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Wicked Women of Detroit by Tobin T. Buhk
epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Tobin T. Buhk

The twenty-nine-year-old Queen of Little Hungary became an instant sensation. With the effervescence of bubbles rising to the surface of a champagne flute, Smith entertained reporters with her sharp wit, ...
( Category: Women in History February 22,2020 )
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? by Tina Cassidy
epub |eng | | Author:Tina Cassidy

CHAPTER FIFTEEN * * * The Russians The train rolled to a clanging, chuffing, grinding halt at Washington’s Union Station. Despite the smoke of the engine and the crush of ...
( Category: Historical February 22,2020 )
Round About the Earth by Joyce E. Chaplin
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce E. Chaplin

Greenwich best, Longitude west. It only works if you already know how to navigate. Eventually, London did. 41 He praised himself for knowing more about the planet than Uncle Roscoe ...
( Category: Regional February 22,2020 )
The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

XII THE LETTERS AT WESTMINSTER AND HAMPTON COURT The Commission opened on November 25 at Westminster, after Elizabeth had protested that she would not ‘take upon her to be judge.’ ...
( Category: Historical February 22,2020 )
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb by Robert Serber Richard Rhodes
epub |eng | 1992-03-02 | Author:Robert Serber, Richard Rhodes [Robert Serber, Richard Rhodes]

the maximum pressure varying as 1/r3 instead of the usual 1/r2 because the width of the strongly compressed region increases proportionally to r. This behavior continues as long as p ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics February 22,2020 )
West Over the Waves by Jayne Baldwin
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Jayne Baldwin

Elsie and Captain Hinchliffe with the Endeavour. (photograph courtesy of Random House) Captain Hinchliffe took precautions against the possibility of ice forming on the outer fabric of the plane by ...
( Category: Great Britain February 21,2020 )
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - The Incredible Life Stories of Two Runaway Slaves: Jacob D. Green & Louis Hughes by Louis Hughes & Jacob D. Green
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Louis Hughes & Jacob D. Green [Louis Hughes and Jacob D. Green]

HIDING VALUABLES FROM THE YANKEES. Right after this the McGees commenced planning to put away their valuables, to keep them from the Union soldiers. All the servants had to fill ...
( Category: African-American & Black February 21,2020 )
The Pages in Between by Erin Einhorn
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Erin Einhorn

On my next trip to B dzin, I presented Helen with the document I’d promised that named Honorata as manager of the house. Helen thanked me but said she still ...
( Category: United States February 21,2020 )
American in Black and White by Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thernstrom
epub |eng | 1997-07-15 | Author:Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thernstrom

TRACKING If standardized tests are unfair to blacks—or more broadly to students from other than middle-class homes—it follows that using them to assign students to particular courses or academic tracks ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 21,2020 )
In the Time of the Revolution by Alan Axelrod
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Alan Axelrod

BATTLE The Hessian sentry was alert. “Der Feind! Heraus! Heraus!” (“The enemy! Get up! Get up!”) was the cry that greeted the approach of Washington’s assault force. The Hessian commander, ...
( Category: Historical February 21,2020 )
Thomas Harriot by Robert Fox
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Fox

2J.D. North, 'Thomas Harriot and the first telescopic observations of sunspots', in J.W. Shirley (ed.), Thomas Harriot. Renaissance scientist (Oxford, 1974), pp. 129-65. 3Roche, 'Thomas Harriot's astronomy', op. cit. (note ...
( Category: Historical February 21,2020 )
Celebrity Secrets by Nick Redfern
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Nick Redfern

“Nureyev: I made contact with the agent at M.L.S. and he agreed that we should wait before we attempt to 3689Q01427. I hope you find the note as you requested ...
( Category: Rich & Famous February 21,2020 )
The Polar Bear Expedition by James Carl Nelson
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:James Carl Nelson [Nelson, James Carl]

Chapter Twenty-One K Means Kodish In another life, he’d been a metalworker at the Fisher Body Company, Building Number 14. But when the draft, and duty, had called, thirty-year-old Bernard ...
( Category: World War I February 21,2020 )
Mexico by John W. Sherman
epub |eng | 2020-01-10 | Author:John W. Sherman

The French Intervention The great loser in the War of the Reform was the church. Both sides in the conflict milked it to finance war: the Purists most directly, by ...
( Category: Historical February 21,2020 )
Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies by Hayley Nolan
epub |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Hayley Nolan [Nolan, Hayley]

CHAPTER 8 THEN IT ALL WENT WRONG During her first year of marriage, in which Anne threw herself head first into her humanitarianism and many issues of reform, her personal ...
( Category: Women in History February 21,2020 )

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