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Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist audiobook is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - Colorado, United States, by Angela C. Kempf, offers the inside scoop on Colorado. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

New York State Notary Law made simple. Is your boss forcing you to become a Notary? Have you ever taken it upon yourself to review the Notary Laws and thought "What are they talking about?" or better yet...fallen asleep? There is nothing we haven't heard over the years. This audiobook was written by the number one Notary Trainer in New York State. She has been training for 25+ years. Her hard work has been published and quoted in newspapers and magazines articles throughout New York State.

On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, 51 soldiers fought several hundred Chinese attackers. Their commander, Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, was wounded three times before he was evacuated. For his actions, he received the country's second-highest award for courage on the battlefield and resumed active duty later that year as a living legend.

The listener should not be conned into thinking Nevada is only desert and casinos. Nevada gained its statehood because of its incredible wealth in gold and silver mines. Many mining towns in Nevada are now ghost towns but interesting pieces of Nevada's history and well worth a visit. The state's geology dates back to the Stone Age and its tales of train robberies, lynchings, and Indian battles are all explored here in this book.

This remarkable book takes you on a journey through history like never before. It beautifully intertwines footprints left by early inhabitants with transformative events of the 21st century, creating an engaging and enlightening narrative. It's not a typical history book; it's an immersive adventure through time.

In the 1840s, an organization of German noblemen, the Mainzner Adelsverein, attempted to settle thousands of German emigrants on the Texas frontier. Nassau Plantation, located near modern-day Round Top, Texas, in Northern Fayette County, was a significant part of this story. No one, however, has adequately documented the role of the slave plantation or given a convincing explanation of the Adelsverein from the German point of view.

Nearly 100,000 US soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but Afghanistan remains a mystery. Historian Brian Glyn Williams, who has traveled to Afghanistan frequently over the past decade, provides essential background to the war, tracing the rise, fall, and reemergence of the Taliban.

San Francisco grew from a tiny burg of 1,000 persons in 1848 to its present-day population of 825,863. The city was founded in 1776 when Spain built a fort at the site of Golden Gate Park. After World War II, San Francisco became a magnet for America's counter-culture. Hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in 1960 and peaked out with the Summer of Love in 1967. San Francisco's China Town is the oldest and largest in North America.

This is a short-simple introduction for learning about kombucha for beginners. It is meant as a stepping stone into the exciting field of fermented tea and fermented drinks. What Is kombucha? Kombucha is a fermented drink of black coffee and sugars (from different sources which includes cane sugar, fruit or honey) that's put to use as an effective food. It includes a colony of microorganisms and yeast which are responsible for initiating the fermentation method once coupled with sugar.

Step into the ancient world of Babylon and witness the remarkable story of three young men whose unwavering faith in God defied the mightiest ruler of their time. In "The Fiery Furnace: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego - A Tale of Courage and Faith," listeners will embark on an unforgettable journey of courage, conviction, and divine deliverance.

In the 1920s plans were made to carve the figures of America's greatest presidents into Mount Rushmore, the tallest spot in the Black Hills of the Dakotas, and by 1939 the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt had been carved into the rock. With that, one of America's greatest national monuments was born.

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in The Netherlands during the late 19th century to a wealthy family. As she was growing up, her father went bankrupt. During her prime as a teenager, she seduced the headmaster and discovered the power of her sexuality to bewitch men. As a young woman, she responded to an ad by a Dutch army officer and was married to him shortly after. When her marriage failed, she returned to The Netherlands and from there went to Paris and became a cultural icon and an escort for the wealthiest and most influential of men.

This fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. During this period of time, fabled Captain John Coffee Hays and his small band of Rangers were often the only government-authorized frontier fighters employed to keep the peace.

Are you ready to uncover the secrets of Maine and embark on an unforgettable journey? "Exploring Maine: A Journey Through History and Must-See Destinations" is your ultimate guide, combining engrossing historical accounts with a comprehensive tour of the state's top attractions. Whether you're planning a trip or simply fascinated by this unique corner of the U.S., this book has something for everyone.

Greater Than a Tourist - Athens Greece, by Eleni Panagiotopoulou, gives you the inside scoop on Athens. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Solar Power DIY Handbook is loaded with useful content and is an excellent guide on how one can choose, decide on, and install efficient and reliable solar power in one's home.

Many diseases are caused by inflammation of the skin, lungs, joints, and other tissue, and can all be because of a bacterial imbalance since they affect our immune system. Newest studies show that intestinal bacteria connect to ADD, OCD, and Alzheimer's. This books gives you the knowledge about everything there is to gut flora, probiotics, and their health benefits. It also teaches you what you can do to prevent those diseases with the right gut flora balance.

It is not too often that a brilliant scientist is also a wonderfully gifted writer. Sir Arthur Eddington was both. Brought up as a Quaker (he was a pacifist during World War One), Eddington was by all accounts a brilliant mathematician and physicist, who eventually became a professor of astronomy at Cambridge University. Sir Arthur Eddington is perhaps most famous for partially confirming Albert Einstein's theory of relativity back in 1919.

In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time - an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern inventions - tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes - that would change farming and rural life forever. When Horses Pulled the Plow is Larson's account of that rural life in the early 20th century.

At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period - some known and some forgotten - from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.