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Fortune and Folly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Fortune and Folly

Nestled in the outskirts of Atlanta, in a suburb called Druid Hills, lies Briarcliff Mansion. It sits on Briarcliff Road in the Briarcliff neighborhood, surrounded by strip malls and business with Briarcliff in their names. The mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its "Briarcliff Campus." Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it. Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.-or Buddie as friends and family knew him. The second son and namesake of C...

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2228

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1948
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1840

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1948
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Geophysical Exploration of the Solar System

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-08-20
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Advances in Geophysics serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors - Presents the latest release in Advances in Geophysics serials - Updated release includes the latest information on geophysical exploration of the solar system

Data Catalog Series for Space Science and Applications Flight Missions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Data Catalog Series for Space Science and Applications Flight Missions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Supplement to the 1975 Report on Active and Planned Spacecraft Experiments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Supplement to the 1975 Report on Active and Planned Spacecraft Experiments

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Planets and Their Atmospheres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Planets and Their Atmospheres

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-22
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

This work is addressed to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in astronomy, geology, chemistry, meteorology, and the planetary sciences as well as to researchers with pertinent areas of specialization who desire an introduction to the literature across the broad interdisciplinary range of this important topic. Extensive references to the pre-spacecraft literature will be particularly useful to readers interested in the historical development of the field during this century.

Confederacy of Ambition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Confederacy of Ambition

The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of his death in 1876, Miller had amassed one of the largest private fortunes in the territory and had used it creatively in developing the region’s assets, leaving a significant mark on the territory’s political and economic history. Appointed Surveyor of Customs at the newly created Port of Nisqually in 1851, Miller was the first federal official north of the Columbia River. Two years later he he...