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Informationen zum Autor I am a professed lover of America's National Park System. I have visited all 418 park units, as of 2018. No matter how large or small a park unit, 20 miles down the road or 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean (i.e. Guam), in solitude or with thousands of other visitors, I have enjoyed trekking to all of them. First-hand experience with each park is second to none. Over 250 units have welcomed me for multiple visits. Membership in the National Park Travelers Club was easily predictable. There is nothing like mingling with folks who have a similar interest.The sport of Baseball is close behind on my list of hobbies. I have played, coached, watched, and followed America's Pastime since I was five years old. Meeting and talking with the greats of the game (Mantle, DiMaggio, Williams, Snyder, etc.) over the last three decades, listening to their stories, watching each season's World Series, and enjoying my baseball card collection continue to fuel my enthusiasm. My maternal grandparents attended the first All-Star Game in Chicago, in 1933. How is that for lineage? Klappentext For the essays in this two-volume 1861 work, Wright draws on sources ranging from medieval charters to modern linguistic studies. Zusammenfassung For the essays in this two-volume 1861 work! Wright draws on sources ranging from medieval charters to modern linguistic studies! as well as the remains and artefacts uncovered by his own and others' excavations. Volume 2 contains articles on the medieval period! from language to architecture and satire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 13. On the ancient map of the world preserved in Hereford Cathedral, as illustrative of the history of geography in the middle ages; 14. On the history of the English language; 15. On the abacus, or mediaeval system of arithmetic; 16. On the antiquity of dates expressed in Arabic numerals; 17. Remarks on an ivory casket of the beginning of the fourteenth century; 18. On the carvings of the stalls in cathedral and collegiate churches; 19. Illustrations of some questions relating to architectural antiquities; 20. On the origin of rhymes in mediaeval poetry, and its bearing on the authenticity of the early Welsh poems; 21. On the history of the drama in the middle ages; 22. On the literature of the troubadours; 23. On the history of comic literature during the middle ages; 24. On the satirical literature of the Reformation....
