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- 14011: David Edding's Pawn of Prophecy
- ... hero does not initially believe in anything super natural, characters who act weak or incompetent turn out to be powerful super beings and there is always a long and involved history around which the present day events of the story are based upon. Despite some minor flaws, Pawn of Prophecy is a very amusing and pleasurable book.
- 14012: Computer Crime 2
- ... banks networked into dossiers reserved for "official use only" (but easily accessible to hackers and crackers), stalking will not only increase but be facilitated by a new generation of portable computers. Organic nanocomputers may one day be implanted in the human brain, making possible a new crime: mindstalking. Unauthorized intrusion and seduction will reach directly into the victim's brain, making the stalker harder to evade and even more difficult to ...
- 14013: The Biography of John Marshall Harlan II
- ... law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm. Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as ...
- 14014: The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... Since Franklin was her only child she didn’t want him leaving her for another woman. She controlled their entire marriage. On Eleanor and Franklin’s honeymoon Eleanor wrote to her mother in law every day, trying to gain her respect. Anna insisted on Eleanor giving up her social work because she thought that it was affecting her social status. Eleanor reluctantly gave it up. When the birth of Eleanor’s ...
- 14015: Michael Collins and Eamon De Velera
- ... know for his brilliant work during the Anglo-Irish war in setting up the IRA's extremely effective intelligence and counter-intelligence unit that time and time again saved the IRA forces to fight another day. He and Griffith were the leaders of the team that negotiated the treaty that gave near independence to the 26 counties, while partitioning off 6 counties. During the post-treaty war, he was ambushed and ...
- 14016: Jack London Stories, The Red O
- ... inspiration for the later to be, The Red One . Mr. London s tale consisted of a foolhardy character named Bassett. Bassett is a collector of prized species who explores the cannibal-infested Island of current day Guadalcanal. Initially Bassett, against his instincts, follows a distant sound that emanates deep within the Island. After headhunters kill his assistant, Bassett himself, teetering on the edge of death, stumbles into a mountain field and ...
- 14017: Walt Disney
- ... his enterprises expanded, Disney retained as much artistic control as possible” (“Walt Disney”). Walt loved spending time with his family. He enjoyed taking his two daughters to amusement parks and spending time with them. One day, while Walt and his daughters were at an amusement park, Walt got the crazy notation to build a new kind of amusement park that was clean and that sparked imagination. In early 1950, Walt decided ...
- 14018: Two Great Men: Franklin and Jefferson
- ... Wealth," one of his most popular articles which help shape American culture, he wrote, "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, As Poor Richard says; and he that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him, as we read in Poor Richard, who adds, drive thy business, let not that drive thee, and ...
- 14019: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... have motivated various authors such as, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells. Poe's works have fascinated literate people all around the world for over 150 years. Poe was born on the blessed day of January the nineteenth, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts. Both his parents, unfortunately were very poor. They were actors and died while he was still an infant in 1811. He was orphaned in Virginia, and taken ...
- 14020: John Wilkes Booth
- ... of the play. He fractured his leg while jumping from the box. He went out the back door and rode away on his horse. He shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day. After his escape, he stopped at Dr. Samuel Mudd's house to get a splint for his leg. He hid in thickets for days. Then finally he was found on April 26 in Bowling Green ...
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