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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Author: The La Trappe Creek Chronicles
Author: Ethan L. Welch M. D.Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434393151
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The LaTrappe Creek Chronicles is a story of how a week of sailing with four friends became an annual event. Friends invited friends, fathers invited sons and eventually grandfathers invited grandsons-joining to create enduring memories of camaraderie and adventure. Thirty-five years later, the Society still sails for one week each year, but with some ten boats and a roster of over one hundred members. In these pages, we celebrate the sport of sailing-noting the range from racing small one design dinghies to cruising catamarans, from the America's Cup to the "Tucket Bucket". Jet travel and charter facilities worldwide afford new sailing grounds and catalyzed our group to sail in exotic venues and add on unique travel with spouses and friends. Unusual highlights include an audience with the Pope and treading the sacred burial grounds of the gods of Polynesia. The combination of sailing and travel brought a keen interest in history and ecology, long before saving the oceans became so critical. This is also a story of the robust education found while in the pursuit of the art and science of sailing: the discipline of proper anchoring; the joys of producing gourmet fare from a tiny galley; the spice of philosophy; the confrontation of political discourse; and examining and embracing the different views on economics and cosmic exploration. Most of these lessons cascading from the confines of a cockpit with brandy and cigars! The Chronicles is not a "how to" book, but there are usable observations for governance of such an organization as the LaTrappe Creek Historical and Ecological Society. There are "By-Laws" indelibly retained in the memory of the Commodore and established "Archives" to secure information that even the CIA or KGB could not access. Above all, these chronicles relate how all who have been a part of this sailing saga have experienced the joy of valued friends and unfortunately the sadness of burying old friends at sea. And Oh Yes! There is a real place called LaTrappe Creek and all the characters in this book are real.
Naval War College Review
Author: Naval War College (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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The Journal of Military History
Author: Naval War College Review
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Great Events from History
Author: John L. LoosPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Covers the entire history of North America.
Canadian Periodical Index
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Category : Canadian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1634
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The History of Oregon and California
Author: Robert GreenhowPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The History of Oregon and California lays out a general record of accumulated knowledge of the Northwestern border of America and the coast, but goes as far as the Arctic Sea. Published in 1845, this is one of the earlier accounts of widespread exploration of the unknown frontier.
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy
Author: Walter A. McDougallPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America’s bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive study of the role played by civil religion in U.S. foreign relations over the entire course of the country’s history, McDougall’s book explores the deeply infused religious rhetoric that has sustained and driven an otherwise secular republic through peace, war, and global interventions for more than two hundred years. From the Founding Fathers and the crusade for independence to the Monroe Doctrine, through World Wars I and II and the decades-long Cold War campaign against “godless Communism,” this coruscating polemic reveals the unacknowledged but freely exercised dogmas of civil religion that bind together a “God blessed” America, sustaining the nation in its pursuit of an ever elusive global destiny.
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