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Missions of San Diego

Missions of San Diego
Robert A. Bellezza, "Missions of San Diego"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0738596833, 1531665500 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 73.8 mb
California's first settlement began on a trail called El Camino Real, or "The Royal Road," that was traveled by missionary pathfinders, soldiers, and conquistadors on a dramatic journey into a mysterious land. Monterey was discovered in 1603, leading to Spains's pioneering quest. Explorers Don Gaspar de Portolá and Juan Bautista de Anza, along with ambitious Franciscan missionaries, founded 21 monumental Spanish missions and several asistencias and chapels for native neophytes, travelers, and visitors to Alta California. Following the initial landing in 1769 at San Diego's seaport, Fr. Junípero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá, California's first landmark, at the original presidio site. The mission stands today exactly where it was moved, rebuilt, and completed in 1813. The native populations of California witnessed years of change from a sleepy province to the status of US statehood. The Spanish missions forged the powerful underpinnings of the Golden State's earliest settlements 80 years prior to the world's largest migration to California, the 1849 Gold Rush.

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Missions of Central California

Missions of Central California
Robert A. Bellezza, "Missions of Central California"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0738596809 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 59.7 mb
After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, explorers, and soldiers, on a trail called El Camino Real or "The Royal Road." The settlement began in 1769 at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, a new port and military presidio with buildings of mud, brushwood, and tule grass. Fr. Junípero Serra, the legendary mission presidente and founding father of nine missions, traveled along a worn path lined today by symbolic bell markers leading to many remarkable, modern cities. After 1772, settlements were spread to California's central coast region, filling with native neophytes who became the residents and builders of all mission settlements. The Spanish missions had brought dramatic changes to California's landscape and forged the underpinnings of its earliest history, founded serendipitously with the American Revolution and birth of the United States.

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Missile Guidance and Control Systems

Missile Guidance and Control Systems
George M. Siouris, "Missile Guidance and Control Systems"
English | 2004 | pages: 680 | ISBN: 0387007261, 1441918353 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Airborne Vehicle Guidance and Control Systems is a broad and wide- angled engineering and technological area for research, and continues to be important not only in military defense systems but also in industrial process control and in commercial transportation networks such as various Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The book fills a long-standing gap in the literature. The author is retired from the Air Force Institute and received the Air Force's Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award.

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Milestones of Flight The Epic of Aviation with the National Air and Space Museum

Milestones of Flight The Epic of Aviation with the National Air and Space Museum
Milestones of Flight: The Epic of Aviation with the National Air and Space Museum by Robert Van Der Linden
English | May 15th, 2016 | ISBN: 0760350272 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 27.10 MB
Experience the history of flight with the world-class aviation collection at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, which attracts millions and millions of visitors each year in Washington, D.C.

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Migration, Transnationalism and Development in South-East Europe and the Black Sea Region

Migration, Transnationalism and Development in South-East Europe and the Black Sea Region
Russell King, "Migration, Transnationalism and Development in South-East Europe and the Black Sea Region"
English | ISBN: 1138695726 | 2016 | 188 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Southeast Europe and Black Sea region presents fertile terrain for examining recent international migration trends. The contributions to this book cover a range of examples, from Ukraine and Moldova in the north, to Greece and Albania in the south. By intersecting the three key concepts of migration, transnationalism and development, they offer new insights based on original empirical research.

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Microsoft Teams Step by Step

Microsoft Teams Step by Step
Microsoft Teams Step by Step
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0137522185 | 336 Pages | PDF EPUB | 25 MB
This is learning made easy. Get more done quickly with Microsoft Teams in any environment, and help your whole team succeed with it. Jump in wherever you need answers-brisk lessons and detailed show you exactly what to do, step by step.

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Metropolitan Governance in America

Metropolitan Governance in America
Donald F. Norris, "Metropolitan Governance in America"
English | ISBN: 1138573272 | 2017 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local government, and in particular local government autonomy, have produced a highly fragmented governmental landscape throughout America. It argues that in order for 'governance' to occur in metropolitan areas (or anywhere else, for that matter), there has to be some form of an actual governmental institution that possesses the power and ability to compel compliance. Everything else is just some form of cooperation, and while cooperation is not trivial, it does not enable metropolitan areas to address the really tough and controversial issues that divide rather than unite governments in those areas. The book examines the principal factors that prevent the development of either metropolitan government or metropolitan governance in the USA. Norris looks at several examples where some form of metropolitan government or governance can be said to exist, from voluntary cooperation (the weakest) to government (the strongest). He also examines each type of arrangement for its ability to address metropolitan-wide problems and whether each type is or is not in use in the USA. In sum, the book uncovers the extent of metropolitan government and governance, the possibility for its existence, what attempts (if any) have been made in the past, and the problems and issues that have arisen due to the lack of adequate metropolitan governance.