Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Sherrod Brown

* * * WEALTHY BUSINESS INTERESTS dominated southern politics more than in any region of the country. In 1895 a Massachusetts company opened a factory in Alabama to escape strikes ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Gertrude Bell [Bell, Gertrude]

February 24, 1914 We are within sight of Hayyil and I might have ridden in today but I thought it better to announce my auspicious coming! So I sent in ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Barbara Burkhardt

Burkhardt: In 1932 you went to the Caribbean and in 1948 visited France with your wife. In the preface to the Quality Paperback Book Club volume you mention that you ...
( Category: United States August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:William F. Stark [WILLIAM F. STARK]

* * * On June 11th, fourteen days after we’d sailed from Port Vic, we began to pick up what we hoped were the Roaring Forties. We were now well ...
( Category: Regional August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:Renee Knight [Knight, Rene]

28 Magistrates’ courts have a particular smell – tobacco and alcohol – rather like a pub before the smoking ban. There is, however, no exemption for the accused. No special ...
( Category: Murder August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Laux

So we proceeded with caution. After another search, Mahmud would get in an armored vehicle with me and the Scorpions and we’d drive to the meeting room. I always had ...
( Category: Iraq War August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-14 | Author:Joan Romano Shifflett

6 The 1960s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” THE SWINGING SIXTIES An escalation from the nation’s turmoil of the 1950s, the 1960s marked a period of great change and shifting ...
( Category: United States August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Vincent van Gogh

439 | Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884 | To Anthon van Rappard (D) My dear friend Rappard, Thank you for your letter — which made me happy. ...
( Category: Letters August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-31 | Author:David Benham, Jason Benham & Scott Lamb

Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Agnew

What of the specific conditions for this match? On Tuesday lunchtime the Test pitch here looked much greener than expected, with a little more grass than traditional WACA wickets. Groundsman ...
( Category: Cricket August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-14 | Author:Kapka Kassabova [Kassabova, Kapka]

Fraser saw long stretches of the Roman road, then they’d suddenly plunge into a precipice, suggesting that the shape of the valleys had shifted over time. Riding here around the ...
( Category: Essays August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Robert Weintraub [Weintraub, Robert]

Chapter Twenty-Seven Pain & Gain One of Franklin Roosevelt’s first initiatives after winning his third term as president in November 1940 was to announce to a national conference of doctors, ...
( Category: Women August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Diane Ackerman

CHAPTER 17 IN THE CUBBYHOLES OF A LIBRARY CLOSET, I STORED YARN, gift wrap, and all sorts of presents (from the nifty to the impossibly hedonistic) for friends and relations, ...
( Category: Neurology August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:David Whitehouse [David Whitehouse]

As if the conditions weren’t bad enough for Cernan, they were having problems with the radio. Stafford continues: I think we went south of Hawaii, then, before we hit the ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo [Buffalo, The Autobiography of a Brown]

9 All through grammar school my old man had said to me, "You do what I say until you're fourteen. That's when I left home and started taking care of ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 6,2020 )