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Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front

Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front

Gilliam Mawson

??Social historian Gillian Mawson has spent years collecting the stories of former evacuees and this book includes the personal memories of over 100, in their own words.
Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson

Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson

David Day

The most important of these is the long-suppressed diary of Mawson’s deputy, Cecil Madigan, who is scathing in his criticisms of Mawson’s abilities, achievements, and character that he instructed that his diary was not to be published ...
Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front

Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front

Gilliam Mawson

Eight-year-old Barry Fletcher was evacuated from Station Road School in Witton, near Birmingham, to Feckenham in a home found for us. A further long wait before an elderly couple entered the hall. I sensed immediately that this was a ...
Richard Strauss's Elektra

Richard Strauss's Elektra

Bryan Randolph Gilliam

Gilliam's study of this major work examines its musical-historical context and also provides a detailed analysis of some of its musical features.
Richard Strauss's Elektra

Richard Strauss's Elektra

Bryan Gilliam

Bryan Gilliam's study of this major work examines its musical-historical context and also provides a detailed analysis of some of its musical features.
Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...

Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...

Bryan Gilliam

In the first book to discuss all Strauss's operas, Bryan Gilliam sets each work in its historical, aesthetic, philosophical, and literary context to reveal what made the composer's legacy unique.
Richard Strauss: new perspectives on the composer and his work

Richard Strauss: new perspectives on the composer and his work

Bryan Randolph Gilliam

"from reviews of the cloth edition: ""Gilliam, perhaps now the leading North American expert on Strauss's operas . . . has assembled a group of authors who collectively present what is undoubtedly a major contribution to Strauss studies.
The Virginia Spectator

The Virginia Spectator

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Edgar Gilliam 199 Candles, William Kavanaugh Doty 107 Clouds, L. H. Baer 62 Ennui, Roger Cragg 56 Fans, Chas. Edgar Gilliam 306 Gem of Truth, The, L. H. Baer 364 Helia, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr 17 Hour before Dawn, The, L. H. Baer 233 In ...
The Richard Strauss Companion

The Richard Strauss Companion

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Bryan Gilliam calls attention to the outstanding qualities of this opera in "Daphne Transformed," in Richard Strauss and His World, ed. Bryan Gilliam (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992), 33-66. 7. As to Strauss's concern about the ...
Queensland Agricultural Journal

Queensland Agricultural Journal

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... Groszmann Dr. R. W. Johnson T. Passlow G. S. Purss T. J. Beckmann A. Hegarty W. F. Y. Mawson H. W. Pauli L. G. Newton J. W. Ryley B. A. Woolcock K. M. Grant C. W. R. McCray L. Laws W. T. K. Hall A. T. Bell M. R. E. Durand B. Parkinson ...
Guernsey Evacuees

Guernsey Evacuees

Gillian Mawson

In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'.
Food for the Soul: God Said It! Believe It!

Food for the Soul: God Said It! Believe It!

Roslyn Thomas-gilliam

Readers, it is my hope that this book becomes edification for your souls and that you gain more wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories ...

Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories ...

Gillian Mawson

Coupled with the extensive newspaper coverage of the day and official documents Britain's Wartime Evacuees provides not just a comprehensive study of the evacuations, but also relates some of the most moving and emotive stories of the ...
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank ...

Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank ...

Robert Dixon

Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments Robert Dixon. Chapter. Two . GUIDED. SPECTATORSHIP: EXHIBITING. THE. GREAT. WAR. As William Heinemann explained to Mawson, with the outbreak of war in August 1914 there was ...
20 Reasons Why Men Cheat

20 Reasons Why Men Cheat

Roslyn Thomas-Gilliam

This is a book written to provide answers to why your spouse or significant other chooses to cheat...be unfaithful. Scriptures to support the reason why for each chapter.
Virginia

Virginia

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Bates McCluer Gilliam, '50. Stories in Prose and Rime. By James A. Wilkins, '19. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc. 1948. $2.00. Dr. Wilkins, formerly on the staff of the Mayo Clinic and now a specialist in diagnosis in Lynchburg, Va., has written ...
Antarctic Diary

Antarctic Diary

Stanley Gordon Roberts Taylor

Stanley Gordon Roberts Taylor's diary of his 1912-1913 voyage to Antarctica with Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

James B. McMillan

Geoethnology--Apamatuck (Mattica) and/or Appamattucks: the chief villages of the Appomattoc, 1607-1691. Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 4 .[8-9]. Discusses early spellings and meaning of name Appomattox. 6.234 Gilliam  ...
Richard Strauss: Magier der Töne

Richard Strauss: Magier der Töne

Bryan Gilliam

Richard Strauss (1864–1949) ist bis heute einer der meistgespielten Opernkomponisten.
The Relationship Rights of Children

The Relationship Rights of Children

James G. Dwyer

61. Id., 176-80; Perlin, Civil and Criminal, 159-65,417-26. 62. Parry and Gilliam, Handbook, 59, 166, 202; Michael L. Perlin, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2000), 276-9.
Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...

Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...

Bryan Gilliam

Charles Youmans suggests that Strauss creates not a simple, unreflective appropriation of Wagner, but rather “a knowing superficial reminiscence that systematically deprives its source of all those features that would support a claim to ...
The Life of Richard Strauss

The Life of Richard Strauss

Bryan Gilliam

Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states ...
Register ... University Staff and Graduates ...

Register ... University Staff and Graduates ...

University of Michigan

Resigned April 30, 1949) J. Henry Geurkink, A.M., Lecturer in German Robert G. Gibby, M.A., Lecturer in Psychology Alexander Gordon Gilliam, M.P.H., M.D., Dr. P.H., Resident Lecturer in Epidemiology Charles Mark Gilson, D.D.S., M.S.D., ...
Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the Governor ...

Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the Governor ...

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Mrs. Betty McClure CITY MANAGER FORM of GovKRNMENT CouncILMEN Boyd Stuart Charles Phillips Claude “Red” Patton Thomas Imerson Lloyd R. Bowling J. B. Lewis Bates McCluer Gilliam City of Lynchburg ...
The Arkansas Historical Quarterly

The Arkansas Historical Quarterly

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... Barbara Pomeroy James F. Willis Glenna Gardner Mary Sue Reagan Charles Witsell Jr. Nancy Gilien Roland R. Remmel Margaret Woolfolk William C. Gilliam Jerry N. Rice Herbert B. Wren, M.D. Sondra Gordy Martha W. Rimmer FRIENDS ...
Parzival, with Titurel and the Love-lyrics

Parzival, with Titurel and the Love-lyrics

Wolfram (von Eschenbach)

Wolfram's Parzival continues to inspire and influence, in modern times works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka's The Castle, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto Eco's Baudolino.
Counting Goldfish Can Be Fun

Counting Goldfish Can Be Fun

Roslyn Thomas-Gilliam

Counting Goldfish is a bilingual book; written in English/Spanish. It will teach the reader how to count from one to twenty using both English and Spanish.
Virginia Town & City

Virginia Town & City

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... H. E. Fauntleroy, Mayor, Petersburg Bates McCluer Gilliam, Councilman, Lexington R. Stanley Hurst, Councilman, Norfolk A P. Johnson, Jr., City Manager, Portsmouth W. C. Outten, Jr., Town Attorney, Lawrenceville Honorable D. J. Mangum, ...

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