Patrick Jordan
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This book will help you to get the most out of your iPad. If you're a relatively new user it should help you to navigate around the iPad and get more comfortable with using it. If you're a more experienced user it will show you some nifty shortcuts, tips and short guides to some of the more powerful features of the iPad. I've grouped the how-to articles and tips in this book into eight chapters. The book does not need to be read sequentially - you...
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By any measure, Dorothy Day lived a fascinating life. She was a journalist, activist, single mother, convert, Catholic laywoman, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
A lifelong radical who took the gospels at their word, Dorothy Day lived among the poor as one of them, challenging both church and state to build a better world for all people. Steeped in prayer, the liturgy, and the spiritual life, she was jailed repeatedly for protesting...
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Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was a well-known American journalist, activist, and Catholic convert whose cause for sainthood has been endorsed by the US bishops. She wrote numerous articles over a period of several decades for the prominent lay Catholic magazine Commonweal. Hold Nothing Back is gleaned from those writings. It includes reflections on her life as a single mother, her time in jail for civil disobedience, her struggles to keep the Catholic...
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Inecom Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
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1 DVD (64 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Rumors and fears that the Conemaugh Lake Reservoir had reached its summit and the South Fork Dam might burst were widespread for many years. By Friday, May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, it had been raining for a week. Finally at 3:10 pm the center of the dam gave way. Considered the worst flood disaster in the nation's history - 2,209 persons were killed, a countless number of bodies were never found.
5) Play dirty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, 1968
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1 videodisc (118min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A British Petroleum executive is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels. This gives him the official rank of Captain in the British Army. The Colonel in charge is told he must have a British officer accompany his men on a dangerous mission 400 miles behind German lines and is saddled with the Petroleum executive. The real leader of the group doesn't need or want the British officer, who's supposed...