217 research outputs found
Interview with George Merrill Webb, Downwinders of Utah Archive, September 19, 2017, Audio
No full textAudio (8 minutes) of a telephone interview conducted by Justin Sorensen with George Merrill Webb. Interview discusses his growing up in St. George, seeing the flashes from testing in the morning, followed by a cloud. Webb discusses thyroid medical problems with his family members, dairy farming, and the possibility of radiation contaminating the milk
Interview with George Merrill Webb, Downwinders of Utah Archive, September 19, 2017
No full textTranscript (6 pages) of a telephone interview conducted by Justin Sorensen with George Merrill Webb, Salt Lake City and Springville, Utah, June 2017. Interview discusses his growing up in St. George, seeing the flashes from testing in the morning, followed by a cloud. Webb discusses thyroid medical problems with his family members, dairy farming, and the possibility of radiation contaminating the milk
C-2050: Richmond, Utah, George O. Webb residence. Sec 23 T 14N R 1E. Built 1899
No full textC-2050: Richmond, Utah, George O. Webb residence. Sec 23 T 14N R 1E. Built 189
July 4, 1905 Page four Great amount of rainfall in June County treasurer pays many debts
No full textMerrill, Joe; Lake, Sanford; Smith, Frank; Reid, Mary; Fuge, J.E.; Reid, John; Webb, Mary; Sims, Edgar A.; Clark, Y.L.; Ide, George L.; Wentz, Fred; Johnson, Nina;bark Cristobal Solar; ship Sam
Report on attitude of citizens and officials in Tule Lake area and Klamath County, Oregon to Japanese Reception Center near Tulelake, Calif: also some general facts regarding Tule Lake Basin, California
No full textResolution of the Tulelake Chamber of Commerce -- Summary of press reports of Merrill incident from Klamath Fallsprepared by George D. Dean, Senior Information Specialist, War Relocation Authority."Confidential."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga by J. Croll
No full textJennifer Croll. Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga. Illustrated by Ada Buchholc. Annick Press, 2016.Vancouver journalist and fashion historian Jennifer Croll, author of Fashion that Changed the World (2014), has here shifted gears to acquaint younger readers with the role of fashion in the history of women’s empowerment and liberation. Through the lens of biography, Croll traces the gradual rise of Girl Power reflected in, and partly driven by, the fashion choices of forty women, all of them “Style Rebels.” She divides them into ten categories that include Leaders, Modernizers, Instigators, Gender-Benders, Radicals, Decadents, and Freaks.Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra VII and England’s Queen Elizabeth I crafted their regal images partly through their fashion choices; Cixi, the Dowager Empress of China, also outlawed the binding and deforming of girls’ feet; the excesses of Frances’s Queen Marie Antoinette helped to seal her doom; Amelia Bloomer and George Sand (aka Aurore Dupin) scandalized nineteenth-century society by shunning traditional women’s clothing; Coco Chanel replaced traditional corsetry and petticoats with comfortable fashions (and gave the world an eponymous perfume); fashion magazine editors Diana Vreeland and Anna Wintour reigned as arbiters (many said “dictators”) of late-twentieth-century fashion; artists as geographically and culturally diverse as Japan’s Yoko Ono and Rei Kawakubo and Mexico’s Frida Kahlo influenced fashion with their idiosyncratic styles; movie stars such as Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Diane Keaton, and Cher Bono became trend-setters in fashion by expanding acceptable boundaries of femininity and gender; while pop-star singers Madonna, Lady Gaga, Björk, Rihana, Nicki Minaj, Beth Ditto, and the ladies of Pussy Riot pushed still further the limits of attention-grabbing self-expression in their attire (or lack of it).Croll’s cast of characters is a large one—this is only a partial list—but one that she stage-manages adroitly. It’s also one that could have been considerably expanded; one notes, for example, the absence of such iconic, fashion trend-setters as Katherine Hepburn and pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart. Book designer Natalie Olsen has provided a stunning layout, one awash in bold colours, and illustrated with both photographs and original, caricature portraits by Polish illustrator Ada Buchholc. In this serious contribution to social history, the author neither shuns, nor sensationalizes, but treats lightly some of her subjects’ love affairs, marital infidelities, sexual preferences, and the role and influence of Lesbian fashions. These nonetheless mark this excellent book as one best suited to older, the publishers suggest ages 12+, and adult readers. Recommended for all public, high-school, and academic curriculum libraries, as well as specialized women’s studies collections.Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Merrill Distad Historian and author Merrill Distad enjoyed a four-decade career building libraries and library collections.</jats:p
ZAP! Nikola Tesla Takes Charge by M. Kulling
No full textKulling, Monica. ZAP! Nikola Tesla Takes Charge. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Tundra Books, 2016.In this, her ninth contribution to Tundra Books’ Great Ideas Series, prolific children’s author Monica Kulling distills and simplifies the life and inventions of immigrant engineer and scientist Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) for primary school readers. Confining her story to the first half of Tesla’s long life, from his humble origins in Slovenia (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), to his achievements as nineteenth-century America’s foremost electrical engineering genius, Kulling has maintained a manageable length compatible with the attention span of her audience.The rivalry between Tesla and his one-time patron and employer, Thomas Edison, over the suitability of alternating versus direct electrical current (AC vs. DC) is described without exposing all the sordid details of their rivalry. The story then quickly moves on to Tesla’s partnership with George Westinghouse to illuminate the 1892-93 Chicago world’s fair site, and to build the first hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls, employing alternating current, a system that allowed electricity to be transmitting over greater distances more cheaply and efficiently than Edison’s rival system. Kulling ends her story in 1898, when Tesla demonstrated a model boat controlled by radio waves, an invisible force that he suggested might also be used for wireless communication, a concept soon made real by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi.Apart from an anachronistic use of the word “robot,” Kulling’s text is historically and scientifically accurate, clearly written, and age-appropriate, without being condescending. Bill Slavin’s illustrations are nicely evocative of the late nineteenth-century buildings and workshops, and are scaled large enough for story-hour readings to groups of children.Reviewer: Merrill DistadHighly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsMerrill Distad is Associate University Librarian (Research and Special Collections Services) and University Archivist, University of Alberta, and is the co-editor of Peel’s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 (Toronto, 2003). He is the author, most recently, of The University of Alberta Library: The First Hundred Years, 1908–2008 (Edmonton, 2009).</jats:p
Being, becoming, and God : toward a relational theology : a study in the doctrine of God, with special reference to the thought of John Macquarrie and Charles Hartshorne
No full textThis study in the doctrine of God, with special reference to the thought of John Macquarrie and Charles Hartshorne, addresses the issue of the relational problematic and suggests a potential resolution.
The 'Relational Problematic' focusses on the notion of aseity and the doctrine of the Trinity. It concerns the ontological conundrum posed by, on the one hand, the insistence that the external relations God has are of no ontological consequence to him, together with, on the other hand, the witness of the Christian tradition that suggests such relations are not, in fact, inconsequential for the being of God. The task of constructing a resolution begins with the ontology of the early Heidegger which is implicitly relational. Thus 'relational ontology' furnishes a hermeneutical key whereby a 'Relational Theology' may be developed.
This development involves, first, the analysis of John Macquarrie's existential- ontological theism, which concludes that to speak of God in the language of 'Being' is to speak of the relational being of God. Second, and alongside this, is placed the analysis and discussion of the neoclassical theism of Charles Hartshorne: the pluriform language of Becoming by which God is conceived in process thought has at its base the perception of the essential relatedness of God. But both Macquarrie and Hartshorne have as a common problem the question of the "entitative status" of God. The solution is suggested by way of conceiving God as "Relational Entity" . The 'Being' and the 'Becoming' of God are manifest in ad extra relatedness: such relationality forms the fundamental ontological motif in the conception of God.
This relational perspective frames the resolution to the relational problematic. Aseity is reinterpreted in the light of the relational context of God: God is existentially prior, but not
relationally self-sufficient. Trinity is interpreted in terms of relational identity: the necessary ad extra relatedness of God is manifest in three particular patterns of relating. 'God' is thus ontologically conceived as singular relational entity manifesting threefold relational identity
Kiwanis Club at Gateway Cafe
No full textKiwanis Club and wives dined at the Gateway Cafe. Vernal recently recieved its charter into the Kiwanis Club. Charter members include: C. J. Asmus, E. G. Calder, Lloyd Eaton, Merrill Goodrich, B. C. Jones, Robert Olsen, S. L. Sather, Woodey B. Searle, Alson A. Shiner, H. M. Snyder, E. K. Sundquist, M. G. Webb, Theodore Hatch, J. R. Bernsen, Manfred E. Campbell, Allen Faulkner, Russell G. Holley, N. J. Meagher Jr., L. T. Peyton, Rev. Blase Schumacher, Harvey Self, Deward H. Shiner, Wiley E. Stewart, L. J. Tate, C. B. Yates, Clem Rawlins, C. S. Johnson, George C. Davis, H. M. Wilson, Tenney T. Johnston, Stewart Ashton, C. L. Hatch and Don B. Showalter
Island
No full textGeorge Thatcher's remembrances of theater productions in Salt Lake City and his grandfather Brigham Young. Author: George W. Thatcher Town: Logan County: Cache State: Utah
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