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In 1949 the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of Mao Zedung drove the Kuomintang and their leader, Chiang Kai-shek, off the mainland and onto the island of Taiwan. The CPC established a government on the mainland which has persisted to this day. Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China, has flourished as a democracy for the past 70+ years. Although it is not formally a member of the United Nations and has no formal diplomatic relations with the United States, it has maintained a friendly relationship with the U.S. and the West for seventy years. For that period, the...

After two years away from Limason, Texas, Jess Maxwell is eager to get home. Unfortunately, he knows two mean men—who won’t be happy until he’s dead—are trailing him. Mary Beth is home for the summer from nursing school and has known Jess her whole life. Imagine his surprise that, at the age of nineteen, she’s grown into a real beauty. Jess and Mary Beth are reunited, and this time, sparks fly. Within days of Jess’s return to Limason, the bad men show up and terrorize anyone who gets in their way—including Mary Beth. Jess had planned to court and eventually marry the smart ...

Ever since the conclusion of World War II, which was precipitated by the dropping of two atomic bombs, one each on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the specter of the nuclear annihilation of mankind on this “big blue marble” has hung over society like an omnipresent cloud. During the Cold War, which lasted from 1947 until 1991, conventional wisdom held that the end of life on Earth would eventually be brought about by the exchange of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union. And then, in 1957, British author Nevil Shute wrote the incendiary novel On ...

Uber, Lyft, Amazon, Postmates, Doordash, Caviar...the list goes on for sidehustle gigs you can add into your income stream, but they all require you to share some of your profit as a subcontractor. Short on cash, but want to learn how to do the same thing and take control of your life, income, and destiny? No matter how humble the beginnings, you can achieve what you desire most! Learn how to start a business from very little, create a system to free up your time, and develop a mind-set to take you to the top!

At 17 years old, Courtney Apuzzo is fed up. With a dead mom and an alcoholic father that beats her every chance he gets, Courtney decides that enough is enough. Packing up only what she needs, Courtney leaves home without telling a soul and heads off to find her new life.

Sean Patrick O'Connell was the son of Donald and Mary Pat O'Connell. His was a middle-class upbringing in a middle-class neighborhood. Though he went off to college after high school graduation his performance was less than stellar. When he left college he volunteered to serve during the Vietnam War. His was an exemplary, though short, military career. At the war?s end he returned to school and did well. In his senior year he submitted a Fulbright Scholarship proposal which was approved. What distressed his family, classmates, school and the Fulbright committee was that his studies would ...

On June 23rd, 2016, the United Kingdom conducted a referendum to determine the will of its people to remain in the European Union or to withdraw from it. The results were 16,141,241, or 48.11%, to remain, and 17,410,072, or 51.89% to exit. The following day Prime Minister David Cameron, who supported the “Remainers” in spite of his membership in the Conservative Party which supported the “Brexiters”, announced his intention to resign. On July 13th, Theresa May, another Conservative, became Prime Minister. On March 29th, 2017, Prime Minister May triggered Article 50 which began the ...

Since 1979, the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had offices in Chinatown in New York City and elsewhere across the United States. Its purported purpose is to assist American residents of Chinese ancestry deal with such mundane issues as obtaining driver’s licenses and filling out work papers. But its more significant purpose is the suppression of anti-Chinese Communist activities. It works in collaboration with the CCP in recruiting those of Chinese ancestry such as graduate students working in classified American military projects. They are ...

Ever since 1993 when President Bill Clinton first spent his Summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been fascinated by the United States' willingness to have such a concentration of the nation's power elite, both governmental and otherwise, concentrated on this one-hundred square mile island in the Atlantic Ocean. It created such a perfect target for terrorists wanting to destabilize both the Administration and the nation as a whole. By August of 2015 al-Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, more colloquially known as ISIS. Seeking political ...

Pope Francis was elected in 2013. As the first Jesuit pope, Francis brought to the papacy the agenda of social justice observed in Jesuit works across the globe. Pope Francis inherited scandals from the reassignment of pedophile priests in Boston to the abuse and neglect of unwed mothers, children and orphans at the Church-run Magdalene laundries in Ireland. But the one institution which no pope had ever been able to reign in was the Vatican Bank. Today Pope Francis is revered as an enlightened patriarch with an interest in climate change. When American company Solyndra, marketing "green" ...

Freemasonry, the world's oldest and largest Fraternity, is based upon the tenets of Friendship, Morality and Brotherly Love. These principles are taught through lectures and morality plays. Most members of the Fraternity incorporate these principles into their own personal value system. But, for some, it can become an obsession. For one such Brother these tenets became a driving, rather than guiding, force. For one such Brother, this obsession played itself out in a shocking and deadly way. Thus, it became the task of Detective Sean O'Hanlon to discern the difference between real life and ...

Thomas Moore and John Anderson were Masonic brothers of Georgetown Lodge in Washington, DC during the period leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Commander Moore worked in naval intelligence at the National Photographic Interpretation Center at the Washington Navy Yard. His responsibilities included the analysis of reconnaissance photography taken by U-2 spy planes overflying Cuba 90 miles off the Florida coast. John Anderson was a translator on the staff of the Soviet Embassy in Washington blocks north of the White House. His responsibility was to turn the ideologically ...

For the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, more commonly known as ISIS, the two week period from October 31st through November 13th, 2015, had been extraordinarily successful from a public relations point of view. It had both made an explicit ideological statement and would serve as a recruiting tool for faithful Muslims around the world. Not only had 396 people lost their lives in terrorist attacks, but those attacks had taken place both in the Middle East and in Western Europe. The message those attacks sent was unmistakable. We know who our enemies are, we can find them, and we can kill ...

The story begins in 1860 on a sheep farm in the foothills outside of Aberdeen, Scotland, with the birth of Angus, a new generation of the MacLeish clan. Thirty-five years later, the next generation would awaken in a small farm shack at the base of Castlerock Mountain in northern Vermont. The only child of his generation, Timothy had two sons, Ian and Allyn, who served with valor in the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, received graduate degrees from Ivy League colleges, and returned to the family farmstead. But one returned with a view to improving practices of farming; the other,...

Diego Garcia is an island in the Indian Ocean. Technically a British Indian Ocean Territory, since 1966 it has been dominated by U.S. military facilities headed by Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia and its current 2,800 personnel. China’s lucrative trade route to Europe ran through the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean. To help preserve European countries’ economies, the U.S. Navy established a quarantine against Chinese cargo vessels. This led to naval engagements between American and Chinese forces. Due to the inability to resolve the dispute diplomatically, ...

In the Summer of 2021, the economy of the Russian Federation was teetering on the brink. The proceeds from the export sales of fossil fuels by Rosneft and Gazprom, the two state-owned crude oil and natural gas companies, was all that was propping it up. Then word reached Moscow that Saudi Arabia was going to release large new volumes of crude oil on the commodities markets sending the price plummeting and capturing a greater percentage of the export market. Russia’s economy could not withstand this. In order to diminish the Saudi supply of crude oil, Russia decided to launch an attack ...

Ever since the Vietnam War, if not World War II, the acquisition process for new goods or services used by the U.S. Armed Forces has been the same. It has involved as much paperwork, and taken as long, to acquire a new software program as it takes to acquire a new aircraft carrier. A service's needs were more likely than not to change between the time the bids were let and the date upon which the product was delivered. This process may not have drastically changed the configuration of the aircraft carrier, but in the realm of software the specifications and need for output can change by the...

“Mail-order Brides Wanted in Sunflower, Texas” read the notice on the telegram office wall in Leesville, Texas. Because of the fire in Leesville, Eleanor Eddy finds her substitute teaching job over, her rooming house burned to the ground, and her money stolen. Under no circumstances will Miss Eddy consider traveling to Sunflower, Texas as a mail-order bride. Instead the wagon-train owners hire her to assist with the brides-to-be. Tate Maynard, the son of the owner, soon learns that his new employee is a city gal who can’t do anything right. Everything she touches results in accidents ...

Would winning a cook in a poker game be a good deal for Luke Tyler, a gold mine owner, especially when the cook is a reluctant, beautiful young gal? Luke With the charm of a lazy smile, the dark-haired gold mine owner, joins in a poker game. His opponent is the owner of the saloon-café, who has a daughter that prepares the food for his establishment. Luke Tyler’s gold mining camp is in desperate need of a good cook. His opponent holds a sure hand to win the big pot, but he doesn’t have money to continue. Luke encourages him to put up his daughter as collateral. Confident that he ...

“I don’t believe you. My husband couldn’t have done those things.” As the man puts a knife to her throat, the voices of men returning to the wagon train meet her ears. . . Jazz From the time she arrived in Yellowstone as a new widow, she was doomed to a life of unending toil… until Cole James offers her a job in the town’s mercantile. Unfortunately, her troubles follow her, and Cole’s mother sends her packing, and she ends up back on the streets. Cole Cole James meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. With this lovely, hard-working girl in his store, he can devote more...