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The rapier has been immortalized over the centuries and no more-so
than today on stage and in film. Princess Bride, the Three
Musketeers, and other films have brought this sword to life. Today,
stage combatants, fencers, and re-enactors study the world of the
rapier. William E. Wilson the founder of the Tattershall School of
Defence brings the history and use of the rapier to life in this
manual. He dispels many misconceptions about the weapon, discusses
its history, and also its purpose and use. The theory and practice
of many of the historical masters such as Capoferro, Fabris,
Marozzo and others are distilled into a set of lessons, drills and
theory simple enough for the beginner to follow.
The Global Collapse hit everyone hard throughout the world. Eight
in ten people died during the collapse that left civilization in
ruins. Out of the ashes rose new pockets of civilization and trade.
Resources were scarce, petroleum products non-existent, and steam
power took over again for farming, light industry, and the movement
of goods and people. Out of this a young woman intent on finding
her brother, travels to Arizona. Follow her journey to find family
in this neo-steampunk western.
Accepting the job from the man in the turban was risky, but the
small fortune he offered couldn't be passed up. The only hitch was
that it was a mission from London to Katmandu, through the lands
controlled by the East India Company. Could the Captain and crew of
the Airship Skylark be up to the task? From the outset problems
plagued their journey and then disaster struck in an intense storm
in the Indian Ocean. Would they be able to complete their mission?
Would the Captain and Navigator's growing relationship survive the
journey? Follow the adventures of the crew of the Skylark in this
Steampunk novella.
The decade of the 1870s was a time of extensive exploration and
surveying in the American West. The nation needed knowledge of the
cultural features, topography, natural resources, and geology of
this land to promote and aid the 'rapid development of an empire.'
The need was particularly acute in the region that still was known
in the early 1870s as Colorado Territory. There, cities and towns
were springing up along the base of the Front Range, railroads were
expanding, and in the mountains prospectors and miners were
exploring the countryside seeking and extracting the region's
abundant mineral resources. Also, recurring conflicts between the
newcomers and Native Americans made it desirable to have accurate
maps for military purposes. Four major government-sponsored
scientific surveys formed the principal organized effort to provide
critical knowledge of the land. Civilian scientists led three of
these: John Wesley Powell ('Geographical and Topographical Survey
of the Colorado River of the West'); Ferdinand V. Hayden
('Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories'); and
Clarence King ('Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel').
Lt. George Montague Wheeler, a young graduate of West Point (Class
of 1866) and a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, led the
fourth and most ambitious project ('United States Geographical
Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian').
"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship
andliterary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the
Rappites and theOwenites." -- Henry Steele Commager, The New York
Times BookReview
Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists andRobert
Owen's Idealists -- the two vastly different communities that
shaped thehistory of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the
Owenites came to NewHarmony to conduct communal living experiments
-- Rapp expecting the millennium;Owen believing he had brought the
millennium with him.
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