Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:William Gilmore Simms

Marion inviting a British Officer to Dinner. The next anecdote, if less pleasing in its particulars, is yet better calculated for the development of Marion’s character the equal powers of ...
( Category: American Revolution January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Peter Irons

CHAPTER 10 “War Against the Constitution” Thurgood Marshall completely misread the fierce determination of “white crackers” in the Deep South to maintain the Jim Crow system of segregated schools. One ...
( Category: Authors January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Harold Weisberg

10. DR. JEKYLL—OR MR. HYDE— OR BOTH? When you have turned 50, are unmarried and own so much property you feel you must resign an excellent income and an important ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-26 | Author:Judy McFarlane

I think of all the times Grace and I met for coffee to work on her book. How sometimes she was greeted with looks that signalled unease or discomfort, sometimes ...
( Category: People with Disabilities January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Terry Glaspey [Glaspey, Terry]

As Lewis grew older, his love of reading did not ebb. His early correspondence with his friend, Arthur Greeves, is largely taken up with the discussion of the books which ...
( Category: Christianity January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Kate Molloy [Kate Molloy]

Madison ‘Mad’ Twatter (played by Stephen Walters) Twatter first appeared in the first episode of series one. Tony dispatches Sid to buy an ounce of marijuana from of him so ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-17 | Author:John Lucas

a By the beginning of 1927 the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, basically a commercial operation subsidised by a proportion of the licence fees for receiving sets levied by the General ...
( Category: Classical January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Paul Stenning [Paul Stenning]

Chapter Ten So You Want A Revolution With the success of Evil Empire, Rage Against The Machine had proved they were no one hit wonders. It had taken some time ...
( Category: Rock January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Matthew Richardson [Matthew Richardson and Mike Dodgson]

What They Said Tory MP Mark Pritchard told the Sunday Express about the nature of the sitcom and his distaste for the subject matter: ‘It is a sad fact that ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Barry Emslie

We might feel that this notion of roots transcends in metaphor and meaning what we generally call the cultural sphere, although it is productive of that sphere. That is, just ...
( Category: Classical January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Neil Simpson [Neil Simpson]

Whenever Dermot feels the pressure he pulls on his running shoes and hits the streets. It is a throwback to his school days when he had always been desperate to ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Colin Ludlow [Colin Ludlow]

In her magnificent essay Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag eloquently describes illness as “the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship”. Robert McCrum, The Observer’s literary editor, has written movingly ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Tom Quinn

TALL STORY ENGLAND, 1914 Stories of underage boys joining up during World War One are legion but there are equally extraordinary tales of undersized boys doing their utmost to get ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Andrew Dagnell [A S Dagnell]

CHAPTER 10 The George Clooney of Baking Paul had managed to turn himself into a prime-time TV star perhaps when he himself least expected it. And it was all thanks ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-18 | Author:Karen Spears Zacharias

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE On April 11, 2011, Desiree put up a new post on Facebook: “The person who knows the most about you is the most dangerous person you know.” Shortly ...
( Category: True Crime January 12,2023 )