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Absquatulate. Flumadiddle. Gongoozler. Squintifego. If you love words, you know the strange byways of memory or reverie that stumbling across a certain word or phrase will take you down. Chances are, you have never encountered words as unusual as those collected in this audiobook. You'll find definitions and parts of speech for each entry. And for each word, the author has also included a quotation to show how the word can be used in context. Amaze your friends with your selcouth vocabulary and indulge your inner logophile!

The Persians: A Translation from Aeschylus There is no drama where the total multiplicity of horror in defeat is more cogently presented than in the Persians by Aeschylus, who fought in the Athenian triumph at Salamis, where the Persian fleet was rammed and wrecked.

Adding significant volume of vegetable nutrients to a regular diet will not only help in making your body stronger but will also help you lose weight. This is the concept behind the term: negative calorie foods. Commonly, it is advised that a person get himself at least five to seven servings of fresh vegetables on a daily basis. Just choose among the variety of vegetables that you feel comfortable eating and get the benefits in an instant.

In Rental Property Investing: The Essentials to Buying and Managing Rental Properties, you'll learn about why rental property investing has stood the test of time as a popular investment strategy. Rental property investing consists of building a portfolio of assets that lasts a lifetime as you rent your houses, condos, and townhouses to tenants. If you like the concept of building a reliable passive-income stream, exploring rental property investing could be an ideal method for you to solidify your financial independence.

This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the audiobook considers the BMG community within America's larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country's uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce.

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly-bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be present in other more typical western landscapes.

"Striving with Consequences" might be the title of this play, as Jay Gould and Jim Fisk intend to cope with the troubles, threats, and endangered interests that ensued the gold panic on Friday, September 24th, 1869. The drama is framed like a Sophoclean tragedy, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral episodes of New York reporters.

India is a lovely country, and some of the nicest, most pious people on earth live there. However, just like anywhere else, India does have parasitic inhabitants that think of us, the tourists, as an open wallet. Here is a travel book designed to give the listener knowledge about traveling in India - while staying safe - based on practical experience of traveling in the country for two years.

Walk with the Savior in Men Who Knew the Mortal Messiah, a fitting companion to the touching first volume in the series, Women Who Knew the Mortal Messiah. Heather Horrocks brings these 12 New Testament men to life, as they walk beside Jesus, listen to His words, leave their nets to become fishers of men, and drop their burdens of sin and sickness at His feet. Presented in chronological order, their stories show Christ's life and earthly ministry as seen through their eyes.

Did Jesus Christ really exist? A rationalist answer to the question is given here by an ordained minister, independent preacher, and lecturer on "independent religion", M. M. Mangasarian. Though the full work was a series of studies from several additional authors from the Independent Religious Society in Chicago, this production highlights Mangasarian's contribution.

This short story first appeared in science fiction magazine Amazing Stories and tells of a meteorite crash in rural Massachusetts...and of the horrific results. It was one of HP Lovecraft's most popular works for its combination of science fiction and horror, and it was the author's personal favorite short story.

George Washington's Masonic Correspondence as Found Among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress allows for an insight of the great esteem in which the first President held Freemasonry. Since his early days, Washington had been an honored member of the fraternity, formerly established in England in 1717. This work groups the material together in chronological order, and shows the surroundings and conditions under which the correspondence was made.

This audiobook explains the fault lines that have often plagued US efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. It also includes some recommendations as to how this decline can be reversed.

Finally a simple to use, common sense self-storage marketing guide. One hundred and one weeks of self-storage marketing tips and specific ideas you can use now to rent more units and make more profits now. Crush Your Competition will give you the ammunition you need for incredible profits - weather you're an entrepreneur, professional, self-storage owner, self-storage manager or absolute new comer to the self-storage business. Marc Goodin will show you how to use simple marketing specifics, tactics and ideas with minimal cost and maximum profits.

1476 couplets contrast the outsiders of the state with the insiders of particular societies of American commerce. Keynesian outsiders think they know better than the competitive insiders of commercial operations. Professors, in the outer towers of academe, contrive unhealthy constraints for the inner places of enterprise.

Book Three of the Quest for the White Duck. Gideon Sunday, an ex-football player who found himself mysteriously transported to the magical world of Chey, must find a way to stop Agnes, the evil wife of the sorcerer Wamchu.

Scottish folklorist J.F. Campbell weaves together a tale of dragons from a Celtic perspective. It is an intricate, perhaps symbolical story that was passed by word of mouth though the ages - involving not just dragons, but also mermaids, giants, and fairies. Campbell was also known for his four-volume work Popular Tales of the Western Highlands.

America's strength has always been her people. Never has this strength been more evident than in time of war. From the Revolution on, the history of America at war has always been the history of ordinary men and women doing extraordinary things. But in the past, it has taken years, sometimes even decades, for those heroic men and women to be heard, for their individual stories to be told.

Among the most famous Americans ever, Henry Ford was one of the greatest inventors and industrialists of the early 20th century. He built one of the most innovative versions of the "horseless carriage" and created the first factory assembly line. But the secrets to Henry Ford's success were not lost when he passed away. Take a journey through the lenses of his life, and see how the secrets to his success unfold.

The lives and adventures of some of history's most prominent Pirate Captains. This volume relates their plundering and murdering as well as the method and way they met their end.