#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.
#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.
An IRA bomb kills the Queen’s cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten in Co Sligo.
Mountbatten regularly holidayed in the West of Ireland. The bomb exploded on his boat some minutes after he and family friends had departed the little port of Mullaghmore. Mountbatten’s grandson Nicholas, 14, and fifteen year old local, Paul Maxwell, 15, employed as a boat boy were also killed. Another passenger, the Dowager…
#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.
#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.
An IRA bomb kills the Queen’s cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten in Co Sligo.
Mountbatten regularly holidayed in the West of Ireland. The bomb exploded on his boat some minutes after he and family friends had departed the little port of Mullaghmore. Mountbatten’s grandson Nicholas, 14, and fifteen year old local, Paul Maxwell, 15, employed as a boat boy were also killed. Another passenger, the Dowager…
[Free eBook] McKay's Bees: A Novel by Thomas McMahon [Magical Realism Historical Comedy]
McKay's Bees: A Novel by the late Thomas McMahon, a former professor of applied mechanics and biology at Harvard University, as well as a Rosenthal Award-winning novelist, is a standalone historical literary fiction novel with comedy and speculative fiction elements, free for a limited time courtesy of the University of Chicago Press.
This is their featured Free Book of the Month for February, and was originally published in 1979 by Harper & Row, now reprinted as part of the University of Chicago Press' “Phoenix Fiction” line for rediscovering forgotten literary gems.
The novel is a whimsical work of historical literary fiction with a sense of magical realism, exploring the US during the 1850s as a scientifically-inclined man with a plan to make a fortune raising bees migrates from Massachussetts to Kansas with his wife and a group of German carpenters, encountering tensions with border ruffians, an uneasy mingling of races as westward-moving settlers conflict with Native Americans and the impending political powderkeg of the upcoming Civil War, and the impact of Charles Darwin's discoveries.
Offered worldwide through February, available directly from the university's website.
Free for a limited time through February directly @ the university's special promo page (ADE-DRM ePub available worldwide in return for newsletter signup with your valid email address), and you can also read more about the book on its regular catalogue page.
Description
Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees—undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.
Pittsburg Resident Pleads Guilty In Tax Fraud Scheme, Filed $656,000 in False Tax Returns
Pittsburg Resident Pleads Guilty In Tax Fraud Scheme, Filed $656,000 in False Tax Returns
SAN FRANCISCO- Ebony Standifer pleaded guilty to conspiracy to file false claims and aggravated identity theft for her role in a tax fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon. According to the plea agreement, Standifer, 28, of Pittsburg, Calif., admitted she conspired with others…
Devon man is finalist in PETA's 'sexiest vegan' contest
Devon man is finalist in PETA’s ‘sexiest vegan’ contest
Thomas McMahon PETA UK Sexy Vegan 2015 We’re not keen on objectification, but PETA got in touch about its sexiest vegan competition, featuring Devon’s Thomas McMahon. Here’s the press release (plus you can vote)… (more…)
