Sports & Outdoors
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Gianna Angelopoulos [Angelopoulos, Gianna]

I WASN’T HOME THE AFTERNOON THE PHONE CALL CAME. My secretary, Sannah, told me it was from Athens, but neither of us recognized the name of the caller—Andreas Fouras. Today ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Scott Wilson

THE CONCEPT OF THE FIVE RINGS IN ESOTERIC BUDDHISM Traveling the backroads of Japan or wandering through the temple precincts there, one often finds five-tiered stone monuments called stupas. These ...
( Category: Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand [Hillenbrand, Laura]

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the village at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Clare Balding [Balding, Clare]

11 Lily A life without a boxer dog is a life without laughter. I know this because, after Candy died at kennels and age had finally caught up with Flossy, ...
( Category: Riding March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Elizabeth Bard [BARD, ELIZABETH]

WE ARRIVED BY the early ferry, docked in the small port, watched by vacationers sipping their coffee and reading the paper. From the port you could see the seventeenth-century fortress ...
( Category: French March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-09-14 | Author:David Pietrusza [Pietrusza, David]

ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN COULD EASILY HAVE walked away from gambling and loan-sharking and entered the world of legitimate business. In 1912 he was offered a $25,000-per year position as a stockbroker. ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-22 | Author:Chris Blatchford [Blatchford, Chris]

Photographic Insert Rene “Boxer” Enriquez at Wasco State Prison in 1997 (in transit from Pelican Bay to the Mafia RICO trial in Los Angeles) with the Black Hand tattoo prominently ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Les Stroud

* * * The Robertsons ELEMENTS OF SURVIVAL Knowledge 10% Luck 45% Kit 20% Will to Live 25% Almost an even split across the board. Dougal and his family had ...
( Category: Camping March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Henry Dana

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Narratives March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:David Herlihy [Herlihy, David]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...
( Category: Cycling March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Max Hardberger [Hardberger, Max]

The next morning I went to see Willem Bik at Belgisch Scheepssloperij. He’d delivered the Deletion Certificate to the ship a week earlier, and I hadn’t seen him since. As ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Paul Little

CHAPTER 11 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON If Peter Hillary were anyone else’s son, he would almost certainly be regarded as one of the world’s great adventurers. Firsts include the first ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-29 | Author:Paul Kimmage [Kimmage, Paul]

16 THE FAB FOUR The repression of amphetamines through dope controls has had varying consequences. The use of the drug in the major tours and championships is minimal, almost non-existent. ...
( Category: Irish March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-21 | Author:X, Malcolm [Malcolm, X,]

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Arnold Rampersad [Rampersad, Arnold]

CHAPTER 11 Dodging Blows, Fighting Back 1952–1955 What do you think of the booing? Why are they booing me? —Jackie Robinson (1953) DESPITE JACK’S GLOOMY talk about retiring, there was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )