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This book was made into one of the funniest movies ever. There were many funny scenes in this movie. Sadly, however, you could not see this movie because Notre Dame University brought a court case against it. Notre Dame got an injunction against the movie being shown. The was because the movie depicts the protagonist getting the Notre Dame University football players drunk and them having sex with the harem girls and so as to enable the invent...

This is a basic study of all Queen and Pawn Endings including many studies that lead to surprising draws.The basic position starts with the first diagram in the book of pawn against Queen, where the player with the queen needs to stop the pawn from reaching the 8th rank and promoting to a queen.This situation arises fairly frequently and needs to be studied and learned.The player with the queen needs to either check the king along a file or di...

Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown by Judith M. Tanur (Author), Frederick Mosteller (Author), William H. Kruskal (Author), Richard F. Link, Erich Leo Lehmann and two more This collection of intriguing essays describes important applications of statistics and probability in many fields. Instead of teaching methods, the essays illustrate past accomplishments and current uses of statistics and probability. Surveys, questionnaires, experiments, an...

Typee, the first book by Herman Melville, about his adventures on the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Instead, noways the famous book by Herman Melville is Moby Dick, the story of an obsessive search for the GREAT White Whale, by Captain Ahab, who seeks revenge because the whale had eaten his leg. Why anybody would seek revenge against a poor animal is difficult to understand. The whale was hungry so naturally he ate Ahab's leg!Moby Dick has ...

The seeds, grown from plantlike pods, replace sleeping people with perfect physical duplicates with all the same knowledge, memories, scars, etc. but are incapable of human emotion or feeling. The human victims disappear forever. The duplicates live only five years and cannot sexually reproduce, consequently, if unstopped, they will quickly turn Earth into a dead planet and move on to the next world. One of the duplicate invaders claims this i...

In twenty places in the Bible, there are descriptions of Witches, Spirits or Wizards, so nobody who believes in the Bible can doubt or deny the existence of these beings. Once we agree that Witches do exist, then the Bible establishes that they must be killed.The graves of those convicted were dug before the hangings took place. More than 20 verses of the Bible refer to witches or spirits or wizards. The jurists in Salem Massachusetts when put...

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colo...

The terror began so unobtrusively they might have forgotten all about it. Noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, misplaced furniture, an icy chill. Small annoyances for which Chris MacNeil Regan's actress mother, easily found plausible explanations. The changes in eleven-year-old Regan were so gradual too that Chris, busy filming a new picture, did not recognize for some time how much her daughter's behavior had altered. And even when she did, ...

Nearly every mathematics graduate student has come into contact with Marvin Jay Greenberg's Algebraic Topology: A First Course text, which remains the quintessential text on introductory algebraic topology to this day. We celebrate this classic text with this reprint in the memory of Professor Greenberg who passed away in 2017. Marvin was the type of person who held his cards very close to his chest. He loved to play the ringer. I quickly move...

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools-most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama-to help black people and other dis...

A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions. Soon afterwards, the servant comes home white and trembling and tells him that in the marketplace, he was jostled by a woman, whom he recognized as Death, who made a threatening gesture. Borrowing the merchant's horse, he flees at great speed to Samarra, a distance of about 75 miles (125 km), where he believes Death will not find him. The merchant then goes to the marke...

This the book that every person who is interested in learning about stock market trading should read and study.Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a 1923 book by American author Edwin Lefevre. It is told in the first person by a character inspired by the life of stock trader Jesse Livermore. While published as fiction, generally, it is accepted to be the biography of stock market legend Jesse Livermore, then known as "The Wolf of Wall Street....

I was able to play at a reasonable level as soon as I learned the moves of Makrook Thai.So I was contacted by the author David B. Pritchard who asked me to write a chapter for this book about Makrook Thai.I declined because was not certain about one rule, which was the draw rule, so I asked Mr. Pritchard to contact Prajob Nimitiyongshul about that rule.He did, but Prajob Nimitiyongshul suggested that he contact Sunny Polasit about this.He did ...

If Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player of our time, perhaps the greatest of all time, he is also only human. Sometimes he loses. Of the 576 tournament and match games Fischer has played since becoming United States Chess Champion at the age of 14, he has only lost 61. The patterns of his losses are as interesting as those of his victories, and this book is a comprehensive clear analysis of each of those 61 losing games.Those who aspire ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most wide spread and popular book of the 19th and 20th Centuries. It is even said that this book, published in 1852, led to the American Civil War.The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of the...

Yuri Lvovich Averbakh is the world's leading authority on chess endings He was born February 8, 1922 in as born in Kaluga, Russia. He was chairman of the of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He is 98 years old and is the world's oldest chess grandmaster.Peter Hugh Clarke was an English chess player, who held titles of FIDE master (FM) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980), FIDE International arbiter (1976), Chess...

A complete record of FIDE events with a foreword by the President, Dr. M . EuweCompetitions for the Official World Championship , held under the management of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) are a source of special interest. This book is devoted to these individual and team competitions, offering facts and a brief chronicle of their evolution. It also contains data on the activities of FIDE, which was founded half a century ago, on national ...

Jack and Charmian London were on the beach in Hawaii, 1915The Log was well received by reviewers, who described the book as "clever, lucid, conversational, emotionally revealing, and humorous." Our Hawaii reflected upon the changes in the island between 1907 and 1916 to deplore the rapid changes brought about by tourism.Charmian played a direct role in her husband's writings as well. First, she was the model for many of his fictional character...

A Pathan is, by definition, anybody who speaks Pashto. Anybody who speaks Pashto, as their mother language, is a Pathan. There are may dialects of Pashto. There are two major varieties, the Pashtu spoken in Kandahar and the Pukhto spoken in Swat and points in between. These are dangerous people. Do not mess with them. There are an estimated 63 million Pathans who have been fighting against the US Military in Afghanistan.E (born 15 November 189...

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