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Sgt. Reckless: America's Favorite War Horse Book Preview: Bought by the members of the United States Marine Corps in October 1952 when she was three or four years old from a young Korean stable boy named Kim Huk Moon, Sergeant Reckless was a chestnut colored horse with three white stockings and blaze. Ah Chim Hai was the horse's original name which means "Flame of the Morning" or "Morning Flame" in Korea. Nicked named "Flame" by its owner Moon, the horse was sold for $250 to Lieutenant Eric Pedersen in order to buy a prosthesis leg for his sister who had stepped on a land mine. At first glance the horse's breed was thought to be Mongolian because of the shape of its head which was the same as horses of the thoroughbred lineage. She weighed 400kg and stood at 56 inches or 142cm. Colonel Eustace P. Smoak gave Pedersen permission to buy the horse for his platoon in October 1952. Pedersen needed an animal that could carry nine of 24 pound heavy shells to supply recoilless rifles used by the Recoilless Rifle Platoon of the 5th Marine Regiment who were based in mountainous terrain. On October 26th, 1952, just one day after getting permission, Corporal Phillip Carter, Sergeant Willard Berry and Pedersen drove to the Seoul racetrack in a jeep with a trailer. Pederson used his own money to buy the horse despite Moon being reluctant to sell at first.

America's Favorite War Horse

Sgt. Reckless

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When Breath Becomes Air Inner Engineering Through Better Breathing Book Preview: There is no life without breathing. From the cradle to the grave, we all breathe in and out continuously. When human beings come into the world, their first need is to inhale oxygen and then immediately after exhale carbon dioxide with an impressive cry that makes their presence known to all around. When they say farewell to life, they give out their last breath. So, it is an undeniable fact that breathing is the most vital function we detain. There is no life without it. And not just for the humans. Most animal life forms need breath and so do plants. Our life depends on other things too. We cannot live without water or food, but without breathing one dies in a matter of minutes. The process of respiration helps our whole body get the necessary amount of energy, by feeding our cells with the oxygen required for fuel combustion. It is also true that breathing is an automatic process which we just take for granted and do not give it much consideration. However, the more aware we become of the possibility to engage intelligent control into the breathing process, the better chances we stand to live longer and healthier. Careless breathing and even sabotaging any of the organs responsible for good breathing, namely the nose, the trachea or the lungs, by indulging in bad habits will certainly decrease the quality of our life and even dramatically shorten it.

Inner Engineering Through Better Breathing

When Breath Becomes Air

The Magnolia Story How Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines Created the Fixer Upper Empire Book Preview: Fixer Upper is a popular reality television series on HGTV, starring Chip and Joanna Gaines and based in Waco, Texas. The pilot episode first aired in May of 2013. Season one began nearly one year later, in April of 2014, followed by the second season in January of 2015, the third season in December of 2015, and the fourth season in November of 2016. Before starring in Fixer Upper, Chip and Joanna Gaines consulted with clients on purchasing and remodeling homes. The couple had worked on over 100 homes in total. The show begins with Chip and Joanna showing three potential homes to a couple, with each home requiring varying amounts of renovation or repair. The couple chooses a home and Joanna takes care of the design, while Chip handles any renovations or repairs. Homebuyers featured on the show usually keep a budget of $200,000 and at least $30,000 for renovations.

How Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines Created the Fixer Upper Empire

The Magnolia Story

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The Zookeeper's Wife A Look at the War Behind the Story Book Preview: Jan Zabinski was the director of the Warsaw Zoo in the 1930's. He worked together with his wife Antonina who had a remarkable love towards the animals. They had a villa in the zoo which contained a nursery and was a home for a big number of animals. The couple had a son that lived there too. This life that they built for themselves came to an end with the start of the German invasion on September the 1st 1939. Nearly all of the animals that were living in the Zoo were killed by the bombings and their cages were also destroyed. The Zoo was under German occupation but the family still lived in the villa and had a pig farm. Antonina and her husband were the zookeepers in this Zoo which was one of the biggest and most prolific zoos in Europe in that period. In September 1939, Antonina opened the gates of the Zoo and along with the crowd that waited to see the animals, Miejski Ogrod Zoologiczny entered the Zoo.

A Look at the War Behind the Story

The Zookeeper's Wife

Phil Knight The Story of The Businessman Who Created Nike Book Preview: Philip Hampson "Phil" Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American mogul and benefactor. A local resident of Oregon, he is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., and formerly served as chairman and CEO of the business. In November 2015, Forbes called Knight the 15th wealthiest individual in the world, with a projected net worth of US$ 28.1 billion. A graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB), he has actually contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to both schools; Knight provided the biggest contribution in history at the time to Stanford's school in 2006. He ran track under coach Bowerman at the University of Oregon, with whom he would co-found Nike.

The Story of the Businessman Who Created Nike

Phil Knight

Ruth Bader GinsbergThe Life of the Notorious Female JudgeBy World Watch MediaAt the start of her legal profession, Ginsburg dealt with trouble discovering work being a partner, a mom of a five-year-old child, and Jewish. In 1960, regardless of a strong suggestion from Albert Martin Sacks, a teacher and later on dean of Harvard Law School, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter turned down Ginsburg for a clerkship position on the basis of her feminine gender. Later on that year, Ginsburg started a clerkship for Judge Edmund L. Palmieri of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, a position she held for 2 years.Ginsburg performed comprehensive research study for her book at Lund University in Sweden. Ginsburg's time in Sweden likewise affected her thinking on gender equality. Ginsburg was motivated by observing the modifications in Sweden where ladies were 20-25% of all law trainees and one of the judges Ginsburg viewed for her research study was eight-months pregnant and still working.

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