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Alternate Generals III
Bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction and nonfiction writer Harry Turtledove: Writing as Eric Iverson ''Elabon'' Set in a Bronze Age fantasy world, these stories follow Gerin the Fox as he tries to maintain order in the Northlands. * ''Wereblood'' (1979) * ''Werenight'' (1979, revised in 1994 to include ''Wereblood'') * ''Prince of the North'' (1994) (as by Harry Turtledove) * ''King of the North'' (1996) (as by Harry Turtledove) * ''Fox and Empire'' (1998) (as by Harry Turtledove) ** ''Wisdom of the Fox'' (1999, collects the revised ''Werenight'' and ''Prince of the North'') (as by Harry Turtledove) ** ''Tale of the Fox'' (2000, collects ''King of the North'' and ''Fox and Empire'') (as by Harry Turtledove) Writing as H. N. Turteltaub * ''Justinian (novel), Justinian'' (1998) ''Hellenic Traders'' This historical fiction series is about two cousins who are traveling merchants in the 4th-century BC Mediterranean. * ''Over the Wine Dark Sea'' (2001) * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Turtledove
Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction. He is a student of history and completed his PhD in Byzantine Empire, Byzantine history. His dissertation was on the period 565–582. He lives in Southern California. In addition to his birth name, Turtledove writes under a number of pen names: Eric Iverson, H. N. Turteltaub, Dan Chernenko, and Mark Gordian. He began publishing novels in the realm of fantasy starting in 1979 and continues to write in the 2020s. Early life Turtledove was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, 1949, and grew up in Gardena, California. His paternal grandparents, who were Romanian Jews, had first emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, before moving to California. He was educated in local public schools during his early life. After dropping out during his freshman year at California Institute of Tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union (American Civil War)
The Union was the central government of the United States during the American Civil War. Its civilian and military forces resisted the Confederate State of America, Confederacy's attempt to Secession in the United States, secede following the 1860 United States presidential election, election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States. Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's administration asserted the permanency of the federal government of the United States, federal government and the continuity of the Constitution of the United States, United States Constitution. Nineteenth-century Americans commonly used the term Union to mean either the federal government of the United States or the unity of the states within the Federalism in the United States, federal constitutional framework. The Union can also refer to the people or territory of the states that remained loyal to the national government during the war. The loyal states are also known as the North, although fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order 191
Special Order 191 (series 1862), also known as the "Lost Dispatch" and the "Lost Order", was a general movement order issued by Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee on about September 9, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. A lost copy of this order was recovered on September 13 by Union Army troops in Frederick County, Maryland, and read by General George B. McClellan, who changed the direction of his movement to conform to Lee's movements as the document described. History Drafting The order was drafted on or about September 9, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign. It gave details of the movements of the Army of Northern Virginia during the early days of its invasion of Maryland. Lee divided his army, which he planned to regroup later; according to the precise text Major General Stonewall Jackson was to move his command to Martinsburg while McLaws's command and Walker's command "endeavored to capture Harpers Ferry." Major General James Longstreet wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Victory Series
The ''Southern Victory'' series or Timeline-191 is a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, beginning with '' How Few Remain'' (1997) and published over a decade. The period addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, up to the mid-1940s. In the series, the Confederate States defeats the United States of America in 1862, therefore making good its attempt at secession and becoming an independent nation. Subsequent books are built on imagining events based on this alternate timeline. The secondary name is derived from General Robert E. Lee's Special Order 191, which detailed the C.S. Army of Northern Virginia's invasion of the Union through the border state Maryland in September 1862. Turtledove creates a divergence at September 10, 1862, when three Union soldiers do not find a copy of Special Order 191, as they in fact did historically. Historians believe their find helped General George B. McClellan of the Army of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homeward Bound (Turtledove Novel)
''Homeward Bound'' (2004) is a science fiction and alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the eighth and final work in his '' Worldwar series'' fictional universe. It follows the events of the Colonization trilogy and gives some closure to the storylines. ''Homeward Bound'' begins in 1972 and then flashes forward to 1977, 1982, 1984, 1994, 2012, and finally 2031, when the American starship '' Admiral Peary'' arrives at Tau Ceti and Home, the homeworld of The Race. Title ''Homeward Bound'' has multiple meanings in the book. It is a pun in that the Race's home planet is called Home, and many characters are headed there. For characters that are members of the Race, such as Ttomalss, Atvar, and Straha, they are headed home after the failed conquest of Earth. For Kassquit, it is her cultural home although not her biological one. The Earth ship ''Admiral Peary'' is headed to the planet Home, where they will confront the Race and try to demand respect as an independent p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aftershocks
In seismology, an aftershock is a smaller earthquake that follows a larger earthquake, in the same area of the main shock, caused as the displaced crust adjusts to the effects of the main shock. Large earthquakes can have hundreds to thousands of instrumentally detectable aftershocks, which steadily decrease in magnitude and frequency according to a consistent pattern. In some earthquakes the main rupture happens in two or more steps, resulting in multiple main shocks. These are known as doublet earthquakes, and in general can be distinguished from aftershocks in having similar magnitudes and nearly identical seismic waveforms. Distribution of aftershocks Most aftershocks are located over the full area of fault rupture and either occur along the fault plane itself or along other faults within the volume affected by the strain associated with the main shock. Typically, aftershocks are found up to a distance equal to the rupture length away from the fault plane. The pattern o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down To Earth
Down to Earth may refer to: Film and television Film * ''Down to Earth'' (1917 film), an American comedy romance * ''Down to Earth'' (1932 film), an American pre-Code comedy * ''Down to Earth'' (1947 film), the sequel to ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' * ''Down to Earth'' (1995 film), English title of the Portuguese film ''Casa de Lava'' * ''Down to Earth'' (2001 film), a remake of the 1978 film ''Heaven Can Wait'' Television * ''Down to Earth'' (American TV series), a 1984–1987 sitcom * ''Down to Earth'' (1995 TV series), a British sitcom * ''Down to Earth'' (2000 TV series), a 2000–2005 British drama * '' Down to Earth with Zac Efron'', a 2020–2022 American documentary series * "Down to Earth" (''Code Lyoko''), a 2007 episode * "Down to Earth" (''McLeod's Daughters''), a 2005 episode * "Down to Earth" (''The Outer Limits''), a 2000 episode Literature * ''Down to Earth'' (book), a 2008 Canadian student anthology * "Down to Earth" (comics), a 2003–2004 ''Wonder Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Contact
The first season of the American adult animated television series '' Star Trek: Lower Decks'' is set in the 24th century and follows the adventures of the low-ranking officers with menial jobs on the starship ''Cerritos'', one of Starfleet's least important starships. The season was produced by CBS Eye Animation Productions in association with Secret Hideout, Important Science, Roddenberry Entertainment, and animation studio Titmouse, with Mike McMahan serving as showrunner and Juno Lee as supervising director. Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, and Eugene Cordero voice the lower decks crew members of the ''Cerritos'', with Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O'Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman providing voices for the ship's senior officers. ''Lower Decks'' was ordered in October 2018 with McMahan on board as showrunner. The series is a comedy, but the writers did not want to stray too far from the rest of the ''Star Trek'' franchise and used similar premises to classic ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonization (series)
''Colonization'' is a trilogy of alternate history books by American writer Harry Turtledove. It is a series continuation of the situation set up in the '' Worldwar'' tetralogy, projecting the situation between humanity and The Race (the bipedal lizard-like invaders and settlers from ''Worldwar'') nearly twenty years afterward, in the mid-1960s. The Race has settled and plans to colonize nearly half the surface of the Earth, including Africa, Australia, China, southern Asia, Mexico, Central America, South America, Spain, Portugal, and Poland (prewar Poland and East Prussia). The United States, Canada, the Soviet Union, the Greater German Reich (Germany and the territories that it occupied during World War II), the United Kingdom, and Japan are the only other powers when the Race's colonization fleet of 80–100 million settlers arrives. Humanity and The Race still jockey for advantages over each other. Novels Books of the Colonization trilogy are: * '' Colonization: Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Striking The Balance
Strike may refer to: People *Strike (surname) * Hobart Huson, author of several drug related books Physical confrontation or removal *Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm *Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position *Bird strike, collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft * Bridge strike, collision of an over-height vehicle to a bridge. *Military strike, limited attack on a specified target *Striking the colors, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender *Strikethrough, typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through the center of them *Utility strike, during an excavation accidentally hitting or damaging buried pipes or wires belonging to a public utility or other such services *YouTube copyright strike, a copyright policing practice used by YouTube Refusal to work or perform *Capital strike, refusal to inve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upsetting The Balance
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compression (physics), compressive forces. The blows are delivered with a hammer (often a power hammer) or a die (manufacturing), die. Forging is often classified according to the temperature at which it is performed: cold forging (a type of cold working), warm forging, or hot forging (a type of hot working). For the latter two, the metal is heated, usually in a forge. Forged parts can range in weight from less than a kilogram to hundreds of metric tons.Degarmo, p. 389 Forging has been done by metalsmith, smiths for millennia; the traditional products were kitchenware, household hardware, hardware, hand tools, edged weapons, cymbals, and jewellery. Since the Industrial Revolution, forged parts are widely used in mechanism (engineering), mechanisms and machines wherever a component requires high strength of materials, strength; such forgings usually require further processing (such as machining) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
