Unknown Nation

Written by Michael Hart, host of the popular weekday Talk Radio program, The Michael Hart Show, UNKNOWN AMERICA, Myths and little known oddities about the greatest nation on earth, reveals some of the most fascinating, obscure, and even overlooked facts and common myths about the greatest nation on earth. In this book you will discover amazing and little known facts and trivia about America, and learn about people and places that the history books have either forgotten, or completely overlooked. In UNKNOWN AMERICA you will learn: *Why portraits of the Declaration of Independence are ...

A compilation of rare works on the untold history and destiny of America by acclaimed occult writer Manly P. Hall. Writer and scholar Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) is one of the most significant names in the study of the esoteric, symbolic, and occult. His legendary book The Secret Teachings of All...

The silence in the deep woods is not always empty. Sometimes, it’s listening. The Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,650-mile journey through the last great wildlands of the American West. Thousands walk it, seeking solitude and adventure. But they are not always alone. For decades, a steady drumbeat of testimony has emerged from these remote spaces—chilling, firsthand accounts of encounters with something that should not exist. This is not a book of folklore. It is a sober presentation of testimony from the people who know this wilderness best: seasoned thru-hikers, Forest Service employees, ...

Deep in the forests of northeast Georgia, something stirs. Based on real reports from hikers, hunters, and lifelong locals, Bigfoot in Georgia: Chattahoochee National Forest presents 15 immersive encounters with something massive, unknown, and intelligent that walks the woods. These stories aren’t fiction. They’re dramatized retellings of eyewitness accounts, pulled from research and firsthand sources, written in the vivid, atmospheric style readers expect from Ethan Blackwood. Each encounter places you in the boots of those who lived it—alone in the wild, with the sound of something ...

'It is rare to find a tale so strange, intimate and human yet at the same time so enormous, so global in its importance. Yet again John Nichol impresses us with his ability to weave together the little details and the grand narrative' Dan Snow *** Over one million British Empire soldiers were...

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America’s most controversial weapon. In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight...

As it prepared to ward off an invasion by five well-equipped neighboring armies in 1948, newborn Israel lacked the weapons to defend itself. Enter Al Schwimmer, an American World War II veteran who feared a repeat of the Holocaust. He created factitious airlines, bought decommissioned airplanes from the US War Asset Administration, fixed them in California and New Jersey, and sent his pilots - Jewish and non-Jewish WWII aviators - to pick up rifles, bullets, and fighter planes from the only country willing to break the international arms embargo: communist Czechoslovakia.

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden...

In the shadows of our hyper-connected world, a silent war rages for the most precious territory of all: the human mind. While nations deploy aircraft carriers and cyber battalions, the most devastating weapons of the twenty-first century are not forged in steel or coded in malware—they are sculpted from algorithms that can read our deepest fears, exploit our cognitive blind spots, and turn our own thoughts against us. Artificial intelligence has handed humanity's greatest adversaries a master key to the locked chambers of consciousness itself, enabling psychological operations of such ...

Harriet Chalmers Adams was one of the most remarkable women of the early 20th century, yet few people today know of her exploits. She had always dreamed of adventure as she explored California and The West on horseback with her father, read her world geography book, and watched the ships of many nations enter Stockton harbor. Her dream became reality when she married Frank Adams. While they often traveled together she also was solo on many adventures traveling, at great peril, through some of the most treacherous parts of the globe. An explorer who traveled over 40,000 miles in Central and ...

Think about Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000: What if only the first three rows were fed, leaving the last rows untouched? Similarly, despite Jesus’ call to spread his message to the “ends of the Earth,” over a third of the world lacks access to the gospel. Mission efforts disproportionately prioritize people with gospel access while ignoring those without. A mere penny from every dollar spent on foreign missions reaches the ends of the earth. Kelley, writing in a way that makes a legal scholar jealous, brings us the facts, figures, and passion to expose the massive wrong with compelling evidence.

A fiery agnostic, Peter had a dramatic conversion and became a musician and a minister of the Gospel early in his Christian walk. But it was his engineering and auto-mechanic background that would define his legacy and contribution to world evangelism. Into the Unknown is a true life Gospel adventure testimony of a life dedicated to pursuing God's purpose. It is a story of risk, danger across treacherous territories, miraculous and supernatural intervention, divine provision, and above all, God's faithfulness.

Everyone has the right to question the world around us. How is faith formed without first asking questions? Why did a member of the Iraqi parliament say, "The Americans and the British came to teach you manners and respect, O sons of Muhammad?" How my journey began. Questioning everyone and myself. Learning explaining the contradictions and consequences of many known and unknown events.

This is the only surviving memoir by an Indian Prisoner of War of the Japanese of an important but mostly hidden story of World War II: how Indian soldiers in the British Indian Army became Prisoners of War and were shipped by their Japanese captors in "torture ships" to New Britain and New Guinea, and how a fraction of them, including the author, survived 3 1/2 years of horrific imprisonment, beatings, starvation, bombings--and in a few cases, being made a meal of--and more to return home to India. It also offers some clues as to why tens of thousands of Indian Army personnel preferred to ...

Discover unique destinations and take your vacation plans to the next level with these travel ideas from the official companion to the blockbuster reality show, The Amazing Race. For more than twenty years, The Amazing Race has introduced viewers to unique travel destinations in ninety-two...