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Records Of The Tötösy De Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy Család Adattára, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010-. ISSN 1715-152X) contains transcripts of published sources and archival and family documents, and genealogies of the Hungarian Zala and since the 16th century Vas County Tötösy de Zepetnek (Tivtoßÿ de Zepethnek) family. The family descends from the 9th century and in 1256 documented nobilitas prima occupatio Tötösy de Zepethk family of Zala County and receives a Patent of Nobility with coat-of-arms in 1587 and royal donations of landed properties in 1589 and 1597 in Vas County. Records of the Tötösy de …

Idealization And Desire In The Hundred Acre Wood: A.A. Milne And Christopher (Robin), Laura E. Bright

Honors Projects

Argues that A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner represent the conscious rejection, unconscious reproduction, and re-imaging of the author's traumatic Victorian childhood.

The Powerful Mythology Surrounding Bugsy Siegel, Larry Gragg Ph.D.

Occasional Papers

Journalists, authors, filmmakers, and historians have been interested in Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel for over six decades. Collectively, they have crafted a cohesive mythological narrative of Siegel’s life one focused upon “rags to riches” success and his contributions to the development of Las Vegas, Nevada. Most attribute to Siegel the inspiration for not only the Flamingo Hotel‐Casino, but also for the glamorous, classy, flashy resort city Las Vegas became after World War II. This paper describes the development of the myth since Siegel’s murder in 1947 as well as how it has been sustained.

'A Little Bit Of Love For Me And A Murder For My Old Man': The Queensland Bush Book Club, Robin Wagner

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This paper addresses rural book distribution in an era before free public libraries came to Australia. Well-to-do, city women established clubs, which solicited donations of “proper reading matter” and raised funds for the purchase of books for their “deprived sisters” in the Outback. They took advantage of a well-developed rail system to deliver book parcels to rural families. In New South Wales and Queensland they were known as Bush Book Clubs.

Testimonials found in the Clubs’ annual reports provide a snapshot of the hard scrabble frontier life and the gratitude with which these parcels were received. This paper looks at …