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"I was a 13 year old boy for 30 years." (Mickey Rooney) In 1939, the year of Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, Time magazine noted, "Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it."

Flatboats were the most prolific type of vessel on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during the early 1800s. Thousands of these boats descended the two rivers each year, carrying not only valuable cargo to New Orleans but also western-bound emigrants to newly opened territories. By the late 1800s, flatboats had completely disappeared, and no intact examples were known to exist. That changed in 2000, when local residents found a wreck on the Ohio River shoreline in Illinois.

Smuggling an estimated 80% of the total cocaine being illegally brought into the United States of America at the peak of his career, Pablo Escobar was one of the most notorious Colombian drug lords that mankind has ever known. Known as the King of Cocaine, his net worth was estimated as US $30 billion in the early 1990s. Along with being at the helm of the Medellin Cartel, Escobar would sponsor soccer clubs and charity projects and was hugely popular among the poor people.

This book is dedicated to the many opponents who would like to see Trump defeated and the end to his presidential campaign. They feel Trump's campaign has been based on insults, humiliation, and inciting his followers to violence. He has been called a bigot and racist and compared to Hitler. Some have considered him a dangerous evil monster. In the past, many dangerous and scary beasts have gone extinct, so this book has been created in this spirit of comparing Trump to many now extinct beasts.

Here are nine of the best ways to finally quit smoking without becoming a nervous wreck or gaining weight. If you have tried to quit smoking before, but failed or tried to quit but was overcome by anxiety or fear of becoming socially awkward or gaining weight, then listen to this book! 9 Best Ways to Quit Smoking also includes a reminder of the different ways smoking can affect your health and body and the different individualized changes you can make to your lifestyle to help you quit smoking on your own terms.

The Guidon Bearer is a semi-fictitious account of one man's journey through Air Force Basic Military Training around the year 2000. Unlike the other four services, anyone who served in the US Air Force has gone through the exact same place: Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX.

Are you tired of being stressed-out by encounters with negative people? Are you fed up with the impact of negative situations on your health and happiness? Would like you to find out ways to show to remain effective during negative situations with negative people? Do you know that chronic stress generated by negative encounters can damage your eyes, heart and brain? Do you know that chronic stress can directly damage your body cells? Here are nine ways you can protect your health from such negative situations so that you can continue to thrive and be happy.

Everything you know about diabetes is dead wrong! These protocols will permanently eradicate diabetes from your life. Incredibly, all it takes is a few simple things you can do at home. If you or a friend are suffering from diabetes, you should buy this book immediately. Diabetes is at an epidemic level around the world and growing. According to a recent report, type 3 diabetes has been added to the diabetic struggle. Many theories exist as to why this is true.

Napoleon is regarded as one of history’s greatest generals, and Austerlitz was his greatest victory. Napoleon’s French army would still be well outnumbered at Austerlitz by a joint Russo-Austrian army. The Battle of Austerlitz was a tactical masterpiece that saw Napoleon actually invite an attack on his army by the bigger Coalition army. The result was a decisive victory that virtually annihilated the Third Coalition’s army and made Napoleon the master of the European continent.

The famous conqueror from the European continent came ashore with thousands of men, ready to set up a new kingdom in England. The Britons had resisted the amphibious invasion from the moment his forces landed, but he was able to push forward. In a large winter battle, the Britons' large army attacked the invaders but was eventually routed, and the conqueror was able to set up a new kingdom.

The Vietnam War remains one of the most controversial events in American history, and it bitterly divided the nation, so it's somewhat ironic that the most famous monument commemorating the war is also on one of the most serene spots in the nation’s capital. The famous Vietnam Wall is a place of almost eerie silence where even children cease their chatter. Rising out of the ground like an ancient obelisk, it calls upon its visitors to stop talking and to look and gaze upon the magnitude of America’s great mistake, a war that began in whispers and ended in tears.