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1) First man
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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The riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost, on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself; of one of the most dangerous missions in history.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this documentary the work of Dante Alighieri is explored: his cultural and religious influences of the time period, his innovations in the world of literature, and how he impacted other artists, sculptors and writers. Martin Hossick explains how he established individualism and morality for every man in a period when only rulers and religious figures mattered.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Who were the apes that took the first faltering steps towards being human? At a remote place called Taung on the edge of the Kalahari Desert was found the skull of a three-year-old child who had died millions of years ago. Known as Taung Child, this infant was a member of a long-vanished species who could walk upright – they straddled the boundary between ape and man. But they were tiny and weak. How did they survive? This episode reconstructs how...
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Junie B. Jones series volume 19
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Junie B. cannot play in the school kickball tournament because of a sore toe, she brings her unique talents to the halftime show.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. But this modest and unassuming man was determined to stay out of the spotlight, so the rare combination of talent, luck, and experience that led to his successful command of Apollo 11 is not widely known. Now, for the first time, NOVA presents an intimate portrait through interviews with Armstrong's family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before. Seen through...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
On July 20th, 1969, the world stood still to watch thiry-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person to step on the surface of the Moon. Perhaps no words in Human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. This essential biography addresses the complex legacy of the First Man as both astronaut and individual.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mid July 1975, an American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft, prepare to join an Earth orbit, 140 miles above the Atlantic near Portugal. A time during which differences in language, technology, and political creed were set aside. This was the mission that opened the door for international manned spaceflight. A mission that would set the course for joint flights of the future.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
If you love Lenora Bell and Tessa Dare, you'll love the next book in New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell's Logical Man's Society series about a delicious battle of the sexes between a determined woman and a stubborn gentleman. She arrived in town, beautiful and bold and declaring that she's inherited property that that he has already claimed! As a member of the local Logical Men's Society, Ned Thurlowe prides himself on thinking clearly...
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union also initiated a technological rivalry between the two superpowers. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. The success of this mission spurred U.S. president John F. Kennedy to announce that the American astronauts would successfully land on the moon by the end of the decade.
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Jordan Manning novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
-- EmmyAs The Wicked WatchWhen crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she’s one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network.Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star-power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature? Arriving first on the scene—in impractical designer stilettos. Armed with a master’s degree in forensic...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the Moon, from the New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers .By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made...
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