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Edwin Lampert: Mealtimes With My Maritime Friends - Splash247

Nauryz kozhe is a broth that tends to be consumed in new year celebrations in Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked country. Made with meat, kefir, rice, barley and noodles, the soup is meant to usher in good luck because it is considered a symbol of wealth and richness in the coming year...
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DEN OF SPIES: the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House w/ Craig Unger​

Oct 24, 2024 #MoreFromThom

Trump wasn't the first president to steal the White House and Craig Unger has the secret history of the treason that got multiple men into the white house.

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Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House by Craig Unger

Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign really did make a deal with Iran to delay the release of 52 American hostages until a...
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Podcast #1,035: A Bible for Heroes — The Influential Book Read By History's Eminent Men

In 18th century America, this book was second in popularity only to the Bible. It was a favorite of many thinkers and leaders throughout history, including Emerson, Napoleon, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and even President Truman. Yet, you probably haven’t read it. It’s Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. If...
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Plutarch: PARALLEL LIVES OF NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANS
 
I think I might just buy this one.

I visited every country in the world without flying​

As adventures go, it was never going to be anything other than colossal: travelling to all 203 countries in the world, without boarding a single flight. But such was the self-imposed task for Thor Pedersen in 2013 when, surrounded by friends settling down and his latest international engineering contract over, the idea just seemed to make sense.

His father had sent him an article about people pinballing across the world on a shoestring budget: he could do the same, he reasoned, and cross the finish line in 2018. Reaching the Maldives, his final destination, would not take the predicted five years, however, but 10. His odyssey was punctuated by otherworldly landscapes and unforgettable encounters, but “frustrations, disappointments, danger and hardship,” too. “A decade is a long time,” according to Pedersen. “It has been intense.”

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This one is a bit different. More along the lines of a book review by a guy who was a nuclear policeman.

Meet Matthew Okuhara, a British veteran turned adventurer - London Post

Clad in black armour, a samurai loads and prepares a heavy looking gun. The clouds of gunpowder create a silhouette that obscures the field and then suddenly, a loud roar as another shot is fired… Matthew Okuhara is a British veteran turned adventurer. ‘I did my time in the army and police’ he...
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‘I guarded Britain’s nuclear sites - our security can't cope with new mini reactors'

Matthew Okuhara, a former armed officer with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, fears that current security plans will be inadequate to protect the UK's next generation of nuclear power plants
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Civil Nuclear Constabulary | CNC | SEG

>A profile of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, an armed police force that protects the UK's civil nucelar industry.
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Nuclear Copper - Book Release Interview​

May 11, 2025
Nuclear Copper. The Secret World of Nuclear Policing.

Nuclear Copper is a true story that delves into the fascinating and covert world of nuclear policing, as seen through the eyes of PC...
 
This summer, I plan to reread the first two books by Tom Sharpe. "Riotous Assembly" and "Indecent Exposure". I have read all of Tom Sharpe's books but haven't read these two in a while. Savagely funny. Extremely nasty. He was arrested and deported from South Africa for writing them. You will laugh out loud and feel guilty afterwards for doing so.

Tom is best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue, Blott on the Landscape, and The Great Pursuit.




I also plan to reread "A Pirate of Exquisite Mind" by Diana and Michael Preston. It is a biography of one William Dampier.

"Darwin took his books aboard the Beagle. Swift and Defoe used his experiences as inspiration in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Captain Cook relied on his observations while voyaging around the world. Coleridge called him a genius and "a man of exquisite mind." In the history of exploration, nobody has ventured further than Englishman William Dampier. Yet while the exploits of Cook, Shackleton, and a host of legendary explorers have been widely chronicled, those of perhaps the greatest are virtually invisible today-an omission that Diana and Michael Preston have redressed in this vivid, compelling biography.

As a young man Dampier spent several years in the swashbuckling company of buccaneers in the Caribbean. At a time when surviving one voyage across the Pacific was cause for celebration, Dampier ultimately journeyed three times around the world; his bestselling books about his experiences were a sensation, influencing generations of scientists, explorers, and writers. He was the first to deduce that winds cause currents and the first to produce wind maps across the world, surpassing even the work of Edmund Halley. He introduced the concept of the "sub-species" that Darwin later built into his theory of evolution, and his description of the breadfruit was the impetus for Captain Bligh's voyage on the Bounty. Dampier reached Australia 80 years before Cook, and he later led the first formal expedition of science and discovery there.

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind restores William Dampier to his rightful place in history-one of the pioneers on whose insights our understanding of the natural world was built."
 
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