This book is a genealogical database and family history of 6,897 members of the Graham Family, consisting of David Graham and his three children who arrived in Charleston South Carolina on the ship Pennsylvania Farmer in 1772, and their descendants. Also explained is the history of the Graham Family Name. This book includes the History of Scot-Irish Immigration, the factors that caused them to move from Scotland to Northern Ireland and then the factors that caused five boatloads of 1,100 settlers, which included the Graham Family, to arrive in the Port of Charleston South Carolina in 1772. Upon arrival, the Grahams and other new arrivals almost immediately joined in the fighting on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. This Graham genealogy is the result of almost fifteen years of research and was begun tentatively by each of the authors before they begun corresponding in 1983. Since then, the genealogical facts have acquired mainly by plodding persistence, though sometimes by luck. Always the acquisition has been accompanied by a feeling of pleasure in learning something new about the Grahams. Many miles have been driven in pursuit of the facts, many letters exchanged, but also many new friends have been made for which the authors are grateful.

David Graham of Chester County, South Carolina and His Descendants 1772-1989

Biographies & Memoirs

Graham, Philip

Sloan, Sam

Kell, Katharine Tolle

Historical

Ishi Press

When you think of chess, you probably think of the strategy game played throughout Europe and the Americas. There is another kind of chess played throughout the world by probably more people than any other strategy game. That game is Chinese Chess. The "Elephant Game" as it is called by the Chinese, dates back more than 2000 years. A cousin of Western Chess, its unique style of play results in a wide-open, quick-moving and aggressive contest. Chinese Chess for Beginners explains both the rules and the strategies of the game clearly and in detail so that you can start playing right away. It covers everything from the opening through the endgame. The book includes a set of paper chessmen that you can cut out and begin to play right away.

Chinese Chess for Beginners

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Everything about web site design from the first template, incorporating your payment processor, all the way to putting up your own website and starting your new small business.

Sam Sloan Teaches Web Site Design

Computers & Technology

Software

ISHI PRESS INTERNATIONAL

The Family Shakespeare is one of the most famous works ever written. There is even a word introduced by it into the English language: "Bowdlerized". The American Heritage Dictionary defines bowdlerize as: "To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example)". The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines bowdlerize to mean: 1. to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar 2. to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was a recognized authority on Shakespeare. He was also a recognized chess player who contested several chess matches against François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795), who was considered to be the strongest chess player in the world at that time and is now regarded as having been the first unofficial world chess champion. Basically, the author or really the editor Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) went through all 36 recognized plays by William Shakespeare and cut out all the dirty or scary parts, so as to make them suitable to be read to children. The book was enormously successful at first, going through several printings. However, eventually, the book was subjected to calumny and ridicule, precisely because it cut out all the scary or controversial parts. Bowdler's name has since became associated with censorship of literature, motion pictures and television programs. For example, in Hamlet, when Ophelia is believed to have committed suicide, in the Bowdlerized version, she clearly drowns by accident. In the opening scene of Othello is the following line: "I am one Sir, that come to tell you, your Daughter, and the Moore, are now making the Beast with two backs." This sounds like they are doing something dirty (and who knows what it was that they were doing), so Bowdler re-wrote this line to say: "I am one that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now together." See Volume 2 Page 342 Actually, this change was not so bad. One wonders what the fuss was all about. Indeed, most of the editorial changes by Thomas Bowdler were not so radical as has been commonly supposed. In many ways, they improve upon the work of Shakespeare by making his words easier to understand by the modern reader.

The Family Shakespeare, Volume Two, The Tragedies, by Thomas Bowdler

Literature & Fiction

Shakespeare., William

Dramas & Plays

Ulysses

Joyce., James

Romance

The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson: Updated in 2007 with results of the latest DNA Tests and newly discovered evidence concerning his "relations" with his slaves.

The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson

Community & Culture

Hell on Trial

History

Belbenoît, René

Europe

How to Pass The USA Driver License Test for Chinese Drivers

Engineering & Transportation

Su, MoYu

Automotive

Shonkhonil Karagar is a 1973 novel by Bangladeshi author Humayun Ahmed. It is also a book that was made into a popular movie in Bangladesh. The book was made into the 1992 film with the same title, starring Zafar Iqbal, Champa, Doli Johur, Abul Hayat, Suborna Mustafa and Asaduzzaman Noor. It was filmed in 1992 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Humayun Ahmed was born on 13 November 1948 in Kutubpur, Mymensingh. He was a Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, screenwriter and filmmaker. His father was was killed during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Ahmed got his breakthrough with his debut novel Nondito Noroke in 1972. He wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh. Ahmed's writing style is characterized as magical realism. Ahmed's books were the top sellers at the Ekushey Book Fair during the 1990s and 2000s. He won the Bangla Academy Award and the Ekushey Padak award for his contribution to Bengali literature.

Shonkhonil Karagar

Ahmed, Humayun

Contemporary

The Campus Sexual Rights Forum was an on-campus student organization at the University of California at Berkeley in the years 1966 and 1967. Being on-campus meant that it was officially registered in Sproul Hall as a student organization with me as the president. We were authorized to hold events on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley and to have a campus table where we distributed our literature and collected donations. We held several such events. On our invitation, Planned Parenthood made a presentation in 100 Lewis Hall, in a room on campus we reserved for our use. Dr. Harvey Bruyn, an authority on venereal diseases, gave a speech on venereal diseases under our sponsorship. Famous attorney Melvin Belli gave a speech on the steps of Sproul Hall because of our sponsorship. We conducted a successful student referendum on requiring Cowell Hospital, the university student hospital, to distribute birth control pills. The Campus Sexual Rights Forum was sponsor and I had organized the event. We also held 42 nude parties that we called "sexually liberal" parties. All of these events were advertised in the Daily Californian, the student newspaper, because of our sponsorship. We were both a political and a social organization. We advocated sexual rights including the abolition of laws against homosexuality, against abortion, and against “unnatural sex practices”. It is difficult to imagine the level of sexual repression of those times. Publications like Playboy could not show a picture of a woman's vagina or of her pubic hair. No photo of an erect penis was allowed anywhere. No pictures of a man in bed with a woman even fully dressed were allowed. In the old movies you will see that they never show a bedroom with a double bed in it. This would suggest that men and women slept in bed together. Instead, they always showed two twin beds. In Virginia it was illegal until 1969 for a White man to marry a Black woman or a native American woman. Abortion was illegal. Birth Control pills had just become legal but required a prescription which was difficult to get. Homosexuality was completely illegal. The most explicit sex scene allowed in the movies was when Rhett Butler carried Scarlett O'Hara up the stairways in the movie “Gone With the Wind”. We wanted to change all this. We had a campus table where we distributed our literature advocating Sexual Freedom including legalized abortion, abolition of censorship, repeal of laws regarding sexual offenses including homosexuality and prostitution and where we sold buttons with slogans such as “Make Love Not War” and received donations to raise funds for our events. We also held nude parties, that we called “sexually liberal parties”, but off the campus. The picture on the cover here of this book shows one of our most dedicated members, Joyce Kaskey, sitting at our table at the entrance to the campus on Bancroft Avenue near the corner of Telegraph Avenue. This picture or others like it appeared in Time Magazine, Sexology Magazine and other publications. There were articles about us in Playboy Magazine, Life Magazine, Time Magazine and other magazines around the world. We were student revolutionaries. In the backdrop of all this was the great student revolutions of those years where we were at the cutting edge and on the forefront. When this book was originally written, fake names were substituted for the party participants. However, now for the purpose of preserving history, the real names of these people have been put back in.

History of the Campus Sexual Rights Forum at the University of California at Berkeley 1966-1967

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