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Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio by Susan M. Guy
epub |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Susan M. Guy

Grave marker of William J. Snider, Mingo Junction police lieutenant, murdered by Vincent Caparra. Located in Union Cemetery, Steubenville, Ohio. Photo by Susan Guy. The man known as Vincenzo Campano ...
( Category: United States March 14,2020 )
Portrait of Hemingway by Lillian Ross
epub |eng | | Author:Lillian Ross

* * * The following morning, the door of the Hemingway suite was opened for me by Patrick, a shy young man of medium height, with large eyes and a ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2020 )
The Reformation and the Renaissance by Frederick Bewsher
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick Bewsher

THE ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS ACT. THE ABSOLUTE RESTRAINT OF ANNATES, ELECTION OF BISHOPS AND LETTERS MISSIVE ACT (1534). ~ Source. —25 H. VIII. cap. 21. (Statutes of the Realm, III. 462.) ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2020 )
Damning Words by D. G. Hart
epub |eng | | Author:D. G. Hart

CHAPTER SIX The Mencken Show H. L. Mencken may have taken consolation from sitting in the front row of the show produced by the United States. But during the 1920s ...
( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
The Story of Spain by Charles Horne
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Horne

SPAIN UNDER THE BOURBONS ~ WE NOW APPROACH THE REIGN of the first Bourbon in Spain. The founder of the historical family of that name, which came in time to ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

FOOTNOTES: [36] In a manuscript record of the province, dated 1659, Library of the New York Historical Society, is the following mention of Indian money:—"Seawant, alias wampum. Beads manufactured from ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 13,2020 )
We Need to Talk about Kelvin by Marcus Chown
epub |eng | 2009-03-12 | Author:Marcus Chown [Marcus Chown]

Further reading: Home Is Where the Wind Blows by Fred Hoyle (University Science Books, Sausalito, California, 1994). Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis by David Arnett (Princeton University Press, 1996). PART THREE What ...
( Category: Cosmology March 13,2020 )
Texas Adoption Activist Edna Gladney by Sherrie McLeRoy
epub |eng | 2019-05-04 | Author:Sherrie McLeRoy

( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
Venetian Dreaming by Paula Weideger
epub |eng | | Author:Paula Weideger

15 Revisions At 8:50 A.M. on the twenty-seventh of August, four days before we were due to leave for Venice, la contessa Françoise Donà Marsot telephoned. I give her full ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
Little Almond Blossoms - A Book of Chinese Stories for Children by Jessie Juliet Knox
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Jessie Juliet Knox [Knox, Jessie Juliet]

“Put your hand into the ground, And find what no one else has found.” “Well, I likee find what no one else has found,” she said; and putting her hand ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
Robert E. Lee on Leadership by H.W. Crocker III
epub |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:H.W. Crocker III

Self-Discipline To lead, Lee well understood, one first had to be the master of oneself. Original Sin taught him to expect human failure. But a Christian and a gentleman was ...
( Category: American Civil War March 13,2020 )
The Life and Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Daniel Defoe

I come now back to my own history, which grows near a conclusion, as to the travels I took in this part of the world. We were now at sea, ...
( Category: Classics March 13,2020 )
Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers by John Abbott
epub |eng | | Author:John Abbott

* * * CHAPTER XII. ~ The Female Pirate, Mary Read. TESTIMONY OF CHARLES JOHNSON.—MARRIAGE OF Mary Read’s Mother.—Singular Adventure.—Reasons for Disguising her Daughter.—Early Training of Mary as a Boy.—She ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
The Personal Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Grant, Ulysses S.]

[In referring to this period, Grant says that it was the most anxious time of the war when the Army of the Tennessee was guarding the territory acquired by Corinth ...
( Category: American Civil War March 13,2020 )
What Would Mrs. Astor Do? by Cecelia Tichi
epub |eng | | Author:Cecelia Tichi

Figure 38. “The Golden Horse-shoe at its Best” Stage-Door Johnny The 1905 divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Main Post of New York City was hardly newsworthy. More momentous events ...
( Category: Women in History March 13,2020 )

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