5/22/2023 0 Comments People you meet on vacation![]() If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. For most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. ![]() She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments JACK KENNEDY by Chris Matthews![]() The joie de vivre of this guy! He never complained about the terrible health problems he had. I heard all these great stories - about how much of a troublemaker he was at Choate Rosemary Hall - and about how much fun he had. I wanted to talk to his buddies, to the people who had worked with him and really knew him. "I wanted to write about what he was really like," he said, "I wanted to get into this in a different way from all the historians. Kennedy that led him to finally write a book about him, even though, as he noted, there are a lot of books out there about our 35th president. It was his lifelong fascination with John F. "I figured I'd need to study that for later on." ![]() "The first book I checked out of the library was the biography of Alexander the Great," he said, laughing. He said that, as a child, he always had his nose in a book - and even back then, knew he was meant for a life in politics. Matthews, the author of "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," said he believes that reading to children is one of the great things you can do for a kid. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Baloney and friends![]() ![]() While popular with its intended audience, Barney drew severe negative reaction from the older set, who mocked the main character in popular culture through song parodies and comedy routines such as being beaten up by NBA star Charles Barkley on an episode of Saturday Night Live. On October 18, 2019, Mattel Films announced that a second Barney film was to be produced British actor Daniel Kaluuya's production company was involved. In 2015, a revival was announced to premiere in 2017 but was delayed into an undated launch until being re-announced as a CGI-animated series in February 2023. ![]() Reruns aired on Sprout from 2005 until 2015, and from December 17, 2018, onward on Sprout's successor network, Universal Kids. The series ended on November 2, 2010, although new videos were still released on various dates after the last episode aired. The series first aired on PBS on Apand features Barney a purple anthropomorphic dinosaur who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude. I Love You / A Friend Like You (first segment of two-segmented episodes only, 2006–2010)īarney Theme Song (instrumental arranged by Jonathan Evans, 2002–2009) / Barney Theme Song (instrumental, 2010)Ĭonnecticut Public Television (1992–2007)īarney & Friends is an American children's television series targeted at children aged 2–7, created by Sheryl Leach. American TV series or program Barney & Friendsīarney & the Backyard Gang by Sheryl Leach ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Historians Believe His Stories Are Mostly True Herodotus sculpture, image courtesy of Hub PagesĤ. He then went on to describe the rise of the Persian Empire, looking with detail into the development of its history, geography and civilization.ģ. He focused primarily on the wars between Greece and Persia, studying the background leading to the Greco-Persian wars, the battles themselves, the Persian invasion of Greece and the Greek victories at Salamis, Plataea and Mycale. In his epic 9 volume series of books, The Histories, Herodotus documented some of history’s most important events. He Recorded Some of the Most Important Events in Ancient History Herodotus, The Histories book cover, image courtesy of Scribd Instead, texts from ancient Greece tended to focus on mythological stories, which were a carefully woven blend of fact, fantasy and fiction, filled with lavish tales of gods and mythical creatures.Ģ. Before Herodotus, no one had ever attempted such an ambitious task. He travelled far and wide to gather lived experience from civilizations around the world, and brought his findings together in The Histories, a vast nine-volume series spanning continents and lives. Herodotus was the first of his kind to bring real history together into one long, chronological sequence. Herodotus Invented the Entire Concept of History Bust of Herodotus, image courtesy of Academus Education ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Dark matter by blake crouch![]() ![]() ![]() In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.īefore he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.īefore a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” ![]() When he comes to - in a lab, of all places - he discovers that everything is different: The book tells the story of a mild-mannered, family-focused physics professor named Jason Dessen who, after leaving a bar one night, is knocked out by a masked abductor for unknown reasons. Strap in and keep your arms and legs inside at all times until the book comes to a complete stop. Blake Crouch’s 2016 sci-fi thriller Dark Matter is one of those compelling books that, if you let it, will take you on a wild ride over the course of a weekend-long reading session, only to leave you thinking about all your life choices in wild new ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() The very thought of making love in the physical way is at both shocking and strangely arousing. However, this space visitor is unwholesomely attracted to his test subject. She is chosen by a superior species to bear a child. ![]() She gets her wish when she wins the alien impregnation lottery. After visiting a cranky old shrink, she determines that she doesn’t want to change-she just wants a superior man, if she’s ever going to satisfy her biological clock and need for out of this world romance. She’s tired of her life and all their excuses, lies and commitment problems. Jeri is a big beautiful woman who is tired of men. Enjoy 16,000+ words of Alien Kidnapping Romance, and get two books for the price of one! ![]() ![]() ![]() In this stinking rich, and utterly futile, world of playboys and wastrels, no one was more charming, better connected, and apparently more talented than the captivatingly youthful figure of Jimmy Donahue. After much sleuthing Wilson shows that once Wallis Simpson failed to get her hands on the crown, she became more interested in the seedy by-ways of Anglo-American demi-monde. In the Bahamas, where he found some comfort, it was said he 'used to be First Lord of the Admiralty, but now he's third mate on an American tramp'. It's well known that royalty attracts a dismal, often homosexual, cast of toadies, timeservers, creeps, and arse-lickers, but the Windsors' court-in-exile was, as Christopher Wilson expertly demonstrates in this gruesomely fascinating tale, one of the queerest and nastiest entourages in recent memory. When she appeared on television, the Duke would yodel: 'Here comes the Blimp', while the Duchess, not to be outdone, described her nemesis as 'that 14-carat beauty' and 'the monster of Glamis'. ![]() According to this spicy rendering of one of the many sad, shameful footnotes in the life of former king Edward VII, the Windsors routinely referred to her as 'that fat Scotch cook' and 'the Loch Ness monster'. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller![]() ![]() It's also out of print but available on Chris's site.)įive Sure-fire Zucchini Recipes! Zucchini Soup (Oh, and I keep forgetting Cvltvre Made Stvpid, the sleazy ripoff of companion volume to Science. A guy named Chris has put it on the web in its entirety, so you can click the cover to see that. Check those second-hand bookstores, folks. ![]() On the right is my book Science Made Stupid, which is, alas, also out of print after all these years. (Although if you'd like to try stuffing a dollar bill into your drive slot, I'll let you know what happens.) ![]() And, it's absolutely free, since I can't figure out any way to charge for it. Although it's been out of print for some years, you can read it right here on the web by clicking on the cover. That thing on the left is my book Minims. Here you will find remnants of my former life in the world of books you, know, those old ink-and-paper things? as well as samples of my current incarnation as Web Wizard, and sundry other electronic ephemera. Welcome to my website, a _* on the information superhighway. now featuring five sure-fire zucchini recipes! ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Mrs madrigal![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He won the first municipal election held in the following year and served for four years holding office at his house as the Presidencia (referring to the American-era version of the casa real, and eventually evolving to the present day munisipyo or town hall). In 1901, Don Jose Ynares Y Granados was appointed Presidente (equivalent to today's town mayor) by the American Civil Governor. 40 of the second Philippine Commission or the Taft Commission. Under the American regime, Binangonan became an independent municipality by virtue of General Order No. ![]() The school is named in honor of Don Jose Ynares, the town of Binangonan's pioneer steward in the early years of American occupation. Its campus is located at Barangay San Carlos civic complex. It was originally established as a satellite school or annex of Vicente Madrigal National High School, eventually standing as an independent school, in 1998. Memorial National High School (Tagalog: Pang-alaalang Pambansang Mataas na Paaralang Don Jose Ynares), otherwise known as DJYMNHS, or locally Don Jose, is a public secondary school located at Barangay San Carlos, Binangonan, Rizal, Philippines. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments On chesil beach by ian mcewan![]() Marys, Oxford, had gone well the service was decorous, the reception jolly, the sendoff from school and college friends raucous and uplifting. Superficially, they were in fine spirits. Edward did not mention that he had never stayed in a hotel before, whereas Florence, after many trips as a child with her father, was an old hand. In the next room, visible through the open door, was a fourposter bed, rather narrow, whose bedcover was pure white and stretched startlingly smooth, as though by no human hand. They had just sat down to supper in a tiny sitting room on the first floor of a Georgian inn. They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible. ![]() |