Phoenix Rising: The Rise and Fall of the American RepublicPhoenix Rising, 2008 - 600 pages In an age when the supply of gasoline to feed this modern American society has become both more expensive and more scarce questions are being pondered. Inquires like, How can a modern society scale back its dependence on gasoline as a motive source?' Are there genuine alternative power sources?' Are they the answer to a growing crisis?' Recent announcements of hybrids like those from Honda, Toyota, and Ford have really brought attention to this issue. Hybrids that use both gasoline engines and electric motors. Really, though, alternative power sources have been around for as long as the automobile has been. The battle between and among the steam car, the electric and the gas car was fought out in the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. This book explores the ins and outs of that battle. A struggle from which the gasoline car emerged completely victorious. To such an extent that steam cars and electric cars virtually disappeared from the scene for many decades. We will look over all three alternatives, exploring their advantages and disadvantages. We will also look over the obstacles to the steamers and the electrics. Barriers that still exist to a certain extent. Handicaps that caused their disappearance in the first place. |
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... organized crime in America after the Civil War. And in religion, we find that many apostate churches, or cults, grew out this period of our history. Since the bible was now considered “fallible,” due to our discoveries of natural ...
... organizations to seize great opportunities through government intervention into less powerful nations. In order to achieve this money supply was constricted causing economic hardship (antithesis). After 20 years of attempting to achieve ...
... organization. They give money to charity, espouse equality of individuals and most lodges have a constitutional declaration in the belief of an ambiguous Supreme Being. Many lodges have three degrees of membership through which ...
... organization and after the Civil War many would come out of Ohio chapters. Also consider that Freemason Mark Hanna was from Ohio, where his childhood friend John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil. They continued a life-long friendship ...
... organization may be found in the quotations of high ranking leaders. So now let's allow them testify themselves about their own organization. Let's begin with what Captain Morgan, wrote in, “Illustrations of Masonry”: “Masonry gives ...