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...antis/ Automatic Switchboard (Phone Exchange) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing u... ... Drive-ins were invented by Richard M. Hollingshead, a car salesman. At first, the film was projected from the hood of his car on to a bedsheet, se... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre... ...(1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). War and Peace (1968) is the longest film ever to win the Oscar at 7 hours 33 minutes. Gone With the ... ...actszone/history.html http://www.readnrun.com/shortest_war.htm http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/hundred_years_war. html Warfare, B...

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... Deborah’s first novel, A V ow to Cherish, inspired the W orld Wide Pictures film of the same title. Her newest books are the Clayburn Novels from How... ... and her husband, Ken Raney, have four children and enjoy small-town life in Kansas. Visit Deb on the Web at www.deborahraney.com Nancy DuBose Richard...

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...r Brooks, usonano, prelegisto kaj ĵurnalisto. Nask. 17 aŭg. 1877 en Salem (Kansas). Fondis unuan E gazeton en Usono, La Amerika E-isto, okt. 1906.Verk... ...rtikolojn precipe teknikajn. Aŭtoro de la Poŝt-telekomunika Vortaro, 1934. Filmoj. v. Son lmoj. Filozo a Vortaro. Kompilis Stan. Kamaryt. 1934, 171 ... ... ĵurnalo. Poste en Berlin li estis reĝisora asistanto ĉe la fama Universum Film A. G. (UFA) kaj redaktoro de fakrevuoj en Paris, Warszawa kaj Berlin. ... ...rovoj. En 1929 okaze de la E-kongreso Nordamerika (9-14 jul.) la Paramount Filmkompanio farigis parol lmon; ĝi konsistis el triminuta dialogo kaj sal... ...ŭit) Charles Ralph, usonano, dentkuracisto. Nask. 27 marto 1895 en Topeka (Kansas). Kunfondinto de EG en Los Angeles kaj Long Beach (Cal.) 1040 Witte...

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...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...l, the costs of production are lower (with the exception of the music and film industries), the marketing channels more numerous (half of the income... ...processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, softwa... ...If so, can Free Online Content principles be applied to music, books, and film. for instance? A: Free online scholarship is scientific and scholar... ...ploaded Pi to a million places. . . Q. Why are stand-alone images (e.g., films, photographs) and sound excluded or rare? A. We have tried some, bu... ...ansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, ...

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...she was in Turkey. She remembered that day when her mother suddenly came to Kansas for her. It had been nearly a year since she had seen her and she... ...o the other side of the world. The potential of seeing something outside of Kansas made her very happy. Like any child, the discovery of flight was ... ... and then a second connecting flight that would lead her back to her aunt in Kansas. Chapter Thirteen It is 2008 and he, sometimes Adagio and sometim... ...he realized that she should not expect anything new and kind in the state of Kansas. After all, humans were adaptive animals. The world was survival ... ...ronment. Why should society be structured differently? Why should being in Kansas under the auspices of an aunt be different? She glanced down at th... ...g what was once pure and cloistered waters. With a temperature, black spots filming over her vision, and the need to vomit on and off for a period of... ... brains but cast themselves as more Disney characters into this metaphysical film within the most salient roles. God that destroyed humanity in the f... ...h him how to become a man. When the movie ended the man said he had a better film in his apartment and they went away together to his furtive domain. ... ...s like a great beacon of light shown onto a screen in dark movie theatre --a filmed documentary of the entity and its discoverer, Parmenides. Now med...

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...d ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...ain Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told U... ...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into... ...nees like water, her stomach revolving a thousand times a second, her eyes filmed, her ears full of roaring. She couldn’t reach the dining-room. She w... ...f Gopher Prairie as land-speculation and guns and automobiles. The feature film portrayed a brave young Yankee who conquered a South American republic... ... VI Dusk on a snowy December afternoon. The sleeper which would connect at Kansas City with the California train rolled out of St. Paul with a chick-a...

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...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...chine-tool and soap products, Pittsburg and Birming- ham with their steel, Kansas City and Minneapolis and Omaha that open their bountiful gates on th... ...rst-class hotel, that to the drummers loves to cater, across from some big film theayter; if I should look around and buzz, and wonder in what town I ... ... a cinema actress. She did not merely attend the showing of every “feature film;” she also read the motion-picture magazines, those extraordinary symp... ...lankly beautiful, suspiciously beautiful young men; outlining the plots of films about pure prostitutes and kind-hearted train-robbers; and giving dir...

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...rt of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote “points;” instantly ... ... cially if they belonged in the Missouri River in the heyday of that trade (Kansas times), and got nine hundred dollars a trip, which was equivalent ... ...cut offs have been made at Hurricane Island; at island 100; at Napoleon, Ar kansas; at Walnut Bend; and at Council Bend. These short ened the river,...

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...lkestone to Boulogne, until at last, first little wisps and then a veil of filmy cloud hid the prospect from his eyes. He wasn’t at all giddy nor ver... ...t of line with her consorts, and nipped in between the Susquehanna and the Kansas City. They discovered her proximity, dropped back until she was near... ... icily slippery over the metal they trod upon. But that was because a thin film of ice had frozen upon the gallery. He never knew how long his ascent ...

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...nois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant, Shooting in pulses of fire ceaseless to v... ...houses! Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are, You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul, About my body for me, and your body f... ...ey are inimitable;) Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs, To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Car... ...er running Mississippi with bends and chutes, And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri, The Continent, devoting the who... ... in the middle, branching thence over the world, From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 353 Nothing... ...eming plays this curtain hid!) This glaze of God’s serenest purest sky, This film of Satan’s seething pit, This heart’s geography’s map, this limitles... ...ead, Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night, As some dissolving delicate film of dreams, Hiding yet lingering. T wo little breaths of words compri... ...gn lands, in all thy walks with kings, Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio’s, Indiana’s millions, comrades, farmers... ...Nature’s sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form, In hunting shirt of film, arm’d with the rifle, a half ironical smile curving its phantom lip...