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Bedford Springs Resort: A Political and Social Annex of Antebellum America: 1840-1860 [PDF]

, 2023
Antebellum America has been described as a period of turbulence for the nation as the North and the South grew farther apart through sectionalism. While voters relied upon the increasing partisan press to inform them of debates in Washington and the ...
Davis-Leonard, Sara Grace
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Seeing measurements at OAUNI on 2016 and 2017 campaigns [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
We present seeing measurements at OAUNI site gathered on 2016 and 2017 campaigns using V and R broadband filters. In order to quantify the seeing we used the full-width-at-half-maximum from stellar profiles on photometric sequences during the observational windows of our supernovae program.
arxiv  

Outbreak in Washington, DC: The 1857 Mystery of the National Hotel Disease

, 2014
The National was once the grandest hotel in the capital. In 1857, it twice hosted President-elect James Buchanan and his advisors, and on both occasions, most of the party was quickly stricken by an acute illness.
Walters, Kerry S.
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IT based social media impacts on Indonesian general legislative elections 2014 [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
The information technology applications in cyberspace (the internet) are currently dominated by social media. The author investigates and explores the advantages of social media implementation of any political party in Indonesian general legislative elections 2014. There are twelve national political parties participating in the election as contestants
arxiv  

NELIOTA: ESA's new NEO lunar impact monitoring project with the 1.2m telescope at the National Observatory of Athens [PDF]

, 2015
NELIOTA is a new ESA activity launched at the National Observatory of Athens in February 2015 aiming to determine the distribution and frequency of small near-earth objects (NEOs) via lunar monitoring. The project involves upgrading the 1.2m Kryoneri telescope at the National Observatory of Athens, procuring two fast-frame cameras, and developing a ...
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Adams County Votes for President, 1804-2008

, 2009
Adult male Europeans who were living in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania, when York County was formed in 1749 could not vote to choose either their king or their governor.
Glatfelter, Charles H.
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Cluskey, Michael Walsh, 1833?-1873 (MSS 23) [PDF]

, 2007
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 23. Correspondence and writings of Michael Walsh Cluskey, who was postmaster of the National House of Representaitves, 1851-1859; editor of Memphis Avalanche and Louisville Daily Ledger; and a Confederate ...
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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A first joint M87 campaign in 2008 from radio to TeV gamma-rays [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
M87, the central galaxy of the Virgo cluster, is the first radio galaxy detected in the TeV regime. The structure of its jet, which is not pointing toward the line of sight, is spatially resolved in X-ray (by Chandra), in optical and in radio observations.
arxiv  

Northern Town Lot Histories of Fairfield, Pennsylvania

, 2013
Each lot history give the original lot number, original owner, the current address, the owner of the lot in 1860, a description of the lot or dwelling in 1860, a recital of ownership with as much detail as is known, a comprehensive lot history, any known
Smith, Timothy H.
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The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861 [PDF]

, 1995
Within the American antislavery movement, abolitionists were distinct from others in the movement in advocating, on the basis of moral principle, the immediate emancipation of slaves and equal rights for black people.
Harrold, Stanley
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