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Little Saint Elizabeth (and other stories) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

PART III. "WHAT pool–and what red berries?" asked the second nightingale. "Why, my dear," said the first, "is it possible you don't know about the pool where the red berries ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2020 )
The Bank That Lived a Little by Philip Augar
epub |eng | 2018-05-28 | Author:Philip Augar

There could be no more debate and no more posturing from the banks. The chief executives were told that a government rescue plan would be announced the following day. The ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 18,2020 )
Hindenburg by Von der Goltz Anna;
epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Von der Goltz, Anna;

Have these gentlemen forgotten that Tannenberg is in East Prussia? Have they forgotten how, in August 1914, the East Prussian people fled from the Russian bands, how the villages burned, ...
( Category: Fascism March 18,2020 )
Battling Bella by Leandra Ruth Zarnow
epub |eng | | Author:Leandra Ruth Zarnow

A Race to Be Watched Abzug threw her hat into the ring for a shot at challenging the Conservative-Republican senator James L. Buckley shortly after the Ninety-Fourth Congress commenced. On ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2020 )
The Tudor Kings and Queens by Alex Woolf
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Alex Woolf

War, religion and rebellion Somerset, a soldier by background, was intent on pursuing the war with Scotland and forcing the Scots to accept the marriage between Mary, their queen, and ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2020 )
The Marx-Engels Reader by Engels Friedrich & Marx Karl
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Engels, Friedrich & Marx, Karl [Engels, Friedrich]

Part IV. Production of Relative Surplus-Value CHAPTER XII. THE CONCEPT OF RELATIVE SURPLUS-VALUE That portion of the working-day which merely produces an equivalent for the value paid by the capitalist ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 18,2020 )
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul by John M. Barry
epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:John M. Barry [Barry, John M.]

CHAPTER 21 Anne Hutchinson was a brilliant, bold, forceful, and self-confident woman. She came by her self-confidence naturally. Her grandfather was a friend of Erasmus, and her father was a ...
( Category: United States March 18,2020 )
The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Christian Classics) by Saint Francis of Assisi
epub |eng | 2016-09-25 | Author:Saint Francis of Assisi

ONCE, while the aforesaid Friar John was saying Mass, the day after All Saints’ Day, for all the souls of the dead, according as the Church has ordained, with such ...
( Category: Inspirational March 18,2020 )
America's Jubilee by Andrew Burstein
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

Fig. 14b. Henry Clay of Kentucky, portrait accompanying the 1852 obituary address. The statesmanlike pose belies his reputation as a gambler. Fig. 14a. John Randolph of Roanoke, from Henry Adams’s ...
( Category: American Revolution March 18,2020 )
Eastern Front Sniper by Roland Kaltenegger
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Roland Kaltenegger

Pages 60–75: Numerous illustrations of snipers’ camouflage and means of deceiving the enemy appear in the Introduction of a 15 May 1943 manual for the training and deployment of snipers. ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 18,2020 )
The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy by David Margolick
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:David Margolick [Margolick, David]

As catastrophic as his brother’s death was for Kennedy, it liberated him still more. Because he’d experienced life at its most random and cruel and irrational, because he feared he ...
( Category: United States March 18,2020 )
101 Things Everyone Should Know About Theodore Roosevelt by Sean Andrews
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Sean Andrews [Andrews, Sean]

* * * Teddy Trivia Alfred Thayer Mahan began his U.S. Navy career as an officer in the American Civil War. He believed naval power was the key to strong ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
A French Affair by Mary Blume
epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Mary Blume

LETTING LOOSE AND HOLDING DOWN PARIS— In the nineteenth century, folk traditions began to be recorded and studied by local notables—teachers, lawyers, notaries—with plenty of time and foolscap at hand. ...
( Category: Humor March 18,2020 )
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | | Author:Ivan Turgenev

VII .................. THE NEXT DAY WAS SUNDAY, and Natalya got up late. The day before she had been very silent all day; she was secretly ashamed of her tears, and ...
( Category: Russian March 18,2020 )
Tea On The Great Wall by Chapman Patricia Luce
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Chapman, Patricia Luce

Great-grandfather Rev. Isaiah Potter Unfortunately Father chose to lecture us frequently on the value of being a hard-working ant and not a useless, indolent grasshopper. Once at dinner he was ...
( Category: Chinese March 18,2020 )

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