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This handy guide will help novice and experienced coin collectors make profitable decisions about everything from pennies to dollars. Filled with 450 brilliant color photos and illustrations, advice on coin grading, detecting counterfeits, and properly handling coins and notes, this compact reference is big on information. Readers will discover details about everything from U.S. nickels, dimes and quarters, to gold coins and gold bank notes, and treasury notes, among others. ... Read more

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A close-up look at America's first Olympic gold medal-winning softball team profiles the individual members of the team, their long, hard road to Atlanta, their struggle to balance their personal lives with their sports careers, and their extraordinary teamwork. 20,000 first printing. IP. ... Read more

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Excellent Reading for Women's Softball
Any person interested in or pursuing a career in softball should read this book.It shows the determination of one man to make this an Olympic sport as well as the determination of the women players.A must read!!

Reallly Good!
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This "first-to-market" guide covers the explosion of interest in collecting coins produced after 1982.-the modern era.With the wealth of new issues, ?modern? U.S. issues have become a large segment of the collectible-coin market. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tedford Harris Cann (September 3, 1897 ? January 26, 1963) was a champion American swimmer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He served as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve during World War I and earned the medal for saving his sinking ship.Cann was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, into a family of accomplished sportsmen. His father, Frank Cann, was the director of physical education at New York University (NYU), which both Tedford and his older brother Howard Cann attended. Howard was an Olympic shot putter, a college basketball and football player, and the NYU men's basketball coach for 35 years. ... Read more

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Compact and concise, the format and facts in this guide are easy to read whether you're at home or on the go.

Two-in-one format covers coinage and paper money - a unique find in the coin guide reference market.

This handy guide will help you make the most of your collecting interest, whether you've been collecting for centuries, or only a short time. Filled with 450 brilliant color photos and illustrations, advice on coin grading, detecting counterfeits, and properly handling coins and notes, this handy book is valuable during visits to coin shops, online coin and paper money auctions, and while doing general research. This portable reference is big on information about U.S. nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, dollars, gold coins, new state quarters and new nickels, and demand notes, treasury notes, national bank notes, national gold bank notes, silver certificates, and confederate state issues. ... Read more

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Intriguing and poignant messages from the past are borne by the "love tokens" produced by British convicts sentenced to transportation to Australia.Expelled from the known world, usually never to see their loved ones again, convicts defaced cartwheel pennies - sanding back the King's head on one side and Britannia on the other - and engraved their keepsakes with a variety of hopes, fears, messages and predictions.

"Convict Love Tokens" catalogues and describes the small coins containing messages to family and loved ones from British convicts about to be exiled to Australia. The authors include photographs of these miniature works of art and sorrow, as well as accounts of the lives of the men and women who made them to leave behind as remembrances.A moving and fascinating account of a little known aspect of Australian and British history. ... Read more

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In today's economy, coins from around the world (especially those of North America and Europe) are increasing in both accessibility and value. With accessibility comes collector interest and a need for information. Drawing from the bible of the numismatic field, "The 'Standard Catalog' of World Coins, 'Warman's'World Coins Field Guide" provides a helpful, comprehensive and easy-to-follow format to the exciting and lucrative hobby of collecting world coins. Additionally, this field guide is the most complete and portable price guide of its kind, covering coins belonging to over 2/3 of the world's countries from 1901-2000. It gives historical background information on coins; counterfeit alerts, and thousands of listings and prices. The value and identification charts are easy to use, a breeze to read and a tremendous resource. ... Read more

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It is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism as merely a late importation into Islam, and an altogether alien element in it. But however much later Islamic mysticism may have derived from Christian, Neo-platonic, and Buddhist sources, there is little doubt that the roots of mysticism are to be found in the Koran itself. The following verse is an instance: "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. His light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp encased in glass--the glass as it were a glistening star. From a blessed tree is it lighted, the olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out even though fire touched it not! It is light upon light!" (_Koran Sura_ 24).
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Misrepresents Islam and spreads lies
This is a load of crock!
The author tries to spread lies about Islam by acting like Sufi is Islam. First and foremost, Sufi is a sect of Islam and is viewed by the majority of Muslims as a false faith. Second the author claims Islam has saints, but their is no such concept in Islam! ... Read more

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Rare interviews with some of the original players and key people behind the scenes are skilfully woven into a breathtaking story of scorn, triumph and redemption. This is sports writing at its finest. Macadam breathes life into his characters and keeps our heart rates soaring as he skilfully helps us relive hockey history and builds tension to the breaking point. For sports fans everywhere. It's the untold story of a team cobbled together at the last minute that was so severely trounced in an exhibition match that many Canadians were against sending them to the Olympics for fear of embarrassment. With little financial support, the team stayed in fleabag hotels and were widely ridiculed - until they hit Olympic ice and made hockey history. ... Read more

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The third week in July found a very merry gathering at the Chateau de
Villiers. (Villiers is our summer home situated near Marne River, sixty
miles or an hour by train to Paris.)

Nothing, I think, could have been farther from thoughts than the idea of
war. Our May Wilson Preston, the artist; Mrs. Chase, the editor of a
well-known woman's magazine; Hugues Delorme, the French artist; and
numerous other guests, discussed the theatre and the "Caillaux case"
from every conceivable point of view,
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This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Thomson Gale on September 5, 2005. The length of the article is 446 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Blacks help U.S. set gold medal record at world championships.(SPORTS)
Publication: Jet (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 5, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 108Issue: 10Page: 46(3)

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