Kirjahaku

This is the story of the USA's first track and field medal winner in the 1924 Paris Olympics when the American flag would fly above an Olympic stadium for the first time. Once timesaving innovations gave Americans leisure time, the golden age of sports emerged. Enter Gene Oberst. Born with a disability, it took a haphazard event involving a stray javelin to make the entire world, and Gene himself, realize he was more than a bookworm--he- was a natural-born athlete.Growing up in a Twain-like, Ohio River town, the ideals of his large, self-sustaining family and their dedication to educate themselves fed Gene's persistent and diligent nature. That determination led him to play college football for the National Championship, Notre Dame team under legendary coach Knute Rockne where he played with the Gipper and perhaps the most renowned backfield of the century, the Four Horsemen. Then he went on to the highest achievement for athletes--the Olympics.Including fascinating stories taken directly from Gene's Olympic journal, this biography offers a firsthand, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most persistent and innovative athletes of the 1900s and the other pioneering athletes and iconic coaches who shared in his success and led the way to football's glorious future and America's fascination with the Olympics.Covering the journeys Gene's ancestors took during their emigration to America from Germany to Gene's time journeying to the epic Chariots of Fire Olympics in Paris, follow the story of the miraculous and obstacle-defying life of American Olympian Gene Oberst.

When venture capitalists steal his lucrative app, Rand seeks solace on a backpacking expedition to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where he slips and is swept into the turbulent rapids. Nearly drowned, battered, and bruised, he seeks refuge in a hidden cave, where glowing lights lure him further in, and a mysterious galvanic force overcomes him. Barely able to move, he wakes in the bed of a beautiful maiden who nurses him back to health. While recovering, her father, Ireland's first printer, teaches him the revolutionary printing profession. At their sponsor, King Edward's castle, Rand meets the beguiling Marie, a captivating, French royal, bibliomaniac with whom all the lords-including the formidable knight, Reginald, are infatuated. Marie induces him to compete in the Games, where he wins her favor-along with a formidable foe. Rand has one advantage though-a downloaded copy of Wikipedia on his i-phone, which he must access judiciously before the battery dies. The Time Traveler series steps back to a time when printing technology revolutionized Europe, when for the first time books were printed in English. Before they are lost to the ravages of time, our hero searches for priceless, ancient manuscripts to preserve for posterity, during a time when Isabella frees Spain, Columbus discovers America, Henry the VIIIth assumes the throne and the Renaissance blooms. To see a presentation of this book and the series, including a brief history of printing technology and how it led to the spread of civilization follow this YouTube link: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SGCLbvtUf0