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Called Baseball in Music and Song, the folio contains 14 reproductions of spirited polkas, quadrilles, marches and ballads from the middle to late 1800s, all dedicated to the glorification of baseball...
...need for East-West water transport up the Potomac Valley; after the war he became president of the Potomac Company, which built canals and locks to bypass falls and shoals in the Potomac River itself. The waterway eventually became the famed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the mid 1800s, its mule-drawn canal boats hauled great tonnages of freight between Washington and Cumberland, Md. But over the next 100 years, the railroads forced it into disuse...
None of these events have, been forgotten by Korean patriots, for whom the national struggle for independence is as much in living memory as the American Revolution was in the minds of Americans in the early 1800s. Thus, to his countrymen, Rhee has something of the stature of George Washington; and if his people have not yet heard of a Korean Thomas Jefferson, it is because the political climate of Korea (and Rhee himself) is against the free development of such a typically democratic figure...
...warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths in the early 1800s: "the cold, wet, shelterless midnight streets of London; the foul and frowsy dens, where vice is closely packed and lacks the room to turn; the haunts of hunger and disease; the shabby rags that scarcely hold together...
...their way through Switzerland in the early 1800s, many a notable-among them Talleyrand and Madame de Stael-made a point of stopping at Yverdon. There, in an old castle, lived scores of waifs and orphans under the care of a gentle old man they all called "Father." His real name: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi...