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In Zambia, the history of industrial and commercial mining is over 115 years. The earlier period, from 1900 to 1920, is least known. It is ignored, passed over, or referred to in passing by academics and non-academics. The earlier period forms the building blocks on which the later more successful...

What if you could get whatever you wanted just by asking for it? That is exactly what you can do. If you want something, ask for it. That is what I did and I found that it does work! Billionaires and Millionaires want to give away money. The majority of these rich people want to help, but they do...

The memoirs are based on the many letters the author sent home to her family in the Netherlands from 1953 to 1955, during which she attended Vassar College as a foreign student and then continued on to graduate school in the fall of 1955. These letters, saved by the authors father and found among...

Our Story 90 years, Looking Back... The world has changed so much in 90 years that I wanted to write about how they affected our lives. To let you know that we were real people that had the same emotions and feelings that you have. Ive included a little genealogy, a little history and how the things...

My Ryskamp Family Heritage, Sally J. Birch summarizes the past generations up through the present time in her life. Born towards the end of the Great Depression and living her early years during World War II, it gives a background starting in the early 1940s. Coming from a strong Dutch/Irish family,...

What was it like to grow up in an isolated rural community in the post depression era? And what if your father died when you were nine months old leaving you and your five brothers and sisters to be raised by a heart broken widow? What if this was before any kind of assistance was available to a family...

Life is long . . . . when youre looking back. You dont realize how much goes on in each life as the years go by. Our life is like a Ferris wheel, sometimes were swinging back and forth at the top. Everything is going great. But look out down it goes as trials come into our lives. Dont worry, the Ferris wheel will be going back up. Rejoice and be glad.

I have written this story of my life in the hope that the younger generations will realize there are struggles in all our lives. The tragic circumstances of my early life gave me a deep faith in God and complete comfort in my religion. In each loss of a loved one I found many wonderful people who were there to help.

Living on borrowed time makes each day a treasure. Every good experience is appreciated and the bad times can be survived. My three wonderful sons are healthy and into their own middle age. Now I am the grandmother in the family, with two grandsons and two granddaughters. My life, as I remember...

This is a history/reflection book on a small town in Pennsylvania. The town is full of character and characters-- all real.

At the age of forty-four, my mother set out to accomplish what no other American woman of color had achieved at her ageto graduate and receive a doctorate of medicine and surgery from the Universite Lobre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She walked two and a half miles daily from the cotton fields to a one-room...

Revealing Tony invites us to re-examine his life and, through it, also our history. It let us look at our own successes and failures that occur in naturally in life, and that our future is dictated through the efforts only we put forth. It also reminds us to never lose focus of our dreams, or let other people steal them.

The writer / artist Norman F. Simms was born in Washington DC. He has a MFA degree from the Art Academy University (AAU) and a BS degree from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Norman lives in Fairless Hills, PA where his fine art works are often displayed in various small galleries...

Set against the backdrop of mankinds epic space odyssey is the tale of a dream that wouldnt die and a stone boat that eventually sailed 40,000 ocean miles. Despite false starts, setbacks, and neartragedy, a boat named Fram set sail on its oceangoing adventure in 1987. This is the story of the...