John Richardson
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Meet John Richardson. A typical weekend golfer who enjoyed the game but couldn't break 100. Married. One seven-year-old daughter. Full-time job. But he differed from the average 24-handicapper in one crucial way: He was determined to break par within a year at the local golf course, while working a demanding full-time job and trying his best to remain a good husband and father.
Virtually everyone he came across told him that it wasn't possible. Famed...
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The world's greatest golf advice condensed to fifty practical tips.
"I wasted a lot of time believing that every 'secret' I came across would transform my game, but it's when you can take that tip and test it yourself that you give yourself an exceptional advantage," writes John Richardson.
An enthusiastic but average golfer, John was keen to improve his game. So he set himself a challenge-in one year, he would take thirty-three strokes off his...
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This rich history of the Roman Imperial Navy and the sailors who manned their fleets deserve to be fully acknowledged. Most know that the legions of Rome fought and defended the Roman Empire but without their Imperial Navy this empire may never have been able to expand its frontier's This book well researched covers the organisation of the Imperial navy its ships plus both officer's and crews.
4) Wacousta
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Wacousta by Major John Richardson, is set at Fort Detroit and the surrounding country during Pontiac's rebellion of 1763. The mysterious warrior Wacousta has aligned himself with the First Nations forces who are besieging Detroit and Fort Michilimackinac on the extreme western edge of the British North American frontier. Pontiac is determined to stop expansion into the region, by any means. Wacousta, is a great friend of Pontiac but has his own agenda...
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This is volume 2 of Major John Richardson, 1832 novel Wacousta. It is set at Fort Detroit and the surrounding country during Pontiac's rebellion of 1763. The mysterious warrior Wacousta has aligned himself with the First Nations forces who are besieging Detroit and Fort Michilimackinac on the extreme western edge of the British North American frontier. Pontiac is determined to stop expansion into the region, by any means. Wacousta, is a great friend...
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GARY SPEED'S tragic death on November 27th 2011, rocked the football world. Aged just 42, he was found hanged in the garage of his home. As a long-standing legend of the game and manager of Wales, he appeared to have everything to live for. Now, as he would have approached his 50th birthday, family and friends come together to speak honestly and emotionally about the man they knew and loved. Wife Louise opens her heart for the first time and talks...
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In creating the magic that flows through these films - by creating huge explosions, beheading people, producing futuristic gadgets, making a man fly or breathing life into creatures that amaze and haunt us - Richardson has come to hold a unique place in cinema history.The son of pioneering FX technician Cliff Richardson, he learned his trade at the feet of a master of the craft. With over five decades of adventures under his belt, and a vast photographic...
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As the bedrock of three great religions; Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, one would expect the Old Testament of the Holy Bible would be one of the world's best read and best understood narratives. Unfortunately, this may not be the case due to the Old Testament's daunting length (984 pages and 39 books-my Bible), subject and book discontinuity, and the fact that present day society's interests and values have changed markedly over the past 3,500...
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In 1997, almost by accident, John Richardson found himself sharing a hotel with more than a thousand dwarfs. Over the course of a single week, he begins relationships with some of the people at a convention that evolve into an affecting two-year-and-beyond odyssey into the little world.
He introduces us to characters like a saintly but obsessed doctor and a mother who sacrifices her family to save her dwarf daughter. He follows two dwarf lovers from...
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"A beautiful, gracious act of connection with a man who kept his secrets." - Kirkus Reviews
Readers will not only find absorbing narratives but also the early signs of America's now highly contentious culture wars. - Booklist
An exceptional work ... about a man ... whose family album is pasted into a book of American history. - Baltimore Sun
A passionately researched and engaging memoir...poignantly distanced. - New York Times Book Review
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Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Junior detectives Ricky and David Hill are part of a family that loves a good mystery, along with their mother Amy and their dad Steven who hosts a popular mystery show. They stumble upon Murphy, the whacky canine from A Doggone Christmas and A Doggone Hollywood, and team up to help him unravel the mystery behind his telepathic talents. The adventure continues as they find themselves entangled in a world of UFOs, government conspiracies and secret...
15) Black Sunday
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Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In Mario Bava's gothic horror masterpiece steeped in rich atmosphere, condemned witch Princess Asa returns from the dead two centuries after her execution and wreaks vengeance on her killers' family. Possessing the body of a descendant who happens to look just like her, Asa pulls out all the stops to exact her revenge. This is Bava's credited directorial debut, and it catapulted Steele and him to stardom.
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Step behind the curtain as we hear from the original Chippendale dancers from the 1980's. We hear impromptu conversations from Michael Rapp, John Richardson, Brian Carpenter, Dean Mammales, David Cohen and many more who were all performers during the inception of the Chippendales evolution.
18) Stella Street
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
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[2005]
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English
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A laugh out loud comedy featuring the many impressions and creations of actors Phil Cornwell and John Sessions. Between them, they fill the house on Stella Street with some of the most famous people from stage and screen from the last 40 years.
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This lush musical features the masterful talents of singing superstar Barbra Streisand. Chain-smoking kooky Daisy (Streisand) consults psychiatrist Chabot (Yves Montand) to help her stop smoking. Chabot is astonished to learn she has amazing ESP powers, and that under hypnosis she reveals her former life as Melinda, an 1840 English coquette. The romantic complications of the triangle become involved as Chabot falls in love with the elusive Melinda...