Conversational style: analyzing talk among friends by Deborah Tannen. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. P95. T36 2005, Alumni Authors Collection, University Archives This revised edition of Deborah Tannen’s first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style–first published in 1984–presents an approach ...
Leiden (Netherlands). Archives.: Leyden Documents Relating to the Pilgrim Fathers. Leyden: E.J. Brill. 1920. The Pilgrims, the religious sect known as the Separatists, and who later established the Plimoth colony, sailed from England to the Netherlands in 1608. They settled ...
Title page from The American Pilgrim’s Way in England to Home and Memorials… by Marcus Bourne Huish. London: Fine Art Society. 1907 Harvest festival observed by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Americans trace the Thanksgiving holiday to a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth ...
Lieut.-Colonel John McCrae, left, author of the poem “In Flanders Fields” from the book In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919). During the early days of the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War, a young Canadian artillery officer, ...
Quick, what do you know about Leonardo da Vinci? He painted the Mona Lisa! He wrote his notes backwards! He designed supercool bridges and flying machines! He was a genius about, um… a lot of other… things… and, um, stuff… Okay, I’m sure ...
A new database launched by an international consortium of art institutions is working to grant internet users unprecedented access to dozens of art historical photo ...
The NATO-aligned Federal Republic of Germany (popularly known as West Germany) was formally established as a separate and independent nation on May 23, 1949. It would remain so, divided from the Warsaw-pact aligned East Germany, until German reunification on October ...
Today, May 19, is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s birthday. Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881 in Thessaloniki, which was part of the Ottoman Empire and died on November 10th, 1938 in Istanbul. Atatürk, which means father of the Turks was the ...
Stolen in New York The following book is missing, presumed stolen, from NY Book Fair, March 13, 2017. STEELE [RICHARD]. An Essay upon Gardening, Containing a Catalogue of Exotic Planes for the Stoves and Green-Houses of the British Gardens… York: ...
Today we celebrate the birthday of L. Frank Baum, known for his children’s books, most famously The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. His first best-selling children’s book was 1899’s Father Goose, His Book. In 1900 Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , which ...