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Presents the history, appearance, and physical composition of Halley's comet and compares it to other comets, describing its path through the solar system and its predicted return.
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The author presents "essential sacred places--as well as celestial shrines far off the beaten path," "a fascinating journey to all corners of the world to visit the shrines and temples, tombs and caves where ancient priests and rulers communed with the gods of the sky."--Jacket.
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" ... Here is a whole complex of commercial operations that result in funerals whose expense, display and mumbo jumbo are unrelated to any Christian or Jewish tradition and virtually unheard of in any other country today. And there is precise information on what is being done to lower the cost and raise the dignity of burial in the United States."
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"'Beyond Light and Shadow,' first published in German in 1992, is hailed as the most objective study on the history of paranormal photography ever written. Rather than attempting to prove or disprove the existence of paranormal photography, Dr. Krauss presents an unbiased report and analysis of the relationship between photography and paranormal psychology. While other books have explored the controversy surrounding paranormal photography, they have either restricted themselves to select cases or approached the issue with a specific agenda. Treating both disciplines equally, 'Beyond Light and Shadow' puts paranormal photography into a broad historical and cultural perspective and gives evidence for man's perpetual fascination with the irrational"--Back cover.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: selection of LAT clips and copies, 1960s, on various aspects of race relations ; 16-pp. headed "Racial attitudes of The Times (1881 -- )," a listing of article headlines or descriptions of articles dealing with race relations, with year and date, ending in 1943, marginal notes were added later indicating which racial group was mentioned in each article, i.e. "Negro," "KKK" [?], "Jap." ;5-pp. of tear sheets from Stanford Today, internal evidence suggests a 1967 date, "Jim Crow journalism" ; tear sheets of four articles from The Bulletin (ASNE), more than one issue has been used, only date seen is 1/1968.
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Visual Materials
The Glendora Historical Society of B.D. Jackson Photographs and Negatives consists of 1202 black-and-white and color photographs (including postcards, stereographs, mounted photographs, and photograph albums) and 202 black-and-white and color negatives created by B.D. Jackson and/or collected by Jackson, his wife Cora, and his stepdaughter Ruth, 1893-1951 (bulk 1920s-1930s). The collection provides a broad overview of the growth of many of the San Gabriel Valley's suburban communities as well as a survey of many notable landscapes of California and the American West. It also gives an overview of Jackson's career as a commercial, landscape, and scenic view photographer, and contains family photographs. The collection supplements and complements the B.D. Jackson Collection of Negatives and Photographs (photCL 332). Many of the negatives in the Jackson Collection exist in print form in the Glendora Collection, and many of the images in the Glendora Collection round out series in the Jackson Collection.
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