In 1961, pilot Robert W. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster than the speed of sound and higher than 300,000 feet above the Earth. This is his story, tracing his childhood, his years as a pilot and POW during World War II, and his rise as an experimental test pilot in the Air Force--; Provided by publisher.

The Mayan prophecy of the end of times in December of 2012 has ignited strong debate about its validity, particularly among younger people and those with minimal involvement in religion. It has spawned an internet industry of entrepreneurs intent on providing appropriately pricy survival gear to assist in surviving the ill-defined horrors to come. It is the purpose of this work to explore the origins of the Mayan predicitons as well as the those of Nostradamus whose work is seen by many to be intertwined with the Mayan prediciton. Organized religion has been slow to comment upon the Biblical...