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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
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"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc
Kate Caraway hates giving lectures at the University of Illinois so much she fears she’ll lose her mind. So, when her student, Nate Springfield, walks into her office with a story of wild horses in danger of slaughter, Kate takes a leave of absence. Forty-eight hours later, she arrives in Two Horse, Montana, one of the most rugged areas in the state. In a race against time, she uses her expertise and influence as a well-respected animal-rights activist to assist Nate’s eighty-two-year-old great-grandmother, Ida, save her herd of wild mustangs. But when Kate stumbles upon a dead body on Ida’s ranch, Kate quickly learns that some people will do anything, including murder, to keep their nefarious scheme from being exposed.
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The Cains who are the subject of this volume were of Dutch or German origin and were probably in America before 1730. Nicholas Kain (Kane or Cain) married Catherine ca. 1736, probably in Pennsylvania. Their nine children were born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia between 1737 and 1750. First generation descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. Succeeding generations have spread into Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and elsewhere.