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All This Marvelous Potential by Matthew Algeo
epub |eng | 2019-11-27 | Author:Matthew Algeo

25 Lurleen THERE WERE SO MANY TRAGEDIES in the spring of 1968 that the agonizing demise of Lurleen Wallace, the incumbent governor of Alabama, barely registered beyond the state’s borders ...
( Category: Elections March 9,2020 )
Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, & Britain's Plight of Appeasement: 1937-1939 by Adrian Phillips
azw3 |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Adrian Phillips [Phillips, Adrian]

CHAPTER TWENTY THE RIGHT LINE ABOUT THINGS Sir Roderick [Jones, chairman of Reuters] was anxious that Reuters should always take the right line about things. – SENIOR REUTERS JOURNALIST TO ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2020 )
Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World by Gillian Gill
azw3 |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Gillian Gill [Gill, Gillian]

Convinced that Moore had provided them with a philosophical basis for their personal conduct, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes, as both Apostles and Angels, were influential in transforming the ...
( Category: Women March 9,2020 )
King Chongjo, an Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea by Christopher Lovins;
epub |eng | 2019-03-08 | Author:Christopher Lovins;

Slavery Hereditary slavery in Korea, not abolished in Chosŏn until 1888 (and all slavery not until 1894), had a long history, existing from the start of Koryŏ and probably during ...
( Category: Asia March 9,2020 )
The Book of New York by Robert Shackleton
epub |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Robert Shackleton [Shackleton, Robert]

CHAPTER XV - Above Forty-Second NEW YORK is a clubable city. Every New Yorker is supposed to belong to at least one club. Many belong to many clubs. Some join ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2020 )
Lion of Ireland by Unknown
epub |eng | 2019-09-25 | Author:Unknown

* * * He went to his chamber and looked longingly at the bed. Then with a deep sigh he summoned a page and sent for his maps of the ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2020 )
The Authentic Confucius by Annping Chin
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Annping Chin

Zizhang asked, “Is it possible to know ten generations hence?” Confucius replied, “The Shang dynasty built on the rites of the Xia dynasty. What was added and taken away can ...
( Category: Chinese March 9,2020 )
A History of Leadville Theater: Opera Houses, Variety Acts and Burlesque Shows by Scanlon Gretchen
epub |eng | 2012-11-19 | Author:Scanlon, Gretchen [Scanlon, Gretchen]

THE NOVELTY THEATER A year later, Goldsmith sold the theater to Ben Loeb, changing the name to the Novelty Theater. A few months later, Loeb also purchased the Carbonate Theater ...
( Category: Cities March 9,2020 )
Queen Victoria's Children by John Van der Kiste
epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:John Van der Kiste

The months leading up to the Connaught wedding should, therefore, have been a happy time for the family. Instead they were destined to be overshadowed by tragedy in Darmstadt. In ...
( Category: Great Britain March 9,2020 )
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild

12 I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier From what seemed a safe distance, Americans intently followed the war’s opening moves. New York crowds flocked to Times Square ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
Priests de la Resistance! by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
epub |eng | | Author:The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

THE NETHERLANDS — CARDINAL DE JONG, KOENO GRAVEMEIJER & ST EDITH STEIN — The Ecumenism of Blood In the thin, south-eastern strip of the Netherlands that sits between Belgium and ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2020 )
Massacre on the Merrimack by Jay Atkinson
epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Jay Atkinson

CHAPTER VIII Escape from Sugar Ball Island As light seeped in, revealing the narrow shoal, Hannah Duston rose from where she had squatted all night and woke her companions. While ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
Personal Memoirs Of General Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Unbekannt]

Meantime, Sherman continued his crossing without intermission as fast as his troops could be got up. The crossing had to be effected in full view of the enemy on the ...
( Category: American Civil War March 9,2020 )
The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta by Cathy J. Kaemmerlen
epub |eng | 2018-12-23 | Author:Cathy J. Kaemmerlen

( Category: American Civil War March 8,2020 )
The Imperial Families of Ancient Rome by Maxwell Craven
epub |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Maxwell Craven [Craven, Maxwell]

Family The sources all seem to agree that the branch of the Licinii from which Valerian and his family stemmed was noble and Etruscan. Nevertheless, it is relatively difficult to ...
( Category: Historical March 8,2020 )

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