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Also in the film, Winslet’s character’s occupation was changed to a travelling photographer/journalist and Elba’s character’s occupation was changed to a brain surgeon at first, then after the rescue, switched to being a general doctor. For the plot in the film, Winslet’s character hires the charter plane instead of Dr. Ben in the original book. The Mountain Between Us (novel) The Mountain Between Us is a romance-disaster novel, written by American author Charles Martin. The story focuses on Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox as they get stuck on High Uintas Wilderness after a plane crash. The novel was
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Also in the film, Winslet’s character’s occupation was changed to a travelling photographer/journalist and Elba’s character’s occupation was changed to a brain surgeon at first, then after the rescue, switched to being a general doctor. For the plot in the film, Winslet’s character hires the charter plane instead of Dr. Ben in the original book. The Mountain Between Us (novel) The Mountain Between Us is a romance-disaster novel, written by American author Charles Martin. The story focuses on Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox as they get stuck on High Uintas Wilderness after a plane crash. The novel was
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The Mountain Between Us (film) The Mountain Between Us is a 2017 American drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad and written by Chris Weitz and J. Mills Goodloe, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Charles Martin. It stars Idris Elba and Kate Winslet as a surgeon and a journalist, respectively, who survive a plane crash, with a dog, and are stranded in High Uintas Wilderness with injuries and harsh weather conditions. The film premiered on September 9, 2017, at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 6,
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The Mountain Between Us (novel) The Mountain Between Us is a romance-disaster novel, written by American author Charles Martin. The story focuses on Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox as they get stuck on High Uintas Wilderness after a plane crash. The novel was published by Broadway Books on June 28, 2011. A film adaptation starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet was released on October 6, 2017. On a stormy winter night, Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox are stuck in Salt Lake City airport when their flights are canceled. Both are eager to reach their destinations—Ben has
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Sequel to The Dead Don't Dance (Awakening Book 2)" (2006), "When Crickets Cry" (2006), "Wrapped in Rain" (2005) and "The Dead Don't Dance (Awakening Book 1)" (2004). "The Mountain Between Us" was made into a major motion picture by 20th Century Fox. Starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, it was released on October 6, 2017. Charles Martin (author) Charles Martin (born November 3, 1969) is an author from the Southern United States. Martin earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University and went on to receive an M.A. in Journalism and a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University. He
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The Flying Mountain The Flying Mountain () is 2006 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr. It tells the story of two brothers who travel from Ireland to Transhimalaya to climb a yet unclimbed mountain. The text uses line breaks and is close to blank verse. An English translation of the book by Simon Pare was published by Seagull Books in 2018. The book was longlisted for The Man Booker International Prize on March 12, 2018. Ludger Lütkehaus of "Die Zeit" wrote that the book sometimes borders on kitsch, but "also reminds us of the fact that great literature often
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story cheapens the grand survival story." Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of "The A.V. Club" criticized the central characters as "a couple of one-note personality-test types" with "zero romantic chemistry," and wrote that the script "actually tones down the howling outrageousness of Martin’s novel, which seems to miss the point. But, structurally, it’s the same junk. Problems pop out of nowhere and resolve themselves, while torturous motivations attempt to explain why characters would withhold basic information from one another for weeks..." The Mountain Between Us (film) The Mountain Between Us is a 2017 American drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad and written by
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O.S. map also marks the northerly peak (some ½ mile distant) at . Between these two lie a middle peak, of a height between the outer two, but cairnless and unmarked on the O.S. map. Colin Adams, author of "The Mountain Walker's Guide to Wales" (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2002), has reached the summit of Creigiau Gleision over 450 times. On many occasions he has encountered a ghost there who has spoken to him, and although he makes no reference to this in his book, he wrote about it in 1999. Creigiau Gleision Creigiau Gleision is a mountain in Snowdonia, Wales,
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emerges when the border to kitsch is avoided only by a hair's breadth". The Flying Mountain The Flying Mountain () is 2006 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr. It tells the story of two brothers who travel from Ireland to Transhimalaya to climb a yet unclimbed mountain. The text uses line breaks and is close to blank verse. An English translation of the book by Simon Pare was published by Seagull Books in 2018. The book was longlisted for The Man Booker International Prize on March 12, 2018. Ludger Lütkehaus of "Die Zeit" wrote that the book sometimes borders
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(officially called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), photographing the Uyghur people for her self-published book "Wild Pigeon" (2014). There is discord between the Chinese authorities and the indigenous ethnic Uyghur population. "Wild Pigeon" was well received, again by Sean O'Hagan, who wrote that "Drake is a master of atmosphere"; and by Martin Parr; Colin Pantall; Blake Andrews; and Ian Denis Johnson, who wrote "this book does what a great social novel does: it forces us to think of a contested region not in terms of op-eds or political analyses, but as seen by people in daily life". For Jeffrey Ladd, the
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the death of his daughter, was panned by critics. Writing for "New York" magazine, Emily Yoshida criticised it as a vacuous remake of "A Christmas Carol" and wrote that Winslet had "never looked more painted and tired". It was a modest earner at the box office. Winslet agreed to the romantic disaster film "The Mountain Between Us" (2017) to take on the challenge of a role requiring physical exertion. It featured Idris Elba and her as two strangers who crash land on an icy, isolated mountain range. They filmed in the mountains of Western Canada at 10,000 feet above sea
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Soviet world". It was featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during August 2015. A Mountain of Crumbs A Mountain of Crumbs is a book by Elena Gorokhova (linguist) first published in 2010. The book is a memoir of the author's early life in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) before she moved to the US in the 1970s. The book's title was from Gorokhova's grandmother, who told her young children not to complain about lack of food and crumbled their black bread and sugar cubes into a "whole mountain of crumbs". Writing in "The Guardian," Kapka Kassabova suggests that
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Stoney Squaw Mountain Stoney Squaw Mountain, often called just Stoney Squaw is a mountain in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park, adjacent to the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada. Stoney Squaw is located between Cascade Mountain and Mount Norquay, in the Vermilion Range of the Canadian Rockies. Stoney Squaw is the second smallest mountain adjacent to the townsite, taller only than Tunnel Mountain. It is much rounder than many of the other mountains nearby. Ernest Ingersoll wrote in his 1892 "Canadian Guide Book" that the mountain takes its name "from the traditional story that some years ago a
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and poetry by its glory and its bright red color. Aram asulamy, who was an expert on Arabian country topics and wrote the book "Tehama mountain names and mekkah and Madinah Mountains", wrote many poems about it. Radwa is the first mountains of Tehama. The destination is one day travel from Yanbu and 7 days from Madinah. The famous historian Khaireddin Zarkali who passed the city of Yanbu in 1930, reached the mountain and said:" Radwa mountain on the left of Madinah. It appears to have branches like a bike planted with various heights on the top of the mountain.I
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the archives of the Order, patiently refined, were able to advance us names of artists who had worked on these wonderful paintings. We only know that these paintings were executed between the years 1699 and 1700 and the panels of the lining between 1701 and 1702, according to the book of Receita e Despesa (excerpt taken from the Book of the Historian Fernando Pio, Former Minister of the Third Order of Saint Francis who wrote all about the Golden Chapel with research done in the collection of the Venerable Third Order of the Glorious Patriarch Saint Francis of Assisi of
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focus of the searches for Noah's Ark. Augustin Calmet wrote in his 1722 biblical dictionary, "It is affirmed, but without proof, that there are still remains of Noah's ark on the top of this mountain; but M. de Tournefort, who visited this spot, has assured us there was nothing like it; that the top of mount Ararat is inaccessible, both by reason of its great height, and of the snow which perpetually covers it." Archaeological expeditions, sometimes supported by evangelical and millenarian churches, have been conducted since the 19th century in search of the ark. According to a 1974 book
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How to Break a Terrorist How to Break a Terrorist: The US Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq is a book written by an American airman who played a key role in tracking down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The interrogator who wrote the book published it under the pen name Matthew Alexander, for security reasons. The author wrote the book as a pseudonymous officer in the US Air Force who had served for fourteen years. Alexander's real name has been sealed by court order by the District of Columbia District Court. Alexander makes
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historian was admonished. In his book "A Brief Account of Nepal", Baburam wrote In his another book "China, Tibet and Nepal" Baburam wrote: "The name Sagarmatha already existed; I only discovered it; it is not that I christened the mountain with a new name." Two decades after publication of the essay, the Nepalese government gave official recognition to the name. Baburam Acharya Baburam Acharya (Nepali: बाबुराम आचार्य) (1888–1971) was a Nepalese historian and literary scholar who coined the name "Sagarmatha" (सगरमाथा), for the mountain better known as Mount Everest or Chomolungma (in Sherpa language; Quomolungma in Tibetan). His main work
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that time was written without gaps between the words. For example, in one papyrus, the word 'to brass' is written with grave accents on the first two syllables, in case any reader should mistakenly read the first part of the word as 'to a mountain'. In the following centuries many other grammarians wrote about Greek accentuation. The most famous of these, Aelius Herodianus or Herodian, who lived and taught in Rome in the 2nd century AD, wrote a long treatise in twenty books, 19 of which were devoted to accentuation. Although Herodian's book does not survive in full, an epitome
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A Mountain of Crumbs A Mountain of Crumbs is a book by Elena Gorokhova (linguist) first published in 2010. The book is a memoir of the author's early life in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) before she moved to the US in the 1970s. The book's title was from Gorokhova's grandmother, who told her young children not to complain about lack of food and crumbled their black bread and sugar cubes into a "whole mountain of crumbs". Writing in "The Guardian," Kapka Kassabova suggests that "one of the book's great feats is to reveal [...] the human scale of this crumbled
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Kingdom of the Unjust The Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection is a 2016 Political Science book authored by Medea Benjamin who is a political activist and a co-founder of CODEPINK, the peace promoter group.This book nominates to roots of establishing of the Saudi Arabia government and the relationship between it and united state. The author try to explain some particular of political system of Saudi Arabia at the Kingdom of the Unjust such as a number of rules about women. Medea Benjamin wrote "the Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection". She is a political activist
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(1911); "The Nowadays Fairy Book" (1911); "The Street-Car Mystery" (1911); "The Spirit of the Sea" (1912); "The Topsy Turvy Fairy" (1913); "The Eagle's Mate" (1914); "The Every Day Fairy Book" (1915); "Mountain Madness" (1917); and "Jane" (1920). Chapin also wrote many short stories for magazines and newspaper syndication, and a play produced in New York City in 1910 entitled "The Deserters", written with her husband, Robert Peyton Carter. She'd married Carter, a stage actor who often worked with Maude Adams, in 1906. Several of Chapin's stories were adapted for film between 1914 and 1961. "The Eagle's Mate" was produced in
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Gajaga or Narayana) who wrote on erotics in the mid 10th century was a minister in the court of Rashtrakuta King Krishna III, though his works have not come down to us. Chandraraja (1025), who was patronised by Machiraja, a feudatory of Western Chalukya Jayasimha II wrote the earliest available book on erotism called "Madanakatilaka", in "champu" metre in 18 chapters. The writing dwells on the subject as a conversation between the author's patron and his wife. "Govidya" is the earliest available writing on veterinary science. It was authored by prince Kirtivarma in 1100 in the court of his brother
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she wrote her first book, "The Virgin's Knot", a novel about a crippled and unmarried Turkish woman who weaves rugs in a small village. Although not all reviews were positive, "The Virgin's Knot" won the Contra Costa Times Book Club Pick. It was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection 2002, and a Border's Original Voices Book 2002. Payne's next novel, "The Sound of Blue", was published in 2004. Several years later, in response to an earlier injury during an encounter with a drunk driver while mountain biking, she wrote "The Kingdom of Simplicity" The book has
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also admired the book and termed it to be a cross between "Homeland" and "Skins". The "Daily Telegraph" wrote "Because of its violent, continent-crossing story, this book seems quite out of the ordinary, but in its underlying tone, I find it reassuringly familiar." The "Daily Mail" wrote: "His book gives us a rare insight into how a thoroughly westernised teenager can so violently turn against his country - as well as a flavour of the immense courage he needed to overcome his past." The "New Humanist" in its review wrote: "Nawaz's book is very much a companion piece to Ed
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impoverished monastery, he relies on his extraordinary martial arts skills to survive in the outside world. In search of a mentor, he crosses paths with a Kung Fu master who is in possession of the Book of Secrets, which reveals the lost art of the deadly Ape Strike Kung Fu technique. The rare book is coveted by a sinister father and son who will go to any extremes to obtain it. The monk finds himself immersed in a deadly battle to protect both the book and his master. The film earned US$28 million in its 3-day opening and US$38.25 million
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member of the conspiracy, but I was not the author. I have always assumed that it was the man who wrote the foreword – Mr. Lewin'." The Report from Iron Mountain The Report from Iron Mountain is a book published in 1967 (during the Johnson Administration) by Dial Press which puts itself forth as the report of a government panel. The book includes the claim it was authored by a Special Study Group of fifteen men whose identities were to remain secret and that it was not intended to be made public. It details the analyses of a government panel
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Smokejumpers, Roger Roth and James Thrash, and two members of a Helitack crew, Richard Tyler and Rob Browning. "Fire on the Mountain," won the Mountain and Plains Booksellers award as the best non-fiction book of 1999. It was made into an eponymous two-hour documentary by the History Channel that was a finalist for an Emmy award and won the Cine Master's Award as the best documentary of 1999. John N. Maclean's father Norman Maclean wrote "Young Men and Fire" that told a very similar story about the Mann Gulch Fire of August 1949 and the 13 men who died there.
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extent of variation within populations compared with that between populations, a false separation of genetics and environment, poor statistical methodology, a failure to consider alternative hypotheses, and the use of unreliable and inappropriate data to draw conclusions about the relationship between brain size and intelligence. According to Valencia, "experts in life history conclude that Rushton's (1995) work is pseudoscientific and racist." A more favorable review of the book came from American psychologist Linda Gottfredson, who wrote in "Politics and the Life Sciences" that the book "confronts us as few books have with the dilemmas wrought in a democratic society by
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to us – is tarred with a sickening sectarian brush." Alex Thomson wrote the foreword to the book claiming that, "the book is the truth – and no Rangers fan reading it will disagree with that." In 2010, Mac Giolla Bhain also broke "Dallasgate" — The story of Hugh Dallas sending an e–mail which led to his sacking from the position of Head of Referee Development at the Scottish Football Association. In 2018 his debut novel “The Squad” was published by Frontline Noir. Mac Giolla Bhain was also a member of the Donegal Mountain Rescue Team. In 2010, Mac Giolla
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In the context of archaeology, these include: The Canadian government is involved in archaeology within Saskatchewan in three fundamental ways. The Gray Burial Site is a pre-contact traditional burial ground that was used by hunters who inhabited the northern Swift Current region between 3500 and 1000 B.C.E. Between 1970 and 1974, the site underwent archaeological excavations and was declared a National Historic site (1973) for it is one of the oldest burial grounds in the Plains at 5,000 years old. Alice Kehoe Beck wrote about the Moose Mountain stone site in her book 'Controversies in Archaeology' (2008) and identified its
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following year she wrote "Body (Chic Simple)", both for the Chic Simple Components series. In 1994, she also authored "Tell Me Another One: A Woman’s Guide to Men’s Classic Lines", which focuses on male pick-up lines. The idea for the book came to Newman after she was jilted. The next year, Newman wrote "Parents from Hell: Unexpurgated Tales of Good Intentions Gone Awry". In 1996, Newman co-wrote "Just Between Us Girls: Secrets About Men from the Madam Who Knows" with "Mayflower Madam" Sydney Biddle Barrows. In 2013, she collaborated with Samantha Geimer on "The Girl: A Life in the Shadow
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environmental actions that can be categorized under this broad and interconnected concept. Although the term was not coined until 1949, several philosophers of the ancient times had viewpoints similar to those who “think like a mountain”. Epicurus was one of the first ancient philosophers to view the role man plays in nature. His philosophy, Epicureanism, is a materialistic viewpoint that aims to explain the physical earth. Lucretius was a later philosopher who had Epicurean ideals. He wrote a six book collection, "De Rerum Natura", categorizing the natural word. In Book 5 of "De Rerum Natura" he writes: In this passage,
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hailed it as a "campaign document" for climate change skeptics that "contains all the scientific ammunition they could want, packed into 493 eloquent pages." "Sydney Morning Herald" conservative commentator Miranda Devine called the book "a comprehensive scientific refutation of the beliefs underpinning the idea of human-caused climate change" and wrote that "Plimer's book, accessible as it is to the layperson, will help redress the power imbalance between those who claim to own the knowledge and the rest of us." Paul Sheehan, a conservative commentator from "The Sydney Morning Herald", asserted that "Ian Plimer is not some isolated gadfly. He is
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north. After Romero climbed Mount Everest he and Katherine Blanc wrote a book "The Boy Who Conquered Everest: The Jordan Romero Story". In the end of 2014 Romero with Linda LeBlanc wrote another book "No Summit out of Sight The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits". Jordan Romero Jordan Romero (born July 12, 1996) is an American mountain climber who was 13 years old when he reached the summit of Mount Everest. Romero was accompanied by his father Paul Romero, his step-mother Karen Lundgren, and three Sherpas, Ang Pasang Sherpa, Lama Dawa Sherpa, and Lama
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West and just as often have broken the vow." He wrote that with "Fair Land, Fair Land" he was breaking the vow again to fill the time gap, "roughly from 1845 to 1870," between "The Way West" and "These Thousand Hills". In its view of the white settlement of the American west, "Fair Land, Fair Land" is the bleakest book in the series. The most positively portrayed whites are mountain men and those who choose to live with the Native Americans and adopt their ways, such as Dick Summers and Hezekiah Higgins. Other whites range from settlers who don't realize
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the "Ottawa Citizen" wrote that the categorization of AI182 "as a uniquely Canadian tragedy" is "[t]he real contribution" of the book. The short story "The Management of Grief," within the collection "The Middleman", is based on "The Sorrow and the Terror". Some book reviews said that the book had, as dubbed by the Associated Press, a "compassionate" look at the parents of the children who were passengers, and those reviews were positive. Glavin wrote that the book is "a detailed, well-crafted and dramatic account". Susan Semenak of "The Montreal Gazette" wrote that the book "is strongest when it helps us
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songs, they are also great stories about how Brandon feels about life, love, God, hurt and everything else in-between." Jesus Freak Hideout's Bert Gangl said that "What do Keith Urban, the Alan Parsons Project (APP) and the Book of James have in common? The surprising answer to this unlikely question is that all three arguably had some influence on Brandon Heath's latest release, "Blue Mountain"." To this, Gangl wrote that "Like the APP, whose name during the '70s and '80s was veritably synonymous with what has now become known as the concept album, "Blue Mountain" is built around the central
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Oxford's fastest-selling book over the last few years, selling 44,000 copies in the first two months. It received positive critical reaction and picked up by the History Book Club and the Military Book Club, though most sales were limited to Utah. Oxford considered it "a big best-seller" for its "smaller press" with conservative print runs. Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Daniel Walker Howe, said the book was: In September 2009 the Journal of American History wrote: In June 2009 Reviews in American History wrote: "Massacre at Mountain Meadows" tells the story of the massacre, but not its aftermath, impact, media reaction, coverup,
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Chouslan, Kartaba, Akoura, Tanourin and Ehden.” Ehden’s most famous Christian site is “Dayr al-Salib” (Convent of the Cross), which is a symbol of an era of transformation for Ehdenians who had turned away from idolatry and converted to Christianity, according to a historical document written by Father Kozma. This convent is situated between Ehden and Bkoufa in the versant of Mar Sarkis’ mountain. It is a large grotto containing an altar and was identified by large stones forming a cross that was placed on top of its entrance, but vanished in 1935. Nevertheless, Al-Semaani wrote in his book "The Eastern
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It had the Continental Divide as a backyard. It used to be called Storm Mountain but now it is called Mount Warner and is a famous ski area. When World War II broke out she rented out her farm in Vermont and went into buying and selling property, and wrote a book "Horse Trading in Houses". She started her large herd of horses initially by going on a wild horse round up in the Sand Wash country between Utah and Colorado and brought back a wild black filly who produced palomino offspring. She loved adventure, took cold weather and hardships
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through two mountain ranges. After Trade, it ventures into Mountain City through a zone while bypassing the downtown area. After Mountain City, begins the two mountain ranges and in between them is the area of Shady Valley. After the second mountain range, it flattens out after the South Fork Holston River heading towards Bristol. US 421 enters Virginia on the Old Dominion side of Bristol. Major highway junctions between the NC and VA state lines are SR-67 in Mountain City, SR-91 the new Mountain City bypass, SR-394, and US 11E. US 421 enters from Tennessee in Bristol and goes west
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meanwhile, took the longer route around back to the tents but reported to others at camp that Harris had safely returned. In actuality, the climber he encountered was likely a client from the Mountain Madness expedition, Martin Adams. In the morning, on May 12, after a search of camp, the climbers at Camp IV realized that Harris was missing. Krakauer, who survived the disaster, wrote a magazine article and then a book on the subject after the events. Regarding his failure to recognize that Andy Harris was weakened and acting irrationally from altitude and lack of oxygen, Krakauer wrote that
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resistance to being thrown off his land and his death is told through the eyes of his grandson, who is visiting the ranch for the summer. In 1981 the book was made into a made-for-television movie, "Fire on the Mountain". Buddy Ebsen played John Vogelin and Ron Howard played Lee Mackie. Folk singer Laura Veirs wrote a song called "The Ballad of John Vogelin". It appeared on her 2003 record "Troubled By The Fire". Fire on the Mountain (Abbey novel) Fire on the Mountain is a 1962 novel by Edward Abbey. It was Abbey's third published novel and followed "Jonathan
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the liberal - can get caught between the rollers of fanaticism or authoritarianism on either side; the case of a man trying to do his job and be a human being among other human beings and how hard this is in the twentieth century." Ullman admitted the story of Seagrove "was somewhere in the back of my mind" when he wrote the book. The book was a Literary Guild choice and became a best seller in the US. Ullman wrote a first draft of a play based on the book. Film rights to "Windom's Way" were bought by Carl Foreman,
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"No One But Us". "Kirkus Reviews" called the collection a "delightful downbeat debut collection." It was also the winner of Mid-List's First Series Award for short fiction. The New York Times wrote that the collection Wonderful Tricks shows "tender portraits of people caught in difficult, in-between moments ripe with choice, vignettes that can spark a recollection of the heartbreaking struggles of youth." "Fiddler's Dream" was published in 2006. The novel tells the story of a Vermont fiddler who dreams of becoming a part of Bill Monroe's band. The book was reviewed positively. "The Seattle Times" wrote that "the novel is
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fire fighters in its path. Norman Maclean's son, John Norman Maclean, wrote "Fire on the Mountain" that told a very similar story about the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain on July 6, 1994 in Colorado, which took the lives of 14 firefighters. Young Men and Fire Young Men and Fire is a non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean. It is an account of Norman Maclean's research of the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and the 13 men who died there. The fire occurred in Mann Gulch in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness on August 5. The book
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challenges the idea of an objective humanity, the balance between darkness/pessimism and optimism/transcendence, and the treatment of unsuccessful members of society (unemployed, unattractive, dysfunctional, marginalized) and their roles. "The Guardian" reviewed the book and said "the real triumph is Faber's restrained, almost opaque prose. This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." However, they wrote, "finally, having utterly convinced us of his alien narrator and persuaded us to go along for the ride for nearly 300 pages, Faber doesn't quite know where to go: the miniaturist aims at a big metaphysical moment. Metaphysics
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us like a leech. We managed to catch him in Lalin from where he directed certain adventurous, uncontrolled groups. He is a provocateur who has given us many troubles; though belatedly we have eliminated him." At the 6th Congress of the PCE held in Prague between January 28–31, 1960, 65-year-old Ibárruri ceded the post of secretary-general to Carrillo and accepted the honorary position of president. As confirmation of her retirement from active politics she wrote her first memoir in 1960. The book, entitled "El Unico Camino" ("The Only Way") was published first in Paris in 1962. The following year it
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1999 and sold it to Knopf for US$250,000. He re-wrote most of the book with the help of Bruce, and two other editors, Gary Fisketjon of Knopf and Liz Calder of Bloomsbury (who published the book in the UK). The narrative alternates between three characters (Emiko, Anton and Sophie) and takes place around the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, though the back story of each character is told. Emiko was a small girl living in Hiroshima with her parents, younger brother, and grandfather during World War II. Following the atomic bombing, with her parents dead, Emiko and
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book was seen as radical in style. Writer Israel Zangwill wrote, "... I always thought was such a healthy minded young woman, what a terrible blow this must be for her poor dear brother." A reviewer for the "Chicago Record-Herald" wrote in early 1910 of the "analogous methods" of Stein and the subtle works of Henry James, who "presents us the world he knows largely through ... conversations"; Stein’s "murmuring people are as truly shown as are James' people who not only talk but live while they talk". Stein sent copies of the book to African-American writers W. E. B.
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the British at the Battle of Saratoga, and in the southern states where General Morgan commanded, and therefore overall. Morgan's sharpshooters would pick off enemy cannoneers and officers, reducing the impact of superior British artillery. This kind of advantage was considered pivotal in many battles, like The Battle of Cowpens, Saratoga, and King's Mountain. After King's Mountain, a British officer wrote "The Americans had riflemen who could hit a man anywhere they liked at 200 paces...At King's Mountain, they destroyed us." Later during the Napoleonic Wars, the British 95th Regiment (Green Jackets) and 60th Regiment, (Royal American), as well as
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a high-relief frieze of Lee, Jefferson Davis, and 'Stonewall' Jackson riding around the mountain, followed by a legion of artillery troops. Borglum agreed to include a Ku Klux Klan altar in his plans for the memorial to acknowledge a request of Helen Plane in 1915, who wrote to him: "I feel it is due to the KKK that saved us from Negro domination and carpetbag rule, that it be immortalized on Stone Mountain". After a delay caused by World War I, Borglum and the newly chartered Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association set to work on this unexampled monument, the size
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Mumbai since she had left. Umrigar dedicated the book to "the real Bhima and the millions like her." William Morrow and Company, an imprint of HarperCollins, published "The Space Between Us" on January 10, 2006. "The Space Between Us" received largely positive reviews. While most reviewers enjoyed Umrigar's prose, several questioned whether or not she used clichés or exaggeration. Mishan praised Umrigar as "a perceptive and often piercing writer, although her prose occasionally tips into flamboyant overstatement." "Calcutta Telegraph"s Sreyashi Dastidar wrote the empathy that Umrigar writes with made up for "the situational clichés and the forced Indianness of the
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command the techniques of observation, experimentation, superposition and deduction…he has proved himself mathematician." The evidence for the primacy of Thales comes to us from a book by Proclus who wrote a thousand years after Thales but is believed to have had a copy of Eudemus' book. Proclus wrote "Thales was the first to go to Egypt and bring back to Greece this study." He goes on to tell us that in addition to applying the knowledge he gained in Egypt "He himself discovered many propositions and disclosed the underlying principles of many others to his successors, in some case his
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was an "exquisite and moving drama about the life of women in Israel ... Although the novel's subject matter is serious and difficult, it was written with a lot of irony and humor." In Poland, "Uwazam Rze" wrote that the book has "moving themes of friendship, sex, violence, family, nationalism, war and trauma. Boianjiu has a unique voice ... For the Polish reader there may be a lesson: let us rejoice that we live in a country without compulsory military service. And let us be grateful to those who serve voluntarily." In Iceland, "Spássían" wrote that the book is “a
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how his mother and father ended up supporting his ambitions to become a professional cyclist and eventually watched him win the Tour De France. The book takes us through his early associations with various mountain biking teams and his transition into a world class road racer who eventually becomes Lance Armstrong's most dependable domestique on the US Postal cycling team helping Armstrong to win the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Tours. Landis mentions his right hip problems throughout the book. In 2003 he broke his hip in a cycling accident and it never really recovered. Landis did however manage to cycle
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axiomatic minutiae, and there is next to nothing about advanced topics like large cardinals. Instead, it tries to be intelligible to someone who has never thought about set theory before. Halmos later stated that it was the fastest book he wrote, taking about six months, and that the book "wrote itself". As noted above, the book omits the Axiom of Foundation. Halmos repeatedly dances around the issue of whether or not a set can contain itself. But Halmos does let us prove that there are certain sets that cannot contain themselves. Naive Set Theory (book) Naive Set Theory is a
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traveled to the current state of Colorado. From January through May, 1847 (Ruxton, 1848) hunted along the front range of Colorado, visited with mountain men and endured an extremely cold winter while mostly in the company of his horse Panchito and two mules that he had acquired earlier in Mexico. Sites he visited include Ute Pass, "Woodland Park, Florissant, [and] Lake George". He spent time observing the relationships between the U.S. Army and the Comanche Indians. After working as a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains, about which he wrote the book "Ruxton of the Rockies", he then moved to
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the rebuilding efforts and the construction of the Trans-Alaska pipeline through the region. His last major Valdez construction project was the former Village Inn Motel, which is now the Mountain Sky Hotel and Suites. Walker published his own newspaper, called "Walker's Weekly", while living in Delta Junction, Alaska. He authored several books, including writings on his experiences with Castner's Cutthroats. He was interviewed by author Jim Rearden, who included Walker in his book, "Castner's Cutthroats: Saga of the Alaska Scouts". Walker also wrote an eclectic mix of books concentrating on his other life experiences. He wrote the nonfiction historical book,
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served as deputy under secretary in both the United States department of defense and the US department of state. He is also the lead author of the book "American National Security". He also wrote at least one book on issues related to Korea. Jordan is the father of Judge Kent A. Jordan, David J. Jordan, who for a time was the US attorney for the district of Utah and who served as the President of the England London Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Keith L. Jordan, who served as a state legislator in Tennessee.
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Liber Scintillarum Liber Scintillarum (literally "The Book of Sparks") is a late seventh or early eighth-century florilegium of biblical and patristic sayings in Latin. It was compiled by Defensor, a monk who in the preface identifies himself as a member of St Martin's Abbey at Ligugé, near Poitiers, and who wrote the work at the behest of his teacher Ursinus, the abbot of St Martin's. Virtually nothing is known of the monk beyond what the preface offers us. The compilation was written sometime between 636, when the important source Isidore of Seville died, and about 750, when the earliest extant
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of Lookout Mountain and the route travels near the eponymous mountain ridge of the same name. Tennessee State Route 318 State Route 318 (SR 318) is a short state highway in Hamilton County in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It serves as a connector between US 11 / US 41 / US 64 / US 72 and SR 148 and the Lookout Mountain tourist area. SR 318 begins in the Tiftonia/Lookout Valley area of West Chattanooga at US 11/US 41/US 64/US 72. It is a narrow, winding mountain road that rises above the U.S. Highways which
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Mount Warburton Pike Mount Warburton Pike is a mountain on Saturna Island in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest summit in the Gulf Islands, other than Saltspring Island, and is part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. The mountain is named for Warburton Pike (1861–1915), who alienated land on Saturna in 1886 and whose ranch included the mountain. Pike was an explorer, sportsman and author and wrote a book on his experiences in the Canadian North, "The Barren Ground of Northern Canada". Pike's death was untimely and tragic. After returning to Britain to enlist
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and U.F. Grant. Four authors besides Gibson have used the Maxwell Grant pen name: Theodore Tinsley, who wrote 27 Shadow stories between 1936 and 1943; Lester Dent, who wrote one story, "The Golden Vulture", in 1938; Bruce Elliott, who wrote 15 Shadow stories between 1946 and 1948; and Dennis Lynds, who wrote nine Shadow paperback novels between 1964 and 1967. The comic book series "The Shadow: Year One", published by Dynamite Entertainment, features a character by the name of "Maxwell Grant". The character is a journalist, who uncovers the identity of the Shadow. However, rather than exposing him, Grant offers
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camps that have housed various area hiking clubs since the 1920s. A long descent leads to Long Mountain Circle, where Seven Lakes Drive crosses and US 6 joins Palisades Interstate Parkway, descending slowly through a very scenic three miles (5 km) through Bear Mountain State Park between Bear Mountain to the south and Popolopen Torne to the north into another roundabout, the busy Bear Mountain Circle, where the parkway ends and US 6 intersects US 9W and US 202. The latter joins US 6 to cross the Hudson River via the Bear Mountain Bridge. The rocky slopes of Anthony's Nose
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Music, Essex, Hollis, Hampstead House, Worldwide Music, Melody Trails, and Cromwell. In his 1993 book, Seeger wrote: "Now, who should one credit on this song? The Irish, certainly. Sam Kennedy, who taught it to us. Lead Belly, for adding rhythm and blues chords. Me, for two new words for the refrain. Lee, who wrote seven verses. Fred and Ronnie, for paring them down to five. I know the song publisher, The Richmond Organization, cares. I guess folks whom TRO allows to reprint the song, (like Sing Out!, the publisher of this book) care about this too." The Weavers' original 1951
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City. In October 2000, WNYC—New York Public Radio—hired Gladstone to help relaunch "On the Media", locally produced but distributed nationally. By 2010, it had quadrupled its audience and earned several major journalism awards. Gladstone wrote "The Influencing Machine", a nonfiction graphic novel illustrated by Josh Neufeld and others in 2011. Gladstone describes the book as "a treatise on the relationship between us and the news media," further described by Leon Neyfakh as "a manifesto on the role of the press in American history as told through a cartoon version of herself." In 2017, Gladstone wrote "", a nonfiction book published
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wrote that the "evidence the authors present an overwhelming case that natural selection has recently acted strongly on us". However, Willis criticizes the authors for not discussing what the "recent and continuing evolution means for our species as a whole". Willis concludes by saying that "the book offers a limited and biased interpretation of some very exciting research". In "Evolution and Human Behavior", anthropologist Edward Hagen wrote that the book makes "many unsupported and often questionable assertions", but it is nevertheless valuable in raising "bold questions about major historical encounters between populations — Neanderthal and modern humans, German tribes and
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very few have been able to achieve." In her later book "Thinking in Pictures", published in 1995, the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote at the end of the foreword that the book provided "a bridge between our world and hers, and allows us to glimpse into a quite other sort of mind." In her early writings, Grandin made the mistake of presenting herself as a recovered autistic and in his foreword, Bernard Rimland used the term recovered autistic individual. In her later writings, this has been removed. Steve Silberman wrote, "It became obvious to her, however, that she was not recovered
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fiction, essays, book criticism, and poetry translations have been published widely. Her book "Six Rivers" reflects on four actual rivers the Perfume, Mississippi, Charles and Hudson, and two conceptual ones, the Aorta and the Styx. Other poems draw parallels between the experience of migratory animals and human migrants. A reviewer in the Minneapolis "Star Tribune" wrote that, "her work reminds us why poetry can be so exciting -- not because it shows us the world as we already know it, but because it takes the world we already know and makes it strange and new." Le has been a "Minnetonka
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dissertation was "One Relator Metabelian Groups" under advisors Gilbert Baumslag, Wilhelm Magnus, and Joan Landman Dyer. In 1972 McMartin turned from mathematics and became involved in the environmental movement in the Adirondacks where her primary focus was the nature, culture, and management in the Park. She served as vice-president the Adirondack Mountain Club and the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and was a member of many environmental groups. Between 1972 and 2005 she wrote 25 books, both guide books and histories of the Adirondacks. She wrote and maintained the popular eleven book "Discover" series which covers all regions
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Jackdaw Summer Jackdaw Summer (US. title "Raven Summer") is a 2008 book by David Almond. It is about two boys, Liam and Max, who, on following a jackdaw, find an abandoned baby. A "BookTrust" review wrote "Friendship, loyalty and truth are explored through a cast of complex characters in this compelling story. While often tense, it ends on a note of hope." and "The Guardian" wrote "This is a thoughtful and claustrophobic snapshot of people's lives, showing how they have come to be who they are that one summer. This may not be Almond's best book to date, but he
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for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.” Paul identifies the worship of created things (rather than the Creator) as the cause of the disintegration of sexual and social morality in his letter to the Romans. The apostle Peter and the Book of Revelation also refer to the connection between the worship of other gods and sexual sins, whether metaphorically or literally. The apostle John wrote simply, “Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.” The Catholic Church teaches that the first commandment forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who
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of the Birmingham scene." Rimmer has contributed to over 50 magazines in the UK, US and Germany. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Dave Rimmer Dave Rimmer is a music journalist and critic who has written books and articles about a number of pop and rock artists. He wrote for "Smash Hits" and "The Face" in the 1980s, and wrote a book about 1980s pop entitled "Like Punk Never Happened". His second book "Once Upon a Time in the East", is about Eastern Europe under Communism. His third book is about the New Romantic era in 1980s pop, "from the moment
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spirituality-based book clubs, as well as the subject of sermons by religious leaders of various denominations. Nicknamed "John the Divine" by his friends, Tettemer was an "expert athlete [and] equally skillful chess-player [who] was as much at home with people as with solitude," according to Jean Burden, the woman who wrote the foreword to his book. "Expert mountain-climber, skater, skier, and tennis-player, chess enthusiast, voracious reader of everything new in non-fiction and anything exciting in murder mysteries, a stickler for accuracy and for the correct use of words, vigorous individualist and champion of justice and American democracy ... [who loved
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Glenita, where the railroad splits north to pass through the Natural Tunnel, the centerpiece of Natural Tunnel State Park. After passing through the Devil's Racepath, US 58 and US 421 split from US 23 as Daniel Boone Trail just south of the town of Duffield. US 23 passes through the town, where the highway parallels the Appalachia Division rail line and the North Fork Clinch River through a gap between Powell Mountain and Cliff Mountain. The U.S. highway briefly enters Lee County while following the river between Powell Mountain and Walden Ridge to its source at Wildcat Summit at the
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Guardian", which satirised the book and its author. "Spoilt Rotten" was chosen by Jasper Fforde on the Penguin Books website as one of the books he would most like to get for Christmas. Fforde wrote that the book, "makes uneasy reading for huggy liberals, and asks harsh questions over the bizarre sense of sentimentality that seems to have befuddled us Brits ever since millions of us queued up to sign a book of condolences for a princess we didn't know. Dalrymple looks at the downside of an overblown sense of sentiment, which resulted this year with a murderous thug who
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traditions. Though steeped in history and imbued with a continuum between past and present, Cowan's work is thoroughly directed toward the modern. In 2000, James Cowan returned to Australia after spending three years in Italy where he researched and wrote "Francis: A Saints Way". This book became the inspiration for a new ballet devised by the Queensland Ballet Co. and performed in 2002. His latest book is "Journey to the Inner Mountain", a study of St Antony of Egypt in the 3rd century, and "A Spanner in the Works", a study of the impact of science and technology on contemporary
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Bill Bishop (author) Bill Bishop is an American author, journalist and social commentator. He co-wrote a book with retired college professor Robert Cushing entitled "The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart". His ideas have influenced the speeches of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. He is the co-founder and contributing editor of the "Daily Yonder", a blog about rural issues in the United States. Bishop has worked for several newspapers: the "Austin American-Statesman", "Lexington Herald-Leader", and "The Mountain Eagle". He has a degree from Duke University. His wife, Julie Ardery, is also a co-founder and
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for a BAFTA in 2004. He also wrote episodes of "Doctors" and "The Bill" and over a dozen radio dramas, for which he received the Richard Imison Award (for "A Matter of Interpretation") and a Sony Radio Academy Award nomination (for "Milosevic in Black and White"). In 2002, Morgan published "Fire Mountain": a non-fiction account of the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique. The book was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US and was subsequently adapted for "Secrets of the Dead"; a drama documentary series produced by "National Geographic." In 2005, Morgan moved to Los
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after songs on "Master of Reality," or the album itself. Syracuse, New York hard rock band Masters of Reality, who enjoyed moderate success in the 1990s, took their name from the album title. Metal bands After Forever and Orchid take their name from the album tracks of the same name. Mountain Goats leader John Darnielle wrote a short novel for the 33⅓ book series with "Master of Reality" as a central theme. The book is written in the form of a diary of a young man who has been committed to a mental health treatment facility, and how the teen
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into a number of European languages. After his release from prison, Psychoundakis was first forced to fight in the civil war. Then he worked as a charcoal burner in the Cretan mountains to support his family until his book was published. During this period, he wrote the book "The Eagle's Nest", which deals with the life and customs of the mountain people in the villages near his home of Asi Gonia. This book was translated into English by Dr Barrie Machin, the social anthropologist, who worked with George Psychoundakis in 1967 and 1968 on an anthropological study of Asi Gonia.
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high economic growth pre-dated the development of a generous welfare state”. US economist Tyler Cowen wrote that the book “has many points of interest”, quoting a paragraph about the success of Scandinavian migrants to the US. Allister Heath, deputy editor of "The Daily Telegraph", wrote that the book shows how the “remarkable work ethic” of Scandinavians has been eroded by large welfare states over time. Gabriel Sahlgren, a Swedish economist, wrote that the book neglects to show that the “smaller welfare state development prior to the great expansion from the 1960s onward” was important for the development in Scandinavia. The
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which is going on around us." Mohandas Gandhi wrote in his autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" () that this book "overwhelmed" him and "left an abiding impression." Gandhi listed Tolstoy's book, as well as John Ruskin's "Unto This Last" and the poet Shrimad Rajchandra (Raychandbhai), as the three most important modern influences in his life. Reading this book opened up the mind of the world-famous Tolstoy to Gandhi, who was still a young protester living in South Africa at the time. In 1908 Tolstoy wrote, and Gandhi read, "A Letter to a Hindu", which outlines the notion
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classical tropes, the complex characterizations, the social commentary — pointing explicitly to parallels between the fictional Letheras Economy and the US Economy — and has compared him to the likes of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Reviewing for SF Site, Dominic Cilli wrote, "Steven Erikson's "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" has single-handedly raised the bar for fantasy literature," praising Erikson's ambition and humor: Malazan Book of the Fallen Malazan Book of the Fallen is a high fantasy book series by the Canadian author Steven Erikson. The series, published by Bantam Books in the U.K. and
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rebutting their claims and pointing to the history of US foreign policy. Al-Hawali wrote an article in "Al-Bayan" magazine on unitarianism among Christians. He traced the history of those who reject the doctrine of the Trinity, and believe in One Supreme God. He claimed that monotheists had been subject to great persecution, by both Catholics and Protestants; and that five among the US presidents had been Unitarians. He has also written a book on the history and meaning of Secularism, in his Arabic book "Al Ilmaniya" meaning Secularism. In this book he has identified Church's incapability to cope with challenges
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Tennessee State Route 318 State Route 318 (SR 318) is a short state highway in Hamilton County in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It serves as a connector between US 11 / US 41 / US 64 / US 72 and SR 148 and the Lookout Mountain tourist area. SR 318 begins in the Tiftonia/Lookout Valley area of West Chattanooga at US 11/US 41/US 64/US 72. It is a narrow, winding mountain road that rises above the U.S. Highways which lie at the base of the mountain. It ends at SR 148 north of the town
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(voiced by Ben Small in the UK and the US) is an ochre quarry incline traction engine who works at the Blue Mountain quarry, who was introduced in Blue Mountain Mystery. Merrick (voiced by Matt Wilkinson in the UK and the US) is a red traveling gantry crane who works at the Blue Mountain quarry, who was introduced in Blue Mountain Mystery. Four new characters and one character from The Railway Series were introduced in "King of the Railway" Millie (voiced by Miranda Raison in the UK and the US) is a blue French narrow gauge engine who made her
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eastern slopes, it is drained by North Kwoiek Creek, which originates at Skihist Lake, a small mountain lake located approximately three kilometers southesast of Skihist's summit. The peak is most easily climbed via its south slopes, from the North Kwoiek Creek drainage. According to ethnologist James Teit, writing in 1917, the word "skihist" means "jump" or "leap", referring to a giant in mythological times who leapt back and forth between this summit and Akasik Mountain. Helen and GPW Akrigg, in their "British Columbia Place Name" book, say it is from "Sk-haest", meaning "peak between two ridges". Skihist Provincial Park is
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Road between North Ridge and Lower Mountain Road. Around the same time that NY 93 was rerouted, NY 270 was also extended northward along Junction Road from NY 31 to US 104. As a result, NY 93 overlapped NY 270 between Lower Mountain Road and US 104. The overlap with NY 270 remained in place until when NY 270 was truncated southward to the intersection of Lower Mountain and Junction roads. NY 93 was realigned in the late 1970s to bypass Lower Mountain and Gothic Hill Roads on Junction and Upper Mountain roads, replacing NY 270 along Junction Road. The
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believed the first Japanese to set foot in America. The book highlights the peace and friendship between two nations on a civil level. Preus's other books are "West of the Moon" in 2014 (for ages 9–12), "Shadow on the Mountain" in 2012, "Celebritrees: Historic & Famous Trees of the World" in 2011 (for ages 4–8). "The Peace Bell" in 2008 (ages 4–8). Preus had previously published several books long before her name became recognizable. She wrote "Visions in Near-Sleep" in 1983, and had co-authored with Lise Lunge Larsen for a picture book, "Legend of the Lady Slipper" in 1999 (ages
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Cold Mountain (novel) Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with Homer's "Odyssey". The narrative alternates back and forth every chapter between the stories of Inman and Ada, a minister's daughter recently relocated from Charleston to a farm in a rural mountain community near Cold Mountain,
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LLC and its publications "The Mountain Enterprise" and "The New Mountain Pioneer" plus the Mountain Communities Phone Book was assumed by Gary Meyer (publisher) and Patric Hedlund (editor). In November 2006 ownership of Hometown was taken over by Meyer, Hedlund and Pam Sturdevant, with general management continuing under Meyer and Hedlund. In 2014 ownership passed to Meyer and Hedlund, who remain its managers. It is today published in a tabloid format of between 28 and 36 pages weekly. 2017 The National Newspaper Association (NNA) announced "The Mountain Enterprise" was awarded First Place for Best Breaking News Series for "SWAT Standoff
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the growing literature on the Chinese in North America." Chan's criticisms were that it included more information than necessary and also was redundant in places. In a book review for the "China Quarterly", Lucie Cheng wrote that the book was both strengthened and weakened by its "comprehensiveness" since "By trying to give us too much, it ends up giving us too little." Kashima wrote "Historians will find this an interesting and sound account which helps to fill the information gap on the Chinese in Canada." Stanford M. Lyman of the New School for Social Research wrote that this book and
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redundant, I started writing the book." Walker said the book "began as a family project, a way to find out more, not just about my mother; like many children who had been in Care, our family had little information about what had happened to us as children." Walker told "Time Out", "There are many reasons why I wrote the book; one of them is because I think that the kind of quiet, everyday heroism of people like her, who try and change their situation and succeed or fail to whatever degree, is largely unsung. We’re so conditioned to discuss illegal
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required. The dedicated group of volunteers who organize these excursions are members themselves. Finally, the Club is also the focal point for Canadian mountain culture through its website, publications and programs. For instance, it is a big supporter of the annual Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival. From its origins in Winnipeg more than a century ago to the current, the Alpine Club of Canada has altered slightly. As the Club's founders expected it, the ACC has played a crucial role in shaping both the Canadian territory and the Canadian identity. As A.O.Wheeler wrote it in 1953, "The Club is
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Maurice Herzog Maurice Herzog (15 January 1919 – 13 December 2012) was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna expedition that first climbed a peak over 8000m, Annapurna, in 1950, and reached the summit with Louis Lachenal. Upon his return, he wrote a best-selling book about the expedition. On 3 June 1950, Herzog and Louis Lachenal became the first climbers in modern history to climb a peak over 8000m when, on the 1950 French Annapurna expedition, they summited the Himalayan mountain Annapurna I, the 10th-highest mountain in the world. The
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sports reporter at the New York Herald Tribune. They told her they had a mountain to give away to any developer who would build a ski area called "Hunter Mountain". McCluggage wrote an article that attracted the interest of a group of Broadway show-business people. In 1977 McCluggage authored the book "The Centered Skier", published by Vermont Crossroads Press owned by Constance Cappel and R. A. Montgomery. It mixed elements of sports psychology and Zen Buddhism highlighted by calligraphy by Al Huang. It became the foundation of approaches taken by the likes of the Sugarbush Ski School. On the Professional
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Thomas Hill (author) Thomas Hill (born ca. 1528) was an English astrologer, author and translator who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain. He was the author of the first popular book in English about gardening — "The profitable arte of gardening" — which was first published in 1563 under the title "A most briefe and pleasaunte treatyse, teachynge how to dresse, sowe, and set a garden". He went on to write other popular works, such as "The Gardener's Labyrinth" (1577). This was originally published under the name of Didymus Mountain, now generally attributed to Thomas Hill. In 1988, the
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1907. She followed up with "The Land of Long Ago" in 1909 and "Clover and Blue Grass" in 1916. Lida published a short novel, "To Love and to Cherish", in 1911. In 1912, Lida wrote a book about the mountain weavers of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky called "A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets". The book, one of the first of its kind, detailed the designs and colors of the coverlets which aided in elevating the coverlets to be an art form. "Aunt Jane", an elderly widow, was a reoccurring character in Lida Obenchain's short stories who told the experiences
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