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Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights—glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth—embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has spent decades prospecting for intriguing wonders and marvels, historical mysteries, diverting anecdotes, and hidden gems from antiquity, medieval, and modern times. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws is a treasury of fifty of her most amazing and amusing discoveries.

TAIPAN SNAKE PIT discloses the tribulations of the Vietnam helicopter war, and provides deeply moving insight into the lives of those crewman who routinely flew combat assault missions. Written in narrative non-fiction, the book reveals the rarely told account of air to ground combat exposed for the first time to their mortality. In 1969 sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll dominated most of these young lives, but they stood and fought hard believing they were doing the right thing irrespective of politics, and public opinion.

The Year of the Snake in the Chinese Zodiac represents wisdom, intuition, and transformation, holding deep cultural and astrological significance. The Snake is associated with introspection, strategic thinking, and cycles of renewal, symbolized by the shedding of its skin. Across global mythology and traditions, the Snake embodies dualities—danger and healing, chaos and protection—making it a universal metaphor for personal growth and transformation. During the Year of the Snake, individuals are encouraged to embrace change, trust their instincts, and align with its themes of resilience ...

They fought a war without rules, and taught the enemy the legend of the Green Beret. No fighting men in the world were a match for the U.S. Army Special Forces, the men of the Green Beret. But in the chaos of Vietnam, where enemies, allies, friends, and traitors all shared a landscape of terror, the Green Berets had to develop their own tactics and draw closer to the only people they could trust: each other.

The end of the Cold War promised a new era of international peace. But instead, violence has proliferated across the globe, not in the form of a superpower arms race or a clash of armies, but in bitter local conflicts marked by terrorism, insurgency, and guerrilla warfare. Former Central Intelligence Agency director James Woolsey likened the post-Cold-War world to "a jungle full of snakes". The emergence of this new, potentially never-ending struggle has forced our military to reevaluate strategies or risk losing hearts, minds, and soldiers the world over.

Leo Kennedy is the great-grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy, slain by Ned Kelly at Stringybark Creek. Raised in the shadow of his great-grandfather’s murder, Leo witnessed the deep psychological wounds inflicted on successive generations of his family - and the families of other victims - as the Ned Kelly myth grew around them and the sacrifice of their loved ones was forgotten. Leo himself was nicknamed ‘Red Ned’ at school and taunted for being on the wrong side of Australian history. Instead of celebrating a heroic man of the people, Leo gives voice to the victims of a merciless gang of outlaws.

For listeners of the Ninth House series looking to discover the real history behind the Book and Snake society... The Berzelius Secret Society remains one of the most enigmatic organizations within the landscape of American collegiate traditions. Established at Yale University, it stands as the oldest of the university’s junior societies and the third oldest of its prestigious senior societies. Throughout its existence, the group has balanced an outward-facing commitment to scientific excellence with a deeply private internal culture characterized by mystery and ritual.

By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman - his fourth wife.

A pointless discussion of eternal questions, with Martin, Robert, Francis, Cajun Brother Andre, and Marcus Aurelius. Join us as we tackle everything from English history to comic books. More on www.snakesandotters.com.

In 1968, during Albert Lepard's fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then 18 years old, from his family's farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper's nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred.

Dive into the enchanting world of Ugandan folklore with Rosetta Baskervilles captivating collection, originally published in 1922. As the wife of missionary George Baskerville, Rosetta shares tales she personally encountered and those inspired by the rich tradition of the Baganda, as collected by Apollo Kaggwa. This anthology features a variety of origin stories, such as Why the Bat Sleeps All Through the Day and How the Grey Parrots Got Their Red Tails, alongside clever trickster tales like The Leopard and the Goat. Youll also discover enchanting fairy tales, including The Story of the Fairy ...

Two best friends that were tired of conventional life and decided to move in together and raise their children. Fun, energetic and informative.

This award-winning title sensitively retells the compelling saga of western expansion and Indian-white conflict from a Native American perspective and offers a new foreword by Chief Tilcoax descendent Wilson Wewah.

Constance a 25 ans, elle est assistante vétérinaire. Alors qu’elle termine sa journée, un inconnu laisse sur le pas de sa porte un black mamba, un des serpents les plus venimeux au monde. Elle le ramène chez elle mais le serpent s’échappe et tue par morsure l’un des clients de Juliana, sa coloc, escort girl à ses heures. À force d’embrouilles et de plans foireux, les deux jeunes filles vont faire leur entrée dans le monde du trafic d'animaux exotiques et devenir de véritables criminelles. 🐍Bienvenue dans l’univers des Queens Of Snakes, LA série audio immersive qui ...

My name is Matt Keck, and I'm the idiot from the I'm a Snake video. I'm also a successful creative director, and long time stand up comic coming face to face with the realities of my midlife reality. This is an audio journal of sorts, more ramblings that I can look back at and remember.If you wanna know what it's like living in the shadow of your own hat, let's chat.Hope you enjoy the listen, and hope you're being your slitheriest self. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After traveling 60 miles on horseback through snow to the Crawford cabin, Dr. Ephraim McDowell examines his patient. He realizes that he is not dealing with an overdue pregnancy, but an enlarged ovarian cyst. He gives the patient the grim news that he can do nothing to save her. She begs him to try to remove the life-threatening tumor.

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