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Leo McKinstry tells the story of the remarkable plane from its designers to the first-hand testimonies of those brave pilots who flew it; he takes in the full military and political background but always keeps the human stories to the fore - to restore the Hawker Hurricane to its rightful place in history.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Hurricane Girls by Jo Wheeler, read by Claire Rushbrook. While their husbands, brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers, sisters and friends kept the home fires burning, for the first time, a group of remarkable women took to the...

In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans.

Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering. In 1923, at the age of 19, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world.

Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly...

Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017, Fields set off from his home in Iowa back to the battered city of his childhood to rescue his mother. Fields tracks the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, one storm in a long lineage that threatens the fourth largest city in America.

"Hurricane Season" is an eight-episode podcast that explores how major storms going back to 1900 greatly impacted Greater Houston people and policies. As we approach the one year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, the nation's worst rainstorm, Houston Public Media takes a look back at some of the biggest storms that have impacted the Gulf Coast and its development, policies, and people. "Hurricane Season" host Andrew Schneider starts with the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the political, economic, and social conditions of Jim Crow were inextricable from its environmental dimensions.

54 Paesi, circa 4000 persone, un solo obiettivo: marciare insieme per 45 km, nel deserto del Sinai, da Al-Arish fino a Rafah; e una volta lì chiedere l’apertura del valico e l’ingresso immediato degli aiuti umanitari a Gaza. Il 12 giugno 2025 migliaia di persone, provenienti da tutto il mondo, si danno appuntamento a Il Cairo, aderendo alla Global March to Gaza, un movimento internazionale, pacifico, apartitico e areligioso. Nato dal basso, dalla società civile, dalle persone comuni. Per molti un’azione impossibile, un’utopia, una follia. Ma per molti altri, una speranza a cui ...

Dive into the captivating world of Charles A. Siringo, an American lawman, detective, and pioneering figure for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After embarking on numerous cattle drives, Siringo traded in his saddle for a quieter life in Caldwell, Kansas, where he married in 1884 and opened a merchant business. It was here that he penned his groundbreaking work, A Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. This remarkable book, published to widespread acclaim, offers an authentic glimpse into the life of a cowboy ...

SECONDO CUORE - Patrizia Dall'Argine per BABY HURRICANE Audio documentario in 4 episodi Un giorno sulla bacheca Facebook di Patrizia compaiono i post di Lorena Fornasir, fondatrice Insieme al marito Gian Andrea Franchi, dell’associazione “Linea d’Ombra”. In quei post viene documentata la condizione dei migranti, arrivati a Trieste dopo aver percorso la rotta balcanica, reduci da quello che viene definito il “game". Di loro vengono fotografati soprattutto i piedi, massacrati dalla fatica e martoriati da ogni tipo di escrescenza e infezione. Patrizia decide di andare a vedere con i ...

The New England landscape has long been battered by some of the most intense weather in the United States. The region breeds one of the highest concentrations of meteorologists in the country for a reason. One can experience just about anything except a dust storm. Knowing the past is a critical part of understanding and forecasting the weather. Meteorologist Eric Fisher takes an in-depth look at some of the most intense weather events in New England's history.

From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special...

Clara Barton was one of those diminutive New England women of the 19th century who was determined to make the world a better place. What Susan B. Anthony was to women's suffrage and Harriet Beecher Stowe was to the cause of abolition, Clara Barton was to the humanitarian impulse of the American people to help the unfortunate victims of war and disaster.

What do you do at work when a hundred crises seem to be happening at the same time? Do you pick just one priority or try to put out every fire? How can you stay composed, figure out what really matters, and act decisively? When former U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Brandon Webb transitioned to...

John Valliant's essay about the sinking of the Fantome, a Caribbean pleasure cruiser, during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and the subsequent lawsuit. The disaster was the Atlantic’s worst sailing accident in over forty years.