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Cab drivers! What a strange lot! Why would anyone want to drive a hack for a living? Other than being capable enough to safely operate a vehicle, you don't need any special skills or training. You don't need a university degree in the humanities, though you may become a qualified human affairs expert after driving a cab for several years. Cabbies must be the most misunderstood creatures in the world! Why else would they do what they do? Without it being said, a cab driver works twelve hour shifts on a routine daily basis. They often get assaulted, and even more often than not, they get ripped off. Society as a whole views cabbies as individuals with the same I.Q. as a lava lamp, who only drive a taxi because they can't get a job anywhere else, and, they probably have a criminal record too! They get screamed at, threatened, spat on, slapped, punched, kicked, stabbed, and tragically, some get murdered. What person in their right mind would want to take on this kind of a life when they could earn a lot more money with a lot less aggravation and abuse by simply donning a pair of dark glasses and selling pencils on any street corner? I drove a taxi in the city of Winnipeg for about twenty years for Red Patch Taxi. These memories are my memories and I am gladly sharing them with you, the reader. My biggest thanks go out to the city of Winnipeg and to all of its citizens whom I found to be the friendliest people anywhere! I hope that these stories of mine will move you emotionally, either with a smile, a laugh or a tear. Winnipeg, thanks for the memories! Savour the stories!
Film lovers from all around the world applauded Bong Joon-ho's achievement of winning the 2020 Academy Award for Best Picture with his film Parasite. This was the first time a non-English film won Best Picture in Oscar history. Although his success has brought a lot of novel attention to the realm of Korean film, this genre is still somewhat alienated from the circle of world cinema. As part of this important movement in Korean film, this book can act as a guide to Western audiences who are interested in Korean movies but are unsure where to start. This book includes Korean films that were released between the early 2000s and present.
The so-called Clovis Comet that supposedly re-cooled Earth during the event of the Younger Dryas that followed the warming spell at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age ended up capturing the imagination of both scientists and laymen during the first decade of the twenty-first century.While the present work has much to offer concerning the real cause of that occurrence, it is prefaced with additional evidence in favor of the theoretical model advanced in its three prequels,* in which it is argued that the primordial Earth had basked beneath a different sun than the one that presently shines above us.This previous sun is there shown to have been a sub-brown dwarf that, together with Earth in tow, had been wandering freely through space before it was captured into the confines of the Solar System where, in time, it devolved into the present gaseous planet Saturn.The terrestrial devastation that transpired in conjunction with the Younger Dryas decimated our Paleolithic ancestors, even while exposing the survivors to the phenomenal emanations that were transforming the sun above them. It was their endeavor in trying to understand what was transpiring above their heads that finally led them to endow their brown dwarf star with indomitable life.The fear that the upheaval instilled in them, together with their attempt to placate its heavenly source, is what led our ancestors to ritual pacification in their long climb toward a hope-filled faith that ended in religion.Stated so briefly, the above disclosures are bound to evoke adverse reactions among those of a scientific disposition. Those among them who are prepared to investigate new grounds, however, will discover much to activate their minds in the detailed deliberations presented between the covers of this work.*God Star (2006); Flare Star (2007); Primordial Star (2009)
Stomp, stomp, stomp-Billy the Bass knew it was Grandpa. Yeah and hooray! the family is coming back to the dock.Billy the Bass and the Dock Family is a story about Billy's adventures with the creatures under the dock and the families that spend their summers on the dock and in the water. Readers will learn valuable life lessons in friendship and about the habitat and lives of the creatures that Billy befriends, such as Jimmy the Snail, Renee the Turtle, Theresa the Dock Spider, Graham the Boatman Bug and several others.
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