5/31/2023 0 Comments A history of tractors in ukrainianThe mine-clearing tractor, fitted with an old set of rollers at the front to trip the mines, did run over one anti-tank device, and the armour plating was blown off.īut with everyone well clear of the explosion the equipment was able to be restored and repaired, ready for reuse, added Mr Kryvtsov. Mr Kryvtsov told the Reuters news agency: “We started doing this just because the crop-sowing time has come and we can’t do anything because the rescue services are very busy.” This has meant many farmers in the affected regions are forced to wait for specialist mine-clearing units to make fields safe before they can get on with planting crops. See also: Ukrainian farmer uses tractor to ‘steal’ Russian tankĪbout 30% of land in Ukraine has been left with mines in the ground laid by Russian forces, according to prime minister Denys Shmyhal. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka - Penguin Books Australia Published: 15 June 2017 ISBN: 9780241981443 Imprint: Penguin General UK Format: Paperback Pages: 336 RRP: 22. The tractor is controlled remotely by an operator sitting high up in a nearby digger bucket (at the top of the picture). Ukrainian farmer Oleksandr Kryvtsov has armour-plated one of his tractors using metal scavenged from damaged Russian military vehicles, and is using it to clear mines from arable fields ahead of planting. Oleksandr Kryvtsov’s mine-clearing tractor © Reuters/Vitalii Hnidyi
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This is a novel worth getting seriously excited about.Īward-winning author Kameron Hurley has sold two new science-fiction novels, to Simon and Schuster’s new genre imprint Saga Press. Follow along for the official press release, and an interview about the new deal and The Stars are Legion with Kameron Hurley. It is the first of two science-fiction novels purchased by Joe Monti at Saga Press from Kameron Hurley. I’m excited to announce that Saga Press will be publishing Kameron Hurley’s The Stars Are Legion, a stand alone space opera, in 2016. “It’s like Mad Max meets Henry V but aboard a world-sized Weyland-Yutani spaceship.” Joe Monti, Executive Editor at Saga Press She won two Hugo Awards (one for her essay, We Have Always Fought: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle, and Slaves’ Narrative, published by A Dribble of Ink), The Mirror Empire, the first volume of the Worldbreaker trilogy made waves in the wake of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, and, now, she’s just jumped the queue and started making news for 2016 already. Kameron Hurley, author of The Mirror Empire and The Stars Are LegionIf you breathe air and read science fiction in 2014, you’ve likely heard of Kameron Hurley. 5/31/2023 0 Comments 438 days by jonathan franklinBut Alvarenga developed a method of survival that kept his body and mind intact long enough for the Pacific Ocean to spit him up onto a remote palm-studded island. He considered suicide on multiple occasions - including offering himself up to a pack of circling sharks. Not one stopped for the stranded fisherman. Three dozen cruise ships and container vessels passed nearby. When he was washed ashore on January 30th, 2014, he had drifted over 9,000 miles. Alvarenga would not touch solid ground again for fourteen months. The storm picked up and carried him West, deeper into the heart of the Pacific Ocean. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea. On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. The incredible true survival story of one man's record-breaking fourteen months lost at sea. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Asimov the gods themselvesIn the first part of the book, we’re introduced to a radiochemist called Frederick Hallam. Scientists in our world work very closely with aliens, and there’s no suggestion that the aliens want to hurt humans. We know there’s such a thing as a parallel universe, and humans have established relationships with leaders around the cosmos. Humanity has found a way to communicate with aliens in other worlds. The Gods Themselves takes place in the early 22nd-century. In his books, he often explores scientific questions from a historical perspective. He once served as Vice President of Mensa International and President of the American Humanist Association. Asimov is an internationally-bestselling author with an asteroid named after him. The book won numerous awards including the 1972 Nebula Award and the 1973 Hugo Award. If humanity doesn’t stop cultivating this source, the whole solar system will collapse. Published in 1972, the book follows a handful of characters who must convince the world that Earth’s latest renewable energy source is killing the planet. The Gods Themselves is a science fiction book by Isaac Asimov. She notes that ‘by their very nature the lares were the easiest gods to share with a slave or a freedman’. She discusses the history, development and expression of the worship of the lares and especially its contribution to social cohesion as it spread out from individual households to the neighbourhood ( vicus) being celebrated in the Compitalia (the festival at the compitum-the street corner of the subtitle), providing local community leaders with a sense of being valued, in spite of their often low social status. This careful study by F., Professor of Classics at Princeton, does not challenge this basic understanding indeed, she herself uses the words ‘affection and reverence’, backed up by reference to ‘numerous ancient authors’. The lares may not have ranked high in the pantheon’s pecking order, but were regarded with affection and reverence, benign deities who, in return for a small shrine and regular little acts of devotion, would see you right, especially at the key stages in your life cycle. Most who enjoyed a classical education will remember the lares as the household gods of the Roman world, closely associated with the penates (ancestral gods) and the genius (the protective spirit of place or person). |