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Pages: 56. Chapters: James Cook, Alexander Mackenzie, Alessandro
Malaspina, Jose Maria Narvaez, James Colnett, Dionisio Alcala
Galiano, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, Manuel Quimper, John
Henry Cox, Juan Carrasco, George Dixon, Claude Charles Du Tisne,
Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, Salvador Fidalgo, Bruno de Heceta,
Cayetano Valdes y Flores, Charles William Barkley, Ignacio de
Arteaga y Bazan, Esteban Jose Martinez Fernandez y Martinez de la
Sierra, Juan Jose Perez Hernandez, Jacinto Caamano, Evstratii
Delarov, Jakob Roggeveen, Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, Juan
Crespi, Juan de Ayala, Jose Cardero, Francisco Antonio Mourelle,
Domingo de Bonechea, Gonzalo Lopez de Haro, Christopher Dufrost de
La Jemeraye, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, Jose Joaquin
Moraga, Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec, Ange Auguste Joseph de
Laborde de Boutervilliers, John Bean, Francisco de Lacerda.
Excerpt: Captain James Cook FRS RN (7 November 1728 - 14 February
1779) was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer,
ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook
made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to
the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European
contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian
Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New
Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and
joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years'
War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to
the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped
bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society.
This notice came at a crucial moment both in his personal career
and in the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to
his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the
first of th...
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Mechanik (Hardcover, 6th ed.)
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands; Contributions by Perseus Books LLC
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Pages: 101. Chapters: 1941 Odessa massacre, Arajs Kommando, Babi
Yar, Bloody Sunday (1939), Bruno Streckenbach, Burning of the Riga
synagogues, Commissar Order, Daugavpils Ghetto, Drohobych Ghetto,
Dunamunde Action, Einsatzgruppen Trial, Einsatzgruppe Egypt,
Einsatzkommando, Einsatzkommando Finnland, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Gas
van, Jager Report, Jelgava massacres, Jungfernhof concentration
camp, Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre, Kaunas massacre of October 29,
1941, Korherr Report, Latvian Auxiliary Police, Liep ja massacres,
List of victims of the Babi Yar massacre, Lithuanian Security
Police, Massacre of Lviv professors, Minsk Ghetto, Mizocz Ghetto,
Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941, Operation Tannenberg, Ponary
massacre, Reinhard Heydrich, Riga Ghetto, Rollkommando Hamann,
Rumbula massacre, Salaspils concentration camp, Schutzmannschaft,
Sonderkommando, Special Prosecution Book-Poland, Taganrog during
World War II, Taganrog resistance movement, Tautinio Darbo Apsaugos
Batalionas, The Black Book, Ukrainische Hilfspolizei, Valley of
Death (Bydgoszcz), Ypatingasis b rys. Excerpt: Einsatzgruppen
(German: , "deployment groups"; singular Einsatzgruppe; official
full name Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD) were
Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that
were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during
World War II. The Einsatzgruppen had a leading role in the
implementation of the Final Solution of the Jewish question (Die
Endlosung der Judenfrage) in territories conquered by Nazi Germany.
Almost all of the people they killed were civilians, beginning with
the Polish intelligentsia and swiftly progressing to Soviet
political commissars, Jews, and Gypsies throughout Eastern Europe.
Under the direction of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the
supervision of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, the
Einsatzgruppen operated in territories occupied by the German armed
forces following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and
Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union) in June
1941. With the cooperation and logistical assistance of the
Wehrmacht, the Einsatzgruppen carried out operations ranging from
the murder of a few people to Aktions which lasted over two or more
days, such as the massacre at Babi Yar (33,771 killed in two days)
and the Rumbula massacre (25,000 killed in two days). Historian
Raul Hilberg estimates that between 1941 and 1945 the
Einsatzgruppen and related auxiliary troops killed more than two
million people, including 1.3 million Jews. The total number of
Jews murdered during the Holocaust is estimated at 5.5 to six
million people. The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction
of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich and operated by the
Schutzstaffel (SS) before and during World War II. The
Einsatzgruppen had its origins in the ad-hoc Einsatzkommando formed
by Heydrich to secure government buildings and documents following
the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938. Originally part of the
Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; SiPo), two units of Einsatzgru
Same war, different enemy... Captain Michael Hollands, United
States Army Air Corps, is a combat-hardened pilot, battling Nazi
fighter planes for control of the skies over North Africa. His life
is difficult and sometimes it's brutal, but he understands his
place in the world, and he understands the rules. Then an
unexpected change of orders yanks him out of familiar surroundings,
and sends him half-way around the world to fight the Japanese in
the South Pacific. Shuffled to an obscure air base in the Solomon
Islands, he discovers that his assigned unit has transferred to a
new operating area, taking their aircraft with them. Without planes
or official sanction, Hollands must beg, borrow, and steal to build
a fighter squadron that will take the war to the enemy's doorstep.
But nothing can prepare him for what happens when he crash-lands on
an unnamed island behind Japanese lines. Marooned among a handful
of heroic survivors, he is about to discover the true meaning of
loyalty, patriotism, courage, and love. The Japanese Imperial Navy
has no idea what's in store for it. And neither does Mike
Hollands...
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