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Bikin' and Brotherhood by David Charles Spurgeon
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:David Charles Spurgeon

Chapter 12 Change of Command In the forties, George Orwell wrote a science fiction novel titled 1984. It described an unimaginable future world where totalitarianism really was total. It went ...
( Category: Memoirs January 12,2023 )
Joe Meek by Stanley Vestal
epub |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Stanley Vestal [Vestal, Stanley]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Preachin’ in Jackson’s Hole THOUGH the old partners of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company had dissolved it, forming a new firm called Fitzpatrick, Sublette and Bridger, the trappers ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 12,2023 )
Raven's Witness by Hank Lentfer
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Hank Lentfer

Kathy’s long hours in the garden paid off, with more radishes, lettuce, onions, and beet greens than they could ever eat. Bushes within a stone’s throw of the house produced ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 12,2023 )
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology by Ira E. Harrison
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Ira E. Harrison

Education Mabel Gwaltney mounted an effort to get John in the program that would give him the best education her visually impaired son could receive. So she wrote a letter ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists January 12,2023 )
Mother India by Pranay Gupte
epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Pranay Gupte [Pranay Gupte]

PART IV TRIUMPH AND TWILIGHT 15. Taking on Titans IN THE BATTLE to ensure Zakir Husain’s nomination for President, Indira Gandhi had shown that she could marshal key votes within ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2023 )
The House of Hope and Fear by Audrey Young
epub |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Audrey Young

The following morning, Alice told me that Fred Wirth, the drinker with the gangrenous foot, was back. “I’m bringing him in,” Alice said. “How did he get here?” “He walked. ...
( Category: Medical January 12,2023 )
Roswell: The History of America’s Most Famous UFO Incident by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

Even Johnson’s original photos have never been in Roswell. Copies of his photos are on display at the UFO Museum in Roswell, but the originals were sold by the Fort ...
( Category: United States January 12,2023 )
Hong Kong Policeman by Chris Emmett
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Chris Emmett

CHAPTER 7 SHIELDS AND HELMETS BEFORE THE PRO-TAIWAN riots of 1956, Hong Kong Police anti-riot strategy was pretty basic. Each division had three anti-riot platoons which, under the command of ...
( Category: Historical January 12,2023 )
Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Janisse Ray

JUNGLE Chan Chich Lodge in northwestern Belize will be the last stop on our tour of paradise. Headed there by bus, deep in rainforest, we ask our driver to stop ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 12,2023 )
634 Ways to Kill Fidel by Fabian Escalante
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Fabian Escalante

73 Alejandro Vergara Mauri was the information attaché at the Spanish embassy in Havana from July 1960 to January 1964. Also acting as a CIA agent, he was complicit in ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino January 12,2023 )
The Life Story of Lester Sumrall by Lester Sumrall
epub |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Lester Sumrall

13 Going in Different Directions After only a few weeks in America, I became restless to return to the mission field. I was delighted when Brother Carter suggested we visit ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 12,2023 )
The Monks of Tibhirine by John Kiser
epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:John Kiser

To help him prepare for an upcoming African Synode, Bishop Teissier had asked Christophe’s reaction to its theme, “Mission of the church: to promote evangelical relations with Muslims.” Christophe, who ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 12,2023 )
Killing My Own Snakes by Ann Leslie
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Leslie [Leslie, Ann]

18 Stop the Rot Robert Robinson, chairman of the long-running BBC Radio 4 chat show Stop the Week, was holding forth in the pub which its BBC regulars called the ...
( Category: Journalists January 12,2023 )
Wallace Stegner and the American West by Philip L. Fradkin
epub |eng | 2008-02-12 | Author:Philip L. Fradkin

WHO WAS THIS man through whom Stegner narrated the history of the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century and who briefly became, or so Stegner believed, ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 12,2023 )
Sandhills Boy by Elmer Kelton
epub |eng | | Author:Elmer Kelton

CHAPTER TEN My foot recovered enough that I quit the crutches, though I walked with a limp and considerable pain. I had to bind the ankle tightly to prevent its ...
( Category: Authors January 12,2023 )

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