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Pyram King

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Born

in The United States

Website

http://destinyswar.com/

Genre

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy

Influences

Hesse, Sir Richard F Burton, TE Lawrence, Hemingway, Churchill

Member Since

May 2019

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As a son of foreign exchange teachers, he had become a world traveler by the age of 10. His travels took him into jungles and remote villages across South East Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railway when China was ruled by Mao and the Soviet Union was a superpower and sailed the Atlantic aboard the QEII. He experienced a coup and unrest in Central America, explored remote islands in the Pacific, climbed Kilimanjaro, and spent a volatile time in the Persian Gulf.

Traveling combined with his literary and adventurer inspirations; Burton, Lawrence, Hemingway, Hesse, became an essential defining part of his life, infusing a more profound interest in the history and culture of the places he visited.

Over the years he became an ...more

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Destiny's War (Saladin's Secret #1)

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Omega Trench Watch

Marion’s journal refers to a gift [Omega Watch] he received from Gertrude Bell in December of 1916.

Ms. Bell & Omega Watch – Marion’s Diary 1916

I received the most wonderful Christmas gift from G.B. [Bell], an Omega officers watch. Signal Corps was printed on the face. She made an amusing comment, I was her Signal Corps.

The watch was a gift from Ms. Bell to Francis Marion “Mare” Jäger. It seems it was init...

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“Wisdom flows from the springs of knowledge and experience.”
― Pyram King, Destiny's War

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“Truth may walk through the world unarmed.”
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“Wisdom flows from the springs of knowledge and experience.”
― Pyram King, Destiny's War

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“Truth may walk through the world unarmed.”
― Pyram King, Destiny's War

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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: attitude, attributed-no-source, determination, persistence

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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