![]() By then, however, he had earned a reputation as a fearsome batter.įormer St. ![]() After hurting his left shoulder while trying to make a diving catch, he was finished as a pitcher. Musial saved himself by taking over for an injured outfielder and hitting impressively. Pitching in a low-level minor league, he struck out roughly a batter per inning but walked almost as many, and one of his managers recommended that the young left-hander be let go. Musial signed a contract paying him $65 a month. He recalled learning to hit “with a broomstick and a ball of tape.” As a pitcher for mill teams and Donora High School, he caught the eye of a Cardinals scout. 21, 1920, in Donora, Pa., a mill town south of Pittsburgh. Of Polish and Czech extraction, Stanley Frank Musial was born Nov. Musial retired in 1963 with so many firsts to his credit that he may have carved out a new category: the record for holding the most records at one time. After spending the entirety of his 22-year career with the Cardinals, Mr. 331, his total of 3,630 hits ranks fourth all-time, and he was a perennial all-star. Musial led the National League in batting seven times in the 1940s and ’50s and was voted the league's most valuable player three times. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that he had Alzheimer’s disease. ![]() Stan “The Man” Musial, one of major league baseball’s most prolific hitters and a model of good sportsmanship during his Hall of Fame career with the St. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. ![]() ![]() It’s been in operation for most of a decade, but it’s no secret, on either side of time. A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. After a passageway is open, it’s the only road to that particular past once closed, it can’t be reopened. And a given “past” can only be reached once. Each “past” is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. It’s the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past–but not our past, not exactly. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. You can read this before Last Year PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom the author of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Spin, comes an SF tale that poses searching questions about tourism and colonization Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Last Year written by Robert Charles Wilson which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson ![]() ![]() ![]() Tittlemouse 12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes 13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher 8 The Tale of Tom Kitten 9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck 10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies 11 The Tale of Mrs. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers is number 16 in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books, the titles of which are as follows: 1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 3 The Tailor of Gloucester 4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice 6 The Tale of Mrs. In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers this farmhouse is Tom Kitten's home and the story tells what happens when Tom accidently comes upon the rat Samuel Whiskers living in a secret hideout behind the attic walls. The first farm that Beatrix Potter owned, Hill Top, was an old house with thick walls and many hiding places for rats and mice. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, these provide only brief sketches of specific events in his life and yield little insight into the man himself. One is his work, and the other is official documentation such as church and court records. There are two primary sources that provide historians with an outline of his life. The personal life of William Shakespeare is somewhat of a mystery. Details about his personal life are limited, though some believe he was born and died on the same day, April 23, 52 years apart.īIRTHPLACE: Stratford-upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom Known throughout the world, Shakespeare’s works-at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems-capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have been celebrated for more than 400 years. He was an important member of the King’s Men theatrical company from roughly 1594 onward. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor of the Renaissance era. The King’s Men: Life as an Actor and Playwright. ![]() ![]() Cash passed away from cancer that same year at the age of thirty-eight. It was followed by Down by the Dockside in 1963. She published her first novel, The Delinquents in 1962. Ill-health inspired her to pursue her love of writing in the late 1950s. Criena Rohans breakout novel of young love in the rockin 50s, now reissued as a Text Classic. She married twice, had two children and worked variously as a singer and ballroom-dancing teacher. 2 2 Brownie Handbook Australia state thesis. ![]() She grew up in South Australian and Melbourne, and went on to attend the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Deirdre Cash, who published under the pseudonym Criena Rohan, was born in 1924 in Melbourne. When they are forced to face adult responsibilities, will they rise to the challenge, or fall apart? The Delinquents, Criena Rohan's classic novel of rock and roll, youthful rebellion and big dreams, is a love story for the ages. Read Nick Earls' introduction to this new edition, posted on The Wheeler Centre website. But the odds - not to mention their mothers, the cops, welfare officers and the stifling conventions of 1950s Brisbane - are against them. The Delinquents, Criena Rohan’s classic novel of rock and roll, youthful rebellion and big dreams, is a love story for the ages. ![]() ![]() (New top-level comments will be removed.) You don't have to mark spoilers within those threads. ![]() Please reply to the relevant section to talk with people who have read to the same part of the novel. These comments divide up the sections of the book. Reading Group Guide/Questions for Discussion (for anybody who wants to discuss the official Reading Group Guide questions or the official Questions for Discussion at the back of the book).Autumn: Episode 1 Biscuits – Since Leaving the Competition.No Spoilers (for general spoiler-free discussion and questions about the buddy read). ![]() If you've already read the book, feel free to start discussing it as a whole in the final section! I'm going to post this a day early (Happy Halloween, everybody!), so we can get the No Spoilers discussion going before the book releases at midnight EDT on November 1. Welcome to the Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble Asynchronous Buddy Read! This is an experimental buddy-read format we're trying, to allow simultaneous discussion amongst people who are at different reading stages.įor more details about Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall, including back cover copy, purchase links, and content warnings, check out this post. ![]() ![]() ![]() Too bad neither has any idea that a rip current is about to drag both their hearts out to sea. ![]() But with their upcoming futures sending them to opposite ends of the country, the two decide to maintain only a casual summer fling. ![]() Yet, the connection between them is too intense to ignore. ![]() But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows.ĭevastated and anxious for the summer to go by quickly, Beyah has no time or patience for Samson, the wealthy, brooding guy next door. a rip current is coming, and its about to drag her heart out to sea. Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds.Īfter a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. ![]() ![]() ![]() By dropping this unwieldy headgear in the colder months, male moose become more mobile and can better find enough food to survive, writes Melissa Clark for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. “A bull grows his first set beginning with his first birthday, in general, and they grow in size and shape each year until around 11, when growth is minimal,” Kantar tells the publication.Īs winter approaches and the breeding season ends, the antlers become a hassle more than anything. During the fall mating season, female moose may prefer to breed with males that have larger antlers, perceiving them to be more physically fit, Lee Kantar, a moose biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife, tells National Geographic’s Jason Bittel. In another miraculous event captured on video, a moose in Alaska went viral last month after its antler shedding was recorded on a doorbell camera.įor moose, antlers are primarily tools in sexual reproduction. ![]() ![]() Though it’s not unusual to find discarded antlers after a moose sheds them, footage of the actual process is rare. Caribou are the only cervids to have females grow and shed antlers as well. The shedding process, also known as casting, is a normal event that occurs annually for many male cervids-a group of hoofed mammals like moose, deer and elk. During the winter season, moose shed their antlers before regrowing them in the spring. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emezi started reading fantasy books and with their sister Yagazie used storytelling to escape the riots, dictatorship, and dangerous reality of their childhoods. Early life and education Īkwaeke Emezi was born in Umuahia in 1987 to an Igbo Nigerian father, and a mother who was the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants living in Malaysia. In 2021, Time featured them as a Next Generation Leader. Their work has earned them several awards and nominations including the Otherwise Award and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. ![]() ![]() Emezi is a generalist who writes speculative fiction, romance, memoir and poetry for both young adults and adults with mostly LGBT themes. Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian fiction writer and video artist, best known for their novels Freshwater, Pet, and their New York Times bestselling novel The Death of Vivek Oji. ![]() ![]() Originally published: London : Particular Books, 2014 Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension invites us to re-learn much of what we missed in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it"-Publisher's description ![]() Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entices us to take pleasure in math that is normally only available to those studying at a university level. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he reveals how it is possible to climb all the way up to the topology and to four-dimensional shapes, and from there to infinity-and slightly beyond. ![]() In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. ![]() This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do-through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. ![]() Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. "Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. ![]() |