7/5/2023 0 Comments Love story segal![]() 10, 1972, Shorter toed the starting line in Munich, West Germany, where he had been born in 1947 while his father worked there as a military doctor, and he ran for the gold medal. He would run in his event, the marathon, because not competing would mean "they win" - the terrorists. Nothing's worth more than human life, he thought: "We're going home."īut once the decision was made to continue the games, Shorter never hesitated. Find that audio here.Īfter 11 Israeli athletes died in a terrorist attack, American runner Frank Shorter was sure the 1972 Olympics were over. (Alex Ashlock)Įditor's note: This story was rebroadcasted on Sept 14, 2022. No man from the United States has won it since. ![]() ![]() Frank Shorter was the first American winner of the Olympic Marathon since 1908. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Impostors book series![]() ![]() Much of the book feels like a set-up for the third novel. Shatter City is a fitting sequel to Impostors, if not the most exciting one. Rafia escapes their father’s home and ends up with the rebels, while Frey chooses to stay behind with her new ally and love, Col. Impostors ends with the sisters exposing their reality to the world and switching places. ![]() That is, until the events of the first book. Frey takes Rafia’s place when she might be in danger, but beyond that, Frey is no one. Frey was raised to be her sister’s body double – she’s an amazing fighter and brilliant strategist. Impostors is about Frey and Rafia, two identical twin sisters who are the daughters of the most powerful man in Shreve. If you’re a huge fan of the original series, this series will have a few Easter eggs for you, but if you never read Uglies, you’ll still adore Impostors. I read the Uglies series back when it was first released, and since that was almost 15 years ago, I barely remember what happened. If you haven’t read the original series, don’t panic. The series is a follow-up to Westerfeld’s Uglies series, which was first published in 2005. Shatter City is the second book in Scott Westerfeld’s Impostors series. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’ve ever read Jane Jacobs, world-renowned urbanist and activist, and her fight to maintain the liveliness of Greenwich Village in New York, Klinenberg strongly resembles her once liberal and progressive ideas. However, Eric Klinenberg describes our libraries, synagogues, and parks as crucial and vital infrastructure where “life-saving connections” are formed. ![]() Princes and princesses, butlers, horses, and royalty. Instead, you might imagine tall glass and stone structures amidst a green field with a sparkling lake. Libraries, daycare centers, bookstores, and churches might not be what comes to mind when thinking of palaces. Klinenberg’s Palaces | Palaces for the People Palaces for the People is an engaging blend of urbanizing cities and polarizing societies and touches on moving forward and enhancing the quality of social life in whirling times. Klinenberg is no stranger to writing as his work has been published in multiple journals, including the American Sociology Review, Rolling Stones, and The New York Times Magazine. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The dead story by james joyce![]() ![]() Some critics argued that the dead refers to Gretta's tragic love, Michael Furey.All the stories in this volume incorporate epiphanies.Dubliners, his early volume of short stories, functions as an analysis of the stagnation and paralysis of Dublin society.The Irish environment of Joyce created his sense in writing and provided all of the settings for his fiction. Joyce says:"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis". ![]()
7/4/2023 0 Comments The rational male goodreads![]() ![]() by a rise of lookism or the absence of marriage norms. Self-identified incels tend to identify Tomassi as fraudulent redpiller who tries to capitalize upon romantically starved males by selling them cheap dating tricks, while incels, especially blackpillers, perceive their dating issues to be of systemic nature, caused e.g. ![]() Martie Haselton appears to have had a particularly strong influence on him) and standard PUA techniques. His ideas are influenced by his interpretation of evolutionary psychology (the works of Dr. Along with Roger Devlin, he likely is the main individual who popularized the term " hypergamy" in the non-academic usage of the term that is popular in the manosphere. ![]() Rollo Tomassi is the sobriquet used by an American graphic designer and PUA coach (although he claims not to be a PUA, writing, "I’m not in the business of cures, I’m in the business of diagnoses" ), and the author of " The Rational Male" series of books. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Outta Sight by Mary Blakeslee![]() ![]() In November, 1702, Hannah Brooks rendered the final account of the distribution. She died November 7, 1723.Īdministration on the estate of Samuel Blakeslee was granted to his widow, June 16, 1672, and February 6, 1676-77, Henry Brooks and his wife appeared before the court for the settlement of the estate and distribution was ordered to Hannah Brooks, John, the eldest son, to Samuel and Ebenezer, and to Mary, daughter. December 21, 1676, Hannah Blakeslee married Henry Brooks. John Potter's mother was Hannah Beecher, and he had two sons, John and Samuel. He married, December 3, 1650, Hannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Potter, of New Haven. He removed to New Haven between 16, and by the New Haven records died May 17, 1672. He bought his home lot in Guilford from Henry Dowd about 1649, a"d February 24, 1653-54, sold it to Richard Hubball. Samuel Blakeslee was probably a blacksmith, as appears from the inventory of his estate. Samuel Blakeslee, immigrant ancestor, was a planter of Guilford, Connecticut, in 1650, and is supposed to have been a brother of Thomas Blakeslee, who came in the "Hopewell" from London to Massachusetts, in 1635, was in Hartford in 1641, and removed to Branford, Connecticut, in 1645. ![]() ![]() It was more entertaining than the guidebooks, but it still had some historical and contemporary information that I found useful. This was another Peru trip preparation book. ![]() ![]() Still, the book is nice enough to have finished it. Mr Adams works in the publishing business, yet, the book is too long, too many irrelevant elements in the story - not in the least Mr Adams’ life story itself and his penchant for metaphors which are often far-fetched, and not necessarily funny, however hard he is trying. And part trying to understand how he could have been so wrong in his identification of the last stronghold of the Incas, claiming that it was Machu Pichu whilst missing the obvious clues further into the jungle. The book is part biography, part following Mr Bingham in his tracks. ![]() But the main one concerns the life and obsessions of Hiram Bingham, the first to rediscover Machu Picchu (or not, there may have been other claimants to that title, too). In “Turn Right at Machu Picchu” (2011) Mark Adams tells several stories, one is that of Mr Adams himself, and another that of the Incas, and their empire’s quick demise at the hand of the Spanish. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Aztec gary jennings movie![]() An 1980’s nuclear nightmareīecause the world is different now from the world of the mid-eighties when McCammon wrote Swan’s Song. What limited appeal this novel possessed has all but evaporated. The President is in the War Room, agonizing on whether or not to take the Ruskies with us into that bad night of a nuclear winter. In Robert McCammon’s Swan Song,We all die when World War III brings its mushroom clouds. One particularly gruesome ending has fallen out of favor. In Robert McCammon’s Swan Song, it’s World War lll and a thermo-nuclear death for billions.Ĭolliding worlds, epidemics, vampires, aliens, zombies–writers just love ending the world and we just love reading about how it all goes down.Everyone dies, except us–or those characters who are our surrogates. Robert McCammon’s Swan Song Apocalypse Then, a review ***Spoilers*** ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Children will be so involved in the storytelling that they'll absorb these lessons effortlessly. This appealing variant of the time-honored, cross-cultural tale conveys the need for cooperation, perseverance, and humility within group settings. Humiliated, he leaves for another pond, and when his new home's terrapin resident agrees to share, he gratefully acquiesces. At the outset of the competition, Turtle sinks her teeth into Beaver's broad tail, and the pain eventually causes him to flip it in such a way that she is hurled across the finish line in first place. Word spreads throughout the forest and all the animals gather to witness the improbable spectacle. ![]() However, impudent Beaver scoffs at the invitation and challenges her to a race. Beaver's dam and lodge have changed the pond's ambience very much indeed, but Turtle benevolently offers to share her home with the newcomer. PreSchool-Grade 3-This delightful folktale closely resembles Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare." A sweet-looking turtle lives contentedly in a beautiful pond until one spring she emerges from hibernation and discovers that another creature has overrun her domain. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Impulse ellen![]() ![]() Because that's who I am! Basically, it's super fucking obvious that this book wasn't outlined well or like, at all. Okay, this is the section where I'm a bitter salty person and I feel the need to explain why this book is just kind of generally bad ignoring all the stuff that is Problematique. ![]() But please do let me despise this book in peace. Like, feel free to love this book – books are always subjective. If I had less self-confidence, I genuinely cannot imagine how I would've taken this and where this book could've taken me. ![]() This isn't some kind of minor "negative tropes" thing. ![]() ✔ Before you call me an SJW keyboard warrior so you can feel morally vindicated in your opinion: Please at least read the damn review? I'm not complaining about this just for the sake of complaining or whatever you'd like to believe. I am not joking or exaggerating when I say this storyline genuinely reads like someone's conversion therapy manifesto. And besides that, it contains the most homophobic storyline I have ever had the displeasure of reading. Unfortunately, Impulse is a pretty terrible book, with severe issues of mental health being tackled sort of horribly and a shitty love triangle no one cares about. I started Impulse with really high hopes for this after enjoying Hopkins' Tricks series. ![]() |