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Don't hold your breath economics weekly
/ March
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, is getting his Budget ready.
Yet lobbyists looking for some pennies for their favourite cause shouldn't hold their breath. Despite disappointing news on UK unemployment, Mr Osborne is likely to stick to plan A, especially as Fitch joined Moody's rating agency in putting the UK's AAA credit rating on negative watch. But continuing signs of improvement in the US are sending out positive signals for a recovery elsewhere in the world. And once recovery is well underway, the Chancellor may be more minded to loosen the straitjacket on his fiscal policy.
UK unemployment rose in the three months to January
The number of people unemployed rose by 27,700 in the three months to January. This brings the unemployment rate up to 8.4% compared with 8.3% in the three months to October. More unemployment amongst women was the reason for the rise, but that was because more of them started looking for jobs rather than fewer being in work.
UK average earnings growth falls to 1.4% in January
Annual average earnings growth slowed 0.5 percentage points from 1.9% in the previous quarter. Earnings growth has now slowed in every month since July 2011 and is at its lowest rate since July 2010. The slowdown in financial services was particularly sharp, driven by a -6.2% y/y decline in bonuses. The need for households to maintain living standards probably explains the increase in females seeking employment.
Despite higher exports, the UK trade deficit widens in January
The UK's overall trade deficit increased to £1.8bn in January, up from £1.2bn in December, despite higher UK exports. Despite a £0.5bn increase in exports, this was overshadowed by a £0.8bn increase in imports. UK services sector exports also disappointed in January, falling to its smallest surplus since November 2010. Exporters to Europe are finding it tough, but non-EU exports hit a record high.
Eurozone inflation is stickier than expected
Eurozone consumer inflation (CPI) reached 2.7% in February, having increased for three consecutive months. A 9.5%y/y rise in energy prices was the main culprit, but increases were spread across the board. Even though inflation is down from last year's 3% peak, it's a disappointing result. Especially as euro area households are already hurting with the unemployment rate at a record high of 10.7%.
Eurozone industrial production improves in January, but only just
Overall industrial production increased by 0.2%m/m in January. This was lower than the 0.7% expected, but far better than the 1.1%m/m fall in December. While welcome, this may not be enough to prevent a technical recession in the Eurozone, particularly after a disappointing performance recorded in manufacturing surveys. But it does add to the signs of stabilisation mentioned by ECB's President Mario Draghi.
The Fed takes a breather
After a flurry of policy announcements at its January meeting, the Federal Open Markets Committee left everything alone last week. So, interest rates stay at practically zero. While there have been some improvements in the economy, particularly in the labour market, we will have to wait for the minutes to see if this was enough to convince any committee members that interest rates should rise before mid 2015.
US retail sales pick up speed
The 1.1%m/m growth in retail sales in February added to the run of positive US economic data. Lower unemployment means that sales have increased for nine months in a row, lifting the annual growth rate to 6.5%.
Ireland and Iceland welcome the possible end to their economic winter
Ireland and Iceland encapsulated the precrisis boom and suffered the heavy blows of the subsequent crash. Yet both are showing signs of lasting recovery. Ireland's trade surplus hit a record high in 2011. This is hugely important for the export-dependant economy. Iceland, on the other hand, has repaid, ahead of schedule, around one-fifth of its IMF debt (or about $443 million). What's interesting is that both countries opted to solve their economic woes in different ways. Iceland defaulted, while Ireland decided to wear the hair shirt of austerity. Either way, compared with some other Eurozone economies, Ireland and Iceland are the poster-children of recovery. As in the 1930's, it helps to acknowledge early that your economy's in trouble. In other words, Portugal, Spain and others are likely to find recovery harder to create and sustain.
Economics weekly


The White Lion was a beer house that was open in the second half of the 19th century located on Church Street in the last block of buildings before the Globe Tavern. Whilst the buildings lasted until well into the 20th century there is no trace of a beer house at this location after the 1901 census.
Listed landlords of the Inn were Thomas Lund (1867), John Critchley (1869), John Ellison (1871-73) and John Eastham (1881-1904). Both Ellison and Eastham worked as colliers as well as beer sellers and at the time of the 1911 census the whole row was inhabited by colliers.
Marriage: 9 Feb 1873 St Wilfrid, Standish, Lancs.
The Google satellite view below confirms the buildings where the White Lion once traded have been demolished and replaced by the Globe's car park and shrubbery.


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HY244
Britain's Atlantic World, 1688-1837
Dr Oscar Webber
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course explores the history of Britain in the Atlantic world during the 'long eighteenth century,' from the Glorious Revolution in 1688 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. It is impossible fully to understand the profound transformations in British political, economic and cultural life in this period without an understanding of Britain's growing presence in the Atlantic, in both its restive colonial empire and in the wider Atlantic political economy. The course focuses on three important forces that shaped Britain's presence in the Atlantic world: the intermittent, nearly century-long war with France, the rapid expansion of British settler colonies and concomitant rise of American republicanism, and the expansion and entrenchment of slave labour in plantation societies in South America, the Caribbean, and southern North America. As Britain's empire expanded into the Americas, domestic British society was transformed – by Enlightenment innovations in science and political organisation, by transformations in social life and gender politics, and by rebellions in Scotland and Ireland that led to the consolidation of Great Britain as a single political unit. This course explores the many connections between the expanding British colonial empire and the increasingly confident and sophisticated British state, and frames these connections in the crucible of a dynamic and often violent Atlantic world.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT.
Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6 of the MT and the LT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 formative primary source exercise (300 words) in the MT and 1 formative essay (1,500 words) in the LT.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Gomez, Michael A. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Hay, Douglas, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow. Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Revised. London: Verso, 2011.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: Norton, 1975.
O'Malley, Gregory E. Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2014.
Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800. New York: Penguin, 2003
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
Warren, Wendy. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. New York: Liveright, 2016
Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the LT.
Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the ST.
Presentation (15%) in the MT and LT.
Source analysis (15%) in the MT.
Department: International History

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CDW Aims to Fill Mobile App Gap
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CDW's new App Marketplace aims to serve a market not addressed by either consumer-oriented app stores or software vendors' enterprise app stores.
Both Google Play and Apple's iOS App Store offer options that allow companies to distribute proprietary applications to their employees. Some software vendors, like SAP, offer stores where customers can purchase enterprise apps.
But neither type of store seems geared to the needs of companies that want custom applications but lack the development know-how to produce them. IT services firm CDW is hoping to address this gap in the app market with its new App Marketplace.
Joe Woods, director of Mobility Solutions for CDW, said the company originally intended to create an app store that would be a marketplace for off-the-shelf enterprise applications. But research with customers and partners revealed that companies wanted assistance with a far broader range of issues related to mobility. Based on their input, CDW created its Total Mobility Management program, which according to its website is "a complete approach to acquiring, managing and integrating mobility into your existing infrastructure."
The program encompasses five areas: plan, which includes strategy development; enablement, which offers a portal for procuring and provisioning mobile devices; protect, which focuses on mobile device management and other aspects of mobile security; support, which provides help-desk support to end users and administrative support to IT organizations; and empower, which focuses on developing and distributing mobile apps.
"Not all customers will use all of the components," Woods said, though CDW wanted to facilitate a soup-to-nuts approach to mobility for companies that might need it.
Different Approach to Buying Mobile Apps
Central to the "empower" part of the program is CDW's App Marketplace, which showcases some 60 mobile apps in industry verticals like retail, education and healthcare.
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Companies do not purchase apps directly from the marketplace. Instead, Woods said, the marketplace aims to walk them through three steps: educating companies by providing information about mobile app development; highlighting sample apps from vetted developers to demonstrate the kinds of capabilities that are available; and finally, connecting them with their chosen developers.
"If a retailer is looking for certain types of functions in an app, they can go to the marketplace and select the developer that seems to mesh best with what they are trying to do, and then we connect them with that developer," Woods said.
Partners include SAP, Lextech Global Services, ArcTouch and several others. Most of the partners also offer app templates, which contain the core functionality desired by a majority of users and require minimal customization.
"Dozens" of other partners are in the process of being vetted now, Woods said, so CDW anticipates rapid expansion of the App Marketplace. In addition to development services, new partners will bring in development platforms and toolkits for companies that want to create their own apps but are interested in leveraging pre-built APIs and other tools.
CDW also plans to offer more assessment/planning tools to help companies with areas that fall outside the realm of pure application development, such as defining business cases for mobility and identifying relevant security issues.
Woods said the store can accommodate IT organizations leading mobility initiatives, lines-of-business working with IT and lines-of-business working without IT's assistance. He acknowledged the latter situation can "obviously create complications." But, he said, "The mobile revolution is creating more freedom for line-of-business organizations to address their own needs without having to worry about getting on IT's priority list."
Ann All is the editor of Enterprise Apps Today and eSecurity Planet. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade, writing about everything from business intelligence to virtualization.
This article was originally published on April 15, 2014


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"Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man's-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits." —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run
When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune.
Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn's hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn's hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself. Over the course of four chaotic years, several searchers would die, endless controversies would erupt, and one hunter would ultimately find the chest.
But the mystery didn't end there.
Full of intrigue, danger, and break-neck action, Chasing the Thrill is a riveting tale of desire, obsession, and unbridled adventure.
DANIEL BARBARISI is the author of Dueling with Kings. He is currently a Senior Editor at The Athletic, after years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The Providence Journal. He resides with his wife and two sons outside Boston, Massachusetts.
"Rousing . . . Barbarisi writes with gusto and portrays the eccentrics he encounters with a candor . . . He can also make a landscape come alive. I've read many descriptions of Yellowstone geysers, but none more striking than his evocation of how runoff from the Artemisia Geyser affects the immediate surroundings . . . Barbarisi tells the story so well that you should resist any form of peeking ahead and leave the matter in his capable hands."
—Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post
"The idea of a years-long quest throughout the Rocky Mountains in search of treasure represents competition of a different, fascinating sort. Barbarisi's exploration of the who and how and why of those who hunted for the hidden treasure left by Forrest Fenn confronts fascinating questions about the sometimes indistinct realms of adventure and obsession."
—The Boston Globe, "Summer Reading 2021"
"Chasing the Thrill leads the reader on an engaging armchair treasure hunt, a welcome escape in these waning days of covid. Daniel Barbarisi's bold gamble — inserting himself at the story's center — pays off. The writer emerges as a sympathetic protagonist, and his participation buys him entrée into a secretive and mistrustful club. By the final chapters of Chasing the Thrill, we share his wonder in watching the Fenn saga draw to an exhilarating close."
—Daniel de Visé, Washington Independent Review of Books
"Engaging . . . [Barbarisi] smartly shows how easy it is to get caught up in gold fever. The more he follows the hunt, the more he's consumed by it. As a result, the reader also wants resolution on what searchers call the 'solve.'"
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"Chasing the Thrill lives where all the best stories reside, on that thin edge between amazing and impossible. Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest. Thanks to Barbarisi's skill, every page draws you deeper into this no-man's-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits."
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Book Review: Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong by Rebecca Stefoff, James W. Loewen
Title: Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
Author: Rebecca Stefoff & James W. Loewen
As a history nut this book is a great read but it reads like a history text book that will turn off many readers.
Many part of history are in fact boring which will be skipped over by teachers or completely ignored. Which can cause misinformation or history being lost to the winner instead of the defeated. This book tries to get to the root of all stories.
This is a great recourse book for any history nuts or anyone teaching history to children and teens.
Thank You to Netgalley and The Publisher The New Press for the advance copy of Lies My Teacher Told me.
Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children's writer who adapted Howard Zinn's bestseller A People's History of the United States for young readers, turns Loewen's beloved work into Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers.
Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies featured in most textbooks. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen's lively, provocative telling of American history is a "counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past" (The Nation).
Like the original, this streamlined and abridged version for young readers is rich in vivid details and quotations from primary sources. Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers brings this classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and teachers) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.
Expected publication: April 2nd 2019 by The New Press
James Loewen's gripping retelling of American history as it should, and could, be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 1,500,000 copies and continues to inspire K-16 teachers to get students to challenge, rather than memorize, their textbooks.
Jim Loewen taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont. Previously he taught at predominantly black Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research on how Americans remember their past. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong came out in 1999. The Gustavus Myers Foundation named his book, Sundown Towns, a "Distinguished Book of 2005." In 2010, Teachers College Press brought out Teaching What Really Happened, intended to give K-12 teachers (and prospective teachers) solutions to the problems pointed out in Loewen�s earlier works.
As the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War approached, Loewen asked thousands of K-12 teachers in workshops and audiences about its cause(s). Depressed at their replies, he recruited a co-editor and published The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), which sets the record straight in Confederates' own words.
His other books include Mississippi: Conflict and Change (co authored), which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction but was rejected for public school text use by the State of Mississippi, leading to the path breaking First Amendment lawsuit, Loewen et al. v. Turnipseed, et al. He also wrote The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Social Science in the Courtroom, and Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus.
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# Question URL: https://www.interviewcake.com/question/coin

# You need to work on this one more
class Coin
  @@memorized_change_possibility_calls = {}

  def self.number_of_ways_to_make_change_bottom_up(amount, denominations)
    ways_of_doing_n_cents = []
    ways_of_doing_n_cents[0] = 1
    denominations.each do |denomination|
      denomination.upto(amount + 1) do |higher_amount|
        higher_amount_remainder = higher_amount - denomination
        ways_of_doing_n_cents[higher_amount] = 0 if ways_of_doing_n_cents[higher_amount].nil?
        ways_of_doing_n_cents[higher_amount] += ways_of_doing_n_cents[higher_amount_remainder]
      end
    end
    return ways_of_doing_n_cents[amount]
  end

  def self.number_of_ways_to_make_change(amount, denominations)
    ways_to_make_change = 0
    remaining_change = amount
    denominations.each_with_index do |denomination, index|
      1.upto(amount/denomination) do
        ways_to_make_change += self.change_possibilities(remaining_change, denominations[index+1..-1])
      end
    end
    ways_to_make_change
  end

  def self.change_possibilities(amount_left, denominations_left)
    memoize_key = amount_left.to_s + ":" + denominations_left.to_s
    return @@memorized_change_possibility_calls[memoize_key] if @@memorized_change_possibility_calls[memoize_key]
    return 1 if amount_left == 0
    return 0 if amount_left < 0
    return 0 if denominations_left.empty?
    current_denomination, rest_of_denominations = denominations_left.first, denominations_left[1..-1]
    number_of_possibilities = 0
    while amount_left >= 0
      number_of_possibilities += self.change_possibilities(amount_left, rest_of_denominations)
      amount_left -= current_denomination
    end
    @@memorized_change_possibility_calls[memoize_key] = number_of_possibilities
    number_of_possibilities
  end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  amount = 4
  denominations = [1,2,3]
  puts "Simple situation: Amount: $#{amount}, Denominations: #{denominations.to_s}"
  simple_solution = Coin.number_of_ways_to_make_change(amount, denominations)
  puts "Expected solution: 4. Solution is: #{simple_solution.to_s}"
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Compiled by W. Bland Whitley
This annual bibliography of documentary editions recently published in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.
ADAMS FAMILY. Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 11: July 1795–February 1797. Edited by Margaret A. Hogan, C. James Taylor, Sara Martin, Neal A. Millikan, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, and Gregg L. Lint. Harvard University Press. 2013. 728 pp. $95. ISBN: 9780674072442. Covering the period leading up to John Adams's inauguration, when the partisan divide widened amid the fiery debate over the Jay Treaty and George Washington's impending retirement, this volume includes Abigail Adams's keen, acerbic commentary on national events, John Quincy and Thomas Boylston Adams's observations of the French Directory, the war in Europe, and struggles within the Batavian government.
AKRON. The Akron Offering, a Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849–1850: A Critical Edition. Edited by Jon Miller. University of Akron Press. 2013. 466 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9781935603535. This annotated edition reproduces the full run of a short-lived literary periodical written by and for women of Akron, Ohio, then a bustling canal town on the cusp of becoming an industrial powerhouse. While shedding light on the religious, creative, and political interests of educated midwestern women, the volume offers insights into their sometimes contradictory views on such events as the California gold rush and the 1848 uprisings in Europe.
BACON, FRANCIS. The Oxford Francis Bacon I: Early Writings, 1584–1596. Edited by Alan Stewart and Harriet Knight. Oxford University Press. 2012. 1,136 pp. $299. ISBN: 9780198183136. Comprised in this first volume of a new, critical edition of Bacon's works are position papers, commentaries on printed works, legal readings and opinions, and discourses of advice, which were usually circulated in manuscript. Although relatively informal and "occasional," the works illustrate Bacon's developing philosophy. The edition presents the works in accordance with the principles of modern textual scholarship and with full commentaries and glossaries.
BERLIN, ISAIAH. Building: Letters, 1960–1975. Edited by Henry Hardy and Mark Poole. Chatto & Windus. 2013. 704 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 9780701185763. The third volume of the English philosopher's letters, Building covers the period when Berlin helped create Wolfson College, Oxford, and published some of his most important works, including his four essays on liberty—the key texts outlining his thoughts on liberal pluralism. Behind these personal triumphs and his observations on the turmoil of the era is a stream of gossip, commentary, and acerbic humor, proving Berlin one of the most trenchant and entertaining letter writers of the twentieth century.
BERNSTEIN, LEONARD. The Leonard Bernstein Letters. Edited by Nigel Simeone. Yale University Press. 2013. 480 pp. $38. ISBN: 9780300179095. This is the first volume to present a selection of the composer's wide-ranging correspondence. It includes many never-published letters to such correspondents as Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These letters reveal his complex sexuality, the breadth of his musical interests, and his tremendous capacity for work.
BYRD, WILLIAM, II. The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover. Edited by Kevin Joel Berland. University of North Carolina Press. 2013. 592 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 9781469606934. Collating all extant manuscripts, this new edition sheds light on the historical and cultural contexts of Byrd's composition of his two distinct histories of the surveying expedition on which he served: the first, a private, highly satirical account, and the second, a more polished history intended for the London literary market. Berland identifies for the first time many of the sources Byrd used to enrich his account, raising questions about the reliability and originality of Byrd's narratives and calling for an appreciation of the hybrid nature of early modern history writing.
CALIFORNIA. California through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848. Compiled, translated, and edited by James R. Gibson. Arthur H. Clark Company. 2013. 506 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780870624216. Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold it in 1841. Gathered from Russian archives and journals, the documents collected and translated here present detailed accounts from Russian mariners, scientists, and company officials. Throughout the volume, the Russians showed themselves to be acute observers of Alta California and its Hispanic and Native American inhabitants.
CATHER, WILLA. The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout. Knopf. 2013. 752 pp. $37.50. ISBN: 9780307959300. The first publication of Cather's letters (her will forbade their publication), this edition collects 566 letters from throughout her life. From reports of her life as a teenager in Red Cloud to her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York to her rise as one of America's finest novelists, these letters, mostly to close friends and family and to other literary figures, reveal the confident and elegant voice that has made Cather's fiction endure.
CIVIL WAR. A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden. Edited by W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes. University of South Carolina Press. 2013. 216 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9781611171358. Feilden was a young British officer who resigned his commission, ran the Union blockade, and became a staff officer of P. G. T. Beauregard. During the war, he married South Carolinian Julia McCord. This volume publishes for the first time his letters to her, which offer a compelling view into the operations of the military headquarters in Charleston and subsequently in operations in Georgia and Florida. Feilden and his wife moved to Great Britain after the war, and he resumed his military career there. This volume prints also a selection of letters from the early twentieth century in which Feilden reflects on his career, which included explorations of the Arctic.
CIVIL WAR. Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War: Annotated Edition. By Judith Brokenbrough McGuire. Edited by James I. Robertson Jr. University of Kentucky Press. 2013. 352 pp. $60. ISBN: 9780813144375. Throughout the war, McGuire wrote incisive commentaries on society, detailed her hardships, and balanced reflections on her life behind the battle lines with military reports and rumors. Her oft-cited journals here receive for the first time meticulous annotations that furnish references for poems and quotations and identify the many individuals who previously have only been known by the initials McGuire gave them.
CIVIL WAR. Torn by War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers. Edited by Samuel R. Phillips. University of Oklahoma Press. 2013. 248 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 9780806143958. Byers began recording her thoughts and observations at the age of fifteen in 1862, during the first of three Union occupations of Batesville, Arkansas. An acute observer, Byers illustrated the conflicts experienced by a social elite very much dependent upon slavery but situated on the fringes of the Confederacy. The volume adds to the growing body of literature on civilian life during the Civil War.
COAL INDUSTRY. Letters of John Buddle to Lord Londonderry, 1820–1843. Edited by Anne Orde. Boydell & Brewer. 2013. 450 pp. $90. ISBN: 978085440726. Buddle was the most eminent mining engineer of his era and served as colliery manager for Charles Stewart, third Marquess of Londonderry, who owned mines in northeast England. Selected from the more than two thousand letters that Buddle wrote to his employer, this edition offers detailed accounts of the coal trade at a time when the industry was expanding rapidly and provides a window into the politics, economy, and social situation of the northeast.
COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS. The Papers of Francis Bernard, Volume 3: Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760–1769. Edited by Colin Nicolson. University of Virginia Press. 2013. 488 pp. $49.50. ISBN: 9780985254315. Royal governor during the tumultuous decade that saw Massachusetts set the pattern for American reactions to the Stamp Act and other British measures, Bernard provided firsthand observations on the birth of the American movement for independence. This third volume of a four-volume set that will advance scholarship on late eighteenth-century British imperial historiography covers the years 1766 and 1767.
CONSTITUTION, UNITED STATES. Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 26. Ratification of the Constitution by the States: Rhode Island, No. 3. Edited by John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Jonathan M. Reid, Charles H. Schoenleber, Richard Leffler, and Margaret R. Flamingo. Wisconsin Historical Society Press. 2013. 1205 pp. $95. ISBN: 9780870206214. The last of three volumes documenting public and private debates concerning the new US Constitution in Rhode Island.
DALL, CAROLINE HEALEY. Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall. Edited by Helen R. Deese. University of Virginia Press. 2013. 752 pp. $75. ISBN: 9781936520053. The second volume of Dall's diary extends her story into the crucial period of her role in the American women's movement and in the founding of the American Social Science Association. A strongly partisan New Englander, Dall is revealed also as a single mother working to form a new identity as a writer, lecturer, and reformer.
DICKENS, CHARLES. Dickens's Uncollected Magazine and Newspaper Sketches, as Originally Composed and Published, 1833–1836. Edited by Robert C. Hanna. AMS Press. 2012. 372 pp. $147.50. ISBN: 9780404123456. This collection reproduces fifty-six early sketches exactly as they were initially published before Dickens heavily revised them for his first book, Sketches of Boz. Authoritative annotations, four rarely seen original illustrations, and authorized and unauthorized versions of the sketches allow readers to encounter Dickens as his first readers did.
ELIOT, T. S. The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 4: 1928–29. Edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden. Yale University Press. 2013. 880 pp. $50. ISBN: 9780300187243. During the period covered in this volume, Eliot sought secure financial support for his periodical, the Monthly Criterion, while tending to his wife, Vivien, who had just returned from a French psychiatric hospital. Corresponding as always with writers from around the world, he concluded a number of writings himself, including the poem A Song for Simeon and an introduction to Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.
EMANCIPATION. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866–1867. Edited by René Hayden, Anthony E. Kaye, Kate Masur, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, Leslie S. Rowland, and Stephen A. West. University of North Carolina Press. 2013. 1,096 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 9781469607429. Using documents selected from the National Archives, many of them in the freedpeople's own words, this volume examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the aftermath of emancipation. It captures the efforts of freedpeople to establish their families as independent economic units, the reordering of labor, migration, and new relations of credit and debt.
EXPLORATION. The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James: A Critical Edition. Edited by Colleen M. Franklin. McGill-Queens University Press. 2013. 360 pp. $100. ISBN: 9780773541924. A British explorer, James published in 1633 an account of his attempt to find the Northwest Passage and the winter he spent on an island in James Bay. For two centuries, his narrative remained the British public's primary source of information for northern Canada. This new edition offers a history of the text's reception from its first publication into the nineteenth century.
FETHERLING, GEORGE. The Writing Life: Journals, 1975–2005. Edited by Brian Busby. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2013. 360 pp. $37.95. ISBN: 9780773541146. Selected from thousands of pages of the journals of one of Canada's leading literary figures, The Writing Life reveals Fetherling to be an astute observer of his contemporaries as well as of himself. Figures such as Margaret Atwood and Marshall McLuhan fill the journals, which begin in mid-1970s Toronto before moving to Vancouver and extending into a new century.
FUR TRADE. This Far-Off Land: The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson. Edited by Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson. Arthur H. Clark Company. 2013. 336 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780870624193. Dawson was a young Scot who immigrated to St. Louis in 1844 and three years later joined the fur trade along the upper Missouri River in what is now North Dakota and Montana, where he would assume command of several trading outposts and become known as the last "King of the Upper Missouri." This volume pairs a biography of Dawson with thirty-seven previously unpublished letters that he sent from the frontier. The letters capture the sense of isolation that characterized the fur trade and descriptions of some of the least documented fur trading centers.
GAYLE, SARAH HAYNSWORTH. The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835: A Substitute for Social Intercourse. Edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins and Ruth Smith Truss. University of Alabama Press. 2013. 392 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780817313333. Long an invaluable source for historians of elite southern women in the antebellum South, Gayle's journal has been frequently misinterpreted because of the ragged condition of the original and the poor quality of the many transcriptions that have circulated. Using archival techniques, the editors have recovered obscured information and created the most reliable reading of Gayle's journal. Textual notes explain how damaged lines were restored.
GOMPERS, SAMUEL. The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 13: Cumulative Index. Edited by Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino. University of Illinois Press. 2013. 320 pp. $50. ISBN: 9780252037429. The final volume in this landmark documentary edition, the index provides a key to the previous volumes, permitting scholars to recognize the emphases in subject matter and locate the substantive annotations of key individuals, unions, legislation, and events.
HAITIAN REVOLUTION. An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti. By Marcus Rainford. Edited by Paul Youngquist and Grégory Pierrot. Duke University Press. 2013. 392 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 9780822352785. The first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Rainsford's account was highly influential in establishing world opinion of the pivotal events. Rainsford was a British officer who went to Haiti to recruit black soldiers. His account supported the idea of Haitian independence, praised the prowess of black troops, and recounted his meetings with Toussaint Louverture and other Haitian leaders. The first edition since the initial publication of 1805, this volume provides contextual and historical details and includes a newly discovered miniature painting of Louverture by Rainsford.
HAND, LEARNED. Reason and Imagination: The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand. Edited by Constance Jordan. Oxford University Press. 2013. 480 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780199899104. This edition offers a unique sampling of the correspondence between Hand and an array of intellectual and legal giants, including Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, and Bernard Berenson. The letters, many never before published, cover almost half a century and showcase decades of original thought on American jurisprudence.
HARDY, THOMAS. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Volume 8: Further Letters. Edited by Michael Millgate and Keith Wilson. Oxford University Press. 2013. 320 pp. $160. ISBN: 9780199607754. The long-awaited supplement to Hardy's Collected Letters, this volume contains previously unpublished letters from all periods of Hardy's career, including his earliest known letter. It introduces important new correspondents and sheds light on existing exchanges.
HERRICK, ROBERT. The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick, Volume 1. Edited by Tom T. Cain and Ruth Connolly. Oxford University Press. 2013. 400 pp. $135. ISBN: 9780199212842. This volume concentrates on Herrick's large printed collection Hesperides, the product of four decades of writing. Based on a collation of all fifty-seven known surviving copies, the edition includes a new biography. A second volume will contain extensive commentary, so that readers can read it side by side with the poems.
HOGG, JAMES. Contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: Volume 2, 1829–1835. Edited by Thomas Richardson. Edinburgh University Press. 2012. 432 pp. $95. ISBN: 9780748624898. From 1817 to his death in 1835, James Hogg published 115 works in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, which showcased the diversity of his talent. Poems and songs, sketches of rural life, review essays, short stories, and satirical pieces enlivened the journal's pages. This edition includes previously unpublished submitted work from the same period and full explanatory and textual notes.
HOGG FAMILY. The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906. Edited by Virginia Bernhard. Texas A&M University Press. 2013. 350 pp. $35. ISBN: 9781625110015. Featuring more than four hundred previously unpublished letters, this volume follows the family of Gov. James Stephen Hogg through the state's late nineteenth-century politics and their own ups and downs. Interspersed are portions of Ima Hogg's memoir and commentary from the editor.
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY. The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Correspondence, Volume 1: 1852–1881. Volume 2: 1882–1889. Edited by R. K. R. Thornton and Catherine Phillips. Oxford University Press. 2013. 504 pp. $299. ISBN: 9780199653706. Set out on radically different lines from previous editions of the poet's letters, these two comprehensive volumes of the Collected Works provide, as far as is possible, a narrative sequence. New transcriptions revise a large number of readings and include all legible emendations, allowing the reader to follow the hesitancies and adjustments of Hopkins's mind. The letters provide a window into Hopkins's thoughts on his own work and on poetry in general.
HUGHES, LANGSTON. My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926–1938. Edited by Carmaletta M. Williams and John Edgar Tidwell. University of Georgia Press. 2013. 240 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 9780820345659. Using family systems theory, the editors introduce readers to a previously unexplored aspect of Hughes's work. The letters from Hughes's mother reveal the difficult negotiations between family and art that Hughes engaged in as he attempted to sustain an elusive but enduring artistic reputation. His responses to his mother's correspondence came in his artistic work, making the letters a new resource for engaging the inner self that has eluded Hughes scholars.
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. Liberation: Diaries, 1970–1983. Edited by Katherine Bucknell. Chatto & Windus. 2012. 875 pp. $39.99. ISBN: 9780701169404. This edition records Isherwood's immersion in the 1970s arts scenes of Los Angeles, New York, and London, when he came into contact with such figures as John Huston, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. Frank and humorous reflections on the dramatic events of the era and his own role in the gay liberation movement are balanced with candid revelations of his fear of death.
JACKSON, ANDREW. The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 9: 1831. Edited by Daniel Feller, Laura Eve Moss, Thomas Coens, and Erik B. Alexander. University of Tennessee Press. 2013. 987 pp. $92. ISBN: 9871621900045. Presenting more than five hundred documents, many newly discovered, this edition covers the third year of Jackson's presidency, when he cleared his contentious cabinet and pursued his feud with Vice President John C. Calhoun, whom he blamed for his political troubles. Through all this turmoil, Jackson continued to press his priorities: Indian removal, retirement of the national debt, and opposition to the Bank of the United States and to nullification.
JAY, JOHN. The Selected Papers of John Jay, Volume 3: 1782–1784. Edited by Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. University of Virginia Press. 2013. 768 pp. $95. ISBN: 9780813932804. This volume opens with Jay's arrival in Paris for the negotiation of the peace treaty with Great Britain and explores his insistence on a British recognition of American independence as a precondition for negotiation and his disregard of congressional instructions to take no action without the consent of France. Also covered are topics such as the Jays' social and domestic life, Jay's efforts to settle a family inheritance, and his return to America, where he accepted the post of secretary of foreign affairs.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802–3 March 1803. Edited by Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, Elaine Weber Pascu, Martha J. King, Tom Downey, and W. Bland Whitley. Princeton University Press. 2012. 768 pp. $115. ISBN: 9780691156712. This volume contains documents connected to the closing of the right of deposit in New Orleans, an act that threatened the well-being of westerners and encouraged Jefferson to send his friend and ally James Monroe to Paris to negotiate a permanent solution. Also included are Jefferson's request for funds for a western expedition to be led by Meriwether Lewis and a visit to Washington from his daughters and two grandchildren.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815–30 April 1816. Edited by J. Jefferson Looney, Robert F. Haggard, Julie L. Lautenschlager, Ellen C. Hickman, and Christine Sternberg Patrick. Princeton University Press. 2012. 848 pp. $115. ISBN: 9780691156705. During the period covered in this volume, Jefferson made three trips to Poplar Forest, where he also hosted the returning war hero Andrew Jackson. Jefferson repurposed a letter in which he indulged in a "tirade" against the pamphlet of a New England clergyman by having it published anonymously in the Richmond Enquirer, and also responded anonymously to an interpretation of the Constitution published in a Washington newspaper.
MADISON, JAMES. The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, Volume 2: 1 February 1820–26 February 1823. Edited by David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. University of Virginia Press. 2013. 768 pp. $85. ISBN: 9780813933764. During the time covered in this volume, Madison remained at his home, Montpelier, other than visits to neighborhood friends and attendance at Board of Visitor meetings at the University of Virginia. He corresponded with President James Monroe about domestic and international politics, with Thomas Jefferson about the building of the University of Virginia, and with a wide range of other individuals who received Madison's views on slavery and public education.
MILTON, JOHN. The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume 8: De Doctrina Christiana. Edited by John K. Hale, Donald Cullington, Gordon Campbell, and Thomas N. Corns. Oxford University Press. 2013. 1,440 pp. $375. ISBN: 9780199234516. This volume presents Milton's systematic theology, his longest work, in which he worked out his beliefs directly from scripture. This definitive edition is based on a fresh transcription and includes fuller textual apparatus and commentary. Of particular note is the edition's close attention to the nuances of Milton's Latin.
MONTGOMERY, L. M. The Complete Journals of L. M. Montgomery: The Pei Years, 1901–1911. Edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston. Oxford University Press. 2013. 444 pp. $42. ISBN: 9780199002115. The second of the complete journals to appear, this volume covers Montgomery's early adult years, including her work as a newspaper editor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the death of her grandmother, and her impending marriage to a clergyman. It documents her own reflections on writing, her mood swings, and her changing relationship with the world of Prince Edward Island. This edition recreates the format that Montgomery devised for her journals.
NEHRU, JAWAHARLAL. Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Volume 46: 1 January–28 February 1959. Edited by Madhavan K. Palat. Oxford University Press. 2013. 738 pp. $60. ISBN: 9780198090489. With extensive annotations, this volume provides a panorama of home and the world as seen from the center of power in India by a sensitive observer and a skillful statesman.
NEILSON, ELIZA LUCY IRION. A New Southern Woman: The Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871–1883. Edited by Giselle Roberts. University of South Carolina Press. 2013. 352 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 9781611171307. Neilson composed and preserved over 130 letters during the period covered in this volume, which prints eighty letters documenting family and domestic life in Columbus, Mississippi. Creating an agricultural partnership with her husband under the straitened circumstances of the postbellum South, Neilson also observed the efforts of one widowed sister, another sister who was single, and a school-age niece. Her correspondence suggests the ways that elite white women created a new southern consciousness under a broader rubric of genteel postbellum femininity.
NIN, ANAÏS. Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1947. Edited by Paul Herron. Swallow Press. 2013. 440 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 9780804011464. Collecting for the first time the portion of Nin's diary that was cut from previous published editions, Mirages covers a difficult period of Nin's life after she fled Paris and experienced a kind of delirium that fueled her search for erotic fulfillment. The diary offers answers to questions concerning the end of Nin's affair with Henry Miller, her troubled marriage, and her penchant for collecting devoted younger men.
OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW. The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Volume 8: The Early Boston Years, 1882–1890. Edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Ethan Carr, Amanda Gagel, and Michael Shapiro. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2013. 928 pp. $110. ISBN: 9781421409269. Relocating to Boston, where he established a modern landscape architecture practice with his stepson, Olmsted during the 1880s designed the ambitious park system of Boston and Brookline, public parks in New York State and Detroit, and the grounds of the Biltmore Estate near Asheville. He wrote frequently on the subject of landscape design, and this volume contains some of his most mature and powerful statements on his art.
OSAGES. An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830: Three French Accounts. Edited and translated by William Least Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace. University of Oklahoma Press. 2013. 168 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9780806144030. In 1827 six Osages, two of them women, traveled to Europe, where they made a celebrated visit to France. Virtually lost since the 1830s, the three accounts of the visit published in this volume reflect European stereotypes of American Indians but nonetheless provide unique insights into Osage life and are surprisingly accurate in some of their depictions of Osage history, geography, and lifeways.
PIERCE, WILLIAM. William Pierce: On the Constitutional Convention and the Constitution. Notes from the Convention, Sketches of Delegates, and Writings on the Constitution. Edited by Richard Leffler, John P. Kaminski, and Samuel K. Fore. Harlan Crow Library. 2012. 119 pp. Based on Pierce's manuscript observations of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, this handsome edition includes helpful annotations, brief biographies of all the convention members described by Pierce, and excerpts of letters Pierce wrote during the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
POLK, JAMES K. Correspondence of James K. Polk, Volume 12: January–July 1847. Edited by Tom Chaffin and Michael David Cohen. University of Tennessee Press. 2013. 567 pp. $75. ISBN: 9781572339527. The letters in this volume, most of them previously unpublished, document Polk's prosecution of the war against Mexico, which along with his previous settlement of the Oregon controversy, increased the size of the United States by a third. During the period covered, Polk and other Americans celebrated victories at Buena Vista, Sacramento, and Veracruz, among others. The war did not eliminate, however, other foreign policy concerns also covered in the volume. Polk's party-building efforts also emerge as a critical element of his presidency. Among personal issues exposed are Polk's management of his Mississippi plantation and the slave trading it entailed and his interactions with family members.
PORTRAITURE. A Memoir of James De Veaux, of Charleston, S.C., a Member of the National Academy of Design, New York. Edited by Robert W. Gibbes, with introduction and notes by Alexander Moore. University of South Carolina Press. 2013. 344 pp. $16.95. ISBN: 9781611170986. A promising young artist who worked up and down the East Coast and throughout his native South Carolina, De Veaux became the subject of a biography by Gibbes, who also printed some of the artist's diaries and letters. The Memoir recounts De Veaux's experiences in the art world of Europe and offers insight into the artistic culture of antebellum South Carolina. This edition includes textual notes and adds biographical and art historical information.
RELIGIOUS REVIVALS. The McCulloch "Examinations" of the Cambuslang Revival (1742): A Critical Edition. Edited by Keith Edward Beebe. Boydell & Brewer. 2013. Volume 1: 461 pp. $70. ISBN: 9780906245323. Volume 2: 355 pp. $70. ISBN: 9780906245330. Consisting of more than one hundred conversion narratives from the Cambuslang revival of 1742 in Scotland, the McCulloch Examinations amounted to Scotland's first large-scale oral history project. Now published in their entirety for the first time, these narratives shed light on a vital chapter of transatlantic religious history. The edition includes the proposed redactions and marginal comments of four prominent clergymen who assisted McCulloch with the project.
ROLLE, RICHARD. Two Revised Versions of Rolle's English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles. Edited by Anne Hudson. Oxford University Press. 2013. 984 pp. $125. ISBN: 9780199674299. Rolle, a fourteenth-century scholar, wrote two commentaries on the Psalms, one in English and one in Latin. Some fifty years after his death, his English commentary was revised by a series of Lollard writers. Presented here is a full edition of the first Lollard revision, based on a full study of all manuscripts of both versions. It also includes twelve canticles that accompanied the commentary.
SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE. William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization. Edited by James Everett Kibler Jr. and David Moltke-Hansen. University of South Carolina Press. 2013. 400 pp. $44.95. ISBN: 9781611172959. Simms, in addition to his own creative work, was one of the United States' most significant literary critics. This volume collects sixty-two examples of his newspaper and periodical reviews as well as four critical essays. A proponent of romanticism, Simms read widely, reviewing French and German works, recent editions of Greek and Latin classics, and such American writers as Melville and Thoreau. The editors situate Simms within the wider intellectual milieu that undergirded the romantic movement.
SLAVE NARRATIVES. Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave. Edited by Hank Trent. Louisiana State University Press. 2013. Published in 1838 to great fanfare, James Williams's narrative was eventually disowned by its publisher, the American Anti-Slavery Society, after defenders of slavery challenged its authenticity. Most historians have treated it as a fraud. The editor provides new biographical information that confirms the identity of the author as a man enslaved in Virginia and Alabama who altered his life story to throw investigators off the track. This edition draws upon court cases, advertisements, census records, and estate inventories never before linked to the real-life Williams.
SMITH, JOSEPH. The Joseph Smith Papers. Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831. Edited by Michael Hubbard MacKay, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William J. Hartley. Church Historian's Press. 2013. 558 pp. $54.95. ISBN: 9781609075774. Inaugurating the core series of the Papers, this volume includes the first three years of what survives of Smith's papers. It includes letters he sent and received, revelations, minutes of meetings he participated in, ecclesiastical records, and financial papers. Subjects covered include the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon, the establishment of the church, and a mission to Indians in the West, led by Oliver Cowdery.
SMITH, JOSEPH. The Joseph Smith Papers. Documents, Volume 2: July 1831–January 1833. Edited by Matthew C. Godfrey, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley. Church Historian's Press. 2013. 550 pp. $54.95. ISBN: 9781609075989. Covered in this volume are administrative and doctrinal developments in the church, including the organization of the United Firm and the establishment of the city of Zion in Missouri. Two letters from Smith to his wife Emma offer insights into Smith's family life.
SWIFT, JONATHAN. Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants, and Other Works. Edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press. 2013. 821 pp. $130. ISBN: 9780521843263. Among his most fascinating works, Swift's parodies perhaps require the most explication for modern readers. The editor includes discussions of the political and print contexts of Swift's Bickerstaff Papers. Each work is supplemented with a headnote and significant annotation, as well as a textual account that presents and discusses changes in the texts over time.
TEJANOS. Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas History. Edited by Timothy Matovina, Jesús F. de la Teja, and Justin Poché. University of Texas Press. 2013. 202 pp. $55. ISBN: 9780292748651. A native of San Antonio, the prominent military veteran and merchant José Antonio Menchaca was one of only a few Tejano leaders to leave behind a document of recollections. Reconstructed in its entirety for the first time, this annotated edition captures the social life, people, and events that shaped Texas's history during its transition from Mexican hinterland to independent nation to an American, and eventually Confederate, state.
TEXAS RANGERS. "Pidge," Texas Ranger. Edited by Chuck Parsons. Texas A&M University Press. 2013. 224 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 9781603449748. Thomas C. "Pidge" Robinson moved from Virginia to Texas, joining the Rangers in 1874. A learned and witty writer, Robinson sent back letters, poems, and reports to Austin newspapers. Compiled from these submissions, this annotated compendium offers insights into the life and actions of the Rangers as well as the popular culture of postbellum Texas.
TUCKER, ST. GEORGE. St. George Tucker's Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782–1825. Edited by Charles F. Hobson. University of North Carolina Press. 2013. 3 vols. 2,128 pp. $250. ISBN: 9780807837214. A comprehensive set of the Virginia jurist's law reports and selected loose papers, this is an unsurpassed archive for examining the adaptation of the common law during the period of the early republic. Tucker's reports fill a documentary gap caused by the 1865 fire that destroyed Virginia's higher court records. The edition includes a biographical register and correspondence related to the rupture between Tucker and Spencer Roane.
TWAIN, MARK. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition. Edited by Benjamin Griffin, Harriet E. Smith, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, and Leslie Diane Myrick. University of California Press. 2013. 776 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780520272781. This volume delves deeper into Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor and ire, the narrative exposes his views on writing and speaking, his concerns with money, and his observations on politics and politicians of the day.
VIRGINIA. The History and Present State of Virginia. By Robert Beverley. Edited by Susan Scott Parrish. University of North Carolina Press. 2013. 416 pp. $45. ISBN: 9781469607948. A Virginia native, Robert Beverley published his account of the colony while visiting London in 1705. The History provided English readers with information on Virginia's political economy, past, natural history, and Indians. Based on a fresh transcription of the 1705 edition, this volume presents a comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition and situates its author in the context of the political and cultural issues of his day.
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855–1859. Edited by James T. Costa. Harvard University Press. 2013. 640 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 9780674724884. To mark the centennial of the famous naturalist's death, this edition presents a facsimile, transcription, and annotation of Wallace's "Species Notebook," which he kept during an expedition to Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Guinea. The notebooks sketch out Wallace's evolutionary theory, which, like Darwin's, was premised on the notion of natural selection. The edition asserts Wallace's stature as a founder of biogeography and pioneer of the theory of evolution.
WARREN, ROBERT PENN. Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume 6: Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980–1989. Edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins. Louisiana State University Press. 2013. 480 pp. $90. ISBN: 9780807152829. The sixth and final volume of this selected edition, Toward Sunset documents the final decade of Warren's life, when he published three volumes of poetry, a work of nonfiction prose, and a memoir. In his last years he became frustrated with the poetry he was able to write but continued to be a lively correspondent, filling his letters with details of his home life and that of his children. To the end he maintained a stoic attitude regarding his physical decline and continued to encourage younger poets he admired.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE. The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, Volume 17: 1 October 1794–31 March 1795. Edited by David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. University of Virginia Press. 2013. 800 pp. $85. ISBN: 9780813934167. Highlighted by documents connected to the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion and the negotiation of the Jay Treaty, this volume begins with Washington in the field, before his determination that quelling the insurrection in western Pennsylvania no longer required his presence. Letters from Alexander Hamilton kept him apprised of the situation, and subsequently he entertained requests for pardons for participants in the rebellion. Other issues covered include Indian affairs in the wake of the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the departure of Thomas Pinckney to revive stalled negotiations with Spain.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE. The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Volume 22: 1 August–21 October 1779. Edited by Benjamin L. Huggins. University of Virginia Press. 2013. 904 pp. $85. ISBN: 9780813933665. During this period, Washington worked to strengthen the fortifications at West Point and planned the successful attack on Paulus Hook, New Jersey. He also supervised logistical support for the American expedition against the Six Nations and intensified defensive preparations for the expected reinforcement of British troops in the Hudson area.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy, 1847–1879. Edited by Roberta Stringham Brown and Patricia O'Connell Killen. Translated by Roberta Stringham Brown. University of Washington Press. 2013. 288 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780295992631. Named the first bishop of Walla Walla in 1846, A. M. A. Blanchet spent thirty-two years in the Pacific Northwest, a time of rapid change for the region. The editors have chosen forty-five of the almost nine hundred letters Blanchet sent to his colleagues and superiors in Montreal, Paris, and Rome, other missionaries, and US government officials. The letters provide firsthand glimpses of signal events in the region's history as well as observations on ordinary settlers, native populations, and the struggle to build educational and social organizations.
WILDE, OSCAR. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5: Plays I. Edited by Joseph Donohue. Oxford University Press. 2013. 848 pp. $250. ISBN: 9780198119579. The first volume of a critical edition of Wilde's plays, it presents The Duchess of Padua, Salome: Drame en un Acte, and Salome: Tragedy in One Act. Encompassing all surviving manuscript material and other documents, the edition contains comprehensive introductions to the plays and extensive annotations.
WILDE, OSCAR. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Volume 6: Journalism I. Edited by John Stokes and Mark Turner. Oxford University Press. 2013. 1,064 pp. ISBN: 9780198119647. Volume 7: Journalism II. 532 pp. ISBN: 9780198119630. $250. These two volumes print all of Wilde's known contributions, both signed and anonymous, to periodicals and newspapers. Reviews, articles, and editorials showcase Wilde's extraordinary cultural knowledge and his witty, intellectually acute style. The volumes provide an essential record of the vibrant and rapidly changing journalistic culture in which Wilde played a part.
WOODWARD, C. VANN. The Letters of C. Vann Woodward. Edited by Michael O'Brien. Yale University Press. 2013. 480 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780300185348. One of the most important American historians of the twentieth century, Woodward left behind a body of wry and often funny letters. Correspondents include Richard Hofstadter, John Kennedy, David Riesman, and Robert Penn Warren. Woodward's letters shed light on what it meant to be an American radical and public intellectual.


Married Name circa 1911 As of circa 1911,her married name was Peterson.
Louise A. Stewart was born circa 1886 at Wisconsin.
She married Hans P. Peterson circa 1911.
Milton Laverne Peterson was born on 19 September 1912 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of Hans P. Peterson and Louise A. Stewart.
Milton Laverne Peterson died on 29 May 1961 at age 48.
Evelyn Berniece Peterson was born circa 1915 at Wisconsin.
Evelyn Berniece Peterson died in 1985.
Married Name Her married name was Jank.
Maureta Janice Peterson married Joseph John Jank Jr.
Maureta Janice Peterson was born on 23 December 1916 at Wisconsin.
Maureta Janice Peterson died on 3 March 1993 at age 76.
Joseph John Jank Jr. married Maureta Janice Peterson, daughter of Hans P. Peterson and Louise A. Stewart.
Joseph John Jank Jr. was born on 26 August 1916 at Wisconsin.
He died on 20 September 1993 at Wisconsin at age 77.
Joseph J. Kane was born circa 1918 at South Dakota.
He was the son of William Francis Kane and Katherine Marie Bechen.
Joseph J. Kane died after 1976.
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Married Name Her married name was Thomson.
Married Name after 1976 As of after 1976,her married name was Kopplin.
Katherine Frances Kane married Harold Leland Thomson.
Katherine Frances Kane was born on 28 January 1922 at South Dakota.
She was the daughter of William Francis Kane and Katherine Marie Bechen.
Katherine Frances Kane married (?) Kopplin after 1976.
Katherine Frances Kane died on 3 March 2010 at Illinois at age 88.
Alfred Thomas Kane was born on 6 July 1924 at Platte, South Dakota.
Alfred Thomas Kane died in April 1975 at age 50.
Married Name 19 April 1949 As of 19 April 1949,her married name was Fuhrman.
Marie Rose Kane was born on 23 January 1927 at Platte, Charles Mix, South Dakota.
Marie Rose Kane married Victor Fuhrman on 19 April 1949 at Charles Mix, South Dakota.
Marie Rose Kane died on 27 May 2007 at age 80.
Leroy B. Kane was born circa 1931 at South Dakota.
Name Variation Helen B. Ratzman was also known as Helen E.
Married Name 17 September 1934 As of 17 September 1934,her married name was Bechen.
Helen B. Ratzman was born circa 1905 at South Dakota.
She married Francis Patrick Bechen, son of Nicholas Bechen and Nellie F. O'Rourke, on 17 September 1934 at Brule, South Dakota.
[S373] U.S. Federal Census 1940 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1940; Census Place: Darlington, Charles Mix, South Dakota; Roll: T627_3851; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 12-6.
Name Variation Thresa Burke was also known as Theresa.
Name Variation Thresa Burke was also known as Tresa.
Married Name 10 June 1919 As of 10 June 1919,her married name was Bechen.
Thresa Burke was born on 29 May 1898 at Iowa.
She married Francis Patrick Bechen, son of Nicholas Bechen and Nellie F. O'Rourke, on 10 June 1919.
Thresa Burke died on 6 August 1930 at Mitchell, South Dakota, at age 32 Thresa Burke Bechen obituary.
Married Name Her married name was Fliss.
Marilyn Alice Mader married Marvin L. Fliss.
Marilyn Alice Mader was born on 1 October 1934 at South Dakota.
She was the daughter of Philip J. Mader and Velzora A. Deremore.
Marilyn Alice Mader died on 16 July 2010 at Nevada at age 75.
Marvin L. Fliss married Marilyn Alice Mader, daughter of Philip J. Mader and Velzora A. Deremore.
Marvin L. Fliss was born on 1 December 1932 at Iowa.
He died on 27 February 2007 at Nevada at age 74.
Jerome Merlin Sylliaasen was born on 17 February 1937 at South Dakota.
He was the son of Henry Sanford Sylliaasen and Viola Josephine Braunesreither.
Jerome Merlin Sylliaasen died on 23 April 2011 at South Dakota at age 74 Jerome M. Sylliaasen, age 75 of Mission Hill, SD passed away Monday, April 23, 2011 at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton, SD. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, April 30, 2012 at Vangen Lutheran Church, Mission Hill, SD with Rev. Lance Lindgren officiating. Burial will be in the Vangen Lutheran Cemetery with Military Graveside Rights by the Rudolph Christensen American Legion Post #237. Visitations will begin at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 29, 2012, at the Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home & Crematory, Yankton, SD, with a Scripture service at 7:00 p.m. Visitations will resume one hour prior to the service at the church. Pallbearers will be Scott Simonsen, Timothy Simonsen, Jessica Epp, Tyler Larsen, Nathan and Briana Epp, and Alexa Larsen. Honorary pallbearers are Robert Oien, Marvin Ekeren, Charles Cowman, Darrell Ekeren, Bernal Huber, Ralph Guenther and Ken Kjer. Jerome M. Sylliaasen was born on February 17, 1937 at Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton, SD to Henry and Viola (Braunesreither) Sylliaasen. He attended grade school at Pleasant Valley, Inch, and Mission Hill, and attended high school at Gayville, graduating in 1956. He worked on a farm owned by Howard Magorien all through High School. After graduation, he enlisted in the Army in September 1956 and served for two years. He was discharged in September, 1958. He married Dorothy Ann Remington at St. Johns Lutheran Church on September 28, 1958. To this union, two children were born, Pamela and Patricia. He worked for Freeman & Company, AB Vinateri Plumbing and Yankton County Highway Department. In 1962 the family moved to California where he worked for Hytone Paper Company, Garden Grove, CA and Kimberly Clark, Fullerton, CA. In 1964, the family returned to South Dakota to farm with his father and brother, Alan, in Mission Hill. Jerome continued farming until he retired in 2008. Jerome was a 4-H Leader for many years, a member of the Moose Lodge, Elks Lodge and American Legion. He was baptized, confirmed and a lifetime member of Vangen Lutheran Church of Mission Hill and served as Usher, Deacon and was Secretary on the cemetery board for 30 years. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy of Mission Hill, SD; two daughters, Pamela (Raymon) of Mission Hill, SD, Patricia Larsen of Yankton, SD; grandchildren, Jessica Epp of Pollock, LA, Nathan (Briana) Epp of Yankton, SD, Tyler Larsen of Yankton, SD, Alexa Larsen of Yankton, SD; sister, Diane (Jim) Johnson of Ormond Beach, FL; brothers and sisters-in-law, Dolores Christensen of W. Garden Grove, CA, Robert Remington of Hemet, CA, Ken (Lonnie) Remington of Yankton, SD, Donald Remington of Hemet, CA, Wilma (Roger) Simonsen of Menno, SD, Mary (Michael) Cline of Lake Havasu, AZ; and uncle, Wayne Lane of Phoenix, AZ; several nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry in 1981 and Viola Sylliaasen in 1996 and two brothers, Gale Sylliaasen in 1960 and Alan in 2003; son-in-law, Verlin Larsen on November 17, 2011.
Verlin Larsen was born on 7 December 1963.
He was the son of Richard Larsen.
Verlin Larsen died on 17 November 2011 at age 47.
Gale Lee Sylliaasen was born on 21 February 1939 at South Dakota.
Gale Lee Sylliaasen died on 7 May 1960 at age 21.
Alan Dean Sylliaasen was born on 14 March 1952 at South Dakota.
Alan Dean Sylliaasen died in 2003.
Richard Larsen died before November 2011.
(?) Remington married (?) Morgan.
Married Name Her married name was (?) Remington.
(?) Morgan married (?) Remington.
Name Variation Christian Bechtold was also known as Becktold.
Christian Bechtold married Caroline (?).
Christian Bechtold was born circa 1874 at Russia.
He died after April 1940.
[S373] U.S. Federal Census 1940 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1940; Census Place: Tyndall, Bon Homme, South Dakota; Roll: T627_3848; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 5-20.
Married Name Her married name was Becktold.
Married Name Her married name was Bechtold.
Caroline (?) married Christian Bechtold.
Caroline (?) was born circa 1888 at Russia.
She died after April 1940.
Name Variation Austin Leroy Doyle was also known as Auston.
Austin Leroy Doyle was born on 2 November 1904 at Lafayette, Wisconsin.
He was the son of John Doyle and Amanda B. Wahler.
Austin Leroy Doyle married Mary Burgess on 1 November 1930.
Married Name 1 November 1930 As of 1 November 1930,her married name was Doyle.
Mary Burgess was born circa 1905 at Wisconsin.
She married Austin Leroy Doyle, son of John Doyle and Amanda B. Wahler, on 1 November 1930.
Married Name 20 June 1959 As of 20 June 1959,her married name was Walter.
Joyce Marie Doyle was born on 18 September 1934 at Wisconsin.
She was the daughter of Austin Leroy Doyle and Mary Burgess.
Joyce Marie Doyle married Richard H. Walter on 20 June 1959.
Joyce Marie Doyle died on 25 October 2010 at Wisconsin at age 76 Joyce M. Walter, age 76 of Platteville, WI, formerly of Shullsburg, WI, passed away Monday, October 25, 2010, at Southwest Health Center in Platteville. She was born September 18, 1934 in Lafayette County, WI, the daughter of Auston and Mary (Burgess) Doyle. Joyce graduated from Shullsburg High School in 1953. She was united in marriage to Richard H. Walter on June 20, 1959 at Centenary United Methodist Church in Shullsburg. Joyce lived in Shullsburg all of her life where she worked as a waitress and cook at The Roost at the corner of Highways 11 and 23 near Shullsburg until 1994. Joyce is survived by three children: Linda Heim of Prairie du Chien, WI, Douglas (Penny) Walter of Darlington, WI, and Kathy (Glen) Goeschel of Dubuque, IA; seven grandchildren; and four sisters: Rose Mary (Walt) Howald of Forreston, IL, Lois Symons of Janesville, WI, Nancy (Pete) Lunde of Necedah, WI, and Elizabeth Louise (Edward) Friede of Waukesha, WI. She was preceded in death by her husband: Richard on July 21, 2004; and one son: Daniel Walter in 1991. Joyce was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church in Shullsburg and its United Methodist Women. She enjoyed collecting elephant paraphernalia, crocheting, and going to the Dog Track. Funeral service will be held Saturday, October 30, 2010, at 11:00 A.M. at Centenary United Methodist Church, 226 West Church Street in Shullsburg with Rev. Brenda Whitford officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Shullsburg. A visitation will be held Friday, October 29, 2010 from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. at OFlahrity-Erickson Funeral Home in Shullsburg.
Richard H. Walter married Joyce Marie Doyle, daughter of Austin Leroy Doyle and Mary Burgess, on 20 June 1959.
Richard H. Walter died on 21 July 2004.
Daniel Walter was the son of Richard H. Walter and Joyce Marie Doyle.
Daniel Walter died in 1991.
John Doyle married Amanda B. Wahler.
Name Variation Amanda B. Wahler was also known as Manda.
Amanda B. Wahler married John Doyle.


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Never Tell Me The Odds: 1-in-9 on STS-1
SpaceX's first-ever crewed mission was a success!
Now let's wind back the clock to 1981 and look at the last time a new American spacecraft took flight
In case you were wondering where today's article title comes from
As a SpaceX employee, both my job and my hobby writing Astronomical Returns always keep me up to date with the latest in space exploration. But since most people don't follow what's going on in space, I'm often left wondering what stories are actually big enough to make it into mainstream news, rather than the esoteric space babble I like to read. Fortunately, SpaceX's first crewed mission was certainly newsworthy - I was so thrilled getting texts from friends and family asking why this mission is so important! To put the historic launch into context, I told them that Dragon is the first new American manned spacecraft in 39 years, when the Space Shuttle first launched in 1981. It really shows how badly human spaceflight has stagnated
I waited 9 long years for this, but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd get to witness it as a SpaceX employee
To be frank, I've never been a big fan of the Space Shuttle, though I do like the iconic orange external fuel tank and graceful orbiters. While it launched notable payloads like Hubble and helped build the International Space Station, most people agree it failed to deliver on its promise of cheap, reliable access to space and kept us confined to low Earth orbit for decades (not the mention the Challenger and Columbia disasters). But in getting myself psyched for SpaceX's first manned mission, I found myself researching the first Space Shuttle, and it turned out to be way more fascinating than I expected!
Liftoff of STS-1. Later Space Shuttles featured the classic rusty colored external fuel tank, but the first 2 were painted white
The Space Shuttle's origins date back to the late 1960s, as the Nixon Administration pondered what the post-Apollo space program would look like even before Apollo 11 touched down on the moon. NASA decided that a reusable spaceplane, reusable side boosters, and an expendable external fuel tank would be the best balance of capability and cost. By the late 1970s, NASA was performing atmospheric glide tests of the prototype orbiter Enterprise, named by popular demand after the famous Star Trek ship
Never intended for spaceflight, Enterprise was used on various Approach and Landing Tests to study the orbiter's aerodynamics
By 1981, Space Shuttle Columbia was ready to go. Curiously, NASA decided that the maiden voyage would carry a crew, even though the prior Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft all had unmanned test flights before putting people on board (as did today's SpaceX's Dragon and Boeing's Starliner). There were a few factors behind this decision (source):
More advanced computer modeling combined with multiple static fires and ground tests of the various components gave mission planners confidence the new spacecraft would work
Since it lacked the jet engines of a conventional airplane, having human pilots help maneuver the controlled glide would make descent much safer
Because STS-1 would land at Edwards AFB, NASA didn't want an untested spacecraft flying over California with no one in it. Prior spacecraft had all been designed for ocean recovery
STS-1 gliding through Earth's atmosphere during reentry
Great, so now that NASA has decided STS-1 would be crewed, who to select as the human guinea pigs? The choice of mission commander was a no-brainer: John Young. A veteran of four prior missions and one of the lucky 12 moonwalkers (having commanded Apollo 16), Young was the most experienced active astronaut in 1981. For copilot, NASA picked Robert Crippen, who certainly brought his own credentials as a naval test pilot despite being a rookie astronaut (not to mention a Texas Longhorn, just like me!). Years later when asked why NASA picked him for STS-1, Crippen simply responded, "Beats the hell out of me!"
Your Space Shuttle guinea pigs! Mission commander John Young (left) and pilot Robert Crippen (right)
Columbia lifted off from Cape Canaveral on April 12, 1981, coincidentally the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, and although the launch appeared smooth, the spacecraft was actually beset by numerous anomalies during its two day mission, ranging in severity from slightly cumbersome to borderline catastrophic. The most dangerous problems arose because the engineers underestimated the acoustic energy generated by launch: not only had high-intensity sound waves blasted off some of the thermal tiles that would protect Columbia during reentry, it had also warped the body flap near the back end of the shuttle need to control its descent!
Left: crew imagery clearly showing the missing tiles | Right: diagram showing the location of the body flap
NASA did its best to assess the missing thermal tiles, using ground-based telescopes and even a top-secret spy satellite to return imagery, and they ultimately concluded they could make it back safely (unfortunately, Columbia and her crew would not be so lucky 22 years later). For the damaged body flap, they basically got lucky; NASA engineers agreed the hydraulics should've been damaged, but somehow it operated normally during descent. Commander Young later said that had he known how bad the situation was, he and Crippen would have ejected during descent, meaning Columbia would be lost on its maiden voyage
Talk about guts! The saying goes, "I'd rather be lucky than good," but to succeed in spaceflight, sometimes you need both
Of course NASA addressed these issues on future Space Shuttle flights, and ultimately the mission successfully demonstrated proof of concept of America's new space plane. But subsequent risk assessments conducted by NASA estimated the probability of catastrophic failure on STS-1 being as high as 1 in 9! For comparison, the Commercial Crew Program that SpaceX's Dragon and Boeing's Starliner are currently part of requires a probability of loss no greater than 1 in 270, and that's for a mission lasting over 6 months. Hopefully with these more stringent requirements and modern technology, the spacecraft of the 21st century will be far safer than STS-1
For more about the trials and tribulations of STS-1, I recommend this article!
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Natalie @ Obsessive Cooking Disorder June 20, 2020 at 7:31 PM
I always thought space shuttles looked cool!
TravelGuy April 18, 2021 at 2:21 AM
Nice article. One little correction however, to your caption on the picture of the Enterprise, it actually was originally intended to become a space worthy orbiter (hence the designation Orbital Vehicle, "OV", 101). The original flight schedule for the Space Shuttle program, published in 1977, showed Enterprise making its maiden spaceflight on STS-17 during July 1981, after being converted to being a space worthy orbiter while Columbia made the first 16 space shuttle flights. Enterprise's mission would have been to deploy a commercial satellite and retrieve the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). It was not until the construction of Columbia was well underway, in 1978, and the realization that Structural Test Article 099 went undamaged during its structural testing, that it was decided it would be easier and less expensive to convert STA-099 into a flight worthy vehicle than it would be to convert Enterprise into a flight worthy vehicle. So STA-099 was re-designated OV-099 and given the name Challenger, while OV-101 remained in its configuration.
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Geoffrey Alan Richards  (9 May 1922 – 27 December 2013) was a New Zealand cricketer and sports commentator.

Alan Richards played five first-class matches for Auckland in 1955–56, captaining the team against the touring West Indians, when he scored 53 and 30 not out. At the end of the season he began his radio career by describing New Zealand's first Test victory, at Eden Park in Auckland against West Indies. He became one of New Zealand's best-known radio sports commentators, covering four New Zealand cricket tours of England between 1973 and 1986, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to sport, in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours.

See also
 List of Auckland representative cricketers

References

External links

1922 births
2013 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Cricketers from Auckland
New Zealand cricket commentators
New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire

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Middle-aged men and older women, it turns out, are some of the most likely people to receive speeding tickets, according to Quality Planning, a San Francisco company that validates policyholder information for auto insurers. Believe it or not, it's not those flashy red sports cars that get cited for speeding the most, either. However, if you happen to see a middle-aged man driving a foreign vehicle (like Volkswagen GTI or Mercedes-Benz CLS) you might want to get out of their way. Oh, and if it's a middle-aged male driving a Hummer, really get out of the way.
To determine the cars most likely to get a ticket, Quality Planning's analysts looked at traffic violation data from February 2009 through February 2010, counting the number of violations racked up by different car models. To account for the difference in the number of cars on the road, they averaged the violation count per 100,000 miles driven. Vehicles that have been discontinued for more than 10 years were not included in the analysis.
Mercedes-Benz SL-Class: Drivers of this luxury vehicle were 4 times as likely to be cited for speeding.
Only one SUV was in the top ten vehicles to be cited for speeding, the Hummer H2. Quality Planning believes this is because drivers who carry multiple passengers–especially young passengers in car seats–significantly alter the way they drive.
The Pontiac Grand Prix was the only Detroit Big Three vehicle still in production to make it to the infamous top ten.
The Toyota Camry: while this car isn't known for its raw speed and power, it was one of the top ten most ticketed vehicles because of who is likely to purchase it – older women. Women above 50 are less likely to have young children as passengers. According to Quality Planning, that's the profile of the type of person that would buy and drive a Camry and Solara–and drive it quickly.
While speeding isn't the only factor when it comes to automobile accidents, it definitely plays a large part in many accidents that our firm handles. If you see someone nearby speeding, I'd recommend that you play it safe and stay behind him or her if possible.


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