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Shea's CastleFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaShea's Castle, also known as Sky Castle and Castle Ranch, is a castle built in 1924 by the developer Richard Peter Shea. Shea, a New Yorker, moved to the dry climate of Southern California in hopes of improving the health of his wife, Ellen. Shea made his fortune developing Hancock Park in Los Angeles. He spent two years building the castle on about 1500 acres (6 km²) of land in the Antelope Valley, just east of Lancaster and just south of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve.The Stock Market Crash of 1929 bankrupted Shea. The bank took over the castle and Shea died penniless.A variety of owners and renters have occupied the castle since. Roy Rogers trained his horse Trigger there. A non-profit flying group added a runway, dam and lake there. The playboy Tommy Stewart Lee lived there for a short time before his family declared him mentally incompetent. He later committed suicide.The castle has seen its share of development plans as well, but to this day it remains pretty much unchanged. There are petroglyphs on the property, as well as natural springs and an FAA approved landing strip. It has been a location for 1967's Blood of Dracula's Castle and TV shows such as Bat Masterson, The Rat Patrol, Air Wolf and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.It is currently a private residence.External links * Little Known Airfields of CA * Castle of Dreams * Antelope Valley Historical SocietySee alsoList of castles in the United StatesRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shea%27s_Castle" [3/14/2008]Categories: Castles in the United States. *******A Castle in the Valley: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Shea's Castle and Mayhap a Modicum More: Front Gate That Leads to Shea's Castle (1988 Printing, First Edition) [LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION] (Paperback). 60 pages. Publisher: Kern Antelope Historical Society; 1st edition (1988). Language: English. ISBN 0889353417. Limited Collector's Edition. Rare Book. ... Read more

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Breaking the Cross is a tale of corruption, racism and neo-fascism in post-communist Hungary. Charlie Barrow (who featured in my first thriller A Wicked Device) is a British journalist working out of Budapest. He uncovers a plot by Colonel Mihaly Kozma, the top man in state security, to return the country to totalitarianism. Kozma aims to revive the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian Nazis who held power in the last months of World War II. He has friends in high places and in the mafia, helping him to bankroll a private army through dodgy business deals. They use this to kidnap Roma (gypsies) for slave labour in their camps. Barrow's allies are Captain Peter Kovacs and Sergeant Sandor Ubul, police officers in a squad assigned to root out illegal immigrants. This brings them into contact with Coro, a young Roma who suffers Arrow Cross brutality and provides much of the evidence needed to nail Kozma. As they probe further, they meet success and tragedy. Charlie gets his story but wonders - was it worth it? ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from International Bulletin of Missionary Research, published by Overseas Ministries Study Center on January 1, 1994. The length of the article is 4284 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.

From the supplier: Scottish missionary Donald Fraser exemplified the love and forgiveness of God during his ministry in Malawi. He is widely recognized for being an excellent mission strategist and for his knowledge in the theory and practice of missionary life. However, people admire him most for the love and service he gave to the people with whom he lived, particularly the Ngoni tribe, which respected him immensely.

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Title: The Legacy of Donald Fraser. (Scottish missionary)
Author: Jack Thompson
Publication: International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1994
Publisher: Overseas Ministries Study Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p32(4)

Article Type: Biography

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The Red One;the Fighting First
It may be a German officer who paid the best tribute to the First Division when he said the German General Staff always knew that "where the First Division was, there we would have trouble."

Early in the war, when the French were still allied with the Germans, a British officer told correspondent Drew Middleton to visit the First Division because, "They're bloody good.Bloody good.I saw them at Oran.The French were damned smart to chuck it.Your chaps would have cut them to bits."

"To all the world, though it could not be apparent at the time, Oran, like Gettysburg or the Marne, symbolizes the high tide of an ideology whose destiny was written in the smoking ruins of Berlin," wrote H. R. Knickerbocker, one of the 10 principal authors of this book, in his account of the division's record in Algeria.

Early Allied war aims were a cross-channel invasion in 1942;these plans were dropped after the Canadians at Dieppe showed that an invasion needed overwhelming force.Instead, plans were made to roll back German conquests starting with the French colonies in North Africa.

"The only U.S. Combat Division in the European Theatre of Operations, as of August, 1942, was the First Infantry Division," Knickerbocker wrote."This Division was ready to spearhead any invasion, on any continent, at any time."

They did.The Division invaded Algeria on Nov. 8, 1942; then went on to Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Mons and Aachen, the first major German city to fall in combat since Napoleon.The book title is from a sign outside a command post during the battle of El Guettar, in Algeria, which read "Danger Forward".It sums up the spirits of men who, to paraphrase a British saying, knew they wouldn't go wrong as long as they marched toward danger.

Normally, a division is about 15,000 men.During World War II, the constant need for replacements meant at least 50,000 men served in the First Division.This book is dedicated to the memory and honour of the 4,325 combat fatalities in this one division.

In his introduction to 'The Fighting First', Hanson Baldwin wrote "... one quality above all others which distinguished this division and set it apart beyond all others.It was--and is--a consciousness of tradition.To those who have never soldiered this may seem a trivial characteristic.But it is the backbone of military morale."

It's a superb story, written in the terse post-combat plain-spoken style of infantrymen in combat.Think of Julius Caesar's "Veni, vidi, vici" and you'll appreciate the "We came, we fought, we won" style of these authors.Good writing seldom gets any better.

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