1725 London: A young Benjamin Franklin who, having been stranded in this city, uncovers a heinous scheme of murder against the children of this city! Franklin, along with his trusted friends a wise beyond his years apprentice by the name of Wygate, a seasoned printer by the name of John Trundle as well as the new found love of his life, a raven-hair beauty by the name of Vyola Wyck work with the ladies of Hyde Park in a scheme that will - hopefully allow them to capture this most horrible of fiends; thus, putting a stop to his reign of inconceivable treachery before another child falls prey to his dark deeds!
A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of its Haunting Tales, Revised Edition, is an updated version of a previous work the author had published back in 2008. This revised edition contains more detailed history about Moonville and its surrounding towns, such as Zaleski, on how they came to be, most notably that Moonville was named by the railroad after a general store proprietor rather than the man who had actually founded the town; and that Zaleski was named after a Polish/French financier who never came to America to see his namesake town. This revised edition also contains more haunting tales of what had happened to some of those who had lived and worked in this remote mining town in eastern Vinton County, Ohio, mainly covering those who had been involved in train accidents surrounding the still-standing tunnel as these trains came barreling through the area; plus, there are a few tales of murder as well. There are also a few light-hearted tales most notably that of a well-known English author who had passed through Moonville on his way to tour America back in the late 1860s as well as a story about some feisty sisters, in Athens, who took on the expanding railroad. There are human interest elements in all of this, most notably to me, is the story of the Dexters who had been enslaved in Virginia, escaping in the 1860s, having made their way to Moonville in order to live out their lives in freedom. This book is about preserving the history of a mining town that began back in the 1850s, thriving for nearly fifty years, before it began its long slide into history, though not completely forgotten, for it had been, once, a vital part of Ohios history, especially in the days leading up to the American Civil War; and that is why I wrote and revised this work - for Moonvilles history is a part of Ohios history.
Horror strikes in one of Ohios remotest locations! Five close friends, who are Ohio State freshmen, take an afternoon to visit an old abandoned railroad tunnel, known as the the Moonville Tunnel, to do a class preservation project; plus to have a little fun of their own. Once at Moonville they look about the place, marvelling at what is left. Soon, after they have their work done, they find out that one of their friends has an old family enemy, an evil spirit that is out for revenge for what her ancestor had done to him because of love!
1725 London: A young Benjamin Franklin who, having been stranded in this city, uncovers a heinous scheme of murder against the children of this city! Franklin, along with his trusted friends a wise beyond his years apprentice by the name of Wygate, a seasoned printer by the name of John Trundle as well as the new found love of his life, a raven-hair beauty by the name of Vyola Wyck work with the ladies of Hyde Park in a scheme that will - hopefully allow them to capture this most horrible of fiends; thus, putting a stop to his reign of inconceivable treachery before another child falls prey to his dark deeds!
Within the last 10 years, the immune system of ruminants, especially T cells and their interactions with other cells, has been an important topic of study for veterinary immunologists and an area of interest for medical and fundamental immunologists. This book brings together all the latest data on ruminant cell-mediated immunology. In the first half of the book, leukocytes and their membrane molecules and cytokines are reviewed. Markers, tissue distribution, functional characterization, ontogeny, cytokines, and histocompatibility are covered in depth in separate chapters. In the second half of the book, cell-mediated immune responses against infectious diseases such as East Coast fever, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, foot and mouth disease, maedi-visna, and gastrointestinal nematodes are analyzed. The application of cytokines to ruminants against infectious diseases is also reviewed.
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Neglected. Abused. Humiliated. And abandoned. This book is the first comprehensive look at the childhood of Charles Manson. It is filled with hard-to-come-by details about how his biological parents met; and the circumstances under which his mother, a spirited teenage girl, became pregnant by an alcoholic scoundrel. It is about his mother's hasty marriage to his adoptive step-father and their subsequent divorce soon thereafter due to her neglect. It is about his dysfunctional relatives - his pious maternal grandmother, an equally pious aunt, her sadistic husband and their impartial daughter - who had raised Charlie while his mother had been out running around with her older brother, robbing men, ending up in a state penitentiary. It is about the hardships he had to face alone as a child while his mother was in prison, having been abused and humiliated by these relatives. Then, once his mother got out and got married she then took to rejecting him, trying to put him in foster homes. Thus, at the age of 13, Charlie had to go off and live on his own, surviving by becoming a petty thief and vagrant scrounger; and due to living like this he had been apprehended several times, being sentenced to live in various state-run homes where he had to endure a life of physical, mental and emotional abuse. And because of his tough and neglected childhood - as well as other reasons, such as being slighted by a highly regarded music producer - he 'exploded' onto the national conscientiousness as a twisted and evil mass murderer back in the summer of 1969. Read and learn of Charles Manson's childhood and understand why his adolescence should be a cautionary tale on how we should not raise a child. I spent nearly 3 years researching Charlie's adolescence, going to various locations in and around Appalachia and the Midwest, following what leads and minute clues I could uncover about his childhood, piecing together where, how and by whom he may have been raised. And now, as a result of that hard work, I bring forth the back-story of one of America's most vilified mass-murderers, hoping that you will find his adolescence of interest, if not down-right thought provoking; for he did have to endure many hardships as a child which resulted in him taking-out his culminated frustrations on several innocent people in the peaceful hills of Southern California.
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