epub |eng | 2006-12-05 | Author:Buddy Levy [Levy, Buddy]

This portrait highlights Crockett’s high cheekbones, which he described as “Red Rosy Cheeks that I have carried so many years.” (David Crockett. Watercolor drawing by James Hamilton Shegogue, 1831. Smithsonian ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Maziar Bahari [Bahari, Maziar]

Chapter Thirteen The next morning, Brown Sandals came to my cell early, and with my breakfast, he gave me a pen and six pieces of paper with the names of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Mariatu Kamara [Kamara, Mariatu]

When the skit was over, Mariatu and Victor approached me. “So you finally came out,” Victor said with a smile, punching me gently on the shoulder. “I just wanted to ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:James Loney [Loney, James]

JANUARY 20 DAY 56 The voices—loud, excited, running into each other—move to the bottom of the stairway. It sounds like a party. The voices subside. Footsteps in the foyer. Junior ...

epub |eng | | Author:Leanda de Lisle

Stokes could not have imagined how Frances’s reputation would be traduced in centuries to come; and nor could her daughters. Mary Grey was comforted in her loss by the extended ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

On May 12, John left the Savoy; he could have had no idea that he would never see his beautiful palace again. Katherine probably rode northward with him via Hertford, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Already people expected the prisoners to be convicted. On May 11, before any trial had taken place, the Abbot of Cirencester wrote informing Cromwell that he had already promised Sir ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Philippa and Katherine now had much in common: both were essentially femmes soles, both had dedicated a daughter to God, both were rearing sons called Thomas who were of similar ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-23 | Author:Douglas Brinkley [Brinkley, Douglas]

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...

epub |eng | | Author:William M. Adler

SALT LAKE CITY was bracing for war: an incursion by Kelly’s Army of the Unemployed, a roving band of Wobblies under the command of “General” Charles T. Kelly. In early ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer;His Mysterious Disappearance [Disappearance, The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer;His Mysterious]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jon Lee Anderson [Anderson, Jon Lee]

IV A great many changes had occurred in Cuba in Che’s absence. Fidel now had more political power, but the atmosphere was tenser and more polarized than ever. The agrarian ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Candice Millard [Millard, Candice]

CHAPTER 19 The Wide Belts BY ROUGHLY TWO MILLION years ago, humans had spread out of Africa and into Europe and Asia. Hundreds of thousands of years later, they migrated ...

epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * XI INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS I began now to turn my thoughts a little to public affairs, beginning, however, with small matters. The city watch was one ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Margaret Powell [Powell, Margaret]

17 Now that Rose had a baby she seemed more contented, though still averse to the idea of moving into a large country house. She wanted to stay with her ...