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A kamikaze aircraft crashes into a U.S. warship in May 1945.. Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; ' divine wind ' [1] or ' spirit wind '), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, ' Divine Wind Special Attack Unit '), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels ...
David Catrow (born December 16, 1952) is an American artist, cartoonist, and illustrator of children's books. [1] [2] [3] Catrow has illustrated over 60 children's books and prior to this, worked as a cartoonist at the Springfield News-Sun (Ohio). [4] His illustrations for the book She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! was one of The New York ...
The Kamikazes were somewhat successful, and the second most successful were the Kaitens. [3] Research on the first Kaiten began in February 1944, followed on 25 July of the same year by the first prototype. By 1 August, an order for 100 units had been placed. [4]
The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1982, The New Read-Aloud Handbook, 1989,The Read-Aloud Handbook, Sixth Edition, 2006. Reading Aloud: Motivating Children to Make Books Into Friends, Not Enemies (film), 1983. Turning On the Turned Off Reader (audio cassette), 1983. (Editor) Hey! Listen to This: Stories to Read Aloud, 1992. (Editor) Read all About It!:
Announced as early as May 1986 (at the Cannes Film Festival), [2] Cannon initiated the project as its answer to Disney's fairy-tale offerings, and invested US$50 million in the series. [3] Sixteen stories (originally planned to be twelve stories), each costing US$1.5 million, [1] were originally planned; [3] [4] [5] only nine were released.
Hornblower is a series of British historical fiction war television films based on three of C. S. Forester's ten novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The series ran from 7 October 1998 until 6 January 2003, with Ioan Gruffudd in the title role.
The first part of the film concentrates on the personal lives of the air crew, including their problems and relationships. For family reasons, one of the pilots has had to give up a promising career for a much less ambitious one. Despite this, his wife senses that he is not happy, which makes her a conflicted and angry spouse.
In 2009, Bookaboo formed partnerships with Booktrust and The Book People, resulting in the distribution of 13,000 books to children under six years old in care. In 2011, the Pre-school Learning Alliance joined forces with Bookaboo, facilitating the distribution of an additional 13,000 books to nurseries in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas ...