While boring a bullet train tunnel in the mountains of Switzerland, men discover a strange dark green rock-like material that cannot be penetrated. The project engineer turns to a Geneva University professor and his lovely assistant to research what to do. Struggling, the professor calls for help from an American university professor and advanced laser expert, and the father of a courageous Navy Seal. In the peaceful coastal resort of Marbella, Spain, an Arab shipping magnate relaxes with his newly militant son on his luxury yacht. The lives of these two men from vastly different...
While boring a bullet train tunnel in the mountains of Switzerland, men discover a strange dark green rock-like material that cannot be penetrated. Th...
Many of America's first European settlers felt they were traveling to a sort of promised land, but James Oglethorpe viewed America--specifically, what is today the state of Georgia--as his own personal utopia. Convincing his king to grant him a land parcel, Oglethorpe threw his lot in with 35 poor families and traveled to the New World. There, he became the first administrator of the Georgian colony and founded the town of Savannah. This work tells the story of James Oglethorpe and of Georgia from its birth as a colony in 1733 to its emergence as a free state 50 years later. Appendices...
Many of America's first European settlers felt they were traveling to a sort of promised land, but James Oglethorpe viewed America--specifically, what...