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Stan Kenton: This is an Orchestra! - Michael Sparke - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=r2CiSIXxpYIC&pg=PA1&dq=Stan+Kenton+This+is+an+Orchestra+Wichita&hl=de&ei=gQLpTMnwIt6K4gb41fz4Ag&
Stan Kenton (1911–1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! sums…
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Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854 ... - Doreen Chaky - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=eR6EBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22
They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of…
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Caught Between Roosevelt & Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow - Dennis J. Dunn - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Cm6IH1a4oksC&pg=PA158
On November 16, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov signed an agreement establishing diplomatic ties between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two days later Roosevelt named the first of five ambassadors…
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Capital of Capital: Money, Banking, and Power in New York City, 1784-2012 - Steven H. Jaffe, Jessica Lautin, Museum of the City of New York - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=O8rbAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA62
From Revolutionary Era bank notes to the 2008 financial collapse, Capital of Capital explores how New York City gave rise to a banking industry that in turn made the American and world economies. Capital of Capital also examines the frequently contentious…
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Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=0VgrAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA163
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in…
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Stan Kenton: This is an Orchestra! - Michael Sparke - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=r2CiSIXxpYIC&pg=PA87&dq=Jay+Johnson+stan+kenton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JkKUT5bdE83htQbrzfDYBA&redir_esc=y
Stan Kenton (1911–1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! sums…
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Select Editions: Exclusive interview with author C. J. Box
http://selecteditions.blogspot.de/2008/07/see-below-for-interesting-interview.html
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Operation Argus - Project Argus 1958 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-A1wQ_qo2c
Operation Argus was a series of nuclear weapons tests and missile tests secretly conducted during August and September of 1958 over the South Atlantic Ocean ...
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Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey: The Paradox of Moderation - Günes Murat Tezcür - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=cgH-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA280
Moderation theory describes the process through which radical political actors develop commitments to electoral competition, political pluralism, human rights, and rule of law and come to prefer negotiation, reconciliation, and electoral politics over…
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East Asia's Haunted Present: Historical Memories and the Resurgence of ... - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Kazuhiko Togo - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=_VV9-m9nUHIC&pg=PA34&dq=%E2%80%9Ethe+tomb+of+the+Unknown+Rapist%22&hl=de&sa=X&ei=8J9WU4ryJNDWsgb
This collection of essays by leading scholars from Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States examines how and why bitter historical memories have resurfaced in recent years as freshly virulent and contentious issues between Japan and its…
