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In the nineteenth century, the art of photography revolutionized police methods of criminal identification as detectives made collections of criminal portraits in "Rogues Galleries." In this engaging collection, J. D. Chandler presents portraits of thirteen infamous criminals from Portland, illuminating the history of crime in that city. Some of them straddled the law and rose to positions of great power, like James Lappeus, Portland's first police chief; Senator John Mitchell; and Tom Johnson, the notorious Black vice-king of Portland. Some were career criminals like Dutch Pete Stroff, who created a regional crime empire based in Portland, and Little Dutch Herman, who ran a murder-for-hire ring from his nightclub, The Wigwam. Others were brutal opportunists, like Portland's most notorious woman of the nineteenth century, Carrie Bradley; mob-enforcer turned serial killer, Douglas Franklin Wright; and Alvin "Bud" Brown, Portland's forgotten serial killer. All of them lived in Portland and left their bloody mark on the city

"Authorities" at end of some of the chapters. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Since the 1970s Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) to the Apollo Cube Corner Retroreflector (CCR) arrays (developed by the University of Maryland, UMD) supplied almost all significant tests of General Relativity (Alley et al., 1970; Chang et al., 1971; Bender et al.,1973): possible changes in the gravitational constant, gravitational self-energy, weak equivalence principle, geodetic precession, inverse-square force-law. The LNF group, in fact, has just completed a new measurement of the lunar geodetic precession with Apollo array, with accuracy of 9 × 10−3, comparable to the best measurement to date. LLR has also provided significant information on the composition and origin of the moon. This is the only Apollo experiment still in operation. In the 1970s Apollo LLR arrays contributed a negligible fraction of the ranging error budget. Since the ranging capabilities of ground stations improved by more than two orders of magnitude, now, because of the lunar librations, Apollo CCR arrays dominate the error budget. With the project MoonLIGHT (Moon Laser Instrumentation for General relativity High-accuracy Tests), in 2006 INFN-LNF joined UMD in the development and test of a new-generation LLR payload made by a single, large CCR (100mm diameter) unaffected by the effect of librations. With MoonLIGHT CCRs the accuracy of the measurement of the lunar geodetic precession can be improved up to a factor 100 compared to Apollo arrays. From a technological point of view, INFN-LNF built and is operating a new experimental apparatus (Satellite/lunar laser ranging Characterization Facility, SCF) and created a new industry-standard test procedure (SCF-Test) to characterize and model the detailed thermal behavior and the optical performance of CCRs in accurately laboratory-simulated space conditions, for industrial and scientific applications. Our key experimental innovation is the concurrent measurement and modeling of the optical Far Field Diffraction Pattern (FFDP) and the temperature distribution of retroreflector payloads under thermal conditions produced with a close-match solar simulator. The apparatus includes infrared cameras for non-invasive thermometry, thermal control and real-time payload movement to simulate satellite orientation on orbit with respect to solar illumination and laser interrogation beams. These capabilities provide: unique pre-launch performance validation of the space segment of LLR/SLR (Satellite Laser Ranging); retroreflector design optimization to maximize ranging efficiency and signal-to-noise conditions in daylight. Results of the SCF-Test of our CCR payload will be presented. Negotiations are underway to propose our payload and SCF-Test services for precision gravity and lunar science measurements with next robotic lunar landing missions. In particular, a scientific collaboration agreement was signed on Jan. 30, 2012, by D. Currie, S. Dell'Agnello and the Japanese PI team of the LLR instrument of the proposed SELENE-2 mission by JAXA (Registered with INFN Protocol n. 0000242-03/Feb/2012). The agreement foresees that, under no exchange of funds, the Japanese single, large, hollow LLR reflector will be SCF-Tested and that MoonLIGHT will be considered as backup instrument.

"Complete in twelve volumes." ; v. 1-3. History of the states, ed. by J.A.C. Chandler.--v. 4. Political history, ed. by F.L. Riley.--v. 5. Economic history, 1607-1865, ed. by J.C. Ballagh.--v. 6. Economic history, 1865-1909, ed. by J.C. Ballagh.--v. 7. History of the intellectual life, ed. by J.B. Henneman.--v. 8. History of southern fiction, ed. by E. Mims.--v. 9. History of southern oratory, ed. by T.E. Watson.--v. 10. History of the social life, ed. by S.C. Mitchell.--v. 11-12. Southern biography, ed. by W.L. Fleming. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Vols. 1-4, 7-12, 1909; v. 5-6, 1910; v. 13, 1913. ; Contains bibliographies. ; v. 1-3. History of the states, ed. by J.A.C. Chandler.--v. 4. Political history, ed. by F.L. Riley.--v. 5. Economic history, 1607-1865, ed. by J.C. Ballagh.--v. 6. Economic history, 1865-1909, ed. by J.C. Ballagh.--v. 7. History of the intellectual life, ed. by J.B. Henneman.--v. 8. Histoy of southern fiction, ed. by E. Mims.--v. 9. History of southern oratory, ed. by T.E. Watson.--v. 10. History of the social life, ed. by S.C. Mitchell.--v. 11-12. Southern biography, ed. by W.L. Fleming.--v. 13. Index and study courses, ed. by J.W. McSpadden. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; will reformat