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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc387fb | Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat," grunted" | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| b3cfc12 | Neltharion the Earth-Warder. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 598ffa9 | Shalamayne | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 9d6dfc2 | To dream, to imagine, for in that is the best hope of rebuilding, of recovering, of growing... | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| da26c0d | LAST HAVEN TAVERN. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| dc1f25e | never forget it. Small wonder that Xavius had accomplished so much; an even greater darkness worked through him. But Malfurion still kept his wits about him, aware that to lose all hope was to lose | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 8e7f00c | FROM | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 37f8abe | Thrall is no assassin skulking in the fog nor is he an honorless warrior! | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 4ce3e79 | His son had joined the sleepers. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| dcbf344 | Hadn't Gary Gygax simply invented a game, and an esoteric one at that? It was hardly a footnote in the increasingly fast and complex information age that we live in. What was all the fuzz about? The reason for all the fuzz among those who understood his work was simple. Gary Gygax and his seminal game creation, Dungeons & Dragons, had influenced and transformed the world in extraordinary ways. Yet, much of his contribution would also go lar.. | gary-gygax rpg | Michael Witwer | |
| df2d920 | Speaking of baseball, a small group of Nautilus crew members arrived during a game at Yankee Stadium. Even though the famous slugger Mickey Mantle was at bat, the crowd stood and gave the submariners a standing ovation. | William R. Anderson | ||
| 119f743 | that I had been selected to receive an award known as the Medaglia de Grifone, or Christopher Columbus medal, given every year for "outstanding contributions to sea travel." Admiral Rickover had been the recipient just the year before. Bonny and I traveled to Genoa, Italy, the birthplace and boyhood home of Columbus. On October 12, 1958, Columbus Day, we attended the black-tie awards ceremony. I accepted on behalf of everyone on board Nauti.. | William R. Anderson | ||
| 2a1a7c2 | I encourage everyone to visit the exhibits and then walk up the ramp and go aboard Nautilus. Check out the torpedo room, wardroom, officer quarters, attack center, galley, and crew's mess and quarters. I think you will find her as grand and accommodating as ever. Looking | William R. Anderson | ||
| 004652e | A lot of interest had developed on the contest to design a cachet or postal mark for envelopes that were to be mailed at the North Pole. I had reasoned that we could assume and later get confirmation of authority to act as an official post office at the North Pole, which meant that the stamps on the envelopes could be canceled with the ship's name and date and our very interesting location at the time of their mailing. There were two superb.. | William R. Anderson | ||
| b5a8af2 | Doggie Rayl was a perfectionist, and a man lucky to be alive to make the trip to the North Pole. Rayl was a signalman aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was sleeping topside to escape the heat below when the Japanese attacked. The explosions blew him overboard, and he managed to scramble to another ship. That is how he survived the Arizona's sinking. | William R. Anderson | ||
| a3b84cf | I know there were many prayers of thanks offered up at that quiet moment. "Let us pause also in tribute to those who have preceded us, whether to victory or failure," I spoke into the microphone, "and in our earnest hope for world peace." I glanced at Jenks and took a deep breath. "Now stand by. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Mark! 2315 Eastern Daylight Savings Time,August 3, 1958. For the U.S. A. and the U.S.Nav.. | William R. Anderson | ||
| 3ea6ddc | order to keep the lunar and solar year synchronized, an intercalary month was added every three years or so. This makeup month was called Veadar. So he was stuck with a Jewish calendar that varied and a lunar year which sometimes varied and then had to be recalibrated, so to speak, with the solar yearly cycle. How was he supposed to figure out anything based upon a calendar which had varying year lengths? No wonder Sir Robert Anderson had c.. | William Struse | ||
| 5b9add4 | Don't even open the Prezi canvas until you have a plan ready. This will help ensure you're not overwhelmed or distracted by staring at the blank canvas. | Russell Anderson-Williams | ||
| 7133ba7 | Mark Sykes exemplified another characteristic common among the British ruling class of the Edwardian age, a breezy arrogance that held that most of the world's messy problems were capable of neat solution, that the British had the answers to many of them, and that it was their special burden--no less tiresome for being God-given--to enlighten the rest of humanity to that fact. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 1c1b497 | what Lawrence had discovered on the battlefield was that while moments of heroism might certainly occur, the cumulative experience of war, its day-in, day-out brutalization, was utterly antithetical to the notion of leading a heroic life. | Scott Anderson | ||
| d54b21c | the office. "What can I do for you, Hill?" he asked. "Sir, I need to talk to you about this Hatfield and McCoy thing. And the Gunsmith." "I know, General," he said, "you don't approve of Pinkerton's plan--but we're paying the man for his expertise." "May I sit, sir?" Buckner waved to his visitor's chair. Hill folded his excess height into it. "Sir, I believe my men and I can go into West Virginia and find Devil Anse Hatfield." The leader of.. | J.R. Roberts | ||
| d9f555f | Clara Webber commented on the bond that "Wilder people" forge: " I always instantly like any admirer of the Little House books!" | little-house-books | William Anderson | |
| a6f9c41 | In an era when letter writing is a diminished art, we have an opportunity to share this historical and literary treasure trove in The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder. This book is both a reminder of a bygone era of genuine communication and another visit with Laura Ingalls Wilder, pioneer and author. | letter-writing | William Anderson | |
| 3f5f31f | a pointed letter from Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, from Washington State, a very powerful member of Congress and one who took special interest in military matters. Jackson had just returned from an Arctic tour with the air force and he got an idea while he was up there, surveying the intimidating ice pack. Would it be feasible, the senator wondered in his correspondence, to operate a nuclear-powered submarine beneath the ice?" | William R. Anderson | ||
| 28a8bf2 | In respect to Drower, and still more with Biruni and his medieval contemporaries, I am reminded of the praise given to Sir William Jones, the proponent of the idea that European and Indian languages had one common source. 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' commented political economist James Anderson, 'who by painful researches, tend to remove those destructive veils which have so long concealed mankind from each other. | Gerard Russell | ||
| 6d68491 | mold--William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt's notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of "over-civilization," code for effeminacy. The true man, in this worldview, was a rugged individualist, physically fit as well as intellectually cultured, as equally at home leading men into battle or shooting big game on the prairie as chatting with the ladies in the salon." | Scott Anderson | ||
| 418afe6 | On top of this was the official indigenous Egyptian government that, though it was quite toothless, various British officials periodically felt the need to pretend to consult in order to maintain the appearance that the wishes of the actual inhabitants of Egypt somehow mattered. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 1303985 | Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correct a nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion and urgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protect its religious minority populations. At war's end, the C.. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 500621b | By the end of that first day, the advance landing forces at Gallipoli had already suffered nearly four thousand casualties, or considerably more than the total number of men Lawrence had projected would be needed to secure Alexandretta. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 1df0991 | had worked so hard to bring about, that Lawrence was suddenly | Scott Anderson | ||
| 40c7456 | And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of "free trade," the United States continued to finance and do business with both sides in the conflict, growing ever richer while Europe bled." | Scott Anderson | ||
| 2183a43 | this must surely be one of the most astounding documents ever presented to an Ally when engaged in a life and death struggle. For it imposed what was really a veto on the best opportunity of cutting the common enemy's life-line and of protecting our own." By acquiescing to such an outrage, Liddell Hart contended, the British General Staff were essentially "accessories to the crime," that crime being that the British in Egypt had now been gi.. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 0888423 | The first-day objective of those landing on Cape Helles had been to secure a small village some four miles inland, and then to advance on the Turkish forts just above. Over the next seven months, the British would never reach that village, but would suffer nearly a quarter of a million casualties trying. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 5d00b87 | the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread its enlightenment--whether through commerce, the Bible, the gun, or some combination of all three--to the world's less fortunate cultures and races. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 2e6ff25 | The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 8c0643a | was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 719f0e3 | considerably when Lord Kitchener assumed that post in 1911. Quickly coming to regard Storrs as his most trusted lieutenant--the Oriental secretary had been instrumental in torpedoing Curt Prufer's appointment to the khedival library directorship, for example--Kitchener had maintained their relationship even after his appointment to war secretary in August 1914. Since he fully intended to return to his Egyptian post once the war was over, Ki.. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 4ac8486 | nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the | Scott Anderson | ||
| 6baeded | He wasn't sure what to do. If he left the rock, it would only take a few minutes of desert air to dry his pool, and then all that would remain of him would be a small crucible of brown powder, a powder the wind would find and scatter. He wished to stay there, to protect the pool. But after a time, he thought differently. He understood that if he stayed upon the rock, he would simply disappear as well. And so, he rose. | Scott Anderson | ||
| b847978 | correspondent in the Middle East, attache William Yale. With that dispatch he was establishing a tradition of fundamentally misreading the situation in the Middle East that his successors in the American intelligence community would rigorously maintain for the next ninety-five years. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 2cb9d7a | LATE ONE NIGHT in early October 1913, William Yale lay in his tent in the mountains of Anatolia, struck by a sense of wonder at how quickly a life could change. Just three weeks earlier he had been living in | Scott Anderson | ||
| 3b7e1b6 | A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer. | Scott Anderson | ||
| 3548a61 | The theory of the long tail as popularized by Chris Anderson in his book of the same name is that our culture and economy are increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of major hits (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. As the costs of production and distribution fall, especially online, there is now less need to lump products and consumer.. | David Meerman Scott | ||
| 416eb4f | frontier | Scott Anderson |