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Maximilian and Carlota by McAllen M. M.;
epub |eng | | Author:McAllen, M. M.; [McAllen, M. M.]

16 Someone Is Intent on Poisoning Me On August 23, 1866, Carlota left Paris for the castle of Miramar. Much had occurred in Europe over the past two years, and ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 15,2020 )
Check Six! A Thunderbolt Pilot’s War Across the Pacific by Curran Jim & Popravak Jr Terrence
epub |eng | 2015-07-18 | Author:Curran, Jim & Popravak, Jr, Terrence

( Category: Historical March 15,2020 )
The French Admiral by Unknown
epub |eng | 2019-06-26 | Author:Unknown

* * * At first light Alan called his gunners to quarters to stand by their guns and parapets. He kept his blanket over his shoulders to ward off the ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 15,2020 )
The Boys of the Dark by Robin Gaby Fisher Michael O'McCarthy Robert W. Straley
epub |eng | 2018-11-09 | Author:Robin Gaby Fisher, Michael O'McCarthy, Robert W. Straley

( Category: Criminology March 15,2020 )
No Ordinary Heroes by Demaree Inglese
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Demaree Inglese

Brady and I sat under the overhang on the back porch of the Correctional Center while we ate. Lunch consisted of an odd selection of items the deputies had salvaged ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 15,2020 )
Presidents of the United States of America: A History of America's Leaders by Taylor Franklin
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Taylor, Franklin [Taylor, Franklin]

At only forty-three years of age, he was nevertheless well prepared for the job. He was well-read and well-traveled. He was an avid reader and sometimes would read up to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Mark Arax

* * * — In the winter of 1935, Edward Hyatt, the state engineer who had authored a report titled “Water Is the Life Blood of California,” sat in front ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 15,2020 )
Burial for a King by Rebecca Burns
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Rebecca Burns

While the march took place, the ongoing investigation into King’s death continued. Thomas Powers of the Chicago Tribune reported that investigators had traced the gun found in the mysterious “bundle” ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 15,2020 )
A Nice Tuesday by Jordan Pat;
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jordan, Pat; [Jordan, Pat;]

ELEVEN A few days after I talked to Miles Wolfe I got a call from Bob Wirsz, the Waterbury Spirit owner. He was circumspect over the phone. “I’ll pitch you,” ...
( Category: Baseball March 15,2020 )
LIFE Lincoln: An Intimate Portrait by The Editors of LIFE
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:The Editors of LIFE

RALPH CRANE/LIFE The Springfield House At the corner of Eighth and Jackson streets in downtown Springfield stood the one and only house Abraham Lincoln would ever own. “The little home ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
The Generals' War by David T. Zabecki
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:David T. Zabecki

FOCH VERSUS LUDENDORFF As historian Tim Travers has noted, the Allies certainly did not win the battles of the German spring offensives campaign, but neither did they lose. By the ...
( Category: Military March 15,2020 )
A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre by Matilda Sager
epub |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:Matilda Sager [Sager, Matilda]

We always picked berries in the spring and summer. There was not much tame fruit—a few seedling apples. The only way we travelled was on horseback. The first printing press ...
( Category: United States March 15,2020 )
Generalissimo by Jonathan Fenby
epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Jonathan Fenby [Fenby, Jonathan]

PART IV BROKEN JADE Shanghai, August 1937 Chungking, October 1944 CHAPTER 17 The Most Dreadful Nightmare ON SATURDAY, 14 AUGUST 1937, as a typhoon blew through Shanghai picking up people ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2020 )
History of the House of Hanover by C.J.B. Gaskoin
epub |eng | | Author:C.J.B. Gaskoin

WATERLOO ~ 1. The Return of the Exile LATE IN 1814 THE REPRESENTATIVES of the Powers met at Vienna to arrange a settlement of Europe. But the settlement was hard ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2020 )
People Wasn't Made to Burn by Joe Allen
epub |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Joe Allen

On August 1, 1947, the Cook County Grand Jury ruled that James Hickman with “malice aforethought by shooting did kill and murder David Coleman contrary to the Statute, and against ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 15,2020 )

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