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Three Lives by Matuschek Oliver Blunden Allan
epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Matuschek, Oliver, Blunden, Allan [Oliver Matuschek]

A few months later Zweig was on a reading tour in Germany—to “sing for his supper”, as he himself liked to put it—and he had left home in the best ...
( Category: European March 12,2020 )
Edison and Ford in Florida by Mike Cosden
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Mike Cosden

After reaching their camping site, Henry Ford and Charles Edison found an abandoned boat and paddled into a nearby lake. As they rowed, they noticed several snakes. Ford pulled out ...
( Category: History of Technology March 12,2020 )
Failed God by John A. Rush
epub |eng | | Author:John A. Rush

Then was Jesus led by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry. ...
( Category: Sociology March 12,2020 )
Fall of the Red Baron by Leon Bennett
epub |eng | 2012-02-18 | Author:Leon Bennett

This most difficult form of loop–the inverted type– was part of Pegoud’s stunt flying exhibitions in pre-war days. Source: Flight, September 27, 1913, p.1066. Another form of loop – the ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
Is Our Children Learning by Paul Begala
epub |eng | 2000-07-15 | Author:Paul Begala

chapter 10 * * * Is There an HMO Bureaucrat in the House? “Well, there’ll be a health care debate, and there’ll be a health care issue that I’m going ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
Remarkable Women of Stockton by Mary Jo Gohlke
epub |eng | 2019-01-12 | Author:Mary Jo Gohlke

Chapter 2 Julia Weber Stockton’s Own Royalty If Helen Murphy Weber, wife of Stockton founder Charles Weber, were the city’s first lady, then her daughter, comely Julia Weber, could be ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Lee's Lieutenants Third Volume Abridged by Douglas Southall Freeman
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Douglas Southall Freeman

CHAPTER 22 Jackson Gets His Greatest Orders 1 “H OW CAN WE GET AT THESE PEOPLE?” A mild and cloudy morning it was, that twenty-ninth of April, but rich in ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula by Sonny Longtine
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Sonny Longtine

Eileen Ford with a memorial plaque honoring her father, Martin Ford. It was given to her in 1992 by the National Policeman’s Association. Author’s collection. Although only five at the ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
The Lady of Sing Sing by Idanna Pucci
epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Idanna Pucci

Having already secured the support of a former senator, a former governor, and a bishop, Cora was on the hunt for even more illustrious names. Robert Green Ingersoll, known as ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer
epub |eng | 2018-11-26 | Author:Peter Schweizer

( Category: Communism & Socialism March 11,2020 )
Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:W. Warde Fowler

CHAPTER VII THE SLAVE POPULATION In the last age of the Republic the employment of slave labour reached its high-water mark in ancient history.[306] We have already met with evidence ...
( Category: British & Irish March 11,2020 )
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary by Lara Vapnek
epub | | 2014-12-08 | Author:Lara Vapnek

Fred “Buster” Flynn as an adult, in a photo taken by his Aunt Kathie. NP18-67, EGF Photographs, Tamiment Library, NYU Grief struck Flynn at a particularly difficult time politically: in ...
( Category: Women in History March 11,2020 )
Wicked Adirondacks by Dennis Webster
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Dennis Webster

( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )
The Fall of the Roman Empire by Heather Peter;
epub |eng | 2006-03-10 | Author:Heather, Peter;

Sitting here under a jutting cliff, cruel Enyo had hidden a madness driven to flight beneath a long-lasting peace. She was distressed because the world was without distress. She groans ...
( Category: Rome March 11,2020 )
The Age of Big Business by Burton J. Hendrick
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Burton J. Hendrick

CHAPTER V. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES The streets of practically all American cities, as they appeared in 1870 and as they appear today, present one of the greatest contrasts ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2020 )

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