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Book Synopsis Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Fidel Castro - Famous People by : Matt Green
Download or read book Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Fidel Castro - Famous People written by Matt Green and published by Matt Green. This book was released on with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fidel Castro was born on 13th August 1926 near Biran in the south eastern Oriente Province of Cuba. His father Angel Castro Y Argiz was a wealthy sugarcane planter and migrates to Cuba from Galicia, Northwest Spain. At 17 years age, Fidel was formally accepted by his father and his name was changed from Ruz to Castro. At 6 years age, Castro went to live with his teacher in Santiago de Cuba. He then went to the privately funded, Jesuit-run Dolores School in Santiago. Although he disliked the strict discipline in the school, Fidel soon proved that he was very smart and intelligent. For more interesting facts you must read his biography. Grab Your biography book now!
Download or read book Best of Enemies written by Padraig Lawlor and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and 1960s, boxers John Caldwell and Freddie Gilroy reached the very pinnacle of their sport and brought immense pride to Belfast and Ireland. This is their story of friendship and rivalry, of glory and pain, of riches and poverty. Belfast is world-renowned for her glovemen. Best of Enemies explores the careers of two of the city's finest exponents of the noble art of boxing. As friends, they won Olympic medals for Ireland. As professionals, they quickly became bitter adversaries. Their rivalry peaked when Caldwell claimed a share of the world bantamweight crown in a fight that had been promised to Gilroy. Thereafter, the Belfast fighters were on a collision course. The two finally met in a bloody battle in Belfast's King's Hall on Saturday, 20 October 1962. However, that brutal night did not resolve the question of who was the better boxer, which lingers to this day.
Book Synopsis The Colossal Book of Incredible Facts for Curious Minds by : Nigel Henbest
Download or read book The Colossal Book of Incredible Facts for Curious Minds written by Nigel Henbest and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A polish bear in World War II rose to the rank of colonel. Penguins can't taste fish. The ashes of the man who invented the Pringles container are buried in one one. On Neptune it rains diamonds. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words. These are just 0.1% of all the facts in this incredible tome! Written by seven authors and covering subjects as diverse as The Universe, Art and Literature, The Natural World and Movies, The Colossal Book of Incredible Facts for Curious Minds is the ultimate trivia book! Why not amaze family and friends with the reasons pandas do handstands, the sinister source of the term 'rule of thumb', or that the patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed... in a fire. Every entry is weird, wonderful, inspiring and quite brilliantly, true!
Download or read book Unbelievable! written by Jenny Crompton and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbelievable! is a fascinating collection of weird and bizarre stories of coincidence.
Book Synopsis Arthurian Writers by : Laura Lambdin
Download or read book Arthurian Writers written by Laura Lambdin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Arthur is perhaps the central figure of the medieval world, and the lore of Camelot has captivated literary imaginations from the Middle Ages to the present. Included in this volume are extended entries on more than 30 writers who incorporate Arthurian legend in their works. Arranged chronologically, the entries trace the pervasive influence of Arthurian lore on world literature across time. Entries are written by expert contributors and discuss such writers as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and Margaret Atwood. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of the author's use of Arthurian legend and contribution to the Arthurian literary tradition, and a bibliography of primary and secondary material. The volume begins with an introductory overview and concludes with suggestions for further reading. The central figure of the medieval world, King Arthur has captivated literary imaginations from the Middle Ages to the present. This book includes extended entries on more than 30 writers in the Arthurian tradition. Arranged chronologically and written by expert contributors, the entries trace the pervasive influence of Arthurian legend from the Middle Ages to the present. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of the writer's use of Arthurian legend and contribution to the Arthurian literary tradition, and a bibliography of primary and secondary material. The volume begins with an introductory overview and closes with a discussion of Arthurian lore in art, along with suggestions for further reading. Students will gain a better understanding of the Middle Ages and the lasting significance of the medieval world on contemporary culture.
Book Synopsis The History of the Science-fiction Magazine by : Michael Ashley
Download or read book The History of the Science-fiction Magazine written by Michael Ashley and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three volumes, this book takes up the story to reveal a turbulent period that was to witness the extraordinary rise and fall and rise again of science. Mike Ashley charts the SF book years in the wake of the nuclear age that was to see the golden age of science fiction.
Book Synopsis Geological Survey Professional Paper by :
Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland by : Eleanor O’Leary
Download or read book Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland written by Eleanor O’Leary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a decade in Irish history which has been largely overlooked, Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland provides the most complete account of the 1950s in Ireland, through the eyes of the young people who contributed, slowly but steadily, to the social and cultural transformation of Irish society. Eleanor O'Leary presents a picture of a generation with an international outlook, who played basketball, read comic books and romance magazines, listened to rock'n'roll music and skiffle, made their own clothes to mimic international styles and even danced in the street when the major stars and bands of the day rocked into town. She argues that this engagement with imported popular culture was a contributing factor to emigration and the growing dissatisfaction with standards of living and conservative social structures in Ireland. As well as outlining teenagers' resistance to outmoded forms of employment and unfair work practices, she maps their vulnerability as a group who existed in a limbo between childhood and adulthood. Issues of unemployment, emigration and education are examined alongside popular entertainments and social spaces in order to provide a full account of growing up in the decade which preceded the social upheaval of the 1960s. Examining the 1950s through the unique prism of youth culture and reconnecting the decade to the process of social and cultural transition in the second half of the 20th century, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on 20th-century Irish history.
Download or read book Lugosi written by Gary Don Rhodes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882, in Hungary. He joined Budapest's National Theater in 1913 and later appeared in several Hungarian films under the pseudonym Arisztid Olt. After World War I, he helped the Communist regime nationalize Hungary's film industry, but barely escaped arrest when the government was deposed, fleeing to the United States in 1920. As he became a star in American horror films in the 1930s and 1940s, publicists and fan magazines crafted outlandish stories to create a new history for Lugosi. The cinema's Dracula was transformed into one of Hollywood's most mysterious actors. This exhaustive account of Lugosi's work in film, radio, theater, vaudeville and television provides an extensive biographical look at the actor. The enormous merchandising industry built around him is also examined.
Book Synopsis Partners in Wonder by : Eric Leif Davin
Download or read book Partners in Wonder written by Eric Leif Davin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005-12-07 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own female names, published over a thousand stories in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1965. This work explores the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced—one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts. Partners in Wonder presents, for the first time, a complete bibliography of every story published by women writers in science fiction magazines from 1926 to 1965 and brief biographies on 133 of these women writers. It is thus the most comprehensive source of information on early women science fiction writers yet available and of great importance to scholars of women's studies, popular culture, and English literature as well as science fiction.
Book Synopsis Hopis and the Counterculture by : Brian Haley
Download or read book Hopis and the Counterculture written by Brian Haley and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the explosive appropriation of Indigenous identities in the 1960s. It reveals a largely unknown network of Native, non-Indian, and neo-Indian actors who spread misrepresentations of the Hopi that they created through interactions with the Hopi Traditionalist faction of the 1940s through 1980s. Significantly, many non-Hopis involved adopted Indian identities during this time, becoming "neo-Indians." Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, Hopis and the Counterculture meticulously traces the trajectories of figures such as Ammon Hennacy, Craig Carpenter, Frank Waters, and the Firesign Theatre, among others. Drawing on insights into the interplay between primitivism, radicalism, stereotyping, and identity, Haley expands on concepts from scholars such as Roy Harvey Pearce's notion of "isolated radicals" and Jonathan Friedman's observations regarding the ascendancy of primitivism amid global crises. Haley scrutinizes the roles played by non-Hopi actors and the timing behind the widespread popularization of Hopi religious practices.
Book Synopsis Astonishing Rock Trivia by : John Tait
Download or read book Astonishing Rock Trivia written by John Tait and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A juicy piece of trivia is like a beautiful fresh cut of protein. It needs to be handled just right. Some fillets of trivia work well as a question, others are best posed as a ‘Did you know’. Some have so much flesh on them that they are better served up as a whole story or essay. That is what you will find between these pages, a smorgasbord of trivia treats to feast upon. Like a buffet on a cruise ship, you can start at the beginning and work your way along, you can push in at any point for the one tasty treat that you want, or you can fill a small plate and come back over and over again. This is possibly the most complete book of Rock Trivia ever compiled and the morsels will astonish … Did you know that in 2013 Chubby Checker sued Hewlett-Packard over a 99-cent app called the ‘Chubby Checker’ which allowed users to enter a man’s shoe size to estimate the size of his penis? He claimed that the product would cause damage to his goodwill, tarnishing his image. Trivia with a twist? Did you know that Charles Manson co-wrote a song for the Beach Boys? Plus hundreds of questions to tease and expand the mind. "At last ... a rock trivia book that is not at all trivial! This is a remarkable collection of questions, facts, myths, stories, jokes, riddles and answers. Number one with a bullet!" - Brian Nankervis, ABC Radio and RocKwiz host. "This is the book that we music trivia nuts have been waiting for. Even if you think you know it all there'll be something that surprises you. Read it from front to back or just dip into it when you need a trivia top up. I love it!" - Murray Cook, The Wiggles, The Soul Movers
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Isaac Asimov, the Foundations of Science Fiction by : James E. Gunn
Download or read book Isaac Asimov, the Foundations of Science Fiction written by James E. Gunn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galaxy book.
Book Synopsis The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader by : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Download or read book The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out what millions of trivia lovers already know: Uncle John is your #1 source when it comes to throne-room reading entertainment. This book celebrates the very best articles from the BRI’s first ten years--plus 150 all-new pages! As always, the contents are divided by length: short articles for the reader on the go, medium articles if you have a few minutes to spare, and the extended sitting section for those truly leg-numbing experiences. Read about . . . * The origin of Twinkies * Who invented the Hula Hoop * The untold history of the Three Stooges * Space toilets: where no man has gone before * 1876: the year they stole the presidency * The FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted" list * How to start your own country * Celebrity imposters And much, much more!
Book Synopsis Marion Zimmer Bradley by : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Download or read book Marion Zimmer Bradley written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her work in the fantasy genre. An A to Z arrangement includes coverage of novels (The Catch Trap, Survey Ship, The Fall of Atlantis, The Firebrand, The Forest House and The Mists of Avalon), the graphic narrative Warrior Woman, the Lythande novella The Gratitude of Kings, and, from the Darkover series, The Shattered Chain, The Sword of Aldones and Traitor's Sun. Separate entries on dominant themes--rape, divination, religion, violence, womanhood, adaptation and dreams--comb stories and longer works for the author's insights about the motivation of institutions that oppress marginalized groups, especially women.
Book Synopsis The Detective Chimp Casebook by : John Broome
Download or read book The Detective Chimp Casebook written by John Broome and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest detective in the DC Universe finally gets his own collection. No, not Batman-Bobo T. Chimpanzee, a.k.a. Detective Chimp! This volume of never-before-reprinted Silver Age classics collects stories such as “Monkeyshines at the Wax Museum!,” “Monkey Business on the Briny Deep!,” “The Case of the Fishy Alibi!,” and more from The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 and #6-46. Also included is a “Whatever Happened to…” backup story from DC Comics Presents #35 that catches up with Detective Chimp after the end of the Rex the Wonder Dog series.
