O'Rourke, P. J.
Summary: P.J. O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe looking for trouble, the truth and a good time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000
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Summary: "His Holiness is at once compelling journalism, drama, history, and biography. John Paul II, elected as the first non-Italian pope in five hundred years, readily used his global pulpit to speak out on behalf of human rights and those who were ignored by other world leaders--whether politically or economically oppressed, whether in the Communist or non-Communist world. Born in a small Polish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 WILOliphant, Pat
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.928 OLIWheen, Francis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBS/PublicAffairs 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.827 WHECaryl, Christian.
Summary: "After World War II, a secular, progressive consensus defined the international order. That changed in 1979, when a series of counterrevolutions swept the globe, blazing a path for a new era. China launched reforms that would make it the economic powerhouse it is today. Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, challenging communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people's suppressed Catholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 CARLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: Provides an introduction to the life of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHUSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Let us...brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour.' -Winston Churchill Items in this compilation include, * Churchill's speech given at Guildhall, London, on 2/23/40 at a luncheon held in honor of the crews of the Exeter and the Ajax after their victory during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1990
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Faced with the most serious labor stoppage in its history, the U.S. is hard hit by a strike of railroad men. Reel 2, In Nanking, U.S. Chief of Staff Eisenhower receives a gala welcome as he visits China's leader during his tour of U.S. Far Eastern bases. Later, in Tokyo, he meets General MacArthur and reviews an 8th Army parade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Nuremberg trials. Nuremberg, Germany: It is doomsday and the day of reckoning as 21 Nazis learn their fate at the end of their 10-month trial. Half will hang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on three topics, as follows. Reel 1, Ike greets Richard Nixon at Wheeling airport; Adlai Stevenson, in Baltimore, speaks on taxes. Reel 2, Two white mice and a rhesus monkey named Albert soar 38 miles in a rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, making Albert "the world's first space cadet." Reel 3, The palace of exiled Farouk I of Egypt is opened,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on six topics, as follows. Reel 1, Herbert Hoover is 81 at his Newburg, Oregon, boyhood home. Reel 2, On vacation at his Gettysburg farm, President Eisenhower signs legislation and inspects a gift of a Holstein heifer. Reel 3, A Chinese junk, sailing from Japan, arrives in San Francisco "with five free Chinese refugees from the Reds." Reel 4, An X-1 rocket plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, The Salk polio vaccine is administered to a variety of children. Reel 2, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., is sworn in as Secretary of the Navy, among other new government appointments of the Eisenhower administration. Other events in the nation's capital include the arrival of Brazilian General Octavio Maza and the awarding of a medal to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Russian space program. Moscow, in festive array for the country's industrial exhibition, shows off a full-scale replica of Sputnik 3.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro addresses an immense crowd outside the Presidential Palace in Havana as it roars its approval of the execution of former Batista officials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on American clandestine operations during the Cold War. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev tells the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet that Gary Powers, pilot of a downed American reconnaissance plane, is alive and that spy photographs have been seized. In the U.S., State Department spokesman Lincoln White makes a statement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the election of John F. Kennedy. A record number of Americans head out to vote for the 35th president of the United States. Richard Nixon concedes defeat as JFK wins at the polls in one of the closest elections in U.S. history. "To all Americans I say the next four years are going to be difficult and challenging years for us all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, In his first public appearance, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin arrives at Moscow Airport, is greeted by Nikita Khrushchev, and receives the accolades of the public. Reel 2, Thousands turn out in Harrisburg, Pa., to welcome former President Eisenhower, en route to his farm at Gettysburg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Telstar satellite: how it works, its launch into orbit, its first transmissions, and plans for more such satellites to be used to form a chain of instantaneous communication around the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on scenes of military action. Footage includes troops patrolling and B-52 strikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on four topics, as follows. Reel 1, The U.S.S. Enterprise launches its Phantom jets to attack Viet Cong hideouts. On the ground, a small search-and-kill mission flushes out and scatters a group of Viet Cong. Reel 2, With only a donkey for a companion, a French woman honors her vow to make a 4,000-mile pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Reel 3, At a Manchester fashion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: German newsreel on the making of newsreels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: Arab National Committee in Jaffa, Palestine hit by bomb
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948