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Virtue, Valor, and Vanity by Eric Burns
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Eric Burns

( Category: Politics & Government February 19,2020 )
Character Carved in Stone by Pat Williams
epub |eng | 2018-12-10 | Author:Pat Williams

Eisenhower was a “soldier’s general” who enjoyed talking to the people he led. “I belonged with troops,” he once said. “With them I was always happy.”13 In an address before ...
( Category: Personal Growth February 19,2020 )
The Book of Pride by Mason Funk
epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Mason Funk

Another time, a woman’s possessions had been put into the street, and my little sister came home and said, “Let’s go down there. It’s all in the garbage.” Well, they ...
( Category: LGBT February 19,2020 )
Fire in the City by Martines; Martines Lauro;
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:Martines; Martines, Lauro;

Fighting Back POPE ALEXANDER AND his advisers had been careful. The excommunication stated that the Friar was ‘suspected of heresy’. It did not charge him with the crime; doing so ...
( Category: Renaissance February 19,2020 )
Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon by Jennifer Chambers
epub |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Jennifer Chambers

Cell at Occoquan Workhouse, Virginia, 1917. These are similar to the conditions women endured when arrested for attempting to vote. Records of the National Woman’s Party, Library of Congress. However, ...
( Category: Women in History February 19,2020 )
Maurice Blackburn by David Day
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:David Day

Chapter 14 The Blackburn Declaration 1920–1924 ‘a scrupulously honourable man’ After the war, Australia was slow to return to a semblance of normality. The four ruinous years had cut a ...
( Category: Legal History February 19,2020 )
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Jung Chang

* * * — Donald had come back to escort her there. In the plane, he pointed out Xian to her. Gazing at this square walled city in the embrace ...
( Category: Women in History February 19,2020 )
President Nixon by RICHARD REEVES
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:RICHARD REEVES

CHAPTER 24 October 21, 1971 JOHN ANDREWS was the designated anecdotalist standing behind President Nixon on September 30 at a White House reception for finance ministers and other officials in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 19,2020 )
The Case for Space by Robert Zubrin;
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Zubrin;

SATURN EXPRESS It seems to me that the Breakthrough Initiative needs a near-term mission that can act as a transition to its visionary goal of interstellar travel. I have a ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight February 19,2020 )
The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get by Joe Ricketts
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Joe Ricketts

* * * While Dave’s team continued to struggle with the new computer system, and lost revenue continued to add up, we also felt increasing strain on the human side ...
( Category: Stocks February 19,2020 )
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andre Resendez
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-11-19 | Author:Andre Resendez [Resendez, Andre]

THE CASTAWAYS HAD reached an agricultural oasis in the midst of a sea of nomads. The captive’s village turned out to be part of a cluster of settlements located at ...
( Category: United States February 19,2020 )
Convictions by Caro Land
epub |eng | 2020-01-26 | Author:Caro Land [Land, Caro]

23 So much for positivity Back in the conference room on Friday morning, Nat gently moved her head from side to side. She wasn’t sure if it was Gavin’s pearls ...
( Category: Murder February 18,2020 )
One man's view of the world by Lee Kuan Yew
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lee Kuan Yew [Yew, Lee Kuan]

Q: In retrospect, would you say that you pushed too hard on Malaysian Malaysia? A: No. If I had not pushed then, we would be prisoners now. Q: You have ...
( Category: Leadership February 18,2020 )
Fighting for Space by Amy Shira Teitel
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Amy Shira Teitel

On a Wednesday nearly a month after the world learned Jerrie had taken the astronauts’ medical tests at the Lovelace Clinic, she left work at noon. No one at Aero ...
( Category: United States February 18,2020 )
Lincoln and Douglas by Allen C. Guelzo
epub |eng | | Author:Allen C. Guelzo

The debate at Charleston marked the end of the third phase of the Lincoln-Douglas campaigns, as well as the end of the only swing either candidate would bother to make ...
( Category: History & Theory February 18,2020 )

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