32 research outputs found
Letter re: Pan Am World Airways
No full textLetter from Tarleton Winchester to Amon Carter hoping he enjoyed the trip home on "Yankee Clipper"
[Letter] 1813 October 26, Cholmondeley Castle [to] Mr. Byfield, London / Ban Tarleton [Tarleton, Lieutenant-General (Banastre)].
No full textThe letter bears a postmark and the impression of a seal. At the top of the leaf, Tarleton has written "Cholmondely Castle" which may refer to "Cholmondeley Castle," an estate built in 1801-04 by the first Marquis of Cholmondeley, and famous for its gardens.Tarleton requests that Byfield send his papers to him at Bolesworth Castle [associated with a branch of the Tarleton family], Chester until further instructions. The author of _A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America_ (1787), Tarleton may have been on active duty during the American Revolution
Horace Kephart and Fiswoode Tarleton killed
No full textThis article announces the death of Horace Kephart (1862-1931), a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author. In 1904, he left his work as a librarian in St. Louis and permanently moved to western North Carolina. His popular book, “Camping and Woodcraft” was first published 1906; the 1916/1917 edition is considered a standard manual for campers after almost a century of use. Living and working in a cabin on Hazel Creek in Swain County, Kephart began to document life in the Great Smoky Mountains, producing “Our Southern Highlanders” in 1913. Throughout his life, Kephart wrote many articles supporting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Letter re: invitation
No full textLetter from Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Patterson, United States Circuit Judge, to Amon Carter declining Carter's invitation to an unveiling of a statue of Will Rogers.Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patterson regret that they are unable to accept the kind invitation of Mr. Amon Carter to attend the unveiling of the Will Rogers Equestrian Monument "Into the Sunset" on Tuesday, November 4, 1947 Oct 23r
Ambition before Ethics: A Biography of Banastre Tarleton (1754–1833)
No full textAbout the author
Michael Melli is a senior at The University of Central Florida on the Presidents List finishing his History major and Political Science minor, with concentration on English Monarchical History. His research interests include Victorian and Edwardian royal foreign relations and Georgian military history
Hundreds of friends pay final tribute to Kephart and Tarleton
No full textThis article is a memorial to Horace Kephart (1862-1931), a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author. In 1904, he left his work as a librarian in St. Louis and permanently moved to western North Carolina. His popular book, “Camping and Woodcraft” was first published 1906; the 1916/1917 edition is considered a standard manual for campers after almost a century of use. Living and working in a cabin on Hazel Creek in Swain County, Kephart began to document life in the Great Smoky Mountains, producing “Our Southern Highlanders” in 1913. Throughout his life, Kephart wrote many articles supporting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The power of equity : private motivations and public implications of dissolving affordable housing cooperatives
No full textThesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-221).From 1955 to 1978, New York City and state subsidized the construction of over 67,000 middle-income, limited-equity cooperatives in the city through Mitchell-Lama -- a program often considered one of the most successful efforts to produce affordable housing in American history. By restricting the resale of shares and removing the housing from the open market, limited-equity co-ops allow for the long-term maintenance of housing affordability and make the benefits of homeownership accessible to lower-income individuals than those served by stereotypical homeownership. While most Mitchell-Lama co-ops endure as affordable housing, dramatic increases in housing values in New York City increasingly incentivize cooperators to remove the restriction on the sale of their shares through a collective vote. Through qualitative interviews and advocacy material reviews at two case cooperatives -- South bridge Towers in Manhattan's Financial District and St. James Towers in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn -- this research identifies factors that influence limited-equity cooperators' ultimate decision to vote to remain in the Mitchell-Lama program or to convert to a market-rate cooperative. In doing so, I interrogate what leads individuals to prioritize (or not) collective benefits over individual ones. In addition to considering how cooperators develop a feeling of entitlement to profit realized from publicly subsidized housing or a sense of obligation to future potential recipients of this source of affordable housing, I describe the role that cooperators' understanding of ownership, their experience of internal governance and government supervision, and their perspectives on race and class play in their decision on conversion. Drawing from the factors identified and outcomes observed in the two case cooperatives, I recommend strategies to preserve Mitchell-Lama cooperatives as affordable housing for cooperators, public officials, and advocates. Given the observed irrelevance of existing financial incentives offered by government to cooperatives to remain in Mitchell-Lama, I pay specific attention to non-financial approaches that address the varied social processes inherent in these explosive debates about who should benefit from public subsidy and to whom the value of housing should accrue.by Jonathan Tarleton.M.C.P
The role of field-assisted techniques in solid/liquid separation
No full textThe separation of finer particle suspensions into constituent solid and liquid components is difficult
to achieve. Field assisted separations which utilise the forces generated by applied electric,
acoustic or magnetic fields are becoming an increasingly viable alternative to the more
conventional, frequently ill-suited, techniques used presently. An overview is given of the
development of the more pertinent assisted separation techniques and illustrates their performance
with experimental data obtained by the author. The data show how improved separation rates can
be achieved with imposed force fields, often at lower overall energy inputs per unit of product.
Current and possible future applications of assisted separations are discussed both in terms of
equipment performance and economic considerations
Material Culture in the Mediterranean: An Exploration and Examination of Anti-Judaic and Antisemitic Spanish Medieval Cultural History
No full textAuthor Gavin Langmuir produced two monographs during his career, both published in 1990. Across both texts, one a proper monograph and one a compilation of essays, he offers a bifurcation of anti-Judaism and antisemitism. These texts illuminate his definitions of the terms and his differentiations on the basis of reason and rationality. Using the bones of these theories, I propose a different kind of bifurcation of these terms as it relates to Mediterranean (medieval) material culture using a cultural historical lens. By applying Gavin Langmuir\u27s theoretical model of nonrational anti-Judaism and irrational antisemitism to material culture, I argue that visual nonrational anti-Judaism and visual irrational antisemitism are useful, non-linear categories to evaluate and question medieval Mediterranean representations of Jews, Judaism, and the perceptions around a community of people different from the Christian majority.
In order to demonstrate these categories, I will apply each term or phrase to two material culture artifacts that support both the theoretical base as explored by Langmuir and my notions of the categories supported by my chapters on history, material culture methodology, and a chapter exploring notions of reason and rationality. Four artifacts will be explored and analyzed using either visual nonrational anti-Judaism or visual irrational antisemitism. The dissertation is divided into seven chapters that categorically split up the supporting evidence, including an Introduction that defines terms and parameters and supports my positionality as the author. Following the introduction, the chapters will be as follows: Material Culture Methodology, History of Medieval Spain, Defining Rationality and Reason, Visual Nonrational Anti-Judaism, and Visual Irrational Antisemitism. I will conclude with a final chapter that mirrors my introduction, including the positionality of Gavin Langmuir, an unpacking of terms, and implications for future work.
I argue for the use and creation of the phrasing of visual nonrational anti-Judaism and visual irrational antisemitism for future work, acknowledging that these categories are non-linear and that there is nuance in working specifically with Medieval Mediterranean artifacts and objects. Regardless, these categories offer a different way to investigate, analyze, and evaluate representations of Jews and the impact that these representations had on Spanish Medieval Jewry, taking into consideration worldview, theological influence, and the cultural and historical events that influenced attitudes towards Jews and Jewish communities
