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The Doomsday Machine
By: Daniel Ellsberg
Narrated by: Steven Cooper
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
Fascinating Insider Story
By Terry Masters on 12-07-17
A hair-raising insider's account
At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top secret documents related to America's nuclear program in the 1960s. Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those documents and makes clear their shocking relevance for today. The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. Framed as a memoir, this thriller with cloak-and-dagger intrigue places Ellsberg back in his natural role as whistle-blower.
Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
By: Michael Korda
An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.
An epic of remarkable originality
Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.
Young Radicals
In the War for American Ideals
By: Jeremy McCarter
Narrated by: Jeremy McCarter
Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals, and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to defend those values in a country pitching into violence and chaos.
A Dramatic Narrative
From the coauthor of the New York Times best seller Hamilton: The Revolution comes the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them. Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them—and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals, and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to defend those values in a country pitching into violence and chaos.
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
By: Todd Zwillich
Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
Caveat Emptor: Bone to Pick
By Judah Family on 07-05-19
The Dead Drink First
By: Dale Maharidge
Narrated by: Dale Maharidge
Dale Maharidge’s father, like many World War II veterans, never talked about “the good war”. There was just one clue to his dad’s experience as a US Marine - a portrait with a close friend that hung permanently in their home. In The Dead Drink First, Dale, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recounts his 18-year quest to find and repatriate the missing remains of his dad’s buddy, Herman Walter Mulligan, 73 years after he was killed in action.
read it even if it's not your usual genre
By Kindle Customer on 06-07-19
The Findings of the Special Counsel Investigation
By: Robert S. Mueller III, Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice
Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett, Victor Bevine
The wait is over. After a two-year investigation, the results of The Mueller Report have been released to the public. Now listen to an audio version of one of the most talked about government documents in history. These are the redacted findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team, which was tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, including exploring any links or coordination between President Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Double Checked Accuracy
By Aptly Informed on 05-04-19
Dead Mountain
The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
By: Donnie Eichar
Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
Amazing Story
By Denise Ryan on 08-08-15
The Other America - A Speech from The Radical King (Free)
By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West - editor
Narrated by: Wanda Sykes
In a rousing speech on race, poverty, and economic justice - given less than a year before his assassination - Martin Luther King Jr. drives home the mission behind his Poor People's Campaign. It is a clear-eyed look at the disparity of wealth in America, what it means for people of all colors - and a message of inspiration dedicated to the power of the people.
My first audible experience, and the best!!!
By Michael Lane on 02-09-18
With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: E. B. Sledge
Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
This is the second audio book of Sledge's work
By Richard on 10-21-13
The Quest Continues
By: Graham Hancock
Narrated by: Graham Hancock
Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of listeners throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story, this unique history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.
Great book with excellent narration!
By Linda SB on 10-27-16
American Liberator
By: Marie Arana
Narrated by: David Crommett
It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.
There will be blood.
By Joselo on 08-02-13
The Girls of Atomic City
The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
By: Denise Kiernan
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.
More than Just the Girls
By Jane Mcdowell on 01-14-14
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Fukuyama examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
Understanding our place thru Poly Sci
By Gary on 12-29-14
Washington's Spies
The Story of America's First Spy Ring
By: Alexander Rose
Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all.
Kinda boring
By Randall on 07-10-19
By: Jack Weatherford
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
Brilliant, insightful, intriguing.
By Peter on 03-05-10
Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets
An Audible Original
By: John Woolf, Nick Baker
On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you’ll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder. Presented by Stephen Fry, this series delves deep into a period of time we think we know, to discover an altogether darker reality. The stories we’re told offer a different perspective on an era which underwent massive social change. As education, trade, technology and culture blossomed, why was there an undercurrent of the ‘forbidden’ festering beneath Victorian society?
A must hear ... but not for kids!
By Dylan on 02-19-19
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch
By: Ruth Cowen
Narrated by: Jennie Bond, Tim Piggott-Smith, Lindsay Duncan
Respected royal broadcaster Jennie Bond narrates the life story of Queen Elizabeth II, and takes listeners inside the private life of one of the most public figures in modern history. Learn intimate details of Elizabeth's childhood, her courtship and marriage, and the tragic moments following the death of Princess Diana. Born a minor royal in 1926, Elizabeth is now the longest-reigning British monarch and also the most recognizable woman in the world.
Thoroughly Enjoyable From Start To Finish
By Julia on 04-16-16
The True Story of the Manson Murders
By: Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Now available for the first time in unabridged audio, the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime is brought to life by acclaimed narrator Scott Brick.
A familiar story from a unique perspective
By Laura on 11-26-13
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende (Foreward)
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.
Please up-date the addition
By fishrock on 02-20-10
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
By: Lacey Baldwin Smith
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one.
Thoroughly enjoyable history
By Dennis K. on 11-23-17
Hue 1968
A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
By: Mark Bowden
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
By January 1968, despite an influx of half a million American troops, the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which "the end begins to come into view". The North Vietnamese had different ideas. In mid-1967, the leadership in Hanoi had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke.
I KNEW This Book Would Sting Me . . . .
By Bee Keeper on 07-28-17
The History of the Ancient World
From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" - literature, epic traditions, private letters, and accounts - to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled.
Fast paced history
Essential American History
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This is history on a grand scale, an audiobook about politics, war, and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, it is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
Lip smacking good
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war.
Lincoln Comes Alive Through His Realtionships
By Wolfpacker on 06-22-15
The End of Camelot
By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
More than a million listeners have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the can't-stop-listening work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Nothing of Substance New
By Patti on 09-21-14
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
By: Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
My kinda founding father...mostly...
By Brad Barker on 06-08-13
Narrated by: David McCullough
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
Front Seat on History
By Mark on 10-22-05
Samuel Colt: The Life and Legacy of the Man Who Invented America’s Most Famous Guns
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Bill Hare
Samuel Colt entered the pool of visionaries in search of the invention that would tip the power balance in favor of those who possessed it. Samuel Colt: The Life and Legacy of the Man Who Invented America’s Most Famous Guns looks at the individual and firearms that helped shape the nation in the 19th century.
Amazing Black History Facts
By: Naomi Flowers
Narrated by: Laura Vandiver
Do you like Trivia? Black history? Learning? Then this book has the information you need regarding black history through the years. A few of the stories are well known, others might be new to you.
Queen Victoria: A Rule of Development and Discovery
By: in60Learning
Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
Queen Victoria, 1819 to 1901, was the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death, and is one of the most widely recognized rulers in British history. Queen Victoria’s 63 year rule (a rule longer than any of her predecessors) coincided with an era of monumental changes and developments in industry, politics, science, and culture as well as the vast expansion of the British Empire across the globe; most significant of all being Britain’s colonial activity in India, so much so Queen Victoria earned the title of Empress of India in 1876.
Mending a Broken Heart
By: Daniel Clifford
Narrated by: Daniel R. Clifford
Drawing from concepts in science, religion, art, and pop-culture - Sophocles: Mending a Broken Heart presents as a map and accessory to help move through life's struggles. Oedipus Rex, a play written by Sophocles almost 3000 years ago, is used as a metaphoric backdrop highlighting the emotional journey of attachment and what it means to be human. The book provides hope through archetypes that have been with us for thousands of years, suggesting the struggle of life and for life is nothing new.
Robespierre: The Madman with a Guillotine
Robespierre was a poor, well-educated activist and politician who would seize power during the French Revolution...today he is not remembered for his work on universal male voting rights, price controls for basic food needs, and abolishing slavery...but for his Reign of Terror. How did an intelligent man driven by morals of freedom and justice end up executing thousands in a mad grab to maintain power? Follow his fascinating descent from the Hero of the Republic to its true enemy.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West
The Oklahoma Western Biographies
By: Jon Hunner
Narrated by: Jim Woods
Jon Hunner’s concise account of Oppenheimer’s life and the emergence of an Atomic West distills a vast literature for students and general listeners. In this brisk, engaging biography, the author recounts how Oppenheimer helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and helped establish leading physics departments at the University of California–Berkeley and Caltech.
The Basilica of the Sacréd Heart of Paris: The History and Legacy of the Sacré-Cœur
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
The Basilica of the Sacréd Heart of Paris: The History and Legacy of the Sacré-Cœur looks at the architectural history of the site, the events that inspired its creation, and the scandals that continue to surround it to this day. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Sacré-Cœur like never before.
The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War
By: Stephen Crane
Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
Learn more about the American Civil War by listening to this audiobook.
World War II: 1939
One Hour WW II History Books, Book 1
By: History by the Hour
Narrated by: Rory Young
In this one-hour history book, discover why World War II happened as we uncover the main events that lead to the beginning of the most lethal war of all times. Probably no historical period has been discussed and dissected as much as World War II. Yet there is always something new to learn upon closer inspection. Events occurred at lightning speed during the war years, and you almost have to take things on a day-by-day basis to take them all in. That is why this book focuses solely on what transpired from 1938 to 1939.
100+1 Trivia Questions with Interesting Facts: General Knowledge
By: Michael Harris
Narrated by: Kevin Hung-Liang
Do you know what country has the highest number of castles and chateaux per capita in the world? Do you know what is the name of a famous actor, who, after coming back from Navy, he started working as a lorry driver, a laborer, a model, and a coffin washer? Did you know, there are three times as many sheep as citizens living in Australia?
Worked out perfect for our trivia night party!
Slavery in the North
Forgetting History and Recovering Memory
By: Marc Howard Ross
Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
In 2002, we learned that Pres. George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall. It housed the enslaved men and women Washington brought to the city as well as serving as the country's first executive office building. In Slavery in the North, Marc Howard Ross not only asks why enslavement disappeared from the North's collective memories but also how the dramatic recovery of these memories in recent decades should be understood.
1968 - Into the Abyss
The Elite Tunnel Rats
By: Riley St. James
Narrated by: Riley St. James
What if after decades there was still one more untold incredible Viet Nam war saga peppered with tightly-written notes from then young, not yet 20, and highly decorated leader of a small group of underground and Special Force combatants who searched and destroyed over 900 tunnels?
Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are THE ONE
By: Moustafa Gadalla
Narrated by: Susie Hennessy
The Egyptian concept of God is based on recognizing the multiple attributes of the Divine. The book details more than 80 divinities (gods/goddesses), how they act and interact to maintain the universe, and how they operate in the human being - As Above so Below, and As Below so Above.
Syria's Secret Library
The True Story of How a Besieged Syrian Town Found Hope
By: Mike Thomson
Narrated by: David Rintoul
The secret library is in the basement of a bombed building in a heavily shelled area of Darayya. Around it, shattered buildings that were once homes and offices lie in crumbling, treacherous piles. A desert of shattered grey concrete festooned with twisted metal and charred wires. Deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lies the secret library. No signs mark its presence. Locals fear that Syrian government planes will bomb it if they know where it is.
War Experiences and the Story of the Vicksburg Campaign from "Milliken's Bend" to July 4, 1863 Being an Accurate and Graphic Account of Campaign Events...of Co. B 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
By: John Jackson Kellogg
Listen to this audiobook to learn more about Co. B 113th Illinois volunteer infantry and the story of the Vicksburg campaign.
Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II
North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
By: Tom Faulkner
Narrated by: Mark Sando
In 1944 and 1945, Tom Faulkner was a B-24 pilot flying out of San Giovanni airfield in Italy as a member of the 15th Air Force of the US Army Air Forces. Only 19 years old when he completed his 28th and last mission, Tom was one of the youngest bomber pilots to serve in the US Army Air Forces during World War II. Between September 1944 and the end of February 1945, he flew against targets in Hungary, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia.
Justice on Trial
The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
By: Mollie Hemingway, Carrie Severino
Narrated by: Mollie Hemingway, Carrie Severino
In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened and explore what the bitterly divisive hearings mean for the future of the Court and the battle for the soul of America.
A Must Listen!
By Nicholas S. on 07-10-19
Partition Voices
Untold British Stories
By: Kavita Puri
Narrated by: Kavita Puri
Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the 20th century. Yet their memory of India’s partition has been shrouded in silence. Kavita Puri’s father was 12 when he found himself one of the millions of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims caught up in the devastating aftermath of a hastily drawn border. For 70 years he remained silent - like so many - about the horrors he had seen.
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth....
Tom Wolfe describes the inner life of astronauts with almost uncanny empathetic powers....
A Brief History of Humankind
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us....
Should be required reading
By Blue Zion on 12-22-18
On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
By: Tim Alberta
Narrated by: Jason Culp
The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence....
Dale Maharidge’s father, like many World War II veterans, never talked about “the good war”. But the behind closed doors of their working class, Midwestern life, even the most mundane moments could trigger his father’s violent episodes, exposing his untreated trauma from combat....
In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveal what really happened and explore what the bitterly divisive hearings mean for the future of the Court....
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country....
Ancestors Were Some of These Pioneers
By Zack on 05-08-19
By: Robert Greene
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
Midnight in Chernobyl
By: Adam Higginbotham
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....
Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
By N. H. on 03-21-19
Legion versus Phalanx
The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
By: Myke Cole
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder, and with overlapping shields, they presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy....
It's Great After First Few Chapters
By Jonathon Hawk on 05-26-19
The Man Who Sold America
Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
By: Joy-Ann Reid
Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
The media star and host of MSNBC’s Am Joy offers concrete advice and insight for dealing with the outrages of the Trump administration and offers a progressive road map to preserve and protect America’s future as a beacon of democracy....
By Ronnie Hill on 06-29-19
Alone at Dawn
Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
By: Dan Schilling, Lori Longfritz
Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel, Betsy Foldes Meiman
In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot peak of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, a fierce battle raged. Outnumbered by Al Qaeda fighters, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and a handful of SEALs struggled to take the summit....
One of the Most Accurate and Compelling Account
By Frank Dailey on 06-26-19
The Lessons of History
By: Will, Ariel Durant
The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful 11-volume Story of Civilization....
I Am Humbly in Awe.
My Life in Special Operations
By: William H. McRaven
Narrated by: William H. McRaven
Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces....
Amazing & Totally Enthralling Book!
By Richard Paul Reynolds on 05-24-19
By: The Washington Post
Narrated by: Matt Zapotosky, Rosalind S. Helderman, Marc Fisher, and others
Listen to the findings of the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying analysis by the Post reporters who’ve covered the story from the beginning....
Inciteful and insightful
By Jeff Lacy on 05-11-19
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
By: Jason Fagone
The incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together....
Captivating Biography
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Fate of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
Compelling pre-history and emergent history
By Doug on 08-25-11
The Story of Human Language
By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
Narrated by: John McWhorter


After a spectacular first act, the Large Hadron Collider is taking an intermission break, shutting down on Feb. 11 for two years of construction and upgrades. The biggest discovery thus far has been the Higgs boson but the LHC could have turned up exotic phenomena and new physics. In this gallery, we will take a look at some of these hoped for events and what they might have meant for science had they been found.


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Robin Gibb, one of the three singing brothers of the Bee Gees, the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group whose chirping falsettos and hook-laden disco hits like “Jive Talkin’ ” and “You Should Be Dancing” shot them to worldwide fame in the 1970s, died on Sunday in London. He was 62 and lived in Thame, Oxfordshire, England.
The cause was complications of cancer and intestinal surgery, his family said in a statement.
Mr. Gibb had been hospitalized for intestinal problems several times in the last two years. Cancer had spread from his colon to his liver, and in the weeks before his death he had pneumonia and for a while was in a coma.
Mr. Gibb was the second Bee Gee and third Gibb brother to die. His fraternal twin and fellow Bee Gee, Maurice Gibb, died of complications of a twisted intestine in 2003 at 53. The youngest brother, Andy, who had a successful solo career, was 30 when he died of heart failure, in 1988.
With brilliant smiles, polished funk and adenoidal close harmonies, the Bee Gees — Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb — were disco’s ambassadors to Middle America in the 1970s, embodying the peacocked look of the time in their open-chested leisure suits and gold medallions.
They sold well over 100 million albums and had six consecutive No. 1 singles from 1977 to 1979. They were also inextricably tied to the disco era’s defining movie, “Saturday Night Fever,” a showcase for their music that included the hit “Stayin’ Alive,” its propulsive beat in step with the strut of the film’s star, John Travolta.
Barry, the oldest brother, was the dominant Bee Gee for most of the group’s existence. But the lead singer for many of the early hits was Robin, whose breaking voice, gaunt frame and gloomy eyes were well suited to convey adolescent fragility. “I Started a Joke” (with the second line, “Which started the whole world crying”), “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You,” “Massachusetts” and other heavy-hearted songs brought the Bee Gees to the top of the charts as one of the British Invasion’s most musically conservative groups.
Robin Hugh Gibb and his twin, Maurice, were born on Dec. 22, 1949, on the Isle of Man, a British dependency in the Irish Sea. (Barry was born there in 1946.) The boys largely grew up in Manchester, England, where the family lived on the edge of poverty. Their father, Hugh, a drummer and bandleader, encouraged his sons to sing. Their mother, Barbara, was also a singer.
According to Bee Gees lore, the boys’ first performance was sometime in the mid-1950s, and unplanned. They had been scheduled to perform as a lip-synching act at a movie theater in Manchester when the record broke, forcing them to sing for real.
The family moved to Australia in 1958, and before long the brothers, performing as the Bee Gees — for Brothers Gibb — began scoring local hits and appearing on television. They left for London in early 1967 and within weeks had signed with Robert Stigwood, the impresario who guided them in their peak years.
The band’s first single in Britain, “New York Mining Disaster 1941,” was released in April 1967 and reached the Top 20.
But in private Robin was far from dull. He and his wife, Dwina Murphy, who survives him, lived in a 12th-century former monastery in Oxfordshire that he had restored and filled with statues of Buddha and suits of armor. In Miami, his mansion was open to celebrities and politicians like Tony Blair.
Robin briefly left the group in 1969 and tried out a solo career. After he rejoined his brothers, they scored their first No. 1 in the United States with “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” in 1971. But with harder rock taking over, the Bee Gees’ popularity ebbed, reaching bottom in 1974 with a series of supper-club gigs in England to pay off tax debts.
At that point their label, Atlantic, sent the brothers to Miami for musical experimentation. There, with the 1975 album “Main Course,” they reinvented the Bee Gees’ sound with Latin and funk rhythms, electronic keyboards and vocals that owed a debt to Philadelphia soul. It brought the band its first hits in years: “Nights on Broadway” and “Jive Talkin’,” which went to No. 1.
For many listeners, the Gibbs were the face of disco. Even “Sesame Street” got caught up in the trend, with Robin singing on the disco-themed album “Sesame Street Fever.” It went gold.
The Bee Gees’ 1979 album, “Spirits Having Flown,” produced three more No. 1 singles, “Too Much Heaven,” “Tragedy” and “Love You Inside Out.” Then, in 1980, the band filed a $200 million lawsuit against Mr. Stigwood, saying he had swindled them out of royalties. Mr. Stigwood countersued for defamation and breach of contract. They settled out of court and publicly reconciled.
In the ’80s the band’s popularity waned in the United States but remained strong abroad. Robin released three solo albums, with limited success. The Bee Gees returned with some moderate hits in the late 1990s and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. With his brothers, Mr. Gibb won six Grammys.
In addition to his wife and his brother Barry, Robin Gibb is survived by his sons, Spencer and Robin-John, known as R J; his daughters, Melissa and Snow; a sister, Lesley; and his mother. An earlier marriage, to Molly Hullis, ended in divorce.
Mr. Gibb had recently been working on a classical piece, “The Titanic Requiem,” with Robin-John. It had its premiere in London on April 10, played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, but Robin was too ill to attend.
Despite the Bee Gees’ close association with disco, the Gibb brothers had long insisted that they had no stake in the genre. They had simply written songs that suited their voices and caught their fancy, they said.


We are three weeks into January and the healthy meal planning is still going strong! I have absolutely loved seeing the recipes you all have been making and how much you have been enjoying these meal plans! We are going to close out the month strong with some more of my favorite recipes to get you through the end of the month! Because you all loved the make it once, eat it twice or three times approach last week, I am including several recipes for breakfast lunch that you can do just that! I aim to make your life easier in the kitchen and I hope this meal plan does just that!


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My apologies everyone I've been very behind and I'm finally updating the blog! I believe we are down to the last of the charms and ties and can I say yet again what a joy it has been to see what each person has created. :-)

As the due date draws to a close for the charms and ties to be sent in, I am so touched by the amount of people that have eagerly and selflessly wanted to be part of this project, thank you! I am also acutely aware of just how many have been effected in some way by this quiet disease! Now more then ever Ovarian cancer needs to be brought to the forefront of public awareness and more dollars raised to help fight this silent disease. Please continue to promote awareness and help us stamp out this disease!

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A third of all workers in the formal, non-agricultural sector in South Africa belong to a trade union. This is according to figures compiled by the South African Institute of Race Relations. By contrast, the rate of unionisation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) group of countries in 2011 was 18%. The rate of unionisation refers to the percentage of workers belonging to a trade union as a proportion of total people employed.


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NAMPA, Idaho (KBOI) -- A driver who led Nampa Police on a chase just after midnight is on the loose.

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He hasn't been seen since.

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I used to play the game but haven't for a while and trying to understand it again.
The implications of overpopulation seem to be quite harsh, given the propensity for warring and the chance some provinces will actually be chained down.
What is the purpose of this in the game? So not the mechanics of it, i can see the formula in the wiki, but why stop provinces that are down from being able to fight back?
Most people don't want to war for a really long time, and if you couldn't take provinces out with chains it would extend wars. There are also a lot of ways to "survive" the chain and still be quite useful.
Also, one of the few instances that "reality" makes sense for the game. Land is only able to support so many people.
Problem is that it begs the question; Why don't we lose the 'clay' they presumably carry back by the same means on a Trad March?
This got a bit off topic. Personally I like when things they implement make sense in reality, but meh, it doesn't really matter.
As to why overpopulation exists, it is a way to remove a lot of military from a province. It is (depending on the kd) a very effective way to disable a province, or at least make them choose between offense, defense, thieves and wizards. The alternative I guess would be that if overpopulation didn't exist, people would probably lean more heavily on massacres and T/M ops to hurt provinces. I personally think navigating overpopulation effectively is one of the more entertaining parts of the game... how hard can you get smacked down and still be effective and useful? Can you make them commit more resources to taking you out than they wanted to? Your play in these scenarios can turn the tide of a war.
But until then, you are a god of destruction (if you know what to do with your thieves/mages anyway).
I'd like elites to not abandon but commit suicide as an RPG option, maybe on the province detail screen on the crown page.
Very rarely do I feel underwhelmed by mechanical changes, but uniform abandonment does bother me. It's not that I don't feel peasants, soldiers and specs can't be Kool-Aid drinking fanatics. I imagine elites are part of a vetting process in which I want self-immolating commitment to the cause.
You could suggest that in the proper part of the forum, as what you want.


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Heliad II
Superyacht owner Slim Bouricha
Bouricha's first boat Jericho
Slim Bouricha grew up on the water in Tunisia
Heliad II alongside its support vessel the YXT
Lynx's XYT support vessel
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Superyacht owner and founder of Lynx Yachts, Slim Bouricha, takes us on boardHeliad IIand explains how a eureka moment propelled him to revolutionise the way yachts are built...
“It really comes down to moments, coincidences,” says Slim Bouricha. He’s recalling the turning-points in his business life, the specific experiences that allowed his first company to flourish and his second recently to take root. And he’s being modest.
Coincidence appears to have played no part at all in the making of Tunisian-born engineer, businessman and superyacht owner Slim Bouricha. First, he built a ground-breaking construction firm in the oil and gas industry from scratch, designing and building pipelines, oil processing facilities and much more. Now he is embarking on a similarly radical venture in boatbuilding. The “moments” he describes – and he remembers them vividly – seem more to do with a rare combination of intelligence, empathy, bravery and hard work.
Before we get on to those life-changing episodes, I ask him about his name. Is there a story behind Slim? No, he says. It’s just the name his parents chose for no particular reason. “Working with Dutch people, though, I found out that it means ‘smart’ in Dutch!”
Those Dutch people he refers to are characters in the second act of Slim Bouricha’s story. His boatbuilding company, Lynx Yachts, is based in Holland, where his smart ideas, including the revolutionary superyacht support vessel, the YXT, are gaining a foothold in the industry.
But first, to Tunisia. It was in Sfax, on the Mediterranean coast south of Tunis, that Bouricha was born 49 years ago (he hits 50 in June). Unusually for Sfax folk, his parents – a psychiatrist father and nurse mother – had a boat and his childhood summers were spent on the six metre, and the nearby island of Kerkennah. “It was magic for us growing up,” he says. His father bought Slim and his elder brother a fishing boat, too. “We spent every summer fishing and the beginning of the season preparing the fishing boat, scraping the paint, getting the boat ready for the season. My brother, myself and a fisherman in the village, he would help us. He taught us pretty much everything.”
The youngest Bouricha was soon displaying the practical skills that would come in so handy in later life. “Since I was little I had an interest in becoming an engineer. My first boat didn’t float for a second – I was not even 10.”
He left home at 18 to study, first in Paris where it was maths and physics, and then Washington, for a mechanical engineering degree at George Washington University. Other lessons were learnt, too. “At the time America was much more advanced than Europe in terms of the service industry. Now I think all the world is pretty much equal but back then I could sense that Americans were more pragmatic and more service-orientated.”
Armed with qualifications and experience, Bouricha went to work back in Sfax. He joined a company that built facilities for oil and gas producers – and quickly branched out on his own. All the time, he was questioning what the industry did, and how companies like his did it. “When we were about to build something and the engineering was already done, there were a lot of things you would see wrong. I would say, I would have designed this differently.”
This was when Eureka Moment No.1 took place. “I can even close my eyes and remember it,” Bouricha says of the day nearly 20 years ago. “It was one day, I was walking with the end client and the main contractor who did the engineering. And the project was late because it was poorly designed. They had to redesign while the construction was going on. As we were walking, one of the representatives of the builders I was friendly with turned to me and said: ‘I can’t believe this. This is something you could probably have done yourself much better than we did.’ All of a sudden I thought, hold on a second, that’s true.”
A few months later, Bouricha put his new approach to the test on a tender for a process facility. “I went so far as doing the entire engineering at the bidding phase so they could really see I knew what I was talking about. I think that seduced the engineering team of the end user, the client, as they said OK.
“That first project was a success. My client was so happy and they are still one of my major clients.” His company, Beender, is still going strong, employing 70-80 people and busy designing, engineering and constructing facilities in Congo and Iraq.
They might be rather different worlds and products but Bouricha has found that the same principles that apply in the oil and gas industry do so in the boating world, too.
Having cruised and fished on boats as a child, it was some years before Bouricha returned to the water as an adult. “First, I couldn’t afford a boat,” he says. “Second, I didn’t even have time for a boat. I used to work seven days a week and did that for my first seven years. One day, you finally have a little bit of money and some time, so I bought a small boat to cruise around.”
His first “significant” boat, as he calls it, was the 17 metre Jericho he had built in the mid-2000s and kept in Tunisia, while he was living in Paris. A fire put paid to her so he bought Heliad, an 18 metre Ferretti, while he and his American-Palestinian wife Lina started designing the boat they really wanted.
Making this next boat a reality brought about Moment No.2. “If you went to all the traditional boat builders, the process was such that you end up never getting the boat you want. This is why I decided to set up Lynx Yachts. We need to rethink the yacht building process.”
Bouricha was convincing enough talking about Beender and how he changed the way an oil and gas facility builder tendered for business. He positively fizzes now when explaining how the 33.9 metre Heliad II became the first boat off the Lynx drawing boards, in May 2013.
“We wanted to have the perfect gentleman’s family boat. When I used to cruise, whenever I saw those round-stern, navy blue hulls I always had to stop. On the old Benettis or whatever. They always appealed to me. And we also wanted to have a modern classic yacht where you have a very traditional line, that’s timeless, and yet a very minimalist contemporary interior.”
His input was considerable and this talent and experience is what he is offering to Lynx clients. “Engineers are not people who spend time on the water, whether as guests or as crew. The builders don’t spend time on the water either. I felt I can make a difference because I spend time on the water, I’ve spent a lot of time cruising. And also I love being in the engine room and I love the technical stuff on boats. I’m sure there’s something I can offer to people.”
Many people seem interested in Lynx’s one-stop shop approach of design and build. “I met somebody last week,” Slim Bouricha says, “and it was great because he had had several yachts in his life, all the way to 60 metres. He now wants a 22 or 24 metre boat and I have a very interesting challenge because his wife wants something and he also has his own requirements. He has children too and they are all on a different wavelength and somebody has to come from the exterior and make the common denominator. I love this, love it,” he adds, unnecessarily, as his eyes and quickening speech have already given away his excitement.
Alongside its custom division, Lynx also offers the YXT, the distinctive support vessel range designed to offer more space to yacht owners to carry large tenders and toys as well as providing additional accommodation for crew and guests.
This idea came to Bouricha during Moment No.3. “We were anchored off Capri [some time around 2008] and I was watching these people coming off this 50 metre boat. The ladies were all decked out and the tender was not stable, the crew were struggling to get those ladies safely on board the tender that was not so big. The water was very choppy, it was very windy, and I saw them getting completely messed up.
“While we were building Heliad II I was aware of a larger yacht trying to remain under the 500 gross tonnage limit by carving into the superstructure [to accommodate a small tender]… I’m like, all this doesn’t make sense. Here’s a guy who’s spending probably two million altogether, when he could have bought a yacht extender for less money and not limited himself. He could then have had a 13 metre tender and enjoyed the real thing.
“I’d been thinking about it for a while but suddenly it all came together and I thought: we need to do it.”
Of course, he did it and is still doing it. He mentions another moment, one from his childhood, that goes some way to explaining this engaging, cosmopolitan character who has two sons of his own – Hedi, 14, and Adam, 11 – and now lives in Geneva with his family. “I grew up in Sfax, in Tunisia, in the late Sixties, early Seventies. We didn’t have newsstands with magazines at the time. TV was still black and white, with one channel and that started, I think, at 6 or 7pm!
"Every once in a while somebody would come back from a trip and bring the Air France magazine called Atlas. I used to love those magazines. I’d spend hours reading them and looking at the pictures. I’d travel in my head reading those magazines. There’s so much to explore in this world.”
He has done his fair share of exploring so far and, with Lynx, is encouraging others to do the same. “I’m really passionate about boats,” he says. “I’m also, deep inside, the dreamer/engineer who always wants to do things differently and better.”
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Woodroffe, R. & Sillero-Zubiri, C. 2012. Lycaon pictus (North Africa subpopulation). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T16991111A16991120. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T16991111A16991120.en. Downloaded on 20 October 2017.
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Golden Slipper winner Pierro was one of the great favourites of champion trainer Gai Waterhouse and his top class daughter Pinot (3f Pierro x Dizelle by Zabeel) might be the one to deliver victory for her in one of the few major races Waterhouse has never won.
Waterhouse is one step closer to fulfilling a lifelong ambition to win the Group I VRC Oaks following the dominant win of Pinot in the Group III MRC Ethereal Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
A last start winner of the Kennedy Oaks Trial at Flemington over 1800 metres, Pinot relished a further step out to 2000 metres for this assignment, leading throughout and cruising home to win by nearly two lengths.
She is now second favourite for the VRC Oaks behind Group I MRC Thousand Guineas winner Aloisia.
“When she came down from Sydney six weeks ago I was determined to win the VRC Oaks, it’s the one thing I want to do,” Waterhouse said.
“I sent a couple of fillies down and Pinot was beaten at her first start but ever since she’s kept on improving.
With two wins and two seconds from five starts and prizemoney of $128,275, Pinot is part-owned in North America by syndicator Aaron Wellman and Waterhouse was on the phone post race relaying the news.
“She has a superb pedigree and she was bought at the Inglis Easter sales and didn’t cost an arm and a leg - $200,000 for a filly that is worth a lot more now,” Waterhouse said.
“I bought her with Aaron Wellman, the syndicator from America, and of course he is over the moon.
A $200,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Coolmore draft for Wellman’s Eclipse Thoroughbreds, Pinot runs for a partnership that also includes Newgate Farm, James Bester and Kate Waterhouse.
Bred by Keith Biggs and foaled and raised at Coolmore, Pinot has an interesting 2 x 4 double cross of champion sire Zabeel, so the 2500 metres of the Group I VRC Oaks should hold no fears for her!
She is the third stakes-winner for Pierro, who also sired a smart winner at Bendigo with $1.5 million colt Plato (3c Pierro x Skates, by Danehill) scoring over 1600 metres. The half-brother to Golden Slipper winner Vancouver won by a length and a quarter at his fourth start.
Pierro also featured in Perth where his promising three year-old Arcadia Prince (3g Pierro x Arcadia, by Redoute’s Choice) made it two wins from three starts when scoring over 1400 metres at Ascot.


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Rename the 12th Man Bar
Yellow Army invites fans to suggest new names for the supporters' bar
The Yellow Army, which aims to raise funds to improve the match day experience and to further fund the Youth & Community Trust, is inviting fans to make suggestions for the new name of the Oxford United supporters' bar. A big focus of the match day experience has been the creation of the 12th man bar, which this year has seen the introduction of Q&A with past players, Oxford United photos around the room and even some nice food! The club also benefits from a revenue share agreement with the stadium company, meaning that a percentage of the profits goes back to helping the club. This is a bar that we want to work more with the club to improve and create a thriving pre-match area for U’s fans.
To start with, we are able to change the name to a name chosen by you… the fans of Oxford United. This is our bar as fans and so being able to have a say in its naming is fantastic. We need your help to be creative and think of a name worthy of the Oxford United supporters' bar.
Please send your suggestions to the Yellow Army by email to yellowarmyoufc@gmail.com.
The deadline for suggestions coincides with season ticket renewal day: 2nd June. Following this, the most popular options will be put to vote where the winning name will be decided.
Get creative and remember ‘United We Stand’.


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REVIEW: Avengers: Infinity War – choose your spoiler levels
Hannah Lodge
How do you review a movie the whole world wants to talk about but doesn’t want to talk about?
By giving people choices. So here, reader, is a choose your own adventure review. Navigate below for as little or as much feedback as you’d like. Please note: no portion of this review discusses anything that would qualify as an actual spoiler for the film, nor does any portion of the review detail anything more than you’d see in a typical movie review. But for some, less is more until you’ve seen it.
Level 1 Review, e.g.
DID YOU LIKE THE MOVIE, YES OR NO? THAT’S LITERALLY ALL I WANT TO KNOW.
Yes. I honestly had no idea how Marvel would fit so many characters into one movie, but they’ve managed to solve the Rubik’s cube of gracefully stuffing most of their cinematic universe into the confines of only 2 hour and 40 minutes.
SO WHAT DID YOU LIKE OR NOT LIKE ABOUT IT? NO PLOT DETAILS, PLEASE.
One of my bigger concerns with Avengers: Infinity War was that, despite it being one of the final chapters in a long series of film, it’d waste too much of its running time filling in the blanks for people just tuning in. I’m happily surprised that this wasn’t the case at all. The film picks up right around the time Thor: Ragnarok ends, and it makes no effort whatsoever to catch up viewers on entries prior. I imagine anyone walking into this without knowledge of the franchise would feel like they were watching a season finale to a TV show they’d never seen, which is a bold but necessary choice to make for a film like this. (If you haven’t seen the previous movies, I’d recommend catching up on as many as you can).
And as you might expect from previous Avengers outings, the real joy and excitement of the movie rests in seeing your favorite heroes interact with one another, often for the first time – both in small moments of banter and in large scale battles. It’s hard to describe the tone of Infinity War, because the premise is dark and foreboding, but it manages to move at an even clip and doesn’t spare an ounce of the humor we’ve come to expect from the MCU.
The other big concern I had walking in was how Thanos and the MacGuffins of the MCU, the Infinity Stones, could support the weight of such a major effort. Thanos has mostly up to now been borderline silly and far from threatening, in my mind, in the brief appearances he’s made in other films. Here I’m torn on whether he works as intended. He’s threatening enough, but Infinity War in some ways tries too hard to make Thanos a compelling villain, quite suddenly, and I’m not sure the emotional or story beats with him worked for me – I think more of his backstory could have been told in previous entries, such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, so there’d be less character building to do. Here I’d have preferred less of him, because the heroes are who we’re really invested in up to this point.
TELL ME EVERYTHING (BUT ALSO: DON’T REALLY TELL ME ANYTHING, OK?)
The basic plot of this film is shockingly simple: Thanos is on the hunt for the Infinity Stones so he can enact some population control on the universe. He feels the universe is prone to overcrowding, leading to a scarcity of resources and poverty for many, and wants to solve that problem with the Infinity Stones. So he’s on the move to collect them all, which means the film takes place in several different areas across the universe, and basically everyone in the MCU is trying to stop him. The result is a spectacle of a movie, with conflict after conflict followed by small beats to plan and have casual banter.
I was impressed with the way the movie set up its protagonists – in Avengers: Civil War we basically had two separate sides working against each other. Infinity War takes the approach of setting up three main groups of protagonists and weaving them throughout. The way some of these heroes were bundled together was easily my favorite part of the movie, particularly the chemistry between certain Avengers and certain Guardians of the Galaxy.
As with any A/B/C subplot situation, some plots fare better than others. The lower point of the movie for me involved a fetch quest that comes near the end of the film – one of those subplots that starts to stall the momentum of a film that is otherwise firing on all cylinders. Also, as much as I love Peter Dinklage on Game of Thrones, that was not the case here. I’m surprised his scenes didn’t end up on the cutting room floor.
Meanwhile, the rest of the movie and its many moving pieces deliver, particularly because Infinity War has what so many other MCU films have lacked: stakes. Besides occasionally offing a minor supporting character like Agent Coulson (and then not really letting him be dead, anyway), audiences previously have spent most of these films knowing exactly who will walk away safely. While that’s true to some extent here, there’s a very real feeling that we’re reaching an end of sorts, and not everyone will make it out alive.
Lastly, I compared Infinity War to a season finale rather than a series finale, and it’s an important distinction. There’s another part to this story coming one year from now, and though I was hoping Infinity War would feel mostly self-contained, it’s only half of a complete story, and like any season finale, it’s painful to know we’ll have to wait a full year to get the conclusion. But so far I’m impressed with how much Marvel managed to fit into one story, and I think the structure of these films and their TV-like narrative have proved how well long term franchise investments can pay off if they’re well thought out and executed rather than handled piecemeal.
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Mark 04/25/2018 4:26 pm at 4:26 pm
Thanos doesn’t think there is room enough in the universe for everyone? The infinitely expanding universe is too small?
George 04/25/2018 4:28 pm at 4:28 pm
Thanks for not comparing it to a Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Slate critic Sam Adams has vowed to throw a brick at the next reviewer who makes that comparison.
skip 04/26/2018 7:30 am at 7:30 am
“The basic plot of this film is shockingly simple”
Shockingly simplistic. The film was a repetitive snoozefest. It was the same conflict over and over and over and over. “Fight Thanos!” “No, protect the gems!” “No, kill me to protect the gems!” 10 minutes worth of concept stretched over two and a half hours.
Whenever comic fans watch these films, the critical centers of their brains turn to mush.
Exhibit A: Skip, who expresses contempt for 99 percent of superhero movies but can’t help seeing them all, apparently on the first day of release.
Kyle Pinion 04/26/2018 11:12 pm at 11:12 pm
Holy crap George, people are really comparing this to PTA? Because it has a big ensemble? Why don’t they go for Altman while they’re at it too?
It’s a very fun time btw, just got out of it a little bit ago. That Hannah and I can talk over dinner about these characters that I grew up loving is a dream come true for me.
Rod Taylor 04/26/2018 11:51 pm at 11:51 pm
I really thought they did a good job with Thanos. Many genuinely shocking moments, though in good comic book fashion they’ve left themselves an out. ATM, I’d rate it in the lower half of MCU movies, but the larger the cast the more viewings it takes for me to settle on an opinion.
MBunge 04/27/2018 9:35 am at 9:35 am
The problems with the film are that it is pretty repetitive, with the whole “hero refuses to kill one person in order to save half the universe” thing happening THREE times, and Thanos becoming the “Big Poochie” of the MCU. Remember when they first announced Infinity War as a two-parter and then reversing course when people starting complaining about it? Well, this is definitely still part one of two but a little restructuring and a lot less Thanos could have prevented that.
On the other hand, it is still a lot of fun and amazingly well-constructed for what it is.
“Infinity War has what so many other MCU films have lacked: stakes.”
And I have to disagree with this. If anything, the film lost me a bit by going so far over the top that I couldn’t suspend my disbelief. Whoever dies “for real” in the next one is going to be slightly undercut by seeing everybody and their brother get ash-puffed into nonexistence in this one.
Martha Thomases 04/27/2018 12:13 pm at 12:13 pm
My problem with this movie (and I had a lot of fun watching it) is the way the character of the Hulk — and especially Bruce Banner — is so different from the way he was written in the previous films. He’s not smart. He’s not scientific. Mark Ruffalo is never less than a terrific actor, but he is given nothing to work with here.
Also (and I hope this isn’t spoiler-y, but warning) if I was the parent of young children, I would not take them to this until the second part comes out.
herrdoctorffej 04/27/2018 7:51 pm at 7:51 pm
About halfway through, I thought “OK — Thanos == R’as Al Ghul”. (Hell, they both have super-assassin daughters.)
Which is actually a clever bit of adaptation. Thanos of the comics is, boiled down, your crazy god-like supervillain. It’s tough to make much of a character who’s prime motivation is getting down with Death.
The whole “I have to kill the universe to save it” theme plays a lot better, I think.
(And I really enjoyed the movie; plus, I thought the conclusion was a hoot, but I suspect I’m in the minority. The audience I saw it with appeared to be gobsmacked; they were absolutely quiet after the final scene, and sat through the entire credits sequence for the stinger.)
Rich 04/28/2018 1:56 am at 1:56 am
SPOILER The Hulk was clearly visible in the trailers as participating in the climactic fight … Yet, all we see if Hulkbuster Banner. What happened?
Kyle Pinion 04/28/2018 2:12 pm at 2:12 pm
What happened? Marketing misdirected you.
George 04/28/2018 11:58 pm at 11:58 pm
Kyle: I think the PTA comparison is coming from fans’ tweets rather than legitimate reviews.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/avengers-infinity-war-review-fan-reaction-marvel-sequel-captain-america-iron-man-thanos-a8319501.html
Your comment made me wish Altman was still around to direct a “revisionist” superhero movie, the way he made a revisionist private eye movie (The Long Goodbye) and Western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller). I’d love to hear the fanboy reaction to the overlapping dialogue, slow zooms into scenes, and mournful Leonard Cohen score!
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Transport for London has confirmed that its director of asset management Dana Skelley OBE is leaving at the end of June to join Skanska Civil Engineering.
Ms Skelley will take on the role of director of strategy and operational excellence as the infrastructure giant.
Managing director of surface Transport, Leon Daniels, said he makes the announcement 'with mixed feelings of sadness and pleasure'.
He said: 'Dana has worked in the public sector for 30 years and during her time here at TfL we have had the benefit of working with one of the most talented engineers in the UK. All around us we see her achievements.
'At our Surface Board she has always challenged us all to be innovative, creative and to make better progress regardless of the difficulties being encountered. She has been an excellent leader, inspiring her teams, driving people to achieve their potential while retaining her characteristic humility and kindness.
'Dana has also championed our young apprentices and graduates as well as working extraordinarily hard to bring women and other under-represented groups into civil engineering. This work has made us the envy of many other agencies.
'We will very much miss Dana and all she has done for TfL. She leaves with a job well done and new challenges to face. I will very much miss her contribution as a Director across all the areas of our business.


On April 5, as a part of the 2018 Viterbi Awards, USC hosted the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC). Innovative USC engineers pitched their best ideas to tackle at least one of the National Academy of Engineering's fourteen Grand Challenges spanning safety, education, health, energy, and the environment.
Quake Capital Founding Partner Brandon Maier served on an esteemed panel of judges that determined which team would receive the $50,000 grand prize, coupled with $25,000 in legal services.
The winner of the MEPC was Apeiron, a company that has developed technology that makes natural gas a zero-emission product. While natural gas may seem better than fossil fuels, it still does not burn cleanly. Apeiron takes natural gas emissions and turns them into a product called graphene, a thin, transparent, and strong layer of carbon that is extremely valuable and used in the production of touch-screen applications, solar cells, and better-performing batteries.
At Quake, we're always excited to see what real world problems young startups are trying to solve. Thank you to USC and the MEPC for inviting us. It was truly a pleasure, and we look forward to seeing what's in store next year.
Watch a highlight video of the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition here!


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"The first week they gave us the history of ninjas and what’s thought to be myth and legend."Photo: Melissa Hom
Nina Cha found her calling when she answered a Craigslist ad that read, "WANTED: Ninjas who do magic." We asked her about her qualifications, and she told us about her brushes with Frank Bruni’s wrath and Tara Reid’sposse.

What kind of training did you get?
There were two months of extensive training before we opened. The first week they gave us the history of ninjas and what’s thought to be myth and legend. We had magic classes once or twice a week. And tastings.

Do kids get scared?
Some do, because it’s very dark and we have ninjas popping in andout.

How do you prepare the "meteorite pot"?
The rock, which is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit, is on a big tray that comes with fresh green leaves and a kettle of soy-milk soup with clam and bacon and a couple slices of wild hog. We cut the vegetables up, put the bacon in, pour the soup, and put the rock on top using tongs. You see it boiling instantly. It cooks fully after two or three minutes. They imported a special oven from Japan that goes up to 1,000degrees.

Is it tricky to serve dishes like that?
One time I had a customer who had a fire phobia, so I had to tell her about every dish that involved fire.
Do celebrities visit?
Susan Sarandon brought her children. Tara Reid came in with ten or twelve people. They had a goodtime.

You have some of the most secluded dining areas in the city.
We have this one room that’s more discreet than the others. Whenever a customer asks for a romantic room, that’s the one we won’t give them. We once saw a couple sitting next to each other, and the lady was doing something to the guy. On their comment card they wrote that the rooms weren’t privateenough.

The restaurant received one of the most scathing reviews Frank Bruni has ever written.
The managers were really nervous because they’re not too used to the New York restaurant world. We explained to them that Mr. Bruni isn’t a big fan of theme restaurants.
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Fulham sunk to the bottom spots of the Premier League and have been relegated to the Championship League with Felix Magath having a huge task ahead of him as the tactician is the man elected to return Fulham to the Premier League.
Nikolay Bodurov, Adil Chihi, Mahamadou Diarra, Thomas Eisfeld, Tim Hoogland, Shaun Hutchinson, Ross McCormack, Kostas Stafylidis, Adam Taggart and Kay Voser are all of the players that have been officially confirmed to join Fulham as the main reinforcements for their upcoming quest of earning a promotion spot in the Championship League.
Even though it looks like a long list of players, Magath has maintained a fairly reasonably low transfer budget with 4 of them making their way to Craven Cottage on free transfers.
Felix Magath hinted out that more players could join the team before the transfer window closes but he emphasized in stating that his main objective is to sign players with more experience as he already has plenty of younger players at his disposal.
"We are looking for two or three experienced players. We have a very young squad at the moment so I think we need, for a very difficult season, some experience. I'm very happy with the attitude and ambition of the players we have. Unfortunately, we need other players and I hope we will get them here next week. They belong to Fulham and I am glad that they will come back’’ Magath said.
A large number of players that were considered to be ‘’dead weight’’ have been released from the club with players such as: Charles Banya, Derek Boateng, Matthew Briggs, Damien Duff, John Heitinga, Giorgos Karagounis and David Stockdale being just some of the performers that have been released by Fulham.


– In an interview, the poet Lisa Robertson writes: “…as a very young reader, in the 80s, I constantly felt affronted that I could not find a point of recognition in the extreme masculinist philosophy and literature I was reading. To discover feminist thinking and writing was a recognition that gave me the will to write. That was a very relevant kind of pleasure.” Do you share her position? How did you discover feminist thinking and what difference did it make to you?
My experience of being female was one of latent discovery. I never doubted my biological make-up or had any confusion about it but quickly became aware of discord between how I understood myself and what others saw – which is a rather common experience and not just a gendered one.
I feel as though I have been part of some kind of “art world” since an early age. It is clear to me, whether or not I knew it then, that this is the direction I was heading in: I wanted to make things. And for years and years, I didn’t realize that the majority of the artists and artworks that I was being shown, that were influencing me, that I was taught to respect, were made by men, curated by men, in institutions largely run by men. And not just any men: white, straight ones. Without getting into all the frustrations of what it is to simply be a woman in today’s world, let alone the working world, or specifically the working art world, I can simply say that it was disheartening initially to realize that I was going to have to work harder to seek out female influences but that actually, as soon as I did, there were plenty of (female) artists everywhere, making incredible work. The sadness comes in actually having to identity myself as a gender to begin with, which above all feels exhausting since I am constantly reminded that I am female anyway.
Maybe, without intentionally meaning to, I sort of rejected the idea that I should have to do this, since it seems much more important that white, straight, men acknowledge their genders and make an effort to not dominate as easily as they are allowed to dominate. I would, as with my national and cultural identity (the real place where I can’t find a point of recognition), allow for that line to be blurred, allow for my gender and my influences and the kind of work I make to not be defined so easily along gender lines, because aren’t we already far past the moment where we have to be either male OR female? I like to pretend that we are past that limited perspective and to act accordingly until the rest of the world, which hasn’t figured this out yet, catches up.
My will to keep making work comes from the fact that I am excited by other work and excited to contribute to it. It is not only based on other people making work but about all the other kinds of work that is out there in the world and largely unrepresented. I’d like for us to get to a place where we have a width swathe of arts of all kinds of genders and races, a place where, if you end up being influenced by white, straight men, it would really be because of a preference for a particular artist(s).


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It is the third Friday of Lent tomorrow. Can you believe it is going so fast? Did you give anything up for Lent or promise to start doing something to better yourself? I’m working on being more patient with my children and not talking on my phone while driving.
Chicken quesadillas are often a “go to” recipe in my house, especially when we have limited time. So I thought, why not try a quick and easy meatless quesadilla? The “meat” of this recipe comes in the form of black beans, with a little added spice to make this a little more interesting. I also added just a little bit of tomatoes and onions to fill out the flavor palate. I do not like a lot of tomatoes or onions, so I used them sparingly. If you love them, go ahead and add more! My whole family loves cheese, so I am always very generous with the cheese.
My husband and I loved these so much that we are thinking of making it our new “go to” quesadilla recipe.
In a bowl, stir together beans, tomatoes, onions, cumin, paprika, and cayenne.
Divide filling evenly between the tortillas and top with 1/3 cup of shredded cheese.
Fold each tortilla in half and place in a Foreman Grill (or Panini maker), preheated on high. Cook for 4 minutes or until cheese is melty.
Serve immediately with guacamole and salsa.
Wow these look and sound wonderfully delicious!
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These would go down real easy. Very simple to put together.
Great go-to recipe. The spices in this really boost the flavor!
Looove black beans and love me some quesadillas. These look great.
YUM! What a great idea for quesadillas - I'm loving this!


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