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Suddenly Gone by Dan Mitrione
epub |eng | 1995-07-15 | Author:Dan Mitrione

On Saturday, July 1, eighteen-year-old Scott Hendricks was on his bike heading south on Metcalf Avenue toward work. He had just started a summer job with the district office for ...
( Category: True Crime July 16,2018 )
The Twelfth Victim by Linda M. Battisti
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Linda M. Battisti

STARKWEATHER’S TRIAL BEGAN on May 5, 1958, and ended May 22, 1958. This was the biggest murder case ever tried in Lincoln, Nebraska. At that time, cameras were barred in ...
( Category: Americas July 16,2018 )
The Christmas Murders by Jonathan Goodman
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Goodman

Addendum From Who He? Goodman’s Dictionary of the Unknown Famous (Buchan & Enright, London, 1984): After his experience with the Edalji case [see page 97], Conan Doyle had no wish ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs July 16,2018 )
Henry Ford by The Editors of New Word City
epub |eng | 2013-03-29 | Author:The Editors of New Word City [The Editors of New Word City]

A Homespun Tycoon Puffs Up Ford was now arguably the most famous person on the planet, on his way to becoming the first billionaire. To some, he represented a new ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics July 16,2018 )
Walt Disney by The Editors of New Word City
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:The Editors of New Word City [The Editors of New Word City]

Strike One After the disappointments of Pinocchio and Fantasia, Disney needed an infusion of cash. Walt also put his fourth animated feature, Dumbo, into production. It told the relatively simple ...
( Category: Arts & Photography July 16,2018 )
Sam Walton by The Editors of New Word City
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:The Editors of New Word City [The Editors of New Word City]

Lessons Sam Walton spelled out many of his life’s lessons in his own words, and these precepts will keep any career and company heading steadily upward. Focus. Define your overarching ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics July 16,2018 )
Nelson Mandela by The Editors of New Word City
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:The Editors of New Word City [The Editors of New Word City]

The Robben Island Years Sitting seven kilometers off the coast of Cape Town, Robben Island had, in past years, been used as a leper colony and an animal quarantine station. ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs July 16,2018 )
Dwight Eisenhower by The Editors of New Word City
epub |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:The Editors of New Word City [The Editors of New Word City]

“Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?” Dwight Eisenhower eventually managed to discredit Joe McCarthy not by openly attacking him, as Harry Truman had done, but by publicly ignoring him. ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs July 16,2018 )
Dirty Combat by David Tomkins
mobi |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:David Tomkins

CHAPTER 13 A BETRAYAL ON 2 SEPTEMBER 1979, ALMOST EXACTLY A YEAR AFTER MY RETURN from Togo, I received a telephone call from the Togolese Embassy in London. As far ...
( Category: Military July 16,2018 )
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano & Virginia Jewiss
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Roberto Saviano & Virginia Jewiss [Saviano, Roberto & Jewiss, Virginia]

PART TWO KALASHNIKOV I ran my finger over it. I even closed my eyes as I traced the entire length from top to bottom, my fingernail catching on the holes, ...
( Category: True Crime July 15,2018 )
A Man of Honor by Joseph Bonanno
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Bonanno

20 The sensational publicity created by Apalachin affected me tremendously, because up to then I had been relatively inconspicuous. Publicity can maim and destroy. Apalachin destroyed Joe Barbara. His business ...
( Category: True Crime July 15,2018 )
Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East by Joseph Poprzeczny
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-18 | Author:Joseph Poprzeczny [Poprzeczny, Joseph]

No mention was made of Globocnik’s Treblinka, Sobibor, or Belzec, because all had been dismantled and all the permanent structures, including the gassing facilities, demolished. Majdanek Majdanek, or more properly, ...
( Category: World July 15,2018 )
A Thousand Faces by Blake Michael F
epub |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Blake, Michael F. [Blake, Michael F.]

Schayer’s final point is correct. The film was supposed to illustrate the Marine tradition of fighting against and defeating the odds. Having the outnumbered group of Marines saved from annihilation ...
( Category: Arts & Literature July 15,2018 )
Bernard Berenson by Rachel Cohen
epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:Rachel Cohen

Belle da Costa Greene, 1911, photograph by Clarence White. Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti—The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 15,2018 )
The Orbital Perspective by Astronaut Ron Garan
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Astronaut Ron Garan

PART III LOOKING FORWARD CHAPTER SEVEN Camp Hope On a late starlit evening in September 2010, NASA psychologist Al Holland and his colleagues, exhausted and lost in their thoughts, were ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs July 15,2018 )

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