C79 or C 79 may refer to Junkers Ju 52 , a transport aircraft and bomber manufactured from 1932 to 1945 by Junkers Corydoras loxozonus , a freshwater catfish C79 Optical Sight Ruy Lopez chess openings ECO code Secondary malignant neoplasm of other sites ICD 10 code Secondary malignant neoplasm of other sites code Night Work of Young Persons Non Industrial Occupations Convention, 1946 code Sun C79 a folk rock song by Cat Stevens from his 1974 album, Buddha and the Chocolate Box Letter NumberCombDisambig ... more details
refimprove date March 2011 Image C79 Elcan mounted on C7A1.JPG thumb 250px A C79 Optical Sight The C79 Optical sight is a small arms telescopic sight of 3.4x28 magnification. A Tritium illumination Small arms sights tritium illuminated reticle provides for normal and low light conditions sighting. The sight itself is Nitrogen purged to prevent fogging and is covered with an armoured coating of rubber . It can be mounted to a variety of rifles and light machine guns using the M1913 Picatinny rail ... product name is the SpecterOS3.4x , although in Canadian service, it is typically referred to as the C79 ... soldier whose C7A1 assault rifle is equipped with a C79 The Elcan C79 is the primary sighting system ... C7A1 and A2 rifles come equipped with a C79 sight as standard. The C7A1 uses a C79 sight, which is easily ... who used the sight, Elcan produced the fourth generation mount C79, known as the C79A2, and is mounted ... s. Reticle The reticle of the C79 sight was designed to serve on the C9 Light Machine Gun, thus ... brightness due to radioactive decay . Citation needed date January 2012 Operation Image ELCAN C79 2.jpg thumb right C79 3.4x28 sight adjustment controls The C79 sight is attached to a mounting rail ... adjust the sight by about 2.5cm . Sighting in a C79 sight is normally done at a range of 200 m. Windage ... of the C79. Elevation ballistics Elevation adjustments are made via a rotary knob and are adjusted ... of 75m. It has been noted that the external adjustments mount is an Achilles heel of the C79 since it can ... InReviews ELCAN C79.asp Technical Evaluation ELCAN C79 scope ref Dimensions Length x Width x ... on some of its M4 Carbine s. M145 Machine Gun Optic The M145 Machine Gun Optic is a variant of the C79 ... States Army s common equivalent of the C79. References Reflist pdflink http www.coltcanada.com ... C79 Product Page http www.snipercountry.com InReviews ELCAN C79.asp Technical Evaluation ELCAN C79 scope DEFAULTSORT C79 Optical Sight Category Firearm sights ... more details
ELCAN Ernst Leitz Canada is a Canada Canadian optics and electronics company owned by Raytheon . The company manufactures devices for civilian and military markets. The company has locations in Midland, Ontario , Richardson, Texas and M laga , Spain . Image ELCAN C79 2.jpg thumb right 300px ELCAN C79 3.4x28 sight ELCAN is perhaps best known for making the 3.4x28 power ELCAN C79 optical sight used on the Diemaco C7 , FN MINIMI and FN MAG series of firearm s. The C79 sight is not designed as a sniper sight per se, but is rather intended to be mounted on a variety of rifles and to be used by regular infantrymen as well as designated marksmen . Another version of basically the same sight is the M145 machine gun optic. The M145 differs from the standard 3.4x sight in that ballistic compensation is provided for in the reticle, rather than in the mount. Reticle illumination is by a battery powered LED with eleven intensity settings. External links official http www.elcan.com Category Raytheon Category Firearm sights Category Electronics companies of Canada tech company stub nl Elcan zh ELCAN ... more details
Orphan date November 2006 Lerata is a village in northern Kenya , between Marsabit and Shaba, Kenya . It is in an area populated by the Samburu people . Lerata is located along the A2 road Kenya A2 road , not far north of Archer s Post . The C79 road towards Maralal and Baragoi has its eastern end in Lerata ref http www.publicworks.go.ke downloads Maps Samburu.pdf Samburu District Classified Road Network ref . Lerata is part of the Waso East ward in Samburu East Constituency and Samburu County Council of Samburu District ref Electoral Commission of Kenya http www.eck.or.ke downloads pollingcentres.pdf Registration centres by electoral area and constituency ref . References Reflist coord 0 48 N 37 31 E region KE type city display title Category Populated places in Rift Valley Province Category Samburu District RiftValleyKE geo stub sw Lerata sv Lerata ... more details
Infobox Weapon name AG C EGLM image Image Diemaco C8 carabine with Elcan C79 sight and grenade launcher.jpg 250px caption A member of the Netherlands Marine Corps Combat Support Batt 7th NL SBS armed with a Diemaco C8 Diemaco C8A1 carbine with C79 Optical Sight Elcan C79 sight and Heckler & Koch AG NL grenade launcher origin flag Germany type Grenade Launcher Type selection is ranged yes is bladed is explosive yes is artillery is vehicle is UK Service history service used by See Heckler & Koch AG C GLM Users Users wars Production history designer Heckler & Koch design date manufacturer Heckler & Koch unit cost production date number variants AG NL, M320 grenade launcher General specifications weight convert 1.5 kg lb 2 abbr on length convert 348 mm in abbr on part length convert 280 mm abbr on 1 width convert 89 mm abbr on 1 height convert 205 mm abbr on 1 crew Ranged weapon specifications cartridge 40 mm grenade 40x46mm caliber action Break action rate velocity range max range 400 m feed Breech loaded, single shot sights Folding ladder sight The AG C EGLM is a single shot 40 mm grenade 40 mm grenade launcher that attaches to any AR 15 type rifle, including the Heckler & Koch HK416 HK416 Heckler & Koch HK417 17 . It is manufactured by Heckler and Koch and is derived from the Heckler & Koch AG36 AG36 . EGLM stands for Enhanced Grenade Launching Module . A stand alone variant exists. The device attaches under the barrel firearms barrel and forward of the magazine firearm magazine . A separate sighting system is added to rifles fitted with the AG C EGLM , as the rifle s standard sights are not matched to the launcher. The AG C EGLM can fire high explosive , smoke, illuminating, buckshot direct fire, CS gas , and training grenades. Users flag Netherlands Use the AG NL variant designed for Colt Canada C7 rifle Diemaco C7 and C8 rifles. flag United Kingdom Under the designation L17A1 for use with the C8SFW L119A1 carbine and L17A2 SA80 L85 rifle . http www.answers.com topic ... more details
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Scourge HMS Scourge 1779 6 was a 14 gun brig sloop launched in 1779. In 1793 she captured the Sans Cullote and she foundered in 1795. HMS Scourge 1779 galley 6 was an 8 gun galley purchased in 1779 and listed until 1784. HMS Scourge 1794 6 was a 4 gun gunvessel, formerly a Dutch hoy boat hoy . She was purchased in 1794, renamed HMS Crash in 1803 and broken up that same year. HMS Scourge 1796 6 was a 22 gun sloop of war sloop , formerly the French Robuste . She was captured in 1796 and sold in 1802. HMS Scourge 1803 6 was a 16 gun sloop purchased in 1803 and sold in 1816. HMS Scourge 1844 6 was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1844 and broken up in 1865. HMS Scourge 1871 6 was an Ant class gunboat Ant class gunboat launched in 1871, renamed C79 as a dockyard craft in 1904, and was listed until 1930. HMS Scourge 1910 6 was a Beagle class destroyer Beagle class destroyer launched in 1910 and sold in 1921. HMS Scourge G01 6 was an S and T class destroyer S class destroyer launched in 1942. She was sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1946 and renamed HNLMS Evertsen , and was broken up in 1963. Shipindex DEFAULTSORT Scourge, Hms Category Royal Navy ship names ... more details
DISPLAYTITLE Corydoras loxozonus Taxobox name Corydoras loxozonus status NE status system iucn3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Actinopterygii ordo Siluriformes familia Callichthyidae subfamilia Corydoradinae genus Corydoras species C. loxozonus binomial Corydoras loxozonus binomial authority Han Nijssen Nijssen & Isa c J. H. Isbr cker Isbr cker , 1983 Corydoras loxozonus is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America , and is found in the Meta River basin in Colombia . ref name fishbase FishBase species genus Corydoras species loxozonus year 2011 month December ref In the system of C Numbers developed by the German fishkeeping magazine DATZ to identify undescribed species of Corydoras in the aquarium hobby, this fish had been assigned numbers C79 , C82 , and C83 until these stocks were correctly identified. ref name cnumbers cite web last Evers first Hans Georg title A system called C Numbers accessdate 2008 05 01 url http www.corydorasworld.com c numbers language english ref The fish will grow in length up to 1.9 inches 4.9 centimeters . It lives in a tropical climate in water with a 6.0 8.0 pH , a water hardness of 2 25 dGH , and a temperature range of 70 75 F 21 24 C . It feeds on worm s, benthic crustacean s, insect s, and plant matter. It lays eggs in dense vegetation and adults do not guard the eggs. The female holds 2 4 eggs between her pelvic fins, where the male fertilizes them for about 30 seconds. Only then does the female swim to a suitable spot, where she attaches the very sticky eggs. The pair repeats this process until about 100 eggs have been fertilized and attached. ref name fishbase See also List of freshwater aquarium fish species External links http www.fishbase.org Photos ThumbnailsSummary.php?ID 46106 Photos at Fishbase References reflist catfish stub Category Corydoras Category Freshwater fish of Colombia ca Corydoras lox ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Perfecto Presents Sandra Collins Part 2 Cover Type remix Artist Sandra Collins Released August 8, 2006 Genre Trance music Trance Length Approx. 102 minutes Label Thrive Records Sandra Collins Part 2 is a mixtape mix created by disc jockey DJ Sandra Collins . It was released in 2006 under the Perfecto Records Perfecto Label, which is owned by Paul Oakenfold . Track listing Disc One She s Hardcore TV Rock Mix Gary Gecko & Pigwboy Deep Throat Original Mix Andrea Doria The Tip Tom Neville Remix King Roc We Share Our Mothers Health Trentemoller Mix The Knife Love & Its Consequences Original Mix AAV Urban Minds Pacjam It Comes From Inside Trent Cantrelle Mix Low End Specialists Starwaves Spirit Catcher s Time Modulator Mix Esoterik I Feel Space Tomba Special Space Lindstrom Our Future Legacy Canukistani Bombs Mix BP Zulauf & Dean Dixon Disc Two Silent Violence Original Mix C79 Je T Aime JEE Remix Rocco Mundo & ONNO Past Will Be Future Flash Brothers Dogma DJ Tarkan Remix Siberian Son Closer With Molly Bancroft Gabriel & Dresden Sigh Salinas Dub Mix Carl Fath Munich Cicada Remix Editors Let Go With Molly Bancroft, Original Mix Gabriel & Dresden Not Alone Tonight Feat. Kenra Foster Blake Jerrell Club Mix Marscruiser Hammer & Tongs Blake Jerrell Remix Envotion Down In Me Cicada Remix Silencer Personnel Sandra Collins Mixing Category Techno albums Category Sandra Collins albums Category 2006 remix albums Category Double remix albums ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Stories of English title orig translator image Image The Stories Of English.jpg 200px image caption author David Crystal illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre English studies publisher Overlook TP UK release date 2004 media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages isbn 978 1585677191 dewey 427 22 congress PE1074.7 .C79 2005 oclc 61691094 preceded by followed by The Stories of English is a 2004 book by United Kingdom British linguistics linguist David Crystal it traces the history of the English language from the invasion of Great Britain by the Angles and Saxons in the 5th Century to the modern splintering of the language into its modern British English British , American English American , Indian English Indian , Australian English Australian , and other dialects . One primary focus of the book is a history of British English, from its Old English beginnings to Middle English , Early Modern English , and Modern English . Crystal also argues eloquently for the inclusion of dialects and non standard varieties of English. Even for the Old English period, he shows how the available evidence can be used to determine what dialectal variation existed. Finally, Crystal condemns what he sees as the over abundance of linguistic prescription in the study of English, especially that which existed from the 18th Century to the 20th. He speaks approvingly of the recent shift of focus in English language education away from prescriptivism. DEFAULTSORT Stories Of English Category 2004 books Category Linguistics books nonfiction book stub ... more details
Hans Johner 7 January 1889 in Basle , Switzerland 2 December 1975 in Thalwil , Switzerland was a Switzerland Swiss chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1950, having been Swiss Chess Championship Swiss Champion on a number of occasions. His heyday was in the 1930s when he won this title on six occasions in 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1938 . He played for Switzerland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924, and thrice in official Chess Olympiads 1927, 1931, and 1956 . Younger brother of Paul Johner . Musical career Hans Johner was also an accomplished musician, playing the viola and violin . Notable chess games http www.chessgames.com perl chessgame?gid 1007984 Alexander Alekhine vs Hans Johner, Z rich 1934, Spanish Game, Morphy Defense, Steinitz Deferred, C79, 1 0 http www.chessgames.com perl chessgame?gid 1008068 Hans Muller vs Hans Johner, Z rich 1934, King s Indian, E70, 0 1 References Brace, Edward R. 1977 , An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess , London Hamlyn Publishing. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Johner, Hans ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1889 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1975 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Johner, Hans Category 1889 births Category 1975 deaths Category Swiss chess players Category Chess International Masters Category Chess Olympiad competitors switzerland chess bio stub ca Hans Johner de Hans Johner it Hans Johner he pl Hans Johner ru , fi Hans Johner ... more details
Infobox treaty name Night Work Conventions long name C4, C6, C20, C41, C79, C89, C171 image image width caption type date drafted date signed 1919, 1925, 1934, 1946, 1948, 1990 location signed date sealed date effective 1921 1995 condition effective 2 ratifications date expiration signatories parties ratifiers depositor Director General of the International Labour Office language languages French and English wikisource Night Work Conventions are International Labour Organization International Labour Organization International Labour Conference Convention conventions regulating the rights of of night workers. They were specifically aimed at young persons, women or people in specific types of employment industrial, non industrial or bakeries and conceived between 1919 and 1948. A more general instrument not addressing young people however was signed in 1990. Ratifications An overview of ILO conventions and ratifications is shown below class wikitable sortable ILO code Field conclusion date entry into force closure for signature Parties br small May 2011 small Denunciations br small May 2011 revising convention s text and ratifications Conventions concerning Employment of Women during the Night C4 Women dts 28 November 1919 dts 13 June 1921 N.A. 27 31 C41, C89 http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex convde.pl?C004 Text , http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex ratifce.pl?C004 ratifications C6 Young persons in industry dts 28 November 1919 dts 13 June 1921 N.A. 50 9 C90 http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex convde.pl?C006 Text , http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex ratifce.pl?C006 ratifications C20 Bakeries dts 8 June 1925 dts 26 May 1928 N.A. 9 8 http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex convde.pl?C020 Text , http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex ratifce.pl?C020 ratifications C41 women revised dts 19 June 1934 dts 22 November 1936 dts 27 February 1951 15 23 C89 http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex convde.pl?C041 Text , http www.ilo.org ilolex cgi lex ratifce.pl?C041 ratifications C79 young persons non industrial dts ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Majikat, Earth Tour 1976 Type Live album Artist Cat Stevens Cover Cat Stevens Majikat.jpg Released 21 September 2004 Recorded 22 February 1976 at William & Mary College , Williamsburg, Virginia Genre Folk rock Length 78 09 Label Eagle Records Eagle Producer Rocky Oldham Last album Back to Earth Cat Stevens album Back to Earth br 1978 This album Majikat br 2004 Next album Gold Cat Stevens album Gold br 2005 Majikat is a live album and DVD by British singer songwriter Cat Stevens . It was recorded during the US leg of Stevens Earth Tour 1976, but was not released until 2004, by which time the artist was known as Yusuf Islam . Album reviews rev1 Allmusic rev1score Rating 3.5 5 Allmusic class album id r709835 pure url yes link Track listing All songs written by Cat Stevens , except where noted. Wild World 3 03 The Wind 1 38 Moonshadow song Moonshadow 2 43 Where Do the Children Play? 3 20 Another Saturday Night Sam Cooke 2 35 Hard Headed Woman 3 54 King of Trees 3 28 C79 3 08 Lady D Arbanville 3 47 Banapple Gas 3 08 Majik of Majiks 4 27 Tuesday s Dead 4 06 Oh Very Young 2 24 How Can I Tell You 4 10 The Hurt 4 54 Sad Lisa 3 26 Two Fine People 3 47 Fill My Eyes 3 01 Father and Son song Father and Son 4 10 Peace Train 3 58 Bonus track The concert encore, Wild World , appears on the DVD as a bonus feature. Personnel Cat Stevens guitar s, piano , vocals Alun Davies guitarist Alun Davies guitars, vocals Mark Warner guitarist Mark Warner guitars, bouzouki Bruce Lynch bass guitar Jean Roussel Hammond organ , clavinet , electric piano , synthesizer , piano Gerry Conway musician Gerry Conway drum kit drums , percussion instrument percussion Chico Batera percussion Larry Steele percussion, flute , acoustic guitar , bass guitar Kimberley Carlson backing vocals Angela Howell backing vocals Sue Lynch backing vocals Cat Stevens Category 2004 live albums Category Cat Stevens live albums de Majikat ... more details
The Dewar Chatt Duncanson model is a model in organometallic chemistry which explains the type of chemical bond ing between an alkene and a metal pi complex in certain organometallic compounds. The model is named after Michael J. S. Dewar , ref Dewar, M. Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 1951 , 1 8 , C79 ref Joseph Chatt and L. A. Duncanson . ref Olefin co ordination compounds. Part III. Infra red spectra and structure attempted preparation of acetylene complexes J. Chatt and L. A. Duncanson, J. Chem. Soc., 1953 , 2939 DOI 10.1039 JR9530002939 ref ref Directing effects in inorganic substitution reactions. Part I. A hypothesis to explain the trans effect J. Chatt, L. A. Duncanson, L. M. Venanzi, J. Chem. Soc., 1955 , 4456 4460 DOI 10.1039 JR9550004456 ref The pi acid alkene donates electron density into a metal d orbital from symmetry bonding orbital between the carbon atoms. The metal donates electrons back from a different filled d orbital into the empty sup sup antibonding orbital . Both of these effects tend to reduce the carbon carbon bond order, leading to an elongated C C distance and a lowering its vibrational frequency. In Zeise s salt K nowiki nowiki platinum Pt Cl sub 3 sub C sub 2 sub H sub 4 sub sup . sup H sub 2 sub O the C C bond length has increased to 134 picometre s from 133 pm for ethylene . In the nickel compound Ni CH sub 2 sub CH sub 2 sub PPh sub 3 sub sub 2 sub the value is 143 pm. The interaction also causes carbon atoms to rehybridise from Sp2 hybridization sp sup 2 sup towards Sp3 bond sp sup 3 sup , which is indicated by the bending of the hydrogen atoms on the ethylene back away from the metal. ref cite book last Miessler first Gary L. coauthors Donald A. Tarr year 2004 title Inorganic Chemistry publisher Pearson Education, Inc. Pearson Prentice Hall location Upper Saddle River, New Jersey isbn 0 13 035471 6 . ref In silico calculations show that 75 of the binding energy is derived from the forward donation and 25 from backdonation. ref Herrmann B ... more details
Infobox Book name Crystal Express title orig translator image Image Crystal express.jpg 200px image caption Dust jacket illustration by Rick Lieder for Crystal Express author Bruce Sterling illustrator Rick Lieder cover artist Rick Lieder country United States language English language English series subject genre Science fiction , Fantasy fiction fantasy publisher Arkham House release date 1989 english release date media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages 264 pp isbn 0 87054 158 7 dewey 813 .0876 19 congress PS3569.T3876 C79 1989 oclc 19352012 preceded by followed by Crystal Express is a collection of Science fiction and Fantasy fiction fantasy stories by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling . It was released in 1989 in literature 1989 by Arkham House . It was initially published in an edition of 4,231 copies and was the author s first book published by Arkham House. Many of the stories appeared in Isaac Asimov s Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , and the first five stories are set in Sterling s Shaper Mechanist universe . Contents Crystal Express contains the following stories Swarm Spider Rose Cicada Queen Sunken Gardens Twenty Evocations Green Days in Brunei Spook The Beautiful and the Sublime Telliamed The Little Magic Shop Flowers of Edo Dinner in Audoghast Reprints New York Ace, 1990. London Legend Century, 1991. References cite book last Chalker first Jack L. authorlink Jack L. Chalker coauthors Mark Owings title The Science Fantasy Publishers A Bibliographic History, 1923 1998 location Westminster, MD and Baltimore publisher Mirage Press, Ltd. pages 57 date 1998 cite book last Joshi first S.T. authorlink S.T. Joshi title Sixty Years of Arkham House A History and Bibliography location Sauk City, WI publisher Arkham House pages 159 date 1999 id ISBN 0 87054 176 5 cite book last Nielsen first Leon title Arkham House Books A Collector s Guide location Jefferson, NC and London publisher McFarland & Company, Inc. pages 135 date ... more details
Infobox locomotive name New South Wales Z13 class powertype Steam image arhs 1301.jpg caption 1301 on a special excursion near Minto builder serialnumber rebuilddate 1896 1902 numberrebuilt 20 whytetype 4 4 2T uicclass 2 B1 nt gauge RailGauge ussg leadingdiameter driverdiameter convert 5 ft 6 in m 3 abbr on trailingdiameter weightondrivers convert 66000 lb t abbr on locoweight convert 110000 lb t 0 abbr on boilerpressure convert 140 psi abbr on firearea convert 15 sqft m2 abbr on totalsurface convert 1075 sqft m2 abbr on superheatertype None cylindercount Two, outside cylindersize convert 18 x 24 in mm 0 abbr on tractiveeffort convert 14020 lbf kN 1 abbr on trainbrakes Air railroad New South Wales Government Railways railroadclass CC79 Z13 from 1924 disposition 3 preserved, 17 scrapped. The Z13 class was a class of steam locomotive built for and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia. History About 1896, due to a shortage of suburban engines in the Sydney area and the availability of surplus New South Wales Z12 class locomotive C79 class tender engines, it was decided to experimentally convert one of the tender locomotives to a tank type engine. The conversion proved successful and twenty such locomotives had been converted by 1902. Following the delivery of more modern locomotives from 1903, they went into the Hunter railway line Newcastle suburban traffic and when they were replaced there, they were allocated minor roles such as working the Morpeth, New South Wales Morpeth , Warren railway line Warren and Carlingford railway line Carlingford Branches. In later years their main duties were working of the Murwillumbah railway line Ballina Branch Ballina branch, the Picton Loop railway line Picton Mittagong Loop line, the Yass, New South Wales Yass Town branch and school trains in the upper North Coast railway line, New South Wales North Coast . Only three examples remain. 1301 and 1308 are with the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum , wh ... more details
forging. The mount can use traditional iron sights or the ELCAN Optical Technologies ELCAN C79 Optical ... aperture helps to speed target acquisition, Canadian soldiers generally forgo the C79 sight in favour ... C79 sight and grenade launcher.jpg 250px caption A member of the Netherlands Marine Corps Combat Support Batt 7th NL SBS armed with a Diemaco C8A1 carbine with C79 Optical Sight Elcan C79 sight and Heckler ... unchanged except for the upper receiver and the general inclusion of the C79 sight. C8A1s have ... C79 Optical Sight . Other C8 variants Three additional C8 variants exist. The C8CQB similar to the CQBR ... exclusively use the C7A1 and C8A2 with the Elcan C79 optical sight, while the Danish Home Guard use ... Special Forces . cn date February 2012 See also C79 optical sight FN Minimi Users C9 light machine ... more details
Infobox book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Crystal City title orig translator image Image OSCcrystalcity.jpg image caption Front cover. author Orson Scott Card cover artist country United States language English language English series The Tales of Alvin Maker genre Fantasy publisher Tor Books release date 2003 media type Print Hardcover & Paperback pages 416 pp isbn 0 312 86483 3 dewey 813 .54 21 congress PS3553.A655 C79 2003 oclc 52519083 preceded by Heartfire followed by Master Alvin The Crystal City 2003 is an alternate history fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card . It is the sixth book in Card s The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the Seventh son of a seventh son . Plot summary Alvin and Arthur stay at a boarding house where mixed blood children are cared for by Papa Moose and Momma Squirrel. While there, Alvin uses his knack to cleanse the mosquitoes and disease from a well. A young woman, whom the people call Dead Mary, sees what he has done and asks him to come with her and heal her mother, who has yellow fever . Because Alvin heals her, the Yellow Fever spreads throughout Nueva Barcelona, averting an impending war with the United States over slavery. As the fever spreads, people begin to suspect Papa Moose and Momma Squirrel because Alvin has been healing everyone he can, radiating outward through the city. Alvin is then approached by La Tia, an African woman, who wants him to help all the slaves and the displaced French to escape Nueva Barcelona. He reluctantly agrees. Alvin s brother, Calvin, at the behest of Alvin s wife, Margaret, comes to help. Calvin raises a thick fog while Alvin uses his blood magic he learned from the Red Prophet Tenskwatawa Tenskwa Tawa to construct a crystal bridge across lake Ponchartrain to the north. Arthur helps Alvin with the bridge. While the escapees flee north, they take food and provision from plantations along the way and free any slaves they find. Alvin goe ... more details
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