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Ove’ Glove Hot Surface Handler, 1 Glove (Pack of 2) $19.99 Five-fingered flexi-grip. For left or right hand. Withstands extreme heat up to 480 degrees F. The Ove Glove is perfect for the kitchen, barbeque and handling hot surfaces around the house. The Ove Glove exterior layer is made of DuPont Nomex and Kevlar. Interior layer of soft doubleknit cotton. Machine washable. The thermal properties of The Ove Glove outer layer, which is made of Nomex and Kevla… |
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Fire Engine Red Contact Paper, 18 x 24′ $7.84 Adds decorative accents to any horizontal or vertical surface. Each roll features an easy-to-peel liner and an adhesive that allows it to be repositioned during installation without leaving a sticky residue. Itâs easy to apply, easy to remove, and easy to keep clean. Simply cut to length or shape for a custom application…. |
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Casa Moda S’mores Maker $40.00 Diehard s’mores fans will take year-round pleasure in this indoor/outdoor Casa Moda s’mores maker. Though it doesn’t have quite the cachet of a bonfire, the tidy little unit does have everything necessary to cooking and compiling s’mores ingredients. The centerpiece of the appliance is the 5-1/4-by-5-1/2-inch marshmallow-roasting grill, which runs on a 2-6-ounce can of chafing fuel, such as Sterno… |
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Sesame Street – Elmo Visits the Firehouse $7.32 Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 04/06/2004 Run time: 45 minutes Rating: Nr… |
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Barney: Let’s Go to the Fire House $4.83 Barney and his friends learn about firefighters and what happens when they respond to an emergency.Genre: Children’s VideoRating: NRRelease Date: 13-MAR-2007Media Type: DVD… |
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Road Trips, Vol. 4 No. 2: April Fools’ ’88 (3CD) $37.89 You all know about the glory that was 1987. A year after we almost lost Jerry to his diabetic coma in the summer of ’86, the Dead were back, Jerry was the phoenix risen, and the band was bigger than ever: There was “Touch of Grey,” In the Dark, the stadium tour with Dylan, a huge influx of new Heads; it was good times all around, for sure. The band was revived and a new day dawned! Well, we haven… |
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Sesame Street – Elmo Visits the Firehouse [VHS] $9.98 After a fire on Sesame Street gives Elmo a scare, he and Maria visit a real New York City firehouse. Finding out about all the protective clothes firefighters wear and practicing how to “Get Low and Go” helps Elmo feel safe again. And he even gets to slide down a real fire pole! Then a special Elmo’s World all about Firefighters helps kids understand much more about what to do if there is a fir… |
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Sesame Street – Visits the Firehouse [VHS] $9.98 … |
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Mighty Machines – At the Fire Station $6.97 Make Friends with Pumper, the bright red fire truck, and ride along for a special treat…a visit to fire school! You’ll learn about fire fighting from Sparky the hydrant and King the platform truck. See for yourself how they pump, spray, and stay prepared to keep us safe. So answer the call…we’ve got a busy day ahead!… |
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Nebo Redline Tactical Flashlight Strobe S.O.S 220 Lumen #5581 $34.99 Nebo Redline Tactical Flashlight Strobe S.O.S 220 Lumen #5581… |
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1888 Architecture: Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, Tech Tower, Hotel Del Coronado, Bristol Cathedral, Royal Court Theatre $47.61 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, Tech Tower, Hotel Del Coronado, Bristol Cathedral, Royal Court Theatre, Rookery Building, Notre-Dame Basilica, Walter E. Fernald State School, San Dimas Hotel, Grand Choral Synagogue, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Texas State Capitol, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Francis M. Drexel School, Columbus Monument, Barcelona, Concertgebouw, Georgia Institute of Technology Historic District, Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Dubuque, Iowa), Col. Frank J. Hecker House, Former HokkaidÅ? Government Office Building, Dearborn Observatory, Romanian Athenaeum, St. Michael the Archangel Church, 1 Bridge Street, Chester, Manti Utah Temple, Lyric Theatre, Zappeion, Minnesota Veterans Home, Mcminnville Opera House, Palms-Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, Central Market, Kuala Lumpur, Hook and Ladder House No. 5-Detroit Fire Department Repair Shop, La Plata Museum, St George’s Cathedral, Perth, Original Shaftesbury Theatre, First Baptist Church in Newton, Henry Ford Square House, Nasir Al-Mulk Mosque, St. John’s Parish (Omaha, Nebraska), Shelton-Mcmurphey-Johnson House, 7th District Police Station, Benjamin F. Jones Cottage, Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Cathedral Church of Saint Joseph, Govan Old Parish Church, Edgehill Church at Spuyten Duyvil, Briarhurst, Pizzurno Palace, Odd Fellows Block (Grand Forks, North Dakota), Bee Building, Monte Cristo Cottage, Black Point (Linn, Wisconsin), O’dea House (Berwyn Heights, Maryland), George R. Newell House, Winona County Courthouse, Wilson Barn, Central Presbyterian Church (St. Paul, Minnesota), National Saving and Trust Company, San Carlos, Scranton City Hall, the Clay School, U.s. Post Office, Former, and Federal Courthouse (Auburn, New York), Globe Tobacco Building, Cambridge Public Library, George W. |
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1900 Architecture $21.18 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Musée D’orsay, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish (Wyandotte, Michigan), St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne, Estadio Gran Parque Central, Boundary Estate, Symphony Hall, Boston, Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, German Fountain, Hippodrome, London, Royal Wanganui Opera House, Folly Theater, Wadsworth Chapel, Tome School, Old Perth Fire Station, Asheville School, Koko, Grand Opera House (Seattle, Washington), Mount Washington Hotel, Alexander Young Building, Goodwood Park Hotel, Selma (Leesburg, Virginia), Christ Church, Chester, the Calumet Theatre, Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity, Socialist Labor Party Hall, Smith-Dengler House, Paveletsky Rail Terminal, Boyce Station, Howes Building, Mechanics Hall (Worcester, Massachusetts), Franklin College Building No. 5, Alexandra Theatre, Frederick Ayer Mansion, Oxo Tower, Kullen Lighthouse, Weld Boathouse, Sulgrave Club, St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Roman Catholic Church, Emery Lds Church, Firthcliffe Firehouse, Marathon County Historical Museum, Pratt Street Power Plant, Savoyard Centre, John P. Cahoon House, African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Sweetwater Brewery, Fort Carroll Light, Thomas Indian School, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn, Motherwell Cathedral, Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man, Continental Trust Company Building, Cec Palace, Kintla Lake Ranger Station, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse, Vimanmek Palace, Petit Palais, Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, Wiley Hose Company Building, Robert Frost Homestead, Gunther Brewing Company, Leeds Kirkgate Market, Harvard Union, Gustav Stickley House, Loewenstein and Sons Hardware Building, Great Synagogue, St. Paul’s By-The-Sea Protestant Episcopal Church, Kinloch Castle, Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House, Admiral Dewey, N. J. Felix House, |
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1907 Architecture $22.35 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bridges Completed in 1907, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, Astor House Hotel, Fair Oaks Bridge, Croton Dam, Union Station (Washington, D.c.), Port of Liverpool Building, Great Mosque of Djenné, Plaza Hotel, Fraunces Tavern, North Avenue Bridge, Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Playhouse Theatre, Traffic Bridge, Foster Building, Wattles Mansion, Edinburgh College of Art, Laredo United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House, Federal Building and United States Courthouse (Wheeling, West Virginia, 1907), Pettit Memorial Chapel, House of Peace Synagogue, United States Customhouse, Masjid Abdul Gaffoor, Khedive Palace, Brown Grand Theatre, St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, Kirche Am Steinhof, Church of the Savior on Blood, Balch Hotel, One Fathom Bank Lighthouse, Mckinley National Memorial, Andreyevsky Bridge, Constitución Railway Station, Alexander Hamilton U.s. Custom House, Oxon Hill Manor, Yablanski House, Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge, Carnegie Art Museum (Oxnard, California), the Langham, St. James Cathedral in Seattle, Fort Shafter, Longfellow House, St. Andrews Episcopal Church (Tampa, Florida), Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy, Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, New York City, One Aldwych, Queen’s Theatre, Public Library and Baths, Balsall Heath, Alabama Governor’s Mansion, Fire Station No. 1 (Roanoke, Virginia), Hotel Adlon, Redheugh Bridge, Taft Bridge, Krasnoluzhsky Bridge, Isle Au Haut Light, the Red House, Arlington Pumping Station, Shotwick House, Cpr Station, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building, de Cornwerdermolen, Cornwerd, Failing Office Building, Grenzicht, Emmer-Compascuum, Hotel Metropol, Fisher Building, Glienicke Bridge, Vinh Trang Temple, Flatiron Building, Intercity |
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1907 Architecture: Casa Mil , Casa Batll , Astor House Hotel, Croton Dam, Union Station (Washington, D.c.), Port of Liverpool Building $59.68 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, Astor House Hotel, Croton Dam, Union Station (Washington, D.c.), Port of Liverpool Building, Great Mosque of Djenné, Plaza Hotel, Fraunces Tavern, Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Playhouse Theatre, Foster Building, Wattles Mansion, Edinburgh College of Art, Laredo United States Post Office, Court House and Custom House, Federal Building and United States Courthouse (Wheeling, West Virginia, 1907), Pettit Memorial Chapel, House of Peace Synagogue, United States Customhouse, Masjid Abdul Gaffoor, Khedive Palace, Brown Grand Theatre, St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, Kirche Am Steinhof, Church of the Savior on Blood, Balch Hotel, One Fathom Bank Lighthouse, Mckinley National Memorial, Constitución Railway Station, Alexander Hamilton U.s. Custom House, Oxon Hill Manor, Yablanski House, Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge, Carnegie Art Museum (Oxnard, California), the Langham, St. James Cathedral in Seattle, Fort Shafter, Longfellow House, St. Andrews Episcopal Church (Tampa, Florida), Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy, Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, New York City, One Aldwych, Queen’s Theatre, Public Library and Baths, Balsall Heath, Alabama Governor’s Mansion, Fire Station No. 1 (Roanoke, Virginia), Hotel Adlon, Isle Au Haut Light, the Red House, Arlington Pumping Station, Shotwick House, Cpr Station, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building, de Cornwerdermolen, Cornwerd, Failing Office Building, Grenzicht, Emmer-Compascuum, Hotel Metropol, Fisher Building, Vinh Trang Temple, Flatiron Building, Masonic Temple Building (Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, North Carolina), Peter G. Thomson House, Calvert Hills Historic District, William W. Early House (Brandywine, Maryland), |
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1948 Architecture $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bridges Completed in 1948, Charlevoix South Pier Light Station, Mile High Stadium, John Frost Bridge, Tripler Army Medical Center, Truman Balcony, Shelley House (St. Louis, Missouri), Mcclugage Bridge, Us 12 Bridges, War Memorial Stadium, Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge, Calvert Manor, Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948-1952, St. Volodymyr’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, Keni Radio Building, Capo Mele Lighthouse, Ledbetter House, Laurentian Hotel, Capo Dell’arma Lighthouse, Miss Worcester Diner, an Quang Pagoda, Cherry Creek Bridge, Punta Penna Lighthouse, Haines Shoe House, Colonial Apartments (Carthage, Missouri), Estadio General Santander, Mozel Sander Projects, Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial, Merritt House (Greenbrier, Arkansas), 1948 in Architecture, Tana Bridge, Climax Springs Fire Tower, Peter Thacher Junior High School. Excerpt: List of years in architecture (Table ) The year 1948 in architecture involved some significant events.Buildings Events Awards Births Deaths A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at An Quang PagodaAn Quang Pagoda (Vietnamese: Chùa n Quang , meaning: “Light of the (Dharma) Seal”; Hán t : ) in Master Van Hanh Street is a meeting place for Vietnamese Buddhist leaders in Ho Chi Minh City and is a site of the Institute for Dharma Propagation. It has been at the focus of development of modern Vietnamese Buddhism as the seat of the School of Buddhist Studies and the headquarters of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.Since its founding in 1948, its buildings have been expanded in number and size; they now include a library and a publishing house . But the importance of the pagoda lies in the large number of Dharma teachers who started from this place and the thousands of monks and nuns who received their training |
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1st Century in Transport: 1st-Century Bridges, London Bridge, Pont Du Gard, Aq educte de Les Ferreres, Ponte Corvo, Ponte D’augusto $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1st-Century Bridges, London Bridge, Pont Du Gard, Aqüeducte de Les Ferreres, Ponte Corvo, Ponte D’augusto, Roman Bridge, Ponte São João. Excerpt: London Bridge is a bridge between the City of London and Southwark in London, U.K., over the River Thames. Situated between Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Tower Bridge, it forms the western end of the Pool of London. On the south side of the bridge are Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station; on the north side are the Monument to the Great Fire of London and Monument tube station. It was the only bridge over the Thames downstream from Kingston until Putney Bridge opened in 1729. The current bridge opened on 17 March 1973 and is the latest in a succession of bridges to occupy the spot and claim the name. The bridge carries part of the A3 road, which is maintained by the Greater London Authority; the bridge itself is owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates (see City Bridge Trust), an independent charity overseen by the City of London Corporation. The area between London Bridge and Tower Bridge on the south side of the Thames is a business improvement district (BID) and is managed by Team London Bridge. The name London Bridge is often mistakenly applied to Tower Bridge, which is the next bridge downstream. A bridge has existed at or near the present site over the period from the Roman occupation of the area, nearly 2,000 years ago. The first bridge across the Thames in the London area, probably a military pontoon bridge, was built of wood by the Romans on the present site around 50 AD. Around 55 AD, a piled bridge was constructed, and the local Britons built a small trading settlement next to itthe town of Londinium. The settlement and the bridge were destroyed in a revolt led by Quee… |
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2003 in the United States: Eldred v. Ashcroft, Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, The Station nightclub fire $20.31 Source: Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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2009 California Wildfires $42 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 California wildfires have burned more than 336,020 acres (525 sq mi; 135,982 ha) of land since the beginning of July, destroying hundreds of structures and killing two people. Wildfires had occurred until late November due to red flag warnings.[1] Although fires burned many different regions of California in August, the month was especially notable for several very large fires which burned in Southern California, despite being outside of the normal fire season for that region. A total of 63 wildfire were started during this timespan. The Station Fire, north of Los Angeles, is the largest and deadliest of these wildfires, having burned 160,577 acres (251 sq mi; 64,983 ha) and killed two firefighters since it began in late August. Another large fire was the La Brea Fire, which burned nearly 90,000 acres (141 sq mi; 36,422 ha) in Santa Barbara County earlier in the month. A state of emergency was also declared for the 7,800 acres (12 sq mi; 3,157 ha) Lockheed Fire in Santa Cruz County to the north. |
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2009 Viareggio Train Derailment $46.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Viareggio train derailment was the derailment of a freight train and subsequent fire which occurred on 29 June 2009 in the railway station of Viareggio (LU), Tuscany (Central Italy). Twenty-six people were injured, and as of 22 December 2009 (2009 -12-22)[update], 32 people were confirmed as having died. |
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4 Alarm Fire at the Station House – Hot for Heroes #1 – Gay FireFighter Erotica $0.99 Clint Floyd,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Erotica eBooks Press |
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A Day at the Fire Station $23.32 Lori Mortensen, Jeffrey Thompson (Illustrator),Hardcover,Series: First Graphics: My Community Series, English-language edition,Pub by First Facts Books |
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A Day at the Fire Station $5.95 Lori Mortensen, Jeffrey Thompson (Illustrator),Paperback,Series: First Graphics: My Community Series, English-language edition,Pub by Coughlan Publishing |
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A Fine Excess: An Australian Odyssey $9.99 He’s caught in a rip tide off Kuta Beach in Bali: no one’s on shore to help; every time he cries out, the waters rush over him.Tony Speed is in free-fall. Near 30, a victim of the budget ax, he’s lost his first real job as an Instructor at a southern university. Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and John Lennon—the gods of his idolatry–all tell him to get out, just go. So he takes his life’s savings and chases his Japanese girlfriend to Tokyo. But Yoshiko dances to a different drummer, and before he knows it, Speed’s in Southeast Asia, knocked silly by a rip tide. That rip is the book’s central metaphor, as Speed travels through Asia and the “Lucky Country” of Australia, watching the fragmented pieces of his life play out like a kaleidoscope.Set in Bali and Australia, with flashbacks to Japan and the States, A Fine Excess is a novel that reads fast and goes deep—an On the Road for the new millennium–with a foot in this floating world, and a wing in the spiritual realms of East and West. It’s a book about the adventure of discovery, integrating our whirling selves with the mirroring chaos and beauty of the world. What’s Speed searching for, what does he want? An affirming vision… wholeness…someone and some place to hold onto. It’s the mid-70s, after all. Vietnam, Watergate, a worldwide recession form the crazy quilt he’s woven into. He joins Aussie friends Peter and Kay in hurricane-ravaged Darwin where he’s harassed by the local bar fauna—“Ockers.” With fellow wayfarer Dacy, he hitches a ride through the outback in a Holden station wagon piggybacking a lorry, the red dust of the Simpson Desert clogging every pore. In Coober Pedy, the mole-like denizens burrow into caves to escape the heat while ferreting night and day for fire-lit opals. It’s all |
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A Fire Station $5.69 Briefly describes what goes on at a fire station, the people who work there either as professional or volunteer firefighters, the equipment they use, and what happens when a fire alarm is sounded. Includes a related activity. |
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A Pilots History $14.72 This is the compelling story of a. man who learned to fly before WWII. He soon joined the regular army air corps as a private. As war became inevitable he completed flight training as a staff sergeant and had the wings of a military pilot. He flew bombers, fighters and transport aircraft before being sent to the Pacific area. Flying C-54′s loaded with priority cargo and personnel in and the wounded out. It was one bloody island after another from the East Indies to Tokyo Not flying as a group but as a single sitting duck for the enemy and friendly fire. As a single plane he landed at Atsugi airport to bring out the first loads of decimated allied prisoners.This was followed by flying “the hump” to help Chang Kia-chek against the communists.Discharged as a captain, he flew for up-start airlines that went bankrupt one after another. Two major carriers did no better.He was called to active duty during the Korean War to drop a weather station in northeast Greenland. Again a civilian, he was a chief pilot, operations director, a student of design and aeronautical engineering while running an aircraft conversion shop. From Peru to the Artic wastelands and places around the world were his work area. This was followed by being a personal pilot and aviation consultant for powerful executives. |
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A Pilots History $23.21 This is the compelling story of a. man who learned to fly before WWII. He soon joined the regular army air corps as a private. As war became inevitable he completed flight training as a staff sergeant and had the wings of a military pilot. He flew bombers, fighters and transport aircraft before being sent to the Pacific area. Flying C-54′s loaded with priority cargo and personnel in and the wounded out. It was one bloody island after another from the East Indies to Tokyo Not flying as a group but as a single sitting duck for the enemy and friendly fire. As a single plane he landed at Atsugi airport to bring out the first loads of decimated allied prisoners.This was followed by flying “the hump” to help Chang Kia-chek against the communists.Discharged as a captain, he flew for up-start airlines that went bankrupt one after another. Two major carriers did no better.He was called to active duty during the Korean War to drop a weather station in northeast Greenland. Again a civilian, he was a chief pilot, operations director, a student of design and aeronautical engineering while running an aircraft conversion shop. From Peru to the Artic wastelands and places around the world were his work area. This was followed by being a personal pilot and aviation consultant for powerful executives. |
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A Trip to the Firehouse $3.99 A group of school children visit a fire station and learn how firefighters do their jobs. |
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A Visit to the Fire Station $23.99 B. A. Hoena, Blake A. Hoena, Gail Saunders-Smith (Editor), Jennifer Norford,Hardcover,Series: Mummies Series, English-language edition,Pub by Coughlan Publishing |
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A Visit to the Firehouse (Blue’s Clues Series) $3.99 Blue and her friends star in this new 8 x 8 adventure. Sprinkles loves his shiny red fire truck, but he’s not quite sure what firemen do. So, big sister Blue and their friends decide to visit a fire station to learn firsthand. There they meet Fireman Dave who teaches them about the importance of safety and how neat it is to be a fireman-he even let’s them slide down the fireman’s pole! Now Sprinkles can’t wait to get back home to play with his new fire truck. |
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Accidental Deaths In Rhode Island, including: The Station Nightclub Fire, Great White, Ty Longley, Wpri-tv, Nicholas O’neill, 41 (film), They Walk Among Us $11.28 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Accidental Human Deaths in Rhode Island: The Station Nightclub Fire, Nicholas O’neill, Ty Longley $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Station nightclub fire occurred beginning at 11:07 PM EST, on Thursday, February 20, 2003, at The Station, a glam metal and rock n roll themed nightclub located in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States; it is considered to be the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in American history, killing 100 people, four of whom died after being admitted to local hospitals. The fire was caused when pyrotechnic sparks, set off by the tour manager of the evening’s headlining band, Great White, ignited flammable sound insulation foam in the walls and ceilings around the stage, creating a flash fire that engulfed the club in 5½ minutes. Some 230 people were injured and another 132 escaped uninjured. Video footage of the fire depicts its initial growth and the exit blockage which hindered evacuation. Screenshot of the Butler video, showing the beginnings of the fire The fire at 40 seconds. Biechele is facing camera at right.Photo Credit: Daniel R. DavidsonThe fire started at 11:07 PM, just seconds into headlining band Great White’s opening song, “Desert Moon,” when pyrotechnics set off by the band’s tour manager, Daniel Biechele, ignited the building’s flammable soundproofing foam. The pyrotechnics were gerbs, cylindrical devices that produce a controlled spray of sparks. Biechele used three gerbs calibrated at 15 by 15, which spray sparks 15 feet for 15 seconds. Two gerbs were at 45-degree angles, with the middle one pointing straight up. The flanking gerbs became the principal cause of the fire when their sparks hit the soundproofing foam on both sides of the drummer’s alcove at the rear of the stage. The flames were at first thought to be part of the act; only as the fire reached the ceiling and smoke began to billow did people realize it was uncontro… More: |
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Accidental Human Deaths in the Australian Capital Territory: Canberra Air Disaster, 1940 $9.43 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Canberra air disaster of 1940 was a plane crash that occurred near Canberra, the capital of Australia, on 13 August 1940, during World War II. The six passengers, including three members of the Australian Cabinet and the Chief of the General Staff, and the four crew were all killed. The deaths of the three cabinet ministers severely weakened the United Australia Party government of Robert Menzies and contributed to its fall in 1941. The Ministers, General White and their staff were being flown from Melbourne to Canberra for a Cabinet meeting on an RAAF Lockheed Hudson bomber flown by an experienced RAAF officer, Flight Lieutenant Robert Hitchcock. The Melbourne Herald reported: “The plane was seen by watchers at the Canberra Aerodrome and the Air Force station to circle the drome, and then rise and head south. It disappeared behind a low tree-dotted hill. There was an explosion and a sheet of flame, followed by a dense cloud of smoke… The Canberra Fire Brigade and ambulances from Queanbeyan and Canberra, as well as several Air Force tenders, arrived soon afterwards and fire extinguishers were played on the blazing wreckage. After about half-an-hour, when the blaze had died down, it was seen that the entire undercarriage, wings and structural supports of the plane had been torn away and were a smouldering mass in which were the charred bodies of those on board.” Two other Cabinet ministers, Senator George McLeay and Arthur Fadden, leader of the Country Party, had intended to fly to Canberra on the same flight, but for personal reasons decided to travel by train instead. Memorial opened by Sir Robert Menzies in 1960 (20th anniversary) Memorial by the ACT Government in 2003, representative of the wing of a Lockheed Hudson. 1960 memorial b… More: |
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Active Corvettes of Argentina: Ara Drummond, Espora Class Corvette, Drummond Class Corvette, Ara G mez Roca, Ara Parker, Ara Robinson $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ara Drummond, Espora Class Corvette, Drummond Class Corvette, Ara Gómez Roca, Ara Parker, Ara Robinson, Ara Spiro, Ara Rosales, Ara Espora. Excerpt: ARA Drummond (P-31) is the lead ship of the Drummond class of three corvettes of the Argentine Navy. She is the second vessel to be named after Navy Sgt Francisco Drummond. Drummond was built in 1977 in France for the South African Navy to be named SAS Good Hope but was embargoed at the last minute due the apartheid by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418. It was sold to Argentina instead and delivered on November 9, 1978. She carried the P-1 pennant number until the introduction of the Espora class corvettes in 1985 when she became P-31. In 1982 she served with her sister ships in the Falklands War ( Spanish: ). On 7 October 1983, during a live fire exercise, sunk the old destroyer Almirante Domecq Garcia with a MM38 Exocet missile. On 1994, based at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station she participated on the blockage of Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy. She had also served as support ship of the Buenos Aires-Rio de Janeiro tall ships races. She is currently based at Mar del Plata and routinely conducts fishery patrol duties in the Argentine Exclusive Economic Zone having captured several trawlers in recent years On 25 February 2010 the British tabloid The Sun reported that the Drummond had been intercepted and shepherded away by the Royal Navy destroyer HMS York in the vicinity of the Falklands Islands. The story was published in the middle of a diplomatic dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina about oil drilling, escalating the crisis as the “first head-to-head of the Falklands row”. The British Ministry of Defence quickly issued a denial. A spokesman said the incident … More: |
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Active Patrol Vessels of Argentina: Active Corvettes of Argentina, Active Frigates of Argentina, Ara Drummond, Espora Class Corvette $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Active Corvettes of Argentina, Active Frigates of Argentina, Ara Drummond, Espora Class Corvette, Drummond Class Corvette, Ara Gómez Roca, Ara Parker, Ara Robinson, Ara Spiro, Ara Rosales, Ara Espora. Excerpt: ARA Drummond (P-31) is the lead ship of the Drummond class of three corvettes of the Argentine Navy. She is the second vessel to be named after Navy Sgt Francisco Drummond. Drummond was built in 1977 in France for the South African Navy to be named SAS Good Hope but was embargoed at the last minute due the apartheid by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418. It was sold to Argentina instead and delivered on November 9, 1978. She carried the P-1 pennant number until the introduction of the Espora class corvettes in 1985 when she became P-31. In 1982 she served with her sister ships in the Falklands War ( Spanish: ). On 7 October 1983, during a live fire exercise, sunk the old destroyer Almirante Domecq Garcia with a MM38 Exocet missile. On 1994, based at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station she participated on the blockage of Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy. She had also served as support ship of the Buenos Aires-Rio de Janeiro tall ships races. She is currently based at Mar del Plata and routinely conducts fishery patrol duties in the Argentine Exclusive Economic Zone having captured several trawlers in recent years On 25 February 2010 the British tabloid The Sun reported that the Drummond had been intercepted and shepherded away by the Royal Navy destroyer HMS York in the vicinity of the Falklands Islands. The story was published in the middle of a diplomatic dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina about oil drilling, escalating the crisis as the “first head-to-head of the Falklands row”. The British Ministry of De… More: |
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Airports In Cambodia $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Phnom Penh International Airport, Angkor International Airport, List of Airports in Cambodia, Sihanoukville International Airport, Ratanakiri Airport, Battambang Airport, Kampong Chhnang Airport, Stung Treng Airport. Excerpt: Phnom Penh International Airport – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phnom Penh airport’s former name was Pochentong International Airport. On July 6, 1995, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) signed a concession agreement with the French-Malaysian joint venture company Société Concessionaire dAéroport (SCA), to operate Phnom Penh (PNH) – Pochentong International Airport. In return for a 20-year concession, SCA70 percent owned by Groupe GTM and 30 percent by Muhibbah Masterron of Malaysiacommitted to a $110 million improvement program that includes the construction of a new runway, terminal and cargo buildings, hangars, installation of a Cat III level Instrument Landing System (ILS) and associated approach lighting. The Berger Group was selected by the RGC to provide independent engineering services during the concession, to audit the design and to advise on the practicality and cost of the concessions proposed improvements. The Berger team also supervised the initial works to accommodate widebody aircraft such as 747s, including asphalt concrete runway overlays; installation of new ILS, metrological equipment, runway lighting and generator and power systems; and construction of a new fire station, taxiway and turn-pad extensions. Following the successful completion of the initial works, the Berger team provided design review and independent engineering services for the construction of a new 18,000-square-meter terminal building to accommodate growing tourist traffic. The $22 million terminal building includes three m… |
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Alameda, California (Images of America Series) $21.99 Through its many incarnations, Alameda has never lost its charm and ability to draw people from all walks of life. Originally a peninsula inhabited by Native Americans, it was purchased by Don Luis Peralta in 1818 and developed into a bedroom community of San Francisco. Alameda became an island in 1902, and a short time later, it was a new home to many refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The Neptune Beach amusement park attracted tourists who enjoyed the bathing, beaches, and rides, making Alameda “the Coney Island of the West.” Modern transportation carried people and cargo in and out on ferries, trains, ships, and planes, which landed at the busy Airdrome. The creation of the Naval Air Station in 1938 and World War II made Alameda a military town. The 1990s brought Alameda back to its first purpose, as a small town amongst big cities, its streets lined with graceful Victorians and with a diverse and lively population. |
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American Poems, including: Casey At The Bat, Pale Fire, Archy And Mehitabel, In A Station Of The Metro, Lift Every Voice And Sing, The New Colossus, Barbara Allen (song), The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Desiderata, A Visit From St. Nicholas $19.24 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Amusement Parks in Kentucky: Tombstone Junction, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, Beech Bend Park, Kaintuck Territory $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tombstone Junction was a small western town themed park located on KY State Route 90 in Cumberland Falls, Kentucky where operation was started in the 1960s and continued uninterupted until the park was heavily damaged by fire in the year 1989. After this first fire the park continued limited operation until completely destroyed by a second fire in 1991. The park featured a recreation of a small western frontier town complete with train station, working saloon, dance hall, jailhouse, shantys, and shops. There was also an outdoor amphitheater which hosted live shows featuring many of the biggest names in country and western music of the period. The biggest attraction at Tombstone Junction was a full sized standard gauge operating steam train which was unheard of in parks, especially one as small as Tombstone. Several things made Tombstone Junction unique among theme parks including its small size and the laid back “mom and pop” way the park was run. The park developed from the building and operation of the “Cumberland Falls Scenic Railroad” in the 1960s. The railroad was built by Millard and Morris Stephens from nearby Whitley City as an attraction to compliment The Falls Motel (which they owned) which was near Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, both of which were a very short distance down the road. The railroad was built and laid around the edges of a large cut between two mountains that had been filled in enough so that a 2 1/2 mile “L” shaped circle of track could be laid. This was almost a copy of the idea behind the “Rebel Railroad” in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee which eventually grew into what is known as the Dollywood themepark today. For the second season of operation the railroad’s developers made in-house additions of buildings, shop… More: |
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Angel Promises $4.99 When The Unthinkable Happens . . .”Entrapment . . . Four Young Firefighters killed. It has been confirmed,one was your daughter, Karen.The first few days after the historic, fatal fire catastrophe known as the Thirtymile Fire, which occurred in a wilderness area near Winthrop, WA. only a short distance from the Western Canadian border on July 10, 2001-a dark shadow of sadness covered and enveloped the Northwestern United States such as had never been seen or experienced before. Four young firefighters had been killed fighting the enormous blaze that originally sprang out of an unattended, abandoned campfire ring the night before, situated not 30 feet from the paved road in the Chewuch River Canyon.On that very hot, dry, late afternoon of July 10th, 2001, Karen L. FitzPatrick, 18 years old, and her three firefighter comrades, Devin Weaver, 21, Jessica Johnson, 19, and Tom Craven, 30, were surrounded and entrapped by what began as a small fire that ultimately became a huge firestorm, burning over 9,300 acres, and also taking their lives at exactly 5:30 pm that afternoon. Ten individuals, eight firefighters, and two campers, who deployed their fire shelters on the road, survived. But for the world of Wildland Firefighting-it would never again be the same. Safety issues sprang forth from the tragic fire that will be talked about and studied, probably forever.Angel Promises is a tribute to remember the youngest firefighter in that group, based out of the Naches Ranger Station, in Naches, WA., near her home Yakima, WA. This book is a collection of Karen’s poems as a teen poet, her mother, Kathie’s collection as a teen poet and artist, and works as a young womanand mother, plus a few selected poems and messages sent to the family after the fire. Add and few more stories, special photos, and a visit to “Karen Street,” and you have it: Angel Promises. |
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Angel Promises $25.41 When The Unthinkable Happens . . .”Entrapment . . . Four Young Firefighters killed. It has been confirmed,one was your daughter, Karen.The first few days after the historic, fatal fire catastrophe known as the Thirtymile Fire, which occurred in a wilderness area near Winthrop, WA. only a short distance from the Western Canadian border on July 10, 2001-a dark shadow of sadness covered and enveloped the Northwestern United States such as had never been seen or experienced before. Four young firefighters had been killed fighting the enormous blaze that originally sprang out of an unattended, abandoned campfire ring the night before, situated not 30 feet from the paved road in the Chewuch River Canyon.On that very hot, dry, late afternoon of July 10th, 2001, Karen L. FitzPatrick, 18 years old, and her three firefighter comrades, Devin Weaver, 21, Jessica Johnson, 19, and Tom Craven, 30, were surrounded and entrapped by what began as a small fire that ultimately became a huge firestorm, burning over 9,300 acres, and also taking their lives at exactly 5:30 pm that afternoon. Ten individuals, eight firefighters, and two campers, who deployed their fire shelters on the road, survived. But for the world of Wildland Firefighting-it would never again be the same. Safety issues sprang forth from the tragic fire that will be talked about and studied, probably forever.Angel Promises is a tribute to remember the youngest firefighter in that group, based out of the Naches Ranger Station, in Naches, WA., near her home Yakima, WA. This book is a collection of Karen’s poems as a teen poet, her mother, Kathie’s collection as a teen poet and artist, and works as a young womanand mother, plus a few selected poems and messages sent to the family after the fire. Add and few more stories, special photos, and a visit to “Karen Street,” and you have it: Angel Promises. |
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Anne Feversham $25.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III IN the meantime, the unconscious cause of Mr. William Shakespeare’s enthusiasm was proceeding somewhat arrogantly through the streets of the town. Mistress Anne Feversham was mightily proud of herself, of her young blood-horse, of her pied merlin, above all of her brand-new hawking-breeches, which she had had the audacity to copy from two particularly dashing ladies of the Court who had accompanied the Queen on her recent visit to Nottingham. As for John Markham, she was proud of him too. He made a fine squire. But nothing would have induced her to let him know it. None the less surely was he subdued to her purposes. A wise fellow in all things else, he was the true knight, the ready slave of his young mistress. And his young mistress was imperious. High temper was in every clean-run line of her. It was in the eye, a thing of mist and fire, gloriously placed like that of one of Leonardo’s ladies. It was in the nose, curved like the beak of her merlin; in the delicate molding of the chin and mouth, in the slender column of the throat, in the poise of the head, in the supple assurance of the body which ruled a beast ofmettle and goaded it into setting up its will for the pleasure of subduing it. John Markham, with a head beyond his years, was passing wise for his station. He was no ordinary servant, but one high in the regard of Sir John Feversham, the Constable of Nottingham Castle, that grim pile half- a-mile off, rising sheer from its rock in the midst of the water-meadows. Learned in hawking, he was esteemed by gentle and simple for many a mile. His skill in the craft of princes had even carried his fame as far as Belvoir, under whose shadow he had been bred. He was a shrewd, a skilful, a bold young fellow, wise in all things except that he worshiped the . |
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Anne Feversham $16.83 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III IN the meantime, the unconscious cause of Mr. William Shakespeare’s enthusiasm was proceeding somewhat arrogantly through the streets of the town. Mistress Anne Feversham was mightily proud of herself, of her young blood-horse, of her pied merlin, above all of her brand-new hawking-breeches, which she had had the audacity to copy from two particularly dashing ladies of the Court who had accompanied the Queen on her recent visit to Nottingham. As for John Markham, she was proud of him too. He made a fine squire. But nothing would have induced her to let him know it. None the less surely was he subdued to her purposes. A wise fellow in all things else, he was the true knight, the ready slave of his young mistress. And his young mistress was imperious. High temper was in every clean-run line of her. It was in the eye, a thing of mist and fire, gloriously placed like that of one of Leonardo’s ladies. It was in the nose, curved like the beak of her merlin; in the delicate molding of the chin and mouth, in the slender column of the throat, in the poise of the head, in the supple assurance of the body which ruled a beast ofmettle and goaded it into setting up its will for the pleasure of subduing it. John Markham, with a head beyond his years, was passing wise for his station. He was no ordinary servant, but one high in the regard of Sir John Feversham, the Constable of Nottingham Castle, that grim pile half- a-mile off, rising sheer from its rock in the midst of the water-meadows. Learned in hawking, he was esteemed by gentle and simple for many a mile. His skill in the craft of princes had even carried his fame as far as Belvoir, under whose shadow he had been bred. He was a shrewd, a skilful, a bold young fellow, wise in all things except that he worshiped the . |
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Anne Feversham $20.09 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III IN the meantime, the unconscious cause of Mr. William Shakespeare’s enthusiasm was proceeding somewhat arrogantly through the streets of the town. Mistress Anne Feversham was mightily proud of herself, of her young blood-horse, of her pied merlin, above all of her brand-new hawking-breeches, which she had had the audacity to copy from two particularly dashing ladies of the Court who had accompanied the Queen on her recent visit to Nottingham. As for John Markham, she was proud of him too. He made a fine squire. But nothing would have induced her to let him know it. None the less surely was he subdued to her purposes. A wise fellow in all things else, he was the true knight, the ready slave of his young mistress. And his young mistress was imperious. High temper was in every clean-run line of her. It was in the eye, a thing of mist and fire, gloriously placed like that of one of Leonardo’s ladies. It was in the nose, curved like the beak of her merlin; in the delicate molding of the chin and mouth, in the slender column of the throat, in the poise of the head, in the supple assurance of the body which ruled a beast ofmettle and goaded it into setting up its will for the pleasure of subduing it. John Markham, with a head beyond his years, was passing wise for his station. He was no ordinary servant, but one high in the regard of Sir John Feversham, the Constable of Nottingham Castle, that grim pile half- a-mile off, rising sheer from its rock in the midst of the water-meadows. Learned in hawking, he was esteemed by gentle and simple for many a mile. His skill in the craft of princes had even carried his fame as far as Belvoir, under whose shadow he had been bred. He was a shrewd, a skilful, a bold young fellow, wise in all things except that he worshiped the . |
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Anne Feversham $31.74 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III IN the meantime, the unconscious cause of Mr. William Shakespeare’s enthusiasm was proceeding somewhat arrogantly through the streets of the town. Mistress Anne Feversham was mightily proud of herself, of her young blood-horse, of her pied merlin, above all of her brand-new hawking-breeches, which she had had the audacity to copy from two particularly dashing ladies of the Court who had accompanied the Queen on her recent visit to Nottingham. As for John Markham, she was proud of him too. He made a fine squire. But nothing would have induced her to let him know it. None the less surely was he subdued to her purposes. A wise fellow in all things else, he was the true knight, the ready slave of his young mistress. And his young mistress was imperious. High temper was in every clean-run line of her. It was in the eye, a thing of mist and fire, gloriously placed like that of one of Leonardo’s ladies. It was in the nose, curved like the beak of her merlin; in the delicate molding of the chin and mouth, in the slender column of the throat, in the poise of the head, in the supple assurance of the body which ruled a beast ofmettle and goaded it into setting up its will for the pleasure of subduing it. John Markham, with a head beyond his years, was passing wise for his station. He was no ordinary servant, but one high in the regard of Sir John Feversham, the Constable of Nottingham Castle, that grim pile half- a-mile off, rising sheer from its rock in the midst of the water-meadows. Learned in hawking, he was esteemed by gentle and simple for many a mile. His skill in the craft of princes had even carried his fame as far as Belvoir, under whose shadow he had been bred. He was a shrewd, a skilful, a bold young fellow, wise in all things except that he worshiped the . |
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Architecture in Hawaii: Greek Revival Architecture in Hawaii, Hawaiian Architecture, Palaces in Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts $37.49 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Greek Revival Architecture in Hawaii, Hawaiian Architecture, Palaces in Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Laie Hawaii Temple, Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Ê?iolani Palace, Makawao Union Church, Merchant Street Historic District, Moana Hotel, Volcano House, Theodore Heuck, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Oliver G. Traphagen, Washington Place, Hart Wood, Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Hawaii State Capitol, Aliiolani Hale, Neal S. Blaisdell Center, KawaiahaÊ?o Church, Malia, Liljestrand House, Charles William Dickey, Downtown Honolulu, Fire Stations of Oahu, Hawaii Shingon Mission, Kohala Historical Sites State Monument, Louis Davis, Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Honolulu, Byodo-In Temple, Mission Houses Museum, Shangri La, Tripler Army Medical Center, Vladimir Ossipoff, the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hanaiakamalama, Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew, Honolulu, Hawaii Theatre, Honolulu Tudor-french Norman Cottages, Kona Hawaii Temple, Hulihee Palace, Church of the Crossroads, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hawi, Edgar and Lucy Henriques House, Ahu a Umi Heiau, Honolulu Hale, Hilton Hawaiian Village, R.n. Linn House, Stangenwald Building, Grace Cooke House, Co-Cathedral of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, Alfred Hocking House, C. Brewer Building, Ê?iolani Barracks, John Guild House, Joseph W. Podmore Building, Prince Kuhio Federal Building, James L. Coke House, Boettcher Estate, Thomas Alexander Burningham House, Yamase Building, Lapakahi State Historical Park, Ainahau, Clinton Briggs Ripley, Kakaako Pumping Station, Trump International Hotel and Tower, Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial, U.s. Immigration Office (Honolulu, Hawaii), Kapuaiwa Building, Hawaii State Library, Hawaii Convention Center, Lemon Wond Holt House, Kamehameha V Post Office, Broken Ridge Buddhist |
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Area Ignition $3.99 In August 1979, along a remote ridgeline near Santa Maria, four firefighters from a California Division of Forestry (CDF) engine crew, were preparing to defend the northern flank of the Spanish Ranch fire. Captain Ed Marty, and firefighters; Scott Cox, Ron Lorant and Steve Manley responded to the fire from the Nipomo fire station. They were all from California, but were as different as the golden state’s angles, aspects and arenas. They were defined more from where they were from; Tehama, Goleta, Long Beach and La Habra. No one predicted what would happen next-but in a page from man versus nature, the fire accelerated and then swept across the face of the slope which the four young firefighters were on. At 4:25 PM their thin line of defense was cut-off and a retreating bulldozer operator was overrun. Minutes later, they tried to escape from the sweeping area ignition, but the fire cut-off their retreat and along with another dozer operator they were all overrun by fire. The tragedy that occurred and the subsequent investigation would change the way the state fire agency operated on area wildfires. Area Ignition looks back 30-years to honor the men who fought and died in the Spanish Ranch Fire. It recreates the courage, emotion and human frailties that are interwoven from the initial ignition point-to the final survivors’ thoughts as they proceeded past a solitary CDF fire engine. Although much has changed since then-young firefighters still go out every year to battle California wildfires just like their brothers of the past. We owe it to them to understand a little bit of the awesome power of wildfires and thepeople who fight them. |
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Area Ignition $12.59 In August 1979, along a remote ridgeline near Santa Maria, four firefighters from a California Division of Forestry (CDF) engine crew, were preparing to defend the northern flank of the Spanish Ranch fire. Captain Ed Marty, and firefighters; Scott Cox, Ron Lorant and Steve Manley responded to the fire from the Nipomo fire station. They were all from California, but were as different as the golden state’s angles, aspects and arenas. They were defined more from where they were from; Tehama, Goleta, Long Beach and La Habra. No one predicted what would happen next-but in a page from man versus nature, the fire accelerated and then swept across the face of the slope which the four young firefighters were on. At 4:25 PM their thin line of defense was cut-off and a retreating bulldozer operator was overrun. Minutes later, they tried to escape from the sweeping area ignition, but the fire cut-off their retreat and along with another dozer operator they were all overrun by fire. The tragedy that occurred and the subsequent investigation would change the way the state fire agency operated on area wildfires. Area Ignition looks back 30-years to honor the men who fought and died in the Spanish Ranch Fire. It recreates the courage, emotion and human frailties that are interwoven from the initial ignition point-to the final survivors’ thoughts as they proceeded past a solitary CDF fire engine. Although much has changed since then-young firefighters still go out every year to battle California wildfires just like their brothers of the past. We owe it to them to understand a little bit of the awesome power of wildfires and thepeople who fight them. |
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Area Ignition $22.49 In August 1979, along a remote ridgeline near Santa Maria, four firefighters from a California Division of Forestry (CDF) engine crew, were preparing to defend the northern flank of the Spanish Ranch fire. Captain Ed Marty, and firefighters; Scott Cox, Ron Lorant and Steve Manley responded to the fire from the Nipomo fire station. They were all from California, but were as different as the golden state’s angles, aspects and arenas. They were defined more from where they were from; Tehama, Goleta, Long Beach and La Habra. No one predicted what would happen next-but in a page from man versus nature, the fire accelerated and then swept across the face of the slope which the four young firefighters were on. At 4:25 PM their thin line of defense was cut-off and a retreating bulldozer operator was overrun. Minutes later, they tried to escape from the sweeping area ignition, but the fire cut-off their retreat and along with another dozer operator they were all overrun by fire. The tragedy that occurred and the subsequent investigation would change the way the state fire agency operated on area wildfires. Area Ignition looks back 30-years to honor the men who fought and died in the Spanish Ranch Fire. It recreates the courage, emotion and human frailties that are interwoven from the initial ignition point-to the final survivors’ thoughts as they proceeded past a solitary CDF fire engine. Although much has changed since then-young firefighters still go out every year to battle California wildfires just like their brothers of the past. We owe it to them to understand a little bit of the awesome power of wildfires and thepeople who fight them. |
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Around The Shores Of Asia $16.77 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTEB m FROM BOMBAY TO AGRA AND DELHI The railway journey up country to Agra—The landscape and towns along the way—Over the Ghauts—Village fire in the jungle— The Begam of Bhopal’s dominions—Turbulent-of-old Jhansi— Gwalior and its rock fortress—Agra and the Taj Mahal—Glory of the Indian Mohammedan world—The garden of the Taj Mahal —The sacred river Jumna—The pilgrim with his lota—The Great Moghul Emperors—Shah Jehan, the master builder of Agra— Beautiful buildings of the inner fort of Agra—The modern town and its peoples—The monkeys and squirrels that frequent it unafraid—The kites, mynah birds, peacocks and green paroquets that make it also their home—The evening journey to Delhi by way of Muttra. January 24th. Why were narrow gauge railways ever invented when the broad gauge ones are so much more comfortable ? The fine railway station at Bombay—someone says the finest in Asia—receives and sends forth many travellers, but perhaps none have set forth up country more eagerly than we did, or have been more pleasantly disappointed in the travelling accommodation. Of course the pillows and bedding one takes for oneself, but the railway company furnishes a sleeping-room large enough almost to be called a drawing-room, with room for more luggage than one likes to count; with toilet room attachment, electric light and fans, and with smoked glass windows to temper the sunshine during the day. Perhaps a friend high in Indian railway circles had something to do with making our start so ” propitious.” The onlything he could not do was to lay the dust over that great, dry, rather arid tract of country between Bombay and Agra. For some miles after leaving Bombay the railway runs |
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Around The Shores Of Asia $24.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTEB m FROM BOMBAY TO AGRA AND DELHI The railway journey up country to Agra—The landscape and towns along the way—Over the Ghauts—Village fire in the jungle— The Begam of Bhopal’s dominions—Turbulent-of-old Jhansi— Gwalior and its rock fortress—Agra and the Taj Mahal—Glory of the Indian Mohammedan world—The garden of the Taj Mahal —The sacred river Jumna—The pilgrim with his lota—The Great Moghul Emperors—Shah Jehan, the master builder of Agra— Beautiful buildings of the inner fort of Agra—The modern town and its peoples—The monkeys and squirrels that frequent it unafraid—The kites, mynah birds, peacocks and green paroquets that make it also their home—The evening journey to Delhi by way of Muttra. January 24th. Why were narrow gauge railways ever invented when the broad gauge ones are so much more comfortable ? The fine railway station at Bombay—someone says the finest in Asia—receives and sends forth many travellers, but perhaps none have set forth up country more eagerly than we did, or have been more pleasantly disappointed in the travelling accommodation. Of course the pillows and bedding one takes for oneself, but the railway company furnishes a sleeping-room large enough almost to be called a drawing-room, with room for more luggage than one likes to count; with toilet room attachment, electric light and fans, and with smoked glass windows to temper the sunshine during the day. Perhaps a friend high in Indian railway circles had something to do with making our start so ” propitious.” The onlything he could not do was to lay the dust over that great, dry, rather arid tract of country between Bombay and Agra. For some miles after leaving Bombay the railway runs |
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Around The Shores Of Asia; A Diary Of Travel From The Golden Horn To The Golden Gate $21.14 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTEB m FROM BOMBAY TO AGRA AND DELHI The railway journey up country to Agra—The landscape and towns along the way—Over the Ghauts—Village fire in the jungle— The Begam of Bhopal’s dominions—Turbulent-of-old Jhansi— Gwalior and its rock fortress—Agra and the Taj Mahal—Glory of the Indian Mohammedan world—The garden of the Taj Mahal —The sacred river Jumna—The pilgrim with his lota—The Great Moghul Emperors—Shah Jehan, the master builder of Agra— Beautiful buildings of the inner fort of Agra—The modern town and its peoples—The monkeys and squirrels that frequent it unafraid—The kites, mynah birds, peacocks and green paroquets that make it also their home—The evening journey to Delhi by way of Muttra. January 24th. Why were narrow gauge railways ever invented when the broad gauge ones are so much more comfortable ? The fine railway station at Bombay—someone says the finest in Asia—receives and sends forth many travellers, but perhaps none have set forth up country more eagerly than we did, or have been more pleasantly disappointed in the travelling accommodation. Of course the pillows and bedding one takes for oneself, but the railway company furnishes a sleeping-room large enough almost to be called a drawing-room, with room for more luggage than one likes to count; with toilet room attachment, electric light and fans, and with smoked glass windows to temper the sunshine during the day. Perhaps a friend high in Indian railway circles had something to do with making our start so ” propitious.” The onlything he could not do was to lay the dust over that great, dry, rather arid tract of country between Bombay and Agra. For some miles after leaving Bombay the railway runs |
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Astral Rejection $15.98 Like some kind of Lovecraftian construct, maddening in its ever-shifting, non-Euclidean nature, I Set My Friends on Fire are a tough band to paint a picture of. With a sound that? s constantly shifting in any and all directions, their second album, Astral Rejection, pushes and pulls listeners in almost every direction at the same time, switching from glitchy electronic to math metal to Auto-Tuned pop not only within the same song, but sometimes within the same minute. What really sets them apart from the ultra-ironic metal-turned-crunk of Brokencyde or the mind-bending electro-metal experiments of Genghis Tron, however, is that there is seldom an attempt to merge all of these things, instead allowing everything to exist in its own world with minimal bleed, giving the impression of a radio that? s pulling in just a hint of another station. In a lot of ways, Astral Rejection feels like a series of tests designed by I Set My Friends on Fire to test the listeners? endurance by shocking their sensibilities at every turn, and if you can push through the Auto-Tune, you might be surprised by what you find. ~ Gregory Heaney, Rovi |
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At The Breakers: A Novel $24.95 Literary fiction has presented readers with centuries of memorable women in trouble. Here, the author of the widely praised and beloved Come and Go, Molly Snow, Kentucky novelist Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, offers Jo Sinclair, a long-term single parent of four children. Fleeing an abusive relationship, she winds up in Sea Cove, New Jersey, in front of The Breakers, a salty old hotel in the process of renovation. In this unlikely setting, Jo finds a way to renovate herself, to reclaim the promising life that was derailed by pregnancy when she was fourteen. She impulsively convinces the owner to give her a job painting the rooms and settles in with her youngest child, thirteen-year-old Nick. A grand cast of characters wanders through this little world, among them Iris Zephyr, the hotel’s ninety-two-year-old permanent boarder; Charlie, a noble mixed breed dog; Wendy, Jo’s tough eighteen-year-old daughter, who has suffered most from her mother’s past mistakes; Marco, the nearby gas station owner, who bids fair to become her mother’s next mistake. Soon Victor Mangold, Jo’s former teacher, a well-known and exuberant poet, arrives on the premises to stir everything up, including Jo’s yearning for a life of art and committed love. At The Breakers is a deeply felt and beautifully written novel about forgiveness and reconciliation. Its heroine, put through the fire, comes out with a chance for happiness, if she can muster the faith, courage, and optimism to take that chance. |
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At The Breakers: A Novel $24.95 Literary fiction has presented readers with centuries of memorable women in trouble. Here, the author of the widely praised and beloved Come and Go, Molly Snow, Kentucky novelist Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, offers Jo Sinclair, a long-term single parent of four children. Fleeing an abusive relationship, she winds up in Sea Cove, New Jersey, in front of The Breakers, a salty old hotel in the process of renovation. In this unlikely setting, Jo finds a way to renovate herself, to reclaim the promising life that was derailed by pregnancy when she was fourteen. She impulsively convinces the owner to give her a job painting the rooms and settles in with her youngest child, thirteen-year-old Nick. A grand cast of characters wanders through this little world, among them Iris Zephyr, the hotel’s ninety-two-year-old permanent boarder; Charlie, a noble mixed breed dog; Wendy, Jo’s tough eighteen-year-old daughter, who has suffered most from her mother’s past mistakes; Marco, the nearby gas station owner, who bids fair to become her mother’s next mistake. Soon Victor Mangold, Jo’s former teacher, a well-known and exuberant poet, arrives on the premises to stir everything up, including Jo’s yearning for a life of art and committed love. At The Breakers is a deeply felt and beautifully written novel about forgiveness and reconciliation. Its heroine, put through the fire, comes out with a chance for happiness, if she can muster the faith, courage, and optimism to take that chance. |
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At the Fire Station $11.97 Louise A. Spilsbury,Hardcover,Series: Technology at Work Series, English-language edition,Pub by Heinemann/Raintree |
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At the Fire Station: Level 3 $8.99 Dianne Irving,Paperback,Series: Math Readers Series, English-language edition,Pub by Shell Educational Publishing |
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Aurora of Fire $5.99 Someone wants Francine Devereux dead! She has no idea why. An attempt to kill her is prevented by Jaarl Larssonn, an engineer from Alaska’s North Slope oil fields where something mysterious–and deadly–is happening at an experimental pump station. Jaarl thinks Francine’s father may be behind the strange events. He wants her to come with him to the pump station to talk to her father. The request stuns Francine. She has not seen her father in twenty years, and, in fact, hates him for abandoning her mother and her when she was an infant. Francine agrees to go with Jaarl for two reasons: she would like to confront the father she despises, and she is more than a little intrigued by the handsome Jaarl Larsson. But at the pump station she finds a dark world as filled with danger as it is with romance, a world where she finds that the attempt on her life was only the prelude to real fear. |
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B-Shifter $12.95 Most firefighter memoirs are painfully idealized and should come equipped with a bag-pipe soundtrack. If thatʼs the kind of book youʼre looking for, my advice is to move on because B-Shifter will most likely disappoint you. The first 3 chapters of B-Shifter are about family. Brunacini devotes the first chapter of the book to chronicling his fatherʼs (Alan Brunacini) 48-year career with the Phoenix, AZ Fire Department. Alan is world renown as one of the fathers of the modern fire service and a pioneer for firefighter safety. Nick connects his fatherʼs zeal for improved firefighting safety procedures by vividly describing a diner fire where his father died for a few minutes. The next two chapters are devoted to Nick and his brother and sister growing up in a family where the only logical end was joining the fire service fraternity. Nick makes the observation that fire departments more closely resemble cults (or severely dysfunctional families) than a regular workforce. The reader is brought into the closed world of fire station life and the wide range of personalities that a fire station houses. Firefighters describe B-Shifterʼs portrayal of the workforce as “dead on”. The remaining 10 chapters of B-Shifter give the reader a “ride along” on a collection of the most exciting, twisted, heart breaking and adrenaline filled calls over a 25-year period in the city of Phoenix. Whether itʼs pulling an attack line up a rapidly vaporizing staircase, a airplane crash into the center of a family’s Memorial Day backyard picnic or standing by the side of a slime filled pool frantically trying to rescue a pair of young brothers, the reader is immersed in the firefighterʼs world.B-Shifter is as much about how firefighters perform, handle and decompress from responding to life and death situations. The Phoenix Fire Department was long held to be the cutting edge fire department by most of the worldʼs fire service. B-Shifter shows the world that the PFD is as |
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Baen Books Available As E-Books $21.18 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Baen Free Library, March Upcountry, March to the Sea, Ring of Fire, the Honor of the Queen, on Basilisk Station, Grantville Gazette Ii, the Grantville Gazette, the Armageddon Inheritance, Oath of Swords, Belisarius Series, Heirs of Empire, 1633, in Enemy Hands, the Shadow of Saganami, Mutineers’ Moon, 1634: the Ram Rebellion, 1632, the Excalibur Alternative, 1634: the Bavarian Crisis, Ashes of Victory, the Short Victorious War, at All Costs, Honor Among Enemies, Field of Dishonor, War of Honor, the Shiva Option, Crown of Slaves, 1634: the Baltic War, Flag in Exile, 1635: the Cannon Law, in Death Ground, Echoes of Honor, 1634: the Galileo Affair, the War God’s Own, Empire From the Ashes, Old Soldiers. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: March Upcountry is the first novel in the science fiction series of the Empire of Man by David Weber and John Ringo. It tells the story of Prince Roger MacClintock and his bodyguards of the Empress’ Own Regiment who get marooned on the alien planet of Marduk due to an act of sabotage on their ship, and must fight their way towards the local space port (held by enemies of the Terran Empire) in order to get back home to Earth. This book appeared on the New York Times best seller list. Prince Roger MacClintock is the youngest and least loved child of Empress Alexandra VII, ruler of the Empire of Man from her second consort, Lazar Fillipo, the Earl of New Madrid. An extremely handsome and tall 22-year-old man who loves dressing up in extremely fine and expensive clothing, Roger is considered, by most, as a fop and is not well regarded by pretty much anyone except his valet, Kostas Matsugae. Aware at times of his childish behavior and in desperate need of love and genuine parental guidance (and at times, parental |
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Bain’s Wolf $2.49 Erica Bain’s one-pilot company recently celebrated its seventh anniversary flying Yukon’s High North. Erica flies when no one else can, takes on clients no one else wants and lands her floatplane where no one else dares. But after she delivers wealthy hunters to their secluded lodge, an electrical fire forces her to make an emergency landing at a nearby weather station. Its lone occupant, a man notorious throughout the region for his “charming” personality, couldn’t make her feel less welcome if he tried. Maybe crashing in the mountains wouldn’t have been so bad after all.Lothar’s been around for six hundred and seventy years, ten months, twenty-five days and some change. But who’s counting? His different careers have included prospector during the Gold Rush, reluctant medical aide to a charity group after his immigration to North America, courier during the Napoleonic War, popular man with the ladies of Vienna’s aristocracy and brilliant physician. And before it all, back in his thirteenth century native Austria – a time he won’t let himself forget – he used to be a sadistic monster.He’s never believed men like him should hope for a second chance. Until Erica lands on him – literally.Note: While this is a single title, we also recommend reading Wolfsbane. |
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