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21) Clark County
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Clark County was created in 1873 by an act of territorial legislature. It was named for Newton Clark, a territorial legislator. On June 27, 1878, the first white settlers arrived in Clark County. Settlers continued migrating to Clark County, and by 1880, there were enough settlers to petition for organization. On May 23, 1881, Clark County became an official county. The first courthouse was built in 1888 in Clark. Besides Clark, the following towns...
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Eight people doing their first road trip. Travelling diagonally across Europe and back, visiting eleven countries in twenty-three days and covering around 4,500 miles in the process this is our little adventure. Follow all the ups and downs on the journey. Plus we meet up with some of our friends whom we met on the Isle of Mann during the TT festival, from around Europe as well as making new ones. I hope this will inspire more people to take the leap...
23) Tenamaxtle
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La historia de Francisco de Tenamaxtle, indígena cazcán, señor y principal de Nochistlán, representa un gran coraje, valor y amor a su pueblo. Vivió en carne propia los agravios cometidos por Nuño de Guzmán y su gente, cuando esclavizaron a más de 4500 personas, entre hombres, mujeres y niños. Al grito de "¡Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehuatl!" (¡Ahora sí, tú o yo!), él y sus guerreros se enfrentaron en una rebelión con el objetivo de hacer...
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La cuenca mediterránea es la cuna de la lechuga. Centenares de variedades hallan en ella un terreno fértil y salvaje. Las primeras representaciones de la lechuga se remontan 4500 años a. C., las cuales aparecen pintadas en las tumbas egipcias. Desde entonces, siguen gustando, hasta el punto de ponerlas en todas las ensaladas.
En esta obra, los autores brindan toda la información necesaria para cultivar lechugas en su jardín o balcón, conservarlas,...
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The Golden Capstone atop the Great Pyramid at Giza offered protection from the global flooding and scorching sun that occurs every 4,500 years due to the Tartarus Rotation solar event. But Alexander the Great broke the Capstone into seven pieces and hid them in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, in 2006, another Tartarus Rotation is due, and whoever places the reconstructed Capstone on the pyramid in time will gain absolute earthly power....
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead is by far the most sensational book handed down from the priests of ancient Egypt. After nearly 4500 years it still intrigues modern readers with its imaginative insights into the universal human condition and the desire for a blissful afterlife.
Entombed with this book of rituals, the deceased had an illustrated travel guide for the nightly journey with the sun through the dark and dangerous underworld, providing a guarantee...
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One of the greatest treasures in the archives of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum is the Hansen Collection, consisting of over 4500 negatives of shipping taken at Cardiff Docks between 1920 and 1975. Lars Peter Hansen, a native of Copenhagen, settled in Cardiff in 1891 and he and his third son Leslie established a photographic business in the docks; taking pictures of ships for sale to seamen and shipowners was an important part of their business....
28) Montreat
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Montreat is nestled in a cove of 4,500 acres on the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville and Black Mountain. Established in 1897 by an interdenominational group largely from the North, it was the first religious assembly to be founded in the Swannanoa Valley. True to its initial charter, Montreat serves as a location for physical and spiritual renewal and as a center for Christian study and practice. In 1906, Montreat was purchased...
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Twenty whole chickens bathed in garlic on a rig that resembles a cast-iron satellite dish... this is Extreme Barbecue, a tribute to the derring-do behind the craziest grilling contraptions in the country. Through in-depth profiles, outrageous photographs, and nearly one hundred personal recipes, this unique cookbook exalts in unprecedented cooking techniques and junkyard serendipity.
These devices range from the Zen-like simplicity of a tin can on...
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In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American...
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Two hundred poems of hope and empowerment in a time of tumult and darkness, from Instagram's Lost Poets community.
Crown Anthology is a new collection of verse from an online subculture of poets, with a foreword by Tyler Knott Gregson, one of the movement's foremost authors. By celebrating self-love, self-worth, and empowerment, these two hundred poems examine life in a dynamic and transformative poetry compilation that speaks soft words reminding...
32) Resolve
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In the Pittsburgh Marathon, 18,000 people from all over the world will participate. Some 9,500 will run a half marathon, 4,000 will run in relays, while 4,500 participants will attempt the full 26.2 miles. Over 200 will quit before it's over. More than 100 will be injured and require medical treatment. And one man is going to be murdered. When Dr. Cyprus Keller lines up to start the race, he knows who is going to die-for the simple reason that he's...
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Philip Soulden is one of the wealthiest men in England. However, he is common-born, a fact that brings no small measure of annoyance to his fiancée Caroline Wynn's father, the snobbish (but poor) Viscount of Cambridgeshire. Even if Caroline were a commoner like Philip, she would still be far too good for him. Of course, that doesn't make him any less determined to make her his wife. When Caroline learns about the truth of her birth, his plans to...
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The book is about Clyde Pangborn, a Washington-born early aviator who accomplished feats far exceeding those of persons such as Charles Lindberg but got nearly zero recognition for is deeds. The book, One Chance for Glory is a historical fiction book about Pangborn being the first to fly the 4500 miles nonstop across the Pacific in 1931. To do this, he had to jettison his landing gear into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Japan, do an in-flight...
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The man turns around, and my eyes bulge out of their sockets. He says, "Raven?" at the same time I say, "Ian?!" I'm staring at Ian Reyes, aka Aimee's stepbrother, though he's old enough to be her dad. Aimee's stepfather–Ian's dad–is old enough to be her grandfather. When her mom was first dating him, Aimee would call him "the ancient one." Like always, my heart beats a little faster in Ian's presence. For a while, I had–okay, fine, still have–a...
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Ron and Jill, after six months together, discovered the house of their dreams: a landmark Victorian row house that had belonged to a notorious fraternity in Baltimore. Unfortunately, it was now a condemned, abandoned property. But Jill wanted the house and Ron wanted Jill. Beyond the wall-to-wall graffiti, collapsed fireplaces and banisters, and three dumpsters worth of trash, the couple envisioned this as their future dream home. So Ron bought the...
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Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rastaganja, reggae, and dreadlocks, this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the...
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This 4,500 word piece is a never-before-seen chapter from A QUEST OF HEROES (BOOK #1 IN THE SORCERER'S RING), the #1 Bestseller, with over 500 five star reviews on Amazon! It provides an alternate opening to the series, opening the series with Alistair's point of view. It offers a whole new perspective on how THE SORCERER'S RING may have begun.
With its sophisticated world-building and characterization, THE SORCERER'S RING is an epic tale of friends...
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Banff Mountain Book Awards WINNER
The spellbinding true story of retracing the extraordinary trek of Ewart "the Leopard" Grogan-the legendary British explorer who, in order to win the woman he loved, attempted to become the first person to cross Africa
In 1898 the dashing British adventurer Ewart Grogan fell head-over-heels in love-but before he could marry, he needed the approval of his beloved's skeptical, aristocratic stepfather. Grogan, seeking...
40) The Way Back
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Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (Apollo 13), Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges) star in this epic saga of survival from six-time Oscar-nominee Peter Weir (Witness, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World). Inspired by an incredible true story, THE WAY BACK begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a...