Australian Stock Horses
Horses arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. Only the strongest and most enduring animals survived the harsh climate and difficult working conditions of the early colonies. In early Australia, horses were bred for stamina and ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Ariana Franklin
Ariana Franklin is a former Fleet Street reporter who lives in Hertfordshire, England. A: I am always fascinated by frauds and Schanskowska was fraudulent, literally, on a grand scale. DNA has proved that she couldn't have been Anastasia. What is ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Josh Aiello
JOSH AIELLO owns two pairs of Dockers (both khaki) and can type thirty-five words per minute. He has lent his word-processing expertise to Men's Health magazine, the National Academy of Television Arts adn Sciences, and Fleet Bank, among others. ... [... more]
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Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and was a reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post at sixteen. By the age of twenty, she had become both an editor and a columnist on London's Fleet Street. In 1979 she wrote her first ... [... more]
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Aristides Ruiz
With the able assistance of Thing 1 and Thing 2 -- and a fleet of Rube Goldbergian vehicles -- the Cat in the Hat examines the various parts of plants, seeds, and flowers; basic photosynthesis and pollination; and The Cat in the Hat takes Sally ... [... more]
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Ueda Hajime
In the near-future on planet Earth, a world gone mad where never-ending war is a fact of life, Kirio is the coolest kid at school. Up in the sky, a giant robot is fighting a fleet of gunships, but the brilliant and distant Kirio is far from ... [... more]
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Barrett Tillman
Grumman's successor to the pugnacious Wildcat, the Hellcat embodied many of the lessons learnt by F4F pilots in the opening months of the Pacific war. Introduced to the fleet in January 1943, and blooded in combat against the Japanese by VF-5 ... [... more]
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Andrew Thomas
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) served with distinction in every theater of war throughout World War II. From its poorly equipped beginnings - it started the war with few suitable, modern, carrier-born fighters - to the final campaigns over the Japanese ... [... more]
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Henry Sakaida
The outcome of the Pacific War was heavily influenced by the results of naval battles between the Imperial Japanese fleet and the US Navy. One of the key elements was Japan's large fighter component, which had gained experience over Manchuria, ... [... more]
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Charles London
The only major fleet engagement of World War I, the Battle of Jutland has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed - a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a conviction ... [... more]
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Dairy Goats
According to the list of provisions for the First Fleet, 19 goats were among the first animals brought to Australia in 1788. How many goats actually lasted the trip is unknown though those that did survive were maintained for personal rather than ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Bruce Henderson
Bruce Henderson is the author or coauthor of more than twenty nonfiction books, including True North. He served as a U.S. Seventh Fleet weatherman aboard an aircraft carrier in the Vietnam War, during which his ship rode out a typhoon in the ... [... more]
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