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Strange Acquaintances - Part 1: Volume 1

Beschreibung

Strange Acquaintances is the true story of the family of three young boys who are followed by alien visitors throughout California, the Western and Southern states from the late 1950's through the late 1970s. The fact that the young boys are black only adds interest to the story. The reader learns about the societal status quo and changes throughout the unique period in history of the civil rights era through the black power movement, as well about the principle's extraordinary relationship with extraterrestrials.Part 1 begins with the boys' adventure to a bee hive in the Baldwin Hills district of Los Angeles, where they discover an alien whom they call the Little Man. After giving chase to the Little Man, the Little Man, instead, captures them and them subjects the brothers over the next ten years to a series of alien adventures and intrigue throughout the southern and western United States and elsewhere. The brothers encounter a menagerie of aliens in a variety of spaceships. Over which time, JD develops an intimate knowledge and friendship with the aliens he was once feared.

Autor

Born in 1950 in Los Angeles to a well-known black business family, JD was the third of three boys, a twin brother to Earl. He suffered polio just after his 4th birthday and was hospitalized for almost a year, recovering. He was left with a partial paralysis of his right side and the lower left side of his face for the rest of his life.Not to be held back, he loved sports and excelled in sports like baseball, basketball, and track and field. He eventually perfected his track and field finesse becoming Los Angeles City Champion in the High Hurdles in his junior year in High School, at age 15. In his senior year in high school, 16, he set the US national High School low hurdle record six times in both the straightaway and on a turn. Going on to San Jose State University, San Jose, California, he was on the 1969 NCAA Championship team, participating in high jump, long jump, high and intermediate hurdles, etc., and was inducted into the SJSU Athletic Hall of Fame in September 2016, along with Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Lee Evans, and numerous others.JD was not just known for athletics. He was accepted by more than 3-dozen universities into their Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry departments, including Cal Tech, Princeton, University of Chicago, US Naval Academy, etc., even University of Marcelle, France. He was top SAT scorer in Los Angeles County and was told he was amongst the top 1000 SAT and ACT scorers in the USA. He went on to earn a BSc in Physics and Mathematics, with minor in Chemistry. He specialized in nuclear and atomic physics, doing research on transmission lines and Laplace transformation. For 4 years he worked as nuclear reactor assistant engineer and engineer designing boiling water reactors in San Jose CA before moving on to Aerospace and System Engineering for next 15 years in Northern and Southern California. He went to medical school at age 42, graduating with a M.D. at age 46. He is the father of six and a grandfather as well.

Produktdetails

• Strange Acquaintances Nr.1
• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780692114674
• ISBN-10: 069211467X
• Artikelnr.: 55522177