![]() ![]() A feeling of extreme weakness or exhaustion would give way to diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding from the mouth, nose, or rectum, and telltale buboes, or swollen lymph nodes, in the groin or armpit. Victims would awaken with fever and chills. It generally appeared on the scene with little or no warning, and it was terrifyingly contagious. But, after an interval of a few years, in cities and towns throughout the realm, the plague would return. With the help of strict quarantines and a change in the weather, the epidemic would slowly wane, as it did in Stratford, and life would resume its normal course. By good fortune, it spared the life of the infant William Shakespeare and his family. On that occasion, the epidemic took the lives of around a fifth of the town’s population. ![]() On April 26, 1564, in the parish register of Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon, the vicar, John Bretchgirdle, recorded the baptism of one “ Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere.” A few months later, in the same register, the vicar noted the death of Oliver Gunne, an apprentice weaver, and in the margins next to that entry scribbled the words “ hic incipit pestis” (here begins the plague). ![]() Shakespeare lived his entire life in the shadow of bubonic plague. ![]()
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![]() The book follows Jason, a young man who’s had a lot of things go wrong recently–getting in fights, a girl he likes apparently siding with a bully against him, school troubles, etc. The book I went with was one that advertised hard for me on Facebook to the point I finally snagged a copy of it: Awaken Online: Catharsis. I know pretty little about the genre, so I can’t comment on how broadly that definition works but that’s how I’ve seen people talk about it. Simply put, a LitRPG books are written as though they’re taking place in an RPG, complete with leveling up and stats in the text. I decided to finally cave and try out a sub-genre I’ve been thinking about for a while: LitRPG. It’s been one heck of a couple months with COVID-19 going around. ![]() I’ll be writing reviews and recommending them, along with providing links on where to get the books.Īwaken Online: Catharsis by Travis Bagwell The “Indie Highlight” is a series of posts in which I shine the lights on Indie/Self-Published books that I believe are worthy of your attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has a scientist's appreciation for the natural world, and most of the time does not deliberately try to alter or destroy it. Throughout the novel, Lidenbrock is both an observer and a rival of Nature. In the end, faith wins, and the explorers return safely to their homeland. Nevertheless, his uncle unflaggingly believes that they can get out of trouble one way or another. When Axel and his companions are involved in dire situations, Axel always assumes that they have reached their doom. ![]() Even in the middle of the journey, he consistently fears death. He tries his best to persuade his uncle to stop the journey, yet finds that his efforts are futile. Ultimately, Lidenbrock had faith that what was written was original and right. ![]() When he finally deciphers it, he insists on going to the volcano indicated by this document despite the fact that such a volcano is dangerous and might erupt at any time. Despite trying for days to decode the document, he never gives up. Professor Lidenbrock exhibits eternal faith from the beginning of the story, when he is positive that he will decipher the parchment. Verne wanted to show the difference between faith and doubt, and explored exactly this theme through his characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before they have time to even process Bruce's death Szpirglas starts to exit the engine car nearest them, having restarted the propeller himself.They find Bruce crumpled on the floor, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. ![]() Bruce has only managed to shut down one of his engines, so Matt is worried about him-maybe his leg got the best of him. ![]() Meanwhile Matt and Kate haul butt toward Bruce, who is supposed to meet them in the port cargo bay.Maybe it's because he reeks of fish soup, or maybe its because she recognizes him, but let's just say Crumlin won't be making a comeback anytime soon. Not for long, though-the pirates are promptly reduced to four (well, three if you count the one locked in the engine car as incapacitated) as the cloud cat goes after Crumlin with a vengeance.Looks like they're down to five pirates now. He misses the cat, but hits Rhino Hand in the neck. ![]()
![]() The Dames are made up of four drivers-all under age 37. The car is so finely tuned for performance that it should only ever be taken out on a racetrack. Since 2018, they have been competing around the world wearing bubblegum-colored suits and driving a matching Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO 2. ![]() The Iron Dames are the first all-female team in endurance racing history. One team in particular is leading the charge to change the historically male-dominated sport of racing-and they’re doing it in bright pink. The glaring gender gap stands out even more as we enter into a new era of sports where equal access and level playing fields can be just as important as wins. From the drivers to the engineers to the crews keeping cars in tip-top shape, there are surprisingly few women working the hot side of the track. Look closer-in the pits, behind the wheel, in the team trailers-and you’ll be struck by something else. Walk into any motorsport event, and you’ll be hit with the overpowering smell of gas and hot rubber, and the near-deafening sound of revving engines. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whoo hoo! I jumped on it.and that was almost a year ago. Then I found a sale on the audiobook for Heist Society for $6. But the series never quite made it too far up the TBR list. I actually own all three books in this series - the second one is even signed and personalized by Ally Carter. This is one of those books that has been on my TBR for the longest time. ![]() So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's history-and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat’s dad needs her help.įor Kat, there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. ![]() Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own-scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. ![]() When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever the reason, in fact all that is necessary to begin to recognise Mattingley’s achievements is to read some of her books. Perhaps it is because some of her books are for beginning readers, and the stories are considered “educational” rather than “literature”. Perhaps it is because some of her finest books have a non-Australian setting, and Australian critics and readers are less interested in these. Perhaps it is because she has published many kinds of books, such as picture-story books, chapter-books with illustrations, full-length Young Adult novels (before “Young Adult” was a publishing category), fantasy novels, and true-life stories, and critics and readers are confused by the variety. Perhaps it is because she has been published by many different publishing companies, without the persistent publicity and support that some authors receive from their one main publisher. Perhaps this is because, across the years, she has represented herself without relying on a dedicated literary agent. But she is not as widely known, or celebrated as she deserves. ![]() Christobel Mattingley is one of the great Australian children’s authors in the last decades of the Twentieth century, and beyond, with her first book, The Picnic Dog, published in 1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() By accident, however, this ceremonial invocation instead summons Dream at the very moment he was about to fell The Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), a nightmare who abandoned Dream’s Dreaming realm for a life in the mortal world, where he’s fond of murdering people and cutting out their eyes. ![]() ![]() Goyer and Allan Heinberg, The Sandman opens as its source material does, with Sir Roderick Burgess ( Charles Dance), an occultist who likes to be called Magus, using a magic ritual to conjure Death so that he might resurrect the son who died on the battlefields of Gallipoli. In its first season, though, it’s weighed down by helter-skelter storytelling that borders on the aimless-and, consequently, renders it a snooze.Ĭreated by Gaiman, David S. Dream’s saga is a sprawling one that spans the ages and grapples with issues of destiny, hope, ambition, and purpose. 5) starring Tom Sturridge as the title character, who’s also known as Dream (or Morpheus) and is one of the seven Endless, a family of god-like metaphysical elements who’ve assumed human form à la Gaiman’s American Gods and Good Omens. Following numerous starts and stops, Netflix has finally delivered with The Sandman, a 10-part venture (Aug. Plans for a screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s celebrated DC/Vertigo graphic novel series The Sandman have been around for almost as long as the three-decades-old title itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a UK edition, Geis' illustrations were replaced by cartoons by Mel Calman. The original edition contained illustrations by artist Irving Geis. ![]() ![]() It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality, for example by truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, so that differences seem larger than they are, or by representing one-dimensional quantities on a pictogram by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, so that the reader forgets that the images do not scale the same way the quantities do. Themes of the book include " Correlation does not imply causation" and "Using random sampling". Huffs book is primarily an attempt to pull down the high estimation automatically awarded to anybody willing to quote numbers. It has become one of the best-selling statistics books in history, with over one and a half million copies sold in the English-language edition. In the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard textbook introduction to the subject of statistics for many college students. The book is a brief, breezy illustrated volume outlining the misuse of statistics and errors in the interpretation of statistics, and how errors create incorrect conclusions. Not a statistician, Huff was a journalist who wrote many how-to articles as a freelancer. How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954, presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. How to Lie with Statistics at Internet Archive ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 18th-century England, Valentines Day became an expression of love with couples giving each other tokens of their love such as flowers, confectionery, and sending heart made “Valentines Day ” cards. Over time his sacrifice became linked to the high ideals of courtly and romantic love. Eventually Valentinus was imprisoned and executed for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. Valentine's Day began as a celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus, according to one legend he risked his life to pursue the noble ideals of love and marriage. However, Valentines Day can be so much more. Anything with a big red heart on or a cute teddy falls under the Valentines Day present list. On February 14 millions of people throughout the world will be celebrating their love for each other buying chocolates, flowers and mass produced expensive cards. ![]() Saint Valentine's Day is coming around again. ![]() |