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Sheridan College faculty lecture volume 1999-2000
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The lecture concentrates on the process prior to the National party conventions, the requirements for a presidental nominee, as well as the laws governing eligibility and financial contributions.
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"On 10 December 1869, the governor of Wyoming Territory signed the first full woman suffrage bill in the history of the United States. Suffragists in the neighboring territories of Montana and Dakota believed their prospects were similarly bright. Over the next twenty years, however, organizers' efforts to secure votes for women met only limited success. While suffragists hoped the territories' respective bids for statehood in 1889 and 1890 would...
2003) Tell me when it hurts
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"Archer Loh, Ivy League grad and Olympic rider, has been carefully groomed to be a government assassin but, at the moment of decision, she instead chooses law school, her college sweetheart, and a quiet life in Connecticut, leaving her violent apprenticeship behind as her own little secret. When her only child is murdered and the killer goes free on a technicality, Archer ditches family, career, friends and horses to find justice. Brushing up on her...
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The Mammoth Community Library records contain the administrative records of a small, volunteer-run public library that operated in Mammoth, Wyoming, within Yellowstone National Park. The records consist of foundation documents, minutes of the Board of Trustees, book accessions, circulation records, and financial records. The foundation documents include several versions of a constitution and by-laws. The minutes cover three decades of activities and...
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Documentary about dangers of invasive plants on the public lands of the western United States. Plants include leafy spurge, Russian knapweed, dalmation toadflax, saltcedar (tamarisk), Canada thistle, field bindweed, oxeye daisy, medusahead, blue weed (viper's bugloss), perennial pepperweed. According to the film, invasive plants can cause economic, ecological or even human harm. Features interviews with many people involved in enforcement of weed...
2007) Divided we fall
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"In this novel is the hope that the myth of freedom of the individual still exists in the upper Rocky Mountains and Great Plains and that the citizens of these regions are willing to forcefully resist the tyranny of government. It remains to be seen if this myth still exists and if this scenario is an alternative to the social welfare police state."--foreword.
"What will the American people do when tyranny and political correctness become the law...
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The collection consists of records pertaining to G. L. Henderson and his family including his son and daughter-in-law, Walter J. and Eva Fitzgerald, as well as daughters and sons-in-law, Jennie and George Ash, Mary and Henry Klamer, and Barbara and Alexander Lyall. The records consist of biographical and genealogical materials, business records, correspondence, writings, and ephemera. The biographical and genealogical materials detail the history...
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"Acclaimed Islamic scholar, Ingrid Mattson now updates her authoritative and comprehensive introduction through the addition of expanded sections on the Qur'an in art and architecture, in the life cycle of Muslims, and in Islamic ethics and law. Through a close examination of the doctrines in the Qur'an, Mattson reveals their significance to individual Muslims and the societies in which they live. Combining scholarly precision with an engaging style,...
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The collection consists of correspondence, reprinted as news clippings, a photograph album, and ephemera. The album has leather covers embossed with the word "Photographs" and black construction paper pages to which the images have been affixed. Due to the volume of pages and the brittleness of the paper, the album has been unbound and the pages individually numbered and sleeved in Mylar. The correspondence, primarily written by Geraldine, describes...