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Phantom Hitchhikers and Other Urban Legends: The Strange ...

Phantom Hitchhikers and Other Urban Legends: The Strange ...

Albert Jack

Albert Jack explores the best, strangest, and funniest of the tales so many of us take as gospel, and uncovers some eye-popping true stories that are even more far-fetched than their mythical counterparts.
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

Albert Jack

This book is a reminder of the riches below the surface: characters, jokes, events and stories The Times About the Author When not engaged in research, Albert Jack lives somewhere between Guildford and Cape Town, where he divides his time ...
It's a Wonderful Word: The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words

It's a Wonderful Word: The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words

Albert Jack

From blotto to bamboozle and from claptrap to quango, Albert Jack's addictive anecdotes bring the world's most colourful language to life and are guaranteed to surprise and entertain. pipsqueak doolally kerfuffle bumpkin kibosh In It's a ...
Spalding Memorial: A Genealogical History of Edward ...

Spalding Memorial: A Genealogical History of Edward ...

Samuel Jones Spalding

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Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin

Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin

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In the end only 'luck' amply explains the sheer randomness and utter injustice of war that could leave a man standing after four years of fighting, and take another who had only just arrived in the trenches. In January 1917, Sapper Albert (Jack) ...
The Schoonmaker Family: Descendants of Hendrick Jochemsz ...

The Schoonmaker Family: Descendants of Hendrick Jochemsz ...

William Mercer Shoemaker

E-0556, F-2969 Lander*, Jane Albert E. 1863 - G-0786 Decker, Carrie Albert E. 1863 - 6-0786 Decker, Cornelia Albert E. 1919 - 1-1505 Sager, Dorothy Albert L.x 1940 - 1-1476 Albert V. 1876 - G-4582 Smith, Flora E. Alfred - F-1082, H-3629 ...
Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks: The strange stories ...

Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks: The strange stories ...

Albert Jack

But this is more than just a collection of urban legends, it is also a detective story.
If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need

If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need

Colonel Jack Jacobs

Heather (Jack's daughter) marriage, views on marriage (first) Sue Forbes ( Captain), Jack's second wife Zachary (Jack's son) Jacobs, Jack (military training) aircraft, jumping from many different bureaucrat vs. platoon leader cars and command ...
Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

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JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD: JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: Have you implemented tough, new cost-saving measures? Yes sir! We cutout vacations, holidays, ...
Sour Notes: A Sally Freberg Mystery

Sour Notes: A Sally Freberg Mystery

Norm Ledgin; Bethine Louise

Yes, Jack Friedman.” He turned to Rosenberg. “That's the man. Jack Friedman. If anyone can find something, he can.” “I know Jack,” Rachel said. “How do you know Jack?” “He does the deli's books.” “Hey, small world.” “He's also distantly ...
Jack L. Chalker SF Gateway Omnibus

Jack L. Chalker SF Gateway Omnibus

Jack L. Chalker

A Gollancz eBook Copyright ©JackL. Chalker 2014 Midnight at the Well of Souls copyright © Jack L. Chalker 1977 Spirits of Flux andAnchor copyright ©Jack L. Chalker 1984 The Identity Matrix copyright © Jack L. Chalker1982 Introduction ...
The Old Dog and Duck: The Secret Meanings of Pub Names

The Old Dog and Duck: The Secret Meanings of Pub Names

Albert Jack

This is a book for everyone who has ever wondered why pubs should be called The Cross Keys, The Dew Drop Inn or The Hope and Anchor.
The Canyon

The Canyon

Jack Schaefer

1953 by Jack Schaefer, renewed 1981 by Jack Schaefer All rights reserved. University of New Mexico Press reissued edition published 2016 by arrangement with the Jack Schaefer Trust Printed in the United States of America 21 20 19 18  ...
Back from Hell 3: Jack Is Looking for a Good Slay

Back from Hell 3: Jack Is Looking for a Good Slay

Stephen Kane

More fun with Jack as more meet their maker, the police think that they have a ripper copycat, but they do not know that this Jack is the one and only.
Red Herrings & White Elephants - The Origins of the Phrases ...

Red Herrings & White Elephants - The Origins of the Phrases ...

Albert Jack

Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean?
Women of the Day: An American Comedy of Modern Society in ...

Women of the Day: An American Comedy of Modern Society in ...

Charles H. Morton

ALBERT. (Astonished.) Why of what should they accuse you? CLARA. Of being the mistress of Theodore Prescott. ALBERT. (Forcibly.) ... going towards the ball- room, enter — -from there ; Mrs. Sampson, Bella, and Cornelia. Albert with Clara  ...
Jack: Straight from the Gut

Jack: Straight from the Gut

Jack Welch

They called him Neutron Jack.
The Complete Poetry of Jack London

The Complete Poetry of Jack London

Jack London

My awareness of and interest in Jack London began on my tenth birthday when my father gave me a collection of ... Jack London was essentially a poet who, unable to earn a living as such, wrote fiction and nonfiction to make a living and to ...
Historic Speeches: The Greatest Political Speeches of All Time

Historic Speeches: The Greatest Political Speeches of All Time

Albert Jack

And this is one thing that hasn't changed even with the development of various modern media. Nothing has replaced the power of a speech that can influence the attitudes and thoughts of the whole of mankind.
The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois: Containing ...

The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois: Containing ...

E. Duis

ALBERT YoUNG PHILLIPs. Albert Y. Phillips was born April 14, 1812, at Huntsville, Alabama. His father's name was Glenn Phillips and his mother's name before her marriage was Leah McCord. Albert Y. Phillips is of Scotch and Irish descent.
Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem

Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem

Albert (of Aachen)

Albert (of Aachen) Susan B. Edgington. Book 3 1. Where Christ's faithful pitched camp after their victory; and how many died, wretchedly tortured by thirst After the enemy attack abated, as dusk of the fourth day' was drawing on, the Franks, ...
A Poet Of The Air; Letters Of Jack Morris Wright: First ...

A Poet Of The Air; Letters Of Jack Morris Wright: First ...

Jack Morris Wright

This friendly rivalry continued till Jack Sawhill fell in a Nieuport, and was taken to the hospital with a broken arm. At Tours we were four in one large room—calling ourselves the “Four Musketeers”—Big Bill Taylor was Porthos; Jack Sawhill, the ...
Letters of Albert Gallatin on the Oregon Question: ...

Letters of Albert Gallatin on the Oregon Question: ...

Albert Gallatin

Originally Published in the National Intelligencer, January, 1846 Albert Gallatin. 36 men, whether American, English, or other foreigners, sailing under and protected by the American flag. I am not aware that there has ever been any powerful ...
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

Albert Jack

Full of vivid illustrations and with each verse reproduced, here are a multitude of surprising stories you won’t be able to resist passing on to everyone you know. Your childhood songs and rhymes will never sound the same again.
Little Monsters: The Creatures that Live on Us and in Us: ...

Little Monsters: The Creatures that Live on Us and in Us: ...

Albert Marrin

Award winner Albert Marrin answers the question: "What's eating you?" - literally From nonfiction master Albert Marrin, here is the shocking story of the longest running war of all time: man versus parasite.
Jack Smart's Merry jester: or, The wit's compleat treasury. ...

Jack Smart's Merry jester: or, The wit's compleat treasury. ...

Jack SMART (Author of “Jack Smart's Merry jester”.)

JAck SMART's humorous Relation of a Suitin CHAN c E RY. There was a Suit lately depending in the High Court of Chancery, wherein one Stephen Discord was Plaintiff, and one Simon Ostinacy was Defendant ; by the latter of which, I was ...
Little Giant: The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert

Little Giant: The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert

Carl Albert

In Little Giant, Albert relates the story of his life in Oklahoma and his road to Congress, where after eight years of service he joined its leadership and shaped the legislation known as Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society.
Jack Welch on Leadership

Jack Welch on Leadership

Robert Slater

" --BusinessWeek on Jack Welch Jack Welch on Leadership distills the bestselling Jack Welch and the GE Way into 23 of Welch's leadership secrets and traits, and provides Welch devotees across the nation and around the globe with a rare ...

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