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The Presidents' Escort: The Joseph Browning Corbin Story is an adventure-packed journey through time from Corbin's early life in the Shenandoah Mountains during Prohibition and into the farmlands of Culpepper County, Virginia. The true story spins the reader through a tornado that leaves the toddler homeless to the ravages of World War II combat in the bitter cold with General George S. Patton in the Battle of the Bulge. It then weaves through the streets of Washington, DC, and the White House, amidst its politics, relationships, and fanfare.

The Presidents' Escort: The Joseph Browning Corbin Story is an adventure-packed journey through time from Corbin's early life in the Shenandoah Mountains during Prohibition and into the farmlands of Culpepper County, Virginia. The true story spins the reader through a tornado that leaves the toddler homeless to the ravages of World War II combat in the bitter cold with General George S. Patton in the Battle of the Bulge. It then weaves through the streets of Washington, DC, and the White House, amidst its politics, relationships, and fanfare.

Mit der Hacker School macht digitale Bildung Schule und Spaß!

Junge Menschen brauchen digitale Skills, um die Gesellschaft von morgen zu gestalten! Die Hacker School aus Hamburg zeigt, wie es geht: 2014 als außerschulischer Lernort gegründet, bringt sie das Know-how und die Freude am Programmieren in die Schulen. Das Besondere: Sie hat zahlreiche Unternehmen mit ins Boot geholt, die sich für digitale Bildung und Teilhabe engagieren, indem sie Programmierkurse in Schulen mit eigenen Mitarbeitenden als Corporate Volunteers unterstützen. Dieses Buch erzählt, wie es gelingt,...

He's as mad as a hatter

Whether it's like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we've never really known why ... until now Finally Dr. Funk explains more than 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings has an interesting story behind its origin.

If you've ever wondered why when you're in a hurry you are told to hold your horses,...

Where did expressions like this come from anyway?

Now finally we'll know what "letting the cat out of the bag" or "going on a wild-goose chase" refers to. In this fun collection of more than 400 curious expressions and sayings, Dr. Funk explains the meanings that we use in everyday speech without even thinking about it. He has traced them back through the years -- in some cases centuries -- in an effort to determine their sources, to find out what the original allusions were, or at the very least, to give us his expert opinion when facts...