Although some of his stories were fanciful and others inaccurate, he claimed he was reporting only what had been told to him. The Histories-his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced-is a record of his "inquiry" (or ἱστορία historía, a word that passed into Latin and acquired its modern meaning of "history"), being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. He has been called "The Father of History", as well as "The Father of Lies." He was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent, and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. Herodotus (greek: Ηρόδοτος) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BCE (c.
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The Fixer's right-hand man Slade killed Jack after the fight in retaliation. Murdock accepted the money, however, the boxer became determined to continue the fight and eventually won by a knockout. He paid boxer "Battling Jack" Murdock to take a fall and lose a fight. Roscoe Sweeney was a gangster and crooked fight promoter who was involved in extortion and illegal gambling who operated as the "Fixer". Much later, he appeared as a regular character in Thunderbolts, until he was forced to leave the team.įictional character biography Roscoe Sweeney The second iteration of Fixer was long-time supervillain Paul Norbert Ebersol, first appearing in Strange Tales #141 (February 1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. 1964), and was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Bill Everett. The first Marvel Comics character known as the Fixer was Roscoe Sweeney. Roscoe Sweeney was portrayed by Kevin Nagle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil while Paul Norbert Ebersol has appeared in animated media. The Fixer is the name of two characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics: Roscoe Sweeney and Paul Norbert Ebersol. For other uses, see Fixer (disambiguation). For the "Roscoe Sweeney" Sunday newspaper comic strip from the late 1940s to 1974, see Buz Sawyer. This article is about Marvel Comics characters. Illustrator’s agent: Jodie Hodges, United Agents. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Stella Brings the Family. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Much like the TV show Modern Family, this story seems as light as a soufflé, but actually offers plenty of food for thought. She just doesnt have a mom to invite to the party. Stella Brings the Family - Ebook written by Miriam B. The writing is warmhearted but sharply observed, while the winsome artwork-which features a cast of roundheaded, eager-eyed children-it’s tightly focused and smartly composed. “For Father’s Day,” Stella promises her exhausted teacher, “she wouldn’t bring nearly as many people.” First-time author Schiffer and Clifton-Brown ( Big Bouffant) make a great team. When Stella realizes that several people-in addition to her fathers-play maternal roles in her life, the problem is solved, although it does add quite a few folks to the guest list. And while her school is clearly progressive and multicultural, her peers are nonetheless perplexed (even Howie asks, “But who reads you bedtime stories like my mothers do for me?”). But Stella is the only kid in her class with two fathers. Everyone has a female parent coming, including Howie, who has two mothers. It’s time to celebrate Mother’s Day in Stella’s class. In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to engulf Australasia, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire terrier was discovered hiding in a Japanese shell scrape amidst the thick jungles of Papua New Guinea. The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart Smoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. The GIs who discovered her presumed she had been some kind of Japanese army mascot, but it soon turned out that she. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland Australian researchers who are trying to develop a super coral that can survive on a hotter globe and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. You can read this before Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future written by Elizabeth Kolbert which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert Strange is both the Sorcerer Supreme and a brilliant neurosurgeon. If Daredevil knows geniuses like Hank Pym who help him out, why wouldn’t he bring Foggy to Avengers Mansion for treatment rather than a hospital? In fact, in a world with people like Reed Richards, Hank McCoy and Tony Stark running around, how does cancer even still exist? Hell, Dr. I had a moment where I questioned that a bit because it seemed to bring up a problem inherent to comic books. This is set off nicely by the personal stuff of Foggy’s life threatening cancer. The bad guy who rises out of that feels like a true threat threat capable of not only killing Daredevil, but of also driving him into a near panic at the threat looming over him. It was an especially nice touch to have someone doing brutal experiments on people to try and recreate the accident that blinded Matt and gave him his power. It seems like Mark Waid had sneakily been laying the groundwork for the revenge plot for a while now, and he did a solid job of making the whole elaborate scheme believable. Put the two of them together and you get something pretty great. If it had been just about Foggy getting cancer and how Matt tries to be there for his best friend, it could have been damn good. If this collection had been just about the revelation of a plot by a hidden enemy to destroy Daredevil, it could have good. Thus we read not just the scenes Shahriar has written but also the sentences and words he’s crossed out or merely imagined, knowing they can never be published. Yet writing freely of Sara and Dara’s encounters, their desires, would put Shahriar in as much peril as his lovers. Defying the state and their disapproving parents, they meet in secret amid the bustling streets, Internet cafés, and lush private gardens of Tehran. But Iran’s Campaign Against Social Corruption forbids their being alone together. It may be his greatest challenge yet.īeautiful black-haired Sara and fiercely proud Dara fall in love in the dusty stacks of the library, where they pass secret messages to each other encoded in the pages of their favorite books. Now, on the threshold of fifty, tired of writing dark and bitter stories, he has come to realize that the “world around us has enough death and destruction and sorrow.” He sets out instead to write a bewitching love story, one set in present-day Iran. A writer named Shahriar-the author’s fictional alter ego-has struggled for years against the all-powerful censor at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The novel entwines two equally powerful narratives. From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English-a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran. Haldeman has injected humor and philosophy into what turns out to be an intriguingly existential drama. As each attempt to murder him fails, Baird finds himself in a slightly altered universe-and in one of these supernatural worlds, Baird evolves into Hemingway himself. In a lively, philosophical conversation, the temporal policeman explains that if Baird continues in his plan he will be killed. This is, however, a nonhuman who can take on any form, and who has come to warn Baird not to finish the Hemingway pastiche. Returning to Key West from the Hemingway collection at the Kennedy Library, Baird suddenly finds Ernest Hemingway sitting opposite him in the train compartment. In a Key West bar, Baird is conned into writing a story in Hemingway's 1920s style, which could be passed off as one of the contents of the famous valise left on a train by Hemingway's then-wife Hadley. According to her calculations, whoever is coming will arrive in three months- on New Year's Day, to be exact. Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Haldeman ( The Forever War ) has written a tale that twists upon itself like a Moebius strip, with characters reenacting their lives in each slightly different, slightly worse universe. Devotees of SF and literary mystery will enjoy this fast-paced, well-thought-out adventure that takes a college professor and Hemingway scholar on an eerie journey to coexisting universes. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Even about which Tarleton he should be pursuing. Bonny is unreasonable, overdramatic, annoying, and…beautiful? And being with him makes Valentine question everything he thought he knew. And fully expects Valentine to ride out after Arabella and prove to her that he’s not the cold-hearted cad he seems to be.ĭespite copious misgivings, Valentine finds himself on a pell-mell chase to Dover with Bonny by his side. Something Spectacular (Something Fabulous) Alexis Hall (54) Kindle Edition 3.29 Customers who read this book also read Popular highlights in this book What are Popular highlights So beautiful that my throat clenches and my stomach flips when I as much as glance at you, and I wonder how the world turns when such wanting exists within it. Bonaventure “Bonny” Tarleton, has also grown up…romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine’s proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again.Īrabella’s twin brother, Mr. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up…romantic. It was always his father’s hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. It was always his fathers hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally. Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally. From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a delightfully witty romance featuring a reserved duke whos betrothed to one twin and hopelessly enamoured of the other. One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2022įrom the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a delightfully witty romance featuring a reserved duke who’s betrothed to one twin and hopelessly enamoured of the other. Read this romance immediately, and then read it again. Dani is the heroine we all aspire to be: confident, feminist, sex-positive and driven. Zaf is the emotionally competent, buff hero of our dreams. Take a Hint, Dani Brown possesses the same amount of charm, grit and, certainly, sex appeal as its predecessor. Fans who loved the first book in the Brown Sisters series, Get a Life, Chloe Brown, may feel that it’s a tough act to follow. It’s not about love as the antidote to a couple’s problems, but love becoming a foundation on which the couple understand one another better and a soft place to land when times are tough. What makes Take a Hint, Dani Brown a superlative example of the romance genre as a whole, and not just a gem in the contemporary category, is that Hibbert gets to the essence of what a happily-ever-after means. Hibbert knows how to deepen and complicate her characters, meticulously peeling back layer upon layer as the story goes on. an easy contender for best book of the year. |