![]() ![]() Phillips starts to think that maybe he agrees with his racist mother – who is not so much a fan of all the black people on Curaçao.He's a stubborn guy, and says they have to conserve water. Phillip gets snotty and starts complaining, but Timothy won't budge. Timothy will only give Phillip a little drink. ![]() Phillip introduces himself as well and asks for water to drink from the keg on the raft. He asks the man his name and learns that it's Timothy.When he wakes up, his head hurts more than ever. The old man builds a flimsy shelter from some pieces of raft and their clothes.Phillip gets seasick and pukes over the side. The old man introduces him to the cat, Stew. Phillip is pretty freaked out, so he has himself a good cry.He talks with a thick West Indian accent and calls Phillip "young bahss " (3.12). The old man tells Phillip he pulled him aboard the raft and doesn't know exactly where the others are.Several hours later, Phillip opens his eyes to find himself on a boat with a "very old N****" whom Phillip thinks is pretty "ugly" (his word, not ours), and the cook's cat named Stew (3.14).Crash, boom, smash! Something hits Phillip from above. ![]() ![]() Phillip and his mom are handed into a lifeboat, but when the boat is lowered, everyone is plunged into the water.
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While Edmond accepts his orders, second mate Danglers listens at the captain's door. Just before dying, Leclere entrusts Edmond Dantes, his first mate, with a letter from Napoleon, which is to be delivered to a messenger in Marseilles. ![]() In 1815, after Napoleon has been exiled to Elba by Louis XVIII, Captain Leclere, a supporter of the former emperor, lies stricken with fever on his storm-rocked ship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Who does, really?) There are endless variations of this theme. He or she wears black or dresses in style, prefers to come out at night, has a hankering for the blood of young, attractive individuals, and doesn’t like garlic or being stabbed in the heart much. The concept of the vampire is iconic: tall, pale, immortal, seductive, powerful, and sophisticated. 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![]() ![]() I don't think where the hole/pin is matters as it's purpose to to keep the thing from sliding out. ![]() ![]() As it was the official rack you could buy from Subaru they had to change it. The ridgeback originally had one hole and didn't work on my 2015 Subaru. So if you want to try the ridgeback be careful of that. The picture of my rack at Yakima only shows one hole and it looks like the wrong one to me. I may try soaking the little spring ball thing in oil to see if that makes it easier. Getting the pin in is a pain but unlike others who say they just can't, I can get it in. The adapter is the same for both these racks so it should be comparable. I think the other hole would line up about the same as your second photo. On the second hole my 2" adapter is just a bit further in than your first photo. My ridgeback has two holes and a pin instead of that spring pin. It is a safety issue to prevent it (or a trailer) from sliding out). ![]() ![]() ![]() She spent considerable time writing 20 non-fiction books before she wrote her first picture book. She wrote mostly non-fiction and focused on issues such as racism. In 1975, Patricia McKissack began her professional writing career. She went on to write many more biographies. Her first book was a biography of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, her mother's favorite poet. Patricia became a junior high-school English teacher but in 1971 realized that she wanted to be an author. They were married in 1965 and started their family right away. She graduated with an English degree while Fredrick obtained a civil engineering degree. While attending the Tennessee State University, Patricia met up with a childhood friend, Fredrick McKissack, who would later become her husband. The characters in these stories were always smart and brave, characteristics present in Patricia's later works. Her father's stories usually included the names of her and siblings Nolan and Sarah. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was inspired to be a writer by her mother who always read her poetry and also by her grandparents who told her many stories. Patricia L'Ann McKissack was born to civil servant parents Robert and Erma Carwell on August 9, 1944, in Smyrna, Tennessee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This event therefore became known as the Great Ukraine Famine or the Holdomar, which loosely translates as “to kill by famine” reflecting a belief among those affected that the Soviet authorities used the destruction and seizure of crops and livestock to eliminate any sense of Ukrainian identity and independence and firmly install communist authority over this fertile and strategic region. This book centres on the horrific and formative events that occurred in Ukraine from 1932-1934 and resulted in the death of upwards of four million people in a series of politically orchestrated famines perpetrated by Soviet officials on the Ukrainian people.ĭuring this tragic and chaotic period, (which incidentally occurred in one of the most agriculturally productive areas of Europe) Ukraine saw not only the destruction of most of its rural and small urban communities but the systemic eradication of much of its culture, which had been in existence for hundreds if not thousands of years. ![]() ![]() By the end-as the virus mutated into its deadliest form, and spread farther and faster than ever before-30,000 people would be infected, and the dead would be spread across eight countries on three continents. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic original miniseries. ![]() ![]() ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic "Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. ![]() |