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When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement.

It’s the 22nd century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. There’s just one catch: We are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, and there’s only one way for humanity to move up - by becoming mercenaries. In every mercenary’s life, though, there comes a time when things go wrong and even the best laid plans go awry.

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer - a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.

In 1887 a 21-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865-1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in 72 days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged 50 miles a day pedaling a 52-inch, high-wheeled Columbia Expert "ordinary" bicycle with a tubular steel frame and hard rubber tires, and he lost 23 pounds in the process.

Reactor is a limited series telling the story of Maureen Kearney, an Irish trade unionist who found herself at the centre of a French nuclear scandal. When Maureen blew the whistle on the secret international trade of state nuclear technology, she became the subject of threats, culminating in a vicious personal assault when she refused to back down. In a series of conversations at her home in France, Maureen takes us on her journey from Ireland to France, tracing her career, the attack itself and the reaction of the police, followed by her fight for justice as she battled against the French ...

AliƧin is living the dream–too bad she doesn’t feel like it. With the rock-star costume her manager forces her to wear feeling more like a straightjacket, she wishes she could ditch it all and just sing. After her broken-down tour bus ends up stranding her in Nowhere, a chance encounter with a hysterical rabbit leaves her tumbling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland...only this isn’t the Wonderland everybody knows.

Jan Tenner junior und Tanja sind für die Oberwelt verschollen, und in Westland herrscht nun das blanke Chaos. Können unsere Freunde mit Hilfe von Lara und Zeno wieder an die Oberfläche und den Silbervogel mit Mimo retten? Es wird schwer für unsere Freunde, denn nun beginnt... DER STURM AUF DIE ZEITBASTION.