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American Rebels by Nina Sankovitch
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Nina Sankovitch

* * * Four days after receiving news of the Boston Port Act, Josiah Quincy Jr. published an eighty-two-page critique of it, titled Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly ...
( Category: American Revolution March 24,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood
epub |eng | 1996-03-14 | Author:Lord Charnwood

2. Bull Run. Thus, in the autumn of 1861, North and South had become solidified into something like two countries. In the month of July, which now concerns us, this ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2020 )
We the People by Lynne Cheney
epub |eng | | Author:Lynne Cheney

( Category: Historical March 24,2020 )
Thomas Jefferson by Willard Sterne Randall
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Willard Sterne Randall [Willard Sterne Randall]

If pride of character be of worth at any time, it is when it disarms the efforts of malice. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1781 On the last day of May 1781, shortly ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2020 )
Aberdeen in Vintage Postcards by Tom Hayes
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Tom Hayes

Real photo of the first streetcar in Aberdeen. These cars were very elegant with aisles carpeted in red. A typical car could carry 30-40 passengers with additional riders standing and ...
( Category: Postcards March 24,2020 )
Abigail Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin
epub |eng | | Author:Phyllis Lee Levin

NINETEEN Enough of Public and Private Anxiety As silently as she could, on Wednesday night, April 26, 1798, Abigail slipped into the New Theatre on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Avoiding ...
( Category: American Revolution March 24,2020 )
World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer by Guy Warner
epub |eng | | Author:Guy Warner [Warner, Guy]

Because of the requirement to be in Newcastle to begin the major programme of work Jack and the rest of the crew of Furious just missed taking part in a ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2020 )
A History of Charlemagne by J.I. Mombert
epub |eng | | Author:J.I. Mombert

BOHEMIAN WAR.—THE ROYAL SONS AND THEIR KINGDOMS.—EXTRANEA. ~ CONQUEST OF BOHEMIA.—AFFAIRS OF AQUITAINE and Spain.—Adalric.—Saracen invasion.—Incident of Datus.—Poverty of Louis.—Domanial lands and villas.—Diplomatic intercourse with the Saracens.—Mission of Theodulf and ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
Abu Hanifah by Mohammed Akram Nadwi
epub |eng | | Author:Mohammed Akram Nadwi

AHL AL-RAY AND AHL AL-ḤADĪTH In this section I take up the question of why Abū Ḥanīfah was the object of criticism from a group of scholars – or, rather, ...
( Category: Law March 24,2020 )
Austerity Britain, 1945–51 by Kynaston David
epub |rus | 2010-01-03 | Author:Kynaston, David [Kynaston, David]

In February 1949 Penguin published The Case for Communism by one of the CP’s two MPs, the veteran Scottish activist Willie Gallacher. Naturally it came with a heavy health warning: ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 24,2020 )
About Time by Peter Pringle
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Peter Pringle

9 When the boat was not out fishing and tied at the pier, we’d sometimes disappear ‘for a pint’ out of town. That in itself was not a problem. And ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2020 )
The '85 Bears by Mike Ditka
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Mike Ditka

GAME 9 Chicago 16, Green Bay 10 Circus Stars: Perry, Payton Six personal fouls in the first half and a horde of cheap shots might have made it a pro ...
( Category: History of Sports March 24,2020 )
Best Little Stories from World War II by C. Brian Kelly
epub |eng | | Author:C. Brian Kelly

Based upon King’s Cliffe Remembered, 20th Fighter Group Association, 1988. Only Harry TOM, DICK, AND HARRY WERE THEIR names. Only a relative few of the men residing at Stalag Luft ...
( Category: World War II March 24,2020 )
Two-Gun Edie With a Parasol by William Meador
epub |eng | | Author:William Meador [Meador, William]

14. Gabriel asked, “Where are we going, Miss Edie?” “Why, Gabriel, I thought we might go to Kansas. Just think of all those gambling towns, there is Salinas, Abilene, Dodge ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2020 )
Henry the Second by J. R. Green
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:J. R. Green

CHAPTER VI THE ASSIZE OF CLARENDON The flight of the archbishop marked the opening of a new phase in the struggle. Thomas sought refuge at the Papal Court at Sens. ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2020 )

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