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The Arabian Mission's Story
Volume 30 recounts the eighty-year-long history of the RCA's mission work in the Middle East, written by a missionary who has spent decades in the Arabian Gulf. Including instructive discussion of missiological themes as well as the narrative of the church's daily work in Arabia, this volume is not only of denominational interest but will also provide important insights for mission students and those actively involved in a mission field.
Where North Meets South
This book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi).
Down Home
Robert Chapman was born in about 1755. He married Elizabeth in about 1786 in Virginia. They had ten children. He died in 1845. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois and Indiana.
Rockdale
Rockdale was first established as a railroad town in Milam County in 1874. Milam County was carved from the extensive Robertson's Colony in 1852, and it flourished with immigrants eager to move on after the Civil War severed the nation. For many, Rockdale was an easy choice for a new home because it was the end of the line. The fertile land, pleasant climate, and ample water attracted settlers, many of whom were of German, Czech, and Wendish descent. The presence of large deposits of lignite brought mining onto the scene in the early 1900s. From 1954 until 2009, the Aluminum Company of America operated a large plant that was six miles from Rockdale, which further changed the economy. The settlers were by no means the first humans to inhabit this land.
My Parrot, My Friend
My Parrot, My Friend is a straightforward book that addresses a growing need for parrot owners and their birds. When difficulties develop in the home, or a clash in avian and human natures makes for unhappy birds and angry owners, many times the sad consequence is painful termination of what could have been a long-term, joyful relationship. Happily, there is an effective remedy and it lies in a program of behavior modification. That program is fully detailed in this well-written, wonderfully detailed text. In addition, the text helps readers to find the right bird so problems can be sidestepped altogether, and it explains which birds not to consider and why. My Parrot, My Friend shows how pa...
John Vitus Dietlein & Eva M. Lang Descendants
The emigrant ancestor, Johann (John) Vitus Dietlein (1857-1923), son of Johann Simon Dietlein and Maria Barbare Wellhöfer, was born at Zailach near Ansbach in Bavaria, Germany. He died at Beaver Twp., Auburn, Michigan. In 1884 he married Eva Margaretha Lang (1860-1951) at Zion Beaver Church, Auburn, Michigan. She was born at Rosenberg near Ansbach in Bavaria to Michael Georg Lang and Anna Maria Schultheiss. They were parents of nine children born at Beaver Twp., Auburn, Mich. Descendants live in Michigan, Texas, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Ohio and elsewhere.
Häuptlinge und Scheiks
Die legendären Figuren aus Karl Mays Reise- und Jugenderzählungen – von Winnetou und Old Shatterhand bis hin zu Sam Hawkens und Nscho-tschi – versammelt in einem Band! Das Figurenlexikon ist reich illustriert mit Bildern aus Kunst, Literatur und Popkultur und gibt neue, einzigartige Einblicke in das Karl May-Universum. Dabei werden nicht nur namentlich genannte Handlungsträger und Randcharaktere beleuchtet, sondern auch namenlose Figuren und ihre Funktion im Handlungsgeschehen. Karl Mays Erzählungen sind Zeugnisse der sich wandelnden Welt um 1900. Die Personenschilderungen spiegeln sowohl traditionell eurozentrische Vorstellungen als auch eine Neukonzeption des globalen menschlichen Zusammenlebens wider. Das Figurenverzeichnis liefert daher nicht nur einen Beitrag zur literaturwissenschaftlichen Aufbereitung von Karl Mays Geschichten, sondern bettet diese zusätzlich in den sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Kontext ihrer Entstehungszeit ein.
Witchcraft in Illinois: A Cultural History
Although Illinois saw no dramatic witch trials, witchcraft has been a part of Illinois history and culture from French exploration to the present day. On the Illinois frontier, pioneers pressed silver dimes into musket balls to ward off witches, while farmers dutifully erected fence posts according to phases of the moon. In 1904, the quiet town of Quincy was shocked to learn of Bessie Bement's suicide, after the young woman sought help from a witch doctor to break a hex. In turn-of-the-century Chicago, Lauron William de Laurence's occult publishing house churned out manuals for performing bizarre rituals intended to attract love and exact revenge. For the first time in print, Michael Kleen presents the full story of the Prairie State's dalliance with the dark arts.
