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The legendary tale of industrial strength pranking, drumming, '70’s excess, big laughs, desperation, and The Who performed with gusto by Karl Howman. Set in London, LA, and on tour with one of the world’s greatest live rock bands, The Who.

Social scientists debate whether it is genes or environment that make the man. Some argue that the criminal mind is rooted in the genetics of the individual. Others claim that a particularly difficult youth could explain the individual’s turn to the darker side of life. No one really knows for certain. But the signs are everywhere in the science facts portrayed in this dark novel. In this searing novel of Extreme Prejudice, the ferocity of the mean inner-city streets, the personal impact of inter-gang violence, the lasting traumatic impressions of the violent deaths of friends and loved ...

Nuclear Fire is a series of related even connected short stories that leads the reader through some of the most horrendous nuclear events of the past 100 years. From the development of nuclear weapons under The Manhattan Project, through the creation of reactors, to nuclear fires and core meltdowns, it takes you through plausible reasons why they happened and the implications of human greed and errors in the design, construction, and operation of both weapons reactors and commercial power reactors. Yet through it all with only one exception, the Chernobyl disaster, fewer people have died ...

A podcast about Ancient Egypt with Dr Chris Naunton and Iszi Lawrence

They came in peace...or so they said. Here are 18 examples of how they lied. This is an exciting collection of first contact science fiction stories, all completely different! Take a risk - venture into the unknown with us. Who is out there? What will they want from us? Come join us in our adventure to find out how first contact pans out. It will be a great adventure!

In Chaos theory, slight, even extremely minor changes in the input assumptions and parameters describing a world system can cause a dramatically different outcome. The Butterfly Effect. “What you cannot imagine, you cannot discover” according to Albert Einstein. H. G. Wells, like the Biblical prophets of old, did indeed imagine and envision the horrors of the atom bomb in his amazingly prophetic 1914 book “The World Set Free.” And we pick up, here, where he left off on an alternate timeline to destruction. This science-fact filled historical novel, The Nazi A-Bomb, considers an only...

“It is theoretically possible for a tornado to have wind speeds over 500 mph. However, there have been no reliable recordings or observations of tornadoes with such extreme wind speeds. The highest recorded tornado wind speeds have been in the range of 261-318 mph.” “The strongest tornado categorization on the Fujita scale is F5. Tornadoes classified as F5 have wind speeds between 261-318 mph and cause catastrophic damage. They can sweep away homes, debark trees, and cause major damage to buildings, vehicles, and infrastructure.” The F-6 Category - The proposed addition of a new F-6...

An eyewitness report; “A ninety-foot wave [crashed over him in his lighthouse]. The mounded wave reared its ugly head across The Hawk Channel. The hurricane smashed it down on a narrow ten miles of Keys from Tavernier to Key Vaca. The wind was flung like knives, 150 to 200 miles an hour, with unbelievable gusts climbing to nearly 250 miles per hour that took everything it willed and flattened and flung it.” The US National Weather Service issued a summary of event: “Officially, 408 lives were taken by the great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, most of them World War I veterans working in ...

During the April 18th, 1955, autopsy of recently deceased scientist Albert Einstein, the chief medical examiner at Princeton Hospital removed the brain from the corpse and hid it from the family and the hospital. His orders came from Washington, DC. Subsequently, genetic materials derived from that unique brain were injected into in vitro fertilized candidate eggs and implanted into pre-selected surrogate mothers. This novel is the engaging story of those high-IQ individuals into their unique world.

September 11th, 2001 7:59 AM – That morning the firefighters at the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and the NY electric power system operators at The Electric Authority (TEA), an electric utility, were just beginning their day shifts, going through their normal prescribed everyday duties. Nothing unusual was either anticipated by anyone or happening … yet. Unknown to all, far away in Boston, American Airlines flight 11, on route from Providence, Maine was taking off from Boston’s Logan Airport with 76 passengers, 11 crew members, and 5 hijackers on board, ostensibly bound for Los ...

The largest Geomagnetic Storm of all-time hits a totally unprepared planet Earth! It sends the Western Interconnection power grid crashing down. Blackouts cover the entire Western US. Geomagnetically induced ground currents short out everything which is electronic, including computers, nearly all vehicles, appliances, cellphones, and even electronic watches. The Western US is thrown back into the pre-electronic stone age. And the loss of offsite power at the three reactor Palo Verde nuclear plant threatens to create an even greater secondary radiological release and environmental disaster! ...

The Origins of the Templar Treasure – Forces loyal to King Philip IV of France had attacked the Roman Pope's personal residence at Anagni during early September in this Year of Our Lord 1303. Following the ensuing battle, King Phillps’s overwhelmingly larger forces killed all of the Pope’s guards and captured Pope Boniface VIII himself. Subsequently, secret orders were smuggled from the captured Pope, regarding certain sacred and secular charges to be removed from the Vatican Secret Archives for safe keeping elsewhere. The Prefect spoke urgently, “These charges I carry are here for ...

JR and Sophia have just graduated with their PhD’s in High-Powered Lasers and Ultracapacitors, respectively. Engaged to be married soon, they are hired by the University of Hawaii under a NASA contract to design and build the first Laser Planetary Defense System high atop the Mauna Kea volcano. Little do they know that America’s arch enemies are employing similar foreign equipment to build a site on a mountain top in South Africa, a non-participant in the PARIS Accord, and a non-extradition country. One group seeks to save the planet from asteroids. The other group seeks to destroy its ...

The impending destruction of the Earth and Mars is expected well into our future. Yet, once there in time, the questions are ‘Where will all the humans, animals, and plants on both planets go to avoid complete and utter destruction, their total annihilation?’ ‘What are the real, viable alternatives?’ In that distant future there are only three viable options; either stay and die, join the space-fleet to Alpha Centauri B, or what else? The only other option for some in this space-warping society is to travel Back in Time. That is, for certain individuals and perhaps even small groups...

Dr. Yoshio Nishina is sometimes known as the father of modern nuclear physics in Imperial pre-war Japan. Nishina was a 20th Century Japanese engineer and physicist well respected in Japan. However, he was less known in the West, except among a few American physicists and in Nazi Germany. He led the efforts of Imperial Japan to develop an atomic bomb or A-bomb before and during the second World War (WWII). In 1921, RIKEN provided funding for Nishina to study in Europe. There he met several famous Western physicists. At Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, he worked under Ernest ...

An exhilarating trip through three 20th Century American wars. WWII heroism, Cold War intrigue, the Persian Gulf War, and topped off by a legal battle before the US Supreme Court. Our hero’s youth is forged in WWII. During the Cold War he invents a hyper-accurate gun for the Abrams M1 tank. Then the Army executes an elaborate theft of his inventions and a long-duration cover-up to hide their crimes from our hero.

Prime Minister Ben-Gurion had thusly concluded and stated clearly to his President, Chaim Azriel Weizmann, and chief advisor on atomic matters, Dr. Ernst David Bergmann, that, “What Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Teller, the three of them are Jews, made for the United States, could also be done by scientists in Israel, for their own people.” So, at close to the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War for Israel's independence, Ben-Gurion sought out Israeli physicists. They were to be given special assignments, as part of a secret Israeli spy mission. He formed a special branch of the Israeli ...

The father daughter team of Chris and Amelia Larry explore the worlds of TV, movies, graphic novels, games and music. Both are obsessed with Pop culture and have more tastes in common then you may think.FacebookInstagramTwitterContact Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A podcast dedicated to the economics and off the field stories in the Wide World of Sports. We post a new show every two weeks. Brought to you by The Hog Sty Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twenty-five Sunbury Press authors contributed 27 sections about the possible impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on society. Based on their experiences in a variety of fields, they provide their projections about the changes facing us, many of which have already been underway for some time.