Carl Lindahl
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Here is a study of the Cajun Mardi Gras tradition and its manifestation in the work of six of the most creative and popular folk artists in two rural communities. Potic Rider and the Moreau and LeBlue families represent the largely male maskmaking traditions of Basile, Louisiana. Suson Launey, Renee Fruge, and Jackie Miller are the female counterparts in festivities held in Tee Mamou. As the communities celebrate, their masks become an intrinsic ingredient...
3) Barbarians
Series
Language
English
Description
"History will never forget their reign of terror. For nearly a millennium, barbarian hordes rose up and swept across Asia, Europe, and Africa, pillaging towns and sacking empires. But who were these barbarians, seemingly devoted only to violence and destruction, their language the battle-axe and mighty sword? In Barbarians, History explores the origins of the Huns, Goths, Vikings, and Mongols. Shot on location, Emmy Award-winning documentarian Robert...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Travel with a visionary new science on a search for life in space, combining the disciplines of atronomy, biology and geology; Explore a bizarre array of technologies proposed by scientists in the hope of traveling faster through space, from spacecraft sporting sails to propulsion engines powered by anti-matter; Experts explain the latest developments in the ultimate space mission - to establish a space colony on Mars; When mankind eventually leaves...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From star collisions to mass extinction crashes, gravity is moving everything around in often high-impact events; Imagine a tornado so powerful, it can form a plante or winds sweeping across a planet much like our won, but blowing at 6,000 miles per hour; It's a world in which a single spark or a tiny micrometeoroid can turn a routine mission into a lethal nightmare, while the most dangerous aspects of space travel; They helped build planets through...
Publisher
M.E. Sharpe in association with the Library of Congress
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: This two-volume collection of folktales represents some of the finest examples of American oral tradition. Drawn from the largest archive of American folk culture, The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the first-of-its-kind set includes magic tales, legends, jokes, tall tales, and personal narratives -- over 200 in all, many of which have never been previously transcribed or published. Eminent folklorist...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A band of Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal the President's body from its tomb outside Springfield, Illinois, and hold it for a ransom of $200,000. The story shows how important this beloved President remained to public so unprepared for his violent death in 1865.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Over a decade in the making, Medieval folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages - from the mundane to the supernatural. Definitive and lively articles focus on the great tales and traditions of the age and include information on daily and nightly customs and activities; religious beliefs of the pagan, Christian, Muslim, and Jew; key works of oral and written literature; traditional music and art; holidays and feasts; food...
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the Iraqi city of Halabja on March 16th, 1988, thousands would unknowingly face a hellish death. The man responsible for this unspeakable horror was notorious Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. In an act of brutality he unleashed a massive chemical weapons attack designed to wipe out an entire city of innocent civilians.
Author
Series
Hatfields and McCoys White Lightning volume 5
Language
English
Description
Jim McCoy and Mark Hatfield come to terms with liquor investor Monsell for a HatField & McCoy White Lightning. With the deal made, money advances given and promises made...Mark Hatfield and Jim McCoy now need to come through with the ancestral waters and a location for their Distillery before they can make one drop of the Hatfield & McCoy Moonshine.
Author
Series
Hatfields and McCoys White Lightning volume 7
Language
English
Description
With the clock ticking and Liquor Investor Monsell expecting a taste of Hatfield and McCoy Moonshine, Mark Hatfield frantically tries to replace the Still that Scotty May blew up. Meanwhile a frustrated Jim McCoy reaches out to John T. Hatfield about using his Still and cutting Mark out of the deal all together. Back in Kentucky, Mamaw Irene has a new weapon (toy) to keep the McCoy boys in line.
Author
Series
Hatfields and McCoys White Lightning volume 9
Language
English
Description
Liquor Investor Monsell is expecting a batch of Hatfields and McCoys Moonshine, but with no still, no recipe and no Hatfields, Jim McCoy had no choice but to lock the doors of the distillery. Now Jim's looking to get his frustrations out at the Annual Hatfield and McCoy Tug of War...only problem is that Mark and all the Hatfields are planning to boycott.
Author
Series
Hatfields and McCoys White Lightning volume 1
Language
English
Description
With the changing of West Virginia Law, making and selling Moonshine has become legal and a big city Liquor Executive has been approaching members of the infamous Hatfield and McCoy clans looking to launch a new Moonshine Brand. Meanwhile, kin of Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy, are still squabbling after 150 years. Mark Hatfield and Jim McCoy get into a little tussle about who's moonshine is stronger and decide to settle the score by racing...
Author
Series
Hatfields and McCoys White Lightning volume 10
Language
English
Description
With the Moonshine Still ready to go but no liquor investor, Mark Hatfield and Jim McCoy decide to work together and make Moonshine. First order of business is to get the proper licenses and of course the water. Meanwhile Liquor Investor Monsell tries to do business with other Hatfields and McCoys in the area and a paranoid Scotty May thinks the law is after him.
Author
Series
Hatfields and McCoys White Lightning volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Hatfields and McCoys are in agreement for a change...they want nothing to do with each other or that big city liquor investor. Each family has decided to go out on their own and make their own legal moonshine. Problem is they still need to find the money to make it happen and of course make more of their product. Meanwhile, Jim McCoy is having some trouble with his lead foot mamma. Mama Irene is speeding around town in her Mustang and getting...