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My Side of the Mountain is a middle-grade adventure novel written and illustrated by American writer Jean George published by E. P. Dutton in 1959. [1] It features a boy who learns courage, independence, and the need for companionship while attempting to live in the Catskill Mountains of New York State.
The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex- merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sometime around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer ...
The exact meaning of the name Montauk is unknown, [2] although it derives from a place name in the Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett language and roughly translates to "the fort country." [3] The Montaukett ("Metoac" [1] or Matouwac) were Native Americans on Long Island and often known in colonial writings by the place name of their geographic ...
Montauk. (novel) Montauk is a story by Swiss writer Max Frisch. [1] It first appeared in 1975 and takes an exceptional position in Frisch's work. While fictional stories previously served Frisch for exploring the possible behavior of his protagonists, in Montauk, he tells an authentic experience: a weekend which he spent with a young woman in ...
March 2, 2012. Designated NYSRHP. June 23, 1980. The Montauk Point Light, or Montauk Point Lighthouse, is a lighthouse located adjacent to Montauk Point State Park at the easternmost point of Long Island in Montauk, New York. The lighthouse was the first to be built within the state of New York, and was the first public works project of the new ...
Paul Revere Shouted, “The British Are Coming!” Paul Revere’s “midnight ride” is often an entire lesson in high school history classes, discussed as the start of the American Revolution.
Montauk Project. Coordinates: 41°03′44″N 71°52′26″W. The Montauk Project is a conspiracy theory that alleges there were a series of United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station in Montauk, New York, for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including ...
Curious George is a children's book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey, and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941. [1] The first book in the Curious George series, it tells the story of an orphaned monkey named George and his adventures with the Man with the Yellow Hat. [2] For 80 years (as of May 1, 2021), it has sold over 25 ...