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Playful limericks about friendly animal characters in Nantucket, with colorful cut-paper illustrations.
Robert Little, parents not listed, was born about 1785 in Scotland. He emigrated to the United States and married Sarah (Sally) Copeland, daughter of William, on 5 Aug 1805 in Montgomery County, Tennessee. They had 10 children. Robert died on 5 May 1843 in Massac County, Illinois, and Sarah died there after 1850. Their descendants have lived in Illinois and Tennessee.
Freckle-faced fifteen and sixteen-year-old uniformed sentries no longer stand guard at the summer camp's main entrance, .30 caliber rifles slung over their shoulders. The roar of the artillery drills, once rattling the window panes of nearby cottages and the frayed nerves of summer vacationers, is silent. Ther bugle calls piercing the stillness of dawn and dusk on the river are no more. Over a century ago, the civilian-backed Junior Naval Reserve established its first summer station in Uncasville, Connecticut. The river camp sought to prepare our nation's youth for service in the navy or merchant marine. Youngsters were taught the lore and lure of the sea along with a heavy dose of military ...
Kolar Gold Fields is a small mining town in the erstwhile Mysore State (now known as Karnataka) in India. It was owned by the John Taylor and Sons Company, a British Mining Firm for more than a century. It was well known for its Colonial ambience and was called Little England due to its British and Anglo-Indian population. It was one of Indias earliest industrialized towns and was unique for its secular and egalitarian society. Aptly named Kolar Gold Fields Down Memory Lane the book undertakes a nostalgic journey right from the days of the origins of the Kolar Gold Mines, its historical and mythological connections, its golden progress through the years under the John Taylor and Sons Company...