5/13/2023 0 Comments Whoosh lonnie johnson![]() But it is his invention of the Super Soaker water gun that has made his most memorable splash with kids and adults.Īccording to his website, Lonnie Johnson holds 80 patents with over 20 patents pending. Growing up in a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence and a passion for problem-solving became the cornerstone for a career as an engineer and his work with NASA. ![]() A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson’s life. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. ![]() And it was invented entirely by accident. It’s one of the top twenty toys of all time. ![]() Written by Chris Barton, Illustrated by Don Tate Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Stephen king under the dome part 2![]() ![]() ![]() So this is it: 1,100 pages of localized apocalypse from an author whose continued and slightly frenzied commerce with his muse has been one of the more enthralling spectacles in American literature. ![]() carrots.”) But the Simpsonian merriment bounced off him, apparently King held on to his dome concept, waiting perhaps with his genius on “sleep” for our national politics to get a little more kinky, a little more vicious - a little more like a Stephen King novel. “No,” says the man from the E.P.A., “rats can’t be trapped this easily. (“We’re trapped like rats!” screams Moe the bartender. with its meth factory, its profusion of religious denominations and its atavistic police department - is about to, as the phrase has it, “go rogue.”Īccording to an author’s note, King took a first crack at “Under the Dome” in 1976, but gave it up “after two weeks’ work that amounted to about 75 pages.” An interesting sequence of expressions must have crossed his face when he watched “The Simpsons Movie” in 2007: here, in glowing animation, was a great glassy dome landing on a clueless municipality, a civic meltdown, etc. Secession has occurred! The “thug in the White House,” the “Blackguard in Chief,” is on the other side of the dome, and Anytown, U.S.A. For them this is Christmas Day in the morning. Bummer, right? Not for the tyrant-in-waiting Big Jim and his pet goon squad. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Sea of tranquility book review![]() ![]() John Mandel ( Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel), Sea of Tranquility, possesses all of these laudable attributes, bringing together a diverse group of captivating characters who all share one strangely beguiling experience in common, but it goes that little bit further, beautifully and poignantly driving home the idea of interconnectedness, not simply across space but time too.Įxploring the way in which life is an endless series of possibilities and we rise and fall on the strength of how we respond to them, Sea of Tranquility is that rare and wondrous thing – a novel that is at once brilliantly original in its vision and depth but which is also intimately emotionally accessible. There are a great many novels out there that explore the idea of a multiverse, or at least the idea of alternate realities or time shifts, and which do so in a way that is often imaginative, compelling and fantastically immersively readable. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'One of those rare books that will swallow up your day without realising it. Or will she finally take control of her own destiny?. Is Lucy's fate really written in the stars? Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes, 9781405934398, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. ![]() Between the bottles of wine, antidepressants and her addiction to self-help books, she's not quite ready to walk, or even stumble, down the aisle sober. ![]() Not only does Lucy not have a boyfriend, but the chances of getting one are looking slim. But when she and three friends visit a psychic for a bit of fun and the woman's predictions start coming true, Lucy is horrified.įor the fortune teller insisted she'd soon be married - within the year, in fact. Hers is a life of quiet, undisciplined desperation. Twenty-six year old Lucy Sullivan is living it up (and occasionally down) in London. 'I was still at that stage in my life when I thought that weekdays were for recovering from the weekend' 'Keyes is in a class of her own' DAILY EXPRESS but to who? Discover the uplifting, laugh-out-loud story of a reluctant wrestle with fate, from the No. Lucy Sullivan's been told she is getting married. *** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022*** ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t really understand if the Ghost is Hamlet’s father or something evil.The ghost wants revenge for the murder Hamlet’s father who has been killed by Claudius. The ghost is the specter of Hamlet’s father. She follows her father and brother’s rules she is a very innocent and young girl who falls the need to follow directions from her dad and her brother. Polonius is the Lord of Chamberlain of Claudius’s court, a pretentious manipulative old man. Although, his love for Gertrude is frank.Gertrude is the Queen of the Denmark she recently got married to Claudius. He is the villain of the play, he is manipulative, striving politician he has no love for human kind. These are the most important characters in the play: Hamlet is a sad, cynical, discontented, 30 year old man who is totally sickening of his mother sexuality.Ĭlaudius is this uncle who is the antagonist in the story. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Introduction: In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare people can see Hamlet the main protagonist who is the son of the king Hamlet and Queen Gertrude and the nephew of the new king Claudius. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The tipping point malcolm![]() ![]() There are 151 seats in the House of Representatives. When you add those six to Mayo’s Rebekha Sharkie, Indi’s Helen Haines and Warringah’s Zali Steggall you have nine of what were once the party’s safest seats in the hands of independent, liberal women – three of whom have been twice (or in Sharkie’s case thrice) elected with increased majorities. But rather because six of the party’s hitherto safest and wealthiest electorates were lost not to Labor, but to six women who ran on small “l” liberal platforms calling for action on climate, gender equality and integrity in government. Not because it was tipped out of government – that happens regularly. ![]() The 2022 election was a tipping point for the Liberal Party. How the Murdoch media obliterated the Liberal Party’s centre and its foreseeable future ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Calamity physics![]() ![]() Fortunately, the entirety of that lengthy introduction to the sleuth-y parts is a coming of age story hidden behind a character study. PrintĪt its core, this book is a mystery novel that takes several hundred pages to get started. ![]() When she falls into an exclusive clique headed up by film teacher Hannah Schneider, she ends up having to be the one to figure out why Hannah killed herself…or who murdered her. Overly educated Blue van Meer is 16, has a strange name, and her transient professor of a father has decided to settle down for her senior year of high school. “Before I tell you about Hannah Schneider’s death, I’ll tell you about my mother’s.” Synopsis This week, Print to Projector presents: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl As the only literate Reject, it’s my duty to find the latest, the greatest and the untouched classics that would make great source material for film adaptations. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments I am pilgrim book series![]() ‘Need to know’ by Karen Cleveland is another mystery thriller. I am Pilgrim is a whole package of crime and breathtaking thriller. ![]() Now there is only one man who can solve the case and save human beings, Pilgrim. This flawless plan to commit a despicable crime against humanity links to all the mysterious murders. He takes proper training as a doctor to fight in the Soviet-Afghan War. Who becomes radicalized after watching his father’s beheading. Now Pilgrim is recalled by the intelligence agent, after they have detected the greatest threat against humanity.Ī Saudi Saracen has created a vaccine-resistant strain. An infamous Syrian biotech expert’s eyeless body is found in a ‘Damascus Junkyard’. ![]() There are some dead bodies, all dissolving by the acid found in a run-down hotel. In the aftermath of 9/11, an unknown woman commits some untraceable murders. He uses his free time to write a book on Forensic Pathology. ![]() However, now he lives in a secret location away from his past life. Before retirement, he was in charge of a covert spy unit. Who is well known as the ‘Rider of the Blue’. ‘I am Pilgrim’ is about an American former intelligence agent, ‘Pilgrim’. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Skye warren two for the show![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And nobody knows funeral parlors better than Stephanie's irrepressible Grandma Mazur, a lady whose favorite pastime is grabbing a front-row seat at a neighborhood wake. With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers knee-deep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors. He’s fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he’s just shot his best friend. 38, Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton’s burg. Now Stephanie's back, armed with attitude-not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty. bounty hunter), introduced to us in the award-winning and bestselling novel One for the Money. It's the return of Stephanie Plum, New Jersey’s “fugitive apprehension” agent (a.k.a. Two for the Dough is irresistibly fun and powerful suspense entertainment featuring beloved bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, from #1 New York Times bestselling and acclaimed author Janet Evanovich. Download Two For The Dough Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. After first publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster’s The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. “ The Machine Stops” is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. In the weeks ahead I will share some of the science fiction gems I unearthed or rediscovered. I have a link at the bottom of the article to a pdf file of the book which is now in the public domain. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” topped off the list. In researching that list of potential computers I read a number of books and short stories. A few years ago I came up with the idea of writing a nonfiction article on the five most influential pre-1950 computers in science fiction. I love reading and writing short stories. ![]() |