Fort Zumwalt North Jazz Festival
August 24th, 2009
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Viersen Jazz Festival $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Viersen Jazz Festival is a music festival held every autumn in Viersen, North RhineWestphalia, Germany. It was established in 1969 as 1. Internationales Niederrheinisches Jazz Festival. After the first year it took almost 18 years till the festival continued in 1987 with Ali Haurand as artist director. The festival is held on the fourth weekend in September in the city hall of Viersen and enjoyed nationwide a good reputation. The festival offers a high quality set of well known jazz musicians from overseas, Europe and Germany. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2010/12/15 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.22 inches |
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USS Zumwalt (Ddg1000) $79.66 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles USS Zumwalt (DDG1000) is to be the lead ship of the Zumwalt class of guided missile destroyers and the first ship to be named for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. (29 November 1920 2 January 2000) was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. Military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A highlydecorated war veteran, Admiral Zumwalt reformed Naval personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32year Navy career, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 106 Publication Date: 2010/09/15 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches |
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Fort Bragg (North Carolina) $71.7 Fort Bragg is a major United States Army installation, in Cumberland, and Hoke Counties, North Carolina, U.S., near Fayetteville. It is also a censusdesignated place and as of 2000, had a population of 29,183. The fort is named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. It covers over 251 square miles in four counties. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 82 Publication Date: 2010/04/22 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.19 inches |
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A History of Fort Cobb: And Fort Cobb, Prairie Town $47.79 Articles From The Chronicles Of Oklahoma V34, No. 1, Spring, 1956. Author: Wright, Muriel H./ Holding, Vera Zumwalt Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 38 Publication Date: 2011/05/09 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.25 inches |
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Montreux Jazz Festival by Adriaan, Germain [Paperback] $156.13 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Montreux Jazz Festival is the bestknown music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva. It is the second largest annual music festival in the world after Canadas Montreal International Jazz Festival. The Montreux Jazz Festival was founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs, G o Voumard and Ren Langel with considerable help from Ahmet Erteg n and Nesuhi Erteg n of Atlantic Records. The festival was first held at Montreux Casino. It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists. The highlights of this era were Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Evans, Soft Machine, Weather Report, Nina Simone, Jan Garbarek, and Ella Fitzgerald. Author: Adriaan, Germain Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2011/05/17 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.61 inches |
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Fort Beausejour $60.54 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Fort Beausejour, (also known as Fort Cumberland), is a National Historic Site officially known as Fort Beausejour Fort Cumberland National Historic Site. It is located approximately eight kilometres east of the town of Sackville on a ridge overlooking the Tantramar Marshes in Aulac, New Brunswick, Canada and is famous for the Battle of Fort Beausejour, which was both the final act in the long fight between Britain and France for control of Acadia and the opening act of the final struggle between the two great empires for North America itself. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 68 Publication Date: 2010/07/30 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.16 inches |
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Fort Belan $63.73 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Fort Belan is a coastal fortress in North Wales. It is located opposite Abermenai Point, it at the southwestern end of the Menai Strait, on the coast of Gwynedd, in the parish of Llanwnda. Situated at the tip of the Dinlle Peninsula, the windblown, northwesternmost point of the Welsh mainland, the fort is physically cut off twice a day by the incoming sea. Of geographic importance because of its location, Fort Belan is the access point to both the north Wales coast and to Liverpool, England. It is said to have cost 30,000 to build the fort. Fort Belan is a Grade I Listed building. It houses a maritime museum and a pottery. It has also been repurposed as a selfcatering holiday complex. The houses have been given a farmhouse feel and coal fires keep them warm. Notable overnight guests include Princess Margaret for the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 68 Publication Date: 2010/10/11 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.16 inches |
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Fort Saskatchewan $90.81 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Fort Saskatchewan is a city of 14,957 (2006 federal census) in Alberta, Canada, located 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, along the North Saskatchewan River. Fort Saskatchewan is part of Edmontons Census Metropolitan Area (population 1,034,945 per the 2006 census) and is one of 25 municipalities on the Capital Region Board (CRB). According to the City of Fort Saskatchewans 2009 municipal census, the citys population has grown to 17,469. Fort Saskatchewan is bordered by Strathcona County (south, east) and by Sturgeon County (north) and Edmonton (west) across the North Saskatchewan River. The city is most wellknown for its proximity to petrochemical facilities, including Dow Chemical, Sherritt International, Agrium and Shell Canada. It is also known for its flock of 50 sheep that roam its downtown park throughout the summer months eating the grass. The city mascot is a sheep named Auggie. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 136 Publication Date: 2010/07/07 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.31 inches |
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Fort Julien $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Fort Julien was a fort in Egypt, originally built by the Ottoman Empire and occupied by the French during Napoleon Bonapartes campaign in Egypt and Syria between 17981801. It stood on the left bank of the Nile a couple of miles northeast of Rashid (Rosetta) on the north coast of Egypt. In midJuly 1799 French troops under Lieutenant PierreFrancois Bouchard uncovered the famous Rosetta Stone at the fort while repairing its defences. Two years later, the fort was captured by a combined British and Turkish force after a short siege and bombardment. The fort was a low, squat fortification with a central blockhouse that overlooked the final few miles of the Nile before it joins the Mediterranean Sea. It had been built in the 15th century by the Mamluk Sultan Qait Bey, who also built the eponymous Citadel of Qaitbay in Alexandria. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 76 Publication Date: 2010/12/21 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.18 inches |
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Soroca Fort $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Soroca Fortress (Romanian: Cetatea Soroca) is a historic fort in the Republic of Moldova, in the modernday city of Soroca. The city has its origin in the medieval Genoese trade post of Olchionia, or Alchona. It is known for its wellpreserved stronghold, established by the Moldavian Prince Stephen the Great (Romanian: tefan cel Mare) in 1499. The original wooden fort, which defended a ford over the Dniester (Moldovan/Romanian: Nistru), was an important link in the chain of fortifications which comprised four forts (e.g. Akkerman and Khotin) on the Dniester, two forts on the Danube and three forts on the north border of medieval Moldova. Between 1543 and 1546 under the rule of Petru Rare, the fortress was rebuilt in stone as a perfect circle with five bastions situated at equal distances. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2010/12/15 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.19 inches |
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Battle of Fort Anne $81.25 The Battle of Fort Anne, fought on July 8, 1777, was an engagement between Continental Army forces in retreat from Fort Ticonderoga and forward elements of John Burgoynes much larger British army that had driven them from Ticonderoga, early in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Burgoyne, surprised by the American withdrawal from Fort Ticonderoga, hurried as many of his troops as possible forward in pursuit of the retreating Americans. The main body of the American forces had departed Fort Independence down the road to Hubbardton, and a smaller body of troops, accompanying the sick, wounded, and camp followers that had also evacuated the fort, had sailed up Lake Champlain to Skenesboro, moving from there overland to Fort Edward. This group, which included about 600 men under arms, paused at Fort Anne, where a smaller advance company from Burgoynes army caught up to them. The British, clearly outnumbered, sent for reinforcements. The Americans decided to attack while they had the numerical advantage, and succeeded in nearly surrounding the British position about three quarters of a mile north of the fort. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2010/07/28 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.28 inches |
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Fort Maurepas (Canada) $70.1 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Fort Maurepas was one of the first forts built by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Verendrye and his men. In 1733, they traveled from Fort St. Charles, which was located on Lake of the Woods. Two of the brothers, Jean Baptiste de La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye and their men, constructed Fort La Foret on the Winnipeg River. They also explored the southernmost part of Lake Winnipeg and the Red River for a number of miles south. They identified a site for the first Fort Maurepas on the west bank approximately five miles north of the present day town of Selkirk and in 1734 constructed the fort at that location. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2010/07/30 Language: French Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.19 inches |