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Giant toppling tower [kit] / by Gosports;

54 giant blocks -- dry erase board and marker -- carrying case -- instructions (laminated) -- contents sheet (laminated)The GoSports Giant Toppling Tower is a giant version of one of America's favorite party games. The set is made out of giant size Pine wood blocks with smooth sanded edges. The Tower starts out at 2.5 ft. tall and can grow to over 5 ft. during games. The object is to pull blocks out of the body of the tower and replace them at the top without the tower falling over. As an added bonus, our set includes printed numbers on the bottoms of some of the blocks with a corresponding custom rules sheet. These numbers correspond with a special set of rules that make the game even more fun. For example, you may pull a block and then see it has the #6 printed on the bottom and this would mean you follow the # 6 rule which can be anything you want (skip your next turn / reverse order / draw another block / etc). The rules sheet is a dry-erase board so you can create your own rules. You can make the rules adult themed or even goofier. The game includes a robust canvas carrying case so you can neatly store the set or bring it with you anywhere. --Home Depot

Subjects: Puzzles and games.; Blocks (Toys); Eye-hand coordination; Jenga (Game);

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2

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Ladder Toss Outdoor Game [kit] by GoSportsmanufacturer.;

Includes 4 "T" Connectors-- 4 "Elbow" Connectors-- 10 Short pipes-- 2 Score tracker pipes-- 2 Yellow scoring rungs-- 2 Red Scoring rungs-- 2 Blue scoring rungs-- 6 Bolos-- instructions and contents sheet (laminated)-- 1 carrying case."Ladder toss is a lawn game played by throwing bolas (two balls connected by a string) onto a ladder."--from WikipediaFor 2 players or teams

Subjects: Outdoor games;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The CSS Virginia : sink before surrender / by Quarstein, John V.(CARDINAL)301949;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- "A magnificent specimen of naval architecture" -- Flashpoint : Gosport -- Iron against wood -- The Virginia -- The race for Hampton Roads -- Like a huge half-submerged crocodile -- Aftermath -- Enter the Monitor -- Mistress of the roads -- Equal to five thousand men -- Fire a gun to windward -- Loss and redemption -- I fought in Hampton Roads -- Appendix A. You say Merrimack, I say Virginia -- Appendix B. CSS Virginia designers -- Appendix C. The commanders -- Appendix D. CSS Virginia officers' assignment dates -- Appendix E. Confederate navy volunteers aboard the CSS Virginia -- Appendix F. Confederate marines aboard the CSS Virginia -- Appendix G. Confederate army volunteers aboard the CSS Virginia by unit designation -- Appendix H. CSS Virginia casualties, 8 March 1862 -- Appendix I. CSS Virginia personnel paroled at Appomattox, Virginia, and Greensboro, North Carolina -- Appendix J. CSS Virginia officer assignments, 8 March 1862 -- Appendix K. CSS Virginia dimensions and statistics -- Appendix l. The crew of the CSS Virginia -- Appendix M. Chronology of the CSS Virginia.

Subjects: Virginia (Ironclad); Monitor (Ironclad); United States. Navy; Confederate States of America. Navy; Merrimack (Frigate); Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.; Armored vessels;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Norfolk Naval Shipyard / by Miller, Christopher,Lt.author.;

Norfolk Naval Shipyard has a long history that predates the United States of America. Founded in 1767 as the Gosport Shipyard, it has been burned and rebuilt three times, once to prevent it from getting into the hands of the newly independent state of Virginia and twice during the early years of the Civil War. It has been in continuous operation since it was rebuilt after the American Civil War. Specializing in repairing, overhauling, and modernizing ships and submarines, it is the largest industrial facility owned and operated by the US Navy. Historic photographs from the archives of the Navy History and Heritage Command, the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, and the Norfolk Naval Shipyard Public Affairs Office tell the story of one of the largest shipyards on earth and exemplify what American hands are capable of creating. These images serve as a reminder of the past for those who were stationed or worked at the shipyard, preserving history for future generations.

Subjects: Norfolk Naval Shipyard (U.S.); Navy-yards and naval stations; Warships;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Commander Will Cushing : daredevil hero of the Civil War / by Malanowski, Jamie,author.(CARDINAL)778878;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Terrible excitement -- Plague and pride -- A talent for buffoonery -- Not recommended -- Neither effective nor subordinate -- His exuberant spirit -- The Gosport debacle -- Delaware farmer -- Baptisms of fire -- Twenty-eight shells a minute -- Original and speculative -- Transformations -- The Virginia -- The Monitor -- Rising -- Reenter Flusser -- Adventures of the Ellis -- Pilot hunting -- Alonzo at Antietam -- In old Virginia -- At Gettysburg -- Alonzo's glory -- Grieving -- The essence of impudence -- Marsh grass and cattails -- High time we went -- Zigzag -- Letters from Welles -- The coming -- Rampage -- Too strong -- Proceed to New York -- No one else -- In case of failure -- Dead ahead -- Now -- Dead gone sunk -- Seldom equaled, never excelled -- Back in action -- Secret weapon -- Sitting duck -- Return to Fort Fisher -- Slaughter at the northeast bastion -- Endgames -- Victory -- On the west coast -- Love and duty -- Love letters -- In the orient -- Howard -- The world stage -- The Virginius -- The butcher -- Face-off -- At rest.A thrilling narrative biography of William Barker Cushing, the Civil War's most celebrated naval hero.October 1864. The fearsome Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle had taken control of the Roanoke River and threatening the Union blockade. 21-year-old navy lieutenant William Barker Cushing hatched a daring plan: to attack the warship with a few dozen men in two small wooden boats. What followed, including Cushing's harrowing two-day escape downriver from vengeful Rebel posses, is one of the most dramatic individual exploits in American military history. Tossed out of the Naval Academy for "buffoonery," Cushing proved himself a prodigy in warfare. Given command of a small union ship, he performed daring, near-suicidal raids. With higher commands and larger ships, his exploits grow bolder, culminating in the sinking of the Albemarle. This thrilling narrative biography, steeped in the tactics, weaponry, and battle techniques of the Union Navy, brings to life a compelling yet flawed figure. Malanowski paints a vivid, memorable portrait of the army officials, engineers, and politicians scrambling to win the war. But he also goes deeper into the psychology of the daredevil soldier--and what this heroic and tragic figure, who died before his time, can tell us about the ways we remember the glories of war.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Biographies.; Cushing, William Barker, 1842-1874.; United States. Navy; Albemarle (Confederate ironclad); Ship captains;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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A perfect frenzy : a royal governor, his Black allies, and the crisis that spurred the American Revolution / by Lawler, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)354748;

Includes bibliographical references (pages [429-436) and index.Author's note -- Prelude -- Part one: February 1774 to July 1775. A find of friction ; A gentleman of benevolence ; A notion now too prevalent ; The mysterious war dance ; Twenty-two days for nothing ; Lord feathers and the big knife ; My right well-beloved cousin ; The smoldering spirit of revolt ; Virginia's rubicon ; Black as an Ethiop -- Part two: July 1775 to December 1775. Lieutenant Governor of Gosport ; The first law of nature ; Terror of oyster boats and canoes ; Burn the scoundrels ; A most disagreeable step ; A conspicuous light ; Black rascals ; To quicken all in revolution ; The infernal regions ; Dunmore's Dunkirk ; Palpitation at the heart -- Part three: January 1776 to October 1803. Keep up the jig ; A feeling bosom ; Flaming arguments ; Ill-judged measures ; Fatal lethargy ; Boiling water ; Tomahawk them all ; A state of society ; Misery, distress, and cruelty ; Lands, whores, and dice ; A glaring piece of injustice -- Epilogue -- Timeline."From the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change one's understanding of the American Revolution. As the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775 dramatic events unfolded in Virginia that proved every bit as decisive as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill in uniting the colonies against Britain. Virginia, the largest, wealthiest, and most populous province in British North America was led by Lord Dunmore, who counted George Washington as his close friend. But the Scottish earl lacked troops, so when patriots imperiled the capital of Williamsburg, he threatened to free and arm enslaved Africans-two of every five Virginians-to fight for the Crown. Virginia's tobacco elite was reluctant to go to war with Britain but was outraged at this threat to their human property. Dunmore fled the capital to build a stronghold in the colony's largest city, the port of Norfolk. As enslaved people flocked to his camp, skirmishes broke out. "Lord Dunmore has commenced hostilities in Virginia," wrote Thomas Jefferson. "It has raised our countrymen into a perfect frenzy." With a patriot army marching on Norfolk, the royal governor freed those enslaved and sent them into battle against their former owners. In retribution, and with Jefferson's encouragement, furious rebels burned Norfolk to the ground on January 1, 1776, blaming the crime on Dunmore. The port's destruction and Dunmore's emancipation prompted Virginia's patriot leaders to urge the Continental Congress to split from Britain, breaking the deadlock among the colonies and leading to adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Days later, Dunmore and his Black allies withdrew from Virginia, but the legacy of their fight would lead, ultimately, to Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Chronicling these stunning and widely overlooked events in full for the first time, A Perfect Frenzy offers a striking new perspective on the American Revolution that reorients our understanding of its causes, highlights the radically different motivations between patriots in the North and South, and reveals the seeds of today's racial divide"--

Subjects: Informational works.; Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809.; African American loyalists; Great Britain. Army. Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment.; Enslaved persons; Slavery; Great Bridge, Battle of, Va.,1775.; Governors general;

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The curious gardeners' six elements of garden design / by Cooper, Guy.; Taylor, Gordon(Gordon I.); Boursnell, Clive.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Gardens;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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