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WHO AM I? I am not a celebrity, I am not in an incredibly active occupation. In June of 2012, I weighed in at a whopping 299 pounds. Since June of that year, less than one year so far I have lost 65 pounds, seven pant sizes (48-41) and two shirt sizes (XXL to L) and I am still shedding the weight. Let...

With 32 pages of additional articles, references, and bibliographies of recommended reading. The California Gold Rush began in early 1848 when gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill. In the next few years some 300,000 people flocked to the gold fields to make their fortune;...

The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most difficult, and at the same time the most successful, enterprises ever undertaken. The task of carrying an army hundreds of miles across a waterless desert; conveying it up a great river, bristling with obstacles; defeating an enormously...

The war in South Africa may be roughly divided into three parts. First, The desperate fighting in Natal, which culminated in the relief of Ladysmith. Second, The advance towards Kimberley begun by Lord Methuen but arrested at Magersfontein, and renewed with a vastly greater force by Lord Roberts and...

Michael is on the run. He’s far from the protective cordon of his dogs and security team, and a killer is stalking him. A lone teenage hiker on the Appalachian trail, Michael carries in his backpack a fake driver’s license, a deck of cards, and a stolen gun. Cold weather is approaching and his gambling...

The Strange Case of Rabin Jynuri is a journey into the terra incognita of the mind. Rabin was an involuntary guest of a state mental hospital. A therapist, determined to get at the source of Mr. Jynuri's quixotic and delusional mind, was convinced he had stumbled across a rare case of "Megalomaniacal...

What A Dragon Should Know Only for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, "Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us--the most loved of all dragons?" No! For centuries my family...

In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping from captivity in China. AMONG MALAY PIRATES (excerpt) "I wish most heartily that something would...

A FIGHT WITH A BLOODHOUND Now, look here, Nathaniel—" "Drop that, Curtis, you know very well that I won't have it. I can't help having such a beast of a name, and why it was given me I have never been able to make out, and if I had been consulted in the matter all the godfathers and godmothers...

Atlan, der unsterbliche Arkonide, gerät zweihundert Jahre nach seiner Reise hinter die Materiequellen an Bord des Fernraumschiffs SOL. Dort findet er chaotische Zustände vor. Allein und allen Schwierigkeiten zum Trotz, nimmt er den Kampf gegen mächtige Gegner und widrige Umstände auf.--Auch wenn...

This ebook contains H. G. Wells complete novels. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will...

One person in four in the industrialized countries suffers from hyperuricemia and is therefore at risk of developing gouty arthritis, nephrolithiasis, or any of the other consequences of urate deposition. At present, far too little is known about urate deposition and the mechanisms by which it occurs,...

'Wonder Stories' was founded by legendary publisher Hugo Gernsback after he left 'Amazing Stories.' 'Wonder Stories' thrived in one form or another for more than thirty years, briefly rivaling even 'Astounding.' This four-hundred-plus page anthology collects ten important stories from the magazine's...

Dieses Buch enthält folgende Krimis: Alfred Bekker: Der Killer von Manhattan John F. Beck/Ines Schweighöfer: Kiebolds Kohle G. S. Friebel Karla stellt den Dirnenmörder Bernd Teuber/Richard Hey: Tödliche Kamera W.A.Castell: Geisterstunde unter Tage Alfred...