A Double Dose Of Hard Luck
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A Double Dose Of Hard Luck
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Author : Leo Aime LaBrie
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2017-01-06
A Double Dose Of Hard Luck written by Leo Aime LaBrie and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Charlie Harrison was born outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, no one could have predicted the perils he would encounter on his journey through life. Enlisting in the Marine Corps at the young age of eighteen, Charlie was one of the very few men in American history who were imprisoned as POWs during two different wars, World War II and the Korean War. He then served valiantly in yet a third conflict, Vietnam. Charlie Harrison’s story is one of determination, faith, courage, love for his country, and an incredible will to overcome all obstacles with honor and dignity.
Hard Luck
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Author : Neil Levy
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Hard Luck written by Neil Levy and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the standard luck objection succeeds against common accounts of libertarian free will, but that it is possible to amend libertarian accounts so that they are no more vulnerable to luck than is compatibilism. But compatibilist accounts of luck are themselves vulnerable to a powerful luck objection: historical compatibilisms cannot satisfactorily explain how agents can take responsibility for their constitutive luck; non-historical compatibilisms run into insurmountable difficulties with the epistemic condition on control over action. Levy argues that because epistemic conditions on control are so demanding that they are rarely satisfied, agents are not blameworthy for performing actions that they take to be best in a given situation. It follows that if there are any actions for which agents are responsible, they are akratic actions; but even these are unacceptably subject to luck. Levy goes on to discuss recent non-historical compatibilisms, and argues that they do not offer a viable alternative to control-based compatibilisms. He suggests that luck undermines our freedom and moral responsibility no matter whether determinism is true or not.
Wales And The All Blacks An Off Field History
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Author : Roger G. K. Penn
language : en
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Release Date : 2022-12-01
Wales And The All Blacks An Off Field History written by Roger G. K. Penn and has been published by Y Lolfa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A mutual bond of rivalry and respect has existed between the rugby-loving Wales and New Zealand nations since their first match in 1905. This book documents all the matches played, but also takes an unorthodox, stimulating look at off-field obligations and functions, an often-overlooked aspect of a tour. Reprint of Three Feathers and a Silver Fern (pub. 2013).
Death Lighthouses On The Great Lakes
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Author : Dianna Higgs Stampfler
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-21
Death Lighthouses On The Great Lakes written by Dianna Higgs Stampfler and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-21 with History categories.
The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes. Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains found weeks later. A newly hired and some say depressed keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County slit his own throat after a consultation with a local butcher about the location of the jugular vein. A smallpox outbreak in the late 1890s led to the tragic death of a lighthouse hired hand on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Join author Dianna Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.
Fallen Tigers
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Author : Daniel Jackson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Fallen Tigers written by Daniel Jackson and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with History categories.
Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced that supporting Chinese resistance against the continuing Japanese invasion would be crucial to an eventual Allied victory in World War II. Within two weeks of that fateful Sunday in December 1941, the American Volunteer Group—soon to become known as the legendary "Flying Tigers"—went into action. For three and a half years, the volunteers and the Army Air Force airmen who followed them fought in dangerous aerial duels over East Asia. Audaciously led by master tactician Claire Lee Chennault, daring pilots such as David Lee "Tex" Hill and George B. "Mac" McMillan led their men in desperate combat against enemy air forces and armies despite being outnumbered and outgunned. Aviators who fell in combat and survived the crash or bailout faced the terrifying reality of being lost and injured in unfamiliar territory. Historian Daniel Jackson, himself a combat-tested pilot, recounts the stories of downed aviators who attempted to evade capture by the Japanese in their bid to return to Allied territory. He reveals the heroism of these airmen was equaled, and often exceeded, by the Chinese soldiers and civilians who risked their lives to return them safely to American bases. Based on thorough archival research and filled with compelling personal narratives from memoirs, wartime diaries, and dozens of interviews with veterans, this vital work offers an important new perspective on the Flying Tigers and the history of World War II in China.
Zoomies Subs And Zeros
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Author : Charles A. Lockwood
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-03-23
Zoomies Subs And Zeros written by Charles A. Lockwood and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-23 with History categories.
As air battles with Japanese fighter planes increased over the Pacific toward the end of World War 2, the Submarine Lifeguard League was formed to rescue Allied aviators forced to either "hit the silk" or zoom their plane into the drink. The League helped save the lives of hundreds of Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots - including the life of future President George H. W. Bush - from Japs as well as from death at sea. Author Adm. Charles Lockwood (Hellcats of the Sea, Sink 'Em All ) brings his usual flair for submarine stories to his eye-witness account of events, providing a breathless narrative of the hair-raising adventures of this little-known sub-division of the US Naval Fleet.
War Plays By Women
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Author : Agnes Cardinal
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
War Plays By Women written by Agnes Cardinal and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Performing Arts categories.
This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Gertrude Stein, Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewett, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Christina Reid. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.
Hard Luck
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Author : Steve Springer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Hard Luck written by Steve Springer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants of the Golden Age of Heavyweights (Ali—twice, Frazier—twice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy, and pain. And tragedy. Like the man he fought during two highly controversial fight cards in 1970 and '72—Muhammad Ali—boxing great Jerry Quarry was to suffer gravely. He died at age fifty-three, mind and body ravaged by Dementia Pugilistica. In Hard Luck, “Irish” Jerry Quarry comes to life—from his Grapes of Wrath days as the child of an abusive father in the California migrant camps to those as the undersized heavyweight slaying giants on his way to multiple title bouts and the honor of being the World's Most Popular Fighter in '68, '69, '70, and '71. The story of Jerry Quarry is one of the richest in the annals of boxing, and through painstaking research and exclusive access to the Quarry family and its archives, Steve Springer and Blake Chavez have captured it all.
The Insurance Times
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The Insurance Times written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Insurance categories.
Encyclopedia Of The Great Depression And The New Deal Thematic Essays
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Author : James Ciment
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Encyclopedia Of The Great Depression And The New Deal Thematic Essays written by James Ciment and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Depressions categories.
Contains primary source material.