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Aviation in Canada, 1917-1918: Being a Brief Account of the Work of the Royal Air Force Canada, the Aviation Department of the Imperial Munitions Board and the Canadian Aeroplanes Limited. E-book. Formato PDF Alan Sullivan - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
It is true that the strength of the Force was, in anticipation, more than doubled during the three weeks which preceded the Some, but this largely ex hansted the available supplies of fighting personnel. How reasonable, therefore, that the established success of Canadian pilots, and the fact that in Canada almost untapped reservoir of future strength.
A Renascence of the Irish Art of Lace-Making: Illustrated by Photographic Reproductions of Irish Laces, Made From New and Specially Designed Patterns. E-book. Formato PDF Alan Summerly Cole - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
In spite of a want of artistic direction, geographical circumstances seem to have been determining factors in the survival of lace-making in Ireland, more so perhaps than in England; and it comes to pass in these days, when perception of the beautiful and dainty might be wider spread than formerly, that Irish lace-making has somehow pressed itself upon public consideration as being a home or cottage industry, in favour of which it is worth while to apply avail able resources to a development of fine style in its productions. It is foreign to the purpose of what may be held to be a nineteenth century Pattern Book to attempt a history of the rise, progress, and ?uctuations of lace-making in Ireland. No special pleading is necessary on behalf of the industry. Its newest productions have inherent vitality to arrest the notice of artistic amateurs of graceful accessories of costume.
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger, 1917. E-book. Formato PDF Alan Seeger - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Hour of battle, for which he longs. Even when cramped in the trenches, this lover of beauty can take keen pleasure in an occasional glimpse of a picturesque vista through the c'réneaux; nor, when his endurance is taxed to the utmost to hold out until the end of a march that lays low many a stronger man among his comrades, does he fail to remember and record the sunlit verdure of the meadows bordering the dusty road along which he toils, with heavy burden, weary almost to the point of dropping. In the lonely vigils of sentry duty, during the hours between night and dawn, when the most cou rageous feel spirit and hope at the lowest ebb, he can find consolation in a kind of comrade ship with the stars.