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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a critical figure in Western history. Without his accomplishments in the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, it is likely that Rome would never have become the dynamic power center that it did. The languages most Europeans speak and the religions most of us practice would be entirely different today.In 218 B.C. the Carthaginian General Hannibal brought an army of Mercenaries across the Alps and into Italy. His goal was to subdue Rome, the most powerful city in Italy. He won battle after battle until the Romans, under the leadership of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator stopped meeting him in battle on his terms. The war became one of attrition, which Hannibal could not win. The war would have ended on very different terms, however, terms much more favorable to Carthage, if not for the accomplishments of one man: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.Scipio was only seventeen when Hannibal invaded Italy. His father was the Roman Consul at that time. In the first conflict between Hannibal and the Romans, the Battle of Ticinus, the Romans were badly defeated. Young Scipio, however, showed his prowess by leading a cavalry charge from a hill and rescuing his wounded father who was about to be captured or killed.Two years later Scipio was a military tribune at the Battle of Cannae. This battle was an utter disaster for Rome, with fifty-five thousand Roman and allied soldiers killed. Scipio survived and afterwards rallied the survivors, forcing those who wanted to abandon Rome and take service with foreign kings to swear loyalty to Rome.After the Battle of Cannae, Scipio was determined to defeat Hannibal. To gain authority he ran for Aedile at the age of twenty-three. This made him eligible for the Roman Senate. After his father and uncle were killed at the Battles of the Upper Baetis in Spain, Scipio got himself assigned to lead the Roman legions in Spain. In four years he drove all of the Carthaginian forces from Spain, having conquered New Carthage, and having won battles at Baecula and Ilipa.Scipio then returned to Rome and ran for Consul at the age of 29. He planned an invasion of Africa despite the opposition of Fabius. His plan was that when the Roman army brought the war to Africa, the Carthaginians would summon Hannibal home to defend their city.Scipio and Hannibal met at the Battle of Zama in 202 B.C., and it was a decisive Roman victory, forcing Carthage into a treaty on Roman terms.Rome was now poised to conquer the civilized world.This book is an account of Scipio's life told in the first person. Despite his monumental accomplishments on behalf of Rome, Scipio is eventually brought down by one of his rivals, a man named Marcus Porcius Cato, or Cato the Elder. Cato accused Scipio's brother of financial malfeasance, and Scipio himself of bribery, charges that were totally unfounded. Scipio, enraged at this treatment, decided to leave Rome for Liternum one of the colonies he founded for his soldiers. He was in ill health and died two years later. When asked if he wanted to be buried in Rome, he replied "Ungrateful fatherland, you won't even have my bones."

Is MER (The Mystical Experience of Reality) What Humans Are All About?The Mystical Experience of Reality book and blog series by Keith Michael Hancock is a uniquely serious case history of newly emerging facts about the mystical experience of Reality (MER). It is presented here to add to the growing scientific and academic literature being produced around the world today-what human existence is really all about.Does God exist, or is much more revealing itself in our evolutionary progress? Many scientists and scholars are experiencing the answer-Yes!Mystical Experience of Reality Volume I, and now Volume II, are compiled of posts from Keith's Blog, Mystic Experiences. Volume II was thought necessary because Keith's latest revelations have brought these historically important messages to a concluding realisation of what the human condition is all about. See Summing Up at the end of the book.Scholars, scientists and spiritual Seekers around the world who visit and follow his blog will appreciate Summing Up as a uniquely new, complete understanding of why we're here.In this book Keith has aimed to keep each topic shorter and on point, always leaving you with a new thought to ponder, always encouraging you to dig deeper and recall your own experiences thus far.WHY KEITH?He doesn't know! He says he is not aware of any qualification he had or has for receiving the mystical experiences of Reality (MER), the truth of Reality's existence. He says he wasn't religious or spiritual and didn't even know the word 'mystic' when they started.The Mystical Experience of Reality, as Keith calls it, is a well-known, historical, non-biological, non-human historical phenomena that engulfed him as a 14-year-old several times every year until his late thirties, filling him with the experience of a Reality in which all things known and unknown exist at Its behest, guarding, guiding, accepting everything that exists, separately, personally, individually. It is benign and uninterested in human wants or constructs such as religions, politics, ideologies. It only deals with individuals. The experiences bring profound joy and love, with a knowledge beyond all human experience.Keith insists the experience of Reality is caught, not taught.The books are filled with posts from Keith's blog, mysticexperiences.net, for the author to examine himself and his existence in accordance with the way of Reality. Accordingly, he says he found by comparison that there is nothing in humanity worth studying.The first book, Mystic Experiences of Reality Volume I, and this one, Volume II, are summations of years of using writing to explore the awareness given Keith by his mystical experiences, in the hope it will add to the literature on the subject, which is now being more seriously studied around the world than it has ever been.Keith's writing also seeks to pass on Reality's personal message to him-All Is Well.

Virtues are the foundation of Western civilization. They are ancient. Their value and significance cannot be overstated. Virtues afford incredible beauty to the lives of all who practice them, and the society that honors, respects, and teaches virtue to each generation is a society that flourishes. Sadly in our rush into 21st Century modernism, America has overlaid our foundation of sturdy virtues with high sounding principles, seemingly noble but empty values, and an anemic Christianity. These are flimsy substitutes for wisdom, courage, hope, love, and all the other virtues that are the true foundation of America. In One Nation Under God, The Virtues That Made America, we will meet virtuous men and women, and hear how their stories contributed to the making of America. Certainly, we will meet some of America's Founding Fathers, but we will also hear the stories of common everyday folks, whose virtue is the mortar that binds together the nation's foundation. It's time for a new generation of Americans to hear these true stories and know that the virtues made America.

Hi, my book is about how I was tested by the enemy to see how far I can handle my situation. The enemy really wanted to know if I truly loved God and I was put to the test. It was not easy because I felt I was trapped in my mind and that nobody understood what I was going through. My mind was like in a dark place and couldn't find a way out. Every time I tried to do the things I'm supposed to do in order to overcome my thoughts, it was hard. But I knew God didn't leave me and I had to use my faith like never before. The enemy was trying to convince me that God did not love me and that I was alone. I sometimes felt that way but it's normal because this life is to be lived by faith and not what we see or feel. I talk about my experiences and thoughts I had but I also talk how I overcame all of them(with prayer, worship and using the word of Christ). Sometimes we wonder why things like these happen to our lives but it's to make us a better person and to realize that we are not the only ones that go through these situations. It doesn't matter how long it takes to be healed, just don't give up and always trust God even if you don't see or feel Him. I had to really trust God and put my part, to get up and not stay on the floor.

'8 Building Block' or '8BB' is a book about opportunity and achieving success. '8BB' Second Edition provides motivation, guidance, management tools and a vision helping readers navigate from a business idea to create a new venture.

By day, C-suite executives hire Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter to convert ambiguity into clarity - to cultivate their personal brands.Out of this day-in, day-out writing rigor has emerged a fervency for poetic expression - to express emotions in the moment. This urge to wax poetic has liberated her feelings into rhythmic clarity across thousands of poems.Most of Jacqui's poetry is imbued with water-related images from her husband, Rob's, and her lifestyle on North Padre Island as well as their years at Lake Texoma, Texas.Further exhilarating this poetic journey has been the generous and uplifting feedback from friends, family, clients and even people she never met. They share how she helped put their thoughts and feelings into words, expressing their emotion through visual content that not only validates their feelings, but also imbues them with hope and optimism.Traversing the soliloquies of the pelican to the wafting warm waves of the ocean, and beyond, this carefully curated collection of more than 100 of Jacqui's favorite poems offers soul-steadying verses of confidence and joy, amid the struggles of your every day.

Defying an impossible fate, destiny's abruptly rewritten by unimaginable paths. Eerie synchronicity directs a miraculous escape from grips of WWII Europe to America, as skilled artistry quiets chaos in a quest for truth and self-peace.

Lauren Mendelsohn, a scholarly thirty-something criminal law professor has fled an unhappy marriage and crumbling career as a prosecutor in San Francisco for a teaching position at a law school in northern California's legendary wine country.The story begins when she visits Coconut Grove to see her aunt, an eccentric artist. Her fellow house-guest (and fellow Californian) is Desmond Franzini, a writer of historical fiction, there to revive his flagging career with a Miami book tour. Obnoxious and arrogant, he thoroughly alienates Lauren, then leaves on an unexplained "side-trip." Several days later, he turns up dead at a resort in Boca Raton, seemingly of natural causes. Left behind at Olivia's is a memoir by a World War II bombardier.Back in California, at her aunt's urging, Lauren reluctantly agrees to look into the writer's death. Her journey takes her deep into the lives of two men: the recently deceased Franzini, a struggling novelist desperately struggling to revive his career and the memoirist, a young bombardier who flew missions in the Pacific some fifty years before. Locales range from San Francisco's North Beach to the vineyards of Sonoma as Lauren searches for clues to the past.Along the way, she explores events that took place in war-era India, China and the Pacific. The bombardier flew the infamous Hump over the Himalayas on grueling supply missions to northern China and was sent, finally, to Tinian for bombing sorties over Japan. The mystery deepens when Lauren learns that the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, took off with its infamous payload from a secret compound on the island.

There is an increase in trials and tribulations in our lives every day. Crime is on the rise, natural disasters, and wars. We need faith and God's blessings in our lives.

Discovering our true selves is the most important journey in our lives. It is a journey of awakening we are all invited to go on. In this book Ray openly shares the testimony of his life with admirable honesty in the hope of inspiring and empowering others to wake up by asking, "Who am I truly?" and "Why am I here?"'Love is the Answer: Wake Up Who You Really Are, Embrace Your Truth And Live the Life You Were Meant To Live' is a self-help book based on the very personal spiritual journey of the author, including a life changing mystical experience during which the author received a divine message, which he promised to share. The promise is manifested in this book and the message can be yours if you can open your heart enough to open its pages.The author hopes this book becomes a trusted friend whose words provide inspiration and a road map for spiritual seekers to embark on their own journey, to tap into their higher selves through the energy of unconditional love and find the answers to their questions for better living.

In the early 1900s, Arkoal, Arkansas is a coal-mining community with little else to keep the people busy...

Success in Country Music doesn't come easy. Having talent is only the beginning. Patience, persistence, temperament, and tenacity are all required, and sometimes getting just the right break.Kyle Clifford (KC) Brooks is a musician in his mid-20s working hard to make his way in the Nashville music scene. His love of music began at an early age with the piano and guitar but quickly grew to the banjo, then violin, accordion, cello, and any other instrument he picked up. Throughout his life, being of small stature, even petite, he was often teased that his looks were wasted on a boy, he was too pretty to be a boy, or how many girls were jealous of his cute looks. While he sometimes struggled with the comments, he did not let them slow down his pursuit of his music.Katherine Christine (KC) Brooks is a country music musician from Austin who has just had her big break, and her career is beginning to take off. Releasing songs she wrote, and performing copies of other classics, she is off and running on her first tour. The last stop on her tour is in Nashville where a local radio station is running a KC Brooks lookalike contest inviting local musicians to submit a video of them singing one of her songs.When his sister dares him, along with support from his family, Kyle (KC) agrees to enter the radio station contest. The radio stations reaction is to say they believe the audition video is too good, could be a fraud, and they demand a meeting. Imagine their surprise when not only does he attend the meeting, but they find out he is a guy.Eventually, Kyle's entry stands, he does win the contest, and is invited to meet Katherine (KC) before her Nashville show. A relationship develops, they write songs, create music, and build a successful career, but it is not without conflict and barriers. But together, they fight their way through it all to a very happy ending. It's Serendipity.

DESTINY CALLINGStan's desperate search for meaning in life begins with a tragic adventure in human despair and leads to the comical truth that within our immense universe, anything is possible.Destroyed by the failure of his marriage and the shattering of every dream, Stan struggles through his loneliness, searching for hope and a meaningful life. What he finds is an incredible woman who inspires him to live life with courage and joy.Still haunted by nightmares and prophetic dreams, Stan is compelled by destiny to embrace a bizarre lifestyle that he never thought possible as he guides his eccentric daughter to overcome her own issues and the fears that bind her.Stan's adventure is a surprising tale of odd facts, hard cutting truth, and whimsical fiction that entertains with a blend of comedy, tragedy, fantasy, and romance. Written with clarity and imaginative depth, the reader can enjoy a rapidly unfolding drama that reveres the joys and wisdom of life.

A positivity boost in chaotic times, The Power of Positive Manifestation is based on the classes and teachings of author James W. Rouse Jr. From the author's vivid and reoccurring childhood creation egg dream to personal stories, self-reflections, and real-life methods backed up by current science, readers learn everyday optimism, focus, and confidence to bring their dreams to life.Aided by journals, checklists, and exercises, along with discussions on positive thoughts and words, energy channeling, brain functions, vibrational tones, foods for the third eye, meditation methods, astral travel, and more, the author shows exactly how thoughts and actions can manifest what each person needs or wishes for in life. Readers are taught that if they truly believe in the temple of their minds, they can achieve anything.Full of practical and actionable ways to practice positive manifestation every day, as well as some more advanced methods, this book provides a breath of fresh air in your manifestation journey.

Private Clubs in America and around the World - The Reprise Edition is a very funny and perceptive glimpse into the wonderfully zany world of private clubs. Private clubs are inextricably woven into the histories, traditions and cultures of ALL free societies, so EVERYONE with a keen sense of humor, whether familiar or not with private clubs, will thoroughly enjoy the author's penetrating insights, blatant irreverence and sarcastic wit. Be prepared to laugh your socks off at this must read!

DEAD MERCHANDISE is the third entry in the Cheater's Lake, Washington, mystery series. The action spans from San Diego to Seattle with victims and cops battling an expansive criminal network of church members and crooked law enforcement. In San Diego, Ana Martinez overhears her stepfather's phone call regarding the deaths of six young Mexican girls and plans for delivery of new merchandise. Believing she could become one of the next sex trafficking targets, Ana flees to Cheater's Lake to her cousin, Olivia Ortega, for help.Olivia shares the taped call with her lover, Homicide Detective Mark Walsh. Working undercover with the FBI task force, Walsh and best friend Greg Hogan, a former San Diego PD detective, join forces to track down the next shipment headed for Canada. It's a race against time when the kidnappers' van overturns and the brave young girls who survived are on the run in Northern California. Meanwhile, in Seattle, a former gang detective specializes in runaways and employs pimps to recruit young girls for prostitution, as well as shipping them to Canada. He's unaware of a ringer in the group, the streetwise Pearl, who flees with Zoe and Regina, hot-wiring cars from Seattle to San Diego and back. Pearl's determination to find justice nearly costs her life. Walsh manages to infiltrate the trafficking group but makes an enemy of psychopath Arnie Willetts. As rescues are attempted and the criminals are captured or killed, Willetts vows revenge against Walsh, and Ana ultimately pays the price.Welcome to the world of Cheater's Lake!

Infected: Secrets from the Medical Underground is Dr. La Guardia's first installation in this series, and an extension of his substack writings under medicalunderground.substack.com. There is no other book available that is so comprehensive, and easy to read for both the layman and the medical professional. The book's subtitle tells it all: How to Prevent and Treat Any Infection. From head to toe, every system/area of the body that can be infected is covered. With each chapter, I first teach you the anatomy of that system and then what kind of infections you may contract, and finally how to treat them with many options, all of which are over the counter and do not require any prescriptions. In each section I also teach you how to optimize your health and boost your immunity in order to prevent any infection. Prevention is covered in great detail, making your immune system impenetrable to bacteria, fungi and viruses of all types. You will learn about what Dr. La Guardia has named "the Gang of Seven". These are seven nutrients/minerals/vitamins that supercharge your immunity, creating a wall that all types of microbes cannot penetrate. You will learn the secret to taking vitamins correctly, and why so many patients make critical mistakes that make their vitamins worthless. Dr. La Guardia will teach you the origins of cold, flu, and coronaviruses such as COVID19, and their vulnerabilities, in order to prevent them and cure them quickly and without prescription medications. Dr. La Guardia's writing style is open and easy to read, with descriptions of all the medical terms used that make it clear for everyone, regardless of your medical knowledge. His chapters are easily read, informative, and witty. After reading Infected: Secrets From The Medical Underground, you will have all the tools at your fingertips for maintaining the health of you and your family without the necessity for doctors visits.

Why do liberals and conservatives differ so consistently on such varied issues? Why do people fight so bitterly over political and religious issues? Don't our shared human interests outweigh our differences? Tom Lovett looked for answers in the natural sciences, in the social sciences, and in the humanities. Over time, he linked key knowledge from those three sources into a theory of the art of living, a theory that honors our shared human interests.Select Quotations on the Art of Living (2024) outlines that theory and uses quotations from eminent authors to illustrate it. His earlier book, Creating Beautiful Lives (2020), presents details of the theory.In the proposed theory, we learn skills in the art of living and create beautiful lives by doing three things: Seeking the ancient ideals: beauty, truth, and goodness. Essential dictionary meanings of those three words can help us seek them.Seeking those ideals while engaging in our most basic behavior. Like other animals, we create living space, obtain food, eat, court, have sex, parent, groom, play, build, form social bonds, fight, flee, and sleep.Seeking those ideals through art, science, and religion. Unlike other animals, we can modify our behavior with artistic skill, with scientific knowledge, and with religious devotion and inspiration.Art can be a path toward beauty, science a path toward truth, and religion a path toward goodness. Each path can eventually lead toward all three.We become artistic by refining a skill sufficiently. We become scientific by evaluating a theory rigorously and finding it adequately reliable or false. We become religious by devoting ourselves thoroughly to an activity, idea, group, or interest, and/or by joining an organized religion.We can learn everyday forms and specialized forms of art, science, and religion. Everyday forms modify our basic behavior, and everyone can learn them. The specialized forms are fine art (painting, sculpture, writing, singing, music, dance, theater, and many more), social and natural science, and organized religion. Everyone can value those specialties and choose whether and how to participate in them.The proposed theory reconciles realism about our animal nature with idealism about our highest human potential. The art of living becomes our way of life, and the human species becomes one human family. We live in peace and harmony with one another, with other species, and with nature. We are at home on the earth and in the universe.

A diverse collection of forty-three stories inhabited by eclectic characters waiting to meet you.A stranger enters a saloon in a desolate, baking hot town in the Arizona desert with a cryptic warning. A murder mystery involving Santa Claus.Ghosts with a sense of humor haunting a graveyard on Halloween.Dogs chasing cats, kids playing T-ball, what really happened to Hitler, and aliens from Alpha Centauri that have plans for planet earth.Plus, many more. Sit back in a comfortable chair and enjoy the journey.

This book is about what really happened during the Biden Administration. Joe Biden implemented progressive policies at home that resulted in high inflation, open borders and historic numbers of illegal immigrants, a weak economy and a dramatic expansion of government. Abroad, Biden's policies of appeasement and weakness resulted in war in Ukraine and the Middle East, an upsurge in terrorism, and increased aggression from Iran, Russia and China.This book shows the extent to which President Biden mimicked and adopted the policies of former President Barack Obama. It was no surprise that the Biden administration resembled the Obama administration as Biden brought in a number of people who played key roles in the Obama administration. Biden got similar but more destructive results as progressives held Biden hostage to their ideals and policies.As Biden ran for a second term, Biden's fitness for office as well as the results of his policies at home and abroad were critical to the decisions to be made by the American public in the 2024 Presidential election. This book gives the information required to make that choice.

A guided tour of America from coast to coast, with many stops along the way. For example, you look in on a man trying to live up to his father's heroic image, only to find it's based on an illusion. And meet a teacher bringing out the best in a student who has been written off by other teachers. You suddenly find yourself in the middle of a racial brouhaha and have to come to the rescue. Best part is, you can zig zag around the country at your leisure without having to worry about catching a plane.

Life is a series of struggles that begins with grasping for our first breath and ends with trying to hold on to our last one, and in between we must strive to find the best that life has to offer us. I know very few people, if any, who are completely satisfied with the way their life is going day in and day out. The problem for many of us is that, while we recognize that things are not what they could be, we lack the discipline or direction that is necessary to make the move from where we are to where we want to be. 28 Days to a Better You will help you find your best life possible by giving you the tools to help this next year and all the years after your best life ever.