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716 tulosta hakusanalla Sybil Yurman; David Yurman
Born in Sunderland in 1933, not far from the lovely coasts of Durham and Northumberland – both areas of great beauty and historical interest – Sybil attended with her sisters Helen and Pauline, Sunderland High School for girls. VE and VJ days of celebration are still vivid in her memory. In 1948-9 due, to her father’s occupation, the family moved to Cheshire and she moved to Sale County Grammar School for Girls. From there, in 1951, she was accepted for teacher training college in Birmingham. Once qualified she started her professional career as a teacher under the guidance and great encouragement of Miss M. M. Walshe, headmistress of Cotteridge Girls’ Secondary School. Through various promotions, she finally became head of middle school at Yardley, one of only four mixed (coed) grammar schools in Birmingham, later to become Yardley Comprehensive School in 1974. In 1986, after twenty-two years at Yardley and thirty-three years altogether as a teacher, she took early retirement towards taking up a post in Canada. Owing to family circumstances and ultimately the death of her mother, she had to forgo the new job. By 1992 she had also suffered the loss of her two sisters. Enrolling at Bournville College of Arts & Crafts for the Advanced City and Guilds course in textiles, she attained a high standard and continued with this hobby in her workroom at home, also enjoying woodcraft in her kitchen and regularly showing and setting her products at Craft Fairs. Throughout these years and as a member of the SIFD (Society for International Folk Dancing) she travelled up to four times a year to attend workshops in traditional folk dance in Hungary, then on returning home travelling to visit branches of the SIFD in the UK to further spread interest in Hungary and its traditions. In 1973 she opened the West Midlands branch of the SIFD. Her kitchen wall is a frequent reminder of all her activities. Each reminds her of someone, somewhere and even a few red-carpet events! The first book she produced, in 2014, has been very useful in helping friends and even fellow patients in hospital to cope with their problems through her poems and Thoughts Along the Way.
Through real-life stories, the full-colour, 256-page "Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers" celebrates the contributions of women engineers to every aspect of modern life. It explores the lives and careers of hundreds of women engineers of all ages and backgrounds - extraordinary women who serve as role models to tell the untold story of engineering. These inspirational stories will give you a fresh perspective on engineering. As a fundamental resource for educational outreach programs, "Changing Our World" offers young women inspiration and encouragement to pursue careers in engineering. When placed in school libraries and counseling centers, the book provides girls and their parents with an exciting exploration into what is possible. Publication of "Changing Our World" represents a significant milestone for the Extraordinary Women Engineers Project - a collaborative effort of many different individuals and organizations to address the long-standing underrepresentation of women in the engineering profession.
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire
Sybil Noyes; Charles T. Libby; Walter G. Davis
Genealogical Publishing Company
2009
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The year is 1918. The issue is passing the 19th amendment to the Constitution. Kate Brennan is mistakenly arrested when she goes to the aid of suffragists being attacked during a peaceful rally. Galvanized by her fourteen-day sentence in the Occoquan workhouse, she becomes a passionate supporter of the National Woman's Party.
The award-winning Fire in the Hole is the tale of a young widowed lawyer swept up in the violence of the famous Colorado coal strike of 1913-1914 known to history as the Ludlow Massacre. Opposed by the coal companies, the union, Wall Street, and the federal government, Alex hatches a scheme involving the president to overturn martial law and settle the strike. A gripping tale of a woman who dares to go beyond the conventions of the day to find freedom and justice amid a power struggle so terrifying it would wrench the nation's conscience for decades.
From her unique vantage point in New Orleans, Sybil Haydel Morial’s life spans one of the most critical periods in our country’s history. In this remarkable memoir, Morial chronicles her life as both witness to and catalyst for sweeping changes—desegregation, the end of Jim Crow, and the fight for voting rights. These changes transformed the nation during her lifetime. Morial’s story is welcome inspiration for the struggle for political empowerment that continues. As Ambassador Andrew Young, a childhood friend and later Sybil’s prom date, relates in his foreword: “It is doubtful that New Orleans could have produced two mayors with the dynamic, creative, and visionary leadership of 'Dutch' and Marc Morial without a wife and mother of Sybil’s loving strength, intelligence, and moral courage. But the life she lived in the crucible times and her perception of the civil rights movement in New Orleans goes far beyond that.”
In this collection of new and selected poems, Sybil Pittman Estess takes readers on an intensely personal journey, a deep exploration of life in contemporary America. "These are poems of witness," says 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Larry Thomas. "...of witness to a life fully lived, of witness to birth, friendship, death, and the unforgiving pain of loss; and of witness to a world rife with the wounds of global warming, the violence of guns, yet a world still teeming with transient beauty."
The Heroine of Cameron Dam: The Annotated 1929 Memoir of Myra Dietz
Sybil L. Brakken
Badger Valley Publishing
2020
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The Heroine of Cameron DamDecades ago, a vagabond searching through trash outside a Los Angeles publisher's office found a rejected 1929 manuscript. The author, Myra Dietz, wrote it 19 years after she, her brother, and father, were severely wounded by gun-toting thugs who served powerful Midwest lumber barons. News of the Winter, Wisconsin, shootings went nationwide in 1910 and the John Dietz family came to be regarded as national heroes.But by 1929, Myra's memoir sounded like old news to publishers. Then came the Great Depression and an economy unfavorable to publishing new authors.Now, nearly a century after her memoir vanished, the recollections of a young woman caught in the middle of a collision between her steadfast father and the wealthiest-ever lumber baron, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, are finally in print. Learn what happened on the Thornapple River from Myra's own words.The Heroine of Cameron Dam ... ... is Myra's personal recollection of events leading up to and following the 1910 attack on her family's farm by scores of armed woodsmen. ... exposes the graft and corruption that dominated most lumber company towns in 1910. ... illuminates both the pleasure and hardship of living on a Northern Wisconsin farm at the turn of the last century. ... was prepared for publication by Sybil L. Brakken and is available from BadgerValley.com along with Thornapple Girl, James Brakken's fact-based novel about Myra Dietz and her father's stand against the lumber trust.
The "Dixie Book Series" details the deeply haunting and troubled life of a young man in the Deep South during some of history's most trying cultural changes, constantly at war with his own demons and promoted by a sinister man in the ways of running shine, driving fast cars, cavorting with loose women and inadvertently gaining sole insight into a secret, southern-style organized crime network, historically known as the "Dixie Mafia." Always trying to do the right thing by the love of his life; a beautiful, religious and spirited local, he finds himself torn by his angry nature and constantly tormented by his own failures and irresponsible actions
This Element builds on the mainstream theory of attachment and contemporary understanding of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness to address the origin and nature of infant-maternal bond formation. Sections 2 and 3 propose that attachment behaviors for protesting against separation and usurpation were compelled by infants' needs for close and undivided access to a source of breast milk, usually mothers, for three years to counter threats of undernutrition and disease that were the leading causes of infant mortality. Since these attachment behaviors would not have been presented unless they were compelled by maternal resistance, their arising is also attributed to parent-offspring conflict. Section 4 theorizes that the affectional nature of infant-maternal attachment originated within contexts of breastfeeding. Uniform and universal features of exclusive versus complementary breastfeeding, that could entail diverse experiences among multiple caregivers, may have shaped adaptations so that love relationships with mothers differ from those with nonmaternal caregivers.
This Element builds on the mainstream theory of attachment and contemporary understanding of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness to address the origin and nature of infant-maternal bond formation. Sections 2 and 3 propose that attachment behaviors for protesting against separation and usurpation were compelled by infants' needs for close and undivided access to a source of breast milk, usually mothers, for three years to counter threats of undernutrition and disease that were the leading causes of infant mortality. Since these attachment behaviors would not have been presented unless they were compelled by maternal resistance, their arising is also attributed to parent-offspring conflict. Section 4 theorizes that the affectional nature of infant-maternal attachment originated within contexts of breastfeeding. Uniform and universal features of exclusive versus complementary breastfeeding, that could entail diverse experiences among multiple caregivers, may have shaped adaptations so that love relationships with mothers differ from those with nonmaternal caregivers.
Cadenus: a Reassessment in the Light of New Evidence of the Relationships Between Swift, Stella and Vanessa
Sybil Le Brocquy
Hassell Street Press
2021
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Gelatinization and Retrogradation Changes in Corn and Wheat Starches Shown by Photomicrographs
Sybil 1890- Woodruff; Majel M. (Majel Margaret) Macmasters
Hassell Street Press
2021
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Cadenus: a Reassessment in the Light of New Evidence of the Relationships Between Swift, Stella and Vanessa
Sybil Le Brocquy
Hassell Street Press
2021
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Gelatinization and Retrogradation Changes in Corn and Wheat Starches Shown by Photomicrographs
Sybil 1890- Woodruff; Majel M. (Majel Margaret) Macmasters
Hassell Street Press
2021
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Old Friends and New Fancies
Sybil G (Sybil Grace) Brinton; Jane Austen
Anson Street Press
2025
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