Wings over Persia
Wings over Persia

Author: Lou Martin

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1412001072

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The experiences of a captain flying, from 1976 to 1979, for a charter company indirectly owned by the Shah of Iran.

On Wings of Eagles
On Wings of Eagles

Author: Ken Follett

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-12-07

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0451213092

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#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . . When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, handpicked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared. . . .

The Wings of Time
The Wings of Time

Author: George Marmar

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0595212255

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Wealthy astronomer Roger Stone makes an astounding discovery that puts time travel within his reach. He shares his secret with his friends Ken, Nick, and Dave. He then startles them by proposing to finance a trip for the three of them through time back to the fifth century BC. Their initial reaction is outright refusal. Ken West is a scholar and a university professor of Latin and Ancient Greek. He is also an insecure lovelorn man who desperately wants a woman’s love but hasn’t found one to share his life. Nick Napoli is a handsome electronic genius who flits from woman to woman leaving a trail of broken hearts behind him. In reality he is a lonely man who craves adventure. David Braun is a highly successful businessman with the Midas touch. Married twice, he loses both wives to tragic deaths. The loss of two women leaves him a shattered man, fearful of making another marital commitment. After much soul searching and discussions among themselves the three men agree to start preparations for the trip. Then a mysterious occurrence decides the issue and they journey to fifth century BC Greece where they live out the rest of their lives.

Wings of the Gods
Wings of the Gods

Author: Peter (Petra) Gardella

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0197691870

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Wings of the Gods surveys the many roles that birds have played in the development of religions, from legends, rituals, costumes, wars, and spiritual disciplines to the current ecological crisis. Peter (Petra) Gardella and Laurence Krute, both scholars and birdwatchers, transcend a narrow focus on humanity to explore the agency of birds in world history.

The Persian Empire
The Persian Empire

Author: Amélie Kuhrt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 1063

ISBN-13: 1136016945

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Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it in order to gain an understanding of the history and working os this remarkable political entity. The Achaemenid empire developed in the region of modern Fars (Islam) and expanded to unite territories stretching from the Segean and Egypt in the west to Central Asia and north-west India, which it ruled for over 200 years until its conquest by Alexander of Macedon. Although all these regions had long since been in contact with each other, they had never been linked under a single regime. The Persian empire represents an important phase of transformation for its subjects, such as the Jews, as well as those living on its edges, such as the European Greeks.