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To Conquer the Air by James Tobin
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Tobin

I have been [so] skeptical [he told Secretary Taft] as to the practicability and value of any so-called “Flying machine” or “air ship” that I did not give much heed ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
The Sea Hunters by Clive Cussler
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

One of four new screw sloops fresh out of the shipyards of Boston, Housatonic mounted thirteen guns, one of them a big rifled hundred-pounder. She displaced 1,240 tons and measured ...
( Category: History March 25,2015 )
The Sea Hunters II by Clive Cussler
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

The Battle of Charleston. The Keokuk upper left, the Patupsco right, and the Weehawken center (Clive Cussler) The sinking of the Keokuk after she was struck by ninety-two Confederate shells ...
( Category: History March 25,2015 )
Saltwater Cowboys by Dayle Furlong
epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Dayle Furlong

In the morning she woke up and ran down the hallway to check on the children. Their beds were empty. “They stayed the night at Wanda’s, remember?” Jack said. “I ...
( Category: History March 22,2015 )
White Ensign Flying by Roger Litwiller
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Roger Litwiller

Your airgraph letter arrived on board today. I note that the electric washing machine has been forwarded to Halifax. The procuring of this machine was indeed a praiseworthy achievement on ...
( Category: 20th Century March 21,2015 )
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Erik Larson [Larson, Erik]

IN LONDON, a mosaic of information had by now accumulated in Blinker Hall’s intelligence division and in Room 40 that showed that only one submarine was in the waters off ...
( Category: History March 13,2015 )
The Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (Kindle Single) by Jeff Wise
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Jeff Wise [Wise, Jeff]

INTERLUDE A SPECULATIVE SCENARIO MARCH 8, 2014. 12.15am. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A line of passengers shuffles down the aisle to their seats, subdued and sleepy. It’s late, and the flight ...
( Category: Commercial March 9,2015 )
Disasters at Sea by Liz Mechem
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Liz Mechem

A model of the Mary Rose The Spanish Armada MIGHT OF AN EMPIRE T he Spanish Armada was driven by three primary forces—politics, religion, and national wealth. In 1588, King ...
( Category: Pictorial March 4,2015 )
The Wreckers by Bella Bathurst
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bella Bathurst [Bathurst, Bella]

I regret to have to report that matters relating to wreck and salvage in those islands [the Hebrides], especially in South Uist and Barra, are as unsatisfactory as they can ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
Submarine by Tom Clancy
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

Another problem for potential hunters of Russian SSBNs results from the manner in which they are employed and deployed. One of the early goals of missile designers in the former ...
( Category: Nuclear March 3,2015 )
Kursk Down by Clyde Burleson
epub |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:Clyde Burleson [BURLESON, CLYDE]

16 August 2000—0800 Hours—Barents Sea The fourth day dawned with a prediction of more storms. While that was disappointing, spirits rose with the arrival of another DSRV. This was a ...
( Category: History February 7,2015 )
The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms
epub |eng | 2004-03-31 | Author:Charles Ellms [Ellms, Charles]

The Cruelties practised by Captain Low. They next sailed for the island of Madeira, and took up a fishing boat with two old men and a boy. They detained one ...
( Category: History February 3,2015 )
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON June 11, something momentous did happen. While most of the men slept away the bright polar night, the ice opened with a ragged crack, and the Jeannette ...
( Category: Transportation February 2,2015 )
Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab by Dmitry Samarov
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Dmitry Samarov

As we near downtown Downers Grove, the happy couple reappears in a more or less standard passenger’s pose; seated upright, that is. We get stuck at the rail crossing, where ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )

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