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The world record for the number of skips, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is 88, by Kurt "Mountain Man" Steiner. The cast was achieved on September 6, 2013, at Red Bridge in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania. [6] The previous record was 65 skips, by Max Steiner (no relation), set at Riverfront Park, Franklin, Pennsylvania.
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.It was his debut novel.He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, [3] it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters.
The origins of the name are unclear, and many theories have been put forth, including an actual David Jones, who was a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s; [51] a pub owner who kidnapped sailors and then dumped them onto any passing ship; [52] the incompetent Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself over-board; [53 ...
“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake ...
Nazi graffiti with the number 88. Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler. [11] The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH. [12] Often, this number is associated with the number 14, e.g. 14/88, 14-88, or 1488; this number symbolizes the Fourteen Words coined by David Lane, a prominent ...
Book Author January 3: The Tommyknockers: Stephen King: January 10 January 17 January 24: The Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe: January 31 February 7 February 14 February 21 February 28 March 6 March 13 March 20: The Icarus Agenda: Robert Ludlum: March 27 April 3 April 10 April 17 April 24 May 1 May 8 May 15: Zoya: Danielle Steel: May 22 May ...
The driver of the boat, the 15 year old, tossed garbage into the ocean that included plastic water bottles, cans, food bags, plastic cups and other “unidentifiable items,” the arrest report said.
A woman in Washington, D.C., may call it one thing. A guy living off a main square in Mexico City might call it another. But a tug of war over referring to the immense body of water off the coast ...