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GAZZA - Paul Gascoigne - is probably the most talked about football celebrity of our lifetime. Everyone has a Gazza yarn to tell. Our Gazza: The Untold Tales is a collection of stories and memories as told by the people who know him best including Terry Venables, Chris Waddle, Ally McCoist, Harry Redknapp and more.

Gary Speed's tragic death on November 27 2011 rocked the football world. Aged just 42, he was found hanged in the garage of his home. A long-standing legend of the game and manager of Wales, he appeared to have everything to live for. Now as he would have approached his 50th, family and friends speak honestly about the man they knew and loved.

Journey to the ends of the earth with author John Richardson as he explores the awe-inspiring landscapes and unique wildlife of the polar regions. From the icy expanse of the Arctic to the unforgiving terrain of Antarctica, readers will be entranced by the beauty and majesty of these remote areas.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This classic work of scholarship provides a detailed analysis of the cultures and languages of the Middle East and Central Asia. With insights into everything from Arabic poetry to Persian cuisine, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the rich and varied history of the region.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

". . . . Guenevere is a superb play with surprises, somber tones, and some slight comedy mixed in if you know where to look."- Callum McCabe, "2018 Fringe Review: Guenevere", The Gateway Online. A verse play in the form of a Classical Greek tragedy.The final day of Camelot seen through the eyes of the women left behind by war. Guenevere the Queen has taken refuge with nuns in an Abbey as the men of her life battle to save what warfare can only destroy. One by one they come to her for final leave-takings. Then all that is left is myth. Guenevere's tragedy arises from the inevitably accumulated baggage of social responsibility that in the end prevents us from following our heart's desire. And Guenevere's redemption comes in her willing embrace of her transformation into myth. Guenevere's story is the story of every human who ages as a social animal. Only the solitary hermit or anchoress can escape the ever increasing calls for us to discharge our duties at the expense of our dreams of simply following our bliss. But the hermit and anchoress long ago gave up on worldly bliss."Guenevere" was produced in 2018 at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival after development and a ten day run in 2017 as a part of the Walterdale Theatre's Cradle to Stage Festival.

My name is Hori, and my sister's name is Meres Amun. We wish to tell you about the history of Ancient Egypt. Did you know that the largest part of Egypt was made up of desert sands, making it seem empty and barren? There were also large rocks and high cliffs. The river Nile made Egypt a place where people could live and work. It created a vast green area with trees and vegetation. The people called it "The beloved land", and it gave Egypt its wealth and was good for agriculture. There were two rivers which formed the Nile. The Blue Nile ascended from the mountains in Abyssinia, and the White Nile from the waters in central Africa. Egypt had three Kingdoms. The Old Kingdom existed from 2640 to 2130 BC. This was the period when the first pyramids were built, and many other prominent buildings were constructed. It was also a flourishing time for the arts, medicine, literature and science.

Nanotechnology and the Future TransformationJohn Richardson, the author. John Richardson's new book, "The Nanotech Revolution: Transforming the Future," delves deep into the revolutionary field of nanotechnology and its far-reaching effects on society, academia, and business. This book examines the extraordinary developments that have come from the realm of nanotechnology in a way that is both informative and entertaining, demonstrating the revolutionary potential of this field. The secrets of altering matter at the nanoscale are revealed as Richardson leads readers on an enthralling adventure through the complex worlds of nanoscience and nanotechnology. He explores the fundamental ideas behind nanotechnology, from working with individual atoms to developing ground-breaking new materials and gadgets, in a lucid and analytical manner. Nanotechnology is already influencing many industries, and "The Nanotech Revolution" sheds light on how it is reshaping everything from medicine and energy to electronics and manufacturing. Richardson delves into how nanotechnology is revolutionising healthcare, fostering environmental sustainability, and propelling creativity in ways that were previously unimaginable through thought-provoking case studies and conversations with experts. This book is a great resource for everyone interested in nanotechnology, from the casual science reader to the tech-savvy professional. The future imagined in John Richardson's "The Nanotech Revolution" is one in which little technologies have enormous effects.

The Exeter Book is by far the largest single collection of Old English poetry surviving today. At first glance it might seem to be a commonplace book, a sort of dumping ground for bits of verse which caught the scribe's notice at the moment. But, before long, a careful reading of the poems collected shows an artfulness, a playfulness, and a wisdom in the arrangement of the poems. The Exeter Book is a collection designed to teach, and what it teaches is a particularly Old English Christianity, beginning with the Advent of Christ, a very particular and fundamental aspect of Christianities, proceeding through Saints' lives and allegorical pieces, and the apparently personal poems often referred to as "elegies", and puzzling the reader with the mysteries of the Riddles - and of the world - before fading to black. Old English poetry survives in four great manuscript collections, in two Old English translations of Latin originals, and in a multitude of bits and pieces of manuscript and modern transcription of now-lost manuscripts. Virtually all that has survived of verse from the Old English period is contained in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, edited by George Philip Krapp and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie in six volumes in the middle of the last century. These six volumes amount to something around 30,000 lines of verse, roughly equivalent to the number of hexameter lines in Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey combined. The present volume is a translation of Volume 3 of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records.

Stirring the Dry Bones is decidedly not a work of scholarship as scholarship is done today. It is unreliable and not exhaustive (although perhaps more reliable and more exhaustive than some of what passes for scholarship today) in its reference; it is rambling and perhaps unfocused; it is decidedly, in the words of an anonymous peer reviewer I once encountered in a different context, "shockingly untheorized". Stirring the Dry Bones is a product of what the same anonymous reviewer named "an old-style philologist". This fact will perhaps become obvious with a glance at the notes and the bibliography, which are both filled with a grand company of very old old-style philologists. Not much space is held for more modern scholarship, partly out of a lack of interest in the modern theoretical fads of the field, and partly out of the sheer laziness of advancing age: I have a very nice garden (alongside a personal library Cicero would have envied) and "Je sais aussi. . . qu'il faut cultiver notre jardin."

The poems translated here, which were gathered together in the final volume of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records under the title The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, are the offspring of the scattering over the centuries of manuscript fragments, of engraved stones, of carved whale bone, of poetry inserted into prose manuscripts, and of bits of poetry that only are known to us because somebody, somewhere, sometime transcribed a manuscript now lost to us.There is nothing "Minor" about these poems so randomly scattered by history and then haphazardly gathered into a single volume by a single editor in the middle of the Twentieth Century. Certainly some pieces are better as poetry - less "Minor" if not more "Major" - than others: I have a fondness for Thureth and for Maxims II; others may prefer the neo-Heroic mode of The Battle of Maldon or of some of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Poems; and the Metrical Charms will, of course, probably for all the wrong reasons, be favourites of the Neo-Pagan-Wiccan set.Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, the editor of The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, confessed in the second sentence of his introduction to his edition that his choice of title was a matter of convenience rather than appropriateness. Siding with appropriateness, this volume of my translations of the Anglo-Saxon poems which are scattered outside the four large codices of Old English poems onto stone and whale bone, mingled with prose, or preserved as children of the scattered and lost in centuries-old transcriptions, I have chosen to title The Old English Scatterlings.

Elena is going to tell you about the history of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta.Two thousand five hundred years ago, Ancient Greece was one of the most important regions in the world. The Greeks had many famous artists, actors, builders and athletes participating in different sports. The people of Greece lived on the land, along the coast, and also on the many Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. They called themselves Hellenes and their land Hellas. When the Romans arrived in our country, they named it Greece. Throughout the book Elena asks questions for readers who pay attention.