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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).
Whittlesey culture is an archaeological designation for a Native American people, who lived in northeastern Ohio during the Late Precontact and Early Contact period between A.D. 1000 to 1640. By 1500, they flourished as an agrarian society that grew maize , beans , and squash .
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 ...
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 ...
From Here to Eternity is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951. Set in 1941, the novel focuses on several members of a U.S. Army infantry company stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is loosely based on Jones's experiences in the pre-World War II ...
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 ...