A fascinating account of the Fifth Crusade, the campaign to conquer Egypt and regain the Holy LandIn 1217, the crusader states were in a highly fragile condition. The Fourth Crusade had failed, and Jerusalem had not been recovered. The crusaders now set their sights on Egypt. If the breadbasket of the Mediterranean could be conquered, long-term Christian control of the Holy Land could be ensured. Led by the rulers of Hungary and Austria, and backed by the Knights T...

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"I killed my parents when I was thirteen years old."And now, with the murder of Missy Blake twenty-two years later, it's time for Jack Greene to finish what he started.When the co-ed's mutilated body is found, the police are clueless, but Jack knows what killed the pretty college student; he's been hunting it for years. The hunt has been going on for too long, though, and Jack wants to end it, but he can't do it alone. The local police aren't equipped to handle the monster i...

For some a moving and eye-opening story, for others, absolute nonsense. The quest by one author (and amateur artist) to answer a simple question, does his hometown suck.This sometimes witty, always engaging and to be fair occasionally, irritating journey documents one man's quest to understand the town that he calls home. Why is it hated by outsiders? How come so many rank it in the top ten of Ireland's worst places to live? Why would anyone care?A rarely emotional and alway...

Alma and Nico live on opposite ends of a forest near their homes. One day when they are both reading the same book (The Magic Mound) within the forest, but far from each other, the trees suddenly talk to them. They are very surprised to hear trees talk, but the trees explain that they only talk to people who listen. They explain that they heard men talking about cutting down the forest to sell the wood or the land or build things on it. Alma and Nico are alarmed by this news and decide to ...

Sir Thomas Smith (23 December 1513 12 August 1577) was an English writer and diplomat who was actively involved in religion while also holding positions such as provost and dean at schools like Eton College. It was under Queen Elizabeth that Smith flourished, becoming a Member of Parliament, an ambassador to France, and a counselor to the Queen. In that time, Smith also wrote one of the most influential political philosophical texts in the Western world, De Republica Anglorum; the Manner o...

In 1961—as America crackled with racial tension—the Washington Redskins stood alone as the only professional football team without a black player on its roster. In fact, during the entire twenty-five-year history of the franchise, no African American had ever played for George Preston Marshall, the Redskins’ cantankerous principal owner. With slicked-down white hair and angular facial features, the nattily attired, sixty-four-year-old NFL team owner already had a well-deserved rep...

The goal of this e-book is to make the Bible more than familiar to you. We want to make it personal. We want you to have a close relationship with God’s Word as if it were a person; because it is a person. The Word made flesh meets us in the words of Scripture he gave us. The stories and passages may not change, but God wants to speak to you in new ways each time you read them. Each chapter will offer new insights with each new chapter of your own life.So we’ve put together some ar...

Rise Unbroken is a testament to what it means to journey through pain and emerge standing in the light of your own becoming. These poems speak to the strength found in vulnerability and the quiet, ongoing courage it takes to begin again. Celebrating the body that has carried us, the scars that have taught us, and the communities that have held us, this collection is both song and sanctuary.With every line, Rise Unbroken invites you to honor your path—through memor...

A Memoir by Frank Thomas Smith. Now living under the Southern Cross in a valley in Argentina, the author shares a life well-lived with readers the world over. Frank Thomas Smith is an American expatriate originally from Brooklyn, New York. Working in the international airline business, he has lived most of his life abroad, in Europe and South America. He has moonlighted in consulting, education (Waldorf) and writing. He is the editor and publisher of the Southern Cross Review, an e.Zine pu...

Jazz and Justin were the epitome of the perfect couple. At the prestigious HBCU in Atlanta, where Justin lectured passionately as a professor in social sciences, they were an idolized duo—admired by students and faculty alike. Their relationship was often described as inspiriting. An emblematic bond formed through shared campus life, forever cemented in their roles as an academic power couple. They had met as starry-eyed seniors, their mutual love for culture and social justice sparking en...

This appealing narrative history of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns analyzes how the western Confederate army under John B. Hood suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of George H. Thomas's Union forces.Ideal for general readers interested in military history of the Civil War as well as those concentrating on the western campaigns, The 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign: The Finishing Stroke examines how the strategic and tactical decisions...