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World War Z TOC & Cross-Reference to CD tracks

This is a Table of Contents (TOC) for Max Brooks' book World War Z (WWZ)(Random House, 2006)HARDCOVER edition, which didn't come with a TOC. It is also a cross-reference of the book chapters with the WWZ CD tracks (the CD is abridged & only has about half of the chapters from the book). I became frustrated trying to find stories in the book when I wanted to reread them, so took the time to do...

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Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis - Weighing evidence for & dating of Solanum outbreaks in early Egypt

Archaeology Magazine online has published an article entitled "Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis." It relates to the zombie universe created by Max Brooks in "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" and "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War." The article elaborates on an entry in the survival guide's appendix that comprises a chronology of historical zombie...

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32 Caliber by Donald McGibeny (Project Gutenberg)

A 1920 hardboiled detective story

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Does the Universe Exist if We re Not Looking (Discover Mag

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Fenian Invasions of Canada

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NEC Time Travel Experiment in 2000

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Courtly Love - The 30 Essential Qualities (or The Rules, Medieval-Style) - With My Comments

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The D-Day Photos of Robert Capa

We have only 11 hazy photos taken by Capa during the Omaha Beach assault on D-Day, when he risked his life going in with the murderous first wave. Yet Capa had used three rolls of film and exposed 106 frames. During development, photographer Hans Wild looked at the negatives wet and said that the 35mm shots, though grainy, looked "fabulous!" What happened?

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Mapping Barsoom

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Inkhorn term (Definition & Wikipedia article)

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Manifesto of Surrealism (Andre Breton)

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Inkhorn Terms play short excerpt (Ben Jonson The Poetaster)

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Inkhorn Terms play long excerpt & background (Ben Jonson The Poetaster)

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The Multitasking Generation - Multitasking in the Digital Age (highlighted)

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Darien - If It Survived (An Alternate History)

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The Darien Adventure (17th Century Scotland attempts to found a colony in Panama)

4,000 Scots in Central America? In 1698?? Smack dab in the heart of Spain's American Empire? Science fiction alternate history? Nope. True story. And the colony's failure ruined Scotland - bankrupted it. Here's the story.

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Soft tissue found in 70 million year old T Rex bone

Does this discovery of soft dinosaur tissue mean that scientists will soon be able to clone a Tyrannosaurus rex? Probably not – most scientists believe that DNA cannot survive for 70 million years. Then again, before this discovery, most scientists believed that soft tissue could not survive for 70 million years either.

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Sometimes Rendell feels need for speed

"I've told my troopers that I don't want them exceeding 80 unless they need to pass or unless there's some real exigent circumstance," Rendell said. "We do the appropriate speed," Rendell said. "Sometimes we adhere to the speed limit, sometimes we don't. On many of Pennsylvania's highways, if you adhered to the speed limit, you'd be a safety hazard."

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The Treasures of Timbuktu

Scholars in the fabled African city, once a great center of learning and trade, are racing to save a still emerging cache of ancient manuscripts

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They Will Always Be Remembered (Trapped Sailors At Pearl Harbor)

Pearl Harbor, 1941. Trapped sailors Jack Miller, Frank Kosa, and Clifford Olds are in a ship , in a watertight room. The ship sinks at its moorings in the December 7th attack. They wait for rescue. Days pass. Weeks. Air runs short. No one comes. And people outside know they're in there.

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