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Alexander Paul Charrier McKee OBE (25 July 1918 - 22 July 1992) was a British journalist, military historian, and diver who published nearly thirty books. This is his book that discusses in depth great mysteries of aviation including Joe Kennedy - WWII.

Great Mysteries of Aviation

MCKEE, Alexander

1988 Dorset Press. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0880292288. Revised Edition.

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McCormick, Mona

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This is a remarkably comprehensive history of the oldest profession. It begins with the pagan sex market of ancient Greece, and stresses the close connection of prostitution to everyday life in all countries at all times. The author focuses on aspects often ignored by conventional historians; the relations not only between harlots and ordinary citizens, but among diplomats, artists, and prosperous courtesans - with the resulting ramifications in national and international affairs. The Oldest Profession is a scholarly, fully detailed history that includes a wealth of remarkable anecdotes and presents a clear picture of the vicissitudes of prostitution; the efforts of early Romans to spy on the erotic Mysteries celebrated by women; Charlemagne's strict laws against prostitutes and procurers; twelfth-century England's regulated bawdy houses, which led to the establishment of official brothels in France and Italy and "women's quarters" in Germany; the sever punishment, both corporal and financial, of brothelkeepers in seventeenth-century France; the organized protest by prostitutes against the "brutal methods and language" of Paris police in the eighteenth-century; the twentieth-century abolition of the registration of prostitutes in Sweden, where there have never been brothels; and sex legislation in the Soviet Union, where prostitution is outlawed because it is "a means to live without working".

The Oldest Profession: A History of Prostitution

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Lujo Bassermann

Social Sciences

Collects nineteen short stories, including "The Adventure of the African Traveler," "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party," and four sports mysteries

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Ellery Queen

Handbook of Magic

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Bird Feeder Guide How to Attract and Identify

Schenk, Marcus

The idea of the Seven Wonders of the World is well-known, but how many of us could name all seven of them? And do they even exist? The authors seek to set the record straight with a portrayal of each wonder in the context in which it was built. The facts and background are brought together to establish the archaeology and location of each wonder. Materials from ancient sources and the results of modern excavations suggest why particular places and objects have been taken as the touchstone of human achievement.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Book of Great Mysteries

Wilson, Colin Evan

Many volumes have been written on the discoveries of the Northmen in America in the eleventh century since the Icelander Thormoour Torfaeus published his "History of Vinland" in 1705. For two hundred and forty years historians and students of the sagas have disagreed in their identifications of the various landfalls made by the voyagers to Vinland, although the evidence of Norse discoveries and explorations on the American coast, and for Norse contacts with the aborigines of North America, is clear and conclusive. Theory has challenged theory; yet none has won complete acceptance. The original sagas, on which these theories, old and new, have been founded, outlive all interpretations of them. The geographical and topographical data which they contain, though not so complete or precise as we could wish, afford firmer ground than many of the speculations - often partly inspired by wishful thinking - which have been spun around them. The traditions written down by thirteenth- and fourteenth-century chroniclers still survive, and lend themselves to more solid and reasonable interpretation. Author Reman, an experienced seaman and navigator, places the eleventh-century landings of the Vikings in America at newly determined locations. He obtains his evidence by a painstaking examination of the original texts of the Old Norse sagas. Reman also shows that the explorations of Erik the Red and Leif and Thorvald Eriksson were planned rediscoveries. These are just some of the problems the author attacks in this book, a work which, according to Editor Arthur G. Brodeur, is a very valuable contribution to the scholarship of an eternally vexed subject.

The Norse Discoveries and Explorations of America

Edward Reman

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