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Nature's Way Is the Shower
When brothers Allen and Joseph Speakman arrived in Wilmington, Delaware, soon after the Civil War, they couldn't have imagined the role their upstart plumbing business would play in the nation's life. While never employing more than 500 workers, the Speakman Company contributed to Allied victories in both world wars, made research, industry, and space travel safer, and introduced millions of Americans to the pleasures of the "shower bath." Speakman products have been a favorite of several U.S. presidents and featured in many cherished national landmarks, from New York's Chrysler Building to the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. As a hotel staple, Speakman showerheads have been a balm to generations of road-weary travelers. For nearly 150 years, the Speakman Company remained in family hands, a modest yet remarkably influential enterprise guided by Quaker values and a commitment to being the "best in brass." This is its story.
Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub
It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human history even as it broke out and raged on around them. In Bearing Witness, John Carpenter explores how across the world those who experienced the war tried to make sense of it both during and in its immediate aftermath. Writers such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Theodore Plievier questioned the rul...
North Carolina Curiosities
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Tar Heel State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised North Carolinian, a recent transplant, or just passing through, North Carolina Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Jon Elliston, Kent Priestley, and Constance E. Richards take you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Tar Heel State. Visit DINO-Kinetics, a fascinating collection of life-size welded-steel pterodactyls and other dinosaurs that belch smoke, roar, and rattle. Learn how dozens of dachshunds dominate a town on Weiner Dog Day; how Christmas in July is a hot holiday to celebrate; and how locals make melodic mouth music at the International Whistlers Convention. Meet an out-of-this-world “ufologist”; a quirky exotic-animal-collecting rancher; and a real-life pirate and his homemade ship—definitely a treasure to behold!
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North Carolina Curiosities, 4th
The definitive collection of North Carolina's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for North Carolina residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
