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The growth of digital mapping has occurred as a result of the space race, notably the ability of earth observation satellites to stare at the ground b...
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Philipp von Boeselager Valkyrie: the Plot to Kill Hitler
The memoirs of the last survivor of the Stauffenberg plot to assas...
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In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, n...
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Someone ought to put a stop to these airline tail redesigns. First came British Airways with its ridiculous art-on-tail waste of money -- to promote l...
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... Plot 22, No. 3, Trunk Rd, Pyinmabin Industrial Zone, Mi...
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Do you know what bottle is called in Hebrew?" he asks. "It's called baqbuk from the gurgling sound it makes when you pour. Did you know the Swedish word for pain, smSrta, is similar to the Russian word for death - smert?
[Lars Gustafsson] was born in Västerås, a city in central Sweden, in 1936. He studied at Uppsala University and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in 1978. Along the way, Gustafsson has picked up a number of prizes and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow of Poetry in 1994 and the Italian Una vita per Ia Letteratura in 1989, and he is a member of several academies, like Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering. And though a heavy intellectuality is pr...
... many of his books, it never weighs down the plot. Above all, Gustafsson is a masterful storyteller,...
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[Frost] og Funi, at the outskirts of Hveragerdi, first struck us as rather spare and utilitarian, with its row of small cabins built with gray industrial siding. The setting, however, was splendid. Poised next to a river bubbling with hot springs, it opened to a vista of mountains, waterfalls, and, in the far distance, a glistening white glacier. The guesthouse abounded in bathing facilities: a large swimming pool, geothermal sauna, outdoor shower, and a couple of "hot pot" Jacuzzis - small circular tubs, perfect, according to the owner, for sitting in "on a cold, starry winter's night.
Whoever said so was surely right. The soup served to us had been absolutely delicious, and arrived with homemade bread and three superior dips, specialty of the house. However, the name wasn't the lobst...
...A terrorist plot to down airplanes had just been unraveled in Londo...
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... of science and psychology, plus a whirlwind plot, Bones to Ashes is an unforgettable thriller. . [I...
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...Ltd alias Myanma Posco Steel Co. Ltd . Plot 22, No. 3, Trunk Rd, Pyinmabin Industrial Zone, Mi...
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...Plot 22, No. 3, Trunk Rd, Pyinmabin Industrial Zone, Mi...