Download or read book Wingless Eagle written by Herbert A. Johnson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however, American airmen flew European-designed aircraft because American planes were woefully inadequate for service on the Western Front. Why was the United States so poorly prepared to engage in aerial combat in World War I? To answer this question, Herbert Johnson takes a hard look at the early years of U.S. military aviation, exploring the cultural, technical, political, and organizational factors that stunted its evolution. Among the recurring themes of Johnson's narrative are the damaging effects of a chronic lack of governmental funding for military aeronautics and the disruptive influence of a civilian "aeronaut constituency" both on military discipline and on public and Congressional attitudes toward army aviation. In addition, the Wright brothers' patent litigation hindered the technical development of American aircraft and crippled the domestic aviation industry's manufacturing capacity. Wartime experience helped correct some of these problems, but the persistence of others left the postwar Air Service with an uncertain and stormy future.
Download or read book The Wingless Eagle A Story of Hope written by Leslie Hall and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This family of eagles have already overcome the problem of weak eagle shells and leaving their home in the big city of Philly. I want this book to be an inspiration to children from the early parts of their lives. Shining Spirit is my way of describing some deep, emotional, and devastating parts of my own young life. Shine is a deep and inward place inside some children, but it is not called shine, yet. We all need that special someone, or to talk with God about our own souls. Parents hold the special keys to their special children. This book is about more than a new set of wings. The people in our lives all have a part of life that we would rather not acknowledge, some worse than others. The difference is, for the most part, we can see Shine's disability, all of us can be Shine. Shine has something that wasn't so far down inside him, something he started to utilize almost from birth. God will reach us if we open ourselves to His word and have that shining spirit inside also. Everyone can reach inside and become a better person because of God. We can do nothing of ourselves. I have tried to do my best without God, it didn't work. May God Bless you and all your loved ones. Matt. 28:18-20
Download or read book The Eagle of the Ninth written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Rosemary Sutcliff's acclaimed books set in Roman Britain. The Eagle of the Ninth tells the story of a young Roman officer who sets out to discover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the Ninth Legion, who marched into the mists of northern Britain and never came back. Rosemary Sutcliff spent most of her life in a wheelchair, suffering from the wasting Still's disease. She wrote her first book for children, The Queen's Story, in 1950 and went on to become a highly respected name in the field of children's literature. She received an OBE in 1975 and died at theage of 72 in 1992.
Download or read book This Side of Early written by Naomi Ayala and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naomi Ayala’s poems explore wide-ranging themes in an ever-changing landscape—from the city streets to the introspective solace of the woods. These lyrics deconstruct the political world of man, offer hope through a compelling, lyrical, spiritual intimacy, and bridge the gap between the two with words full of ecological intensity. Her deep connections with the working class combine with a love of the land to offer us lilt and dream, revelation and foretelling. “HOLE” One morning they dig up the sidewalk and leave. No sign of the truck—only the large, dark shadow digging and digging, piling up sludge with a hand shovel beside the only tree. Two o’clock I come by and he’s slumbering in the grass beside rat holes. Three and he’s stretched across a jagged stonewall, folded hands tucked beneath one ear— a beautiful young boy smiling, not the heavy, large shadow who can’t breathe. Four-thirty and the August heat takes one down here. He’s pulled up an elbow joint some three feet round. At seven I head home for the night, pass the fresh gravel mound, a soft footprint near the manhole like the “x” abuelo would place beside his name all the years he couldn’t write.
Download or read book Expiration Date written by Tim Powers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue in trade paperback of the 1996 Tor novel.
Download or read book Bibliography of Aeronautics written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ave Roma Immortalis written by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Ave Roma Immortalis by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Download or read book The Silver Branch written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin goes to Britain to serve the Roman army as a surgeon, and when he discovers that the finance minister is betraying them to the local tribes, Justin asserts himself and gains self confidence in his decisions.
Download or read book Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier written by Sunil Sharma and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Of The Earliest Persian Poets In India, Masud Sad Remains An Important And Influential Poet Across India, Pakistan And Iran. In This First Substantial Critical Study Of The Poets Life And Works, The Author Weaves A Rich Tapestry That Includes Literary Anecdotes, History And Poetry.
Download or read book The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Special Bibliography Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Fossil Hunters written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.
Download or read book Air Power and Warfare written by Elwood L. White and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly selective bibliography supplements the original bibliography developed in 1978 by Ms. Betsy C. Kysely, to support the Eighth Military History Symposium While this bibliography focuses primarily on materials published since the earlier bibliography was developed, it does include some significant materials that were published prior to 1978, but that were omitted from that edition. Emphasis in this supplement is on scholarly analysis of air power itself and scholarly depictions of its history. Like most editions of the United State Air Force Academy Directorate of Libraries' publication, Special Bibliography Series, this compilation is limited to current holdings of the Academic Library at the Academy. It includes books, reports, government documents, and journal articles. Excluded are pictorial works, newspaper articles, works of fiction, studies of the technology of aircraft and associated weaponry, and items focused on the general history of aviation. Readers wanting information on the history of aviation, certainly prior to the Wright Brothers, are encouraged to consult the U S. Air Force Academy Friends of the Library publication, The Genesis of Flight: The Aeronautical History Collection of Colonel Richard Gimbel.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of U S Navy Air Power written by Douglas V Smith and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy Aviation, this book chronicles Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy’s first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept wing jets in the period after WW II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft and rigid airships, and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute.
Download or read book Catalogue of Greek Coins written by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Crete and the Aegean Islands written by Warwick William Wroth and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
