The passionate culture of speed record chasers, set in the amazing landscape of the Utah salt flats
Author: Alexandra Lier
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 3868286136
Category: Art, American
Page: 119
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The passionate culture of speed record chasers, set in the amazing landscape of the Utah salt flatsTHE BEST PLACES TO HIDE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR During the
Second World War, Casper Ten Boom's house in Haarlem, Holland, became a
hiding place for people persecuted by the Nazis. Between 1943 and 1944,
Casper and ...
Author: Editors of Portable Press
Publisher: Portable Press
ISBN: 9781645171638
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 256
View: 281
Discover the most extreme things in the world on the pages of this kid-friendly collection of entertaining and educational articles. Kids will have a blast learning about the most extreme things in the world! The World’s Fastest, Spookiest, Smelliest, Strongest Book is full of weird, wild, and wonderful facts about the world. Readers will learn about the most amazing waterfalls, the fastest animals, and more while being entertained by quirky drawings throughout the book.THE BEST PLACES TO HIDE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR During the
Second World War, Casper Ten Boom's house in Haarlem, Holland, became a
hiding place for people persecuted by the Nazis. Between 1943 and 1944,
Casper and ...
Author: Jan Payne
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 9781780550916
Category:
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This big book is stuffed with the fastest, brightest, longest, funniest, weirdest, wildest, wettest, saddest, brainiest, and fascinating-est (yikes!) things in the world. From the highest peaks to the murkiest depths, the fastest man to the slowest sloth, the oldest lake to the most venomous snake and much, much more!The winner would be determined by a few remaining races in an area of the
country that had long been unfriendly to Taylor. Bald's union scheduled its first
important races in St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Missouri. A year earlier, Taylor
had ...
Author: Michael Kranish
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9781501192593
Category: History
Page: 384
View: 396
In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure—the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era. In the 1890s, the nation’s promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper class. Amidst this world arrived Major Taylor, a young black man who wanted to compete in the nation’s most popular and mostly white man’s sport, cycling. Birdie Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world’s fastest man, declared that he could help turn the young black athlete into a champion. Twelve years before boxer Jack Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turn—especially by whites who feared he would disprove their stereotypes of blacks. In The World’s Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor’s life. Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day. From a moment in time just before the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous societal changes were about to take place, The World’s Fastest Man shines a light on a dramatic moment in American history—the gateway to the twentieth century.Only a few places on Earth meet the needs for testing land speed records. The
surface needs to be flat and hard. The area needs to be big and wide open in
case an accident occurs. ThrustSSC set its record in the Black Rock Desert in ...
Author: Sean McCollum
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9781474711593
Category:
Page: 32
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Motorcycles let the wind wip through your hair while adrenaline rushes through your body.
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Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9781474711609
Category:
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Motorcycles let the wind wip through your hair while adrenaline rushes through your body. How fast can the top bikes blast down the asphalt? Get ready for a wild ride as you decide just which of these record-breaking motorcycles you'd like to saddle up.Teams also earn money through sponsorships . Sponsors pay race teams to
promote their products . For example , an oil company may pay a team to place
the company's logo on the side of a car . Sponsors pay race teams to place
company ...
Author: Glen Bledsoe
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0736815015
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 48
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Discusses the history and development of the race cars that have been used at the Indianapolis World Speedway from the early 1900s to the present.Ginger Smith By most measures, tourism is the world's largest industry and, until
September 2001, it was also one of the world's fastest growing industries.
Tourism is an umbrella industry comprised of diverse services sectors, which has
grown ...
Author: Alan A Lew
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134651870
Category: Science
Page: 344
View: 903
The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in touristed landscapes as a result of globalization. This book assesses travel and tourism as simultaneously cultural and economic processes, through ideas about place seduction and the formation of landscapes. Throughout, examples are given from urban and environmental touristed landscapes, from major world cities to tropical islands, and chapter contributions include: an analysis of the representational character of landscape and the built environment historic constructions of place seduction the importance of class, racial, and gender dimensions of place how mobility and the seduction of place orient identity formation the environmental impacts of tourism economies. Broad in scope, this book is ideal for social scientists and humanists who are interested in contemporary debates about place studies, mobility, and the located realities of globalization.Nick Cook. BU hollywood E REIRAN collywoo Chapter 3 Indy Cars The Indy 500
race takes place.
Author: Nick Cook
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0736805702
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 48
View: 714
Discusses the history and development of some of the world's fastest automobiles, describing the specific features and specifications of such cars as dragsters, Indianapolis 500 race cars, and the supersonic car.World's. Fastest. Machines. Background. Information. For a long time, people
have been building vehicles that travel ... Research They travel at very
dangerous speeds. the events that took place when the land, What other vehicles
travel fast?
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Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9781425882495
Category: Science
Page: 4
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Elaborate on the concept of forces and motion using this science inquiry card and lesson. Using vibrant, engaging images for science exploration allows all students to make connections and relate science concepts to new situations.If the text does not catch the eye, the company will just move on to the next
candidate, so it's important that you make the most of it. your chance to change
the world Here at Ericsson we have a deep rooted belief that the innovations we
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Publisher: Bookboon
ISBN: 9788740300611
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... in that there was a receptive audience already in place for such a binary view
of Islam and the West.59 However, since ... a string of books beginning with Islam
Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith in 2002
...
Author: Jacob N. Kinnard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199359684
Category: Religion
Page: 320
View: 352
Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. Focusing on several important shared and contested pilgrimage places-Ground Zero and Devils Tower in the United States, Ayodhya and Bodhgaya in India, Karbala in Iraq-he poses a number of crucial questions. What and who has made these sites important, and why? How are they shared, and how and why are they contested? What is at stake in their contestation? How are the particular identities of place and space established? How are individual and collective identity intertwined with space and place? Challenging long-accepted, clean divisions of the religious world, Kinnard explores specific instances of the vibrant messiness of religious practice, the multivocality of religious objects, the fluid and hybrid dynamics of religious places, and the shifting and tangled identities of religious actors. He contends that sacred space is a constructed idea: places are not sacred in and of themselves, but are sacred because we make them sacred. As such, they are in perpetual motion, transforming themselves from moment to moment and generation to generation. Places in Motion moves comfortably across and between a variety of historical and cultural settings as well as academic disciplines, providing a deft and sensitive approach to the topic of sacred places, with awareness of political, economic, and social realities as these exist in relation to questions of identity. It is a lively and much needed critical advance in analytical reflections on sacred space and pilgrimage.How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You
Live and Work Robert J. Shapiro ... Just as important, they're closing themselves
off from the world's fastest growing markets at just the time when the businesses ...
Author: Robert J. Shapiro
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781429929578
Category: Political Science
Page: 368
View: 236
What will life be like in America, Europe, Japan or China in the year 2020? As everyone's lives across the world are become increasingly interconnected by globalization and new technologies quicken the pace of everything, the answer to that question depends on the fate and paths of the world's major nations. In Futurecast, Robert Shapiro, former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce and Chairman/Co-founder of Sonecon, looks into the future to tell us what our world will over the next dozen years. Though that time span seems brief, Shapiro foresees monumental changes caused by three historic new forces—globalization, the aging of societies, and the rise of America as a sole superpower with no near peer— will determine the paths of nations and the lives of countless millions. What jobs will there be for you and your children? What will happen to your health care? How safe will you be at home or abroad? Answers to these questions will depend, even more than today, on where you live in the world: • Even as China expands its military and its economy, America will be the world's sole superpower for at least the next generation, and continue to lead efforts to preserve global security and stability. • The U.S. and China will be the world's two indispensable economies, dominating the course of globalization. • Globalization will continue to shift most heavy manufacturing and millions of high-end service jobs from advanced countries like the US, to China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Romania, Turkey and other developing nations. • Europe's major nations and Japan will face the prospect of genuine economic decline and critical problems in their retirement pension systems, moving further towards the periphery of global economic and geopolitical power. • Every major country—the U.S., Europe, Japan, China—will face critical problems with their health care systems, and the entire world will face a crisis over energy and climate change. If one adds the wildcard of possible, catastrophic terrorist attacks to this mix, the period between now and 2020 will be as challenging as any in modern times. Taking these deep global developments into account when planning for the future isa necessity. Robert Shapiro's clear-eyed Futurecast is the knowledge portfolio you need to prepare for the years to come.In The World’s Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor’s ...
Author: Michael Kranish
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781501192616
Category: History
Page: 384
View: 472
In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure—the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era. In the 1890s, the nation’s promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper class. Amidst this world arrived Major Taylor, a young black man who wanted to compete in the nation’s most popular and mostly white man’s sport, cycling. Birdie Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world’s fastest man, declared that he could help turn the young black athlete into a champion. Twelve years before boxer Jack Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turn—especially by whites who feared he would disprove their stereotypes of blacks. In The World’s Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor’s life. Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day. From a moment in time just before the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous societal changes were about to take place, The World’s Fastest Man shines a light on a dramatic moment in American history—the gateway to the twentieth century.However, the project does attract an annual influx of high-rollers to the casino
and the annual spectacle of the world's fastest cars delivers a certain credibility to
the claim of a state 'on the move'. The City Link project, due for completion in
1999 ...
Author: Kim Dovey
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 041517368X
Category: Architecture
Page: 218
View: 270
Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of how our lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities we inhabit. Kim Dovey contends that the nature of architecture and urban design, their silent framings of everyday life, lend them to practices of coercion, seduction and authorization. The book draws from a broad range of social theories and deploys three primary analyses of built form, namely the analysis of spatial structure, the interpretation of constructed meanings and the interpretation of lived experience. These approaches to programme text and place, are woven together through a series of narratives on specific cities (Berlin, Beijing and Canberra and Melbourne) and building types (this corporate tower, shopping mall and domestic house).World's fastest man, Usain Bolt shattering world records in track and field at the
Olympics or President Of The United States Barrack Obama finalizing important
Bills In Order to get them passed in Congress. They all have been able to block
out ...
Author: Andrew Mitchell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781481713887
Category: Self-Help
Page: 124
View: 905
Knowing Your Place is an inspirational set of laws to motivate you and allow you to understand that success has no barriers for those who are willing to confront the responsibility that comes along with it. These 10 Laws Of Success are to serve as a foundation to help you get moving towards living the self fulfilling life that is meant for you.As the full impact of the current crisis materialises, world FDI flows are expected
to decline further in 2009 (UNCTAD 2009). As the world's third-largest and fastest
-growing economy—and the largest FDI recipient among the developing ...
Author: Ross Garnaut
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 9781921536977
Category: Political Science
Page: 461
View: 388
The world and China's place in it have been transformed over the past year. The pressures for change have come from the most severe global financial crisis ever. The crisis has accelerated China's emergence as a great power. But China and its global partners have yet to think or work through the consequences of its new position for the governance of world affairs. China's New Place in a World in Crisis discusses and provides in-depth analysis of the following questions. How have China's growth prospects been affected by the global crisis? How will the crisis and China's response to it impact China's major domestic issues, such as industrialisation, urbanisation and the reform of the state-owned sector of the economy? How will the crisis and the international community's response to it affect the rapidly emerging new international order? What will be China's, and other major developing countries', new role? Can China and the world find a way of breaking the nexus between economic growth and environmental sustainability - especially on the issue of climate change?While paused, you can place torches and do anything else required, including
placing additional ladder or vine segments. Dig out the ... You can also use this
as the world's fastest one-way express elevator to get down in a hurry. If you do
take ...
Author: Stephen O'Brien
Publisher: Que Publishing
ISBN: 9780133853803
Category: Games & Activities
Page: 288
View: 582
The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft XBOX Edition Minecraft: These worlds are YOURS! Minecraft is WAY more than a game: it’s an alternate universe of creation, exhilaration, survival, adventure, passion! Don’t enter that universe alone. Take an experienced guide who’ll help you constantly as you learn the secrets of Minecraft on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One! Stephen O’Brien has been obsessing over Minecraft since its earliest betas. He’s seen it all! Now, he’ll take you deep inside craft and mine, cave and menagerie, farm and village. He’ll reveal combat traps and tricks you need to know… teach you enchantments of unimaginable power… help you survive where few dare to go… help you OWN the infinite worlds of Minecraft! Based on the international best-seller of the same name, this book is ideal for Minecrafters of all ages. Quick-start guide for first-night survival to get started NOW Customize your experience: monstrous, peaceful, and more Harvest resources, craft tools and shelters—let there be light Grab your pickaxe: mine iron, gold, diamonds, and redstone Escape (or defeat!) 14 types of hostile mobs Get friendly mobs on your side and build automated farms Brew potions to cure ills, gain superpowers, and throw at enemies Transform your shelter into a palace (or a secret underwater base) Create customized worlds with unique seeds Learn the secrets of redstone devices, and build incredible rail systems Play safely through The Nether and The End Play with up to eight of your friends on Xbox Live, or run in splitscreen mode Stephen O’Brien is an Australian-born writer and entrepreneur now residing in Sydney after too many years in Silicon Valley. He has written more than 30 books, including several best-sellers. O’Brien founded Typefi, the world’s leading automated publishing system, and in his spare time invented a new type of espresso machine called mypressi. He’s a perpetual innovator who remains astounded at the unparalleled creativity Minecraft can engender.IN reply to Mr. J. Bartlett's letter brake , in place of the chain brake hitherto used
speaking of any letter previously ... took place which resulted in correct , the best
focus will be just half - way ; if WOLF'S COMET . making the world's fastest long ...
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It is also home to cutting-edge technology in the form of the world's fastest train —
the Maglev (electro-magnetic ... One of the best places to see this urban
regeneration is the Bund, Shanghai's iconic colonial-era waterfront that sweeps
its way ...
Author: Gregory Byrne Bracken
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9789814312967
Category: Travel
Page: 169
View: 593
Shanghai is China’s most cosmopolitan city and it is a fascinating blend of old and new. Visitors can find everything from charming art deco style buildings and traditional Chinese architecture to some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. Once called the “Paris of the East”, Shanghai is once again bustling with new developments up along the Bund and in the Pudong area. The walks featured in this handy volume will enable readers to appreciate Shanghai’s heritage and have a better understanding of its built environment.