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Southern Cunning, Harlots & Bootleggers

Southern Cunning, Harlots & Bootleggers

J Pauline Dunning

Lulu.com
2022
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Eula Mae Dunning was our family matriarch, bootlegger, and speakeasy madame in one of the most notorious and violent establishments in Nortonville, Kentucky during the late 1940s. To put it simply, Eula was captivating. She had a way of drawing people in like moths to a flame. That does not mean she had a charmed life or that it was always easy for her. In fact, I think it was just the opposite. Eula's charisma was forged from the hardships of her life. Her "Moxie" that drew people to her was her greatest shield against the things that hurt her most. It's what kept her humor up when life had dragged her so far down that most people wouldn't know how to tie their own shoes. One hundred and twenty eight years after her birth, people are still talking about her. Her stories are still being told and passed down from generation to generation. It's almost as if Eula worked her roots and weaved her own form of magic and immortality in our family's stories about her. When I first learned of the Nortonville speakeasy, I had romantic images of Eula serving up her homemade hooch, keeping the gamblers in line, raising her children and staying one step ahead of the law. But the truth was not so romantic. I had to ask myself, what did I really know about Eula to start with? I knew she lived through the women's suffrage movement, prohibition, two world wars and the Great Depression. Neither of her two marriages were ideal or even very happy ones. Both of Eula's husbands had long criminal histories with alleged ties to Chicago's dark seedy underbelly. Both marriages were abusive in one way or another. I knew there was much more to Eula's story and much more to the woman herself than what was seen on the surface. I began to wonder what story Eula would now tell if she were able to tell her own story without being penalized by the people and prejudices of her time. What story would she tell if she had no repercussions to fear from either of her two husbands? The more I dug into the Eula's history and the Nortonville murder I realized I had more questions than I started with. What would make a good woman who loved her children and grandchildren so deeply remain silent and complacent when there was not just one, but two sexual predators in their midst? What did Eula's marriages and choices reveal about the women and circumstances who forged her? And perhaps even just as important, what does it reveal about the woman I am and the woman my daughter will become?
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Las Vegas the Mob Years: Stories of Bootleggers, Revenge and Murder

Las Vegas the Mob Years: Stories of Bootleggers, Revenge and Murder

Andrew J. McLean

Scotline Press LLC
2013
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Imagine sitting front stage at the Desert Inn's Copa Room enjoying such great celebrities perform as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Envision too, Elvis Presley, the soon-to-be king of rock 'n' roll, performing live at the New Frontier as a 21-year old teen idol. If you were lucky enough to be in Las Vegas from 1956 through the early 1970s, you had the opportunity to see these great performers live, on stage, for the mere price of a two drink minimum. These were the old days-the days when the Mob ran Las Vegas. Pairing McLean's vivid investigative style of writing, this beautifully illustrated book reveals an authentic look at the Mob era in Vegas. Unearth the Hollywood myth behind Bugsy's Flamingo and discover the true story about his partner Billy Wilkerson, the celebrated Hollywood nightclub owner who truly invented the Las Vegas Strip. During its heyday-1950 to 1980-the Mob virtually ran every sizable casino along the Fabulous Vegas Strip, stealing untold millions from casino count rooms. Those were the days when Jimmy Hoffa arranged millions in Teamster loans to build the Mob-run casinos while Frank Rosenthal provided the skim, and Anthony Spilotro made sure the millions in stolen cash made it back east to Mob coffers. Las Vegas was a treasure trove-gangster style. The Mob had it made for almost 40 years, but it all started crumbling down soon after Tony Spilotro came to Vegas in 1971. It wouldn't be long before five Vegas loan sharks were discovered dead in the desert, each with their throat slit Mafia style. Inside Las Vegas The Mob Years enjoy fascinating stories about the city's forefathers, today's casino operators and memorable celebrities who performed on the stages of Las Vegas showrooms during the Mob era-Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. Discover in Las Vegas the Mob Years . . . -The story of Jimmy Hoffa: His mysterious disappearance and how Teamster loans made Las Vegas what it is today. -The fascinating crime saga of ex-Dallas Mob boss Benny Binion, featuring a murderous blood feud that left two dead bodies and another in prison. -How the Kefauver Hearings uncovered the skim and a multitude of Mob-run casinos. -The inside story of Steve Wynn and Kirk Kerkorian, and the intricate details of the way they virtually started from scratch and earned billions as successful casino developers. -Plus the fascinating stories of the godfather of Vegas Moe Dalitz, and other gangsters including Johnny Rosselli, Tony Accardo, Sam Giancana, Tony Cornero, Frank Rosenthal, Tony Spilotro and more . . .
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The Boathouse Riddle

The Boathouse Riddle

J J Connington

The Murder Room
2013
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When Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield goes to stay with his friend Wendover, mysterious goings-on in the boathouse he owns soon attract the duo's attention. Lights go on and off, strangers come in and out, and a game warden is found murdered nearby. And as they work to solve the crime, a second body is dredged up from the lake ...'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator
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M.B.A. Boot Camp

M.B.A. Boot Camp

Richard J Van N William D Danko

Independently Published
2018
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Two professors with combined experience of more than 50 years teaching business and management courses created the M.B.A. Boot Camp book series. It is written in a non-cluttered succinct format and in plain English. The purpose of the series is to provide insight for those considering earning an M.B.A. degree and for those with an M.B.A., as a refresher. The series is especially beneficial for those who just desire an expanded knowledge base of how the business world works.
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Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era

Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era

J. Anne Funderburg

McFarland Co Inc
2014
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This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
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Boophilus microplus

Boophilus microplus

J.L. Nunez; M.E. Munoz-Cobenas; H.L. Moltedo

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K
2011
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A detailed tracing, from acceptable sources, of archaeological and paleontologi­ cal discoveries made up to the present time leads us to suppose that approximate­ ly in 8000 y B. C., in Southern Turkestan, man succeeded in domesticating the first cattle, which he later took with him as he migrated from this remote region of Central Asia. Step by step, Europe and Asia have been gradually inhabited by domesticated cattle which have been incorporated into man's economy, both as a source of food and work. The same happened in America and Australasia, continents where cattle were taken by the European colonizing groups during the course of the 16th to the 18th centuries. Possibly the common cattle tick also reached these continents at the same time, accompanying its most frequent host. The cattle tick, Boophilus microplus, parasitizes Asiatic cattle races (with spe­ cial reference to the zebu, Bos indicus), but generally the level of infestation is not high, only a few engorged females being detected, generally no more than ten. When cattle of European races are infested by Boophilus microplus, how­ ever, the level of parasitism is higher, sometimes reaching limits incompatible with the life of the host.
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Aloha Boathouse and the Iris Bathroom

Aloha Boathouse and the Iris Bathroom

Susan J Montgomery

Acc Art Books
2017
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-A thorough exploration of two important tile restoration projects This book tells the engrossing story of the Aloha Boathouse and the Iris Bathroom, two extraordinary, large-scale domestic tile projects by the Grueby Faience and Tile Company. The first is a stunning boathouse floor from Newport, Rhode Island; the other, a complete bathroom from Bratenahl, Ohio. These decorative relics from the past might easily have been sold off piecemeal as salvaged panels or individual tiles. Instead, both were extracted from their original sites substantially complete. Acting on its mission to foster public appreciation of high quality craftsmanship and design from the American Arts and Crafts era, the Two Red Roses Foundation made an unprecedented commitment to conserving the thousands of tiles, so that the original vision of these spaces would be safeguarded. This book recounts the story of those rescued installations, the men and women who envisioned and financed them, and the ideas and images that inspired their creation.
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The Novel Das Boot, Political Responsibility, and Germany’s Nazi Past

The Novel Das Boot, Political Responsibility, and Germany’s Nazi Past

Dean J. Guarnaschelli

Taylor Francis Ltd
2021
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This study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The Boat), and West Germany’s Vergangenheitsbewältigung.As a war reporter during the Battle of the Atlantic, Buchheim benefitted from distinct privileges, yet he was never in a position of power. Almost thirty years later, Buchheim confronted the duality of his own past and railed against what he perceived to be a varnished public memory of the submarine campaign. Michael Rothberg’s theory of the implicated beneficiary is used as a lens to view Buchheim and this duality. Das Boot has been retold by others worldwide because many people claim that the story bears an anti-war message. Wolfgang Petersen’s critically acclaimed 1981 film and interpretations as a comedy sketch, a theatrical play, and a streamed television sequel have followed. This trajectory of Buchheim’s personal memory reflects a process that practitioners of memory studies have described as transnational memory formation. Archival footage, interviews, and teaching materials reflect the relevance of Das Boot since its debut. Given the debates that surrounded Buchheim’s endeavors, the question now raised is whether Germany’s “mastering the past” serves as a model for other societies analyzing their own histories.Sitting at the intersection of History, Literature and Film Studies, this is an unprecedented case study depicting how the pre- and postwar times affected writers and others caught in the middle of the drama of the era.
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The Novel Das Boot, Political Responsibility, and Germany’s Nazi Past

The Novel Das Boot, Political Responsibility, and Germany’s Nazi Past

Dean J. Guarnaschelli

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2023
nidottu
This study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The Boat), and West Germany’s Vergangenheitsbewältigung.As a war reporter during the Battle of the Atlantic, Buchheim benefitted from distinct privileges, yet he was never in a position of power. Almost thirty years later, Buchheim confronted the duality of his own past and railed against what he perceived to be a varnished public memory of the submarine campaign. Michael Rothberg’s theory of the implicated beneficiary is used as a lens to view Buchheim and this duality. Das Boot has been retold by others worldwide because many people claim that the story bears an anti-war message. Wolfgang Petersen’s critically acclaimed 1981 film and interpretations as a comedy sketch, a theatrical play, and a streamed television sequel have followed. This trajectory of Buchheim’s personal memory reflects a process that practitioners of memory studies have described as transnational memory formation. Archival footage, interviews, and teaching materials reflect the relevance of Das Boot since its debut. Given the debates that surrounded Buchheim’s endeavors, the question now raised is whether Germany’s “mastering the past” serves as a model for other societies analyzing their own histories.Sitting at the intersection of History, Literature and Film Studies, this is an unprecedented case study depicting how the pre- and postwar times affected writers and others caught in the middle of the drama of the era.
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Believer's Boot Camp: Basic Training: 13 Chapters of Strength Training for a life-time of following Jesus

Believer's Boot Camp: Basic Training: 13 Chapters of Strength Training for a life-time of following Jesus

Kim J. Alexander

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Believer's Boot Camp Basic Training Every field provides some sort of training manual. When I worked as a teenager for Red Lion Motor Inn, I was given a training manual. When Debbie and I started to serve with a rural missionary agency, we were given a training manual. I know that each of my adult children has also received training manuals for the jobs that they have held through the years. Looking back even to the time of my conversion to Christ, I was given a training packet by my Church. Well, right now, in your hands you are holding a Training Manual. This book, Believer's Boot Camp Basic Training is designed to walk you step-by-step through major Biblical truth. You will learn key insight to the following areas: -The Bible on God-The Bible on Doctrine-The Bible on Salvation-The Bible on Ordinances-The Bible on Scripture-The Bible on Discipleship-The Bible on Prayer-The Bible on Church-The Bible on Witnessing-The Bible on Giving-The Bible on Warfare-The Bible on Prophecy-The Bible on Serving Now is the time for you to start your Boot Camp Training. Get the book, and take your first step.
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Discipleship Boot Camp for the Kingdom of God

Discipleship Boot Camp for the Kingdom of God

Darryl J. Bryant

Xulon Press
2011
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"....All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach (make disciples of) all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching (instruct by the word of mouth) them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. - Matthew 28:18 - 20 KJV Discipleship: Fully trained and equipped for kingdom business This training manual was written to take the children of God back to the basic of the elementary (fundamental, essential, irreducible) teachings of Christ in rank. Through this course you will be fully trained and equipped to observe the teaching of Christ and also train others to do the same. This Discipleship manual consist of the following: Getting to know your Bible Recruitment for the kingdom of God Enlistment for the kingdom of God Boot Camp that consist of 16 systematic training lesson Advance Initial Training (AIT), stewardship (how to manage) yourself, spouse, children, home, job, community, church, and ministry Permanent duty assignment, your call, your gifts, and your assignment This training manual can be use for church discipleship course Ephesians 4: 11- 14, home discipleship course Proverbs 22:6, prison ministry discipleship course Matthew 25:36, or individual discipleship course 2Ttimothy 2:15. As you advance through this course you will find yourself growing in a closer Father and son, daughter relationship with God your creator."
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