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Humorous verses about Biblical Characters and Holidays. Very Funny and Very Entertaining!

The backdrop is WWII (Europe, 1939 - 1945). The episode, code named Op. Valkyrie aka ''The Revolution of 20 July 1944''. An English Glider Pilot, recouperating from wounds incurred on D-Day (06/06/44, is temporarily attached to a ''flight pool'' ferrying British Intellegence agents to the Continent. A few weeks before D-Day, the German Resistence (GR) movement, desperately seeking Western Allied support, approached the American OSS agent, A. Dulles, with a plan for the elimination of Hitler and a quick end to the war. It was ignored in London and Washington. The stumbling block was Unconditional Surrender (01/43) which loudly proclaimed: "All Germans are our Enemies." A few weeks after D-Day, he flys a Senior British agent to an urgent meeting in Holland, with a German General (GG), a prominent member of the Widerstand, whose formal arguments did not get very far, but the mere mention of the plight of ''hostage-Europe'' did. Why couldn''t the Widerstand see that this was the Aiies ''Achilles heel''? it was their trump card. They didn''t play it, so the Glider Pilot did. He is sold on the quest for a joint venture, but a legacy of real (or imaginary) double-crosses dogged Anglo-GR relations both before and during the war. Inexorably, he finds himself drawn into a veritable ''hornet''s nest'' of intrigue, surrounding what should have been the most decisive single operation of the war. Britain did not get it. At the very least, the Widerstrand was a ''tool'' for acheiving Allied war objectives. Britian cound not comprehend that it wasn''t just an Anglo-German affair, but that their was a third party that was anxiously awaiting the outcome of this meeting. The explosion that was to have toppled Nazism, imploaded on itself crushing the German Resistence movement abruptly terminating any hope of early liberation for ''hostage-Europe''. WWII Army Vet. PhD, Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NYU (1960). Worked on Submarine Nuclear Reactors & Anti-Submarine Warfare. Professor of Physics & Director of Oceanography, SUNY, Maritime College, 1964. Retired 1995. Avid student, Military History. Interested in WWII episode code named Op-Valkyrie; Anglo - German Resistance (GR) relations prior to and during the war. Book is part autobiography, part history, and part novel.

Playwright and screenwriter David Epstein presents a trilogy of three plays-Mahalo, Desperados, and Arky-tracing the story of an American family navigating a years-long crisis driven by mental illness. Harrowing, comic, and revealing, The Arky Trilogy movingly captures the twists and turns of life as experienced by one family among millions.

We compare quantitatively eight stochastic models explaining improvements in mortality rates in England &Wales and in the US. On the basis of the Bayes Information Criterion (BIC), we find that an extension of the Cairns, Blake & Dowd (2006b) model that incorporates the cohort effect fits the England & Wales data best, while for US data, the Renshaw & Haberman (2006) extension to the Lee & Carter (1992) model that also allows for a cohort effect provides the best fit. However, we identify problems with the robustness of parameter estimates of these models over different time periods. A different extension to the Cairns, Blake & Dowd (2006b) model that allows not only for a cohort effect, but also for a quadratic age effect, while ranking below the other models in terms of the BIC, exhibits parameter stability across different time periods for both data sets. This model also shows, for both data sets, that there have been approximately linear improvements over time in mortality rates at all ages, but that the improvements have been greater at lower ages than at higher ages, and that there are significant cohort effects.

Final draft of script (with revisions and annotations in pencil) for television movie dramatizing challenges faced by an older woman and a younger man in a romantic relationship; filmed in Charleston, S.C.; autographed by Lillian Gish.

This audio set covers those parts of the 2005 bankruptcy legislation (BAPCPA) that are covered in law school courses and on law school exams. The lectures cover both consumer and business bankruptcy. They explain the essential bankruptcy concepts and show how those concepts work together in consumer bankrupticies and business bankruptcies.

We analyze the process of democratization in a polity with groups that are divided along ethnic as well as economic lines. We show that: (i) the presence of ethnic minorities, in general, makes peaceful democratic transitions less likely; (ii) minorities suffer from discriminatory policies less in democracies with intermediate levels of income inequality; and (iii) in new democracies with low levels of income inequality, politics is divided along ethnic lines, and at greater levels of inequality economic cleavages predominate.