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Harold Kendall was born in 1887 near Newby Bridge, England. In 1911, he immigrated permanently to America and settled in Chicago, Illinois. Margaret Jane Nicoll was born in Eassie, Scotland, in 1889. She immigrated to Chicago in 1911. They married in Chicago on June 4, 1913. Harold died in New Gretna, New Jersey, in 1958. Margaret died in Pasadena, California, in 1970.
The archetypal story of Thomas Kendall, a self-torturing, struggling missionary in nineteenth century New Zealand, is also a remarkable history of cross-cultural experience. Posted to New Zealand in 1814, Kendall was immensely devout but entirely unprepared for dealing with Māori. He nonetheless helped produce the first Māori Grammar, but was hindered by rumours of an affair with a Māori chief’s daughter. Dismissed from his duties in 1823, he continued studying Māori culture until his death nearly a decade later. Long out of print, this work by a leading New Zealand historian tells an absorbing story of the difficulties and dangers of the evangelical mission.
In 1965, three members of the Nielsen Electronics staff were paying little attention to the many social changes occurring in their era. For John Hampton, senior engineer, his invention of an airline cockpit recorder had his career spiraling forward and held the promise of a secure future. General Manager, Loren Slaton was close to achieving his goal of becoming the major stockholder in the corporation and he was looking forward to running the company on his own terms. Robin Nichols had just about mastered the art of balancing a career with that of being a single parent and was finally settling into a comfortable routine with her two sons. Certainly these three were aware of the flower childr...
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Three Piece Bathing Suit - MJ Weller's blarting visual performance score & close reading of both pop & complex textual poetries & playful sounding in feminized streams of constant warm ellipsis fide et fiducia ...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,” held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in June 2002. The selected papers pursue a range of topics from the cultural significance of narratives of health,...