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(0)Daniel Butler
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100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals.
WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant.
Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought together.
• The woman who invalidated her winning $5,000 lottery ticket by altering it to match the $20 prize number
• The accused vending-machine thief who paid his $400...
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A “well-researched” account of the nineteenth-century Sudanese cleric who led a bloody holy war, from a New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
Before bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in Sudan.
Born on the Nile in 1844,...
Before bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in Sudan.
Born on the Nile in 1844,...
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While the world has remained fascinated by the Titanic tragedy, the most amazing drama of those fateful hours was not played out aboard the doomed White Star liner, it took place on the decks of two other ships, one fifty-eight miles distant and the other barely ten miles away.
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What happened at Pearl Harbor?
What really happened?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later, it has become one of those events which almost everyone knows of, but hardly anyone seems to know about. How—and why—did the Empire of Japan and the United States of...
What really happened?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later, it has become one of those events which almost everyone knows of, but hardly anyone seems to know about. How—and why—did the Empire of Japan and the United States of...
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There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James "Jug" Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the first P-47 Thunderbolt outfit in the Pacific.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Curran volunteered to try flying in the blue yonder and trained as an Army fighter pilot. He got his wish to fly the P-47...
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The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming-and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European powers were prepared to accept a war as a resolution to the tensions which were fermenting across the Continent, only one nation wanted war to come: Imperial Germany. Of all the countries caught up in the tangle of alliances, promises, and pledges of support during the crisis that followed the...
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"Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped "da Man" in the 1960s by hopping a train. He then spends 18 homeless years on the streets of Dallas until he meets Deborah. Her husband, Ron, an international art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani suits and art-collecting millionaires is uncomfortable with Denver. Then the story takes a devasting twist when Deborah discovers she has cancer. Will Ron embrace his...
15) America's dumbest criminals: based on true stories from law enforcement officials across the country
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Scholastic
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1998, ©1995
17) The 13th tribe
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Immortal files volume 1
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Immortal vigilantes from the time of Moses have planned the unthinkable. But how can you stop what you can't see?
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WHO ARE YOU?
WHAT DEFINES YOU?
WHAT IS YOUR IDENTITY?
How you answer those questions affects every aspect of your life: personal, public, and spiritual. So it's vital to get the answer right.
Pastor and best-selling author Mark Driscoll believes false identity is at the heart of many struggles-and that you can overcome them by having your true identity in Christ. In Who Do You Think You Are?, Driscoll explores the question, "What does it mean...
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People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices.
They say the best indicator of the future is history. How things have been can be a powerful signal of how they will be. But what will be our role in shaping the future for this country?
In The Coming Revolution Dr Richard G. Lee powerfully explains that a new revolution is coming. It may
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