In the early years of World War II, Special Operations Executive (SOE) set up top secret training schools to instruct prospective agents in the art of being a spy. By the end of 1941, an international network of schools was in operation in secluded locations ranging from the Scottish Highlands to Singapore and Canada. How to Be a Spy reproduces the extensive training manuals used to prepare agents for their highly dangerous missions behind enemy lines. The courses cover a variety of clandestine skills including disguise, surveillance, burglary, interrogation, close combat, and assassination - everything needed to wreak havoc in occupied Europe. Secret History Files is an exciting series from The National Archives that puts covert history...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels for older girls published by Scholastic in 1996. The series was cancelled in 2004 with its final release, Hear My Sorrow. However, it was relaunched in the fall of 2010. Each book is written in the form of a diary of a young woman`s life during an important event or time period in American history. The Dear America series covers a wide range of topics, including: the Pilgrims` journey to the New World, the Salem Witch Trials, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, western expansion, slavery, immigration, nineteenth-century prairie life, the California Gold Rush of 1849, the...
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Boeing XPBB-1 Sea Ranger was a prototype twin-engined flying boat Patrol Bomber built for the United States Navy. The order for this aircraft was cancelled to free production capacity to build the Boeing B-29, and only a single prototype was completed. Well before the USA entered World War II, the Navy started a program to develop a long-range flying boat, able to cover the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. The Model 344 design offered by Boeing was chosen, and a contract for 57 aircraft was awarded on 29 June 1940. The designation given to the type was PBB for Patrol Bomber, Boeing, the first aircraft of the PB category built by Boeing for the Navy. Nevertheless Boeing did have important...
ISBN: 978-6-1310-6165-3
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A radar picket is a radar-equipped ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a force to protect it from surprise attack. Often several detached radar units encircle a force to provide increased cover in all directions. Radar picket ships first came into being during World War II to aid in the advance to Japan. As they were the nearest ships to the Japanese airfields, and hence the first seen, they were often heavily attacked by kamikaze aircraft. Formerly, the United States Navy employed radar picket ships converted from the former Boxed Aircraft Transport version of the Liberty ship to extend the DEW Line seaward. During the period between 1955 and...
ISBN: 978-6-1311-5300-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Psion Organiser was the brand name of a range of pocket computer developed by the British company Psion (now Psion Teklogix) in the 1980s. The Organiser I (launched in 1984) and Organiser II (launched in 1986) had a characteristic hard plastic sliding cover protecting a 6x6 keyboard with letters arranged alphabetically. Early Psions are very robust (as witnessed by tech support people who were able to retrieve data from machines run over by cars and even forklift trucks) and they have been sold in very large numbers (about a million). Some continue to be used commercially, although the firmware of the...
ISBN: 978-6-1347-2563-7
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This new three-book series takes a fresh approach to making reading both pleasurable and motivating! High-interest biographies focus on less-known facts about famous figures, rather than the chronology of events typical of most biographies. Biographies: A Reading Series is available for beginning, low intermediate and intermediate readers. Each book takes a multicultural approach, featuring 24 short biographies on inspirational figures from all over the world. Subjects range from historical and political figures to athletes, artists, entertainers, and humanitarians, including: - Gandhi - Eva Peron - Muhammad Ali - Billie Holiday - Menelik II - Thomas Edison In addition to the biographical reading, each unit includes: - Pre-reading...
ISBN: 978-0-201-61996-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The aim of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is to help people with disabilities, by establishing community-based programs for social integration, equalization of opportunities, and rehabilitation programs for the disabled. The strength of CBR programs is that they can be made available in rural areas with limited infrastructure, as program leadership is not restricted to professionals in healthcare, education, vocational or social services. Rather, CBR programs involve the people with disabilities themselves, their families and communities, as well as appropriate professionals. INTRODUCTION The "conventional" system for rehabilitation of disabled people began to emerge in the 19th century....
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Adam RA-15 Major was a French sporting plane developed and produced in the decade after World War II. The RA-15 was developed in 1948 as a higher-powered successor to the Adam RA-14 Loisirs, utilising a number of refinements including a plywood-covered fuselage and an enlarged rudder. It was a side-by-side two-seater with dual controls, wooden construction and a fabric-covered two-spar wing which folded for storage in hangars. The Major was designed to use any flat-four engine in the 65-75 h.p. range. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
ISBN: 978-6-1339-6808-0
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Foreman is a reporter for CNN in the United States. He is a graduate of Troy University. Foreman is a correspondent in CNN's Washington news bureau, and anchors the segments This Week at War and This Week in Politics.Foreman joined CNN in 2004 and is based in the Washington, D.C. bureau where he covers a wide-range of topics for the network and can be seen reporting for programs including Anderson Cooper 360° and The Situation Room.In 2005, Foreman won a National Headliner Award for a feature about an American soldier who brought the Christmas spirit to a Luxembourg town during World War II. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
ISBN: 978-6-1329-9028-0
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The North American P-51 Mustang was an American long-range single-seat fighter aircraft that entered service with Allied air forces in the middle years of World War II. This article covers the various variants of the P-51.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Visual art of The United States and/or American art encompasses the history of painting and visual art in the United States. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style based mainly on Western painting and European arts. A parallel development taking shape in rural America was the American craft movement, which began as a reaction to the industrial revolution. Developments in modern art in Europe came to America from exhibitions in New York City such as the Armory Show in 1913. After World War II, New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world. Since then many American movements have shaped Modern and Postmodern art....
The scope of this book ranges from a continuum theory of dislocations treated within the linear elasticity theory, connects the continuum and atomistic level modelling in discussing the critical thickness of thin epitaxial layers, and covers some issues related to the electronic structure of III-nitride alloys by means of the ab initio methods. The topics discussed in the first part aim (i) to apply general elasticity approaches known from the literature to the specific case of wurtzite materials, (ii) to extend equilibrium heteroepitaxial critical thickness models to III-N systems, and (iii) to develop an improved geometrical model for threading dislocation density reduction during the growth of thick GaN films. The second part of the...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-2941-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sarah Newcomb McClendon (July 8, 1910 – January 8, 2003) was a long-time White House reporter who covered presidential politics for a half-century. McClendon founded her own free-lance news service as a single mother in the post-World War II era, and became known as a model for women in the press and as a vocal advocate of various causes, particularly those of United States military veterans. McClendon was best known, however, for her questions at United States Presidential press conferences, which often ranged from aggressive to brash or blunt.
