Archive for December, 2009
Travelling
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Travelling?
I’m planning on travelling next summer, from June til September.
I can’t decide whether I should go for one of the voluntary projects and work in a school or something, or go just on a massive holiday??
Any ideas/experience would be great!!!!
Travel.
Do it now and do not hesitate. Find a friend and find a destination. Your experiences will be vast and well worth your time. They tend to be fun and you will learn a lot of life skills.
I’ve done the volunteering and Traveling. For me, after doing both it is an easy choice.
Get your passport yet?
=)
Travelling – Paper Lions
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Black & Decker DCM18S Brew ‘n Go Personal Coffeemaker with Travel Mug $17.39 Wouldn’t this make a great gift for a student, or a commuter? The machine brews right into the thermal travel mug and then shuts itself off, so your favorite coffee lover can simply grab and go!Great for commuters, office professionals, and one-coffee-drinker households, this personal coffeemaker brews 15 ounces of coffee directly into a stainless-steel travel mug. The mug has a rubber handle for … |
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Oi Va Voi – Travelling the Face of the Globe $14.84 Disc 1:WaitingI Know What You AreTravelling the Face of the GlobeEvery TimeS`BrentMagic CarpetDusty RoadFoggy DayWonderLong Way From HomeStiches and RunsPhotographEvery Tim… |
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V.V. Brown – Travelling Like the Light [4/20] * $9.89 Disc 0:No track list availableDisc 1:Quick FixGame OverShark In the WaterLeave!BottlesCrying BloodBack In TimeI Love YouL.O.V.E.EverybodyCrazy AmazinT… |
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The Low Frequency in Stereo – Travelling Ants Who Got Eaten by Moskus $17.85 Disc 0:No track list available |
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The Time-travelling Cat and the Great Victorian Stink (Paperback) $7.91 A Victorian mystery for the time-travelers—Topher and his amazing cat—to resolveTopher`s cat, Ka, has time-traveled again, leaving him the clue “CAppeLLis.” Following her, Topher finds himself in Victorian… |
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Travelling in Different Skins (Hardcover) $113.06 Dunlaith Bird argues that vagabondage – a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion – emerges as a totemic concept in European women`s travel writing from 1850. For travellers including Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Isab… |
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The Photographer`s Eye Field Guide (Paperback) $11.52 Whether on a weekend city break or a month-long trekking vacation, this handy little guide will be your indispensable companion. Taking photos that really capture the essence of your time away is a real skill, and swamped with a multitude of choices, i… |
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V.V. Brown – Travelling Like the Light $13.64 Disc 0:No track list available |
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Various Artists – Travelling: French Actors Crossing Borders [Import] $16.31 |
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Heartland – Travelling Through Time $24.16 Disc 0:No track list available |
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Jamiroquai – Travelling Without Moving $8.26 Disc 0:No track list available |
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Bought, Borrowed, Stolen (Hardcover) $16.33 It doesn`t matter where you are in the world, the most important things to any chef are their salt, knives and ingredients. Bought, Borrowed & Stolen brings them together, as they should be, for the first time. Allegr… |
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Christine Collister/Dave Kelly & the Travelling Gentlemen – The Travelling Gentlemen $16.47 Disc 1:Mocking BirdPancho And LeftyBoulder to BirminghamWorld In MotionSad And Beautiful WorldWho Knows Where The Time Goes ?Anyhow, I Love You110 in The ShadeKicking In My StallGuilty |
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Amerileather All-purpose Accessories Pouch $7.49 Perfect for holding your camera, cell phone, keys and other accessories, this accessories pouch is a must-have no matter where you are travelling. This pouch can be carried four ways: cross-body, around your waist, on your wrist or on your belt. |
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Sumdex NUN-008 10-inch Skyn Tab Neoprene Sleeve for iPad 2, & Tablets $15.49 Protect your Apple iPad 2, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and tablets with Sumdex’s Skyn Tab Neoprene Sleeve. The durable, fully padded, yet soft sleeve is the perfect portable carrying solution when on the go for school, business, or travelling purposes. |
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Simply Scandinavian (Hardcover) $24.17 Simply Scandinavian presents modern takes on traditional Scandinavian recipes, combining time-tested Finnish food preparation with twenty-first century taste. The recipes are organized by time of year?appetizers, main courses, and desserts for Spring, … |
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Travelling the World (Paperback) $13.43 Description not available. |
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Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture (Hardcover) $97.08 Description not available. |
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Travelling in India (Hardcover) $27.33 Description not available. |
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Travelling Band – Screaming Is Something (Import) $27.82 |
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The Black Hole (DVD) $9.15 A space crew travelling the cosmos runs into a long-missing craft, manned by Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell). Upon meetin |
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Travelling Well (Paperback) $14.84 Description not available. |
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Passport to Europe – Seven Fabulous Cities – Travel Channel (DVD) $12.59 Follow intrepid globetrotter Samantha Brown on a fun and fact-filled tour through seven of Europe`s most happening cities: Brussels, Prague, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, and Lisbon. Throw on your travelling shoes and join Samantha as she bike… |
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Carnivale – The Complete Second Season (DVD) $19.38 After a leisurely debut season, HBO`s stunningly creative cable-television series CARNIVALE stepped up the pace in round two of its allegorical tale of good and evil set against the surreal backdrop of a Depression-era travelling circus. By the beginni… |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Blu-ray Disc) $7.59 Returning for a third bout of cyborg time travelling, Arnold Schwarzenegger reprises his good-robot role from TERMINATOR 2, once again travelling back from the future to protect future human resistance leader John Connor (played this time around by Nic… |
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Li’l Lewis N. Clark Bumblebee Pillow and Luggage Tag Set $21.49 Make travelling easy for your little one with this Li’l Lewis N. Clark set. This set includes a fiber-filled travel neck pillow and a matching leather luggage tag. |
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Kidz Delight My Discovery World $27.04 Learn and have fun travelling the world with a Kidz Delight My Discovery WorldLearning mat can be played on the floor or on a tableExplore the world flying with the 3D plane or directly with your hand |
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Bubble in the Bathtub (Paperback) $6.92 The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa couldn’t stop there. Next up: a time-travelling bathtub. You just hop in, lather up the Time Soap, and wish for where you’d like to go. Doctor Proctor has … |
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Knightriders (DVD) $7.22 In George Romero`s KNIGHTRIDERS, Sir William (Ed Harris) and his followers exist in a Camelot-like utopian state of their own devise, separate from mainstream society. Travelling from town to town and putting on a medieval circus and renaissance fair… |
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I Never Knew That About London (Hardcover) $17.89 Discover hundreds of fascinating facts about London in this enthralling miscellanyTravelling through the villages and districts that make up the world`s most dynamic metropolis, Christopher Winn takes us on a captivatin… |
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Journeys (Paperback) $24.17 Description not available. |
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Sparkle the Circus Pony (Paperback) $3.95 Megan goes for a ride on a magic carousel that takes her to a circus where she and her pony are the star performers in Mr. Scarletti`s Amazing Travelling Circus. |
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Warren Miller’s Storm (DVD) $13.85 Travelling from Alaska, to Aspen, to the Austrian Alps, this amazing display of extreme skiing focuses on a combination of all-t |
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Neil Diamond – The Best Of $8.42 Disc 1:Cracklin RosieI Am I SaidSong Sung BlueBrother Loves Travelling Salvation ShowHolly HollySoolaimon (African Trilogy II)He Ain`t Heavy He`s My BrotherStonesPlay MeWalk on Water… |
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Jazz Legends Live! Part 2 (DVD) $7.87 This series provides a look at the contemporary jazz scene and its major players. Travelling the world over and recording perfor |
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Around the Globe (Hardcover) $58.87 Dutch fashion and advertising photographer Benno Thoma has been travelling the world for years. With his current four books of photography he has always demonstrated excellence. |
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Things to Come (DVD) $12.47 A visually sweeping sci-fi classic full of futuristic vistas and modern cityscapes, based on the story by H.G. Wells and written for the screen by Wells. Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD, this journey predicts a host of moderniti… |
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The Secret Tunnel (Paperback) $15.79 Handsome, muscular Edward “Mitch” Mitchell made a splash in James Lear`s spicy variation on the British cozy mystery. The Back Passage. Now he`s back in this steamy send-up of Agatha Christie`s Murder on the Orient Express, travelling from Edinburgh to… |
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Learning and Teaching Narrative Inquiry (Hardcover) $124.26 Description not available. |
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The Art of Scouting: How the Hockey Experts Really Watch the Game and Decide Who Makes It $17.61 The Art of Scouting delves into the secretive world of hockey prospecting, a world more akin to Cold War-era spying than a casual day in the stands. Long hours spent gathering priceless information, drinking bad coffee, constant travelling, high… |
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Walking Drum $5.93 Travelling across Europe and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, the adventurer Kerbouchard encounters the passions and violence of an ancient world. |
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PJ Harvey On Tour: Please Leave Quietly (DVD) $12.11 A reclusive star who has a very strong vision for her career, PJ Harvey opens up on this tour documentary, allowing cameras to follow her as she promotes the UH HUH HER album in 2004. Captured travelling through Europe and the U.S. with her four-piece … |
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Ken Colyer/Ken Colyer`s Jazzmen & Skiffle Group – Ken Colyer`s Jazzmen and Skiffle Group 1956 [Box] $23.68 Disc 0:No track list availableDisc 1:DISC 1:Crane River WomanSavoy BluesMilenberg JoysI`m TravellingCreole SongMy Bucket`s Got a HoleHiawatha RagHeebie JeebiesB… |
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Neil Diamond – Icon $5.33 Disc 1:Sweet CarolineBrother Love`s Travelling Salvation ShowI Am.I SaidCracklin` RosieHe Ain`t Heavy, He`s My BrotherStonesHolly HolySong Sung BlueWalk On WaterPlay MeCherry Cherry … |
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Doctor Who Companions and Allies (Paperback) $10.93 The Doctor has been travelling through space and time for centuries, showing his friends and companions the wonders of the universe. From Sarah Jane Smith and the Brigadier to Martha Jones and Donna Noble, this title celebrates the friends that have be… |
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Buffalo Cake and Indian Pudding (Paperback) $10.1 Travelling physician, salesman, author and self-made man, Dr. Chase dispensed remedies all over America during the late nineteenth century, collecting recipes and domestic tips from the people he met along the way. His self-published books became ce… |
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Brian Sewell`s Grand Tour of Italy (DVD) $53.99 Acerbic British art critic Brian Sewell revisits the time-honored tradition of the Grand Tour, travelling to such Italian cities as Rome, Florence, Milan, and Venice to offer insight into classical and Renaissance art and culture in his inimitably opin… |
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Fibrinolytic Bacterial Enzymes With Thrombolytic Activity (Paperback) $39.48 Stress, high blood pressure, smoking, pollution, fast foods, overweight, excessive travelling, surgery, less movement are common features in our modern life. These features are risky for blood clotting disorders. According to WHO, over 29% of the total… |
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Street Fighter Fighters Destiny $11.77 Part of the “Street Fighter” series, this title finds Ryu travelling through Asia, meeting fighters he hopes will help him in his journey toward avenging his master`s death. Through his exploits, he encounters the Yoga Master, Dhalsim, the King of Muay… |
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The Tokaido Road (Paperback) $40.13 Description not available. |
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The Ultimate Fight (DVD) $13.36 When a travelling martial arts expert saves the life of a street fighter, the two find themselves in the middle of a gang war. Lots of martial arts actions ensues when the pair team up to battle the Crazy Dragons gang. |
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Fin Tireur $0.99 Two years ago I was travelling by diligence in the Sahara Desert on the great caravan route, which starts from Beni-Mora and ends, they say, at Tombouctou. For fourteen hours each day we were on the road, and each evening about nine o’clock we stopped at a Bordj, or Travellers’ House, ate a hasty meal, threw ourselves down on our gaudy Arab rugs, and slept heavily till the hour before dawn, drugged by fatigue, and by the strong air of the desert. In the late afternoon of the third day of our journeying we drove into a sandstorm. A great wind arose, carrying with it innumerable multitudes of sand grains, which whirled about the diligence and the struggling horses, blotting out the desert as completely as a London fog blots out the street on a November day. The cold became intense, and very soon I began to long for the next halting-place. |
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Goodbye, Africa… $17.94 Raymond Spenser was born in 1940s South Africa, when it was forbidden to treat a Black citizen as an equal member of society. This intolerance sets the stage for Raymond’s enlightening and inspiring global adventure. As a child, Raymond had extraordinary dreams: to become a magician, actor, and director. In addition, he aspired to experience the “real Africa.” After several decades of traveling through Southern Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia, Raymond achieves his professional goal: TV production in Johannesburg.Racial politics impels Raymond and his family to reach the Australian safe haven of Canberra. In the 1980s, Raymond moves with his wife and two sons to Zimbabwe, where he works as a producer and teacher, and becomes deeply involved in the local community. But soon, Raymond sees the inevitable writing on the wall. It is time to say, “Goodbye” to Africa.Author Desmond Bishop writes because he wants to engage the world around him. He started writing educational documentaries for the ABC in Sydney, in 1975. Desmond has worked as a producer and a teacher. His next book, The Wizard of Zee, tells the story of a boy who meets a wizard who teaches him to believe in himself. Desmond grew up in British colonial Southern Africa. Although he now resides in Asia, he enjoys travelling back to Nimbin, Australia, where he has a deep connection to the community.Publisher’s website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/GoodbyeAfrica.html |
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Travelling without moving: A study on the reconstruction, compression, and rendering of three-dimensional environments for telepresence. $69 Matthieu Maitre,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by BiblioLabsII |
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Wanderschaft : Tales of a Travelling Sweep $13.99 Norman Lenz,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Lulu.com |
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”Travelling without moving”: A study on the reconstruction, compression, and rendering of three-dimensional environments for telepresence. $49.99 In this dissertation, we study issues related to free-view 3D-video, and in particular issues of 3D scene reconstruction, compression, and rendering. We present four main contributions. First, we present a novel algorithm which performs surface reconstruction from planar arrays of cameras and generates dense depth maps with multiple values per pixel. Second, we introduce a novel codec for the static depth-image-based representation, which jointly estimates and encodes the unknown depth map from multiple views using a novel rate-distortion optimization scheme. Third, we propose a second novel codec for the static depth-image-based representation, which relies on a shape-adaptive wavelet transform and an explicit representation of the locations of major depth edges to achieve major rate-distortion gains. Finally, we propose a novel algorithm to extract the side information in the context of distributed video coding of 3D scenes. |
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”Travelling without moving”: A study on the reconstruction, compression, and rendering of three-dimensional environments for telepresence. $49.99 In this dissertation, we study issues related to free-view 3D-video, and in particular issues of 3D scene reconstruction, compression, and rendering. We present four main contributions. First, we present a novel algorithm which performs surface reconstruction from planar arrays of cameras and generates dense depth maps with multiple values per pixel. Second, we introduce a novel codec for the static depth-image-based representation, which jointly estimates and encodes the unknown depth map from multiple views using a novel rate-distortion optimization scheme. Third, we propose a second novel codec for the static depth-image-based representation, which relies on a shape-adaptive wavelet transform and an explicit representation of the locations of major depth edges to achieve major rate-distortion gains. Finally, we propose a novel algorithm to extract the side information in the context of distributed video coding of 3D scenes. |
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‘Elaran! Isithan!’ $15.95 ‘Elaran! Isithan!’ is a tale of twenty-two aliens: Sikaran mercenaries; whilst travelling across the galaxy, they encounter the human race for the first time. The Sikaran mercenaries are expert martial artists and members of a Sikaran Brotherhood of the Sword, the “Isithan”. Often misunderstanding the humans, Marayshan, Nava and Avernyi have many adventures, and some close encounters with the humans, with amusing results. Equally the human star ship Captain, Lawrence Grey and his crew must come to terms with their cross-cultural, cross-species prejudices as they become more involved with the aliens. Joanna Ray has created an amazing world with vividly original characters. The book is humorous but also thought provoking, touching on many emotional states: everything one would expect from a tale of alien and human encounter! |
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‘Grandmother Dear’. Repr $19.24 General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1900Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. THE SIX PINLESS BROOCHES. ” They have no school, no governess, and do just what they please, No little worries vex the birds that live up in the trees.” The Discontented Starlinos. many days after this thrilling adventure of Sylvia’s, the little party of travellers reached their destination, grandmother’s pretty house at Chalet. They were of course delighted to be there, everything was so bright, and fresh, and comfortable, and grandmother herself was glad to be again settled down at what to her now represented home. But yet, at the bottom of their hearts, the children were a little sorry that the travelling was over. True, Molly declared that, though their passage across the Channel had really been a very good one as these dreadful experiences go, nothing would ever induce her to repeat the experiment ; whatever came of it, there was no help for it, live and die in France, at least on this side of the water, she must. “I am never going to marry, you know,” she observed to Sylvia, “so for that it doesn’t matter, as of course I couldn’t marry a Frenchman. But you will come over to see me sometimes and bring your children, and when I get very old, as I shall have no one to be kind to me you see, I daresay I shall get some one to let me be their concierge like the old woman in our lodge. I shall be very poor of course, but anything is better than crossing the sea again.” It sounded very melancholy. Sylvia’s mind misgave her that perhaps she should offer to stay with Molly ” for always ” on this side of the channel, but she did not feel quite sure about it. And the odd |
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‘Grandmother Dear’. Repr $21.19 General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1900Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. THE SIX PINLESS BROOCHES. ” They have no school, no governess, and do just what they please, No little worries vex the birds that live up in the trees.” The Discontented Starlinos. many days after this thrilling adventure of Sylvia’s, the little party of travellers reached their destination, grandmother’s pretty house at Chalet. They were of course delighted to be there, everything was so bright, and fresh, and comfortable, and grandmother herself was glad to be again settled down at what to her now represented home. But yet, at the bottom of their hearts, the children were a little sorry that the travelling was over. True, Molly declared that, though their passage across the Channel had really been a very good one as these dreadful experiences go, nothing would ever induce her to repeat the experiment ; whatever came of it, there was no help for it, live and die in France, at least on this side of the water, she must. “I am never going to marry, you know,” she observed to Sylvia, “so for that it doesn’t matter, as of course I couldn’t marry a Frenchman. But you will come over to see me sometimes and bring your children, and when I get very old, as I shall have no one to be kind to me you see, I daresay I shall get some one to let me be their concierge like the old woman in our lodge. I shall be very poor of course, but anything is better than crossing the sea again.” It sounded very melancholy. Sylvia’s mind misgave her that perhaps she should offer to stay with Molly ” for always ” on this side of the channel, but she did not feel quite sure about it. And the odd |
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‘Scuse Me while I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers $13.95 A collection of twisted takes on what it is to be and live in the world of Kinky.’Scuse Me While I Whip This Out is a collection of twisted takes on life by Kinky Friedman. As always, the Kinkster’s work is witty, wise and wonderful, and reads as if it was written by a slightly ill, modern-day Mark Twain. These pieces taken in their totality represent a wide-ranging new direction for Friedman, building on his already well-established fan base as a mystery writer and musician. In ‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out Kinky will deal with such subjects as marriage, his pets, hanging out with Joe Heller, Bob Dylan, sleeping at the White House, the Peace Corps, country music, travelling, Americana, cigars, Don Imus, and talent. This mixture may well be the funniest as well as the best non-fiction work he has ever done. Many of the pieces are totally new and have never been published anywhere before. Others have appreared in his vastly successful column in the award-winning Texas Monthly magazine. As hilarious and irreverent as David Sedaris, as dark and passionately twisted as George Carlin- and illustrated by the hermetic genius John Callahan-’Scuse Me While I Whip This Out is destined to be one of the most side-splitting, thought-provoking books on the market today. |
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‘Scuse Me while I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers $0.99 A collection of twisted takes on what it is to be and live in the world of Kinky.’Scuse Me While I Whip This Out is a collection of twisted takes on life by Kinky Friedman. As always, the Kinkster’s work is witty, wise and wonderful, and reads as if it was written by a slightly ill, modern-day Mark Twain. These pieces taken in their totality represent a wide-ranging new direction for Friedman, building on his already well-established fan base as a mystery writer and musician. In ‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out Kinky will deal with such subjects as marriage, his pets, hanging out with Joe Heller, Bob Dylan, sleeping at the White House, the Peace Corps, country music, travelling, Americana, cigars, Don Imus, and talent. This mixture may well be the funniest as well as the best non-fiction work he has ever done. Many of the pieces are totally new and have never been published anywhere before. Others have appreared in his vastly successful column in the award-winning Texas Monthly magazine. As hilarious and irreverent as David Sedaris, as dark and passionately twisted as George Carlin- and illustrated by the hermetic genius John Callahan-’Scuse Me While I Whip This Out is destined to be one of the most side-splitting, thought-provoking books on the market today. |
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‘Scuse Me while I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers $9.99 A collection of twisted takes on what it is to be and live in the world of Kinky.’Scuse Me While I Whip This Out is a collection of twisted takes on life by Kinky Friedman. As always, the Kinkster’s work is witty, wise and wonderful, and reads as if it was written by a slightly ill, modern-day Mark Twain. These pieces taken in their totality represent a wide-ranging new direction for Friedman, building on his already well-established fan base as a mystery writer and musician. In ‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out Kinky will deal with such subjects as marriage, his pets, hanging out with Joe Heller, Bob Dylan, sleeping at the White House, the Peace Corps, country music, travelling, Americana, cigars, Don Imus, and talent. This mixture may well be the funniest as well as the best non-fiction work he has ever done. Many of the pieces are totally new and have never been published anywhere before. Others have appreared in his vastly successful column in the award-winning Texas Monthly magazine. As hilarious and irreverent as David Sedaris, as dark and passionately twisted as George Carlin- and illustrated by the hermetic genius John Callahan-’Scuse Me While I Whip This Out is destined to be one of the most side-splitting, thought-provoking books on the market today. |
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…good & bad chair days… $28.9 A photographic diary that will appeal to men and women, young and old, the tidy and untidy among us.It records just over a year in the life of a chair, “My Chair”, put on this earth (well transported from IKEA to my bedroom) to serve as a drop off point for various items of clothing travelling between wearer, wardrobe and washing basket.One day as I stood and admired my neatly arranged bedroom, it suddenly appeared, in all its glory, under the window, my chair, adorned with a few days discarded clothing. “Art for art’s sake”, he called it!I realised that no matter how often I tidied the room the chair was a constant display of a more devil may care attitude.This could be going on in homes all over the country, maybe the world, so why not document days in the life of My Chair?If this strikes a chord then rejoice in the fact that you are, like me, perfectly normal! |
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..And This Is My Adopted Daughter $17.99 By Marie BergerISBN: 978-1-84747-189-5Published: 2007Pages: 184Key Themes: DescriptionThis emotional turbulent and poignant book tells the story of Marie Berger’s dicovery that she was adopted. Marie only discovered this fact when her mother passed away and she cuaght a glimpse of hert birth certificate. The book decribes Marie’s childhood and chronicles how she felt in finding that she was adopted. This is an intensely moving and excellently written book.About the AuthorMarie Berger was born in May 1945 in Reading, Berkshire. She trained to become a teacher and is also a qualified masseuse. She is now an author by profession and lives with her husband and her children in Lincoln. She is fond of travelling, foreign languages, pastel drawing and of course her writing.Book ExtractOn the doormat is a letter. I pick it up. I don’t recognise the handwriting. It’s postmarked New York, United States of America.I only know of one person who lives there. And it couldn’t possibly be from her.could it?Feverishly I tear open the envelope, unfold the notepaper.My mind’s in a whirl. It’s impossible to take in the words. They swim across my line of vision. The bits I manage to read here and there don’t make sense.I don’t know how long I’ve been standing here mesmerised. My mind’s blank. The neat script is dancing before my eyes.This can’t be happening. It must be a dream.I blink rapidly, shake my head, and try to focus on reality. But there’s no way I can get a grip on myself standing like a zombie here in the hallway. I must get out.I put on my coat, wanderbewildered into the first café I come to. I sit in a corner, order a coffee, sip the hot liquid. I can’t stop shivering.I hold my breath, force myself to start at the beginning, concentrate on each word. I begin to read.Dear Marie Teresa,I really don’t know how to begin. |
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1000 Lb Trailer Jack with Wheel $20.99 1000 lbs Trailer Jack with wheel – ideal for fitting trailers in to tight spaces and help take the hassle out of your trailer, boat & camper. 1000 lbs load capacity for boat, camper and utility trailers. Jack locks in horizontal position for travelling – in vertical position for supporting T. Lifts to 21 inches. 5-1/2-inch wheel diameter. |
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1000M 28/35w 2-Mode 3000Lumens High Power Adjust Focusing and Rechargeable HID Flashlight BG-001 $209.99 HID(High intensity discharge),is a product with high technology,which pressed the xenon to the quartz trbe,and increase 12V power to 3000V instantly through the exact amperite,firing up xenon ionizing into afree state,a supwer arc light will be created between the anode and cathode.We call it gas discharge. The light brightness of HID flashlight is the 3 times the car light,the range can reach 1000 meters.Specifications: Model:BG-001Emitter Type:HIDModes:2Mode Arrangement:High > Fast StrobeColor BIN: White Light(6000K)Lighting Distance:1000 metersWeight(g):1190/2650Measurements:Head diameter:80mm Tube diameter:50mm Total length :385mmBattery Configurations: 1 x 12V 6600mAh rechargeable battery (included)Voltage Input:12VOptimum Working Temperature: -10°C~ +85°CLuminous Flux: 3000lumens maximum brightness (manufacturer rated)Life of Battery: ≥ 500 times rechargeSwitch Location: Tail-capLens: Coated Glass LensReflector: OP ReflectorCaution & Warning•Don’t use flashlight to shoot eyes directly and avoid watching illuminant directly in case it hurts your eyes.•Please pre-charge battery fully before using; please keep the protective cover on the battery during charging;please keep away from the inflammable, explosive objects and gases.•When disuse flashlight, please close switch and protective cover well especially when you put it into travelling bag or similar bags; please avoid touching switch unconsciously or that may turn on the touch then lead to the accidental damage or hurt. |
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1018 Establishments: States and Territories Established in 1018, Buckfast Abbey, Troia, Apulia, Torremaggiore, Bulgaria, Taifa of Majorca $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfastleigh , Devon , England . Dedicated to Saint Mary , it was founded in 1018 and run by the Cistercian order from 1147 until it was destroyed under the Dissolution of the Monasteries . In 1882 monks began living there again, and today it is a Benedictine foundation.History Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Cnut in 1018. In 1147 it became a Cistercian abbey and was rebuilt in stone. In medieval times, the abbey became rich through fishing and trading in sheep wool, although the Black Death killed two abbots and many monks by 1377 there were only fourteen monks at Buckfast.On 25 February 1539, William Petre arrived at Buckfast and declared the abbey to be dissolved by order of King Henry VIII . The monks were compelled to leave and the buildings were looted and destroyed. The abbey then stood in ruins for over two hundred years.On 28 October 1882, six Benedictine monks arrived at Buckfast having been exiled from France . The land had been leased by monks from the St. Augustine’s Priory in Ramsgate and it was later bought for £4,700. The first new abbot was Boniface Natter, who died in a shipwreck in 1906. His travelling companion Anscar Vonier became the next abbot and pledged to fulfil his dying wish, namely to rebuild the abbey.The Abbots of Buckfast Abbey Benedictine AbbotsCistercian Abbots begin{sloppypar item Buckfast still followed the Rule of St. Benedict, as the Cistercians also live by that Rule. item William acted as Papal Legate in 1190. item Nicholas elected in 1205. item Michael mentioned in the Cartulary of Buckfast Abbey (C.B.A.) in 1223. item Peter (I) mentioned in the C.B.A. 1242. item William (II) mentioned in the C.B.A. 1249. item Howell mentioned in the |
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13th-Century Roman Catholic Priests $22.63 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gui D’ussel, Nicholas of Arbroath, Pierre Clergue, Peter González, Amaury de Montfort, Canon of York, Thomas of Cantimpré, Brother Robert, Bernardus Compostellanus Junior, Richard of Ingworth, William de Stanwey, Serlo, Roger de Wynkleigh, Dearmid O’cuana. Excerpt: Gui d’Ussel, d’Ussèl, or d’Uisel (fl. 11951209) was a turn-of-the-thirteenth-century troubadour of the Limousin. Twenty of his poems survive: eight cansos, two pastorelas, two coblas, and eight tensos, several with his relatives and including a partimen with Maria de Ventadorn. Four of his cansos melodies remain. According to his vida, Gui was the youngest of three sons of a wealthy noble family of the castle Ussel-sur-Sarzonne, northeast of Ventadorn. He and his brothers Ebles and Peire, as well as his cousin Elias, are all reputed troubadours and castellans of Ussel according to the author of the vida, who makes Gui himself a canon of Montferrand and Brioude in the diocese of Clermont. Among his relatives Gui was known for his cansos. The only confirmation of Gui’s family from outside his vida is a reference to the brothers Guido and Eblo Usseli donating land to the abbey of Bonaigue. Gui’s biographer believed him to have been in love with Malgarita, wife of Rainaut VI, viscount of Aubusson. He supposedly later fell in love with Guillemette de Comborn, wife of Dalfi d’Alvernha, and composed many songs about her. Gui spent almost his entire life in the Limousin and Auvergne, rarely travelling abroad. Gui addresses several of his songs to Maria de Ventadorn (including the partimen) and makes reference to Peter II of Aragon in one which survives with a melody. The reference to Peter’s queen in the song’s razo puts the date of its composition in 1204 or later, after Peter’s marria… |
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1667 Establishments $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bollhuset, Old Swinford Hospital, Kingston, New York, Val-De-Grâce, Clarendon House, Lejonkulan, San Gennaro Dei Poveri. Excerpt: Bollhuset , also called by the names Stora Bollhuset , Bollhusteatern , and Lejonkulan over the centuries, was the name of the first theater of Stockholm , Sweden; it was the first Swedish theater and the first real theater building in Scandinavia . The name “Bollhuset” means “The Ball House”, and it was originally built in 1627 for ball sports and used in this way for forty years. The name Lejonkulan , however, was in fact the name for a different building, which were also used by the same theater in the 17th century.The building of Bollhuset represents a long row of the most important events of the history of theatre in the city and country. Between 1667 and 1792 it was used as a theater until it was torn down in 1793; between 1737 and 1754, the first national theatre was located here, in 1773-1782 the Royal Swedish Opera (and thereby the Royal Swedish Ballet ) was located here, in 1783-1792 the French theatre of Stockholm was housed here, in 1787 the second national theater was re-founded in the building, and from 1788 it was the home of the Royal Dramatic Theatre .History The building was located on Slottsbacken near the Royal palace Tre Kronor . It was described as a large, but simple rectangular building of white bricks with a hip roof . During the 17th century, foreign travelling theater companies often visited Stockholm, especially from Germany and the Netherlands, but they performed in temporary locals; the German theater troop of Christian Theun l. Thum (or Thaumb) performed in the city from 1628 to 1655, but it is not known if they ever performed in Bollhuset. An English troupe, the troupe of Joris Jollifoot, played in the city |
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1820 Books (Study Guide): 1820 Novels, Maurice, the Monastery, the Abbot, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Melmoth the Wanderer $14.13 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1820 Novels, Maurice, the Monastery, the Abbot, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Melmoth the Wanderer, 1820 in Literature, History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land, Long Lost Friend, Pow-Wows; Or, Long Lost Friend. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot is a children’s story by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley. Written in 1820 for Laurette Tighe, a daughter of friends of Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley tried to have it published by her father, William Godwin, but he refused. The text was lost until 1997, when a manuscript copy was rediscovered in Italy, exciting both the scholarly community and the general public. Maurice tells the story of a boy searching for a home and his encounters with a traveller who turns out to be his long-lost father. The story is narrated in a melancholy tone from several points of view and focuses on the theme of loss, particularly the separation of parents and children. Shelley explored this partly autobiographical theme in other works written at the time, including her novel Mathilda and her play Proserpine. The story’s straightforward language reflects that of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, whose works Shelley was reading while she composed Maurice. Laurette twenty years after Mary Shelley wrote Maurice for her.In 1814, the seventeen-year-old Mary Shelley (Mary Godwin, at the time) ran off with Percy Bysshe Shelley to continental Europe, accompanied by Claire Clairmont, Mary’s stepsister. After six weeks of travelling, they returned to England but continued to live together. Mary returned pregnant with Percy’s child, but their infant daughter died soon after her premature birth. Percy was alienated from his family and received little financial |
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1830s Songs: 1830 Songs, 1831 Songs, 1832 Songs, 1834 Songs, 1837 Songs, Ormurin Langi, Marcia Reale, Kathleen Mavourneen, Clare de Kitchen $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: “Gumbo Chaff “, also spelled “Gombo Chaff “, is an American song , first performed in the early 1830s. It was part of the repertoire of early blackface performers, including Thomas D. Rice and George Washington Dixon .The title character was one of the earliest blackface characters in the United States. He was based largely on the tall-tale riverboatsmen and frontiersmen characters that were popular in fiction during the Jacksonian Era . “Gumbo Chaff” merged these frontier elements with stereotypes of black slaves , creating a new character who lives “On de Ohio bluff in de state of Indiana ” and who “jump into kiff / And . . . down de river driff, / And . . . cotch as many cat fish as ever nigger liff.” Due to this song’s popularity, the black riverboatsman (usually named “Gumbo Chaff”) became a popular character in minstrelsy for a time. Blackface singers would often perform “Gumbo Chaff” with a mock flatboat on stage.The song’s melody seems to be at least partially based on an older English song called “Bow Wow Wow”. “Wild Goose Nation “, a blackface song written by Dan Emmett in 1844, adapted the tune to “Gumbo Chaff”, possibly with parodic intent.Notes References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at “Jo Hrvatska ni propala ” (English : “Croatia Has Not Yet Fallen” ) is a famous Croatian patriotic reveille which was penned by Ljudevit Gaj and set to music by the composer Ferdo Livadi in 1833. The song is considered the anthem of the Illyrian Movement , which constituted a great part of the Croatian national revival .Gaj’s story of how the song came about was related in Franjo Kuha ‘s work Illyrian Songwriters (Ilirski glazbenici ). Travelling to Samobor to visit Livadi, Gaj thought to himself, “Croatia has not yet fallen so long as we are alive”. |
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1838 in Transport: 1838 in Rail Transport, Bridges Completed in 1838, Railway Companies Disestablished in 1838 $19.94 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1838 in Rail Transport, Bridges Completed in 1838, Railway Companies Disestablished in 1838, Railway Companies Established in 1838, Railway Lines Opened in 1838, London and South Western Railway, Manchester and Bolton Railway, London and Birmingham Railway, Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, Samson, Maidenhead Railway Bridge, North Union Railway, Dundee and Arbroath Railway, Gettysburg Railroad, Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Durham Sunderland Line, Mount Savage Railroad, Browns River Covered Bridge, Victoria Viaduct, Gatehampton Railway Bridge, Red Bridge, Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Augusta and Waynesboro Railroad, Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad, Baltimore and Port Deposit Railroad. Excerpt: 1837, 1838 , 1839 This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1838.Events January events February events June events July events September events Unknown date events Births September births Deaths September deaths References (URLs online) item 1. “The Post Office Role in U.S. Development – Railway Mail Service”. Retrieved 2005-07-07. item 2. Johnson, Peter (1985). The British Travelling Post Office . London: Ian Allan. p. 13. ISBN 0-711-01459-0. item 3. MacDermot, E. T. (1964). History of the Great Western Railway . London: Ian Allan. item 4. Whittle, G. (1979). The Newcastle |
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1860s Deaths $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Samuel Ringgold Ward (October 17, 1817 c. 1866) was an African American who escaped enslavement to become an abolitionist, newspaper editor and Congregational minister. He was author of the influential book: Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada and England, written after his speeches throughout Britain in 1853. It enabled him to raise funds for the Anti-slavery Society of Canada where many escaped slaves from the USA were arriving in the 1850s. Samuel Ringgold Ward was born into slavery in 1817 on Maryland’s eastern shore but fled as a child with his parents in 1820 to New Jersey and soon relocated to New York in 1826. Once settled, Ward’s parents enrolled him in at the African Free School. After he left school, Samuel Ward worked as a teacher and developed a keen interest in abolition. In his early 20s, in May 1839, he became licensed to preach the gospel by the New York Congregational Association, assembled at Poughkeepsie. However, in November of the same year, he was appointed the travelling agent of first the American Anti-slavery Society and afterwards the New York Anti-slavery Society, and it was not until 1841 that he first became a pastor. In April of that year he accepted the unanimous invitation of the Congregational Church of South Butler, Wayne Co., New York, to be their pastor; and in September of that year was publicly ordained as its minister (later, in 1853, Butler Congregational Church, appointed Antoinette Louisa Brown – the first woman to be ordained in the USA). In 1843 Samuel Ward reluctantly relinquished this pastorate, having contracted a disease of the tonsils which impaired his abilities as a public speaker. In December of that year he visited Geneva, where he was … More: |
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1878 in Politics: 1878 Elections, Political Parties Established in 1878, States and Territories Established in 1878, Romania, Eastern Rumelia $19.66 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1878 Elections, Political Parties Established in 1878, States and Territories Established in 1878, Romania, Eastern Rumelia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Social Democratic Party, Principality of Bulgaria, Papal Conclave, 1878, Kars Oblast, Republic of Tamrash, Wassoulou Empire, Newfoundland General Election, 1878, Christian Social Party, True Whig Party, German Federal Election, 1878, El Paraíso Department, Workers Party of Hungary, Non-Voters Party. Excerpt: Romania – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name of Romania (Romanian: ) comes from Romanian: which is a derivative of the Latin: (Roman). The fact that Romanians call themselves a derivative of Romanus (Romanian: ) is first mentioned in the 16th century by Italian humanists travelling in Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia. The oldest surviving document written in the Romanian language is a 1521 letter known as “Neacu’s Letter from Câmpulung”. This document is also notable for having the first occurrence of “Rumanian” in a Romanian written text, Wallachia being here named The Rumanian Land eara Rumâneasc (eara from the Latin: land). In the following centuries, Romanian documents use interchangeably two spelling forms: român and rumân. Socio-linguistic evolutions in the late 17th century led to a process of semantic differentiation: the form “rumân”, presumably usual among lower classes, got the meaning of “bondsman”, while the form român kept an ethno-linguistic meaning. After the abolition of serfdom in 1746, the form “rumân” gradually disappears and the spelling definitively stabilises to the form “român”, “românesc”. Tudor Vladimirescu, a revolutionary leader of the early 19th century, used “Rumânia” to refer |
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1887: Michelson-morley Experiment, List of State Leaders in 1887, 1887 in Poetry, List of Sovereign States in 1887, 1887 in Paleontology $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Michelson-morley Experiment, List of State Leaders in 1887, 1887 in Poetry, List of Sovereign States in 1887, 1887 in Paleontology, 1887 in Science, 1887 in Art, 1887 in Film, List of Religious Leaders in 1887, First Colonial Conference, 1887 in Archaeology, 1887 in Anthropology, List of Colonial Governors in 1887. Excerpt: The MichelsonMorley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University. Its results are generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of a luminiferous aether. The experiment has also been referred to as “the kicking-off point for the theoretical aspects of the Second Scientific Revolution”. A depiction of the concept of the “aether wind”Physics theories of the late 19th century postulated that, just as water waves must have a medium to move across (water), and audible sound waves require a medium to move through (such as air or water), so also light waves require a medium, the “luminiferous aether”. Because light can travel through a vacuum, it was assumed that the vacuum must contain the medium of light. Because the speed of light is so great, designing an experiment to detect the presence and properties of this aether took considerable ingenuity. Earth travels a tremendous distance in its orbit around the sun, at a speed of around 30 km/s or over 108,000 km per hour. The sun itself is travelling about the Galactic Center at even greater speeds, and there are other motions at higher levels of the structure of the universe. Since the Earth is in motion, it was expected that the flow of aether across the Earth should produce a detectable “aether wind”. Although it would be possible, in theory, for the Earth’s motion to match that o… More: |
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1900s Deaths: Israel Rosenberg $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Israel (also Yisroel or Yisrol) Rosenberg (ca. 1850 1903 or 1904; Yiddish/Hebrew: ) founded the first Yiddish theater troupe in Imperial Russia. A personable “hole-and-corner lawyer” (that is, one without a diploma) and swindler in Odessa, Rosenberg was part of the migration of merchants and middlemen to Bucharest, Romania at the start of the Russo-Turkish War in 1887. These merchants and middlemen would prove a crucial component of the audience for the nascent professional Yiddish-language theater, consisting at that time only of a single troupe, that of Abraham Goldfaden. Unlike the rest of the migrants, Rosenberg actually joined the troupe and became an actor. Like many who worked with Goldfaden, he soon chafed under the latter’s imperious style and with his countryman Jacob Spivakovsky, put together his own travelling troupe and set out for the eastern part of Romania. At first they did well, but with the end of the war much of their audience returned to Russia; after running through their money playing in the provinces, they turned up nearly broke in Odessa, where there was a pre-made audience of those who had already seen Yiddish theater in Romania during the recent war. There, in spring 1878, Rosenberg obtained some small backing and formed a troupe including Spivakovsky; Broder singers “Schmul with the Hoarse Throat”, “Boris Budgoy” (Boris Holtzerman), Laizer Duke, Aaron Schrage; Jacob Adler, at that time new to performing; Sophia (Sonya) Oberlander, who later married Adler; and Masha Moskovich, whom Adler in his memoir describes as “a red-gold-haired beauty”; and various others, including singers from a local synagogue choir. Their first performance was at Akiva’s restaurant, and consisted of two light vaudevilles and Goldfaden’s ve… More: |
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1900s Musicals: 1900 Musicals, 1901 Musicals, 1902 Musicals, 1903 Musicals, 1904 Musicals, 1905 Musicals, 1906 Musicals, 1907 Musicals $25.88 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1900 Musicals, 1901 Musicals, 1902 Musicals, 1903 Musicals, 1904 Musicals, 1905 Musicals, 1906 Musicals, 1907 Musicals, 1908 Musicals, 1909 Musicals, the Wizard of Oz, Babes in Toyland, Ziegfeld Follies, the Duchess of Dantzic, the Arcadians, a Country Girl, Bluebell in Fairyland, Little Johnny Jones, a Chinese Honeymoon, the Red Mill, Miss Hook of Holland, the Catch of the Season, the Belle of Mayfair, the Orchid, the Messenger Boy, the Earl and the Girl, the New Aladdin, the Girls of Gottenberg, the Cingalee, Mlle. Modiste, the Toreador, Our Miss Gibbs, the Spring Chicken, the Girl From Kays, the White Chrysanthemum, the Girl Behind the Counter, the Beauty of Bath, the Dollar Princess, Three Little Maids, in Dahomey, King of Cadonia, Havana, Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway, Stubborn Cinderella, Walker and Williams in Dahomey, Mam’zelle Champagne. Excerpt: The Wizard of Oz was a 1902 musical play extravaganza based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, which was originally published in 1900. It premiered in Chicago and later moved to Broadway in 1903, where it ran for nearly 293 performances from January 21, 1903 to December 31, 1904, followed by travelling tours of the original cast. It starred Anna Laughlin as Dorothy Gale, Fred Stone as The Scarecrow and David C. Montgomery as the Tin Woodman (who is called Niccolo Chopper in the play ). Arthur Hill (no relation to the Canadian film, theatre and TV actor) played the Cowardly Lion, but in this version, his role was reduced to a bit part. An element from the show the snowfall caused by the Good Witch which finally kills the spell of the poppies that had put Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion to sleep was later used in the famous 1939 movie. The musical is unusual as it is sometimes … More: |
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1960s Pop Album Introduction: Cream of the Crop, Drive-In Movie Time, the Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, a Bit of Liverpool $34.98 Chapters: Cream of the Crop, Drive-In Movie Time, the Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, a Bit of Liverpool, Annie Get Your Gun, the Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs, South of the Border, Brother Love”s Travelling Salvation Show, Lulu”s Album, Lucio Battisti, Would You Believe?, the End of the World, Scott 4, Doris Day”s Sentimental Journey, Best of Bee Gees, What Every Girl Should Know, Latin for Lovers, Reviewing the Situation, Velvet Gloves and Spit, Duet, the Best of Julie London, Spicks and Specks, the Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits, the Wonder of You, Instant Party!, Nice Girls Don”t Stay for Breakfast, Ihre Gro en Erfolge, the Versatile Burl Ives!, the Honeycombs, Christmas With the Everly Brothers, It”s Just My Funny Way of Laughin”, Guantanamera, the Sandpipers, Burl Ives Sings Pearly Shells and Other Favorites, I Have Dreamed, Beat |
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1970 Comics Characters Debuts: Valkyrie, Sunfire, Darkseid, Man-Bat, Kangaroo, Guardsman, Aries, Zodiac, Arkon, Intergang, Losers, Richard Fisk $29.04 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Valkyrie, Sunfire, Darkseid, Man-Bat, Kangaroo, Guardsman, Aries, Zodiac, Arkon, Intergang, Losers, Richard Fisk, Llyra, Firebrand, Mal Duncan, Garokk, Morgan Edge, Aquarius, El Diablo, Leo, Freak, Lilith, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Virgo, Gemini, Starr the Slayer, Libra, Pisces, Cancer, Taurus, Jim Wilson, Ten-Eyed Man, Appa Ali Apsa, Cattivik, Valkyrie. Excerpt: Appa Ali Apsa Appa Ali Apsa is a fictional character from DC Comics . He first appeared in Green Lantern v2, #76 and was created by Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams . Fictional character biography Appa Ali Apsa, a.k.a. “the Old-Timer” and/or “the Mad Guardian,” is one of the immortal Guardians of the Universe , creators of the lawkeeping Green Lantern Corps . After Oliver Queen points out to the Guardians that they are too distanced from the mortals they have sworn to protect, the Guardians choose Appa Ali Apsa as their representative to experience life on Earth. Travelling across the U.S.A. with Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Green Arrow Oliver Queen, Appa experiences many adventures and learns some valuable lessons about life. He later renounces his Guardian title, powers and immortality and chooses to travel the universe. Shortly after the Crisis on Infinite Earths , the Guardians withdraw from this universe to mate with the Zamarons , but Appa Ali Apsa remains on the planet Maltus. When Sinestro is executed by the Corps, the central power battery starts discharging energy and reclaims the majority of the Corps members’ power rings to contain it. Appa follows Jordan into the central battery, which restores Appa’s Guardian powers and immortality, and helps Jordan prevent the yellow impurity from being released. Appa chooses to remain alone on the planet Oa . However, the isolation causes him to slowly lose his mind. |
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1973-74 Buffalo Sabres Season $46.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1973-74 Buffalo Sabres season was the Sabres’ fourth season in the National Hockey League. Early on the morning of February 21, 1974, while driving on the Queen Elizabeth Way from Toronto to Buffalo in his white De Tomaso Pantera sports car, Horton was involved in what is now an infamous accident. He was negotiating a curve on the QEW where it crosses over Twelve Mile Creek in St. Catharines when he lost control and hit a cement culvert. The impact flipped the vehicle and Horton was thrown. He was not wearing a seat belt. Horton was reported dead on arrival at the local hospital, aged only 44. A police officer pursuing Horton’s vehicle said that he had been travelling at over 160 km/h. |
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1990s Racehorse Deaths: 1990 Racehorse Deaths, 1991 Racehorse Deaths, 1992 Racehorse Deaths, 1993 Racehorse Deaths, 1994 Racehorse Deaths $41.39 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1990 Racehorse Deaths, 1991 Racehorse Deaths, 1992 Racehorse Deaths, 1993 Racehorse Deaths, 1994 Racehorse Deaths, 1995 Racehorse Deaths, 1996 Racehorse Deaths, 1997 Racehorse Deaths, 1998 Racehorse Deaths, 1999 Racehorse Deaths, Northern Dancer, Nijinsky Ii, Easy Jet, Easy Goer, Exceller, Kingston Town, Damascus, Jim French, Strawberry Road, Mr. Prospector, Blushing Groom, Two Eyed Jack, His Majesty, Sham, Stage Door Johnny, Dancer’s Image, Bet Twice, Grundy, Forego, Elocutionist, Star Standard, Shinzan, Onion, Lauries Dancer, Red Rum, Alydar, Gallant Bloom, Cannonade, Riverman, Caerleon Ii, Flying Paster, Dearly Precious, Dash for Cash, the Minstrel, Nodouble, Nassipour, Hareeba, Vice Regent, Go for Wand, Risen Star, Tosmah, Dancing Brave, Fiddle Dancer Boy, Sir Tristram, Fappiano, Master Derby, Fairy King, Niatross, Providential, Steady Growth, Honest Pleasure, Primonetta, Balmerino, Avatar, Night Nurse, Foolish Pleasure, Personality, Bold ‘n Determined, Ack Ack, Arts and Letters, Bletchingly, Fanfreluche, Chief’s Crown, Vain, Kennedy Road, Overskate, Izvestia, Classy ‘n Smart, Ardross, Bret Hanover, No Class, Triple Bend, Narita Brian, J. O. Tobin, Pawneese, Caveat, Nice Dancer, Royal Palace, Albatross, Secreto, Farma Way, Lashkari, My Charmer, Refrigerator, Bayakoa, Tank’s Prospect, Sovereign Dancer, Prairie Bayou, Rheingold, Floyd, Nonoalco, Dauphin Fabuleux, Sir Ivor, Key to the Mint, Dust Commander, April Run, Suave Dancer, Fort Marcy, Teenoso, Tobin Bronze, Assert, Reference Point, Zamazaan, Jaklin Klugman, Travelling Victor, Little Polveir, Best Pal, Silent Screen, Ambassador of Luck, Relaunch, Alluvial, Sharpo, Shareef Dancer, Open Mind, Warm Spell, Aldaniti, Great Communicator, Shaftesbury Avenue, Shirley Heights, Prove Out, Rin… More: |
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1996 Channel Tunnel fire $43.99 The Channel Tunnel fire of 18 November 1996 occurred on a train carrying heavy goods vehicles and their drivers through the Channel Tunnel from France to Great Britain. The fire began after the train had loaded and was travelling through the French terminal to the tunnel portal. The flames were noticed by security guards shortly before the train went underground. Although they raised the alarm, the train was well into the tunnel by the time the driver was advised that his train might be on fire. He attempted to drive the train to the other end, but an unrelated fault forced the train to make a controlled stop in the tunnel. After approximately twenty minutes of exposure to smoke-laden air, the passengers and crew evacuated into the adjacent service tunnel. No one was killed during the fire, although seven people were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. The fire destroyed a locomotive and ten HGVs, caused major damage to approximately one kilometre of tunnel infrastructure and severely tested the abilities of fire brigades from both France and the UK. |
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1GB USB 2.0 Capless Flash Memory Drive – High Speed $12.99 Accessory Power Portable Pen Drive is designed to provide access to your data in the quickest and the most convenient way. Great for travelling business professionals and students. Accessory Power guarantees 100% customer satisfaction by providing 5 yr product warranty and top quality customer service. |
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1a Prima Classe – Duffel Travel Bag $386 Alviero Martini’s travel duffel bag in the renowned geo-print canvas features a practical roomy shape complete with inner zip and slit pocket and adjustable shoulder strap. Each piece is unique and features slightly different prints. Dust bag included Italian Design. |
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1a Prima Classe – Geo Hardside Carry On Trolley Upright $295 Stylish and practical this geo-print carry-on offers hardsides for added protection and durability as well as internal zippered pocket for smaller items and straps and a divider for keeping your belongings where you pack them. Italian design. |
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1a Prima Classe – Geo Printed Carry On Beauty Case $65.5 This clever case offers a see-through window and properly sized bottles for carrying liquids on your flight. Realized in signature geo-print you don’t have to sacrifice style when going through security checks. Italian design. |
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2 Section Key Ring Chain Mini Camera Tripod Stand Bracket Black $6.95 If you’re a professional photographer or videographer, this Stretchable Leg Key Shape Tripod Pink is just what you need. Firmly hold your camera, it offers maximum stability to avoid camera shaking and achieve best shooting effect during professional shooting. This tripod is indispensable, especially for night and close-up shooting. The tripod is also widely used in concert, stage and meeting shooting. With moderate weight, the tripod is portable for your outdoor shooting. It is really an ideal companion of digital camera or camcorder during your travelling.Suitable for most digital cameras and camcorders. With moderate weight, it is an ideal companion for your camera during your travelling. Super flexible legs are for easy positioning, even on uneven and rough surface. This removable quick-install panel can fix to your camera easily. |
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2006 Transatlantic Aircraft Plot Suspects $42.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! According to British and American authorities, the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives carried on board several airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. On 10 August 2006, London’s Metropolitan Police announced that they had arrested key suspects, all British muslims, and that the plot had been disrupted as it was “getting close to the execution phase.” The suspects planned a rehearsal within two days of the arrests, according to United States intelligence officials. Unnamed security sources said that the alleged plotters had not bought airline tickets, some did not possess passports, and the United States and United Kingdom disagreed about when to move against the suspects. Arrests were also made in Pakistan. On August 21, Scotland Yard announced that eleven people have been charged and bomb-making equipment and martyrdom videos have been recovered. |
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2008 North West 200 Races $46.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 North West 200 was held over the dates of 13, 15 and 17 May at the 8.966 mile circuit, dubbed “The Triangle”, based around the towns of Coleraine, Portrush and Portstewart, in Northern Ireland. The meeting was overshadowed by the death of Northern Irish rider Robert Dunlop, the record-holder for wins at the circuit, who was killed in a practice crash on May 15. The 47-year-old had been travelling in a group of three riders at the Mather’s Cross section of the course, when his bike seized at 160mph. He would later succumb to his injuries in a Coleraine hospital. Robert’s sons Michael and William continued to race at the meeting, with Michael winning the 250cc race. |
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2009 Flu Pandemic In Oceania $62.33 The 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania, part of an epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 causing what has been commonly called swine flu, has (as of 27 June 2009) afflicted at over 22,000 people in Oceania, with 56 confirmed deaths. Almost all of the cases in Oceania have been in Australia, where the majority of cases have resulted from internal community spread of the virus. In addition, the government of New Zealand, where most of the remainder of cases in Oceania have occurred, is on high alert for any people travelling into the country with flu-like symptoms. |
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2009 Flu Pandemic in Oceania $76.99 The 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania, part of an epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 causing what has been commonly called swine flu, has (as of 27 June 2009) afflicted at over 22,000 people in Oceania, with 56 confirmed deaths. Almost all of the cases in Oceania have been in Australia, where the majority of cases have resulted from internal community spread of the virus. In addition, the government of New Zealand, where most of the remainder of cases in Oceania have occurred, is on high alert for any people travelling into the country with flu-like symptoms. |
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2009 in Singapore: 2009 S. League, 2009 Men’s Hockey Junior World Cup, 2009 Singapore Super Series, 2009 Singapore Grand Prix $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 2009 S. League, 2009 Men’s Hockey Junior World Cup, 2009 Singapore Super Series, 2009 Singapore Grand Prix, 2009 Singapore Cup, 2009 Singapore League Cup, 2009 Asian Youth Games, 2009 in Singapore, Singapore Day, 2009 Prime League, Singapore at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games, Singapore at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, Singapore at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games, Singapore at the 2009 Asian Youth Games. Excerpt: I Asian Youth Games The 1st Asian Youth Games was held in Singapore from June 29, 2009 to July 7, 2009 in over 90 sporting events. The plan for the Asian Youth Games was part of Singapore s bid to stage the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics (YOG). The purpose was to allow youths to use the chance to benchmark their performances against youth teams from Asian nations. The Games also provided Singapore with an opportunity to test organisational and logistical capabilities in advance of the 2010 YOG. The organisation of the Games, spearheaded by the Singapore Sports Council , cost S $15 million , which was part of the $130 million for YOG. Torch relay The 1st Asian Youth Games torch relay started on June 28 morning with the Community and Corporate Leg . The flame lighting ceremony was held on June 28 at the Kallang Waterfront. The flame is then carried across the island in buses to arrive at the start of the three routes, named after the Olympic values of Friendship, Excellence and Respect. A total of 70 torchbearers were involved in day one of the relay. The torch relay resumed on June 29 for the Schools leg , with the flame travelling to 45 schools around Singapore, where over a hundred runners had the honour of carrying the torch. The relay ended at the Singapore Indoor Stadium where three athletes ran in with the torches and light the cauldron as part of the |
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21st-Century Sportspeople: 21st-Century Sportsmen, 21st-Century Sportswomen, Robbie Fowler, Bobby Clarke, John Terry, Mats Sundin, Marlon King $23 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 21st-Century Sportsmen, 21st-Century Sportswomen, Robbie Fowler, Bobby Clarke, John Terry, Mats Sundin, Marlon King, Ashley Cole, Charlie Adam, Wayne Bridge, Brad Friedel, Alex Reid, Bob Gainey, Ramzi Abid, Louis-Philippe Jean, Cliff Drysdale, Stuart Abbot, David Bascome, Josie Carroll, Steve Ludzik, Oleg Velyky, Ryan Bonni, Rafael Diaz. Excerpt: Appearances (Goals). National team caps and goals correct as of 09:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)Robert Bernard “Robbie” Fowler (born 9 April 1975) is an English footballer, who plays for Perth Glory FC in the Australian A-League. He is best remembered for his playing days at Liverpool in two spells, and is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League. Fowler scored 183 goals in total for Liverpool, of which 128 were scored in the Premier League. He subsequently played for Leeds United and Manchester City, before returning to Liverpool in January 2006. He moved clubs again 18 months later to sign for Cardiff City. He refused a one year “pay as you play” contract extension and signed with Blackburn Rovers on a three-month “pay as you play” deal instead. However in December 2008, he departed Blackburn and became a free agent. He has been capped for England twenty-six times, scoring seven goals. The most recent of these appearances came in the 2002 World Cup. Fowler was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, and brought up in the inner city area of Toxteth. At this time he was known as Robert Ryder, his mother’s surname. He lived in Toxteth at the time of the 1981 Toxteth riots, when he was six years old. As a youngster he supported Everton F.C., regularly travelling to Goodison Park. He played regularly for schoolboy team Thorvald, and once scored 16 times in a 260 rout. In 1985 a 10-year-ol… More: |
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26 Feet to the Charlottes: Exploring the Land of the Haida $17.95 When June Cameron and Paul Holsinger set out in 1983 in Paul’s ancient 26-foot wooden sloop, Wood Duck, to cross the perilous Hecate Strait and explore the weather-beaten west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (now known as Haida Gwaii), they knew they would face danger. But June had raced her own sailboat for years and Paul was a gifted mechanic, so they put trepidation aside and answered the call to adventure. Their journey taught them much about the challenges faced by the area’s First Nations inhabitants-and much about why skippers do not sail the outer coast of the Charlottes for pleasure. There are no lighthouses, and many rocks and reefs are uncharted. June and Paul’s survival would depend on cautious, observant navigation-and luck. 26 Feet to the Charlottes takes readers to remote beaches, uninhabited First Nations villages, abandoned mines and sheltered coves. Compelling reading for sailors and armchair adventurers alike, June’s story conveys the joys and challenges of travelling by boat and living off the sea, and recalls a coast that has changed dramatically. |
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26 Feet to the Charlottes: Exploring the Land of the Haida $9.99 When June Cameron and Paul Holsinger set out in 1983 in Paul’s ancient 26-foot wooden sloop, Wood Duck, to cross the perilous Hecate Strait and explore the weather-beaten west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (now known as Haida Gwaii), they knew they would face danger. But June had raced her own sailboat for years and Paul was a gifted mechanic, so they put trepidation aside and answered the call to adventure. Their journey taught them much about the challenges faced by the area’s First Nations inhabitants-and much about why skippers do not sail the outer coast of the Charlottes for pleasure. There are no lighthouses, and many rocks and reefs are uncharted. June and Paul’s survival would depend on cautious, observant navigation-and luck. 26 Feet to the Charlottes takes readers to remote beaches, uninhabited First Nations villages, abandoned mines and sheltered coves. Compelling reading for sailors and armchair adventurers alike, June’s story conveys the joys and challenges of travelling by boat and living off the sea, and recalls a coast that has changed dramatically. |
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26 by 26 $56.3 The first time I travelled on my own was to a city of over a million people. It was a huge challenge, and I loved it. It was at this point that I set a rather unusual goal for myself. I vowed to visit as many countries as my current age. And so I started my travelling adventures, keeping a journal along the way. This is the result: 26 by 26. Among my travels over a six-year period, I would participate in a study-abroad program in Austria, attend a wedding in a castle in Switzerland, assist medical personnel in temporary clinics throughout rural Belize, and help feed ten thousand people in one day in rural Mexico. The travels of this young woman, described in fine detail, take the reader along on a journey of discovery. Whether discussing places, people or traveling from one place to another, Jennifer Holdway captures the moment-to-moment excitement as well as the ongoing decision-making that traveling requires. This book provides a most satisfying read, as we travel with Jennifer to explore the 26 countries she visited by the time she reached the age of 26. This travelogue shares a journal of growing independence and confidence in the tradition of engaging travel writing. —Martha Gabriel, PhD, Faculty of Education University of Prince Edward Island, CANADA Jennifer Holdway was able to visit 26 countries by the age of 26 on a modest budget and shares her adventures and travel smarts with you. Once you begin exploring with Jennifer, you will not want to put the book down. She might even give you the incentive to start journeys of your own. —Mike Sewell, Real Estate Broker |
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2666 (en español) $19.95 A cuatro profesores de literatura de diversos países les une su común fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad entre los cuatro adquiere pronto trazas de vodevil intelectual y cosmopolita -con ménage à trois incluido-, y desemboca en un disparatado peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), en la frontera de México con Estados Unidos, donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya en Santa Teresa, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad viene siendo desde años atrás escenario de una larga serie de crímenes atroces. En los vertederos de la ciudad no cesan de aparecer los cadáveres de mujeres, muchas de ellas apenas adolescentes, con señales de haber sido salvajemente violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela al agujero negro en que terminarán por precipitarse sus múltiples y procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo siempre entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen, entre otras muchas cosas, un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX, por las ruinas de una cultura y una civilización en derrota en las que la literatura continúa invocando un simulacro de salvación. |
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2x Outdoor Travelling Digital Freetalker Fashion 2-way Radio Walkie Talkie Watch $42.09 The WristWatch Walkie Talkie is the newest generation in personal two-way communications. It’s a lightweight, compacting two-way communication device that can be used to stay connecting with family and friends at parks, shopping malls, sport events, concerts-virtually any indoor or out door activities. This new generation wrist watch walkie talkie has a BRAND NEW FUNCTION called Wrist-operated, this wrist-operated key located at the right bottom-side of your device carries exactly the same functions as the PTT/Call key located on the face of the device. It can conveniently be operated by a simple and gentle upward-flex of your hand. (Make sure that the device is loosely worn, so that it can slide down easily-upon a gentle swing and twist of your hand to a position just reaching the back of your hand for flex-pressing.) Please practise these actions repeatedly until you feel comfortable with flex-pressing the key gently.This unique inverntion helps to free up both of your hands for other activities while communicating. Still holding a walkie talkie in your hand to communicate with your friends? No, you don’t have to now! You can WEAR it just like a watch! |
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3 In 1 Protective Case with Strap and Touch Pen for Nintendo DSi DS Lite $18.99 This case pack with strap and touch pen for Nintendo DSi / DS Lite is made of high density material that can protect your DSi/DSL perfectly when travelling.Features:* Made of High density material.* Protect your NDSi/NDS Lite game console, perfectly fit your console.* With strap for you to take your console easily.* Touch pen provids you with easily navigation. |
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3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Pen Blue $5.94 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Blue is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Pen Silver $5.94 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Silver is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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3-in-1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Blue $6.09 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Blue is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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3-in-1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer LED Flashlight with Keychain Black $6.99 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer LED Flashlight with Keychain Black is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting. This red laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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3-in-1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer LED Flashlight with Keychain Black $7.29 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer LED Flashlight with Keychain Black is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting. This red laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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3-in-1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Pen $6.05 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Silver is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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3-in-1 Red Laser Pointer Pen Blue $6.05 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Blue is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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3-in-1 Red Laser Pointer Pen Silver $6.19 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Silver is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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30 Days of Night-Dark Days (Blu-ray) $19.99 Almost a year has passed since Barrow, Alaska’s population was decimated by vampires. Stella, mourning her husband’s murder, has been travelling the world trying to convince others that vampires exist. When a group of lost souls offers her a chance to exact revenge upon the vampire queen, Stella joins their mission to stop evil from striking again. |
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30 Walks in Lake District $13.95 The volumes in this series provide full A-Z gazetteers of information on some of the most beautiful areas in Britain and present ten walks and two car tours, plus information for cyclists. A small atlas is included to assist with travelling. The guide includes a weekend itinerary from Friday night to Sunday afternoon, and describes the customs, traditions, history and legends of the area as well a providing a checklist of places to visit and shop with addresses and telephone numbers. |
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4 in 1 5mW 650nm 208 Red Laser Pointer Pen Black $5.94 This 4 in 1 5mW 650nm 208 Red Laser Pointer Pen Black is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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4 in 1 5mW 650nm 208 Red Laser Pointer Pen Blue $5.94 This 4 in 1 5mW 650nm 208 Red Laser Pointer Pen Blue is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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4 in 1 Red Laser Pointer Pen Blue $5.94 This 4 in 1 5mW 650nm 208 Red Laser Pointer Pen Blue is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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4-in-1 5mW 650nm 208 Red Laser Pointer Pen $6.05 This 4 in 1 5mW 650nm 208 Red Laser Pointer Pen Black is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Purple $5.85 This 5 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Purple is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5 in 1 Laser Pointer and LED light Keychain 5mW $5.89 This 5 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Purple is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5 in 1 Red Laser Pointer Keychain Argent $5.95 This 5 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Argent is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5-in-1 5mW Red Laser Pointer Keychain $5.89 This 5 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Argent is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5-in-1 Red Laser Pointer with Keychain Purple $5.99 This 5 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Purple is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5-in-1 Universal Car Charger for iPod iPhone PSP USB mini USB Mobile Phone (Black) $4.26 Car charger is needed in today as many users come to think of charging their digital devices when they are travelling in car. With one this 5-in-1 universal car charger, nearly all the common digital devices can be charged. |
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5V 200mA Portable Travelling Solar Charger for digital cameras Cell Phones GPS DC MP3 MP4 Kindle Motorola Nokia Samsung Sony Ericsson Blackberry HTC DROID LG Voyager Motorola CLIQ Android Phone Motorola DROID Palm Centro Phone T-Mobile $38.99 5V 200mA Portable Travelling Solar Charger for digital cameras Cell Phones GPS DC MP3 MP4 Kindle Motorola Nokia Samsung Sony Ericsson Blackberry HTC DROID LG Voyager Motorola CLIQ Android Phone Motorola DROID Palm Centro Phone T-Mobile |
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5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Argent $5.99 This 5 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer Keychain Argent is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer LED Flashlight Keychain new $7.19 This 3 in 1 5mW 650nm Red Laser Pointer LED Flashlight with Keychain Black is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting. This red laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5mW Ultra Powerful Red Laser Pointer Pen Beam Light $6.79 This 5mW 650nm Ultra Powerful Beam Light Red Laser Pointer is small and exquisite, portable and with richer applications. Laser pointer is a good guide for your traveling, and a good tool for pointing to the faraway target or stars and sending out the SOS signal, making your travelling funny and interesting.This laser pointer is also the best gift for friends and families. |
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5th Dimension Travelling Sunshine Show $14.98 5th Dimension Travelling Sunshine Show |
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7 Books In 1 $44.99 Classic stories by much-loved children’s author E. Nesbit. This book contains seven full-length novels.Set in an England of steam-trains and magic, generations of children have thrilled to these exciting adventures. When the children in these stories aren’t preventing a train crash, you’ll find them flying on a magic carpet, travelling through time with an enchanted Egyptian amulet, hatching the egg of the mythical phoenix, or using their magical ring to explore an |
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7 Books In 1 $34.99 Classic stories by much-loved children’s author E. Nesbit. This book contains seven full-length novels.Set in an England of steam-trains and magic, generations of children have thrilled to these exciting adventures. When the children in these stories aren’t preventing a train crash, you’ll find them flying on a magic carpet, travelling through time with an enchanted Egyptian amulet, hatching the egg of the mythical phoenix, or using their magical ring to explore an |
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A Bishop Amongst Bananas (Dodo Press) $11.27 Right Reverend Herbert Bury (1853-1933) was Bishop of British Honduras and Central America and subsequently Bishop of Northern and Central Europe. His works include: A Bishop Amongst Bananas (1911), Russian Life To-day (1915), Here and There in the War Area (1916), My Visit to Ruhleben (1917), Russia From Within (1927) and Experiences of a Travelling Bishop (1930). |
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A Bishop Amongst Bananas (Dodo Press) $14.22 Right Reverend Herbert Bury (1853-1933) was Bishop of British Honduras and Central America and subsequently Bishop of Northern and Central Europe. His works include: A Bishop Amongst Bananas (1911), Russian Life To-day (1915), Here and There in the War Area (1916), My Visit to Ruhleben (1917), Russia From Within (1927) and Experiences of a Travelling Bishop (1930). |
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A Blush of Maidens, a Foolishness of Old Men: Stories, Essays and Poems $18.95 The small-town South and tobacco land. Incest, suicide, love, old men, old ways, Blacks, white folks, the Nixon administration from inside, travelling behind the Iron Curtain. Life ashore and at sea. Making fine art. WWII homecoming. Short stories, poems and essays in the manner of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. |
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A Book About Travelling, Past And Present $32.14 Thomas Allan Croal,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Nabu Press |
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A Book Of The Play $20.09 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $15.89 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $22.52 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $13.61 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $25.85 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $20.09 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $15.94 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $17.39 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $36.98 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play $32.85 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play (Large Print Edition) $40.98 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book Of The Play (Large Print Edition) $24.95 The man who having witnessed and enjoyed the earliest performance of Thespis and his company followed the travelling theatre of that primeval actor and manager and attended a second and a third histrionic exhibition has good claim to be accounted the first playgoer. |
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A Book about Roses: How to Grow and Show Them (1884) $16.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Rose. The straight standards, cleanly and closely pruned, firmly staked and liberally mulched (blessed be the boy with donkey and cart, who goes to a cheap market, and sells accordingly!); the Manetti Dwarfs, full of vigorous wood—not the stock, but the scion this time; the climbers tastefully trained over ‘ the bower of Roses by,’ dare I say, ‘ Bendigo’s stream,’ seeing that the ex-champion was oft an angler in the waters of the Trent, hard by ?—all these acknowledge the royal supremacy and the loyal love of our second Queen. And think what a refreshment for these working-men on a summer’s eve, when their hot work is done, or on silent Sabbaths, when there is no work to do, ‘ to sit ‘mong the Roses and hear the birds sing’—songs of praise, and comfort, and hope! Meanwhile they have a foretaste of this gladness in the glass-houses which I went to see. Houses1. why, a full-sized giant would have taken them up like a hand-glass; and even I, but a small office- boy in connection with that great business,1 wasunable in most of them to stand upright, and into some to enter at all. That ‘ bit o’ glass’ had been, nevertheless, as much a dream, and hope, and happiness to its owner as the Crystal Palace to Paxton. How often the very thought and expectation of it had soothed and relieved his weariness as he worked at his stocking-frame! How the reality had refreshed, refined him, in his brief, bright holiday hours! There is a timber-yard on the left as you leave Nottingham, travelling upon the Derby road, and therein the framework of a neat miniature greenhouse, thus described upon a board affixed to it:— 1 One of the first of many delicious stories which it was my privilege to hear Mr Thackeray tell, was, that once upon a time he and Mr. Higgins (‘Jacob |
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A Book about Roses: How to Grow and Show Them (1884) $29.68 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Rose. The straight standards, cleanly and closely pruned, firmly staked and liberally mulched (blessed be the boy with donkey and cart, who goes to a cheap market, and sells accordingly!); the Manetti Dwarfs, full of vigorous wood—not the stock, but the scion this time; the climbers tastefully trained over ‘ the bower of Roses by,’ dare I say, ‘ Bendigo’s stream,’ seeing that the ex-champion was oft an angler in the waters of the Trent, hard by ?—all these acknowledge the royal supremacy and the loyal love of our second Queen. And think what a refreshment for these working-men on a summer’s eve, when their hot work is done, or on silent Sabbaths, when there is no work to do, ‘ to sit ‘mong the Roses and hear the birds sing’—songs of praise, and comfort, and hope! Meanwhile they have a foretaste of this gladness in the glass-houses which I went to see. Houses1. why, a full-sized giant would have taken them up like a hand-glass; and even I, but a small office- boy in connection with that great business,1 wasunable in most of them to stand upright, and into some to enter at all. That ‘ bit o’ glass’ had been, nevertheless, as much a dream, and hope, and happiness to its owner as the Crystal Palace to Paxton. How often the very thought and expectation of it had soothed and relieved his weariness as he worked at his stocking-frame! How the reality had refreshed, refined him, in his brief, bright holiday hours! There is a timber-yard on the left as you leave Nottingham, travelling upon the Derby road, and therein the framework of a neat miniature greenhouse, thus described upon a board affixed to it:— 1 One of the first of many delicious stories which it was my privilege to hear Mr Thackeray tell, was, that once upon a time he and Mr. Higgins (‘Jacob |
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A Book about Roses; How to Grow and Show Them $14.6 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Rose. The straight standards, cleanly and closely pruned, firmly staked and liberally mulched (blessed be the boy with donkey and cart, who goes to a cheap market, and sells accordingly!); the Manetti Dwarfs, full of vigorous wood—not the stock, but the scion this time; the climbers tastefully trained over ‘ the bower of Roses by,’ dare I say, ‘ Bendigo’s stream,’ seeing that the ex-champion was oft an angler in the waters of the Trent, hard by ?—all these acknowledge the royal supremacy and the loyal love of our second Queen. And think what a refreshment for these working-men on a summer’s eve, when their hot work is done, or on silent Sabbaths, when there is no work to do, ‘ to sit ‘mong the Roses and hear the birds sing’—songs of praise, and comfort, and hope! Meanwhile they have a foretaste of this gladness in the glass-houses which I went to see. Houses1. why, a full-sized giant would have taken them up like a hand-glass; and even I, but a small office- boy in connection with that great business,1 wasunable in most of them to stand upright, and into some to enter at all. That ‘ bit o’ glass’ had been, nevertheless, as much a dream, and hope, and happiness to its owner as the Crystal Palace to Paxton. How often the very thought and expectation of it had soothed and relieved his weariness as he worked at his stocking-frame! How the reality had refreshed, refined him, in his brief, bright holiday hours! There is a timber-yard on the left as you leave Nottingham, travelling upon the Derby road, and therein the framework of a neat miniature greenhouse, thus described upon a board affixed to it:— 1 One of the first of many delicious stories which it was my privilege to hear Mr Thackeray tell, was, that once upon a time he and Mr. Higgins (‘Jacob |
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A Book about Roses; How to Grow and Show Them $14.6 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Rose. The straight standards, cleanly and closely pruned, firmly staked and liberally mulched (blessed be the boy with donkey and cart, who goes to a cheap market, and sells accordingly!); the Manetti Dwarfs, full of vigorous wood—not the stock, but the scion this time; the climbers tastefully trained over ‘ the bower of Roses by,’ dare I say, ‘ Bendigo’s stream,’ seeing that the ex-champion was oft an angler in the waters of the Trent, hard by ?—all these acknowledge the royal supremacy and the loyal love of our second Queen. And think what a refreshment for these working-men on a summer’s eve, when their hot work is done, or on silent Sabbaths, when there is no work to do, ‘ to sit ‘mong the Roses and hear the birds sing’—songs of praise, and comfort, and hope! Meanwhile they have a foretaste of this gladness in the glass-houses which I went to see. Houses1. why, a full-sized giant would have taken them up like a hand-glass; and even I, but a small office- boy in connection with that great business,1 wasunable in most of them to stand upright, and into some to enter at all. That ‘ bit o’ glass’ had been, nevertheless, as much a dream, and hope, and happiness to its owner as the Crystal Palace to Paxton. How often the very thought and expectation of it had soothed and relieved his weariness as he worked at his stocking-frame! How the reality had refreshed, refined him, in his brief, bright holiday hours! There is a timber-yard on the left as you leave Nottingham, travelling upon the Derby road, and therein the framework of a neat miniature greenhouse, thus described upon a board affixed to it:— 1 One of the first of many delicious stories which it was my privilege to hear Mr Thackeray tell, was, that once upon a time he and Mr. Higgins (‘Jacob |
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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present $51.6 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present $45.75 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR”d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present $51.6 Publisher: London and Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo Publication date: 1877 Subjects: Transportation — History Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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