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(0)John Ireland
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A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him.
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"To summarise what has been indicated above, our aim should be complete deliverance from suffering, or stated positively, the unconditioned and perfect happiness of Nibbāna; to be differentiated from other forms of happiness which are imperfect because 'conditioned' by impermanence, and thus liable to revert to suffering when circumstances or 'the conditions' change. By an understanding of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism we are set in the right...
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The Dhammapada, a collection of 423 verses in 26 chapters, is perhaps the most famous of all Buddhist texts. It presents the Buddha's teachings in a clear and highly accessible form and has been used for personal instruction and teaching for centuries throughout the Buddhist world. It comes from the Khuddaka Nikaya section of the Pali Canon and is here collected with two other key texts from the same source.
The Udana ('inspired utterance') contains...
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THE MAGICAL SEASON: 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers and the 50th Anniversary of the Greatest Record in Pro Sports History," profiles the Los Angeles Lakers' first championship since moving to LA 15 years earlier, but also covers their record-setting 33-game winning streak that season. This record of 33 straight wins covering over two months of play, still stands unbroken even after 50 years. This accomplishment is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest...
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Narrated by the long-time L.A. Lakers announcer, John Ireland, this audiobook profiles the 60-year friendship between two basketball icons – Bill Sharman and Dennis Murphy, who collectively changed the game of pro basketball as we now know it. From the 3-point shot, to morning shoot-arounds, to allowing teen-aged players to enter the NBA, to the creation of sports teams such as the Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets among others,...
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Dennis Murphy is without question the greatest professional sports promoter in U.S. history. He single-handedly created the American Basketball Association, World Hockey Association, World Team Tennis, Roller Hockey International, and many other professional sports leagues. Without him, there would be NO San Antonio Spurs winning 4 NBA championships, NO Indiana Pacers, NO Denver Nuggets, NO Brooklyn Nets, as well as NO Edmonton Oilers winning 5...
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Produced by Dr. Elliott Haimoff, Barbara Sharp, Alina Butina and Randy Friend
This audiobook contains the UNIQUE unfiltered, unedited, and previously unreleased interviews conducted by Dr. Elliott Haimoff of Afterburner Enterprises of the long-time LA Lakers owner, Dr. Jerry Buss, and his daughter, Jeanie Buss, who is now the President and controlling owner of the Lakers.
These two iconic figures collectively changed the game of pro basketball...
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Distributed by MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
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1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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With the passing of patriarch Ben Cartwright, and with Little Joe missing in action since the Spanish-American War seven years earlier, Little Joe's wife Annabelle, his son Benj, ranch foreman Charley Poke and cook Mr. Mack must struggle to build upon Ben Cartwright's legacy and save the Ponderosa from strip miners
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Set in the Depression, follows the life of a young farm boy who turns from an honest political hopeful to a powerful but corrupt governor. Based on Robert Penn Warren's novel which loosely fictionalized the life of Louisiana's Gov. Huey P. Long
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Direct Source Special Products, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 videodisc (106, 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Dead for a dollar: In a rip-roaring Spaghetti Western with some of the most memorable shootouts in Western history, a ruthless cowboy tracks down his double-crossing partners. Cain's cutthroats: In the final days of the Civil War, peace has not yet come for one man. The war still rages on in the soul of a Confederate officer obsessed with revenge for the rape of his wife and the death of his son
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Miracle Pictures/PMC Corp. DE
Pub. Date
c2002, 1945
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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This war melodrama tells the story of a platoon of American soldiers in Italy in 1943 striving to attain their objective: a farmhouse occupied by German soldiers
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No one is a saint in the City of Angels. The immortal Robert Mitchum stars as Raymond Chandler's legendary detective Philip Marlowe in the neo-noir mystery, Farewell, My Lovely. The hardboiled Marlowe's latest cases – one, a search for an ex-convict's lost love, and the other, the murder of a client – take on an even more sinister turn when they begin to connect, leading the private eye deeper and deeper into the seamy underbelly of 1940s Los...
19) Lies & Deception
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A private investigator helps a woman uncover the secret life of her dead husband.