Ever wonder if we are alone in this universe?Over the years, researchers and scientists have scoured government documents in search of proof that life exists beyond Earth and has regularly visited us here.One set of documents, known as Project Blue Book, includes retired, declassified records from 1947 to 1969 from the United States Air Force (USAF), currently in the custody of the US National Archives.According to a US Air Force Fact Sheet, a total of 701 out of 12...

BD's Rock Show, the phenomenal local radio rock show that was broadcast on Express FM in Portsmouth, (and world-wide via the internet), between 2006 and 2020 showcased BD & Thrashman's unique, anarchic, juvenile and comedic style to an audience of listeners that had never heard the like of such a show before.What Wayne's World did for evoking memories of their teenage years, BD's Rock Show did for BD & Thrashman's lunacy and passion for rock, hard rock and heavy me...

A new anthology of short stories by David E. Gates.Featuring tales of the macabre such as The Blood, Croc, The Crash, The Ghosts of Gribble and You're Next along with short, flash-fiction stories including The Devil Needs Payin' and The Search.More than 30 original stories, many of which have never been previously published.

David E. Gates has played poker and gambled on sports and other games, for most of his adult life.In The Curse of Online Poker, he details what led to his involvement with Texas Hold 'Em, the results he achieved, the various pitfalls and experiences, both positive and negative, and shares his recommendations to new and seasoned poker players alike.Honest and realistic, this unique look at gambling in its various forms, and in particular with playing poker, ...

Dare you look inside the mind of a madman?A collection of short-stories, poems, reviews and other writings from the author of Access Denied, The Roots of Evil, The Wretched and First Words.

A torrid tale of turgid travel in Devon and Cornwall.Join David E. Gates and his girlfriend as they travel to Devon and Cornwall for a nice break away from it all that turns out to be anything but nice!Part of the Omonolidee series.

David E. Gates recounts his time at City of Portsmouth Boys School and the adventures, or misadventures perhaps would be a better description, whilst he attended the famed institution.

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new ...

924 Miles tells the story of a man searching for God while trying to figure out what life is all about. It explores the true purpose of life, the grace of God, and the connection between the two. It will make you cry, laugh, and ultimately examine your purpose in life; many are calling 924 Miles a must-read book!

Gates's characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living - or assisted-dying - facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into ...

A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive lonelinessyes, everyone is struggling right nowso please be graciousbe kind & patient, but subvertevery institution that relies on our sufferingSomething isn’t right. Every generation thinks that, but we have more cause than most. The way...

Unlike land and maritime military warfare, which has evolved over thousands of years, the history of war in the air is as short as it has been spectacular: only 100 years have passed since the first flight in a powered aircraft. Despite its brief history, however, military air power is not an insignificant part of the modern military machine: on the contrary, it has played a strikingly prominent role in recent conflicts and humanitarian relief operations, and is likely to take the leading ...