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The Earthward Pilgrimage
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Skyward And Earthward (1875)
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Such Is the Scent of Our Sweet Opalescence: The Collected Works of U.R. Bowie, Volume 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
More stories from the quirky pen of U.R. Bowie, written expressly for listeners who disdain the dominant modern American insipid genre of "domestic literary fiction." Bowie's stories are different. Among other things they feature: (1) a conversation between a 99-year-old man and the Lord God Jehovah; (2) a character who, following the example of Joan of Arc, laughs his way off the earth; (3) a man on Death Row, who tells how they tried to execute him, and failed; (4) a translation from the Russian, the story of how Jesus sins, and repents; (5) the tale of a man hit by lightning, who survives, but comes to regret his survival. Selected Quotations from the Stories "One sunny afternoon under clear skies the life of one Uretherer V. Lamb, 63, pataphysician, of Interlachen, Florida, was changed for all time. On July 5, 2015, he was standing beside his '78 Pontiac - pulled off Interstate I-75 at Mile Marker 395 - near the rest stop just north of Gainesville. He was slowly urinating past his benign prostatic hyperplasia when a lightning bolt boomed out of the blue, winged its way earthward, and struck his left shoulder."" -- So why am I here talking unto you today, Arnold, my child? -- It ain't for me to say, Lord. Why art Thou? -- You might could be thinking, Arnold R. Arms, that a visitation from the Hegemon of the Galaxy of the Milky Way presages your imminent demise. -- Well, Lord, it did actually cross my mind, but then again, I ain't but 99....""I heard once there was a inmate in Louisiana and they was executing him and he did not cooperate, he fought, but they finally dragged him down to the electric chair spitting and kicking at them all the way, restrained him, tied his legs down so he could not kick, got him all strapped in, put the helmet on his head, him still yelling, then a hood over his face and turned on the juice, and that man, Willie Jay Somebody, I believe it was in 1946, can you imagi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: U.R. Bowie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156186/bk_acx0_156186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kosmos 954 and Operation Morning Light: The History of Efforts to Contain Radioactive Debris Spread Across Canada by a Soviet Satellite , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
“We are just not good enough to tell New York City, for instance, that a satellite is coming and will knock King Kong off the Empire State Building at 2 P.M.” (Lieutenant Colonel Yanchek, Space Defense Center chief, 1978)In the predawn sky of northern Canada, on the morning of January 24th, 1978, a long streak of blue fire suddenly rushed across the starry vista northeast of the remote town of Yellowknife. Those out on the bitterly cold night, with a temperature many tens of degrees below zero Fahrenheit, saw a brilliant leading object sheathed in flames, blue or bluish red, and shining with incandescent intensity. Other smaller objects or fragments shed off it, arcing or tumbling earthward on their own trajectories. Even in this remote location, a number of individuals saw and reported the unusual phenomenon. Out under the starry dome of the distant north, where celestial objects appeared with burning clarity through the frigid, pure air, they watched the apparition until it vanished in the northeast, somewhere far over Great Slave Lake. One such observer, a native of the Dog Rib tribe named Jimmy Doctor, recounted what he saw: “That night I saw it, I was listening to the radio at home when I heard some noise behind the house. So, I got up to see what it was. It was a dog howling into the sky beside my skidoo. I looked up into the sky to see if the moon was still shining. That was when I seen the big flame going north east. I ran outside to see what it was. I thought it was a plane on fire. I didn’t know what it was. It sounded like air coming out of a tire. That was the way I saw the satellite.” (Heaps, 1978, 54).Of the relatively few people who witnessed it, most assumed they witnessed a burning passenger jet crashing. One thought that it might have something to do with lasers after seeing a program about them on television. Others, observing its speed and unusual appearance, recognized they had not seen a crashing aircraft but had ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168944/bk_acx0_168944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Final Mission of Bottoms Up: A World War II Pilot's Story, American Military Experience Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 677min
On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American co-pilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed the intelligence officer who, at the pre-dawn briefing at their base in southern Italy, confided that their mission that day would be a milk run. However, that twenty-first mission out of Italy would be their last. Bottoms Up was staggered by an anti-aircraft shell that sent it plunging three miles earthward, the pilots recovering control at just 5,000 feet. With two engines out, they tried to make it to a tiny strip on a British-held island in the Adriatic Sea and in desperation threw out everything not essential to flight: machine guns, belts of ammunition, flak jackets. But over Pula in what is now Croatia, they were once more hit by German fire, and the focus quickly became getting out of the doomed bomber. Seemingly unable to extricate himself, Lee Lamar all but surrendered to death before fortuitously bailing out. He was captured the next day and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner at a Stalag on the Baltic Sea, suffering the deprivations of little food and the coldest winter in Europe in a century. He never saw most of his crew again. Then, in 2006, more than sixty years after these life-changing experiences, Lamar received an email from Croatian archaeologist Luka Bekic who had discovered the wreckage of Bottoms Up. A veteran of the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, Bekic felt compelled to find out the crews' identities and fates. Lee Lamar, a boy from a hardscrabble farm in rural, northwestern Missouri, had gone to college on the GI Bill, became a civil engineer, got married, and raised a family. Yet, for all the opportunity that stemmed from his wartime service, part of him was lost. The prohibition on asking prisoners-of-war their memories during the repatriation process prevented him from reconci ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Regal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008460/bk_acx0_008460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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