John Powell
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Practically a second volume of the author's "Romance of the Colorado river". cf. Pref. The only detailed account of the second descent of the Colorado river under the leadership of J. W. Powell. The narrative of the first Expedition of 1869 was published by the Smithsonian institution in 1875 in a report issued under title: Exploration of the Colorado river of the West and its tributaries.
4) United 93
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Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able...
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Hiccup is a Viking teenager who aspires to hunt dragons, but doesn't exactly fit in with his tribe's longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. His world gets turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.