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Arthur’s great grandfather opened an old antique shop and passed it down from generation to generation. For Arthur’s seventieth birthday, his children surprise him by transforming his ancestors’ shop into a museum. They also get in touch with long lost relatives Arthur hasn’t seen in years. They gather together and share the stories of what their grandparents lived through. They recount events like the fire in Newcastle, the creation of the Jesmond Dene public park, and the unhealthy sewage waste near Sunderland. Author Romi Deonanan pulls some of her characters’ tales from reality, especially the stories of ghosts and angels. Arthur Nelson’s Little Old Curiosity Shop is a heartwarming example of family values working in unity regardless of the poverty, heartache, and pain that lingers in the past. With love and care, these relations congregate to prepare a better future for the generations to come.
With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation’s economy by midcentury. These 'megapolitan' areas are networks of metropolitan areas sharing common economic, landscape, social, and cultural characteristics. The rise of 'megapolitan' areas will change how America plans. For instance, in an area comparable in size to France and the low countries of the Netherlands and Belgium – considered among the world's most densely settled – America's 'megapolitan' areas are already home to more than two and a half times as many people. Indeed, with only eighteen percent of the contiguous forty-eight states’ land base, America's megapolitan areas are more densely settled than Europe as a whole or the United Kingdom. Megapolitan America goes into spectacular demographic, economic, and social detail in mapping the dramatic – and surprisingly optimistic – shifts ahead. It will be required reading for those interested in America’s future.
This is a definitive account of the land and the people of Old Monocacy in early Frederick County, Maryland. The outgrowth of a project begun by Grace L. Tracey and completed by John P. Dern, it presents a detailed account of landholdings in that part of western Maryland that eventually became Frederick County. At the same time it provides a history of the inhabitants of the area, from the early traders and explorers to the farsighted investors and speculators, from the original Quaker settlers to the Germans of central Frederick County. In essence, the book has a dual focus. First it attempts to locate and describe the land of the early settlers. This is done by means of a superb series of ...
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This is a genealogical history of the McKneely families of South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana. There are two branches to this Scotch-Irish family with this unique spelling. One that migrated from South Carolina to Georgia and then on to Texas and other parts of the expanding United States of America. Then there is the branch that left South Carolina in the late 1700s and early 1800s with other families and settled in what at the time was West Florida. This area then was taken into the United States of America with the purchase of Florida from Spain and then became a part of Louisiana. The Louisiana branch resided in the Parishes called the Florida Parishes and stayed close to the area unt...
Stories of the diverse people who played a role in bringing justice to British Columbia and Yukon during the early twentieth century.