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Charles White Whittlesey (January 20, 1884 – November 26, 1921) was a United States Army Medal of Honor recipient who led the Lost Battalion in the Meuse–Argonne offensive during World War I. He committed suicide by drowning when he jumped from a ship en route to Havana on November 26, 1921, at age 37.
Yellowstone by Train-A History of Rail Travel to America's First National Park. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-1-57510-129-3. Whittlesey, Lee H. (1995). Death in Yellowstone-Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park. Lanham, MD: Roberts Rineharts Publisher. ISBN 1-57098-021-7. Whittlesey, Lee H. (2007).
L. P. Hartley. Leslie Poles Hartley CBE (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–1947) and The Go-Between (1953). The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The ...
Drawn by Charles Whittlesey, 1867. The culture is named for Charles Whittlesey, an archaeologist and geologist who was the founder of the Western Reserve Historical Society. [1] He was known for his work discovering and describing indigenous people, the Whittlesey culture, who lived in northeast Ohio from A.D. 1000 to 1600. [1] [5] [6]
UK. England. Cambridgeshire. 52°33′29″N 0°07′48″W / 52.558°N 0.130°W / 52.558; -0.130. Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is 6 miles (10 km) east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 17,667 at the 2021 Census.
The Guns of the South is an alternate history novel set during the American Civil War by Harry Turtledove. [1] It was released in the United States on September 22, 1992.. The story deals with a group of time-traveling members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) from an imagined 21st-century South Africa, who supply Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s and other advanced ...
J. Sakai, the book's pseudonymous author, was born to Japanese immigrants and worked in the US auto industry. [1] Sakai was radicalized through the internment of Japanese Americans, radical factions of the American labor movement, [2] and his involvement with the Black freedom struggle as it evolved from the civil rights movement to the Black liberation movement. [3]
Writing. Jackson has written novels, anthologies and non-fiction books, all of which focus upon the Victorian capital. [6] In 2015, he was interviewed on NPR about his book Dirty Old London (Yale UP, 2014), [7] a history of dirt, filth and pollution, described by the Guardian as "rich in wonderful contemporary details gleaned from newspapers ...