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The Unseen Olympic

Author : Patrick Mylon
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750982672
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book The Unseen Olympic written by Patrick Mylon and published by History Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RMS Olympic was created during a period of intense competition between the north Atlantic shipping lines. Sister to the ill-fated Titanic and Britannic, Olympic encompassed all the qualities the line was striving for in size, opulence and luxury. Although sometimes overshadowed in the public consciousness by her two sisters, given their unfortunate fates, she enjoyed a lengthy and distinguished career that they did not, including time spent as a troopship in the First World War. She served as one of the White Star Line's leading vessels from 1911 to 1935, when she was finally scrapped. Packed with stunning postcards and photographs from author Patrick Mylon's unrivalled collection, this sumptuous book is the definitive 'unseen' history of this grand ocean liner.

The Unseen Britannic

Author : Simon Mills
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9780752497716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book The Unseen Britannic written by Simon Mills and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the third and largest sister of the famous Olympic-class trio, Britannic is often and unjustly overlooked in comparison to Olympic and Titanic. Launched on the eve of war in February 1914, Britannic would never see service on the White Star Line's express service on the North Atlantic mail run for which she was built. After being requisitioned by the Admiralty in November 1915 His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic instead became indispensible to the thousands of injured and sick troops that needed transporting back to Britain from the Mediterranean theatre of war. However, as was the fate of many liners during the conflict, her life was cut tragically short when she was suddenly wracked by a mysterious explosion on 21 November 1916 and sank in less than an hour - three times faster than her sister ship Titanic, and yet thanks to the improvements in safety heralded by the tragedy of her sister 1,032 of 1,062 on board survived.Here Simon Mills brings together previously unseen material, including stunning colour images of Britannic's wreck in the Aegean Sea, and this poignant story to tell a tale of heroism in the First World War, of an oftoverlooked but key ship to British maritime history and of the unique future that the wreck might still one day enjoy.

RMS Olympic

Author : Mark Chirnside
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750963484
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book RMS Olympic written by Mark Chirnside and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting around a dining-room table in 1907, the owners of the White Star Line discussed their competition to the newly-built Cunard liners, Lusitania and Mauretania. From that smoke-filled room came the first designs of three White Star superliners. Olympic and Titanic were to be built at Harland & Wolff's yard in Belfast, while the third ship was to follow after construction had been completed on the first pair of sisters. The only ship to make a return passenger voyage was Olympic and she was always overshadowed by her younger sisters. This is the definitive story of Titanic's sister RMS Olympic. First published in 2004 to critical acclaim, this new edition presents a revised expanded work from one the most successful maritime authors at work in Britain today.

Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank?

Author : Steve Hall
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752467816
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank? written by Steve Hall and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 – an accident that may have made her a liability to her owners the White Star Line. Since 1912 rumours of a conspiracy to switch the two sisters in an elaborate insurance scam has always loomed behind the tragic story of the Titanic. Could the White Star Line have really switched the Olympic with her near identical sister in a ruse to intentionally sink their mortally damaged flagship in April 1912, in order to cash in on the insurance policy? Laying bare the famous conspiracy theory, world-respected Titanic researchers investigate claims that the sister ships were switched in an insurance scam and provide definitive proof for whether it could - or could not - have happened.

Norwich

Author : Karen Crouse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501119915
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Norwich written by Karen Crouse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country, Norwich gives “parents of young athletes a great gift—a glimpse at another way to raise accomplished and joyous competitors” (The Washington Post). In Norwich, Vermont—a charming town of organic farms and clapboard colonial buildings—a culture has taken root that’s the opposite of the hypercompetitive schoolyard of today’s tiger moms and eagle dads. In Norwich, kids aren’t cut from teams. They don’t specialize in a single sport, and they even root for their rivals. What’s more, their hands-off parents encourage them to simply enjoy themselves. Yet this village of roughly three thousand residents has won three Olympic medals and sent an athlete to almost every Winter Olympics for the past thirty years. Now, New York Times reporter and “gifted storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal) Karen Crouse spills Norwich’s secret to raising not just better athletes than the rest of America but happier, healthier kids. And while these “counterintuitive” (Amy Chua, bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother) lessons were honed in the New England snow, parents across the country will find that “Crouse’s message applies beyond a particular town or state” (The Wall Street Journal). If you’re looking for answers about how to raise joyful, resilient kids, let Norwich take you to a place that has figured it out.

The Olympics

Author : Noah Berlatsky
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737776587
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book The Olympics written by Noah Berlatsky and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition explores issues related to the Olympics. It covers benefits and harms from hosting the Olympics. It examines the issues of drugs and doping in the Olympics. Readers will learn about often unseen sides to the massive event, including the environmental, political, and sex trafficking issues as they relate to the Olympics.

Hope Unseen

Author : Scotty Smiley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439186820
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Hope Unseen written by Scotty Smiley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring, unflinching true story of “blind” faith, as Major Scotty Smiley awakes in a hospital bed and realizes his world is permanently dark he must stretch his faith like never before. Courageous, heartfelt, and honest, Hope Unseen challenges readers to question their doubts, not their beliefs, and depend upon God no matter what. A nervous glance from a man in a parked car. Muted instincts from a soldier on patrol. Violent destruction followed by total darkness. Two weeks later, Scotty Smiley woke up in Walter Reed Army Medical Center, helpless . . . and blind. Blindness became Scotty’s journey of supreme testing. As he lay helpless in the hospital, Captain Smiley resented the theft of his dreams—becoming a CEO, a Delta Force operator, or a four-star general. With his wife Tiffany’s love and the support of his family and friends, Scotty was transformed—the injury only intensifying his indomitable spirit. Since the moment he jumped out of a hospital bed and forced his way through nurses and cords to take a simple shower, Captain Scotty Smiley has climbed Mount Rainier, won an ESPY as Best Outdoor Athlete, surfed, skydived, become a father, earned an MBA from Duke, taught leadership at West Point, commanded an army company, and won the MacArthur Leadership Award. Scotty and Tiffany Smiley have lived out a faith so real that it will inspire you to question your own doubts, push you to serve something bigger than yourself, and encourage you to cling to a Hope Unseen.

Olympic & Titanic

Author : Steve Hall
Publisher : Infinity Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780741419491
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Olympic & Titanic written by Steve Hall and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Racing Through the Night

Author : Wade Sisson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144560891X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Racing Through the Night written by Wade Sisson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wireless crackled, an SOS was broadcast. Olympic, Titanic's older sister ship was a mere 350 miles away from the sinking liner. Would Olympic reach her in time -

Atlantic Liners: A Trio of Trios

Author : J. Kent Layton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557084463
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Liners: A Trio of Trios written by J. Kent Layton and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They formed three trios of wonder ships. From the Cunard Line came the Lusitania, Mauretania, and Aquitania. From the White Star Line came the Olympic, the infamous Titanic, and the Britannic. From the Hamburg-Amerika Line came the Imperator, Vaterland and Bismarck, which would later find service as Cunard's Berengaria, the U.S. Line's Leviathan, and White Star's Majestic. They were, in turn, the fastest, most powerful, largest and most luxurious ocean liners that had ever sailed that ocean. Some would find great success; others would suffer disaster. Their careers would be affected by natural elements, by mismanagement, and by the brutalities of war. Their fates were also inextricably intertwined. The all-new 2009 Version of "Atlantic Liners" boasts over 730 photos, as well as nearly a dozen general arrangement plans of the ships. An Introduction has been penned by Mark Chirnside.

Alone

Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408853442
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Alone written by Bill Jones and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previously-untold story of the life and tragic early death of John Curry, one of the most famous ice skaters in history. The book that inspired new film The Ice King, the story of John Curry's life. One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic gold on an ice rink in Austria. Many millions more watched around the world. Overnight he became one of the most famous men on the planet. He was awarded an OBE. He was chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Curry changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was a mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift. Surely, men's skating was supposed to be Cossack-muscular, not sensual and ambiguous like this? Curry himself was a complex, tortured man. For the first time, Alone untangles the extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant and short life. It is a story of childhood nightmares, furious ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin and deep personal tragedy. So much more than a sports biography, Alone reveals the restless, impatient, often dark soul of a man whose words could lacerate, whose skating invariably moved audiences to tears, and who after succumbing to AIDS, as so many of his fellow artists and friends did, died of a heart attack aged just 44.

The Olympics

Author : Vassil Girginov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000938611
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Olympics written by Vassil Girginov and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympics: A Critical Reader represents a unique, critical guide to the definitive sporting mega-event and the wider phenomenon it represents – Olympism. Combining classic texts and thoughtful editorial discussion with challenging new pieces, including previously unseen material, the book systematically addresses the key questions in modern Olympism, including: what does studying Olympism entail? how do historical accounts create and challenge Olympic myths? how do different theoretical perspectives inform our understanding of Olympism? which socio-political processes influence personal, collective and imagined Olympic identities? how do we experience and make sense of Olympism? who owns Olympism and why does it matter? how do cities compete for and celebrate the Olympics? how are the Olympic values promoted? why is it important to protect the ethical principles and properties of Olympism? what are the grounds for contesting Olympism? how can Olympism be taught? how can the principles and practices of Olympism be sustained in the future? Each thematic part has been designed to include a range of views, including background treatment of an issue as well as critical scholarship, to ensure that students develop a well-rounded understanding of the Olympic phenomenon. The Olympics: A Critical Reader is essential reading for students of the Olympics and Olympism, the sociology of sport, sport management and cultural studies.

Discovering the Unseen

Author : Kelechi Ify
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493141198
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Unseen written by Kelechi Ify and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelechi Ify is a unique, gifted and anointed Worship leader and a book writer. He is a passionate true worshipper from the heart and a highly gifted guitarist. His life and ministry has touched many people and has inspired a lot of worshippers around the World. His capsules has changed lives and brought hope to many homes. He has worked with many Men of God and worship leaders within the UK and beyond. Kelechi Ify has ministered at different events, in different churches and across many cities. He has a fresh revelation of creativity and encouragement to many people across the world. He has released albums and authored a book Becoming a Celebrity and He also trains and mentors Music leaders and instrumentalists.

The Unseen Aquitania

Author : J. Kent Layton
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750967358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book The Unseen Aquitania written by J. Kent Layton and published by History Press. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RMS Aquitania was in service for decades, and was very much beloved. The third in Cunard Line's "grand trio" of express liners, running mate of the lost Lusitania and the legendary Mauretania (1907), Aquitania was the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner. Aquitania was pressed into service during both world wars and was one of the longest serving passenger liners of the 20th century. She was also one of the most elegant, nicknamed the "ship beautiful." This book offers the most evocative and exciting collection of imagery relating to this historic vessel ever shown.

Rome 1960

Author : David Maraniss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416534075
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Rome 1960 written by David Maraniss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics. 250,000 first printing.

Olympic, Titanic, Britannic

Author : Mark Chirnside
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750956239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Olympic, Titanic, Britannic written by Mark Chirnside and published by History Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial celebration of the world-famous sister ships: the Olympic-class liners A maritime expert tells the story of the sister ships using previously unseen pictures, passenger diaries, and deck plans, illustrating Olympic's successful career; the premature ends of her two unfortunate sisters; and the experiences of those onboard. Designed for passenger comfort, they were intended to provide luxurious surroundings and safe, reliable transport rather than record-breaking speed. Ironically, fate decreed that only Olympic would ever complete a single commercial voyage and she went on to serve for a quarter of a century in peace and war. Titanic's name would become infamous after she sank on her maiden voyage. The third sister, Britannic, saw a brief and commendable career as a hospital ship during World War I, sinking in the Aegean Sea in 1916.

A Shot at History

Author : ABHINAV BINDRA. ROHIT BRIJNATH
Publisher : Harper Sport India
ISBN 13 : 9789352645756
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book A Shot at History written by ABHINAV BINDRA. ROHIT BRIJNATH and published by Harper Sport India. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhinav Bindra's journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold is an example of a single-minded quest for perfection. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics, he changed as a shooter: he became an athlete bent on redemp