"Be always sure you're right, then go ahead" - that was the motto he lived by. He was a sharpshooter, scout, Indian fighter, hunter and congressman. He lived bravely and he died bravely. He was the symbol of the great American frontier-its courage and its daring, its honesty and its humor. He was a hero in his lifetime; he became a legend after his death. But no legend can match the excitement of his life - the life of Davy Crockett!
Non-Fiction,Still only 24, Lionel Messi is on course to become the greatest soccer player of all time. The 2009 and 2010 FIFA Player of the Year, he is fast, elusive, and mesmerizing. Nominated by Maradona as successor to his No. 10 Argentina shirt, he is already set for football divinity.
The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
Author explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy--by cracking the genome of her own family.
TMS - Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend Professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay (College of William and Mary) 14 lectures [30 minutes/lecture]
The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. We’ll look at how the Grail was invented as a powerful literary symbol in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by a group of medieval romancers who celebrated the Grail as a symbol of perfection.
In
