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Book giveaway...and Halloween thrills

Check out a contest for free books and find out which romance authors have books to thrill at Halloween. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-3098-Houston-Romance-Novels-Examiner~y2009m10d28-Free-booksand-thrills Enjoy! Teri Continue

Added by Teri Thackston on October 28, 2009 at 8:46am — No Comments

Old South, Champagne for Jacob and Flaubert

Researching a legend Part 4 Griffin Slave Sale and Magnolias. Griffin, Georgia Doc Holliday’s birthplace is right smack in the middle of the Old South. And while the city has grown and taken on a more modern look, some of the buildings from the 1800’s are still standing beside the modern, and from time to time you might get a touch of nostalgia when you smell the magnolias. Among the buildings built in the 1800’s is the Byington Hotel, located at Broadway and Hill; another is a two-stor… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 8, 2009 at 2:36pm — No Comments

Mine that Bird and the Legendary Seabiscuit

Mine that Bird and the Belmont It was announced over the weekend that Rachel Alexandra will not run in the Belmont Stakes this Saturday and thus will deny the match up most people had hoped for. Not to worry though, there will be a race on Saturday and Mine that Bird winner of the Kentucky Derby and second in the Preakness will be out to make a statement. However, we’ll first have to get past the flap his jockey Borel caused with an over confident remark, ‘We’re going to win it, no quest… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on June 3, 2009 at 2:13pm — 3 Comments

Doc Holliday, Val Kilmer and Amazon Reviews

Inside Doc Holliday’s World Doc Holliday’s Road to Tombstone: Tuberculosis, the road west and Sister Melanie. False accusations and outright lies aimed to darken the Holliday legend was not lost on journalist, Lucy Caldwell and producer, Bobby Anderson. They were convinced that the true Holliday legend was hidden beneath a veneer that Dime Store novels had drawn and Hollywood perpetuated. Lucy and Bobby worked independently, searching for the real Doc Holliday, but success comes on… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on May 27, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Palm's Inn - It's a Darker Kind Of Fairy Tale

Palm's Inn By Samantha Foster In a desperate attempt to save a boy from drowning, Jake Taylor dives in to save him. Yet the two them mysteriously disappear with out Trace. His fiance and family search the entire complex finding no sign of either of the lost boys. Two weeks later Jake returns to Palm's Inn. His father finds him crawling out o the pool half dead and half human. He finds him self changed into a kind of mermaid. though to all the guests of Palm's Inn jake's rather odd and unexpla… Continue

Added by Samie Foster on February 11, 2009 at 9:06pm — No Comments

Bermuda Triangle, Kaufman, Thalberg and Sheldon

Bermuda Triangle: Excerpt from The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Part One of Two: Hundreds of stories have been told about the Bermuda Triangle, sometimes called The Devils Triangle. That area of strange happenings begins at Bermuda and runs south to Puerto Rico, east to South Florida and back to Bermuda. Some expand that area to include the Outer Banks off North Carolina and Virginia. Of course those strange happenings inside the triangle didn’t begin in the… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on December 10, 2008 at 2:06pm — No Comments

Flight 19 and David Selznick

2008 Hurricane Season The 2008 hurricane season had no catastrophic events such as Andrew or Katrina, although it did have its moments. The numbers were high for a single season with Tropical Storms and Hurricane names running from Arthur to Omar. Several left indelible marks and while Fay never became a full blown hurricane she brought heavy rains during her eight day sojourn through Florida and spent another two days in Alabama and Mississippi. Hanna, Ike and Josephine were memorable be… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on December 3, 2008 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Veterans and Tombstone Lawyers

Truth has no special time of it’s own. Its hour is now-always. Albert Schweitzer 2008 Hurricane Watch: Straight from AccuWeather.com It is November, and the official season fast approaches the end with Nov. 30 being the final day. Of course, this doesn't mean that storms cannot form past this time, but climatologically speaking it is not very likely. This leads to the idea that it is also difficult for storms to form in November in general and when they do, they struggle to last… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on November 12, 2008 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Hurricane Season Ebbs and Post Gunfight Tension Grows

2008 Hurricane Watch Current hurricane activity: AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center reported Saturday morning November 1, 2008 ‘Well, as we move through the month of November, we have just 30 more days until the official end of hurricane season, but with this time of year formation of storms becomes increasingly difficult. Largely the water temperatures are dropping off quickly, but shear also increases overall throughout the region. Such is the case at this time. Shear values are quite hi… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on November 5, 2008 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Flying High and a Moment With John Steinbeck

Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. Lou Holtz 2008 Hurricane Watch The Atlantic Basin has been quiet for the past week, however there is one disturbed area near the Lesser Antilles, which is moving toward the eastern Caribbean. Hurricane Center forecasters are watching for further development. Stay tuned. Attention Airline passengers: You are a passenger aboard an airliner flying at 30, 000 feet. Outside the pressurized cabin you wouldn’t… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on October 29, 2008 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Hurricane Watch 2008,1945 and Writers Notebook

Hurricane Watch 2008, 1945 and Writers Notebook Hurricane Watch 2008 Since Hurricane Ike died on Monday September 15th there has been a lull in tropical activity. However a tropical wave did appear in the eastern Caribbean in the vicinity of the Lesser Antilles on Friday September 19th generating thunderstorms and rain showers. And since then the system has moved around the area paying visits to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the British Virgin Islands. Since Ike hit Galveston,… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on September 24, 2008 at 2:09pm — No Comments

Fay Couldn't Get Enough of Florida

2008 Hurricane Watch Before Fay had a name the system that was to become Fay was spotted some 600 miles east of the Lesser Antilles Islands around the 12th of August. Then moving generally west and passing Puerto Rico, Haiti and Cuba the system grew and acquired Tropical Storm status and was named Fay. Then by Monday morning August 18th Fay was located 70 miles southeast of Key West with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and moving north-northwest at 15 mph. Fay gave a pretty solid jab at Key We… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on August 27, 2008 at 4:55pm — No Comments

The Meandering Fay and a Tip from Ferber

2008 Hurricane Watch My hurricane report each Wednesday is essentially a recap of a daily log I keep during hurricane season. The first hint of Fay was reported in my entry Monday August 11th, and that was not much of a clue: ‘Atlantic Basin and Eastern Caribbean shows showers and thunderstorm activity – nothing more.’ The Tuesday entry added a bit of drama: ‘Keep an eye on a system located 600 miles east of the Lesser Antilles – low pressure, cloudy, rain and thunderstorms.’ Last Wednesday’s p… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on August 20, 2008 at 4:46pm — 1 Comment

Where Hurricanes Gather and the Birth of a Legend

2008 Hurricane Watch Here is a thumbnail sketch of weather patterns around the Atlantic Basin and Caribbean since last Wednesday. Thursday August 7: Thunderstorm and rain in the Bahamas and South Florida. Friday through Monday not much storm activity. Tuesday: Keeping watch on system located east of the Lesser Antilles – low pressure, cloudy, thunderstorms and rain. Today, August 13: Tropical systems continue to grow in area located 300 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. Watch and wait. Back to… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on August 13, 2008 at 2:35pm — No Comments

Gulf Storms 2008 and The Search 1945

2008 Hurricane Watch Since last Wednesday’s post and the demise of Hurricane Dolly the Miami Hurricane Center has focused its attention on an area in the Western Caribbean near Honduras and Nicaragua, which turned out to be nothing. And the Atlantic Basin remained quiet until Sunday morning August 3rd when three systems cropped up in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. However, later in the day things began to sort themselves out as one of the systems developed into a Tropical Depression, and was quic… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on August 6, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Earthquake! Stay Put or Run For Your Life

The first few seconds of a quake you think – what the… Then it dawns. It’s a quake. How big? Stay put or run? If you are inside -- move under a door jam. Outside – get to a clear area. Not under a tree or light pole. Yesterday’s quake that hit the Los Angeles area gave us the longest fifteen to twenty seconds of shock since 1994. I live near the epicenter of the Northridge quake of 1994 and the one yesterday was mild in comparison. Actually the geologist termed yesterday’s quake moderate. Howev… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 30, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Up the Atlantic With Hurricane Bertha

2008 Hurricane Watch Every year stories about the Bermuda Triangle keep cropping up. Early this hurricane season several tales about the triangle surfaced but were obscured by the powerful Hurricane Bertha making its way from the African Coast toward the resort islands of the Caribbean. And while Bertha packed some powerful winds she did a kindness to the resort islands and made a right turn up the Atlantic skirting the southeastern leg of the Bermuda Triangle. Now while that might have subdued… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 16, 2008 at 3:31pm — No Comments

A Hurricane Called Bertha and Gone With the Wind

2008 Hurricane Watch The strong tropical wave reported last Wednesday July 2nd off the African coast was real enough to cause some alarm. Over the next several days the wave intensified and by July 5th had the strength of a Tropical Storm with sustained winds of 50 mph and was named Bertha. Fortunately the storm was over open water and while she grew her winds were not directed at any land mass. On the 6th the storm became worrisome, not for her wind speed but for direction. Traveling almost due… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 9, 2008 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Coming Storm and the Lure of Hollywood

2008 Hurricane Watch Present activity in the Atlantic Basin is almost zero, but a look to the west gives a slightly different picture. A strong and organized tropical wave has developed off the coast of Africa and over a period of days, if favorable conditions should prevail, we might see trouble moving toward the Caribbean. However to complete the face of today and yesterday we’ll go back to this same time period during the year of 1945 -- the first season of the Hurricane Hunters. A short exce… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on July 2, 2008 at 5:28pm — No Comments

Round Up The Usual Suspects

No Triple Crown Winner in 2008 The long shot Da’ Tara was not supposed to win the Belmont Stakes last Saturday – that spot was reserved for Big Brown. There was one problem – BB no showed. Oh, he was on the track but in no mood to run. Da’ Tara on the other hand was early out of the gate, took the lead and Alan Garcia’s masterful hold on the reins held Da’ Tara to a reasonable pace and led all the way to the finish line. The win gave trainer Nick Zito his 3rd Belmont Stakes win in the past five… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on June 11, 2008 at 5:40pm — No Comments