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1001 Brilliant Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

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Author presents techniques for carving wood and making furniture. The author has written 30 books on this subject. Here is a list:Antique Furniture Designs Antique Furniture Repairs Antique or Fake?: The Making of Old Furniture Cabinet Making for Beginners - Tools, Joints, Cabinet Construction, Veneering and Inlaying, Drawing, Cutting Lists, Etc., Timber, Fittings, Typical Designs by Charles H. Hayward (2011-10-28) Carpentry for Beginners: How...

Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. Published in 1966, the book was the biggest selling novel of its year. To date, it has sold more than 31 million copies, making it one of the best-selling works in publishing history. In 1945, beautiful ingenue Anne Welles moves to New York to start a new life, seeking to escape the ennui of her hometown of Lawrenceville, Massachusetts. She quickly finds employment as...

Papillon is one of the most exciting and remarkable human documents ever published. It is the story of one man's incredible triumph over conditions of indescribable adversity, over the brutal impositions of penal settlement and the total deprivation of liberty.Condemned in 1931 for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papillon was transported to French Guiana. One thought obsessed him: Escape. Forty-two days after his arri...

Groningen 1946 was the first major chess tournament after the conclusion of World War II. It was a 20 player round robin. Most of the strongest players of the world were present. Many of the games were exciting and are well annotated by Euwe. They demonstrate that even the strongest grandmasters can make obvious blunders.All of the traditional world champions had died during or in the immediate after math of the war. Emanuel Lasker died Januar...

Harry Lloyd Hopkins (born August 17, 1890 died January 29, 1946) was an American social worker, the 8th Secretary of Commerce, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisor on foreign policy during World War II. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. In World War II, he was Roosevel...

This is a book about submarine warfare that was made into a movie starring Bert Lancaster and Clarke Gable. There are similarities with the famous novel Moby Dick, as the commander is determined to get revenge on a Japanese ship who had sunk the submarine commanded by his friend, and so he ignores more important targets. Run Silent, Run Deep is a novel by Commander (later Captain) Edward L. Beach Jr. The story describes World War II submarine ...

When Vladimir Kuzichkin walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Teheran in June 1982, heading for asylum in the west, he was a major in the KGB with a highly sensitive and important job in the espionage branch of the Soviet Secret Service. By dint of dedication and competence, he had at the age of thirty-five risen to a position that placed him at "the cutting edge of covert espionage" in the KGB's First Chief Directorate engaged in illegal operat...

Cartier-Bresson achieved international recognition for his coverage of Gandhi's funeral in India in 1948 and the last stage of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. He covered the last six months of the Kuomintang administration and the first six months of the Maoist People's Republic. He also photographed the last surviving Imperial eunuchs in Beijing, as the city was falling to the communists. In Shanghai, he often worked in the company of photojou...

He's one small mouse on one very big adventure: Stuart Little is not ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his older brother George and Snowball the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for th...

Ken McLaughlin was only eleven years old, but for as long as he could remember he had wished for nothing more than his very own cot. He had tried to do the chores well around his father's horse ranch, but whenever he was alone he found his thoughts drifting off to that one with....And as a result, he usually made some mistake like forgetting to be on time for dinner, or leaving the clutch strap too lose on the horse he was riding. Then his fat...

Baby Doll is a 1956 American dramatic black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams. The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi, after one of the men commits arson against the other's gin, the owner retaliates by attempting to seduce the arsonist's nineteen-year-old virgin bride with the hopes of receivi...

With all the warmth, vigor and enthusiasm that marks everything he does, "Joey" Smallwood tells of his remarkable and eventful life from birth in the tiny outport of Gambo to his retirement from active politics after twenty-three years as the controversial and colorful Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. From the day he took his full time job at fifteen, his various occupations - newspaperman, union organizer, politician, writer, historian, ...

There was a magic half hour in television when a goodly audience composed about equally of adults and children shunned the cowboy movies, puppet shows and adventures in outer space. This was the time of "Mr. Wizard" and his young colleagues, Willy Watson and Betsy Taylor. Theirs was a "captive" audience - captivated by the wonders of the everyday world which "Mr. Wizard" explains so clearly and demonstrates so dramatically.'The "wizard" was Do...

On Wednesday 17th April, the first day of the search, the weather was blustery, with a westerly wind gusting to Force 7. The waters of Basket Sound were dotted with white cresting breakers." In this inhospitable atmosphere off the coats of Ireland, Sydney Wignall, after years of preliminary study, began searching with Colin Martin and a team of divers for the remains of the Santa Maria de la Rosa. They believed that this ship from the Spanish ...

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896) by Fannie Farmer is a 19th-century general reference cookbook which is still available both in reprint and in updated form. It was particularly notable for a more rigorous approach to recipe writing than had been common up to that point.In the preface Farmer states:"It is my wish that it may not only be looked upon as a compilation of tried and tested recipes, but that it may awaken an interest throug...

This is a collection of the most instructive games played by Dr. Max Euwe against some of the strongest players in the world, with annotations by the American Fred Reinfeld.I would say that it is probable that this the best collection of games suitable for study anywhere for the average player.I only met Max Euwe one time. That was during a break in the meetings for the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match for the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, ...

Why were the Irish police not informed of the theft for nearly twelve hours. Why was no proper reward money put up either by the horse's owners (who include the Aga Khan) or the insurance syndicate? Colin Turner, racing correspondent of independent Radio News provides some startling answers and conclusions.Since the first anonymous phone call following Colin Turner's plea for information at the end of one of his broadcasts, his life has become...

Many of you have seen the movie "The Green Book" starring Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. and Mahershala Ali. This movie depicts mostly real life events involving a New York City bouncer better known as Tony Lip, and Don Shirley, a black pianist in need of a driver for his eight-week concert tour through the Midwest and the Deep South.If you are White, you will probably not know that the Green Book was the name of an actual book. In the years before...