epub |eng | | Author:Passingham, Ian;

BREAK A LEG, BUZZ! Buzz Aldrin’s wife has revealed she gave him a superstitious theatrical send-off. Amateur actress Joan Aldrin, addressing the media outside her home after watching on TV, ...

mobi |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Charles Darwin

1 It is remarkable how the same disease is modified in different climates. At the little island of St. Helena, the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague. In ...

epub |eng | 1994-03-02 | Author:Frank McLynn [Frank McLynn]

Occasionally Louis, as well as his wife, felt the need to escape the isolation of Saranac. In December 1887 he was briefly back in New York City again, and it ...

azw3 |eng | 2018-09-05 | Author:Nigel Rigby & Pieter van der Merwe & Glyn Williams [Rigby, Nigel]

MONUMENT TO MONR DE LA PÉROUSE AND HIS COMPANIONS, ERECTED AT BOTANY BAY; lithograph by William Spreat after R.M. Westmacott, from the latter’s Sketches in Australia (1848). The monument was ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:John Mandeville

Next to Chaldea is the land of Amazoun [the Amazons], which we call the Maiden Land or the Land of Women; no man lives there, only women. This is not ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-03 | Author:Elizabeth Howell

* * * One of the dominant processes during the early evolution on Mars was volcanism. With the Red Planet volcanically active in the ancient past, its surface would have ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Stark, Peter [Stark, Peter]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ASTOR’S LEADERS WERE, IN MANY WAYS, HIS SURROGATES. Astor had chosen Captain Thorn to sail the Tonquin because he was decisive, because he would fight, because he was ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-31 | Author:Major Colin Burgess [Burgess, Major Colin]

It was the Queen Mother who interested Charles in homoeopathic medicine. She was very keen on alternative treatments and I remember coming in with a bruise on my arm one ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:Unknown

Gin & tonic Ingredients: › 60 ml gin › tonic water (preferably Fentiman's) › 1 slice of lemon › ice cubes How To Make: Fill a highball glass with ice ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Gillman;Leni Gillman;

Chapter Eleven STORMS BATTER EIGER MEN When Kor left the snow hole at the Death Bivouac to return to the delights of Kleine Scheidegg on 11 March, he stretched a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Charles Beardsley

Either the letter had exceptional charm for the governor or else he had no defense against the visitors except courtesy, since the garrison at Guam was of small strength and ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Philip Gosse

KELLWANTON. A notorious pirate in the sixteenth century. Was captured in the Isle of Man in 1531. KENNEDY, Captain. Began life as a pickpocket and housebreaker in London. He was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:E. A. Foley [Foley, E. A.]

Chapter 17 They decided on fast food for dinner and were back on the freeway in less than thirty minutes. Since Morrigan knew about magic, their previous decision to not ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Smithsonian Institution [Institution, Smithsonian]

Q: The filming of what World War I aviation movie resulted in the death of several stunt pilots? A: Hell’s Angels. This 1930 American film by director Howard Hughes centers ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Broughton Coburn

Chapter 17 Uncertainty The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. —URSULA K. LE GUIN FOR THE WEST RIDGERS, MATTERS WERE GETTING ...