Miscellaneous
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Costello [COSTELLO, DAVE]

Lakpa and Babu’s current predicament was not an entirely new one. In 1862 two English scientists named Henry Coxwell and James Glaisher actually became the first people to fly above ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing June 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Conrad Kerber

___________ * Reports of the agreed-upon dollar amount varied widely from one source to another. Chapter 15 “THE MESSIAH” Taylor staggered down the gangplank and onto the shores of Cherbourg, ...
( Category: History of Sports June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:John Gierach [Gierach, John]

12 TEMPORARY PURIST I live near the confluence of two perfectly good freestone trout creeks in the Rocky Mountains, but in early April when the midges are still on and ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks June 6,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Franklin Foer [Foer, Franklin]

Edward rose. Following his teammates, he walked to the gold altar. In front of the icons, he went down to his knees. He crossed himself, folded his hands, closed his ...
( Category: International & World Politics June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Jonathan Wilson

That gave the left-back, Giacinto Facchetti, who had arrived at the club as a forward, greater licence to push forwards, because the man he was marking tended to sit deeper. ...
( Category: History of Sports June 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-24 | Author:Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski [Kuper, Simon & Szymanski, Stefan]

operated. When American officials wanted an Iraqi to do something, the lawyer said, they would generally call the person into the Green Zone and if necessary “bawl him out.” Sometimes ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Jimmy Burns

Herrera expressed his disappointment publicly on behalf of the team—without directly raising the issue of politics, still less blaming Franco. The official rumor mill suggested that this had little to ...
( Category: History of Sports June 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-09-03 | Author:Buford, Bill [Buford, Bill]

DAWES ROAD, FULHAM I was reading the morning newspapers in the coffeehouse in Ober Sankt Veit. I can still feel the indignation that overwhelmed me when I took hold of ...
( Category: European May 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:John Helyar [Helyar, John]

Barry Rona found himself using one phrase over and over as he explained the provisions to owners: “better than nothing.” The two sides staggered into a 6:00 A.M. press conference ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports April 30,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Pearlman, Jeff

( Category: History of Sports April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:John McPhee

During this month a pretty large species of Clupea, called a shad, runs up the Rivers Delaware & Schuylkill in prodigious numbers. It has already proved a very seasonable relief ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-14 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand

From the day of his arrival in New York, Smith was Smith; the New York press corps couldn’t get a grunt out of him. “Tom Smith,” wrote a reporter, “says ...
( Category: Racing April 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Sheehan, George [Sheehan, George]

10. training Nature, as T. H. Huxley had told us, never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. If you want to run a marathon you must ...
( Category: Sports Psychology April 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Colin Cowherd [Cowherd, Colin]

I Value What I Need First, an experiment. Please indulge me for a moment; it won’t take up much time, and you’ll see the results rather quickly. The next time ...
( Category: Humor April 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Gerald R. Gems [Gems, Gerald R.]

Chapter Six Religion Religion carries little significance in boxing today, but it played a more important role in the past. For thousands of years religious wars marked the vicissitudes of ...
( Category: History of Sports April 2,2014 )