Eric Thompson narrates this documentary looking at the daily lives of people who live in rural France. The episodes are: 'Goosey, Goosey, Gander', 'Frenchman's Holiday', 'New Wines and Hard Times', 'The Blacksmith, the Baker, the Blood Pudding Maker', 'Then Turn Not Pale, Beloved Snail', 'Desastre, Catastrophe, Cataclysme, Apocalypse' and 'Add Penicillin, Stir Well'.

This is a collection of useful vocabularies, phrases and expressions chosen randomly based on my teaching experience. Study one every day, make five sentences (or at least one and come back to make more) of your own, follow the tips in the treasure boxes, definitely you'll be able to connect in English after you might have finished this book. The book is designed to be used as a self study book for either an active person on the road or at the comfort of home and ready to improve vocabulary and conversation skills or even.It can even be used to supplement an existing coursebook. It is useful to jump start you for business or daily normal conversation.The original idea is to study and learn one word per day and make your on sentences but, if you have the time you can study as many as you can remember

MEXICO BEFORE CORTEZ AN ACCOUNT OF THE DAILY LIFE, RELIGION, AND RITUAL OF THE AZTECS AND KINDRED PEOPLES BY ERIC THOMPSON IN CHARGE OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN ARCELEOLOGY FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO CO-AUTHOR WITH THOMAS GANN OF THE HISTORY OF THE MAYAS CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS NEW YORK LONDON 1937 COPYRIGHT, 1933, BY J. ERIC THOMPSON Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribners Sons PREFACE IN this short account of daily life, religion, and rit ual as it existed in Mexico before the Spanish conquest I have tried, as far as possible, to avoid technical terms, lists of tribal designations, and detailed descriptions of archaeological work. In this connection the term Mexi can, as used in this book, should be defined. It is here used to describe the Aztecs, the Texcocans, and other tribes of the Valley of Mexico and adjacent regions who possessed the same general culture with minor lo cal variations. It does not cover Oaxaca, Vera Cruz, Michoacan, and other regions where local culture varied to a greater degree from that of the Aztecs. Less atten tion is paid to these areas in this book, partly from lack of information from early sources, partly from lack of space. T. A. Joyces excellent book Mexican Archeology is now out of print, but for the benefit of those who have had the fortune of reading or possessing a copy, I have tried to make this book to a certain extent complemen tary to his. This has been achieved by outlining in detail certain ethnological customs to which he paid little attention, and, on the other hand, stressing little the archaeological aspects fully developed inhis book. Naturally, a considerable amount of duplication cannot be avoided, for we have both, perforce, syphoned off much literary wine from casks of the same sixteenth and seventeenth-century vintages. PREFACE Aztec names have a somewhat terrifying aspect, but are actually easy to pronounce. X has a Sh sound 5 Qu, following Spanish custom, has a K sound Hu and Gu before a vowel have a W sound while all vowels are pronounced as in Spanish. For example, Xochicalco Shochecalco 5 Quetzalcoatl Kaytzalcoatl j Huehue teotl Waywaytayotl. I am greatly indebted to Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, for generous permission to illustrate this book with many pieces from the museums Mexican collections. Through the courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum and Captain T. A. Joyce, deputy keeper of Ceramics and Ethnography of that museum, I am able to reproduce the mosaic mask shown on Plate X. Doctor Robert Redfield, of the University of Chi cago, kindly supplied the print of Xochicalco pyramid, while I owe thanks to the Mexican Ministry of Educa tion for the use of the photograph of the pyramid at Tajin. Mr. Gordon C. Abbott and Professor Charles J. Chamberlain, both of Chicago, placed at my disposal their wonderful collections of photographs of Teoti huacan and Mitla. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to both of them for their kind co-operation. Finally, with out the tedious tracings from codices made by my wife this book would have been impossible J. ERIC THOMPSON. VI CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE v CHAPTER I. A HISTORICAL OUTLINE 3 II. THE CYCLE OF LIFE 36 III. ARTS AND CRAFTS 60 IV. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, WAR, AND TRADE 99 V. RELIGION-135 VI. THE CALENDAR AND THE FEASTS 169 VII. PRIESTHOOD, SPORTS, AND WRITINGS 220 VIII. TEMPLES AND TOMBS 252 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 291 INDEX 293 LIST OF PLATES Feathered Serpent Head, Quetzalcoatl Pyramid, Teotihuacan Frontispiece PLATE I. Carved Stone Palma, Vera Cruz facing page 12 II. Pottery Figurines. Aztec Period facing page 20 III. Quetzalcoatl Pyramid at Teotihuacan-facing page 26 IV. Pottery Figurines. West Coast Type page 33 V. Weaving, Marriage, and Punishment. Mendoza Codex page 45 VI. Cremation and Human Sacrifice. Zouche Codex page 51 VII. Offerings to Corpse. Magliabecchi Codex page 57 VIII...

In a brutal world an outcast nun and a runaway slave overcome the challenges that come their using her wits and his sword.

During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told. Eric Thompson is a career nuclear submarine officer who served from the first days of the Polaris missile boats until after the end of the Cold War. He joined the Navy in the last days of Empire, made his first sorties in World War II type submarines and ended up as the top engineer in charge of the navy's nuclear power plants. Along the way, he helped develop all manner of kit, from guided torpedoes to the Trident ballistic missile system. In this vivid personal account of his submarine operations, he reveals what it was like to literally have your finger on the nuclear button. In his journey, the author leads the reader through top-secret submarine patrols, hush-hush scientific trials, underwater weapon developments, public relations battles with nuclear protesters, arm-wrestling with politicians and the changing roles of females and homosexuals in the Navy. It is essentially a human story, rich in both drama and comedy, like the Russian spy trawler that played dance music at passing submarines. There was never a dull moment. Behind the lighter moments was a deadly serious game. This, the inside story of Britain's nuclear deterrent, reveals the secretive life of submarines and the men who served on them; they kept their watch, and by maintaining the threat of 'Mutually Assured Destruction' helped keep Britain and the world safe.