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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation by John F. Jr. Baker
epub |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:John F. Jr. Baker

In December 1863 George requested and received permission from a Union Major R. S. Granger to send a portion of the women and children inside Union lines in Nashville. In ...
( Category: United States March 20,2020 )
No Higher Honour by Condoleezza Rice
epub |eng | | Author:Condoleezza Rice [Rice, Condoleezza]

27 KATRINA I’D BEEN TO FORTY -SIX COUNTRIES and traveled 171,628 miles in nine months. I just wanted a vacation and took my annual trip to the Greenbrier, but it ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 20,2020 )
A Wild and Precious Life by Edie Windsor
epub |eng | | Author:Edie Windsor

* * * I didn’t ask her about Robert. She’d already apologized profusely for her proposal a number of times, but I didn’t press for any details about him. I ...
( Category: LGBT March 20,2020 )
Augustus Caesar by Shotter David;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Shotter, David; [DAVID SHOTTER]

Plate 8 Rome: The Ara Paci s Augustae, begun in 13 BC and completed four years later. The reliefs of the enclosure walls of the altar make this monument a ...
( Category: Historical March 20,2020 )
Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret Pumphrey
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Pumphrey

Samoset AT LAST SPRING CAME bringing health and hope to the Pilgrims. Again the axes rang out in the forest, and the half-built cottages were soon finished. The snow melted ...
( Category: Teen & Young Adult United States Colonial & Revolutionary Period Historical Fiction March 20,2020 )
Force Recon Diary, 1970 by Bruce H. Norton
epub, azw3 |eng | 1992-03-19 | Author:Bruce H. Norton

12 1ST SERGEANT—MAURICE JACQUES IN LATE MARCH 1970, 1st Force Reconnaissance Company witnessed the arrival of a new company 1st sergeant, Maurice Jacques. The previous company 1st sergeant, Flores, had ...
( Category: Historical March 20,2020 )
Early Chicago - A Lecture by John Wentworth
epub |deu | 2017-05-26 | Author:John Wentworth [Wentworth, John]

SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. After MR. WENTWORTH'S Lecture had been published in the newspapers, he received the following information: FROM FULTON COUNTY. The County Commissioners' Court met, for the first time, 3 ...
( Category: Historical March 20,2020 )
The Works of Edmund Burke Volume 1 by Edmund Burke
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Edmund Burke [Burke, Edmund]

——— In 1762, when we had not yet delivered up our conquests, the account was, Guadaloupe £513,244 Martinico 288,425 ——— Total imports in 1762, value, £801,669 ——— In 1763, after ...
( Category: History & Theory March 20,2020 )
Henry VIII and His Court by Herbert Tree
epub |eng | | Author:Herbert Tree

* * * ANNE BOLEYN .................. THE ESTIMATION OF THE CHARACTER of Anne Boleyn would seem to be as varied as the spelling of her name. She is believed to ...
( Category: Historical March 20,2020 )
Rooted in Evil by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-04-06 | Author:Unknown

* * * But, as things turned out, it had involved the Old Nunnery. On his return from Oxford, Carter brought Jess up to date on what they’d learned. ‘Finch ...
( Category: Historical March 20,2020 )
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas [Isaacson, Walter & Thomas, Evan]

CHAPTER 16 “A DIFFERENT WORLD” Of Super bombs and primitives On September 3, 1949, an American B–29 weather reconnaissance plane recorded a higher than normal radioactive count eighteen thousand feet ...
( Category: Political March 20,2020 )
Still Waters by JENNIFER LAUCK
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:JENNIFER LAUCK

Dad lost his job at Sears. Mom says he was screwed by the corporate system. Dad says it was a layoff. Grandma and Grandpa say he was fired only they ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 20,2020 )
Exit Right by Daniel Oppenheimer
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Oppenheimer

4 * * * * * * Mr. Yes, Mr. No: Norman Podhoretz The trouble is that Podhoretz has a great ridiculous fat-bellied mind which he pats too often. 1 ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 20,2020 )
The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942 by Jonathan Safran Foer
epub |eng | 2004-03-14 | Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

16. II. 1942 (Monday) In the morning in town, in the afternoon at the Miloses to see their apartment for the first time. It is cold there. Pavel and Uncle ...
( Category: Holocaust March 20,2020 )
Tusculan Disputations by Cicero
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Cicero

* * * BOOK II. .................. I. WHEN COTTA HAD THUS concluded, Velleius replied: I certainly was inconsiderate to engage in argument with an Academician who is likewise a rhetorician. ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 20,2020 )

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