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... visitor orientation; a well-preserved historical district; attractive centralized natural features ... is its entrenched nature because when all sites must be adjusted to widespread car use, the urban ...2nd ed. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. . Harvey, D. 1973. Social Justice and the C...
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This paper argues that a complex of accounting measures - account books, inventories of accumulated wealth, and detailed instructions for production performance - were used to inculcate Western values into the native population located at five Franciscan missions along the San Antonio River in New Spain (present-day Texas) from 1718 to 1794. Bolstered by the need to alleviate communications problems caused by extreme isolation, the missionaries constructed detailed mission documents that described the acquisition of scarce resources, reported the aggregation of material and spiritual mission wealth, and controlled daily production performance of the native population. In short, the resulting mission economic system, which held the Indians to certain notions of accountability, primarily ...
..., we attempt to integrate the historical practices uncovered with modern ideas of accountab... played in the colonization of other sites such as Africa, Hawaii, and New Zealand. Such ende...
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... such had to be taken off the shelves in Texas. In the same plaza is the World of Coca-Cola, a co... in town, living in the penthouse of a historic brick mid-rise downtown that we Segwayed past. It ...Between the King and Carter sites, our tour group stopped at Sweet Auburn Bread Co.-...
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... ownership of plots used for village sites, fishing places, berry and root patches, and simil... the issues involves the study of many historical documents and enactments received in evidence, par... that affirmative recognition by Texas prior to entering the Union was essential to any l...
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In Galveston, in addition to sun and sand, you'll find shopping, museums, seafood restaurants, the Strand Historic District, Moody Gardens' Aquarium Pyramid and Discovery Pyramid, and theatre at the Grand 1894 Opera House.
The new tours include a look at Albany Park, offered May 30 and Aug. 15, with stops at the Cambodian American Heritage Museum, the River Park Dam and Waterfall, North Park Village and the Superdawg Drive-In. Another new tour, "Land of Lincoln," offered April 4 and Aug. 1, travels to Civil War grave sites at Oak Woods Cemetery, the Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Monument, Grant and Lincoln Parks, and the Chicago History Museum's collection of Lincoln memorabilia.
On the new Hyde Park & Kenwood tour (April 18, July 18, Sept. 19), there will be a drive past President Ba...
...Spring break on Texas Gulf Coast. not just for college crowd. AUSTIN, Te...
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...Although various sites were slated for closure, loud grassroots oppositio... party, Representative Dick Armey of Texas (now House majority leader), who wanted to prevent.... (13) Arms, Politics, and the Economy: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Robert Hi...
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... fascinating backcountry in little-known Texas gem . 1Drink lots of water to ward off heat exhaus... Mountains, you must camp at designated sites. You can camp almost anywhere you like in other ar... from roads, trails, water sources and historic sites. Hotels: The only hotel in the park is the 7...
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... in rural Alaska because of the historically pronounced achievement gap between Native and non-... In addition, we returned to two of the five sites visited the previous year for follow-up interviews... professor of education at the University of Texas Pan American. . Table 1. Proficiency of students b...
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... because they were deemed to be of historical significance and/or repositories of heritage. They... and Neighborhood Conservation: Galveston, Texas. Galveston, TX: Galveston Historical Foundation. .... to save its architecture and historic sites. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside. . Deodhar, V. 2...
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On the other hand, interest in Hawaii, and particularly Honolulu and the island of Oahu, has picked up dramatically. People want to wander in the footsteps that took Obama through much of his youth. This desire was fuelled, in no small part, when the future first lady, Michelle Obama, said, "You can't really understand Barack until you understand Hawaii.
Hawaiian tourism officials are ecstatic with the possibilities for its tourism future. But they should take heed given what happened to Crawford, even before the election. As [George W. Bush]'s popularity waned, so did the frequency of visitor arrivals in this small Texas community. So from a tourist perspective, let alone from the giant expectations people seem to have of him, [Barack Obama] had better become one of the best president...
... of most past-presidents preserved as historic sites, it is no wonder there is such an interest i...