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Bangor Public Library Blog: Who Are These Writers? #5
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Who Are These Writers? Prescott, a native of Salem, Massachusetts, grandson of Colonel William Prescott, commander of rebel forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill (the "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" battle), is a noted historian who lived from 1796 to 1859. To assist him in writing. What is a noctograph. But to no avail):. In 1821, Prescott's commitment to writing began to pay off, as he began to have articles and reviews about lite...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: Oct 27, 2009
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Who Are These Writers? John Gorham Palfrey is another writer featured on the Bangor Public Library rotunda whose name and publications may not hold the high stature each held in 1912 during the library's construction. Palfrey's most famous work would have to be the five volume [originally planned as three volumes as shown in the above image] History of New England. Its meaning is "of or relating to an often immoderate reverence for forebears or tradi...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: Finding Foreign Language Fiction Books at Bangor Public Library (& Elsewhere in Maine)
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Friday, May 27, 2011. Finding Foreign Language Fiction Books at Bangor Public Library (& Elsewhere in Maine). Bangor Public Library has recently added to our collection two new fiction books written in Chinese. One of these books is Luo di / Ha Jin zhu, yi (English translation:. A good fall by Ha Jin). Here is a permanent link to our catalog record of this book:. Http:/ ursus.maine.edu/record=b4894108 S53. The second of these books is. You can get better results for Chinese wo...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: NPR and Books
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Saturday, March 26, 2011. NPR has been in the news quite a bit recently. Have you noticed? I am not here to rehash all the arguments about plans to cut NPR's funding or to lay out a detailed case for why I would oppose or approve of the cutting of NPR's funding. All I would say is that I think NPR's reach is much greater than skeptics would have you believe and that its audience is not as narrow as some would have you believe. Recent coverage on NPR of these books became the m...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: May 27, 2011
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Friday, May 27, 2011. Finding Foreign Language Fiction Books at Bangor Public Library (& Elsewhere in Maine). Bangor Public Library has recently added to our collection two new fiction books written in Chinese. One of these books is Luo di / Ha Jin zhu, yi (English translation:. A good fall by Ha Jin). Here is a permanent link to our catalog record of this book:. Http:/ ursus.maine.edu/record=b4894108 S53. The second of these books is. You can get better results for Chinese wo...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: May 19, 2009
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Tuesday, May 19, 2009. A Book about a Thousand Things. I was stopped at a traffic light on Exchange Street in Bangor on the way to work. Across the street stood Cornerstone Barber Shop, the place. Where I usually go for haircuts and where I always take my oldest son. That morning at work, probably not even an hour after thinking about that question, I was standing in the book stacks here and a book title caught my eye. That book, A Book about a Thousand Things. This anecdote w...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: Who Are These Writers? #3
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Who Are These Writers? John Gorham Palfrey is another writer featured on the Bangor Public Library rotunda whose name and publications may not hold the high stature each held in 1912 during the library's construction. Palfrey's most famous work would have to be the five volume [originally planned as three volumes as shown in the above image] History of New England. Its meaning is "of or relating to an often immoderate reverence for forebears or tradi...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: Nov 21, 2009
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Saturday, November 21, 2009. Who Are These Writers? Our fourth arguably-long-forgotten writer commemorated on the library's rotunda is Francis Parkman. Parkman was an American historian from Boston who lived from 1823 to 1893. More widely-known works is. The California and Oregon trail: being sketches of prairie and Rocky mountain life. This book, more commonly known as The California and Oregon Trail. Or The Oregon Trail. Of course, part of these difficulties with this work a...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: Jan 21, 2012
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Saturday, January 21, 2012. Learning Express Jobs and Careers Test Preparation. As a Bangor Public Library library card holder, your first step for accessing Learning Express is to go to the library's website at www.bpl.lib.me.us. (As shown below). From this web page, you will see a link for Marvel! Maine's Virtual Library on the right of the screen. Click the Marvel! There are sixteen career categories listed. A few highlights among the offered exams are Commercial Driver...
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Bangor Public Library Blog: Oct 8, 2009
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Bangor Public Library Blog. Thursday, October 8, 2009. Who Are These Writers? John Fiske is another writer featured on the library's rotunda whose name seems to have diminished in recognition over the last century. Fiske was a supporter of the theory of evolution well before it had gained any measure of popular validation with Charles Darwin's publication in 1867 of On the origin of species by means of natural selection. Darwinism and Other Essays. And The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge.
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