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  Footynotes

  Chris Kamara

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  This book is the result of many Friday evenings during the football season when Chris Kamara, preparing himself for commentaries the following day, and Richard Digance met up for a few beers and long chats about the sport they love. Either at Richard's house in the south when Kammy was at Frattan Park or St Mary's the following day, or at Kammy's house in Wakefield where Richard would stop off en route to filming his numerous appearances on Channel 4's Countdown, they began piecing together the content for this book of football trivia.

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  Branch Line Empires - The...

  Michael Bezilla, Luther Gette

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  The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice 
   
  The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. 
   
  The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad affiliate, invaded the region in the 1880s, first seeking a dependable, long-term source of coal to fuel its locomotives but soon aggressively attempting to break its rival’s lock on transporting the area’s immense wealth of mineral and forest products. 
   
  Beginning around 1900, the two companies transitioned from an era of growth and competition to a time when each tacitly recognized the other’s domain and sought to achieve maximum operating efficiencies by adopting new technology such as air brakes, automatic couplers, all-steel cars, and diesel locomotives. Over the next few decades, each line began to face common problems in the form of competition from other forms of transportation and government regulation—and in 1968, the two businesses merged. 
   
  Branch Line Empires offers a thorough and captivating analysis of how a changing world turned competition into cooperation between two railroad industry titans. 
   
  Includes photographs

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  Winter Living Style

  Selina Lake

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  Transform your home into a beautiful, elegant and welcoming haven, inspired by the romantic charm of winter.

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  Carriers at War 1939–1945

  Adrian Stewart

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  The author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars.  Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese became front-runners.The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of WW2 with the loss of HMS Courageous and Glorious but, following successes at Taranto and Matapan, the value of carriers was no longer in doubt.  The sinking of Bismarck and the cataclysmic Pearl Harbor attack signaled the end of the Battleship era.  Stung by such spectacular losses the US Navy threw its weight behind the carrier concept and the naval war in the Pacific (Guadalcanal, East Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz, Midmay and Leyte Gulf) revolved round carrier-borne aircraft.Meanwhile the carrier became pivotal in protecting vital convoys in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean.  The author backs his arguments with copious examples of naval and air action.

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  Mr Pikes: The Story Behind The...

  Matt Trollope, Tony Pike

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  From a poverty-stricken, sexually abused child to a globe-trotting, hedonistic and unapologetic international playboy, Mr Pikes‘ life was the definition of a rollercoaster. And at his world-renowned Rock 'n' Roll hotel (Pikes) in Ibiza, ANYTHING went. Partying hard, taking drugs, ripping clothes off A-list celebrities, enjoying the wildest sexual fantasies humanly possible... These were all on the daily order! And by listening to this autobiography, you now have the chance to embark on this exciting journey.Yes, the legendary Mr Ibiza has had a long life. But it STILL seems like he‘s lived 100 average lifetimes!Some of these mind-boggling stories will have you sitting on the edge of your chair, never wanting to leave. 
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  The Times  
  Much-married, hedonistic hotel owner who partied hard with many a pop star and was known as the Hugh Hefner of Ibiza; John Donne may have written that no man is an island, but Tony Pike came close. Known as Mr Ibiza, he was the embodiment of Balearic hedonism, a brash, hard-drinking, drug-taking philanderer whose way with women would have made even the love poet blush. 
    
  New York Times Post 
  Ibiza legend who founded legendary celeb hangout Pikes Ibiza and helped turn island into party paradise 
    
  The Independent  
  The resort, now known as Pikes Ibiza, was built, founded and run by Mercury's friend Tony Pike, an English-born Australian adventurer and playboy who had turned a ruined farmhouse into Spain's beacon hotel for sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. 
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  The incredible story of Tony Pike. 

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  The Magpies Quiz Book - 1000...

  Mart Matthews

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  How much do you really know about the club you love? You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up this Newcastle United Quiz Book.
  It's not often that books on football make reference to Catch-22, Bob Dylan, Queen Victoria, the Boat Race, Monty Python, EastEnders, LA Confidential, the Beatles and the Likely Lads, but this one does!
  Try these for size:
  1. When Newcastle United reached successive FA Cup finals in 1998 and 1999, which club did they knock out of the competition in both seasons?
  2. Although Newcastle United came out on the wrong end of those two magnificent 4-3 encounters with Liverpool at Anfield in the mid-90s, their contribution will always be remembered. Who scored for them in both games?
  3. Which three successive Newcastle United managers had all won the European Cup/Champions League as players?

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