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Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875 (Michigan) by Larry Lankton
epub |eng | 2008-05-25 | Author:Larry Lankton [Larry Lankton]

By the mid-187os, 8,250 adult males lived and worked in Keweenaw, Ontonagon, and Houghton counties (including Isle Royale). Sixty-five percent of them-5,35o men-worked in the copper industry: in the mines, ...
( Category: American Civil War February 18,2020 )
The End of the World by Warren Murphy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Warren Murphy [Murphy, Warren]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WHEN REMO GOT BACK TO THE Valu-Rest, Chiun was lying on the bed, pale, trembling, and looking as if he were near death. “Little father,” Remo said, kneeling ...
( Category: Action & Adventure February 18,2020 )
DEMOCRACY IN EXILE by Daniel Bessner
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Bessner

Chapter 6 The Adviser The Soviet detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949 was just one of several events that persuaded defense intellectuals and decision makers alike that communism was ...
( Category: History & Theory February 18,2020 )
The House of Yan by Lan Yan
epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:Lan Yan

42 Curse the pagoda tree by showing the mulberry tree. Curse the dog by showing the pig. —Chinese saying Almost as soon as she had finished her degree in interpretation ...
( Category: Chinese February 18,2020 )
The Night of the Physicists by Richard von Schirach
epub |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:Richard von Schirach [von Schirach, Richard]

Visions and Setbacks Making jam The mood of Heisenberg’s letters from Berlin or Hechingen to his ‘Dear Li’ in Urfeld during the last three years of the war strikes one ...
( Category: Historical February 18,2020 )
Buffalo Bill, Boozers, Brothels, and Bare-Knuckle Brawlers by Kellen Cutsforth
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Kellen Cutsforth

CHAPTER SIX Shootout with Bill and the Journey Home Feb. 27, 85. Started early with the Doc for the island and soon get to the snipey place. Found it good ...
( Category: Historical February 18,2020 )
History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

And yet more or less, maugre 228 all the caution, there was not a town of any note within ten (or, I believe, twenty) miles of the city, but what ...
( Category: Historical February 18,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Illustrated by Jack E. Levin
epub |eng | | Author:Jack E. Levin

( Category: Photography & Video February 18,2020 )
Katharine Graham's Washington by Katharine Graham
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Katharine Graham

( Category: Journalists February 18,2020 )
William Pitt the Younger by Evans Eric J.;
epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Evans, Eric J.;

Financial cost The war, of course, blew all of Pitt’s peacetime financial calculations (see Chapter 3) to smithereens. The national debt increased by about 80 per cent in the six ...
( Category: Historical February 18,2020 )
Our Man Down in Havana by Christopher Hull
epub |eng | 2018-12-23 | Author:Christopher Hull

AN “INTERESTING FAILURE” Two decades earlier, when Greene had reviewed Deuxième Bureau (1935) for the Spectator, he had criticized “a rather dull film, a long packed melodrama of the French ...
( Category: United States February 18,2020 )
The Magical Play of Illusion by Trijang Rinpoche
epub |eng | | Author:Trijang Rinpoche

LONG TREK THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS The following day, traveling by way of the main road, we reached perhaps the most outstanding Nyingma monastery in Central Tibet, Mindröling Monastery in Drachi. ...
( Category: United States February 18,2020 )
Theodor Herzl by Derek Penslar
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Derek Penslar

4 Reaching for the Stars BETWEEN 1898 AND 1901, Herzl’s Zionist career was at its zenith. The Zionist Congresses, which continued to meet regularly, were only the tip of the ...
( Category: Middle East February 18,2020 )
The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials 2 by Philip Pullman
epub |eng | 2015-03-05 | Author:Philip Pullman [Pullman, Philip]

9 Theft FIRST THEY WENT back to the café, to recover and rest and change their clothes. It was clear that Will couldn’t go everywhere covered in blood, and the ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 17,2020 )
The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell
epub |eng | 2018-02-16 | Author:Ida Tarbell

X. Cutting to Kill To know every detail of the oil trade, to be able to reach at any moment its remotest point, to control even its weakest factor—this was ...
( Category: Infrastructure February 17,2020 )

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