David Dyer
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Language
English
Description
As the "Titanic" and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the "SS Californian" sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the "Titanic" fired. The next morning, the "Titanic" was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Uncooked is the newest comedic effort from David Dyer. "Effort" makes it sounds like he's really trying this time...and he is. Recorded on the Saturday after Thanksgiving at Dr. Grins in Grand Rapids, MI, Dyer takes advantage of a crowd saturated with tryptophan and whiskey to create a festive and grateful environment. Topics spanning from game shows to lawn care are covered carte blanche. It's an intimate recording where all of the nuances that make...
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras used at the time, the look of the Great War has traditionally been grainy, blurred, and monochrome until now. The First World War presents a startlingly different perspective, one based on rare glass plate...
