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Sarah M. Buckey

"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues to find the gold--and they're not the only ones looking for it! An illustrated "Looking Back" essay provides facts about the 1850s"--

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Bertrand Bergbauer

Catalogue de l'exposition présentée au musée national de la Renaissance, château d'Ecouen du 6 novembre 2010 au 28 février 2011. Cette exposition, que la présente publication accompagne, dévoile l'emploi du bronze aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, en particulier dans les objets d'usage. Avec plus de 130 oeuvres des plus prestigieuses (étriers de François Ier en bronze doré, pied de fontaine du cercle de Hugues Sambin) aux plus usuelles (mortiers pharmaceutiques et chandeliers), l'exposition dessine une approche inédite de l'art très original des fondeurs français à la Renaissance. L'exposition engage ainsi une étude stylistique poussée analysant les sources d'inspiration des bronziers et le répertoire décoratif dans lequel ils puisaient leurs décors - en particulier les grandes créations de la sculpture européenne de la Renaissance - tout en abordant les techniques de l'utilisation du bronze et des métaux connexes (fer, cuivre, laiton) ainsi que l'organisation des corporations de fondeurs à la Renaissance par l'administration royale.

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John Buchan

When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain. The woman was a haggard, black-faced gypsy, and when my mother asked for more she turned on her heel and spoke gibberish; for which she was presently driven out of the place by Tarn Roberton, the baillie, and the village dogs. But the thing stuck in my memory, and together with the fact that I was a Thursday's bairn, and so, according to the old rhyme, "had far to go," convinced me long ere I had come to man's estate that wanderings and surprises would be my portion. It is in the rain that this tale begins. I was just turned of eighteen, and in the back-end of a dripping September set out from our moorland house of Auchencairn to complete my course at Edinburgh College. The year was 1685, an ill year for our countryside; for the folk were at odds with the King's Government, about religion, and the land was full of covenants and repressions. Small wonder that I was backward with my colleging. . . .

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Jay Higginbotham

First and foremost a local history, most detailed, accurate description yet published of personalities, events surrounding establishment, life of now extinct town known as Old Mobile.