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Follow the Flag offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, which in its heyday reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, St. Louis, Boston and New York City. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball", the Midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, 40 years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.

Journey to the castle of the mad scientist and hear tales of imagination to both amaze and astound! In the grand traditions of the late night horror movie and 1950s scary comics comes an anthology for those who love Science Fiction. Hear unearthed classic tales from authors such as Fritz Leiber, Harry Harrison, and other masters of the genre. Your host may also let you poke around the lab a little. But be careful…those tanks contain beasties best left suspended in their animation!

This treatise deals with the practice of alchemy in medicine, and the use of antimony and lead in particular. Roger Bacon provides the recipe for processing antimony to make the famous red oil of the philosophers. In Bacon’s opinion, this elixir was efficacious against a wide array of afflictions like fever, plague, gout, and leprosy.

These prayers, In His Presence, are reflections and meditations for numerous occasions in praise of God, in adoration of Jesus Christ, honoring the Holy Trinity, seeking the intercessions of the Mother of God, and celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. For the Salvation of Souls.

Corwin hat es geschafft: Er ist der Regent von Amber. Doch als sein Bruder Caine ums Leben kommt, gerät er in Verdacht, der Mörder zu sein. Caines Tod wirft ungeklärte Fragen über die Familienvergangenheit auf. Da gerät Corwin selbst ins Visier: Auf ihn wird ein Anschlag verübt.

Você acredita em milagres? Você já experimentou um milagre? Neste livro para ouvir, que é um verdadeiro relato de fé, Pe. Roger Luis compartilha com você as experiências milagrosas de sua própria vida e de outras pessoas que também acreditaram na ação poderosa de Deus. Ao acompanhar os testemunhos, você descobrirá que temos que confiar incondicionalmente no Senhor e orar com muita fé, sem nunca desistir, porque aí sim o milagre acontece em nossas vidas.

This is an unabridged diary kept by actor/writer/director Roger Worrod from January to March 2008, when he was the only passenger on the Grey Fox, a 192 meter-long mixed-cargo boat, from Belgium to South Africa. He went around South Africa by train and on a return trip with the Grey Fox to the Netherlands and on to Switzerland. This was a journey through space and time to re-find his father 60 years after his first voyage to Cape Town on the Winchester Castle, in 1948.

In their national best seller Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate, Mike Summey and Roger Dawson introduced a powerful formula for making a killing in real estate in your spare time. The Weekend Millionaire Real Estate FAQ provides in-depth answers to the most frequently asked questions submitted by Mike and Roger's students.

In the early morning hours of February 25, 1945, U.S. anti-aircraft artillery opened fire on an unidentified object in the skies above Los Angeles. Over the course of the next three hours, "swarms of planes" were reported as roaming the skies above the city of angels, though in the end the public was told it was a false alarm. Now, Moonstone Books has unearthed the truth about that night, and how classic pulp and comic characters The Phantom Detective, The Black Bat, The Domino Lady, Airboy, and Secret Agent X fought back against a menace from another world!

Dr. Roger Fritz is considered one of the country’s foremost authorities on Performance Based Management and change requirements for individuals. In Magnet Poeple, Dr. Fritz shows what it takes to become a magnetic, charismatic, and successful personality, exuding confidence, and affluence. Organizations from Fortune 500 companies to family-owned businesses have used his advice. Dr. Fritz has served over 350 clients and takes out time from his schedule, each month for presentations.

Smith's edgy and funny The Watts Towers Project focuses on Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant who spent 33 years building his towers: only to walk away from them, never to return. Smith blends his own childhood, the life of Rodia, and the last quarter-century of L.A. history to create (in the words of Back Stage West) a "wonderfully eclectic piece".

The Great Detective, by prominent Sherlock Holmes Society of London member Roger Johnson, offers the Holmesian another perspective on the beloved Canon. From a surrealist perspective, we find here a different and refreshing approach. We are transported to another time through the warmth of an English public house and immediately transfixed by the fascinating voices of those who contributed to the name Sherlock Holmes. This is a must listen for all those worshipers of the great detective.

Harmonies Leben ist alles andere als harmonisch. Die junge Frau leidet an Tourette, ihre vulgären Ausbrüche machen ihr das Leben schwer. Doch sie hat sich vorgenommen, sich aus der Abhängigkeit ihres Freundes zu befreien und sich endlich einen Job zu suchen. So begegnet sie der älteren Dame Fleur, die außer ihrem russischen Therapeuten und ihrem übergewichtigen Hündchen jedem und allem misstraut. Nichts spricht dafür, dass aus den beiden Freundinnen werden könnten.

Get ready to forget everything you know about working your plan. In this counter-intuitive book, innovative university president Roger Parrott turns leadership on its head, and shows you how unexpected opportunities - the ones you may be missing - are the key to your success. In plain language, Dr. Parrott guides you in developing six traits to focus your leadership outlook on untapped opportunities. Not only that, he provides a step-by-step plan for you to create six organization-wide tendencies that enable your team to respond to opportunities with expediency, adeptness, and energy.

La philosophie, une affaire grecque ? Seulement européenne, occidentale ? Absolument pas ! Partout dans le monde, d'autres cultures, d'autres langues ont des usages multiples de la raison et de son exercice, qui produisent des systèmes de pensée rigoureux, déductifs, démonstratifs. Des philosophies à part entière. Encore faut-il trouver des chemins pour y accéder. En grand pédagogue, Roger-Pol Droit nous propose d'"entrer dans les têtes" des philosophes d'ailleurs, indiens ou chinois, logiciens bouddhistes tibétains ou japonais, penseurs juifs ou arabo-musulmans.

Historical fiction of creation, battle of angels and fallen angels. Welcome friends, and take heed any foes, you are about to enter the realm of the angels, where anything goes! This biblical and classic treatment of creation, attempted rebellion to takeover the Kingdom of Paradise, along with the temptations of Adam and Eve, their resulting "fall from grace" and expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Metatron is portrayed as "The Voice of the Almighty" which he uses for all vital messages to all angels and archangels.

The Broken Leaf invites you to explore the beauty and gospel images found in Japanese art and culture. Through 10 short meditations, discover for yourself just how God might be revealing his story in the everyday objects of your life, whenever and wherever you may be.

The world as we know it is changing, again. Pandemics are an inescapable reality. The interconnectedness of the world means that a new virus today can become a global outbreak tomorrow. It’s happened before, and it will happen again. And when it does, life as we know it alters considerably. Social distancing is here to stay; it will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.

Société de pensée, ordre initiatique, communauté fraternelle ou simple réseau politique, la franc-maçonnerie demeure environnée d'ombres, de secrets et de fantasmes. Née au XVIIIe siècle, attachée à des rites et des symboles, la franc-maçonnerie française a aussi fait place à l'esprit des Lumières. Au XIXe siècle, elle s'est impliquée dans la vie du pays, exprimant des conceptions civiques et politiques pour devenir, entre 1870 et 1940, une véritable "Église de la République".

This paranormal adventure follows a young adventure-seeker and a curmudgeonly ghost bound together in a combative partnership that escalates to the comedic breaking point. Only by reconciling their differences are they able to defeat destructive forces working against them, and uncover the profound connections that weave their fates together.