Author: Eusèbe SalvertePublisher:
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Category : Names
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
History of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places in Their Connection with the Progress of Civilization
Author: Eusèbe SalvertePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Names and Places in Latin America
Author: George Etzel PearcyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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History of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places
Author: L.H. MordacquePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375016328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places
Author: P.W. JoycePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Places and Names
Author: Elliot AckermanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
One of NPR's Best Books of 2019 “Lyrical . . . A thoughtful perspective on America’s role overseas.” —Washington Post From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. “War hath determined us.” —John Milton, Paradise Lost Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War, but after establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, he takes a risk by revealing to him that in fact he was a Marine special operation officer. Ackerman then draws the shape of the Euphrates River on a large piece of paper, and his one-time adversary quickly joins him in the game of filling in the map with the names and dates of places where they saw fighting during the war. They had shadowed each other for some time, it turned out, a realization that brought them to a strange kind of intimacy. The rest of Elliot Ackerman's extraordinary memoir is in a way an answer to the question of why he came to that refugee camp, and what he hoped to find there. By moving back and forth between his recent experiences on the ground as a journalist in Syria and its environs and his deeper past in Iraq and Afghanistan, he creates a work of remarkable atmospheric pressurization. Ackerman shares vivid and powerful stories of his own experiences in combat, culminating in the events of the Second Battle of Fallujah, the most intense urban combat for the Marines since Hue in Vietnam, where Ackerman's actions leading a rifle platoon saw him awarded the Silver Star. He weaves these stories into the latticework of a masterful larger reckoning with contemporary geopolitics through his vantage as a journalist in Istanbul and with the human extremes of both bravery and horror. At once an intensely personal story about the terrible lure of combat and a brilliant meditation on the larger meaning of the past two decades of strife for America, the region, and the world, Places and Names bids fair to take its place among our greatest books about modern war.
LC Period Subdivisions Under Names of Places
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Category : Names, Geographical (Cataloging)
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Reflections on Names and Places in Devonshire ...
Author: Miss CornishPublisher:
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Category : Devon (England).
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Traces of History in the Names of Places with a Vocabulary of the Roots out of which Names of Places in England and Wales are formed
Author: Flavell EdmundsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846052663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Meanings of the Names of People and Places in the Old Testament
Author: Pat CrossinPublisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1645156249
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16""17). This book contains not only a look at the meanings of people and places of the Old Testament but also a brief look at who the people were in that they really did live. In most cases showing they had family, and were a son or a daughter, a brother or sister, the father or mother of a person. The book also tells where the places were and even in the meanings of their names, there is great significance. For every person and place written in the Bible, there is a specific reason, whether for the meaning of the name of a person as in the name Adam (man, red earth) or in the name of a place, as in Bethel (house of God). It will be very enlightening and edifying to see and understand their significance as this book is used as a study help. The reader will also see, while using this reference book, that the contents of this book make looking at the meaning of the names easier. And one will see more clearly that the mystery of God and his plan for his people can be found in the names of the children of Israel, Christ in you the (only) hope of glory. This is just one of the many treasures that is found while looking at the names of the priests and kings of Israel and Judah. Whether a scholar or a layman, there are many treasures to be found in studying the scriptures, and I believe this reference book will be a blessing to anyone as an aid in searching out the hidden gems of the Word of God. The Lord bless you!
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