You may have heard about people who are gifted at taking photographs of information in their minds; however, what you may not have heard is that taking these types of photos is actually a skill that you can teach yourself.Memorizing information doesn’t have to be difficult, yet many people struggle to do so simply because they haven’t learned how to take pictures of images that they want to retain in their minds for future use. In other words, once you learn how to...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of the lives and actions of the several personages that are made successively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely the story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has spa...

Nero is a dramatic tragedy by Stephen Phillips that delves into the life and reign of the infamous Roman Emperor Nero. The play presents a richly poetic and theatrical exploration of power, ambition, and moral decay, painting a vivid portrait of a ruler whose excesses lead to his downfall.The story traces Nero's descent into tyranny, marked by political machinations, personal betrayals, and acts of cruelty. At the heart of the drama is Nero's struggle with his own conscience and his relent...

In this book Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern. Sankara's commentaries on the Upanisads are a core of the Vedanta tradition and Aurobindo is a towering figure of 20th-century Hindu thought. This is the first time their approaches have been studied together.The Isa (c. 500 BCE) an “Upanisad” belongs to a genre of “

The book An ABE’s Logbook by author Stephen D. Phillips is a true story of accounts taken from his childhood and the written entries from his personal journals he kept while he served in the United States Navy from 1985 to 2005. The story begins in his childhood as he attended junior high school at Rosemont Middle School in Fort Worth, Texas, attending there from the sixth to eighth grades. These years and their events shaped and molded his life. The encouragement of family, with their lov...

A he and she, in the full flush of middle age, meet and spend one day together. It becomes a lifetime. In a tiny terrace house in the heart of London, they create together their very own rural idyll. They breed chickens, ducks, cockatiels, guinea pigs, and cats, and fill the pocket-handkerchief garden with fruit and flowers, sharing the house, garden, and their life with Wellington, a large black Newfoundland. Their life becomes one of life and death, a story of struggle, of hope and dread...

When a young mason is thrown from the top of a new building in London’s Templar Citadel, what initially looks like an accident suddenly starts to look suspicious to Gervase Pitt.Thirteenth century building sites were notoriously dangerous, but Gervase's record is exemplary. The master carpenter and architect realises this might be indicative of a wider problem facing his building project.More deaths and a kidnapping leads him and his family to the murky world of crime withi...

Opryland USA attracted millions of visitors each year and gave many celebrities their first taste of show business. As the "Home of American Music," Opryland USA still lives on in the hearts and minds of those who visited this show that made country music famous. By the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium - the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry - was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the "show that made country mus...

The year is AD1213. After returning from two years away from London. Gervase Pitt is surprised – and nervous – to be called to the Tower of London to meet the lord chancellor. After all, he was involved in the death of one of his spies, in France, as well as confidante to a disgraced baron who was living there in exile. If put to the question, he would have to reveal information of interest to King John.Surprisingly, however, he is invited to undertake a highly secret task at the T...

When a young woman discovers Magna Carta did nothing to benefit the poor – or women – she sets out to educate herself about the reasons. Unfortunately, in AD 1217, women can’t legally attend university.At 14, Ann Pitt refuses be deterred by inconvenient details like the law. She finds a way to achieve her goals with the help of one of the most powerful women in the country: Nicholaa de la Haye, Castellan of Lincoln Castle.All is going well until – as has happened to her par...

Being hanged, in early 13th Century London, was a slow and painful process of strangulation. But for a shy fourteen-year-old with little grasp on the ways of the world, it was terrifying. Especially when he was innocent of the murder of which he was accused. Indeed, apprentice goldsmith Nick Pitt hardly understood what had happened to his master, or why he was accused of his callous slaying.The last thought in his mind, as the rope tightened around his slender neck, was of his fami...

In 1201, a young carpenter, Gervase Pitt, discovers the corpse of a Royal Messenger in the foundations of a new building he’s designed for the Knights Templar in London. The documents in his leather pouch could alter the shape of English history.He is subsequently thrown into a series of events which could result in the loss of King John’s throne and threaten the stability of the realm.His life, and that of his adopted son are at risk. So too is his wife, who is kidnapped b...