Author: Brian Ehlers
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The author provides a firsthand insight into his life as a trailblazer who, despite being deaf, became a successful athlete, father, coach, and life mentor in a hearing world. This is Brian at his wisest, bluntest, wittiest, and most relevant and humble self. The book will both surprise and challenge the reader with some funny, amazing, and inspiring experiences that very well may motivate themselves to do better in certain parts of their own lives. There is a decent chance you will find something to use in here. Soaring through Silent Skies is also a modern, positive, and correct portrayal of the deaf culture in our country.
Author: Tim Lynch
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844157369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across the world it became a vital element in military planning, yet no full history of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, in this graphic and highly readable study, gives vivid accounts of glider operations - some famous, some less well known - in every theatre of the war, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East and the Pacific. He quotes extensively from the memoirs and eyewitness accounts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he traces the evolution glider tactics over the course of the war.
Author: Steve Benson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557396905
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A vast collection of fantasy and humanistic short stories and poems.
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Author: Verland T. Whipple
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615264905
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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A religious history from man's pre-mortal life to the end of the world.
Author: Lionel Friedberg
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1789046475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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An artistic rendering of the African antelope, the Springbok, was depicted with stylized wings to serve as the logo of South African Airways (SAA) for well over 60 years. It was replaced by a new corporate identity when the airline was rebranded after the demise of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela from political incarceration, and the introduction of a non-racist democratic society in South Africa in the mid-nineties. As a state-owned entity, many people once saw SAA as the 'apartheid airline.' For a time, travel on board its aircraft was restricted to whites only, but this was later changed to include members of all the country's diverse racial groups. SAA pioneered flight throughout Africa during the colonial era, long before airports, supply services, radio and weather forecasting capabilities even existed. Its staff and equipment served with the Allies in Europe and North Africa during WWII and it met the enormous challenge of having to circumvent African airspace when flying to destinations abroad after most African nations closed their skies to it in protest against the country's racist policies in the early sixties. Over the years the airline grew into one of the world's major domestic, regional, and international carriers. Its long history was eventually terminated and replaced by a new entity in 2020 with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. In its original incarnation it could proudly boast of being one of the world's oldest and longest-surviving international carriers. It is still seen by many around the world as the airline with that much revered and fondly remembered emblem, the Flying Springbok.
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Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Author: Gene Steffen
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627873295
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Leki is a young whooping crane who has no idea that a spectacular journey is about to begin. He lives with his parents, Toluki and Karla, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Leki has had many adventures there, like the day he ran across wild wolves! Still, his biggest adventure is yet to come as his parents prepare for their annual October migration. Every year, the whooping cranes travel south to warmer climates for the winter. Toluki and Karla plan to take young Leki 2,400 miles, all the way from their home in Canada to a winter resting place on an island in the Gulf of Mexico. The path they take is called "the crane track," and it is a journey filled with wild weather and hungry hunters. Whooping cranes are graceful creatures with white feathers and up to an eight-foot wingspan. Once almost extinct, there are now 513 whooping cranes in the world, and many of them travel the same path as Leki and his parents. Nature is a carefully balanced, beautiful machine. It's up to us to protect the path of the cranes' migratory journey. So is little Leki up for the trip?
Author: Robert Aitkin Bertram
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Author: Robert Aitkin Bertram
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Languages : en
Pages : 766
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