Gordon Bond
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
South Jersey is perhaps best known for its beachside boardwalks, glitzy Atlantic City hotels and blueberry farms, but behind these iconic symbols are the overlooked tales that are unique to New Jersey. While much of Harriet Tubman's life is well known, her time in Cape May is usually overlooked by biographers. Few know that the classic American drive-in movie theaters were born in South Jersey. Even the famous Wildwood, with its distinctive Doo-Wop...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that the Dust Bowl hit New Jersey? Twice? How about that a mysterious experiment in "subliminal advertising" was conducted at a Fort Lee, New Jersey movie theater? Or that railroad communication was advanced on a northwest New Jersey railroad line? Or that America first heard about the Russians launch of Sputnik 2 (with a dog onboard) thanks to a Ukrainian refugee in Perth Amboy, New Jersey? Or that prisons could buy a custom electric...
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English
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"On the drizzly evening of February 6, 1951, the Pennsylvania Railroad commuter train known as 'The Broker' derailed in Woodbridge, New Jersey, killing 85 and injuring hundreds in what remains the deadliest railroad accident in the state's history. Communities all along the Jersey Shore were shaken by the sudden and violent loss of family and friends. What happed was self-evident from the mangled railcars and bodies. Why was another matter and would...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1733, a nineteen-year-old printer's apprentice ran away from New York and ended up in the Philadelphia shop of Benjamin Franklin. Over the next forty years, James Parker would publish New York's premier newspaper, build a printing enterprise that spanned three colonies and help define the role of journalism and freedom of the press. Printing for such important 18th century figures as Cadwallader Colden, William Livingston and William Alexander,...
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