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This book contains a selection of very readable, short, fun, stories about the many humorous situations that life has placed me in over the years. I have tried to introduce some of the quirky characters that I have met in my daily life. ere were many very humorous incidents and others more startling and ghostly in character. However, life has a habit of delivering shattering blows to people and I was no exception to that rule, as will become obvious to my readers. In spite of all this, I believe that I have been much more fortunate than many others around me. I sincerely hope that you...

Escape from hell is the story of a teenage boy who has been cruelly and systematically belted by his father for little or no reason. He decides to leave home on his ancient bicycle towing a homemade trailer containing all his worldly belongings. He leaves home in the middle of the night and rides a few miles before the pain from his still bleeding belt wounds force him to rest. He has no safe haven to go to and distance is going to be his only ally.

He’s resting in the rear parking area of a 24 hr. roadhouse in pouring rain when a sudden impulse shows him a method of escape. He...

A 15 year old school boy is invited to become part of an exciting adventure extending over three summers in
Yorkshire and Lancashire with touches of Durham and Northumberland thrown in along the way. Driving a steam driven, historical, agricultural tractor on iron wheels over vast distances each weekend to attend charity and historic rallies and eld days. Travelling over the Pennine Mountains and north Yorkshire moors to attend some of the greatest rallies and gala weekends ever experienced. He steered the tractor on some of the busiest roads in the north of England including many...

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the absorption of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine into the newly formed German Empire, the German Army decided to construct a fortress line from Strasbourg to Luxembourg to protect their new territory and counter the great fortress system that was being built from Switzerland to Belgium, the centerpiece of which was the great Moselstellung (Moselle Position) of Metz/Thionville.

The fortress consisted of concrete batteries that fired 10 and 15cm guns from steel turrets, concrete barracks, infantry strong...

This book teaches the basics of XML with an original approach, using real-world examples from an interesting (and operating) environment with broad applicability. It covers the full spectrum of Berkeley DB XML tools, including the command-line shell, transactions, rollbacks, replication, archiving and monitoring. Techniques and concepts that have broad applicability outside of the subject matter are skillfully explained: XML, XPath, XQuery, XML schemas, all industry-standard technologies that find one of their best tutorial treatments, and all in the context of a simple database solution....

This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish Cinema.