Soldier Joker The Legacy

Author : Paskowitz M D
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435724747
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier Joker the Legacy written by Paskowitz M D and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Horatio Derby (1823-1861) attended West Point 1842-1846. George met Charles and Martha Hitchcock. Their daughter was Lillie Hitchcock (Coit). The Hitchcocks and Samuel Clemens would be friends. Mark Twain would be affected by George Derby. The Hitchcock Legacy lives in The Charles and Martha Hitchcock Graduate Lectureship at U.C.Berkeley. The Lillie Hitchcock Coit Legacy is in the form of Coit Tower in San Francisco, The legacy of Sam Clemens is in the form of Mark Twain. The Legacy of George Horatio Derby is in the form of books- Phoenixiana and The Squibob Papers. His humor touched his contemporaries: General Winfield Scott, U.S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, W.T. Sherman, along with his classmates McClellan, Jackson, and Pickett. His legacy as a Topographical Engineer includes maps and surveys of California. He built five Lighthouses on the Alabama Gulf Coast. The major suspect in the cause of Derby's death is mercury poisoning.

Author : Richard A. Paskowitz, M.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130406039X
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier Joker A Bright Light written by Richard A. Paskowitz, M.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pensacola Lighthouse was built by Lt. George Horatio Derby (The Soldier Joker). He was the 8th District Lighthouse Engineer (1857-1859). The Pensacola Lighthouse that was lit in 1859 survived the Civil War (including bombardment), two lightning strikes, an earthquake, and ALL of the hurricanes and tornadoes that have plagued the Gulf Coast. He was the Engineer of record for the lighting of the lighthouses of Sand Island and Pensacola on January 1, 1859.

Author : Richard A. Paskowitz, M.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304715981
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soldier Joker George Horatio Derby written by Richard A. Paskowitz, M.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derby was a soldier, cartographer, humorist, engineer, and practical joker. He surveyed the Sacramento Valley, the Tulare Valley, San Diego Harbor, the mouth of the Colorado River. His humor concepts were used and "expanded" by Mark Twain. He knew and interacted with General Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman. He was a classmate of George Pickett, George McClellan, and Stonewall Jackson. Derby lived in San Diego from 1853-54 in the Derby-Pendleton House, now located on the Whaley House grounds.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The legacy ; Two little soldiers ; A state affair ; Old Amable ; Mademoiselle Fifi ; The ghost ; Useless beauty ; The fishing-hole ; The Rondoli family ; Châli ; The odalisque ; The wicked Mohammed ; Marroca ; Allouma ; A strange meeting ; Feminine wiles ; A strange night in Paris ; All over! written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Paskowitz
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105518779
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE FATHER OF AMERICAN WIT written by Richard Paskowitz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Horatio Derby, also known as John Phoenix and as Squibob, is the Father of American Wit. He influenced Mark Twain.Modern comedy owes a debt to John Phoenix (for example Andy Kaufman and Jim Carey).Laugh out loud at his wit;enjoy his humor, as relevant now as it was 160 years ago.Discover for your self this master of the use of the English language.The last book that Abraham Lincoln read was by John Phoenix. Theodore Roosevelt said he could be tested on Phoenix's books. Both men enjoyed his humor.Many of the stories contained in this book have never been published.Several stories were written at Andover in the 1830's. Some were written while Derby was at the Military Academy at West Point (Class of 1846)He was truly a SOLDIER JOKER. Humor dissected ceases to be funny. In these pages, Derby's humor is special and is great fun, and is left to speak for itself without annotation. Your role in reading this book is to enjoy.

Author : Oscar Kastner
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148090936X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Spiritual Legacy written by Oscar Kastner and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Kastner didn’t have the opportunity to have a relationship with his grandparents — to hear what their lives were like and the insights they had learned. To help ensure that his grandchildren would know his thoughts and experiences, he composed this account to share his journey in life. Focusing on science, religion, and everyday experiences, Kastner invites his grandchildren and others to examine his legacy and the wisdom he gained from investigating the meaning of life, his relationship to his Creator, and his Creator’s purposes for him. Although not expecting everyone to share his views, Kastner hopes his account will spark discussion and curiosity.

Author : Daniel Eagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441175415
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Film Legacy written by Daniel Eagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birth of a Nation, and Boyz n the Hood. Others are more obscure, such as Blacksmith Scene, The Blue Bird, The Docks of New York, Star Theatre, and A Bronx Morning. Daniel Eagan's beautifully written and authoritative book is for anyone who loves American movies and who wants to learn more about them.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Legacy of Fun written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Legacy of Fun" by Abraham Lincoln is a collection of short snippets from the life of one of the United States of America's most famous presidents. Abe Lincoln was known for being a soft-spoken man, but he lived an exciting life, even before his time as president. This collection of excerpts shows that beneath the hard and serious exterior he is portrayed as having, Lincoln was a witty and humorous individual.

Author : Edward Piacentino
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130865
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor written by Edward Piacentino and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism to the Internet as it pays tribute to a distinctly American comic style that has continued to reinvent itself. The book begins by examining frontier southern humor as manifested in works of Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Woody Guthrie, Harry Crews, William Price Fox, Fred Chappell, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and African American writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, and Yusef Komunyakaa. It then explores southwestern humor’s legacy in popular culture—including comic strips, comedians, and sitcoms—and on the Internet. Many of the trademark themes of modern and contemporary southern wit appeared in stories that circulated in the antebellum Southwest. Often taking the form of tall tales, those stories have served and continue to serve as rich, reusable material for southern writers and entertainers in the twentieth century and beyond. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor is an innovative collaboration that delves into jokes about hunting, drinking, boasting, and gambling as it studies, among other things, the styles of comedians Andy Griffith, Dave Gardner, and Justin Wilson. It gives splendid demonstration that through the centuries southern humor has continued to be a powerful tool for disarming hypocrites and opening up sensitive issues for discussion.

Author : Pete Scholey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233050287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joker written by Pete Scholey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peter Scholey did his National Service, he not only enjoyed it, he found his vocation. After joining the regular army he served three tours of duty then volunteered for the SAS. Here, he tells of the triumphs and the terrors he experienced.