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  • Minnesota: The North Star State

    by William Watts Folwell ...
    The word Minnesota was the Dakota name for that considerable tributary of the Mississippi which, issuing from Big Stone Lake, flows southeastward to Mankato, turns there at a right angle, and runs on to Fort Snelling, where it empties into the great river. It is a compound of “mini,” water, and “sota,” gray-blue or sky-colored. The name was given to the territory as established by act of Congress ... Read more

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  • The Real Bloodaxe

    Erik, Gunnhild and the Last Viking King of York

    by William Watts, AI ...
    Erik Bloodaxe is one of the best-known Viking kings, and almost everything told about him was written down more than two centuries after he died. The sagas give him a sorceress for a queen, a trail of dead brothers and a last battle beside five kings. The English record gives him a few lines in a chronicle and a handful of silver coins struck at York.The Real Bloodaxe sets the two side by side. ... Read more

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  • The Sibling Plan

    How Brothers and Sisters Share a Parent's Care Without Breaking the Family

    by William Watts, AI ...
    When a parent starts needing help, a lot of families never decide who will do what. The work falls to whoever lives closest, and resentment fills the gap. The Sibling Plan is a practical guide and workbook for brothers and sisters who share an aging parent's care. Chapter by chapter, it helps your family put what your parent wants first, see everything care actually involves, divide it fairly ... Read more

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  • Reflections on Management

    How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself

    by Watts Humphrey, William Thomas ...
    A Lifetime of Invaluable Management Insights from Legendary Software Quality Guru Watts S. HumphreyIn 1986, Watts S. Humphrey made an outrageous commitment: a promise to transform software development. As the pioneering innovator behind SEI's Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Personal Software Process (PSP), and Team Software Process (TSP), Humphrey has more than met that promise. But his ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno Dom. 1757

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Turbulent Colonial Era: Insights from a British Official's Memoirs

    by Active 1737-1758 William Watts, Ivy Callahan ...
    William Watts' "Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno Dom. 1757" offers a meticulously detailed account of a pivotal moment in colonial history. Through a candid narrative steeped in personal observation and firsthand experience, Watts provides an intimate portrayal of the social, political, and military upheavals during the tumultuous period leading up to the Battle of Plassey. His literary ... Read more

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  • The Roswell Record

    What Fell in New Mexico in 1947, and Every Story Since

    by William Watts, AI ...
    In July 1947 the Army announced that it had a flying disc. The next day it was a weather balloon. Thirty years later the story came back with crash sites, bodies, a nurse, a deathbed affidavit and a film of an alien autopsy, and it has never left.The Roswell Record tells every Roswell story in the order it was first told, with the date each teller first told it, and sets it against the record: the ... Read more

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  • What the Records Actually Say About Robin Hood

    Was He Real? The Famous Stories Traced to the Oldest Texts That Tell Them, from the Medieval Rolls and Ballads to the Storybooks, with a Verdict on Each

    by William Watts, AI ...
    Was Robin Hood real? The honest answer starts with a date. Rhymes about him were known in England by the 1370s, and a Yorkshire fugitive called Robert Hod appears in the royal accounts in the 1220s. But Sherwood, Little John's sheriff, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, the earl of Huntingdon, King Richard and the outlaw who robbed the rich to give to the poor did not all arrive together. Most came much ... Read more

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  • Was Ragnar Real?

    Lothbrok, His Sons and the Great Heathen Army

    by William Watts, AI ...
    Ragnar Lothbrok is the most famous Viking who may never have lived. The stories give him a serpent killed in hairy breeches, a shieldmaiden wife and a queen found in a harp, a raid on Paris, a death in an English king's snake pit, and sons who took a terrible revenge. But the first writer to join the names Ragnar and Lothbrok did so nearly three hundred years after the events, and the earliest ... Read more

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  • The Bermuda Triangle Reopened

    Flight 19, the USS Cyclops and the Famous Vanishings, Checked Against the Record

    by William Watts, AI ...
    A Navy collier vanished in 1918. Five torpedo bombers and the flying boat sent after them vanished in 1945. Airliners, a Navy transport, two jet tankers and a sulphur tanker followed. They were real ships and aircraft with real crews, and for decades the stories told about them have been repeated more often than the records behind them have been read.The Bermuda Triangle Reopened goes back to ... Read more

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  • What You're Walking Past

    History, Saints and Legends on the Camino's Last 100 Kilometers

    by William Watts, AI ...
    Between Sarria and Santiago de Compostela you can walk past a drowned town, an Iron Age hillfort, a church of the knights of Santiago, and one of the great doorways of medieval art without knowing what any of them are. Every guidebook tells you where to sleep. This book tells you what you're walking past.Village by village, in walking order, What You're Walking Past explains what you are looking ... Read more

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  • The Real Nero

    The Great Fire, the Fiddle and the Murders, Checked Against Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio

    by William Watts, AI ...
    Nero set fire to Rome and fiddled while it burned. He murdered his mother, poisoned his brother, kicked his pregnant wife to death and blamed the Christians. He died saying what an artist the world was losing, and then he came back. How much of that did anyone write down, and who wrote it?The Real Nero takes the famous stories one at a time, in the order of the reign, and sets each beside the ... Read more

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  • What Nostradamus Actually Wrote

    The Famous Quatrains in the Original French, What They Were Said to Predict, and a Verdict on Each

    by William Watts, AI ...
    Every December the Nostradamus stories come round again, and the 2027 ones have started. One gives a verse about a celestial fire as the 27th quatrain of Century XI, as if it spelled 2027. This book goes to the printed page. That verse is real, but it has six lines, not four, and it belongs to a set of 58 six-line verses presented to Henri IV in 1605, thirty-nine years after Nostradamus died. ... Read more

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