Robert C. Jones
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Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama and the Battle of Mobile Bay all played significant parts. A number of important Civil War figures also called Alabama home. Major General Joseph Wheeler was one of the most remarkable Confederate cavalry commanders in the west. John "the Gallant" Pelham earned the nickname for his bravery during the Battle...
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¡Este es el libro perfecto para todos los amantes de la carne! Guárdelo junto a su parrilla y siempre tendrá una nueva receta de barbacoa lista para usar.
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Before the start of the Civil War, Georgia had ten railroads, five of which figured significantly in General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. The number of rail lines in the state ballooned after the war. Many were founded by individual entrepreneurs like Henry Plant and Thomas Clyde, while the biggest railroad of them all (Southern Railway) was created out of whole cloth by New York financier J.P. Morgan. At the close of...
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Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
5) The Babe
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"The Babe chronicles Ruth's phenomenal story -- from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing life and career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions. [A] definitive story of one of sport's most fascinating figures, capturing...
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On a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plans, and their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the loot, and the most sidesplitting laugh fest in history.
7) Shampoo
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George is one of L.A.'s most desirable men, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who makes all his female clients look, and feel, better than ever. Encouraged by his girlfriend Jill to open his own salon, George approaches conservative businessman Lester for financing. Unbeknownst to Lester, George is sleeping with his wife, his mistress and his teenage daughter.
8) Coming home
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A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
10) The last detail
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Two hard-boiled petty officers are detailed to take a young sailor from a Virginia naval base to a New Hampshire naval prison to serve an eight year sentence for a trivial offense, but first they decide to give the prisoner one last good time.
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Criterion collection volume 692
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"About a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast"--Container.
12) Coming home
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A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
14) Coming home
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Coming Home is a heartrending and unforgettable examination of a critical period in our nation's history and an uncompromising, extraordinarily moving. When Marine Captain Bob Hyde leaves for Vietnam, his wife Sally volunteers at a local hospital. There she meets Luke Martin, a former sergeant whose war injury has left him a paraplegic. Embittered with rage and filled with frustration, Luke finds new hope and confidence through his growing intimacy...
15) Man of La Mancha
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The film adaptation of the 1965 Broadway production of the same name, based on the novel Don Quixote, tells the humorous tale of a delusional, aging nobleman who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights dragons, actually windmills, to save the damsel Dulcinea, actually a prostitute named Aldonza, all amidst the Spanish Inquisition.