![]() ![]() But it continued to be very much on the mind of many American colonists. The land to the north of the Ohio remained largely wilderness. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768 ceded the land to Virginia and by the 1770s early settlers were following Daniel Boone into what would later become the state of Kentucky. To its south lay territory claimed by Virginia, stretching to the Mississippi. The Ohio River was also an important boundary. However it was described, the Ohio River became the primary means to venture west for the early European settlers, allowing them to float through largely roadless forests from Williamsport or Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania to the Mississippi, and then on down to New Orleans and the land of the ten-dollar bank note known as “le Dixie.” He was painted a few years later in 1788 by Mather Brown. In the negotiations to end the Revolution, John Adams insisted that the Ohio territory must belong to the new nation. ![]() Thomas Jefferson echoed their sentiments, calling the Ohio “the most beautiful river on earth” in his book, Notes on the State of Virginia, even though he had never seen it. When French explorer La Salle first saw the Ohio in 1669, he described it as La Belle Rivière, " the Beautiful River. The Seneca Indians called it the Ohi:yo’ (pronounced oh-hee-yoh), literally the “Good River.” There was still not a single legal permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory when the U.S. ![]()
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Check out a NBA.com article complete with images and video clips. There’s at least one chapter on each member of the team: 11 of the 12 members of the 1992 Dream Team are members of the Hall of Fame (mindboggling, isn’t it?). ![]() The author interviewed each member of the team in 2011, plus he was part of the contingent of journalists following the team in 1992 (and a basketball writer for Sports Illustrated in the years before and after). Olympic Mens Basketball Team that captivated the. I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen– this is a great glimpse into one part of their storied careers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. The inside story of the greatest basketball team ever assembled. by Jack McCallum RELEASE DATE: July 10, 2012. I loved learning about the politics behind the creation of the team (ever wonder why Isaiah Thomas wasn’t invited?), the antics of the players in Monte Carlo and Barcelona, and their post-retirement lives. DREAM TEAM HOW MICHAEL, MAGIC, LARRY, CHARLES, AND THE GREATEST TEAM OF ALL TIME CONQUERED THE WORLD AND CHANGED THE GAME OF BASKETBALL FOREVER. I was eight during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, so my memory of the events is a bit sketchy. ![]() In Dream Team: how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever, sportswriter Jack McCallum presents a behind-the-scenes look at the creation and execution of the greatest basketball team ever assembled. ![]() ![]() ![]() And at the height of human hubris and might, it was the orogenes who did something that even Earth could not forgive: They destroyed his only child. They drilled through the crust of his skin, past the blood of his mantle, to get at the sweet marrow of his bones. They poisoned waters beyond even his ability to cleanse, and killed much of the other life that lived on his surface. Then people began to do horrible things to Father Earth. ![]() He did not create life-that was happenstance-but he was pleased and fascinated by it, and proud to nurture such strange wild beauty upon his surface. He crafted even, predictable seasons kept changes of wind and wave and temperature slow enough that every living being could adapt, evolve summoned waters that purified themselves, skies that always cleared after a storm. In fact, as the lorists tell it, once upon a time Earth did everything he could to facilitate the strange emergence of life on his surface. The Fifth Season: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this 'intricate and extraordinary' (The New York Times) Hugo Award-winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. ![]() “According to legend, Father Earth did not originally hate life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection, which also includes a few original stories, ends with an afterword in which Slatter explains the genesis of each story, explaining where and why she deviated from her source material. Because of this, some readers complain about the strident tone, or about male characters being flattened into evil caricatures of abuse and neglect. ![]() One of Slatter’s goals was to give agency and voice to the women whose personalities and individuality are often missing from the original incarnations of the stories. Slatter fills her adaptations with more carnage, erotica, psychological realism, and twist endings, adding feelings of danger and warning to tales that began as entertainment for adults. Published in 2010, the stories are familiar narratives mainly from European tradition that have been reworked into surprising, dark, and no longer child-friendly versions. Award-winning Angela Slatter started retelling some of the sixteen fairy stories that make up her collection The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales as part of her Master’s thesis project. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet, he has some beautifully crafted ideas. Peck’s writing is clean, straight-forward, and descriptive nothing elaborate nor elegant. (The coffee section especially made me snicker.) ![]() Its importance for a Mormon thinker goes both ways: it opens your mind to the idea that, if your religion happened not to be “the true one,” how would you respond and adapt? and, if the Mormon religion happens to be the one, like in the South Park episode, this book creates a window of understanding and compassion for those who don’t think like you. I have talked about it with nearly everyone I’ve come in contact since I began it. But, especially for a Mormon ( despite the recent request, I’m still using this term for this book) reader, it is also a fabulous blow-your-paradigm-out-the-water mind shift. A Short Stay in Hell has some elements of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Defending Your Life, and Groundhog Day. ![]() ![]() Review to come / 3 stars (but in a good way) ![]() I'm a good sister.)īottom line: Not the book's fault I'm not the target audience - and this was still a delight. (Being the eldest child and constantly trying to be cooler than I am, I spent my entire adolescence training myself to hate kids' movies and TV shows and books, just to ruin my younger siblings' time. And even when the children's content is good, I have a weird vendetta against it. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, because I never read it as a kid, I didn't have any of that nostalgia coursing through my veins, so I was just a 23 year old reading a children's book for the first time. I believe this book genuinely is magic, for two reasons:ġ) It came into my life as if propelled by the power of the universe itself.Ģ) It is a children's book from the 1950s (!!!) that condemns colonialism (!!!!!) and has cool, powerful female characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simmons managed to paint himself into a corner. And slowly, somewhere half way through Olympos, you start to get the feeling that nothing, that has happened until then, really matters. The post-humans has a hand in everything. ![]() The old-style people of earth are getting massacred. ![]() The old Greek gods still fight around Ilium and Olympus, sometimes among them self, sometimes on the side of various humans. Basically Olympos is more of the same of what we got in Ilium. I'll try not to spoil anything, if for some reason, you would want to read these two books, but it's kind of hard not to touch a bit upon the ending as it's such a large part of the problem. In other words Olympos stinks, and the stench is so bad that it reaches backwards in time and taints the Ilium volume. But after having read the second volume Olympos, it's hard for me to remember what exactly was so great about it. I really loved the first volume in Dan Simmons Ilium/Olympos saga. It's strange how something good, can be turned by it's association with something bad. Olympos is a science fiction novel by the award winning author Dan Simmons. ![]() ![]() So remember when I complained about the lack of plot in my review for Kingdom of the Cursed and how everything there was kind of just character-centric? Yeah, I take all of that back. But, have the true villains been much closer all along? When the truth is finally revealed, it just might end up costing Emilia her heart. Together Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception as they work to stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared.Įmilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked nothing was as it seemed. Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. ![]() When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul-but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. ![]() Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. ![]() Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. 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