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A collection of 100 original, rarely seen photographs of identified Union and Confederate soldiers and other participants in the Gettysburg Campaign, each accompanied by vivid accounts of their personal experiences based on letters, journals, newspaper reports, regimental histories and other documents.
The photographs are wartime portraits of men and women presented to families, friends and comrades in arms. These unique artifacts, once found in...
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Alien Abduction! An amazing collection of 6 personal accounts of terror, fear and panic at the hands of the visitors from outer space. This is the first series of Alien Abduction tales by researcher and writer Martyn Collins. Are these series of accounts really to be believed? Only you can decide. A fascinating series for all those addicted to Alien stories!What can possibly take place when a human being is snatched away from 'normality' and abducted...
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When did you last have a psychic experience? Are you in the habit of seeing – or sensing – the presence of spirits and ghost? Have you ever spotted a lake monster or sighted a UFO? When did you last consult a fortune-teller, approach a medium work an Ouija board, or read an astrology column? Have you ever had a premonition that some odd event would occur, and then witnessed it actually occurring? Did you ever experience a sense of déjà vu or...
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Almost five decades of exhaustive research by Gladys Hansen, Official Archivist Emeritus of San Francisco, makes Earthquake, Fire & Epidemic the definitive discourse on one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history.
With coauthors Richard Hansen and Dr. William Blaisdell, M.D., Gladys Hansen offers a comprehensive account of the events leading up to, during, and following the April 1906 Earthquake and Fire that devastated San...
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Next up was the table. He knew that he didn't want to use the one in the dining room; it was too big for what he wanted. For a more intimate setting, he elected to set up the picnic table by the pit. With that thought in mind, he went around the house looking for a tablecloth to cover it, but everything he did took extra time for him because he didn't know where anything was kept. Eventually he came up with candles, and the other things he wanted...
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He had his movie camera rolling from the moment he started up the steps and he entered the jet's interior. As they moved through the massive jet, he went into all the compartments along his path and shot everything he could, including any paperwork lying about. The guard did everything he could to hurry him along, but they were inside for nearly thirty minutes and it was then that the guard was missed outside.
Inside, he had already filled three...
8) Playful
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There wasn't much left that was recognizable anymore, the plane was a complete loss. It had taken them all night long, but the State Police and fire fighters there in this tiny town had removed all of the bodies from the aircraft. There were twenty-one body bags lying on two carts. They were ready to be loaded onto a plane, when one could land that is, and then be ferried down to Seattle. The dead firefighters had also been, removed and taken into...
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Each flight crew consisted of a lead pilot, two highly qualified co-pilots, a navigator, a communications officer and two flight engineers. There were two cooks, along with four kitchen staff, that worked with the cooks, six food servers, a licensed doctor and nurse. To round out the staff there were five aircraft and auto mechanics, a limo driver if needed, ten security guards and ten secretaries that mostly worked for him in separate offices on...
10) Old Heritage
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She left the room so they could hash out the details of this arrangement, and as she did, she thought to herself, now I need to come up with something for him to do, something that will keep his mind active? Then it came to her like a bolt of lightning. Most rich men have expensive toys like fast boats, yachts, airplanes, cars, things like that. They also sponsor others that do stuff like that, people like Robert or they become a team owner of some...
11) Ahead
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Precisely at noon, one of his men carrying the envelope full of the bonds entered the UPS Store and sent the package on its way. What no one knew was that Bob had positioned forty of his best personnel in and around the area to watch, listen, and report on any activity, or if anyone moved towards the package. The experts in his department had covered the inside of the package with a radioactive dust, that way they could trace and keep track of it...
12) A Little Hope
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In the past month, more than seventeen billion dollars had gone through Conglomerate's books, but only twenty million had gone into Jared's personal accounts. Three more million had found its way into his account, though that was only fair. Jared knew about the three million and approved, this was his reward for doing a creditable job.
He may have been out of the mainstream, but he kept close tabs on things just the same. This was, after all, his...
13) Strong Enough
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To say that the meeting he was having with Mason & Roberts in the morning would prove interesting went without saying, but most of what he was proposing went way beyond anything in existence these days. Doing stuff like this was right on par with NASA's landing that tiny car on the surface of Mars, it really was way out there. Maybe that's the reason, he liked it so much.
The play was everything he expected it to be, and even he ended up enjoying...
14) Wonderful Woman
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For the next two hours, the two women talked, and while they talked a strong and lasting friendship was developing between them. It was during this 'girl-time' that she explained how she came to be with him in the first place, and what she did for him now. It was also during this conversation that Cassandra told Vickie some things about herself and through it all the two women bonded.
15) Cuddling
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She had other questions for him, questions like what sort of businesses he owned, in how many countries he was vested in, things like that. And, for the most part he was honest with her, it's just that he didn't tell her everything, only parts of it. He did tell her about the three oil-producing companies he owned, they were in three different counties and about the four oil refineries, two of them right here in the US. He told her about the steel...
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After the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, the US Army established the Tank Corps to help break the deadlock of trench warfare in France during World War I. The army envisioned having a large tank force by 1919, but when the war ended in November 1918, only three tank battalions had participated in combat operations. Shortly after, Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Tank...
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What happens when we die? Do we really die alone? What if death is not the end but a new beginning? As the dying prepare to leave this world, they often begin to get a glimpse of what lies beyond through deathbed visits from deceased loved ones, strangers, and angelic or divine figures. Religious beliefs appear to have no bearing on these experiences-even atheists and nonbelievers have reported such phenomena. At times, these visits are experienced...
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Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of concealed and closely guarded information.
Smuggled written messages, secretly transmitted wireless signals, or months of eavesdropping on radio traffic meant operatives could discover in advance what the enemy intended to do. This information was passed on to those who commanded the armies, the fleets and...
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World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these...
20) NFL Dads Dedicated to Daughters: Inspiring Personal Accounts on Fatherhood from the Men of the NFL
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Recognizing that domestic and sexual violence directed against women is a serious social problem that continues to plague America, the National Football League Player's Association has joined with A Call to Men, the leading national men's organization dedicated to addressing this problem, to produce NFL Dads Dedicated to Daughters, a book celebrating the unique and indestructible bond between fathers and daughters. In it NFL players and coaches, through...
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