Don't Pick Up the Baby

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Don't Pick Up the Baby
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Don't Pick Up The Baby Or You'll Spoil The Child And Other Old Wives' Tales About Pregnancy And Parenting -
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Willis Bradshaw

Wonderfully researched, written, and read.

The Sullivan Brothers Give Their Lives For Their Country

How 150 sailors died needlessly because of the U.S. Navy.

Excellent book that I couldn't put down!!

Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau
Dan Kurzman
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Willis Bradshaw.......2007-06-13

My oldest sister and brother were left fatherless the day the Juneau sank. My sister was seven and my brother was five. The saddest thing is that their father died on my brother's birthday. If only they had not been left to die! Our mother was in her early twenties and to this day I believe that her life was forever changed. I believe that she never recovered. Thank you for writing this book, it has helped both of my siblings heal in ways that they never imagined. RIP Willis Bradshaw.

Wonderfully researched, written, and read........2004-07-07

This is a great book. Earlier this year, I had to write a paper about my grandmother for a WWII history class. Her close cousin was one of the casualties on this ship. This book brings closure to the nearly 700 families affected by the tragic sinking of the Juneau.

The Sullivan Brothers Give Their Lives For Their Country.......2003-07-31

Author Dan Kurzman has done an excellent job in describing the events leading up to and the sinking of the anti-aircraft cruiser USS Juneau. The Juneau was taking part in the great Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on the night of November 13, 1942. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection, the Juneau was not very well equipped for ship to ship fighting. During the course of the battle, the Juneau suffered many hits from Japanese ships which resulted in a broken keel, but she was still able to manuver under her own power. However, a lurking Japanese submarine snuck in and torpedoed the hapless ship.

700 men, including the five Sullivan brothers, managed to abandon ship, but, to their surprise and ultimate dismay, the task force kept on going without stopping for survivors. The task force commander felt that it was too risky for the other ships to remain in the sub-infested waters, so the survivors were left to fend for themselves for eight days against the sun and shark attacks. In the end, only about 100 of the 700 who went in the water survived. Among the casulties were all five Sullivans.

I highly recommend this book. The author does an excellent job of describing how the Sullivans enlisted together and insisted on serving on the same ship. The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal is described in a vivid narrative that places the reader at the center of the action. I've also read several books about the sinking of the Indianapolis, and the parallels between the Juneau and Indianapolis are uncanny; both sunk under very similar circumstances, and the survivors of each ship suffered under almost identical conditions. Finally, the U.S. Navy named a destroyer after the Sullivan brothers.

Read this book and learn about the heroic Sullivans and how they made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. I would also recommend the book "Fatal Voyage" by the same author, and the movie "The Fighting Sullivans" for more information on this topic.

How 150 sailors died needlessly because of the U.S. Navy........2002-05-30

Before the loss of the U.S.S. Indy, there was the U.S.S. Juneau.
The Navy performed in the same poor manner in regards to the
rescue of the 150 survivors, after this light cruiser blew up after being torpedoed. The result was sailors left in the water
or on rafts being seen by airmen flying over the wreckage site.
The airmen reported the siting of survivors, and reports were filed by no action resulted in the survivors being rescued. The result were 140 sailors dying due to the negligence of the U.S. Navy. Among the dead were two Rogers brothers and the five Sullivans. This was one of the U.S. Navy's worst disasters.

Excellent book that I couldn't put down!!.......2002-01-11

Being somewhat of an avid naval military history fan, I've read quite a few books on WWII sea disasters. This one by Dan Kurzman has become one of my favorites.

There are many WWII naval history accounts out there, but quite a few of them tend to be a little "dry" because they don't contribute enough to the human-interest side of the story. As a result, books like that can become a monotonous succession of ships' names, and who released which torpedo that hit which target. However, when it comes to a story leading up to a major disaster befalling a single ship, it is important to concentrate on the individuals (at least a few of them) who were part of the crew. This book did exactly that.

Kurzman gives us important insights into the lives of a few notable individuals involved in the sinking of the USS Juneau. All 10 survivors are covered nicely, as well as a few significant crew-members who didn't make it, including the skipper, the 5 Sullivan brothers, and the 2 Rogers brothers. Adding personal details prior to the main story of the disaster involves the reader in a significant way. You get to really see these people as individual human beings instead of them being part of the statistics of the incident.

Kurzman is a master storyteller. Once I got started, I could hardly wait to see what happens next. Although not strictly a military historian per se, his account of the naval battles leading up to the tragic sinking were superb. He even tells parts of the story from the point of view of the Japanese side. (Much of these parts were directly taken from Tameichi Hara's "Japanese Destroyer Captain". For those who have never, or never will, read this book, these accounts from the Japanese point of view are essential to the understanding of what happened.)

I highly recommend this work to anyone who's into naval battle history or naval disasters. There is not a boring moment in this book, at least not to me. I have yet to read Kurzman's "FATAL VOYAGE", but "LEFT TO DIE" is written in a similar style to Doug Stanton's "IN HARM'S WAY", which was an excellent book about probably the most well-known WWII naval disaster, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

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Left To Die, The Tragedy O The Uss Juneau, How Nearly 700 Men Including The Five Sulivan Brothers Died in Torpedo And Shark
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc (Middle Ages Series)

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Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc (Middle Ages Series)
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What should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and took root in southern France during the twelfth century. Despite the fact that these depositions were spoken in the vernacular, but recorded in Latin in the third person and rewritten in the past tense, historians have often taken these accounts as verbatim transcriptions of personal testimony. This belief has prompted some historians, including E. Le Roy Ladurie, to go so far as to retranslate the testimonies into the first-person. These testimonies have been a long source of controversy for historians and scholars of the Middle Ages.

Arnold enters current theoretical debates about subjectivity and the nature of power to develop reading strategies that will permit a more nuanced reinterpretation of these documents of interrogation. Rather than seeking to recover the true voice of the Cathars from behind the inquisitor's framework, this book shows how the historian is better served by analyzing texts as sites of competing discourses that construct and position a variety of subjectivities. In this critically informed history, Arnold suggests that what we do with the voices of history in fact has as much to do with ourselves as with those we seek to 'rescue' from the silences of past.

The Inquisitor's Guide: A Medieval Manual on Heretics

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A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages: Volume 1

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The Medieval Inquisition (Michael Glazier Books)

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Excellent introduction to a difficult subject

The Medieval Inquisition (Michael Glazier Books)
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Excellent introduction to a difficult subject.......2001-10-04

This is a fine introduction to a subject that is often understood and even misrepresented. Shannon provides an overview of what has been written about the subject, and then provides a survey of the events. He relies heavily on source documents to make his points, which makes the book particularly valuable. Highly recommended (especially at this price)!

The Grand Inquisitor, a Bishop and the Maid: Joan of Arc's Nullification Trial and the Reform of Inquisition (The New Middle Ages)

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Heresy, Crusade, and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100-1250

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History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages

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1888. Lea, an American historian, devoted himself to research, mainly on church history in the later middle ages, and his literary reputation rests on the important books he produced on this subject. However, his great contribution was his originality and his profound influence in impressing on American historians the importance of direct study of sources. This is Volume I of III. Contents: The Church; Heresy; The Cathari; The Albigensian Crusades; Persecution; The Mendicant Orders; The Inquisition Founded; Organization; The Inquisitorial Process; Evidence; The Defense; The Sentence; Confiscation; and The Stake. See other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Vol. 2 ISBN 0766188949, Vol. 3 ISBN 0766188957.

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Guide to Birdwatching Sites Western U.S.

Discover the best places to see birds in the contiguous Western United States with National Geographic as your guide. Dedicated to beginning and intermediate birders, the National Geographic Guide to Birdwatching Sites takes you to the birding hot spots, both highly visited and lesser known. Features include:

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Just a compilation.......2000-06-10

This is just a summarization of other sources. Nothing new or exciting here - at all.

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