Gordon Jones
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This book reveals the most critical moments and important facts about past and present players, coaches, and teams that are part of the storied history that is 76ers basketball. Scattered throughout the pages are superstars, records, and Sixers lore to test any fans knowledge, from the franchises beginnings as the Syracuse Nationals before moving to Philadelphia in 1963 to the NBA Champion Sixers teams, 19661967 led by Wilt Chamberlain and 19821983...
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Faced with rising crime & increased racketeering activity, intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid becomes the crime fighter the Green Hornet (Gordon Jones, known later as Mike the cop on the Abbott & Costello Show). Donning a disguise, the Hornet & his brilliant Asian inventor/sidekick Kato (Keye Luke, famous as playing Charlie Chan's son, etc.) fight an infamous racket that's menacing their city.
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Green Hornet volume 8
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English
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Our hero Britt Reid, disguised as the Green Hornet, is snapped by a Sentinel photographer as he hurriedly leaves the house of a cleaner named Lavensen. Monroe sees the pictures in the Sentinel and, realizing the Hornet is on the trail of Lynch, head of the Cleaners' racket, orders Lynch and his shop removed and evidence planted pointing to the Hornet as the perpetrator of the crime. Corey and Dean saturate Lynch's plant with combustible cleaning fluid,...
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Green Hornet volume 11
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English
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The Green Hornet, or his true identity, Britt Reid, is investigating sabotage directed against the shipping business of young John Roberts. The Hornet causes the arrest of Max Gregory, an illicit munitions dealer. The Racketeers strikes back by attacking a trainload shipment being made by young Roberts. Reid, masked as The Green Hornet, with Kato driving the "black beauty" pursues the train, boards it at full speed, and attacks the gangsters. But...
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Green Hornet volume 2
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English
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Our hero Britt Reid learns that the men killed in the tunnel disaster were insured in the construction company's favor, through a broken named Mortenson. Masked as the Green Hornet, Reid locates Mortenson, but before he can force him to confess, Axford and the police arrive and the Hornet has to flee. Monroe, acting boss of the rackets, orders Mortenson to destroy all papers and leave the country. The Hornet and Kato pursue Mortenson, who boards a...
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Green Hornet volume 5
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English
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Britt Reid trails the theft of his car to the Meadows Garage. Axford follows one of the Meadows' mechanics to a junkyard, where he and Reid narrowly escape death when the racketeers discover who they are. Meadows, realizing Reid is hot on the trail of his stolen car orders it destroyed with a time bomb. Before the bomb explodes, the Green Hornet confronts Meadows and terrifies him into a confession. The racketeers discover and attack the hornet. Kato...
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Green Hornet volume 13
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English
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Witness the exciting conclusion to The Green Hornet!
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Green Hornet volume 9
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English
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Britt Reid, Axford and Jenks go to the Martinson place on an anonymous tip that it is the hideout of The Green Hornet. Outside the house, Reid makes an excuse to leave Jenks and Axford. Donning The Hornet garb, brought by Kato, he enters the house, surprising three gunmen ambushed there. A fight follows, and the gangsters escape as Jenks and Axford rush in. Cornered by his own friends, The Hornet hides in a closet. But Axford saw him enter, and rushes...
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Green Hornet volume 12
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English
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Britt Reid sends Axford and Jenks to spot gangsters among the carnival crowd at the Cooper Zoo who are forcing "protection money" from Cooper by threatening sabotage. The Green Hornet then goes to Cooper's office, where he traps Lefty Bates, strong-arm man of the crime ring, and forces his to write a confession. Axford and Jenks, battling gangsters outside, overturn a popcorn stand which starts a fire. People and animals run amuck and stampeding elephants...
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Green Hornet volume 10
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English
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Our hero, Britt Reid, battling the crime ring in a mayoralty election, secures evidence that ballot boxes have been "stuffed." The ring candidate is elected and The Sentinel demands a court order for a recount. Monroe hurries his henchmen to seize and destroy the ballots, but The Green Hornet gets possession of the ballots and starts with them in an armored car to a safe hiding place, pending the courts' order. Monroe learns of the route taken by...
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Green Hornet volume 7
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English
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Britt Reid, disguised as the Green hornet, captures Sligby, the murderer of Charles Roberts, then trails the trucking racketeers and surprises two of them about the destroy a trainload of perishables. The Racketeers attempt to escape in a truck, the Green Hornet boards the truck and battles one of the men, while the other races the truck toward a bridge to get help from two of his pals. But his pals, to prevent a rival truck crossing the bridge to...
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Green Hornet volume 6
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English
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The newspaper publisher Britt Reid, investigating sabotage of Whippet Line buses, suspects that Rockford, head of the Blue Streak, a rival bus line, belongs to the crime ring responsible. Avxord conducting an investigation of his own, visits the Blue Streak headquarters and is trapped and made prisoner by the racketeers. Reid learns of Axford's predicament and, disguised as the Green Hornet, succeeds in freeing Axford and forcing a confession from...
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Green Hornet volume 3
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English
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The newspaper publisher Britt Reid suspects the Bartlett Flying School of a scheme to collect insurance on both planes and student flyers. As the Green Hornet, Reid visits the flying school, binds Bartlett, head of the school, then forces Bartlett to fly with him in a plane "specially serviced" for a student flyer. Bartlett, facing death, confesses the plane has been fixed to burn in mid-air, and pleads with the Hornet to remove his bonds so he can...
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Green Hornet volume 1
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English
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Britt Reid, newspaper publisher, is waging war against the racketeers. Masked as the Green Hornet he hunts the biggest of all game-public enemies that even the G-men cannot reach. With his faithful valet, Kato, he visits a tunnel being constructed under the river with faulty material and equipment. Forcing the foreman into an air lock, with an ingenious gas-gun he is ordering him to name the higher-ups in the construction racket, when an air compressor...
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Green Hornet volume 4
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English
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Our hero Britt Reid, determined to smash the stolen car racket, allows his car to be taken form a parking lot he suspects, then trails it to the Meadows Garage where it mysteriously vanishes. Reid recognizes one of the garage mechanics as Pete, a racketeer formerly with the flying school; and that night, as the Green Hornet, he visits the garage to question Pete. Pete, alarmed at the sight of the Hornet makes a dash to escape. In his "Black Beauty"...
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Why did God inspire the Bible to be written? He cared.
Why did I write this book? I cared.
Acta, non verba
G. Lloyd Jones
Rags to Redeemed to Revealed
This book is a story of rags to redeemed to revealed. Why me? Why write this book? Who would read it? These are questions I assume most authors ask themselves. There is a profusion of books written showing how God continues to interact with His people. For me,...
17) The shaggy dog
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Wilby Daniels was just an ordinary teenager until a magical ring accidentally transforms him into a sheepdog...whose owner is the leader of a plot to destroy the Space Program! The first live-action comedy Walt Disney produced. B&W and color versions.
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Unlocking the masters volume no. 20
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Amadeus Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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This book introduces the general listener to a genre of music that is mistakenly supposed to be "difficult." A vivid biographical sketch of Bach's life and times provides the necessary background. The book then takes on the question "What is a cantata?" and guides the listener systematically through fugue, recitative, and aria. The author chooses 30 of Bach's 200 church cantatas that are especially likely to be performed live, and explores them in...