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Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault

by John Dvorak

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Rock Angel said: " no map, but a very engaging read. This is the best sort of documentary! "

May 27, 2015 04:51PM · see review

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Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp

by Mary Cronk Farrell (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: subj-med, 1940-s, loc-asia, war-us, war-ww2, genre-history, format-250pp, currently-reading, lib-a-shelf

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Rock Angel said: " Trivia on the nurses' pay:
In the Depression era of 1941 the Corps paid as little as $0.16 an hour. As a benchmark, the average household income in 1933 was ~$29 per week, which came to 72.5 cents an hour. It would take 4 nurses to support a typical h ...more "

May 27, 2015 04:51PM · see review

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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“dogs and angels are not
very far apart”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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