Discovering America's Past: Customs, Legends, History & Lore of Our Great NationReader's Digest Association, 1993 - 400 ページ Featuring special sections on bizarre, delightful, and amazing aspects of our nation's unique past, these 450+ surprising but absolutely true stories examine America's history, not through its great moments, but by way of the foibles and folkways that built its character. 700 illus. and photos. |
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... remained the same from one generation to the next . The Pants That Won the West First made for California gold miners in the 1850's , Levi Strauss's blue jeans became the standard attire of the old West , then traveled around the world ...
... remained the same from one generation to the next . The Pants That Won the West First made for California gold miners in the 1850's , Levi Strauss's blue jeans became the standard attire of the old West , then traveled around the world ...
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... remained caught in the rope netting and functioned like a parachute . Bradley dropped swiftly but safely back to earth , singing , she later said , " a song of praise to the Creator of such a scene of beauty and sublime grandeur " as ...
... remained caught in the rope netting and functioned like a parachute . Bradley dropped swiftly but safely back to earth , singing , she later said , " a song of praise to the Creator of such a scene of beauty and sublime grandeur " as ...
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... remained an unwieldy art . Once George Eastman took it up , however , it got easier by the year . Go eorge Eastman once remarked that he had never smiled until he was 40. Yet , hard - driv- ing industrialist though he was , Eastman was ...
... remained an unwieldy art . Once George Eastman took it up , however , it got easier by the year . Go eorge Eastman once remarked that he had never smiled until he was 40. Yet , hard - driv- ing industrialist though he was , Eastman was ...
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