C0 2? ridizgtzrnilz'whaiifigpem before me, the  ...
Temagami's Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of ...

Temagami's Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of ...

Jocelyn Thorpe

Canadian wilderness seems a self-evident entity, yet, as this volume shows in vivid historical detail, wilderness is not what it seems.
Cages

Cages

Victoria Ann Thorpe

The story of these two sisters will capture your heart." --Sister Helen Prejean, Author of Dead Man Walking The book includes a detailed list of transcript references and other sources.
Necroculture

Necroculture

Charles Thorpe

Accessed February 24, 2012. See also Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio, Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2011), 47–48, 50 ...
Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism: How Design ...

Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism: How Design ...

Ann Thorpe

Informed by recent research into the viability of a 'steady state' economy, this book sets an agenda for addressing the designer's paradox of sustainable consumption.
Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and ...

Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and ...

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Jocelyn Thorpe, Stephanie Rutherford, L. Anders Sandberg. And I think other people have said one of the reasons we«re losing our language is because we« re too polite. You can have ten people speaking Mi«gmaq in a room and one ...
1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

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... we are grateful to the following scholars and colleagues who helped in various ways to make the conference such a stimulating and successful event: Bernhard Fuehrer, Drew Gerstle, Michel Hockx, Ruru Li, Andrew Lo and Ashley Thorpe.
The Physics of the Universe

The Physics of the Universe

Sir James Hopwood Jeans

OINCE this section of the fourth edition was ^ sent to press one of the editors, Sir Jocelyn Thorpe, has died. It is sincerely to be hoped that the remaining editor will be able to continue the work on her own or will be able to find someone to help ...
Oceanography: An Illustrated Guide

Oceanography: An Illustrated Guide

S. A. Thorpe

However the tyres must be securely bound together and weighted, as in this example off the Israeli Mediterranean coast at Haifa. (Courtesy of Ehud Spanier, Centre for Martime Studies, University of Haifa, Israel.) Figure 17.12 The spaces ...
A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry

A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry

Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe

A specimen has also been described from near Adriano le in Turkey (J. L. Smith, 1848). Near Central City in Gilpin Co., Colorado, pitchblende is worked on the Wood and Kirk lodes. It occurs, apparently in some abundance, with copp(er-ores  ...
Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes

Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes

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... Thomas Bent Hodgson came to the fore, when ' only twenty-four years old, and was master for three seasons, with ' kennels at Thorpe, at the end of which time he took the Holder' ness. He lived at Castle Farm, having sold Stapleton Park to ...
The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability

The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability

Ann Thorpe

by Annie Breckenfeld, John Manoocherhi, and Lucia Athens, who helped refine the atlas concept and further clarify the ideas. Another important group of reviewers consisted of my students, and for working through this material in various ...
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

Charles Thorpe

Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making—and unmaking—of ...

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