A Capital Place

Download or read book A Capital Place written by David Laureen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CAPITAL PLACE ...is how the author remembers Minnesota's historic Sandy Lake: important fur-trading hub, promised land to a succession of Native American tribes, 18th-century captial of the Ojibwe Nation, and strategic gateway to the Mississippi River from Lake Superiorroute follwed by nearly all the famous men of Minnesota History. In this Reminiscence spanning more than a half-century, Laursen writes of boyhood days on a primitive Sandy Lake fishing resort, of his long struggle to become a writer, of exciting years with a youthful Medtronic and of the inspiring seqence of events which led him and wife to a Bed & Breakfast Inn on the shores of Leech Lake.

Download or read book A Capital Place written by David Laursen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Capital Place is how the author remembers Minnesota's historic Sandy Lake: important fur-trading hub, promised land to a succession of Native American tribes, 18th-century capital of the Ojibwe Nation, strategic gateway to the Mississippi River from Lake Superior- and route followed by nearly all the famous men of Minnesota history.

Download or read book Capital of the World written by Charlene Mires and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? Without invitation, civic boosters in every region of the United States leapt at the prospect of transforming their hometowns into the Capital of the World. The idea stirred in big cities—Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York. And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States’ place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history.

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Download or read book Merv Griffin's Crosswords Volume 1 written by Timothy Parker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first official tie-in book of Merv Griffin's new game show.

Download or read book Murder & Mystery Trails of Northumberland & The Borders written by Clive Kristen and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular TV ghosthunter, Clive Kristen, takes the reader in search of the most notorious murderers in Northumberland's history and tries to unravel the circumstances and mysteries that still surround their crimes. The stories are woven into their historical context within the area. Although the trails are largely rural, we have included the region's capital and some of its most ancient buildings. Many of the stories have never been published before in any format. So get out your boots and brollies and join the author at some of his favourite murder scenes.

Download or read book Peterson's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: