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The Prince and the Plunder How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia


Free Download The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia by Andrew Heavens
English | June 6, 2023 | ISBN: 0750997362 | 272 pages | PDF | 9.56 Mb
Part revisionist history, part treasure hunt, this is the forgotten story of Ethiopia’s ‘Elgin Marbles’ and a young prince taken out of Africa to live in Victorian Britain

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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future, UK Edition


Free Download How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future, UK Edition by Iwan Rhys Morus
English | November 3rd, 2022 | ISBN: 1785789287 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 10.12 MB
By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological development brought about between 1800 and 1900 was completely unprecedented in human history. And as the Victorians looked to the skies and beyond as the next frontier to be explored and conquered, they were inventing, shaping and moulding the very idea of the future.

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Super Agent How I Took on the NFL and Won, and My Plan to Reform the NCAA


Free Download Super Agent: How I Took on the NFL and Won, and My Plan to Reform the NCAA by Dr. Jerry Argovitz, J. David Miller, Gary Dikeos
English | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00IITUY9C | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 14:11 h | 386 Mb
Super Agent. Maverick. Reformer. Iconoclast. Dealmaker. Dentist? Jerry Argovitz has worn many hats in his remarkable life, both inside and outside of the world of sports. As a player agent representing and advising some of the biggest names in the game, Argovitz challenged the NFL both at the negotiating table and in the courtroom, earning a reputation as one of the most powerful men in professional sports. He successfully negotiated the first million-dollar guaranteed contract in NFL history, wrote the language for career-ending insurance policy underwriting for Lloyds of London, and brokered the deal that brought Heisman Trophy-winner Herschel Walker to the upstart USFL as a junior, which opened the floodgates for all underclassmen to follow.
As the owner of the Houston Gamblers of the USFL, Argovitz helped to implement several rules which were subsequently adopted by the NFL, and served as a principal figure in a lawsuit against the NFL that proved the league was guilty of Sherman Antitrust violations. Now, Argovitz has a plan to reform the corrupt world of college sports, a plan he will share in this eye-opening book.

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