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American Connections by James Burke
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Burke

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Samuel Chase SAMUEL CHASE (MD) was thirty-five. And either a “universally despised…foul-mouthed rabble-rouser” or a man of “energetic eloquence.” On the day of the Declaration vote this lawyer ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
Franco Lives On by Lluc Salellas i Vilar
epub |eng | 2018-12-25 | Author:Lluc Salellas i Vilar

4.3. The far right As we have seen, with the emergence of democracy, conservative thought was directed particularly through the UCD and AP parties. Nevertheless, groups linked to the far ...
( Category: Historical March 16,2020 )
Spanish Papers (Extended Annotated Edition) by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

" Senor," said she, " I know that I am humble and unworthy of the notice of so noble a cavalier, but suffer me to place this ring on a ...
( Category: Historical March 16,2020 )
Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2018-11-25 | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation As foreshadowing the course I later, as President, followed in this matter, I give extracts from one of my letters to the Commission, and from my second (and last) ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
Escaping with His Life by Nicholas Young
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Young

Leslie’s diary doesn’t mention that he had any particularly close friends. Of the three majors he shared a room with, only Pyman (who led the Escape Committee and was therefore ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2020 )
Queen Elizabeth II's Guide to Life by Karen Dolby
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Dolby

The tightened security measures at all the royal palaces that followed the break-in also caused a problem for the Queen. Unable to sleep one night, the Monarch decided to take ...
( Category: Great Britain March 15,2020 )
Adrian Shooter by Adrian Shooter
epub |eng | 2018-04-29 | Author:Adrian Shooter

If one were to describe what the railway felt like from my perspective in the mid 1970s, I would start by pointing out that the aftermath of the Beeching closures ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2020 )
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Frederick Douglass
epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass

C HAPTER II My master’s family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. They lived in one house, upon the home ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 15,2020 )
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
epub |eng | 2012-08-06 | Author:Simon Callow [Callow, Simon]

Even as he moodily and metaphorically contemplated the dead old man, his sense of humour, which rarely deserted him entirely, however wretched and restless he might be, asserted itself: ‘I ...
( Category: Victorian March 15,2020 )
Ian (The O'Connor Brothers Book 1) by A. S. Kelly
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:A. S. Kelly [Kelly, A. S.]

38 Ian I let her slide slowly off of my body, resting her feet in the shower. Riley seems scared. Maybe I really did take it too far. Maybe I ...
( Category: Anthologies March 15,2020 )
War! by Ricardo Burguete
epub |eng | 2019-12-12 | Author:Ricardo Burguete

Chapter Thirteen We returned to Dinalupijan, the municipal seat of our zone. The detachment from the small blockhouses that we had left to defend the approaches to the town came ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2020 )
Last Call by A. S. Kelly
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-12-01 | Author:A. S. Kelly [Kelly, A. S.]

Niall I spent almost twenty years playing for the best team in the country; they scouted me while I was still living here. I received two more offers after I ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy March 15,2020 )
SADDAMS BOMBMAKER by KHIDHIR HAMZA
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:KHIDHIR HAMZA

CHAPTER ELEVEN GETTING THE GOODS THE SKY was a gun gray with a chilly wind out of the north when I landed in Bonn in late August 1987. As usual, ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2020 )
The Golden Boy of Crime by Jim Brown
epub |eng | 2019-04-07 | Author:Jim Brown

Penitentiaries then, as now, were no places for lads of our age. . . . While there we associated with hardened criminals, some of the most vicious type, and all ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2020 )
Chiang Kai Shek by Jonathan Fenby
epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Jonathan Fenby [JONATHAN FENBY]

* * * * Now known as Lugouqiao. PART IV BROKEN JADE Shanghai, August 1937 ——— Chungking, October 1944 CHAPTER 17 The Most Dreadful Nightmare ON SATURDAY, 14 AUGUST 1937, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )

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