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Without superior levels of energy it's impossible to get to personal and professional greatness. Yet most of us go through our days only half awake. Take your energy, and your life, to the next level with The Energy Explosion. This Five Element program will dramatically improve your energy and productivity in as little as 14 days.

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.

To be clear: Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, does not think every dead person in London is the victim of a sinister plot. The city is large, after all, and some of its inhabitants had to have died from innocent causes. Like Peter Huzza, who was killed in a horrifying steam engine accident. It is shocking, yes, the way his body was torn apart by the explosion of his very own machine, but not entirely surprising. High-pressure steam is notoriously dangerous to harness. There is no reason to suspect foul play. Nope, none at all.

“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books One of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest...

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The story of Christa McAuliffe and six other NASA astronauts who lost their lives in the Challenger space shuttle disaster on January 28, 1986.

However you found your way into indie rock, once you were a listener, it felt like being part of a secret club of people who had discovered something special, something secret, something superior. In Such Great Heights, music journalist Chris DeVille brilliantly captures this cultural moment, from the early aughts and the height of indie rock, until the 2010s as streaming upends the industry and changes music forever.

They’re explosive and invisible. They’re extinct and never-ending. What are they? Science mysteries, of course! Get ready to crack the cases and the real science info wide open. You might need your goggles for this one.

Some said it was too dangerous to fly. Others insisted the shuttle must take off. Lies, pressure, and faulty parts all played a terrible part in the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986. Through powerful narrative storytelling, follow the tales of people who experienced the tragedy firsthand.

From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the multi-platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock's Nothin' But a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians and industry insiders who lived it.

With the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence, both existential fears and uncritical enthusiasm for AI systems have surged. In this era of unprecedented technological growth, understanding the profound impacts of AI—both positive and negative—is more crucial than ever. This...

From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn’s harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped...

The Towering Inferno (1974) was the crowning achievement of über-producer Irwin Allen, the self-proclaimed “Master of disaster.” Crafted from two best-selling books and with a budget-busting cast headed by two mega-stars, it took two studios to bring it to the screen. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Towering Inferno, biographer-historian Nat Segaloff (who was a member of the film’s special publicity unit) writes about the production, its innovative marketing campaign, and the goings-on before, during, and after its box office success.

The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has...

Join Dylan Blight, Ashley Hobley, and Ciaran Marchant as they journey through Middle-earth to explore, discuss, and review each episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Heinz Sührig (1925-2004) meldete sich mit 17 freiwillig zur Deutschen Kriegsmarine. Er war der jüngste an Bord von U 968, wo er an seinem 20. Geburtstag infolge einer Explosion in der Zentrale erblindete.1988 verfasste er Texte über seine 3 Jahre an Bord, die seine Tochter Rita J. Sührig 32 Jahre später bearbeitete und mit Hintergrundinformationen ergänzte.

What's happening in global politics? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican party; and a slew of rebellious parties continued to win elections in Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Austria, and Greece. John B. Judis, one of America's most respected political analysts, tells us why we need to learn about the populist movement.

The thundering engines of the Central Pacific are stalled in the quest to conquer the mighty Sierras. Only a mountain of a man, Darby Buckingham, could pound the railroad through the granite walls of trouble. Atop sheer rock cliffs just a death plunge away from the surging river a thousand feet below, braving punishing cold, Darby must lay down track, foot by hard-blasted foot, with a construction crew that is threatening to tear itself apart with vicious fighting.

Ein Mann erschießt sich. Neben dem Selbstmörder liegt ein Zettel mit dem Namen »Martin Beck«. Kurz darauf gerät in der Sköldgatan ein Haus durch eine Explosion in Brand. Die meisten Bewohner können gerettet werden, da die Polizei einen der Mieter beschattete: Den Autodieb Göran Malm, der in den Flammen ums Leben kommt. Die Obduktion ergibt, dass Malm den Gashahn in seiner Wohnung öffnete. Ein weiterer Selbstmord also. Doch dann entdecken die Experten vom Branddezernat Reste eines Zeitzünders in Malms Matratze, und auf Kommissar Beck und seine Kollegen wartet plötzlich eine Menge Arbeit.

Ce Podcast explore un événement troublant survenu à Toulouse dans la nuit du 22 au 23 août 2001, moins d'un mois avant la catastrophe de l'usine AZF. Il décrit l'explosion d'une voiture GPL abandonnée devant l'entrée de la Société Nationale des Poudres et Explosifs (SNPE), une usine hautement sensible. L'article souligne l'étrangeté de cet incident qui, à l'époque, n'a pas été sérieusement investigué, malgré des signaux d'alerte potentiels comme le durcissement soudain de la sécurité à la SNPE et la présence d'agents de la CIA. Il met également en lumière une attaque ...