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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Troll Lord Games Castles & Crusades - Core Rules Elemental Spells (VG+)Manufacturer: Troll Lord GamesProduct Line: Castles & Crusades - Core RulesType: SoftcoverCode: TLG8513Copyright Date: 2016Author: James Ward, Jason VeyPage Count: 60Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:Beyond the firmament lies the maelstrom of elemental planes, where the fabric of all things begins. The elemental planes: Where fires rage in an infinite expanse of heart and light, where the rich and loamy earth consumes all, where air grows heavy, grinding upon unseeing gears, where water flows forever to no end. It is here that the base of all power lies and it is here that the elemental lords must turn. Join the elementals to your spell casters. Unearthed in this text are a host of new spells for your Castles & Crusades game. Written by the wild hand of James M. Ward, these spells bring a whole new world to life and place the magic of it at the finger-tips of your favorite spell caster.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original Jas Vey Photograph, showing Guglielmo Marconi and a group of people in front of the Cabot Tower, Signal Hill, the First Atlantic Wireless Communication, December 1901. image size 20.5 x 15 cm, mounted, 30 x 25 cm. original grey publishers mount card [wear] with Presentation inscription from the M. F. Howley, Bishop St. John's [1843-1914] to J.J. O'Gorman [1884-1933]. The Origins of Wireless Communication. 'The first overseas wireless communication was achieved on December 12, 1901, at Signal Hill, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi, listening through his telephone headset, heard a series of three "bips"; Morse code for the letter "s." He had received the first transatlantic communication, sent from a radio transmitter just over 2100 miles away, on the southwest coast of England. The Royal Navy's decision to try Marconi's wireless radio systems was based on the success of his 1899 experiment where he transmitted a message across the English Channel to France, though it was still unknown just how far a wireless signal could be sent. The excepted scientific wisdom of the day was that radio waves traveled in a straight line. If this were true, then the distance a wireless transmission could travel was limited to the distance from the point of origin to the horizon. Marconi, however, believed that radio waves would follow the curvature of the earth which, if true, would mean that messages could travel much greater distances. The main focus at the time was on being able to communicate with ships at sea. Even though Marconi believed this to be possible he still had to prove it. His idea was to send a message across the Atlantic.Marconi would eventually set up his receiver at Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada but this location was not his first choice. He had originally set up his receiver at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on the east coast of the United States, and the transmitter at Poldhu, Cornwall, on England's west coast. However, a storm damaged the antenna at Poldhu forcing Marconi to replace it with a shorter one. Fearing that the signal would not travel the distance to Cape Cod with the shorter antenna he decided to change the location of the receiver to a point closer to the transmitter, Signal Hill, Newfoundland. The only point in North America closer to Europe is Cape Spear, Newfoundland. The Newfoundland government would later try to encourage Marconi to establish a wireless station there.' Cabot Tower became a Marconi wireless station in 1933. A Good Example'.