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IN THIS WORLD, THERE IS BOTH GOOD AND EVIL...WHAT IS SEEN AND UNSEEN. AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE, ANGELS AND DEMONS ARE REAL. I KNOW BECAUSE I CAN SEE THEM.
My name is Lucas Quinn. I am a descendant of the disciples of Christ. Twelve were chosen, and all of us were given extraordinary supernatural gifts of light. We are the Sorcha, warriors who fight not against flesh and blood but against the supernatural forces of the dark world. And we possess...
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Centuries ago, the world fell.From the ashes rose a terrible new species-the Tangata.Now they wage war against the kingdoms of man. And humanity is losing.Recruited straight from his academy, twenty-year-old Lukys hopes the frontier will make a soldier out of him. But Tangata are massing in the south, and the allied armies are desperate. They will do anything to halt the enemy advance-including sending untrained men and women into battle. Determined...
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What would the world be like if Africa had never been colonized-and if the transatlantic slave trade had never happened? The only daughter among five brothers, Essien was raised in a village where women are bred to tend to their husbands and bear children. One night, after she is led by akukoifo-mythical beings of Alkebulan folklore-to a fabled river, Essien emerges from the waters with superhuman abilities: hands that burn with the flames they contain,...
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Descendants of Frozen hearts is a spectacular thriller novel which pictures wickedness of humanity and the greatness power of true legendary faster to save the vulnerable of greedy individuals. A baby boy is born to a lady by the name Elizabeth, she was impregnated by the king of the nation of Dragon Rings.The baby Gerald will be rejected by his father first and his own mother secondly.He will grow up to be a great warrior in their country. Years...
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There is no need to fear, if there's but one choice to be made.
In a dystopic world of genetically modified Descendants, where teleportations are controlled by sophisticated AI, Humans are detained on a prison planet for reasons more sinister than mere punishment.
Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, knows she is the only one who can save them: she needs to teleport them away from the Uni galaxy. The evacuation is going smoothly and Dora manages...
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William Blake's works incorporate Eastern elements to challenge Western art, as seen in "The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth" and "The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan." These pieces raise questions about the true personality of these 'heroes' and the potential cultural appropriation resulting from the British Empire's presence in India.
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Most of the McDowells in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina, Kentucky were related with their common ancestor being Thomas or one of his sons. However, their relationships were sometimes confused. Many family members had similar names such as John and Joseph and were born about the same year for example Joseph "Pleasant Garden" McDowell in 1758 and Joseph "Quaker Meadows" McDowell in 1756. I have also found family historians have...
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Opechancanough was born in the 1540s, as was his brother, Wahunsenacawh, better known as Powhatan, the Indian King and father of Pocahontas. Opechancanough lived near the location of the English settlement of Jamestown when John Smith and company built a fort there in 1607. In English history, he is most famous for planning and executing the first large scale attacks on the English in America. In 1622, he orchestrated a surprise attack on those who...
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Before the great civilizations of Greece, Persia, China, and Rome there was the land of Ham, of Cush and the Cushite; the land of the chosen of God in which to train his peculiar people, according to Rufus Lewis Perry D.D., Ph.D., (1834-1895), an escaped slave, Negro Baptist clergyman, missionary, educator and journalist.
In his groundbreaking 1893 book, "The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Ham," Perry makes the case that "the enemies of the negro...
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This complete series audiobook bundle includes both books in the Divine Descendants duology by USA Today best-selling author Alicia Rades.
I'm Cora Marek, a college student with elemental magic who can't wait to attend an elite academy for supernaturals. But if I'm going to pass my courses at Harris Academy, I need to learn the art of healing - and team up with a rude, arrogant demon who can elevate my powers.
Kellan Greene can't stand me, and...
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Even angels have to answer for their sins.
I'm Cora Marek, and I've royally screwed up. I failed my semester final and exposed the angels and demons to the human world. Luckily, the Alliance is giving me a chance to fix things. If I go on record stating it was all a hoax, I'll be free to return to Harris Academy.
But I'm not sure I've made the right choice. War is mounting outside the academy. The humans are afraid of us, and they want to take us...
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Lust feels good, even for an angel.
I'm Cora Marek, a college student with elemental magic who can't wait to attend an elite academy for supernaturals. But if I'm going to pass my courses at Harris Academy, I need to learn the art of healing-and team up with a rude, arrogant demon who can elevate my powers.
Kellan Greene can't stand me, and the feeling's mutual. He's a demon, and I'm an angel. We're total opposites, but he's heart-stoppingly irresistible.
Even...
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One of the most overlooked subjects in the Bible are the chapters that deal with genealogies.
There are two accounts of genealogies that give approximate ages of births and deaths in the book of Genesis. Is there some underlining information or remez that God wants to reveal to His believers through this data?
One of the most intriguing parable Jesus gave his disciples is found in Matthew 13:44. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure...
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Michael Metcalf(e), the Dornix Weaver, and Some Dedham Descendants
In 1637, Michael Metcalfe, a Puritan weaver of dornix cloth, emigrated with his family from Norfolk, England, to escape the wrath of the Anglican authorities. The book begins with the Metcalfe clan still in England, and traces their involvement in the political and religious issues of medieval times. When Michael immigrated to Dedham, Massachusetts, a nascent community outside of Boston,...
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For hundreds of years, the Lees of Virginia descendants of Col. Richard Lee's son, William Lee, have been denied their heritage - denied their birthright by historians and scholars that refuse to allow the truth to be known. I am referring to the descendants of William Lee and his wife Alice Felton as the "Lost Descendants of William Lee". Because of past speculation that was considered as truths, and opinions that were published as facts by outdated...
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From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership-by blood or other means-to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since, the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their...
18) Szegő's Theorem and Its Descendants: Spectral Theory for L2 Perturbations of Orthogonal Polynomials
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Barry Simon is the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His books include Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics and Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the sum rule approach to spectral analysis of orthogonal polynomials, which derives from Gábor Szego's classic 1915 theorem and its 1920 extension. Barry Simon emphasizes necessary and...
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Recently I have been able to prove with Autosomal DNA the Lee descendants of General Robert E Lee and his slave Nancy Ruffin, adding their lineage proudly to our Lee's of Virginia descendancy from Col Richard Lee and Anne Constable. After my battles for William Lee descendant lineages to be recognized and then coming across so many other Lee's of Virginia ancestors and descendant lineages that have suffered the same fate as William and Alice Lee's...
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Two Cree women tell the story of how they took on the Canadian government and helped change the lives of thousands.
This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities.
Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer, who helped to organize the Indian Rights for Indian Women movement in western Canada in the 1960s,...
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