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The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M Graff
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Garrett M Graff [Graff, Garrett M]

“All available boats” * * * At the Waterfront For those at the tip of Lower Manhattan, the only viable evacuation route turned out to be the water. A makeshift, ...
( Category: United States October 7,2019 )
Cesare Borgia by Sarah Bradford
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Sarah Bradford [Bradford, Sarah]

If Burchard is to be believed, here was an orgy in the true Roman tradition, held in the palace of the spiritual ruler of Christendom. The story of the naked ...
( Category: Popes & the Vatican October 7,2019 )
All the Powers of Earth by Sidney Blumenthal
epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Sidney Blumenthal

Quincy was a town on the Mississippi that had originally been Douglas’s home, had tilted Democratic against Whigs, gone for Buchanan in 1856, but had a sizable German population, in ...
( Category: American Civil War October 7,2019 )
The Mysteries of John the Baptist by Tobias Churton
mobi |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Tobias Churton

FROM JOHN’S EXECUTION TO JESUS’S CRUCIFIXION The years 36 to 37 were tumultuous and confused for the eastern Roman Empire. Newly made Consul Lucius Vitellius, a rising star, had been ...
( Category: Dead Sea Scrolls October 7,2019 )
Metternich- The First European by Desmond Seward
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Desmond Seward

Two days ago I saw peasants working in the fields with no clothing save a shirt, children as old as four sitting naked in the fields their parents were tilling. ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State October 7,2019 )
Jesse Livermore- Boy Plunger by Tom Rubython
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Tom Rubython

CHAPTER 22 War and a Coffee Scam Roasters outwit Livermore 1917 When President Wilson declared war on Germany on April 6th 1917, shortly after congress had voted in favor of ...
( Category: Business October 7,2019 )
Johnson's Life of London by Boris Johnson
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Boris Johnson

The information confounded him still more; he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and taking up a book, sat upon a window-seat and read. . . . The cheering sound ...
( Category: Essays October 7,2019 )
Piety & Power by Tom LoBianco
epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:Tom LoBianco

PENCE ADVANCES HIS POSITION, MAYBE? That fall of 2014, President Barack Obama flew to Southwest Indiana to tout manufacturing investments. The trip by Obama was auspicious for a number of ...
( Category: Elections October 6,2019 )
In Hoffa's Shadow by Jack Goldsmith
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Goldsmith

* * * WHEN HOFFA WAS released from prison in December 1971, his drive to remove Fitzsimmons and reassume the presidency of the Teamsters union focused on the 1976 election ...
( Category: United States October 6,2019 )
This Victorian Life by Sarah A. Chrisman
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Sarah A. Chrisman

Even in the best of households, though, the bread sometimes failed. Yeast is a finicky organism. As Mrs. Beeton said, “Extremes of cold and heat kill it, and a temperature ...
( Category: Women October 6,2019 )
Renia's Diary by Renia Spiegel
epub |eng | | Author:Renia Spiegel

OCTOBER 10, 1941, FRIDAY17 It’s so sad at home. Today the piano was taken away, so the flat is empty; today Arianka went to Mama, so the soul is empty. ...
( Category: Jewish October 3,2019 )
Memories in Focus by Pinchas Gutter
epub |eng | 2018-04-16 | Author:Pinchas Gutter

* * * There were many women in Skarżysko, in separate barracks, some of whom the Nazis used to do the dangerous work of screwing the explosives onto the two-centimetre ...
( Category: Historical September 28,2019 )
Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence by Harlow Giles Unger
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger

And I am such by principles which nothing can either alter or corrupt—by my attachment to humanity… [and] the dignity and honor of the human race; by the disgust which ...
( Category: American Revolution September 27,2019 )
Caligula - An Unexpected General by Lee Fratantuono
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Fratantuono [Lee Fratantuono]

Chapter Seven The Evidence of Philo’s In Flaccum The De Legatione ad Gaium that we have just examined closely is generally considered to be rather unhelpful in terms of providing ...
( Category: Rome September 23,2019 )
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy by Titone Nora
epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Titone, Nora [Titone, Nora]

TWELVE THE WORKING OF THE HEART Glory grows guilty of detested crimes, When, for fame’s sake, for praise, an outward part, We bend to that the working of the heart ...
( Category: American Civil War September 22,2019 )

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