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A huge amount of published work is available on the American War of Independence. However, one area given rather scant attention is that describing and analysing the public reaction in the colonial power, Britain. This little book tries to look at two aspects of this reaction: viz. (a) the extent of coverage given in a typical newspaper, and (b) the particular analysis presented to readers in Scotland. This latter question is relevant because Scotland, since the Union with England earlier in that same century (1707), had assumed a large contribution to the military and thus to 'empire-building'. The method chosen is to use "extracts". The year of 1779 is examined in the "Edinburgh Advertiser". This was a serious if popular newspaper which was published every four days with some ten pages being typical.

This Edinburgh boy was born in 1751 and his family and background are discussed in colourful detail.He rose to become the British Consul-General in Spain, just as Napoleon made his move against the Iberian Peninsula.Sir John Hunter's famous description of the Madrid insurrection of 1808 ranks in importance with the emotional content of Goya's painting of this gory event. Hunter's life is a reflection of a violent period in European history.

For generations, Tom Hunter’s Canadian Wildlife Activity Book series has introduced children of all ages to the amazing variety of animals that live from coast to coast to coast—from the Blue Whale to the Pygmy Shrew, the Leopard Frog to the Chickadee. The new Canadian Wildlife Activity Book combines the best of Hunter’s outstanding illustrations and activities in one volume. Providing hours of fun and learning and fostering respect for biodiversity and the natural world, this interactive activity book is perfect for road trips, camping trips, and quiet weekends at home, and is suitable for elementary classrooms.

As a child, I was one of those kids who asked lots of questions and, if I wasn't satisfied with the answers I got, I asked follow-up questions. Needless to say, I was tough on my teachers but, especially on my poor Sunday School teachers and especially about the Christmas story. Some of those questions have stuck with me throughout the years and were the inspiration for this book. Every manger scene, for example, depicts a gathering of the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, various animals and the "wise men." I was fascinated by the "wise men." I was even a wise man in a Christmas pageant one year. I wanted to know how the wise men, who were not Jews and who came from hundreds of miles away, knew that a star signaled the birth of a Jewish king, while the Jews, apparently, did not? How did they arrive in Bethlehem to worship baby Jesus at the same time as the nearby shepherds in the adjacent fields? How long did Mary and Joseph stay in Bethlehem before they traveled back to their home in Nazareth? How could the wise men "follow" a star? Why didn't Herod send his own people to Bethlehem? If Herod met with the wise men within days of Jesus' birth, why would Herod order all male children under the age of two to be killed? Why not just the newborns? The list went on and on. Like I said, my poor Sunday School teachers... Anyway, the Christmas story invited critical thinking even from a child like me, and I think God loves and indulges the inquisitive minds of those who seek Him. This fictional story is not presented to challenge accepted religious thinking or to promote a revisionist history of the events any more than the song, "The Little Drummer Boy," composed by Katherine Davis, advocated the insertion of a drummer into the manger scene. Two Stars - A Christmas Story simply allowed me to revisit some of those annoying questions from my youth and to explore them through a much older lens. Even though I have offered a slightly different "take" on some parts of the Christmas story, the awesome birth of Jesus remains inviolate and, I submit, would be no less magnificent, even if parts of this fanciful story were found in the scriptural account.

'...and with just a flyer from Steve Bedlam, stating "Hostomice, It's Out There... The Tekno Travellers' Holiday Destination Of The Year" as directions, we head off to Europe. 'In 1995 Tom Hunter set off from a squatted street in Hackney with a group of friends in an old double decker bus, loaded with muesli, Sosmix, baby-foot table and a sound system. Fuelled by selling egg butties, veggie burgers and beer, their journey took them through folk festivals in France, teknivals in Czech Republic, hippie gatherings in Austria and beach parties in Spain. Le Crowbar Café became an oasis for a nomadic party community hungry for all night food and a break from the hardcore techno. 'Le Crowbar' paints a vivid picture of friends on a journey, exploring new horizons and ways of living on the road, in the wake of the introduction of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.